What's in a name?
POSTED BY: citizen
UPDATED: Monday, August 28, 2006 05:38
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Had this idea while talking to Violetrix, every name has a story:
Mine started because I used to play a Game called Giants at Uni (only as research into computer simulations, you understand) in which was a character named Citizen Kabuto.
I then Started playing Counter Strike where my name changed to Citizen Suicide, because of my tactics that involved running at the opposing side with a knife.
And then getting shot.
At some point which I'm not particularly sure of it changed to Citizen Pain (probably around the time I actually got good...) partially as a nod to my abillities to inflict pain on my opponents (god that I was...) and partly as a fairly transparent nod to Citizen Kane.
I've gradually dropped the pain part (though it still follows me to this day to some degree), but that's the story of my name.
What's yours?
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Cool game Giants.
Mine is simple. My fave film is Star Wars. J6ngo comes from Jango Fett with a 6 instead of the 'a' because I'm trying to be clever :D and 1977 was the year A New Hope was released
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Sacirak is just my last name spelled backwords
Karicas
http://www.myspace.com/rick72879
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j6ngo1977:
I sooo would have never been able to guess that!
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I got the idea for my name in a game I used to play back in 1998. Now, for the life of me, I do not remember what the name of this game was (it was a computer game...ya, I am a computer gamer at times), but I remember that you rode a floating vehicle, and that your mouse look was reversed (meaning you move your mouse up, your character looks downward), and the premise to the game was that you were captured in an alien type ship and you had to make your way out, collecting various alien technologies laying around and using them to your advantage. When you picked up anything and put it in your inventory, a computer voice told you what the item was and you could see it listed in your inventory window. There was an explosive item called "solarus" and I liked the sound of the name, but not the spelling. So I toyed with it and put the silent "P" in front to be clever (right there with ya j6ngo) and I've had it ever since.
I used it playing Evercrack, and Evercrack II, I used it playing Counterstrike, Battlefield and Battlefront, when playing Lineage and Knights of the Old Republic. So if anyone of ya had played any of those, and came across this name, ya, that was me 
Psolaris
"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"
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My name isn't very original. I'd been lurking for a while and wanted to add to the conversation. Had about 30 seconds to think of a name while I was registering.
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Mine's none to special either. One day a bunch of friends and I were playing the HalfLife Goldeneye Mod together and they said I needed a screen name. I'm terrible at thinking these things up, so I looked around for some inspiration. I saw an ad for flipdog.com on a mousepad as have used FlipDog since then.
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Any fans of Dave Barry (a humor columnist for the Miami Herald, syndicated nationwide) will know that at the end of his articles, he has a habit of taking a random word or phrase and saying that it would make a great name for a rock band.
in his review of LOTR 2, he talks about the kung-fu trees, and says at the end that 'combat alfalfa' would make a great name for a rock band.
shortly after, i got warcraft 3, and when it came time to make a battle.net account, of course, combat_alfalfa was the one i chose.
my win/loss record took a pretty sharp dive downhill, so i created a series of new accounts: rabid_tomato, maniac_carrot, demented_yam, and something or other about an eggplant.
demented_yam is the only one that stuck, and now it's the name I use everywhere.
if you see a demented_yam on another board, chances are: it's me
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Nothing exciting here: It's the short form of my artist name "Chris B. Yond" which is a giddy pun - but I like it anyway and it fits to the music 
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http://www.byond-trax.com - my selfmade ambient/lounge/chillout music
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well... my name (being Oddball_E8 but i cant use underscore here) just stems from the movie Kelly's Heroes... cos i looked like the guy before... and pretty much acted like him too... (oddball that is... not kelly)
oh and ive been called "the dude" alot because of it too...
nowadays i have a mohawk and goatee, so those dont apply, but oddball just kinda stuck...
The E8 part is for me to know and you to figure out (at my old job i had a standing bet that anyone who figured it out got a free pizza... that bet is now void tho)
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