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Made in gb
Grumpy Longbeard






How did you decide on your username?

Mine is a nickname I had back in school; 'greebo' was a ninties word for one into metal, but my love of indie pop, and the tight jeans that went with, was misdiagnosed as being 'greeby', and somehow 'noggin' got tagged onto the end, so I was greebynoggin, greebynognog or just greebynog. People in my home town still call me that. I don't know why I chose it, I don't really like being called it...

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Opinions are like arseholes. Everyone's got one and they all stink. 
   
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Battlewagon Driver with Charged Engine




Murfreesboro, TN

Mine is the name of the Master of my home-brew Space Marine Chapter.

As a rule of thumb, the designers do not hide "easter eggs" in the rules. If clever reading is required to unlock some sort of hidden option, then it is most likely the result of wishful thinking.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake;
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

Member of the "No Retreat for Calgar" Club 
   
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Fresh-Faced New User



Johnson City TN

Mine is the name i gave my first Dwarf in D&D some 20+ yrs ago. I have named most of my chars in games Kardos thereafter
   
Made in au
Killer Klaivex






Forever alone

I was named after a fake MTG card that I made in photoshop and tried to use in a game once.

People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made. 
   
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Twisting Tzeentch Horror





A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!

If you know anything about Chaos Space Marines than you'll know what mine is.

"Metal is like an apple, you're not supposed to eat the core."
 
   
Made in ca
Serious Squig Herder






Mine's the name of my Warboss! WAAAGH!!!

blarg 
   
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Executing Exarch






Odenton, MD

I got mine because my real name was taken for Gmail and it was one of its suggestions.


Christopher Louis Thompson = CLThomps
   
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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges




United States

I like the movie Dogma.

Mostly because it opens with a Platypus reference, and the Platypus is the greatest animal in all creation.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. 
   
Made in ca
Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot





Calgary

Mine doesn't mean anything, it's just what I always use.

I got mine because my real name was taken for Gmail and it was one of its suggestions. Christopher Louis Thompson = CLThomps


I wondered about that.

I considered using the name protonfury, but I would have been copying someone off of a different forum, so I just stuck with what I always use.

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It's better to simply be an idiot, as no one can call you on it here. -H.B.M.C.

Cap'n Gordino's instant grammar guide:
"This is TOO expensive." "I'm going TO the store, TO get some stuff."
"That is THEIR stuff." "THEY'RE crappy converters."
"I put it over THERE." "I'll go to the store THEN."
"He knows better THAN that." "This is NEW." "Most players KNEW that." 
   
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw





Buzzard's Knob

Mine is a title for a specialized wizard type I created for a wargame that I've been working on for years. In the game there are Portals (Like in Stargate) but their is no physical substance to them, just a circle of runes spinning in the air. Only these wizards have the specialized training required to change a portal's destination and defend it from being forcibly linked to an enemy's portal. Long before DakkaDakka, I went through about two dozen before I decided to use it because everything else I wanted was already taken.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! 
   
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Committed Chaos Cult Marine





I joined the military to get chicks like my older brothers did. All the ladies called them heros, so I called myself the Sexiest hero. Yes it's cheesy but it got me my wife and she loves the name. The 90's were good for cheesy names.
(Irony is, I wasn't half as cocky as the nick named suggested, and spent most dates acting cool on the outside but panicing on the inside.)

And whilst you're pointing and shouting at the boogeyman in the corner, you're missing the burglar coming in through the window.

Well, Duh! Because they had a giant Mining ship. If you had a giant mining ship you would drill holes in everything too, before you'd destory it with a black hole 
   
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Prescient Cryptek of Eternity





Mayhem Comics in Des Moines, Iowa

I'm a Pyro. Full version of the name is Aduro Terrarum. Fun with Latin FTW.

 
   
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork






Mine is a mispelling of the eastern philosophy term atman. First day of class no books yet and going by the professors pronunciation I wrote ahtman in my notes. Then I found out that it was actually atman.

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
 
   
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Rampaging Furioso Blood Angel Dreadnought





SC, USA

Lewis Grizzard was a Southern comic my grandfather used ot love to listen to. I thought it was great. So GRIZzzard + GRIN= me. Been my screen name since 94.
   
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Dakka Veteran




Mine is my RL 1st name
   
Made in de
Dominating Dominatrix






Piercing the heavens

The true name of Hellboy...
"...and upon his brow is set a crown of fire..."

   
Made in gb
[ADMIN]
Decrepit Dakkanaut






London, UK

Mine is because everything else was taken on other forums and sites, and while thinking of a different name I had some lego sitting on top of a CD burner on my desk so I just glued the two names together to create legoburner.

Check out our new, fully plastic tabletop wargame - Maelstrom's Edge, made by Dakka!
 
   
Made in jp
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Anti-piracy Officer






Somewhere in south-central England.

Kilkrazy is fairly obvious for a wargamer.

I chose it when I was playing arcade games in the late 70s. Back then you could only put a three letter string into the game, because of memory limitations, so I used Kil for short.

Kilkrazy fits in eight letters which is still a common string length limitation in software.

I'm writing a load of fiction. My latest story starts here... This is the index of all the stories...

We're not very big on official rules. Rules lead to people looking for loopholes. What's here is about it. 
   
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Fresh-Faced New User



Mechanicsville, Md

Gabtrid is a user name I've been using in a long history of shooter games. Spelled backwords is dirtbag, which oddly xboxlive and other games wouldnt allow.
   
Made in au
The Dread Evil Lord Varlak





Sebster is my dog's nickname.

“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”

Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. 
   
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman






Wading River, NY

This one day I started to refer to myself in the third person for fun, and I started shooters that day, and made that my name. 1231 Is a cool number set me and my friends use.

-7k
-3k Watch my guys die in the tens per turn!
2k with fancy lava bases!


 
   
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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine





The Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

I play Farsight enclave. My user name is what I was Baptized in.

2 - The hobbiest - The guy who likes the minis for what they are, loves playing with painted armies, using offical mini's in a friendly setting. Wants to play on boards with good terrain.
Devlin Mud is cheating.
More people have more rights now. Suck it.- Polonius
5500
1200 
   
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Prescient Cryptek of Eternity





Mayhem Comics in Des Moines, Iowa

Anung Un Rama wrote:The true name of Hellboy...


And a cool one at that.

 
   
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Fixture of Dakka






Chicago

I have red hair growing out of my face. It seemed to make sense.

   
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Wrack Sufferer





Bat Country

One day I needed a username. This was a number of years ago on some random forum. I kept trying to think but everything was taken. Then I just kind of thought to myself to get me thinking "What am I typeing on? A typeline... Typeline". And it's never been taken since.

Once upon a time, I told myself it's better to be smart than lucky. Every day, the world proves me wrong a little more. 
   
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Ruthless Rafkin






Glen Burnie, MD

Mine is for the Faithful 42nd, the Valhallan Regiment I have been collecting for about 9 years.



-Loki- wrote:
40k is about slamming two slegdehammers together and hoping the other breaks first. Malifaux is about fighting with scalpels trying to hit select areas and hoping you connect more. 
   
Made in au
Stormin' Stompa






YO DAKKA DAKKA!

I've been using Arctik since about '98. Started as Arctik_Wolf, went through the 'made of symbols' phase, then lost the dog.

Firangi is my general business title, derived from the Persian/middle eastern 'farangi' and similar (basically meaning a foreigner), hybridised with the Old Norse 'Væringjar'. At least that's how it works in my head.

Go ahead and read the fluff (I mean history) of the Varangians. good stuff.
   
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Wicked Warp Spider





Knoxville, TN

Francois Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who discovered a well known reaction that creates carbon-carbon bonds using ketones ( among other things ). He also apparently worked on detection methods for mustard gas and made phosgene during WWI, and shared a Nobel with Sabatier for the Grignard reaction.

Basically I needed a name for a MMO ( DAoC if I recall correctly), and I had been studying that evening so the name sort of fell out. I've used it since but apparently others had the same idea because I recall seeing at least 20 grignards that played WoW.
   
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Impassive Inquisitorial Interrogator





Hooper

I picked it up from Calvin & Hobbes. The 205 is just a made up number cause boyofdestiny by itself was already taken.




This is silly! Buttons are not how one escapes dungeons! I would smash the button and rain beatings liberally down on the wizard for playing such a trick!


 
   
Made in ca
Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot





Calgary

Boyofdestiny205 wrote:I picked it up from Calvin & Hobbes. The 205 is just a made up number cause boyofdestiny by itself was already taken.



That's one of my favourite Calvin & Hobbes strips.

It's better to simply be an idiot, as no one can call you on it here. -H.B.M.C.

Cap'n Gordino's instant grammar guide:
"This is TOO expensive." "I'm going TO the store, TO get some stuff."
"That is THEIR stuff." "THEY'RE crappy converters."
"I put it over THERE." "I'll go to the store THEN."
"He knows better THAN that." "This is NEW." "Most players KNEW that." 
   
 
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