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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 16, 2023 16:07:38 GMT
Back in the day i wanted a vaguely amusing user name for the Guardian.
But I decided on Sheep2 instead.
It amuses me every time sheep or sheeple is used as an insult.
I didn't want to be Sheep1 as a sheep should not be a leader.
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 16, 2023 16:21:17 GMT
A favourite character in a book series I really liked.
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Post by Chumbles on Feb 16, 2023 16:22:20 GMT
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Post by amipal on Feb 16, 2023 16:35:58 GMT
Software on the Amiga was sometimes prefixed with “Ami”. I nabbed that, and stick my initials on the end.
BAM!
And thus a legend was born.
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Post by Chumbles on Feb 16, 2023 16:37:16 GMT
Scubar more than usual Scubar beyond belief. I presume that you name was a play on Fubar. Not that you care, but it actually came from being interested in scuba diving when I first used it, and wanted something that sounded more like a name. Then shortly after, I discovered it was a shitty nightclub in Manchester, but I’ve stuck with it since. How did everyone come up with their names? Mine's the name of my teddy bear... |
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Post by Chumbles on Feb 16, 2023 16:57:07 GMT
A favourite character in a book series I really liked. And I was close to choosing JacktheBodiless, but typing that in many times was going to be a pain! |
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Post by crankcaller on Feb 16, 2023 17:16:31 GMT
How did everyone come up with their names? You must have been on holiday when this came up. I was more deaf than I realised 25 yrs ago watching Pulp Fiction. |
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Post by whatalark on Feb 16, 2023 17:24:15 GMT
I thought it would be a bit of a lark.
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 16, 2023 17:33:39 GMT
Software on the Amiga was sometimes prefixed with “Ami”. I nabbed that, and stick my initials on the end. BAM! And thus a legend was born. Peter Avuncular Lobster? |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Feb 16, 2023 17:48:21 GMT
Mine is based on a portmanteau on the popular dinosaur of yore the Ankylosaur and the phrase 'dank' referring to dank weed, with an added 420 at the end for emphasis. I don't like weed
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Post by Chumbles on Feb 16, 2023 17:57:29 GMT
Happy birthday, Levar Burton (Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation)... |
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Post by muffrat on Feb 16, 2023 18:20:07 GMT
My username is somewhat similar to my actual name - I somehow ended up on a junk mailing list offering "Mr Muffrat" discounted Stannah stair lifts and double glazing and suchlike, and I kept it because its funny
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 16, 2023 18:21:14 GMT
I lost access to my original Guardian log-on, so I wanted to use that opportunity pick a name with a cool story behind it that I could reveal when asked about it 14 years later on a message board.
Cool story.
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 16, 2023 18:29:54 GMT
I had the internet name of "Openquin" for a long time because I misspelt Penguin.
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 16, 2023 18:37:54 GMT
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Post by Destry on Feb 16, 2023 19:01:23 GMT
Named after the film of the same name. Can't remember where I first used it, but I added the 54 as Destry was already taken as a username and 54 is both the year I was born and the year the film came out.
I later discovered that my preferred version of the film (starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich) was called Destry Rides Again and came out in 1939. The 1954 version was just called Destry and starrred Audie Murphy.
Cool story I'm sure you'll agree.
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Post by lazybones on Feb 16, 2023 19:20:10 GMT
I used to call myself ‘RandyHotnose’. I can’t say why for sure. I was reading the Guardian Gamesblog Chatterbox and, for some reason, got this idea that the poster calling himself ‘RiffMagus’ was actually the brother of one of my friends. I wanted to discover the truth and there was something about the name ‘RandyHotnose’ that seemed appropriate. It was ‘Randy’ as in ‘Randy Newman’ rather than Randy ‘sex-wise’. The ‘Hotnose’ may have been because it alluded to the nosiness I was feeling with respect to RiffMagus’s true identity …
After a while I began to think ‘This RandyHotnose just isn’t me.’ I began to think that the things I was posting were just what someone called RandyHotnose might say. I had to choose a name I felt better about.
When I first got a mobile phone a friend of mine sent me a message early one day saying ‘Wake up! Lazybones. Hehe.’ It made me laugh. Calling myself ‘Lazybones’ also alluded to the fact that I was maybe being a bit lazy in a work sense because I should have been doing work rather than posting on the Chatterbox ….
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Post by RollingEscargot on Feb 16, 2023 19:28:21 GMT
My name comes from the 3rd obstacle on the 26th series of the Japanese version of Ninja Warrior.
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Post by Chumbles on Feb 16, 2023 19:32:41 GMT
Getting ready for sleep... |
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Post by lazybones on Feb 16, 2023 19:33:51 GMT
That was why I called myself ‘Lazybones’.
Why I called myself ‘lazybones’ on here is a whole other story.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Feb 16, 2023 19:41:27 GMT
I used to find it amusing how the commentators would be rushing along in Japanese and then suddenly say 'rolling escargot' in English / French. Because, essentially, I am a daft racist.
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Post by lazybones on Feb 16, 2023 19:43:23 GMT
What’s everyone watching on telly?
I’m watching something called ‘Liverpool Narcos’. It’s great.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Feb 16, 2023 19:48:31 GMT
I'm not watching telly, I am furiously updating the spreadsheet.
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 16, 2023 19:50:36 GMT
What’s everyone watching on telly? I’m watching something called ‘Liverpool Narcos’. It’s great. Calm yourself down Randy Hotnose. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 16, 2023 19:51:27 GMT
The Last Of Us.
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