Often wanted to know, but always too sober to ask
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Often wanted to know, but always too sober to ask
Where does everyone on here get their names from?
Obviously, some folk just use a derivation of their names, like the 1,051 registered Matthews. But there are some folk out there who have quite convoluted names, and I want to know why dammit. Darcle, TheHut, Toothless, Spyder, Mashman, Ernest W Quality, Vajinal Bob, UP, Matt Vinyl, Watergate, Demmerz, Dibble, Mr Cheese, Fader, Dunhamzzz, Ssgtnelly, King Conspiracy, TKA, Drop the lot, Firefox.... etc. ... (apologies to anyone I've forgotton).
To start the ball rolling, I called myself Cardinal Richelieu cos my name is Rich and I liked the Dogtanian cartoons. And I kid myself that I can speak French.
Hope I haven't shattered the illusions of anybody who thought they might be hobnobbing with a member of the French aristocracy!
Obviously, some folk just use a derivation of their names, like the 1,051 registered Matthews. But there are some folk out there who have quite convoluted names, and I want to know why dammit. Darcle, TheHut, Toothless, Spyder, Mashman, Ernest W Quality, Vajinal Bob, UP, Matt Vinyl, Watergate, Demmerz, Dibble, Mr Cheese, Fader, Dunhamzzz, Ssgtnelly, King Conspiracy, TKA, Drop the lot, Firefox.... etc. ... (apologies to anyone I've forgotton).
To start the ball rolling, I called myself Cardinal Richelieu cos my name is Rich and I liked the Dogtanian cartoons. And I kid myself that I can speak French.
Hope I haven't shattered the illusions of anybody who thought they might be hobnobbing with a member of the French aristocracy!
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not quite sure why i chose my unk... maybe from my days as a player when i thought too many of the same name on leaderboards would alert the authorities. on spelvin i used to be cilla black, terry nutkins, david icke etc. i have a pretty unexciting name, i'd like to be called Felix or Rudolph.
nobody ever wins on those things.
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Matt Vinyl - This was arrived at via an old friend of mine at my previous job (5-6 years back). He was a spitting image of Billy Connoly, and was always pissed and smoking roll-ups. Anyway, I write / compose / produce music in my studio when I've some spare time (as well as trying to make ItBox games!), and played a few tracks to this guy...
..."eeehhh, DeeeJay Matt Vinyl in da placeeee!"
...Yep, he was shedded again, but the name has since stuck!
I've always thought it sounds like two tins of paint, but hey!
..."eeehhh, DeeeJay Matt Vinyl in da placeeee!"
...Yep, he was shedded again, but the name has since stuck!
I've always thought it sounds like two tins of paint, but hey!
"And do you ever contradict yourself, Minister?" "Well, yes and no..."
I arrived at Nixxy via someone elses' inability to remember my actual name (Neil).
I'm a shop manager and we take on lots of temporary staff every Christmas, and as a result loads of new names to remember. One girl in particular was only with us for 6 weeks but every day she would scratch her head trying to remember the names of her colleagues.
Having called me Nigel, Nicholas, Niall, Nick, Nicky she eventually spluttered a right mess of a name out that was something like Nicksy. It was comical stuff at the time so I jokingly tried to set up an email account with the name Nicksy@.... blah blah - the name was already taken so I adjusted it to Nixxy.
Most people still just settle for 'OI' as usual though
I'm a shop manager and we take on lots of temporary staff every Christmas, and as a result loads of new names to remember. One girl in particular was only with us for 6 weeks but every day she would scratch her head trying to remember the names of her colleagues.
Having called me Nigel, Nicholas, Niall, Nick, Nicky she eventually spluttered a right mess of a name out that was something like Nicksy. It was comical stuff at the time so I jokingly tried to set up an email account with the name Nicksy@.... blah blah - the name was already taken so I adjusted it to Nixxy.
Most people still just settle for 'OI' as usual though
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