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My name is an english adaptaion of a nickname I had a few years ago: Joe la Hyène.
I got this one for many reasons:
-1st my sisters used to call me Joe since I was 3 or 4, and it stayed,
-2nd where I lived calling someone Joe le/la something* (*:something being related to some physical or social trait) is a rather ironic way to nickname someone.
-3rd I have a frightful smile and had a highly cynical behavior by this time - thus, the hyena.

All these made HyenaJoe.

Mine is the second internet name I made about 10ish years ago. First time a friend set up an email for me called The Shadow Dante. Roughly a month later I hated it and changed to this.

Though recently on games I've been using Iustis. Dakka was actually the last thing I signed up for as n0t_u.

Back in the 90's a show in Oz bought a greyhound and would race it live each week and it was called 'nads' so that people at the track would yell 'Go Nads'

My ork warlord started as 'Nads', and wevery time a great roll would come up my gaming group would yell 'Gonads', so eventually that is what the name transformed to.

When I joined up in 2000 I needed wanted my ork warlord name, and added the Waaagh to bring a passing relevance to 40k.

It has been my standard name online for 11 years now.

The moment I joined I realised I'd spelt Emperor's Faithful wrong.

Oh well. Even the illiterate may still serve His will.

Eviltim is an alias I've used internet wise since the ol' days of Newsgroups (THAT old)

Honestly I have no Idea... But I can tell you im the real EvilTim, because my REAL name is Nic, not Tim.

Figure that one out.

I like dwarves and sun worshipping, so I added din with solar, and this thing came out

djphranq = Dark Jedi Phranq

Is your avatar a cat with a sword?

Luckily for me, I am a small brown nut in real life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus_maxima

mine is from Asherian the character I made during the eye of terror campagin. But it was later changed to Calnor Alrnia.
And Asherian is one of the founding members to my chapter.
The command part is that I am communicating to you guys from Drancoris, Asherian Command Center or something like that. But anyway. Good thread.

KingCracker wrote:Is your avatar a cat with a sword?

Its a cat in power armor of sorts. Its from the comicbook/graphic novel 'WE3'

Chrysaor686 wrote:Chrysaor is the son of Medusa in Greek mythology, birthed from the stump of her neck after her head was removed. '686' is a meaningless number tag that I've always used to differentiate my name in case it's already been taken.

First and foremost, Chrysaor is my absolute favorite name, phonetically. It's just really fun to say ("Kri-zay-or"), and it breaks so many common perceptions that a lot of people either mispronounce or misspell it. I have an obsession with unique words, and Chrysaor is one of the most unique words out there. It just so happens to be a name.

The name also holds deep personal meaning to me, as it reveals my disdain for my mother/parents and the violent nature of my father, to anyone content to sit there and pick it apart. I thrive on double meanings and wordplay, and I'll create them at any expense. No, I'm not asking for sympathy by choosing such a name, I simply find it very amusing.

The pronounciation of your name reminds me of the Demoman's new weapon the Claidheamh Mòr. I like it!

Alot of people's backstories now make mine feel even more childish

Eating a bacon sandwich, cat takes interest, I verbally discipline him. Simples.

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:And I didnt know there were other threads like this, but then again Mods probably wont like me necroing =P

Hardly necroing, considering the thread is STICKIED.

Platuan4th wrote:

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:And I didnt know there were other threads like this, but then again Mods probably wont like me necroing =P

Hardly necroing, considering the thread is STICKIED.

The amount of replies here (including several by mods) that don't tell him to go to the sticky show the amount of attention the stickies get as opposed to regular threads. Really though, does it matter?

My name is one I first used for Runescape many years ago. Can't remember exactly what I drew it from, but part was taken from the W40k Eldar Avatar, and the 720... God knows where that came from, but it's in my Hotmail account from around the same time, when previously I was known as 'Randomer' or 'A Random Guy' (that last one brings back memories... well, it brings back a sense of nostalgia and that strange 'old' smell things acquire with age anyway) and al mi sntnses wer shortnd nd dnt hv ne gramer 4 tlkin lyk dis ws kwl @ da time.

Glad I quickly grew out of that, but i've retained my ability to read 1337 (or just bad writing) and indeed translate someone's correct spelling into 1337 or its various forms to allow someone else to communicate.

When I was littlier I used to play Khorne Warriors of Chaos exclusively. This was because my strategy was to run as fast as I could to the enemy lines and hit things, which Khorne is the best at.

Anyway, my brother converted me a model with a giant axe on top of a mountain of Skulls, and named him Slarg the Slaughterer. The name stuck with me.

Man ive had many forum names taht i ahve used over the years, the ones i remember have been: Canned Fish, Bud The Spud, Bud Ze Spud (someone ahd narked my name on one forum), Old Man Higgens, and lastly the current one i use which i chose for my xbox live name a few years back i have stuck with it since

FITZZ wrote: The 'origins" of the moniker FITZZ is somewhat goofy.
Many,many moons ago,when I was jumping around from band to band,I found myself involved with a group that had gotten the idea to use "stage names" into their heads.
One day at practice,the singer and the guitar played were really grilling me as to what "stage name" I had chosen,I replied "None (my real name) fits",well...apparently they missed the "none" part and only heard the "fits" part.
Soon the whole band,except the drummer who was passed out in a corner,was shouting about what a great name FITS was..." You have a bad temper."," It works for you." "Blah,blah,blah" "But you have to spell it with a Z".

Anyway,I didn't care one way or the other,I just wanted to focus on music...but...the name stuck.

Now almost 20 years later,that band has gone the way of the dinosaurs,but I still use the name FITZZ for all my "user name" needs.

How interesting, I would have never guessed, lol.

I had been wondering what your name could have possibly originated from.

Edit: Oh, almost forgot.

I made this name up. Was the name of my Dwarf character on Neverwinter Nights.

I am the Happiest of Grunts.

Playing Halo with a friend. I wanted to surprise him. Logged out of my account (Trooper) and made a new one (HappyGrunt). Came in and killed things, including my friend, and surprised him at the end with a high K/D ratio. The name stuck.

My name is from how I can totally a$$holinate the competition in a Fantasy Tourney by turn 3. The Blood God enjoys feasting on your terribly painted minis.

...or it's a Beavis & Butthead reference.

One of the two.

Funny I always thought of this when I saw it.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/222682.page#447707

My name is Gaz...

My surname, however, doesn't begin with G.

G just sounds cool. Makes me sound like a white, lower-middle class, English rapper.

Ah ye.

There is no TP for anyone's bunghole at tourneys I play in. Only the lamentations of the women....and scoobies in a mini van in the parking lot at the lunch break. lol

This was just my nickname at school... and 91 is (predictably) the year of my birth.

I kinda miss the days when people called me it... at University people tend to just use my name

My name I came up with based on my multi-cultural background. I'm part Scottish (a little Irish and German too) and Japanese. I'm proud of who I am and feel blessed to be of more than one race and I thought this would be an appropriate and somewhat funny title to give myself because of it =)

My name is a multi-faceted operation.

Chowder: This is my heritage. I come from the chowder state.
Head: People think I have a big head. I really don't know /shrug
13: Lucky number.

Real name: Matthew "Felsi" Felsenthal

I am Shadowbrand.

A powerful Norse warlord who was resurrected by Nazi necromancers in 1944. But Captain America and his GI minions banished me into the depths of Canada.

I have destroyed entire civilizations. Raped and plundered worlds. And I have done some pretty cool stuff. But then I was confined the body of a seventeen year old acne ridden fat boy.

Who spends the majority of his time listening to really fast techno music or listening to music about burning churches and spiky sodomy.

Chaplain Grabthar was the name of my Salamanders commander back when I first signed up for gaming websites (this would have been around the time of GW's Armageddon summer campaign) and I've just stuck with it since on gaming related sites. I have 2 other on-line id's I use also, but those aren't relevant to dakka (you can figure one out by looking at many of the non-wargaming pictures I host on my photobucket that I occasionally post here...)