LoganSnake

Well, being a gamer that I am, my screen name comes from videogames. On one sunny day in 1999, when I was registering for Mplayer to play some Quake II online, I had to make up a name. The first thing that popped into my mind was LoganSnake. Gabe Logan is a character of a PSX game called Syphon Filter. Solid Snake is a character from the Metal Gear series. Both games on PSX were my favorite action titles at the time, hence the name.

So this screen name has been used everywhere, without changing, for just about 6 years now.

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grendel

i'm a marillion fan from a while back (and still dig 'em, even though they're hardly playing the same kind of music these days). one of their earlier tunes that i really dug was called Grendel, which was based on the John Gardner book of the same name that retold the Beowulf legend from the monster's point of view.

radioguy

i work in radio and am a guy.....pretty simple.

Ishmal

hey Chemical Smoo,

i cant c urs here... or am i just blind???

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OracleEyes

Oracle is just what the name says, as for eyes, the eyes see all, even if they are blind, so oracleeyes just came natural to seeing what others didnt...

bernadette

i picked bernadette when i was 7 years old as my catholic confirmation name.
so did about half of the little girls in my second grade class, probably because right prior to our confirmation ceremony a movie about saint bernadette had just been aired on television.

everywhere else on the internet i am known as either kat or hasfurrychildren.
when i signed up for tfp, initally i didn't want to be recognized by people who knew me online elsewhere. now i could care less. but i have grown to love being called bernie or bern here. makes me feel all warm & fuzzy. hehe i love you peoples.

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Giant Hamburger

My story is exactly like Bernadette's.

Stiltzkin

The story of how Giant Hamburger picked his name:

i picked Giant Hamburger when i was 7 years old as my catholic confirmation name.
so did about half of the little girls in my second grade class, probably because right prior to our confirmation ceremony a movie about saint Giant Hamburger had just been aired on television.

everywhere else on the internet i am known as either kat or hasfurrychildren.
when i signed up for tfp, initally i didn't want to be recognized by people who knew me online elsewhere. now i could care less. but i have grown to love being called GH or Hammy here. makes me feel all warm & fuzzy. hehe i love you peoples.

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Giant Hamburger

That about sums it up.
Thank you, Stiltzkin. You have always been there for me.

This is what I wore...

Ah, to turn back the hands of time and live the joy once more, is that too much to wish for?

MacGuyver

MacGuyver is a fictional TV, boy-scoutly type genious. Come on, the man can make a nuclear fusion reactor out of a number 2 pencil, 25-minute calling card, a roll of electrical tape, a belt buckle, some post-it notes and a class ring. Coolest show EVER.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
---Aristotle

Deeds, not words, shall speak [for] me.
---John Fletcher

indigochild111

My mom was reading this book, I don't remember the name of it. Anyways they were discussing what they called "indigo children" in it. Basically (if I can recall) indigo children are gifted in certain ways (not like prodigal) such as incredible intuition and the like. There was a lot more too it but over the years I forgot. Basically she told me I was an indigo child and I made it my screen name. The number 111 has some sort of odd significance in our family. Actually there were books written about the "power" of this number. Anyways it just seemed that many times when odd things happened to us the number 11, 111, or 1111 would somehow be involved.

My family is very strange :-D

miyamotomusashi

I used a diffrent name but my ISP changed and I lost my old email account. When i wanted a new email account w. the same name but i could not get it. At the time i was doing a lot of reading on Musashi. Musashi was taken so i went w/ Miyamotomusashi. Miyamoto is used today as the last name of musashi (his real name is much longer and much harder to rember (for me at least))

MiSo

i'm a sushi chef.... and i like miso soup.

so... Miso

FngKestrel

Loved that show. Especially the episodes where he searches for the holy grail.

Best quote: "The holy grail? I saw Indiana Jones get it."

Sorry, not meaning to threadjack, btw.

warrrreagl

Long story (what else?): Wife and I moved to Iowa in 1994 and lost touch with everyone we knew. Isolated in Iowa. We bought AOL and joined up in order to maintain sanity and keep touch with folks. She thought of the original sign-on name, which had to be 10 characters back then, and she wanted it to be related to our home. Hence, "warrrreagl" was created. My original AOL name was Hed-Red, but I took over the warrrreagl name when she thought of a better one for herself. I kept it up on AOL until 2002, but I've been warrrreagl all over the Internet since way back then.

*yawn*

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Stug

My real name is Doug.

I rang up my Italian friend of mine one day, to ask her if she was coming out.

But her Mum answered the phone and said in a thick Italian accent "Who-ease it?"

To which I replied: "It's Doug!"

She said: "Hey Valeria! It's'a Stug onna phone!"

It stuck...

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and so ends the thought process for another day...

Livia Regina

I thought that Livia was the coolest character from <i> I Claudius</i>. There's one chapter called "Poison is Queen" and as Livia was poisoning everyone who got in the way of her son's chances at being emperor Livia = poison = queen. I couldn't get Livia Regina on AIM so I switched it to Regina Livia.

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ratiocination

The story of my nickname is really sad ! I was studying the word lists for my SATa few months back , and ratiocination seemed like a really sophisticated word to me. It means the "process of thinking" or something like that, and it inspired me to name my nickname that.

hiro-acid

In the early 90s a girl gave me a copy of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, telling me that the book contained a lot of me in it. I indentified to a large degree with the protagonist of the story, humourously named "Hiro Protagonist", and in time I took it as my bbs alias (I'm a geek from waaaaay back). I've stuck with the name for many years, using it as my primary face in the underground art/warez scenes, but having grown up a lot since the early 90s (or so I tell myself) I've progressed to drawing under my first name only (Devin), which I would use for my screen name here were it not already taken. The ACiD part of my name is my art group, Awesome Creators in Demand (www.acid.org), and seperates me from the rest of the Hiro Protagonists out there (another factor in my withdrawl from the alias).. my, this is all pretty lame isn't it?

Devin

taylorspl

Taylor being my first name and SPL because I used to compete in SPL competitions, and its rarely taken on forums.

Liquor Dealer

It's what I do. I sell booze.

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thlayli

My name is from the book Watership Down by Richard Adams. It is the Lapine (rabbit)word meaning "fur head". The reason I chose that nick, was for 2 reasons:
1. I love the book, and Bigwig (Thlayli) is my favorite character
2. My brother-in-law is bald, and I am not, so the name is a private joke on him



-Thlayli

Fly

it all began when i was a little maggott.........my father always told me i'd be a fly one day.

my mother.......she was quite supportive of my choices in life..........see,......i wasn't one for the shit pile eh.......didn't draw me in or anything.

i choose the path of music...........stayed out late with my girlfriend mosquitos.....*quitos for short*(damn could those bitches hum......)anyways......

i was drawn to the noises made by the quito bitches when i made love to them .....*while i was a young fly of course*

so.........as my life progressed.....i started jammin' with the tsetsefly ensamble........we clicked.

it was fucking magic i tell ya'........the quito bitches started callin' me flyman........and it has stuck ever since.

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BASTARD

SterlingStudios

yellowchef

my fav color yellow

and Im a chef

easy as pie.

Kadath

Lovecraft's "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" begins "Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it." It is the city where the elder gods dwell, not meant for the eyes of man.

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Carno

I picked Carn because somebody already had Carno

Carno is short for Carnovash, which was the last name of a crazy magician in the game Phantasmagoria.

That game was bad. ass.

Xenomorph

I had this whole nifty plan back when I registered with the forums here about how I was going to have an avatar of an alien egg first, then a facehugger eventually, then a chestburster, and then a drone or praetorian or something.

I still plan on doing it...any day now.

I like the first two Alien movies and the Aliens vs. Predator games. Like some other people, I only use this alias for this forum and nothing else.

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The facehugger is short-lived outside the egg which normally protects it. Armed with a long grasping tail, a spray of highly-concentrated acid and the single-minded desire to impregnate a single selected prey using its extending probe, it will fearlessly pursue and attack a single selected target until it has succeeded in attachment or it or its target is dead

Jakes

i worked at a golf course and the assistant superintendent kept calling me by my last name cause there was already a ben that worked there. he couldnt remember all of my last name or thought it was too long so he shortened jacobs to jakes

my aim name is I3EIV = BEN kinda clever considering i came up with that at the age of 13 and im 23 now. was an originaly used for aol 1.0 or 2.0

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Dean Martin

I like my jeep to be like my girl, topless and dirty.
me i guess

analog

Long story, but here's the gist...

During a night of great drunkenness, and after smoking a great amount of pot, a friend of mine said, "you need a nickname... something cool, like... digital- NO, no, no... gotta be cool like, like... like old school cool....(really long pause, 10 very high people hang on his next word for a solid 30 seconds, easy)...... ANALOG!

Stuck instantly.

itch vaccine

itch vaccine

my dj name

came about when i wanted something to go with Wee Sim, my name So Vaccine came about

But DJ Vaccine would be pure lameness. >.<

So I went about thinking what I needed to vaccinate. And since I'm a skratch DJ, well, itch came about, and thus, Itch Vaccine

fun huh? but I ditched the name for another simpler shorter dj name.
bwahahha!

so now it's just a screen name.

Marionette-

For some reason the word 'Marionette' has been following me around for about 5 years now. I'm sure there's an actual story as to why I got it in the first place but such knowledge escapes me. Basically everything I sign up to has either the word marionette or puppet in it.

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Well see what you wanna see. You should see it all.
Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all.
Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved.
Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.

But one time out of ten, everything is perfect for us all.
Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.

God of Thunder

From the KISS song of the same name off the "Destroyer" album

I command you to kneel, before the

GOD OF THUNDER




Actually, I'm a pretty nice guy and I thought the name was cool.

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cartmen34

Mine is because I'm a guy who can't spell....and isnt' that creative.

Round about the time I decided to start actually signing up for all these message boards instead of just lurking, I liked the show South Park. Cartmen was my favorite character. So like an idiot, instead of looking up the name to check the spelling, I just assumed it was an 'e' not an 'a'. Thus, the incorrect spelling of the name. By the time I'd realized it was wrong everybody on the net knew my digital self, so I didn't bother to change it.
<-- that is the bad spelling part-->

And my favorite number is 34, because in 1996 I was really into supercross, and Ezra Lusk's number was 34. Ezra was the rider I cheered for, so I added it on the end.
<--that's the non-creative part.-->

Cheers. <-- also a not-very-creative way to sign off.

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AquaFox

aquafox..... two most random words that kinda went together.... kinda like firefox, but watery


for AIM i added 00 to make it aquafox00... all just random

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...AquaFox...

nofnway

Every web site is always asking for Your name...Since John Galt is always taken..I have assumed the Identity of the mild mannered Noah Fingway......when I feel a bit relaxed its nofnway ....way

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"Iron rusts with disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold water freezes. Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"
Leonardo Da Vinci

Mephisto2

The story is just as cool as the nick.


Me? I just like the way it sounds.


Mr Mephisto

Mister Mephisto

MISTER MUH FISS TO




Mr Mephisto

GraveTaker

My name started back in the day, i just thought that gravedigger was kind of boring and so i just used gravetaker cause i thought that nothing else really went with grave...

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little_tippler

my nick comes from the poem in my signature...pretty simple really.

I love Emily Dickinson's writing and this is one of my favourite poems...

little_tippler is a "character" in it

I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!
Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.

When landlords turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!

Till seraphs swing their snowy hats,
And saints to windows run,
To see the little tippler
Leaning against the sun!

what it means...that's something for a whole other thread...though it's basically about being drunk on life and everything around you...I really love the line about "the little tippler leaning against the Sun...plus I'm little...or sometimes feel it

Hey Mr. Mephisto, anything to do with Cats? Sounds similar to a character in that

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

qweds

was 12, needed a user name for...leisure suite larry me thinks.

hit the keyboard with one hand and...

voila

qweds

so i guess it means lack of creativity

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Oreon

About 7 Years ago I was really big in animation. I used paint and made Gifs. That was where it all started. I wanted to create an animated series and so I drew a character that pretty much represented me. I only needed a cool name for him. So I starred at my computer blankly. Then I stared at my keyboard blankly. Then I read his new name. The first 5 keys on the keyboard. I thought it was pretty creative, and I just started using that name for everything.