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"Where did the idea for your username come from?"

Apart from the pretty self explanatory ones (first names etc), where did you get the idea for your SR username?

Mines pretty self explanatory (also: boring) - initials and age.

But where did the ideas for yours come from? We've got some pretty wierd ones and I'd be interested to know.

I'm a boring old, sandle wearing, Bible bashing, Kum-by-yah singing God freak apparantley !

I made mine off the back of a CD.



Hmm, somethings wrong in that last sentence...

Mines self explanatory

I just started using mine years ago because I thought it was a cool word.

It is also kind of ironic, because I am the least Tetchy person that I know.

Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> I started a new account in disguise, to try and see how hostile you
> lot were to newcomers. I picked the poniest name I could, and started
> topics like 'Aren't games great?' and 'Do you like me?', real childish
> stuff. Unfortunately I got bored after a while, and decided to give
> myself away. After several weeks of people not caring, it stuck and
> now i'm left with this infernal name forever.

And it's still spelt wrong!

I started a new account in disguise, to try and see how hostile you lot were to newcomers. I picked the poniest name I could, and started topics like 'Aren't games great?' and 'Do you like me?', real childish stuff. Unfortunately I got bored after a while, and decided to give myself away. After several weeks of people not caring, it stuck and now i'm left with this infernal name forever.

I think I've explained this a few times before:

but for info, all the names by which I may be known to anyone:

Insane_Bartender:
The first name I stuck with for any length of time, was actually from the time I spent on Yahoo! chat rooms. I soon noted while I used them that a good way to get attention was to name yourself "Bartender something or other) and people will jokingly ask you for drinks, and hence sparking up conversation.

It appeared that I was not the first to notice this, as when I went to register the name, Bartender was gone, as was Bartender_UK or The_Bartender and about 3 dozen other variations. I got annoyed and tried Insane_Bartender, which worked.

It worked in the chat forums too, leading to a couple of months of cyber sex and othe sad things like that. The name became so familiar that when I finally got Yahoo chat out of my system, the Insane Bartender nick followed me.

Sun-Tzu:
Round 4 of Planetarion was when I really discovered mIRC. My planet that round was named "Sun-Tzu of Ancient China" which in turn was because I was reading the Art of War at the time. When I started to go on IRC a lot, I used this name (since I couldn't fit Insane_Bartender in), and it stuck for the rest of my time in Planetarion. It is however, quite cliche, but is still my nick on irc.

Kraken:
In search of a new existance, I decided to rename myself, looked up mythical beasts, saw Kraken, the giant squid of epic proportions, and took it. Also led to one of my Planetarion planets being named "Be Very Afraid of The Tentacled Monstrosity".

Mr Ripper:
Nickname I've had since birth due to surname.

Bill Hicks

Mario = Italian Plumber = Must like Pasta = Being as Mario rocks =

Pasta Masta

Got bored and changed it to

P@st@ M@st@

Didn't like it and changed to P@st@

There - the evolution of my name....

Sad innit?

Dominic Maye put em toghether can't be arsed to put to Ms