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Origins Of Usernames
Topic Started: Jul 26 2011, 08:01 PM (1,025 Views)
Dregan
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Okay, this is something which always tends to be at least a little bit unusual and/or interesting, so thought I'd give a go at talking about it here. Basically, I'm curious about the way in which different people generate their Usernames and come up with them. As such, this is for people to tell the tales of their Username origins.
Mine for a start is kinda simple. Well, originally I went under the Username of 'Gem' but got myself banned from a community (This was a few years back, before I learnt about that whole 'common sense' thing). To get around the ban, I came up with another account with was just 'Dragon' because I liked Dragons at the time (and still do really). Trying to forget about the days as Gem, Dragon soon became my main username for other places too. Unfortunately, it was soon discovered that as the generic name it was, it had a huge tendency to already be taken when I tried to use it in a lot of places. As such, I decided to mix up the name slightly - I dropped the a and the o, and instead, took the vowels of my own, real name, e and a, and shoved them in there instead. And thus; Dregan.
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Herman2000
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Fangire! That life you took, please return it to God!
This makes me wonder what your real name is -- Ethan? Stefan? Fredward? … Bethany? =B *shot*

Anyway, my username has a simple story to it, too. When I first started in online-things, I was a big fan of Herman Toothrot from the Monkey Island games for some reason. Dunno, he was just funny to me at the time.
And as all cool people did back then, I slapped on a number at the end of "Herman," thus, "Herman2000." : B
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M.C MyZtery
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Quoting my post on another forum

"after about 8 or more years of internetting with this name, i found out i stole it from some german D.J when i was like 9.

fun fact:

now any M.C MyZtery searches bring up sites IM ON.... meaning im more popular than a german D.J "

theres also another M.C Myztery on Deviantart, but we settled it, now hes Dr. Myztery.
Then i found this recently... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfLiryYbks0&feature=player_embedded

im guessing this person took the name from me, jk its not a very original name.
Edited by M.C MyZtery, Jul 26 2011, 09:34 PM.
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Fifumz
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^ Gee...I wonder where i heard that before...hmmm...



Ok..When I joined here i came under the user name "FionaFox" because Fiona is one of my favorite sonic characters. Then Kaiser started calling me Fifumz, so that's kinda my name everywhere now. Myz calls me Fifi for short, so everyone else started too..Kinda like a full name-nickname thing. Fifumz-Fifi

Or it might be the other way around with Kaiz and myz, but i'm pretty sure that's the order.
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M.C MyZtery
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Im sure Kaiz came up with fifi, then both of us came up with random variations.
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Fifumz
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Really? i thought he came up with Fifumz. Meh, whateva. Doesn't matter

Funfact: People irl call me fifi now. mostly my french class...but still. I kinda like Fifi better than Lainey (my real name) It's cuter. But I don't mind what you call me either way xD
Edited by Fifumz, Jul 26 2011, 09:48 PM.
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Creed
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The past is dead. It was all just a dream...
When I first started going on forums I had a few different usernames I can't fully remember one had Wolf in it though. Anyways, none of em really ever sat right with me so when I originally joined the forum I decided to use the name of my character "Creed" who appears in a few of my writing projects. Creed's stuck with me since, everyone I know seems to call me it now on and off the internet.
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Elina the Fox
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Knuckles' Profound Girlfriend.
I generated my username after my Sonic OC....uh yeah... D:
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Dregan
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Creed
Jul 27 2011, 12:20 AM
When I first started going on forums I had a few different usernames I can't fully remember one had Wolf in it though. Anyways, none of em really ever sat right with me so when I originally joined the forum I decided to use the name of my character "Creed" who appears in a few of my writing projects. Creed's stuck with me since, everyone I know seems to call me it now on and off the internet.
'Creed' actually strikes me as a very familiar name, and due to it I am now going to check something.
You would happen to be the 'Creed' who used to be around SonicShadow/SonicChat? Used to be good friends with Knightmare if I remember correctly? It's probably all kinds of doubtful, but I'm quite curious.
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Creed
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The past is dead. It was all just a dream...
Dregan
Jul 28 2011, 08:37 PM
'Creed' actually strikes me as a very familiar name, and due to it I am now going to check something.
You would happen to be the 'Creed' who used to be around SonicShadow/SonicChat? Used to be good friends with Knightmare if I remember correctly? It's probably all kinds of doubtful, but I'm quite curious.
Nope, I'm a different Creed. Can't say I've heard of either place until now.
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