The origin of your screenname!!

[-=DoW=- SmokieRat]

Well I've seen some odd screennames in my time online, and some have got me wondering what the heck they mean or how they came up with it. Now mine's easy. My first pet was a dark grayish rat whom I had named Smokie. And so I dubbed myself Smokierat or SmokieRat. It was nice too cause no one else on any game or server had my name. Now it's your turn, where's that name of yours come from? :D

[Tatmtt2120]

I've been using my username since I first got my own internet access. It is the first usename I ever used. It's a combination of my initials (Tat) and my wifes (Mtt) initials and our ages at the time. If I were to update it, it now would be Tatmtt2524, but I don't think I'm going to do that.

[Hari Seldon]

From the Asimov book "Foundation." It was sitting on the shelf when I first signed up with AA. Haven't read it in a long time, though.

[recon73]

In 1973 I was in the 2nd Recon Battalion, thus the handle.

[-=DoW=- resqman]

I have been a member of Christian County Rescue Team for 13 years hence the resqman and 424 is my unit number in the team

[Nooj]

i took mine from the final fantasy x-2 wich is gonna come to america in november and the a character in game called Nooj..s o i change Nooj to Nooje!!

[SniperTARGET]

When I started playing AAO , I found the -=DoW=- servers (snipers only),
And I was an EASY SniperTARGET

:lol: Still am

[-=DoW=- WIZ_PLAYER]

I was wizard-player but game spy didnt like the wizard part so I changed it to wiz-player.


The WIZ

[IsZi]

When I first got onto the internet, I had the screen name "knight_rider16". Yeah, I'm a Knight Rider fan. Anyone know if reruns are still on here or there? Anyway, a year passed, and I became "knight_rider17". So, I changed all my IM screen names, and my web-based e-mail addresses accordingly.

Later on, I realized that it was going to be quite a hassle to keep my screen name updated with my age. (Since I couldn't just have "Knight Rider", as it was usually already taken by someone else using whatever service I was signing up for.) So, I started to ponder what I should have as my new screen name. At the time, I believe, Star Wars: Episode I was recently out. I was already a bit of a Star Wars fan, and I loved the way Obi Wan Kenobi was portrayed in Episode I. Then, I recalled a nickname I'd had for a short time when I was much younger. ("Coby" - Don't ask how or why, I don't even remember.) So, I just swapped out the homonym and found the screen name which has lasted me nearly four years now, and likely will be my online identity until the end of my days.

[-=DoW=- Dsotm]

My Avatar is the cover of the most successful album of all time - Dark Side Of The Moon - Dsotm

[-=DoW=- The Fan]

Well I have told some of you already, but my name comes from the Film starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes. I got "addicted" to AA quite quickly, hence the association.

And Coby, YES - Knight Rider still does reruns in Germany ;-)) Along with the A-Team and Hart to Hart

[FearBlade]

well the story behind mine is short, i just dident come up with eny thing else :lol: and the credit for this screen name is actualy my best friend :twisted:

[Ev!L]

David Halsolhoff is big in Europe, can't imagine why. That's funnt Sh*t. \
My name was the name of my band when I had one. Minus the 00 though. But now everything for me is Flanik. All user names.

[SilberPfeil]

My first name, Sputmann, was a play on words. My pet name for my wife is "Sputnik" and she has used that name ever since coming to the world of the internet in '95. "Mann" means "husband" in German. So I was called the "Sputmann" the husband of Sputnik. I changed it a couple of months age to "Silberpfeil" because I have gotten alot of gray hair lately and my wife has taken to calling me Silberpfeil, which means Silver Arrow in German.

[-=DoW=- Deze]

My first online name ever was GunRunner (used for the danish Jubii Chat), but that name was allready taken when I joined AA, so I had to come up with something else. My wife, who was the one who introduced the chat to me, is using the name DeZe in her chat profile, and since I knew for sure that she wouldnt be playing AA, I took her name.
The name itself comes from the first two letters in two of our kids names: Dean and Zelia :D

[Dark.Visage]

When I first got online I was known as RiverHawke (a play on names from a couple fantasy books, Riverwind from Dragonlance and Hawke from an amateur Dragonlance story I read). Well, one day on a fantasy game I was very much into, my online wife was insulted so I had a fight with them man. This game was very strict on rules and rule one was if you lost the fight with someone, they got to decide if you lived or died. This guy hated me in real life hehe so he chose death. Thus I had to delete the RiverHawke account on the server and with that River died and I never used him again.

After that I never got too attached to a name again, just switching from name to name every year or so. Been through Spectral Knight, Dark Poet, Kardiak Aresst, and Master Saero to name some. Now that I've found a name I can stick with it's really cool.

Dark.Visage came about simply because I couldn't think of anything better to come up with at the time. It really has no meaning at all that I can think of.

-Dark

[ByteMe97]

In 97 I got off the AOL short bus. That's the number issue covered easily enough.

When signing up for earthlink I had several good names and variations of my initials, name, interests, and all of tehm were spoken for in some form. My response to the customer service rep was bite me. I then changed to the computeresque byte added the year and the rest is cosmic forces aligning and being woven into a quilt of obscurity surounded by a mysterious shroud of glimmering fandago paste....

[-=DoW=- MauryMac]

Well, mine is my name with the first three letters of my last tacked on the end, simple as that :?

[-=DoW=- The_Ultim8]

I used to play basketball and someone started to call me Ultimate Warrior wich became Ultimate and after that Ultim8 :D

[sniper_nick]

Ny name is just my fave weapon + my name aint it lame

[Mr.Risk]

Reach the target, no captives , only one shot or you'll find your name in a list of dead bodies,
fight until the end - it's a Risk.
Feel it and if you passed it, you become a Mister of the Risk :wink:
The source of my nick.

P.S. Don't try it in real life :D

[-=DoW=- SledgeHammer]

When I first stsarted playing AA my name was Roteri, which is my first initial and my last name. After I found sniper maps, and found my true calling, I tried for Sniped_You... but alas, it was taken. So I got funky and came up with my current one.

[[T.i.T.s.]bubba316]

Bubba - I think my picture says it all. Got the nickname in high school and it has followed me around ever sense.

316 - As you can figure, bubba is a very common username (why I don't know because most people named bubba are either in jail or don't have electricity). I use to be a huge WWF & Stone Cold Steve Austin fans. He had a prodict line with Austin 3:16 on it. This was a play on the signs that were always at baseball games. His 3:16 meant that "I just whooped your :booty_sh: ". So I just started adding the 316 at the end for the same reason.

[-=DoW=- cecoto]

My game name comes from a former motorracer driver
As a youngster i was crazy about motorcycles so the called me Johnny cecoto
(now he still races cars i believe)

[argnt21]

my old screenames were silver22780 (my birthday) I had to change it and I wanted something different. I looked in the dictionary and found the name argent, it is a latin word for high grade silver. Anyway when I was changing all my screenames someone already had it on a couple so I lost the e and added 21, which was my age at the time.

[Father-Time.]

My original name on AA was SelActon. Thats my reaL NAME, Then i realised people were using allsorts of names, when i first started playing online games quake, and others i used "ChronoS", the god of time, as when you met me your "Time was up"!! So i decided to revert to that name only different, Father-Time is the more common name of ChronoS and as i was comonly "sniped" i figured that was the way to go. Thats it folks. :banger:

[Acedeal]

I got the nick name Ace while in the Navy. In the AO shop (Avaition Ordnance) we all had nicknames. The PO1 (Petty Officer 1st Class) would hand out the nickname. I received the nick Ace.

We would always play cards while watching TV. Well it never failed that when it was my turn to deal I would not be paying attention and someone would yell "Damn it Ace Deal".

I have been using that name Acedeal for most all my toons that I play online.

[Father-Time.]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Gungjuilio]

I started with the nickname Bam Bam...Because I have a Bam Bam tatoo on my right shoulder ( the one from the Flintstones).
Later on in life I was a bouncer and was then called Guito ( The Italian thug type) and that didn't last.
10 years ago I founded Team Zetec ( Mountain Bike Team) who annually raises around 8 to 10 thousand dollars for the MS Society. Since I was the founder my team-mates decided to dub me the Team Captain also. We then became a registered National Team and competed in the state of Washington. I held almost all of the downhill records state wide because I was Gung-Ho. (according to my team-mates) I was the Lead Guitarist for a band called Mockery so they also called me Juilio Englacias. ( The music I partook in was no where near the same).
If you ever played on Gamestorm ( an internet gaming zone that was up and running till about 3 or 4 years ago) you would have seen me in Multiplayer Battle Tech as *Col.* Gungjuilio_SPAWN_*MERIC*. I was the leader of the SPAWN Battalion in the house of MERIC. Or maybe Lt. Gungjuilio*KOH* ( Kinghts of Honor) in the game Legends of Kesmai, or possibly Gungjuilio*LordsOfFear* in the game Magecraft.
Later on I was awarded a Service Award from Zetec Incorporated where I was employed and The Team dubbed me Gungjuilio.
I still to this day hold the Washington State Record for a downhill run called Suntop.
It is a Single Track Trail that Runs down a mountainside from 8500 ft to 300 or so.
In every thing I do I will always be Gungjuilio.

[recon73]

I got the nick name Ace while in the Navy. In the AO shop (Avaition Ordnance) we all had nicknames. The PO1 (Petty Officer 1st Class) would hand out the nickname. I received the nick Ace.

I'm glad I didn't keep the nick my 1st sgt gave me at 2nd recon bn, it would be hard to live down...... "Peckerwood"

[bradrichmond]

Well, ahhhhhhh, :mrgreen:

I've used a few names in the past MONGO, ANIMAL, CROWLOC, etc. Got tired of trying to keep up with the different names, thus bradrichmond seemed easy, and not so hard to remember :D

BTW Ace, My brother was a Chief (AO) in VF32 before he got out, served on the JFK in the Red during Desert Storm. His last name is Worley. He said the AO Moto was "If it doesn't blow up it doesn't work, if it doesn't work blow it up!"

[ByteMe97]

Recon,

In 92 I was known as "DROP!!!" after my third day of boot. :LOL:

July 16, 1992 the day I involuntarily did 1620 push-ups.
July 17, 1992 the day it took three of the USMC's best to help me get my blues on for formation cause I could only lift my arms 2 inches out from my sides (BTW I still have the stretch marks from boot under my arms).

[-=DoW=- JBDiamonds]

Mine is fairly simple. JB are the initials for my first and last name and the Diamonds refers to my earlier days when I was a diamond merchant and jeweler.

[Father-Time.]

Dude, that equals 3240 ups and downs, bet the downs were easier than the ups :lol:

[ByteMe97]

Yeah, thank the lord for gravity...

[recon73]

"OMG" Byteme, I would still be sore!

[ByteMe97]

I think I might be, and it's been 10 years... :LOL:

[-=DoW=- GOPfan]

Well mine is pretty simple. GOP stands for Grand Old Party (US Republican Party.) The rest is self-explanitory. :?

[NyteDrgn]

my first ever online screen name was thee_unknown on yahoo. then I added stoner_with_a_boner & nightdragon_thatz_a_pimp...I was given the nick pimp dawg because my friend justin's younger sister's both played me for a fool :oops: so I messed with it and found nightdragon. Then I became an ICP/TWIZTID fan after many years in the light of mainstream music(pop music = :11334-6: ) . Stoner came around cuz I was indulging in illegal pleasures while I was a teen :afro: , hehehe. Then I discovered everquest, and became totally addicted. I had Umber my barbarian shamen from bertox server then transferred to teris-thule....I was in a guild Knights of Cymbrogi, lost contact after my dad revoked all game privileges from his pos pc(proteva pentiumIII 400mhz). When I got another computer I got into flight sims and combat sims and strategy games (crimson skies, mechwarriors, C&C, Age of Empires and Total annihilation). I played on The Zone and Mplayer as Bullpup_223....I hate the .223 caliber and think the steyr aug is a ugly piece of crap. So I honestly don't know why I chose this name :lol: :lol: :lol: I am thinkin of changing soon. I have the name I_fling_poo reserved....maybe -=DoW=- I_fling_poo :lol: :lol: :lol:

______EDIT______
In Civil Air Patrol( an auxiliary of the USAF which did SAR and damage assessment work) I was once called copenhagen cuz a jarhead who happened to be a senior member couldn't say my last name. He's only alive because it would have been illegal to kill him :evil: . His parents own a ISP called Internet Wisconsin. they've been known to hack their own customers pcs.

[Innox]

I got my nick from an obscure little cyberpunk novel called "The Enigma Variations" , Innox was an assasin and I thought it looked pretty cool so I added it to my list of internet nick's (all of which come from various books)

[-=DoW=- Furious32]

I choose mine after I took command of my first challenger 2 tank, she was named Furious. The name dates back to WWI, when it graced the side of an old Mark IV that took part in the battle of Ypres and the first tank battle at Cambrai. All of the 6th Battalion had names starting with F, this has been continued with the naming of all Falcon squadron tanks with the original F names. The 32 comes from her callsign number now.
:banger: :banger: :banger:

[Gandiman]

well kinda funny how i came up with mine. I like the Books by J.R.R. Tolken. I tried to get the handle gandalf,(as in the Great Wize elder Wizard in the Hobbit ) but of course it was already taken.......along with gandolf so i thought long and hard and then i came up with GANDI for short so it stuck with me. and those not smarter than th average bear kept asking me if I were Indian or they thought i was a peacefull man....hmmmm (I always explained that NO i was US citizen and i wasnt a peacfull man that was GHANDI.......so i got to thinking about the irony in the name of a sniper named GHANDI hensforth the name -=DoW=- GHANDI

[-=DoW=- Wildman]

Well, I used to be kind of wild when I first joined the Air Force, I got the name WildBill. I play softball and we had someone on the team named Wildbill already so they started calling me wildman, and for the last 12 years it has been wildman.

[Red Catcher 46]

Hmmm,

This use to be my callsign when I flew the East German/Czechoslavakian border in my scout helicopter leading the attack ships in 1980 through 1982.

Red

[Rogue]

Mine is simple... in days of old a Rogue was a thief/scoundrel and in somewhat modern times a Rogue is someone who doesn't follow the pack/ goes his own way. Well when I got online I was working as a cop and started with Stuffem and my partner in crime at the time chose Cuffem (a play on the cop term of Cuffem and Stuffem). After being online a while and not many cops where into computers or the internet I switched to Rogue. In all the online game I have played it has been Rogue,TxRogue, TxRogueSniper, even RogueGunz or Rogue w/clan tag.

[-=DoW=- Allessir]

Most of my online names come from Dungeons and Dragons. And yes it's the D&D that's had alot of hype over the years. I've played this RPG since 77 or so. Over the years I've always had trouble finding names for the various things I would join and needed a user name. Allessir is a what's called a Bladesinger. Within D&D you could be a fighter/mage. But the only problem is that at any point you were either acting as a fighter or casting a spell as a Mage. But a Bladesinger was both at the same time. Only Elves could be Bladesingers. The blending of Melee combat with the power of the mage is something to truly behold. So now I take my online games from characters I've had in D&D. With over 400 names to choose from, I've got plenty to play around with. And this is the Name I've used most often since. Either Allessir or the name of one of my Dwarven fighters.

[Schwatd]

Mine is simple Novell Logic, first 5 letters of my last name, SCHWA then my first and second initials TD hence schwatd, sorry not very imaginative, but I'm so old and decrepid at least its easy to remember for me. :_tomcat:

[bradrichmond]

I'm so old and decrepid at least its easy to remember for me.
Here Here!!
<center>:banjo1:</center>

[Stone Monkey]

I used to be into rock climbing (haven't done much since I broke my leg a few years ago).

Stone Monkey is a climbing gear manufacturer and I picked up the name from that.

Used to be called Gentic for the same reason but people kept geting it wrong and callin me Genetic so I changed to StoneMonkey.

[Nooj]

dont tell me you climb????????????????????????

[-=DoW=- JBDiamonds]

My handle came about thusly:

JB is the intitals for my first and last name. Diamonds comes from a time when I was a diamond merchant. My nickname then was simply "Diamonds". That nickname was not available when I joined AA, so I incorporated the JB into it.... JBDiamonds

[-=DoW=- halfdolla]

well, when i was in highschool during my softmore year the seniors on the football team gave me that name cause i was about 5' 4" and 112 pounds and they started with halfpint and desided to change it to halfdolla, or half$, i thought it was kinda funny and it stuck with me so i kept using it!

[xXx]

Well I started as PITBULL, then went on to Cpl. BoomStick when I was playin TFC & DOD, they carried over to AAO then I have a Nitro R/C truck called "X-Factor" sounded mean like the truck so i went with it. Now xXx derives from a combination of the movie and porn :lol: :D . They are alike in 1 way, in the movie guys are getting :stick: , in porn the puntang is gettin :stick: :stick: :stick: :stick: :stick: :stick: :D

[recon73]

All this time I thought you liked the beer.

[xXx]

Thats xx , and Bud and Corona are the 1 and only beer.

[-=DoW=- Body Piercer]

My first name on here was Phantarch, a character from Celtic mythology that I've used a few other places. I've always liked to fit names to the environment they're used in and one day I saw a movie on TV where they were talking about piercings while I was playing this and it just hit me. Since the object of the game is to put holes in the enemy it just seemed like the perfect name. :_sniper:

[-=DoW=- Old School]

My original tag was "A Royal With Cheese" which is a line from the movie Pulp Fiction. That wouldn't fit with the -=DoW=- tag. I knew that -=DoW=- was all about sniping and I figured people would like to know exactly WHO sniped them. So I came up with -=DoW=- Sniped You. (Before Sniped U 2 did :) )

[Player-989]

My name came from when I used to play Counter Strike. The default name was player and there is a software company named 989 Studio or 989 Sports. Hence Player-989. :)

[Basepin]

In the early 70s skydivers built formations around the first jumper out, usually picked for his weight, called the Base and the second skydiver usually heavy also but more skilled would hook up with him. We call it Pin because speed was important. Base-Pin. I've used it since the early days of hotmail. Back then a 180 lbs. would have been heavy. :shock:

[Plaminek]

When I came to college volleyball team, guys started to call me Plaminek, because Plaminek means in Czech "little flame". We in Czech Republic call red-haired people (sometimes) Plamen (which means "flame"in English) and because I am red-haired and only 185 cm tall (many guys in team are taller, but height sometimes doesn't matter :mrgreen: ), they started to call me Plaminek and I am using it on the net too.

[{Shaken}]

I got my Nic from a condition I first aquired playing AA. I would get so wrapped up sniping, I never noticed the guy who flanked me. I was shot so many times at pb range while concentrating so hard, that every time I would jump out of my skin. Months of this self inflicted punishment led to my hands shaking everytime I got into to position for the hunt. I was sitting there one night wondering why a game could have me Shaken and the name was born. I just wish it was OPFOR shaken and not me! :stick:

[Coldsteel]

I use to be ADDICTED to Diablo II LOD... I played more than I play on DoW servers (if that is possible). I was going to make my first character a sword Paladin. For my account I thought of the name Coldsteel but it was taken. I then used the first number that came to my mind when I thought of "cold" 32 (degrees fahrenheit). This name stuck with me for every game and screen name that I ever used.... except AA:O. I wrote my email address wrong so I couldnt verify it and I couldn't redo it. I used Im4n3l33th4x0r (started on DoW servers with this name in September 2002) because I was into Diablo and everyone talked in h4x0r. That got old. I then made an acronym from my dad's naval rank in Nam: LTJGRMCJR Leiutenant Junior Grade R.M.C. Jr. Once me and a friend made a clan I was able to reregister my name with the tag as [HMS]Coldsteel32 then because everyone thought we were British it became {(WFA)}Coldsteel32. Then unfortunately the clan broken apart and I joined -=DoW=- cadets! That is the story of my name.

[-=DoW=- Baseball]

well, i LOVE baseball....i play on a traveling allstar team, we made it to the 15+under World Series last year, and took 20th place. :mrgreen: need i say more????

[ByteMe97]

Basepin---

180... I can eat that in a sitting... :)

[5thColumn]

The 5th Column, you only need 4 to hold up a ceiling, so why is there a 5th Column? That is the origin of a 5th Column something that looks normal but if you look closely you wonder why is it really there. Over time there have been many explanations of the duties and responsibilities of the 5th Column. The most popular is the column of soldiers or spys posing as refugees, etc., that precedes the arrival of the main forces. Its main function is to bribe local officials to leave a gate unlocked and scare the masses with tales of the ferociety of the advanceing army, recon the opposing forces and report back with their strengths and weaknesses. A more insidious incarnation of the 5th Column is an organization that works from within to destroy the organazation. I know it sounds the same but there are subtle differences. The second example is purely motivated by a need to grab power or wealth, while the first is to win battles with little to no casulaties.

As for me I love history. I also love observing how the meaning of words change over time. Currently the press is twisting the meaning of 5th Column. They are adding it to the list of ways to describe terrorists. Believe half of what you read then fact check it all twice ;)

[tyler_durden]

its just me

btimp

b = brian
tim = timothy
p = phillips


see...btimp...its just me!!!

[Shaumelia]

Well my nick goes way back.

Before I played games I wrote stories and poems and my pseudo was/is Shaumelia.

It's setup with different languages (hobby).

Shau= german look.
me= english me.
Lia = the first three letters of my real name=Lianne

That gives Shaumelia.Nobody has that name on internet.

Iff you look in google for the name Shaumelia? You will find out where I have been on internet with that name.

The other name I use is Liannenl.

[-=DoW=- SSgt Hunt]

As u can probably guess mine is not to creative!!!!


It is my name and rank in the Air Force SSgt Hunt


Alright its not that amazing :mrgreen:

[Panda]

I like Pandas.

I my personality is like a Panda (so my family and friends say).
Pandas are my favorite animal.

Did I mention I like Pandas?

[ByteMe97]

But how do you feel about Pandas?

[-=DoW=- Allessir]

Needs lots of BBQ. But if you tenderize them right. Then you only need a light Marinade with just a touch of Kosher salt and a hint of garlic. Tho I'll have to admit. I have a suspicion that the DoW panda is a little stringy. :shock:

[Player-989]

:lol: probably has that gamey taste to him too.

[-=DoW=- Allessir]

Gamey taste is a lack of preparation. Most often cuased by leaving the meat out at room temp. This cuases the bacteria to grow at an exponential rate. "Gamey" meat is usually spoiled and cooking to well done still will not kill off or stop the growth of bacteria.


Sorry. Can you tell I know a little bit bout food? lol

[-=DoW=- The_Ultim8]

Iff you look in google for the name Shaumelia? You will find out where I have been on internet with that name.

I did take a look on Google:

Uw zoekbewerking - Schaumelia - heeft geen overeenkomstige documenten opgeleverd
Geen resultaten voor "schaumelia".

What did i do wrong?

[ByteMe97]

Well for one you spelled it incorrectly...

[-=DoW=- MauryMac]

If you do a google search, you get a -=DoW=- Webpage :-) It may be the old structure, but we'll take what we can get :-)

[.Psycho]

im psycho, thats where i got my name :banger:

[Shaumelia]

It's shaumelia and not schaumelia

[-=DoW=- The_Ultim8]

:oops: my fault i am very embarressed for not been able to read :oops: again

[Panda]

But how do you feel about Pandas?

Sorry, I was a bit unclear with that.

I like them!

I even have a Panda costume :shock:

[-=DoW=- Body Piercer]

But how do you feel about Pandas?

I even have a Panda costume :shock:

Ok now you're just creepy :)

[-=DoW=- SmokieRat]

I figured you were a pandaholic!

[Schematics]

Well i love music, all kinds but not every type :)

My name schematics means a drawing or diagram...

But it is also the title to one of my favorite songs by a favorite band ;) it is from the band Dying Fetus..

Very very cool band :) check them out defeinetely!

[Panda]

Ok now you're just creepy :)

Oh come now. You know you're just dieing to see me in that costume. Maybe I'll model for you all sometime. :wink:

[Schematics]

LMAO! I wanna see panda model! :banger: :banger:

[-=DoW=- SSgt Hunt]

I to hunt pandas!!!!!!!! :mrgreen:

[Stryker[v³]]

I got my AA:O name cause I would die all the time (Still Do :? ) Then I came into
-=DoW=- servers and everytime it was full and you needed new members you would kick cause I was Xpendable... And then I was gonna change my name to Multi-Purpose as Gung suggested one day but I decided not too... So Xpendable it has always been..

[pHaTaL_eRrOr]

What an AWESOME thread... I'll revive it after several months:

When in military school we had a small group that wrote and distributed text/ansi files for 2600 Magazine and ran it all off a BBS called Ionic Destruction based in Philadelphia. My specialty was blue/red boxing as well as some pretty nasty virii back when V.C.L. was the hottest thing out there. (Only for tactical strikes, of course)
My handle was general failure for quite a while, but once that got old, my mentor was watching me working on something or other, and the application crashed, causing a fatal error.... the PH implies a background in "phreaking" or "thank you for abusing AT&T"

That was lots of fun before it all became a federal offense... No I'm an old dog whose tricks were outdated as soon as ESS replased xbar.

[RyoxSinfar]

lol I was surprised to see a thread this big pop outa no where :P

I needed a name for a D&D chracter (and I play Magic too, lol yes I've heard it all). And I have this thing about originality, and wanted no link whatsoever to anything. The character was originally gonna be a dwarf and so I noticed all the example names in the Player's Handbooks used alot of Harsh letters, like R or X. So it came to be Ryox. Then after I never became a dwarf I pulled Sinfar outa the air to balance it. Ryox = Sniper/Mage his son is Kiran = Spy/Theif and Kiran's Half brother is Toran = cleric/healer. (thou I only use other names when I have classes, like Everquest and stuff)

I just sorta liked it... kept it. Still enjoying it ;P

[expulse]

mine comes from when people called me bright-spark (i admit a was a nerd then) and so that was my name for planetside i expermented with names and these are a few i came up with
darkspark
orionspark
optimaspark
and of course
maxspark
this sounded the best so i used it 8)

[edit] so ryox u play d+d as well! :shock:

[RyoxSinfar]

lol quit stalking me throu my past:P
I play Magic the Gathering if that will break the wierd chain :P

[Innox]

Update on my name, I recently found out that it is a variation on a french word (Inox, note only one n) that means stainless steel. I'm a bit ashamed I didn't know this since I spent 15 years learning french but oh well.

[FatMan!]

Well throughout my gaming years (and since I'm 16 some of you have had your names since before I was born... lol) I've had many many sn's. I wont post them all or you'd be reading this thread all day, but none of them have really stuck.

The first multiplayer game that I played was Quake III Arena and I used the name FatElvis because there was a skin you could pick that was a guy that was really fat, and kinda looked like Elvis. I only played on one server, It was called Mitz, and when it shut down I went looking for a new game, and found AAO version 1.0

When I started playing AA I realised that FatElvis wouldnt work since there werent any skins to choose from. I for some odd reason chose [Super]Geek. which became boring, so I changed it to [Super]Sniper since all I did was play on sniper only maps. Well since that was REALLY generic and boring, I changed it to [Mr]McOwnage which transfered over from my CS days where I would like to think I owned. At that time I was in F^S, and I decided to drop all things that had related to F^S since I didnt have that great a time there and my new name became FatMan! because I thought it was funny. NO, I'm not fat, just look at the album and you can see for yourself = ]

[FlipinAsian]

Oh, I thought Fatman was from MGS 2. lol
The guy that loves to mess with explosives? :lol:

[-=DoW=- Saw_Gunner69]

Well I think Gung gets the big HOOAH there.. drive on soldier....My screen name has evolved a little I have one that I've had for several years. Jester(with a sexual referance that i will leave out) which is the first SN i ever had and still use to this day. but because i do play a few mil. sims i wanted to get a screen name that would be more age appropriate. So i fell back on my Army exp. where i started out as a M-60 gunner. right before i ETS'd i got issued a new then M249 SAW(Squad Automatic Weapon) while being considerably lighter I really did miss the punch of a 7.62 round :) The 69 would be the year i was born.

[FOXHOUND1776]

well,i got my name from m.g.s. and i played them all.i used it sence i got online and for all the games i play.AAO,earth and beyond,blitzkrege,moh,cod. :banger:

[expulse]

lol quit stalking me throu my past:P
I play Magic the Gathering if that will break the wierd chain :P
srry ryox stil onto ya (although i only played it a few times)

[-=DoW=- Body Piercer]

*BUMP* for cecoto :)

[-=DoW=- cecoto]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Nice one BP

[-=DoW=- Body Piercer]

OK since we have a LOT of new people since this was last active it's your turn guys. Tell us where you got your names.

[-=DoW=- Bush8]

Ok there hasn't been a post here recently so I will explain my call sign. Since I am in the military I have a call sign of course I belonged to Bravo company which was known as Bushmasters and that was my original name but people kept asking me if I played paintball because of the Bushmaster paintball gun. It go treally annoying so I shortened it to Bush and the 8 was the age of my daughter when I started playing AA so the name Bush8 was born.

[Snipergirl]

mine is pretty simple i LOVE sniper only servers and and as u all will guess iam a girl

[-=DoW=- MrTank187]

All right mine is simple, Michael Rich is my real name. I took the M and R and then my nickname Tank and then just add 187 for the heck of it. Which got me mrtank187, when i join -=DoW=- on TS everyone kept calling me Mr Tank. So when i offically became a member of -=DoW=- i just kept the Mr. and now it looks like this -=DoW=- MrTank187. I got the nickname Tank from one of my bosses, which happens to be Gandiman's boss as well. He gave me the nickname because i'm a 6'5", 340lb. guy that doesn't get moved very easily and can take just about anything.

[Defiant]

well my sig shows my name too :D
im a very big fan of star-trek(mostly DS9)
and the spaceship Defiant i like the most
so fist time i got on the net i was trying to use it but its offen in use so i made it Defiantclass(there are several ship classes :wink: )
so i startet playing with that nick in AA
and now that i have joint -=DoW=- i can use my real nick cause it aint in use by someone :wink:

[-=DoW=- Body Piercer]

*BUMP* So many new people to add to the list

[-=DoW=- MrTank187]

*BUMP* So many new people to add to the list

OK, one more time!!! :mrgreen:

*BUMP*

[-=DoW=- MrTank187]

*BUMP* So many new people to add to the list

OK, one more time!!! :mrgreen:

*BUMP*

[CiscoGuy]

Mine is from the fact that I am in telecommunications with an particular expertise in Cisco. I normally use CiscoKid but since it was taken and the fact that I am pushing 40 CiscoGuy it was.

[-=DoW=- SmokieRat]

OK who's next? :mrgreen:

[Panda]

I like Pandas. But I think everyone already knows that. :)

[TF874]

My name came from when I was a Narcotics Agent for the East Mississippi Drug Task Force. My call sign was TF874 so I just kept it.

[CrazySnyper]

I was -(F^S)-InsaneSnyper, and got bored one day when there was no one on fs sniper server. I had heard DoW was the best sniper clan around so when I saw a DoW sniper server up I joined up. Turned out I needed an account without the fs tags so I created CrazySniper19. About an hour later I decided I to quit fs as soon as enough dow guys knew me for me to get in. I quit a few days later, but since I was already known here as Crazy I went ahead and changed my main to CrazySnyper. Then got tags :D.

[Ratahol]

Mine come's form the first motor I had in my race car ( it's a '69 chevelle) it had a Chevy Big Block witch in the old day's got the nick name "Rat" by the racers of the era and it ran on Methanol Alcohol so i put the two together and got Ratahol.

[Warcuddle]

Mine came from...
Nothing particualar :lol:
My first name was Wardog. Don't be confused with TKO W@rdog :p.
Just came up with Warcuddle :p :D

[Danish-Hawk]

I just saw this post and now i want to explain my name.

Danish is off course the fact that im from Denmark and Hawk is my middelname, in danish its Falk, for the people from Denmark :)

[friendly-fire]

but i guess my user name would be because i am new and if i play AA there will be alot of friendly fire lol

[Dutchie]

Dutchie, as in from the Netherlands, not the Pennsylvania Dutch that is!!

In the "old" days ( when Ace was still playing AA ) that kinda was my "joke" when people asked me where I was from.

Anyone remember the old days? Using the MOS on bridge etc?

Anyhow, I was living in Dublin, as in Dublin, Ireland (and not Dublin, Ohio) and my friends called me dutchie.

So from then on my AAO name was Dutchie_in_Dublin , then -=DoW=-_Dutchie and now I am back at Dutchie_in_Dublin.

[-=DoW=- Hean]

Pretty easy, my name is Henning Andersen, and I took the two first letters from my first name, and the two first from my surname. Hean..........:banger:

[shadghost]

Whelp oringaly i had Shaddddow back in elem school but to my souprise it was too long for a clan name in the zone, so i expriamted with a few names such as shad, but this is uesed too much, and shadboome, but i was called a ghost once and it stuck as shadghost, a combanation of my sneky attck movies in aoe2.... that i lost... and my pets name shadow... so that my story and i am sticking to it

[hagrus]

My family is Scottish and I have some red in my beard (which my friends found funny), so my friends started calling me hagrus. The name was available on almost all servers. Where is wasn't available you will see hagrun... you might see hagrug or hagru... you get the idea. The nick name stemed from my last name which went through several hundred evolutions before landing where it is today. The oddest were Beef, and Angus.

[Tiefling]

My name is pretty simple. I write fantasy stories and one of the races from D&D is a Tiefling. They are a half-breed of a human and a demon (or other creature from the abyss for all you D&D ppl who love semantics). I had just edited a story I wrote about a tiefling before I made my account and it just stuck.

[(some new tag here) Jedi]

I cant answer why i just made up my name [jedi]erickillsyou. i shortened it to join the clan cuz it was to long. Jedi was what i came up with as a spoof at first no it kinda stuck. no not a star wars nut either. lol

[-=DoW=- Maxpower]

Mine comes from a car mag over here, I had just done a trade show when i came to making an account for AAO. An after seeing everything i did at Maxpower live 2004.

http://www.maxpower.co.uk/ This is what im talking about.

[Warcuddle]

playboy????