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"What's In A Name ?"

Every one of us on these forums has something in common you know. What is it ? We've all chosen a user name.

Look at them all, there's names from about every show, game, music and loads of other sources.

But does what we call ourselves matter, do we treat people differently depending on names and how they look ? Look at how much flak master chief took because his name used to be spelt wrong. Yankee Doodle managed to offend everyone going and his name clearly linked to what he put on the forums. Similarly, nearly every person who uses what clearly looks like a girls name is suspected of being either male or a regular playing around. Sure, after time they are usually left alone, but whilst JAT's a lot of people are suspicious.

Do we choose names because we like them, or because what that name is say something to others ? Mystique is (I'm pretty sure) named after the X Men character, we used to have Marshall Mathers (Eminem obviously) Anubis (Stargate) and there are tons more, some I don't even know where they've come from. Lots of people have user names that, if you don't know where they are from, don't say a lot about the people using them.

Come to think of it, no one uses there real name do they ? Unless there really is someone called oinks....

~~Belldandy~~

Used the nickname spike, got a dreamcast, took the spike and added the cast = Spikecast :P

Ariel Ortega.

Persil Ortega.

hehehe

anyway...

I took a liking to him after he headbutted the Dutch keeper in France 98. Got meself a Argentina shirt with "ortega 10" on the back straight away...

I'm a fan of motor racing and a huge F1 fan so the name came quite naturally.

^Anubis^ wrote:
> Belldandy wrote:
> >Anubis (Stargate)
> How'd you guess? I suppose my previous tagline gave it away though.

heh you kids, anubis actually origionally ancient egypt, nicked by stargate. But stargate rules so no real objections.

I don't know what my names about. I'm not German and I don't know anyone german. It just came into my head at the time.

And No, I am not Hitler dammit, he went to the moon

my name is from futarama, it is the name of the green news presenter, who keeps on talking about himself as thrid person. eg morbo is angry. i find him the funniset thing since sliced bread.

hang on thats wrong...

I have had 2 usernames here. Apoc and Time_Warp. I do not have a clue where either came from. True story. And no, Time_Warp is not from the song sang by transvestites.

(:)

Albert - My real first name.

the Large - Because I am tall and plump.

SHEEPY wrote:
> Two years ago I was called Sheepy at school because I supported
> Aberdeen and nobody else did and Aberdeen fans are usually known for
> humping sheep apparently.
>
> Two years ago I signed up here with name
>
> I hate the name
Why don't you change it? Oh that's right you have come to respect your username now.

Mine is as thus, because somebody complained about Scouse Tw@t (not naming names ;) so I changed it to this, cos someobody (Wookie, I think it was) suggested Expletive Deleted, or Ex. Del for short.

It works. It's cool. And that's the end of that chapter.