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barkel

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Barkel. I\'ve heard some folks pronounce it Bar-kell, which isn\'t how I intended it to be pronounce, but which is how it is spelled. So I forgive. It should be pronounced barkle. I guess it should also be spelled that way, but it\'s too late.:duh:

Barkel = Michael. My actual name is Michael, but I wanted a dwarfy sounding name. So I removed the Mike from Michael and added a Bark, which sounded pretty dwarfy. So, you have Barkel.

The longer version of the name is Barkel the Everdrinking. He is the slightly more corageous, slightly drunker, slightly shorter, slightly handsomer, slightly more mischevious, slightly dirtier, slightly more whatever I want him to be, version of me.

barkel

ps. Barkel the Everdrinking is not related to Mumrah the Everliving, though they have met.
 
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Kamui K

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Originally posted by Tuubje
Well, my final high school year... I\'m in a class of 6 and my real name is Filip Tubbax. Another guy in the class is called philip. In a class of 6, this can be quite annoying, so they decide to call me Tuub, from my last name, it stuck and I used a version of the nick where I am smaller, don\'t know the english word for such a word.
egads this is difficult, so english say \"a little tree\", we in dutch say \"tree\'tje\". The \'tje is there to identify something small. get it? no? never mind :)
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Hey! Ain\'t that like the words chibi or SD (super deformed) are from Japan?
It\'s an addition to an object to mean small and usually ends up looking cute. Man, English needs a word like this too.
 
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Kamui K

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Originally posted by The_Mutato
Well, my nickname (Yeah, it\'s stupid, I know) started one day when I thought of the words Mutant Potato. I combined them and it became MUTATO! My brother laughed his head off and I started using it in forums and videogames. Now I realise it\'s a stupid nickname, but it stuck. :)
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LMAO!!!!
lol:flip::bouncy::flip:lol

Whatever works man.
 
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PStafAllen

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My name\'s Paul Stafford Allen (double barrelled, no hyphen) }:D. Many years ago when I needed a \'business\' email address my ISP wouldn\'t let me use \'staff\' anywhere, so it became P Staf Allen => PStafallen.

In other worlds, especially counterstrike a couple years ago, I was Mockingbird (and for a while, [cs0]Mockingbird, becuase when I first walked into the basement internet games-bar where I ended up working and virtually living, I was reading \'To kill a mockingbird\' by Harper Lee. I\'d prefer to be using this, but you try finding ANY obline community where it\'s not taken.

P.
 
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finn17

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Good job the real world is different...

There seems to be a comon thread running through this thread (you know what I mean!). That is, the difficulty of finding a name that isn\'t already taken.

It just occurred to me that, if this happened in the real world, how hard it would be to name/christen your child? Think about it!!!

Wot a larf that would belol

finn(10 to the power 23 minus 57)
 
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finn17

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Just another random observation...

Can you imagine how many poor sods get a computer at Xmas, finally log on etc and inocently try to select usernames like Gandalf, Arnie, Jamesdean etc. Must be a scenario that\'s repeated thousands of times over.

I often wonder what ever happened to finns 1 through 16. But not for longlol
 
Sand Rat

Sand Rat

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Thats why I try to pick strange names for Email and online handles - for the longest time I have used the name of the first self propelled warship belonging to a nation in the western hemisphere as my main email addy - most people dont know the reference and names like that arent used that much.
 
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johnboyjjb

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My username is simply a mutilation of my name followed by my initials. Gigantor is the name I usually go by. People frequently pronounce it gig-a-nator but it is gi-gan-tor. This name was given to me because when playing fighting games I always choose the fast little fighters which usually are women. My friend refuses to play as a women and forced me to choose the largest character when playing rune. The man was huge and I\'m not to small myself and so the name stuck. Agememnon was a great general of ancient history until Babylon 5 came out and ruined that one.
 
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Pomru

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Unique handles ain\'t easy to come by

My nickname is pretty obscure, coming from a character in a fairly esoteric comic book from the mid-80s. Nevertheless, I find that this name is used every now and then and I\'m forced to go with the name of the character\'s race. Of course, I suppose if I didn\'t have so many email address or if I didn\'t have so many interests (and therefore so many websites I try to belong to) things would be easier. But what fun would that be? Besides, it beats the heck out of the nickname I got in my military unit! :bouncy:
 
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mouse

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evil me...

well, since everyone is so sincere about revealing the history behind their nicks, here\'s mine.

In the lunar (chinese) calendar, we divide the years into cycles of 12. Each year within the cycle represents a certain animal.

For me, I was born in the year of the rat. Moreover, i have had been a noturnal person and seemingly, more active at night (NO PUN INTENDED!! lol ) and I seem to have a \"fetish\" for these small little rodents.

So, since my JC (Junior College) days, I had been using mouse as my nick and it somehow stuck. Now, my nieces even call me uncle mouse.

Well, that\'s it.
 
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Pup the Mighty

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gather \'round kids

Well, I got a tiger salamander for a pet and the pet store calls them water dogs as a nickname. So as you would call a dog a pup and a salamander a dog...

Which explains the avatar.
 
tooshy

tooshy

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Resurection....

I thought I\'d dig this out as I was going to post a similar thread. But had the good sense to check if the topic had been done already. Anyhoo....I was asked about my name the other day, hence the reason it was on my mind. I figured there are enough newbies here so it could do with an update. So here\'s my bit...

TRUE
My name is pronounced Too Shy - because I am :) It came from an X-Files episode called 2-Shy about internet dating. When I first started to use the internet about 6 years ago, I couldn\'t get 2Shy on AOL, so after several tries I ended up with Tooshy. I tend to use it most places - on ebay I\'m Tooshy1054 which is another X-Files reference.

FALSE
I am not named after that awful song by Kajagoogoo and will american people please stop asking if my name is pronounced Tushy... as in butt :flame: lol
 
Sand Rat

Sand Rat

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Originally posted by tooshy
I thought I\'d dig this out as I was going to post a similar thread. But had the good sense to check if the topic had been done already.
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Someone on the forums checking to make sure that the thread hasn\'t already been started? Whats next - serious posting from Steel . . . . . . oh hell there I go again, running off at the mouth :D
 
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sivousplay

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The French probably hate me for my butchering of their beautiful language, but I seem to recall the French phrase \"si vous plais\" as meaning \"If you please\" and I took the homonym (things that sound the same) of this and \"Americanized\" it to Si Vous Play ... If you Play seemed appropriate for what we all do.

jim
 
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wightzombie

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mine came about when i got a great computer game myth 2 and hadnt settled on a name for my online personality so when thinking aloud i triggered a thought from my friend who suggested \"wight\" which is a character in the game who plunges a knife in his bloaded explosive belly and then kills and maims those around him in a horrifying burning puss filled explosion. my friend then added \"zombie\" because i dig white zombie and rob zombie thus the clever name \"Wight Zombie\" was born. this is my fanatsy name and has now taken over almost all other internet nicks i go by. now if i had only spelt my name right instead of lumped together \"wightzombie\" id be at one with the world. who\'d a thunk id actually stick around unlike any other forum ive been to in the past 6 years.
 
Valander

Valander

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Old D&D Character for me

Seems like many others fall under the same category for chosen nicks as I do: an old, favorite RPG character. My namesake was a 1/2 Drow ranger that just seemed to have some kind of unnatural luck--dice rolls always seemed to be just what I needed when playing him, and I seemed to be able to read the DM\'s mind and always find the secret passage or whatever. My DM thought I was cheating or something for a while, until we played together as players at a local con, and the same stuff happened.

Of course, you\'d have to be there. ;)

Anyway, it\'s less offensive than my other usual nickname of \"Buck Fuddy\", and everybody and their brother uses my other common nick (Dracula or some derivation). :D
 
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johnboyjjb

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Wild Tanget!

Does anybody remember the old cartoon Duckula? Vegitarian duck spends all night trying not to bite anybody.
 
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