User (or Screen) names: Where did YOURS come from?

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The thread to answer many unasked questions. Most of which are mine.

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User (or Screen) names: Where did YOURS come from?

Mr_Bovine 30 Jul 2012 08:42

Me: a confused noob who was bumbling his way through all the various website links when he came across the forum. And then the screen names. So I've been wondering: where do people get their nicks from? I'd love to hear all the obscure or not obscure origins of these names.

(Note: the only one to date that I felt I really got was 'Tom Serveaux'. MST3K is just genius.)

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Tippingbison 05 Nov 2012 03:29

Ummmmm Let's see…..My screen name comes from some Art I was making a long time ago. I was making fake video game cover art. So I decided to make a youtube channel to show that art, however I never used the Youtube channel which I titled "Fakevideogamelord" for the art, and I've been using "Fakevideogamelord" as a screen-name ever since.

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Eventumsy 23 Feb 2015 13:31

My Online Game's Username :3

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Iceberg 7 30 Jul 2012 08:47

Eh, only half remember why. Typically choose screen names following what ever's in my head at the time. Mostly I make screen names the same as the others I'm making at the time.

My friends and I, being a fairly creative bunch, where making up some fictional universe with ourselves as characters, which is the kind of thing we did a lot in High School. This particular time, for now readily apparent reason, they named "my" character Iceberg. I really don't remember why, this WAS years ago. Anyways, I liked it, so I rolled with it for a bit, and one of the first places I stumbled across at the time was SCP. So, I used Iceberg, and added Doctor, because hey, we're all doctors here.

Used the same name for my Steam too, so I guess I joined both at roughly the same time. Both enjoyable, but luckily SCP hasn't drained hundreds of dollars from me, haha.

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Mr_Bovine 30 Jul 2012 08:56

I usually put whatever's in my head, yeah. Like 'Jake Flinthart' for example. I don't know what I was thinking when I named it, but I put 'Flinthart' because it resembles 'Flintheart' (an unfeeling person; someone with a cold heart), without seeming pretentious.
As a high school student, I repeatedly found myself unimpressed and uninterested in the hundreds of minor dramas that went on in the school grounds. This got me labelled as 'insensitive and cold', and one day a girl who thought she knew lots said I was a 'flintheart'. And that nickname stuck.

As for Jake…? Just a pseudonym, chosen at random. FYI, I was not aware that 'jake' can be slang for 'good' or 'satisfactory'.

EDIT: There's been a bit of fuss with another one of my accounts. My screen name is now Mr Bovine. Cows are strange.

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DrKens 30 Jul 2012 12:44

Oh good god it's Iceberg! Hi! It's been a long time, buddy!

I AM A WALKING BILLBOARD FOR THE THINGS I LIKE

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SwamplessThing 30 Jul 2012 09:37

I lost my swamp :(

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Tippingbison 05 Nov 2012 03:30

I'm sorry. I'm swampless too.

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VAElynx 30 Jul 2012 10:15

Through a backronym, VAE goes for either Very Abrasive Engineer, or Verbal Assault Entity. They are also initials of my researcher avatar who's named after yet another character of mine, because I couldn't think of a better name back when joining.

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deValmont 30 Jul 2012 11:08

Mine is the name that I have used as a stage name since I started getting called it as a nickname at university for my philandering ways¹, from which I am now completely cured. It's become so stuck to me that last year a friend of mine who I have known since the last 90s was astonished to find out that it wasn't my real name.

Footnotes

1. Google Les Liaisons Dangereuses for more info, or look up the film starring John Malkovich, or at the very least watch Cruel Intentions.

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Mr_Bovine 30 Jul 2012 11:18

Footnotes. Keeeeeewwwwwl.

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deValmont 30 Jul 2012 11:22

[ [ footnote ] ] Type your note here [ [ / footnote ] ]

Just take out the spaces and you're good. I love footnotes.¹

Footnotes

1. I really do.

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Boa Noah 30 Jul 2012 13:54

Holy¹ now I know how it works.

Footnotes

1. Shit!

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DrKens 30 Jul 2012 12:46

I started with GX67 in the IRC chat…but then saw all the doctors when I first joined and so I changed my nick to Dr Kensington because it sounded cool. But then people started calling me Kens, and it was much simpler, so it stuck.

Now I'm DrKens, man who works with robots and art.

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Boa Noah 30 Jul 2012 13:52

"Boa" because I used to breed them a couple years ago and "Noah" was my stage name.

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MrCobalt 30 Jul 2012 14:20

Wherever I go, my alias screen name is usually some variation of "Cobalt".

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SirSirington 30 Jul 2012 14:33

I have a more typical screen name that I use in other places, but because I write quite a bit of creepypasta on the Creepypasta Wiki, I'm trying to keep from getting them all blended together. I was thinking of "Lord Blackwood" at the time, and SirSirington just popped into mind.

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