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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~~

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

My user name is my surname, at school everyone calls me Reynolds.

But you also force him to go home at 1:00 and call him "joe"

My names great. I give Ryo money.

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

mine's from my nickname at school, i was called pac-man because i eat like an athsmatic pig. it evolved into B.P.M a little later, and now i theme almost everything around it.

it's an obsession...

My user name was Redpath, my second name of course. But people on MSN called me Reddy for short, so you know what happend then.

I think mines one of the obvious ones...

I should have put more thought into it...

Nah

I didn't think of that before.


anyway my name is my first initial and my nickname.

*remains in the shadows of the SR message boards*