Where'd you get your username from?

[riccochet]

I'm always curious as to how people decide on their username, or gamer tag.. so what's your reason?

Short story for me, Spider-man is my fave comic book hero, there was a storyline where he had to assume 4 new identities, one was Ricochet, the one I found coolest. It was only a year later that I realized I had spelled it wrong for my username, but I've stuck with it ever since

 

[Tsar]

Sorry buddy there was a thread already for this

 

[riccochet]

There was? I guess I searched wrong. Could you direct me to it?

 

[blaaislaai]

I go with two nicknames on the internet.

blaaislaai and SLANG or slang777/slangza

blaaislaai: Was something random I though of, first used on the mybroadband forum, should of been blaarslaai, but was typo. So Left it as is.


SLANG: Back in my highschool days a friend of mine gave me a windows xp disc, it was actually called SlainXP, but he labaled it as slang xp. I though it was funny and used that name.

slangza/slang777 I use on some international forums and usernames for game logins

 

[Edelweiss]

Sorry buddy there was a thread already for this

^ This. Wanted to say something but didn't know what the protocol was for thread necro'ing/or duping threads..

 

[Tsar]

There was? I guess I searched wrong. Could you direct me to it?

I am too lazy just search for it in the forums

 

[riccochet]

Like I said, I did search but nothing turned up. But if there is one already how do I get this one deleted?

 

[wizdumb]

mine is a combo from wisdom and dumb.....although that that was from my school days

 

[Nemesis]

Original thread - found on first page of search : http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php/31251-Explain-your-forum-name?highlight=forum+nick

 

[Solitude]

Now you got to ask yourself, do you start a new thread or necro the old one? Hehe it's all very complicated. This thread can just be merged with the old one. It's an interesting topic and I look forward to hearing all the new people's reasons for their usernames.

 

[Tsar]

Now you got to ask yourself, do you start a new thread or necro the old one? Hehe it's all very complicated. This thread can just be merged with the old one. It's an interesting topic and I look forward to hearing all the new people's reasons for their usernames.

I don't see a problem with necroing a thread as long as its not for the sake of posting something silly or years and years old Because I sure as hell don't want to see my old posts

 

[Roomys]

It is James call really. I doubt posting in a forum of that nature would be considered a necro.

There is also a Explain your forum avatar thread as well.

 

[Hagan]

It was given at birth.

 

[PR1Y35H]

PR1Y35H - 'simply straightforward, my name!

My other nickname is dapri or dapri119 - ''da'' as in the and ''pri'' is first 3 words of my name, made it up when I was younger thought it was cool. ''119'' is a fantasy bond movie I would star in if I were an actor: Agent119 Shane Simpson