How did you come up with your username?

Post by **Sleet** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:19 pm

I'm thinking "NocturnalVulpine."

NightFox · Post by **NightFox** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:20 pm

Sleet wrote:I'm thinking "NocturnalVulpine."

I have this strange feeling like that's been suggested to me before.

:P

PeanutButterSandwich · Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:26 pm

for mine.... peanut is my favorite HP character... so i decided to use his full name...

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:28 pm

PeanutButterSandwich wrote:for mine.... peanut is my favorite HP character... so i decided to use his full name...

The funny thing is that there is a legitimate forum member who's name is Grape Jelly.

You are obligated to have a crush on her.

mariomarc · Post by **mariomarc** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:29 pm

we should just have everybody make a sscond account as a character
or is that against the rules?

zeekgenateer · Post by **zeekgenateer** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:31 pm

dual accounting would be against the rules. It uses up more database (which is what stores most of the info for the site) and dual accounting is usually used by people avoiding bans.

mariomarc · Post by **mariomarc** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:33 pm

oh okay

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:08 pm

Teh Brawler wrote:
PeanutButterSandwich wrote:for mine.... peanut is my favorite HP character... so i decided to use his full name...
The funny thing is that there is a legitimate forum member who's name is Grape Jelly.

You are obligated to have a crush on her.

hehe...

Aquablast · Post by **Aquablast** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:12 am

I think Rick can change your username, I am not sure though.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:56 am

Sleet wrote:I'm thinking "NocturnalVulpine."

is that your chumhandle or what

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:29 am

I don't even know what that means.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:45 am

Australianese for "nickname"?

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:32 am

Nope, just a more "original" version of "NightFox."

And by "original" I mean "lame and pretentious."

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:26 pm

I referred to "chumhandle", actually.

And it sounds distinguished IMO.

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:35 pm

Liam wrote:I referred to "chumhandle", actually.

And it sounds distinguished IMO.

I think Sleet's previous post was preceded with an implied, "Oh, if 'chumhandle' is Australianese for 'nickname', then I have my response here, which is not implied, but actually written."

Yeah.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:42 pm

That's getting to complicated for me...

*turns and leaves slowly*

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:04 pm

Liam wrote:Australianese for "nickname"?

to my understanding (which is often wrong) yes. "handel" is a term used by truckers on the cb radio. its like a username, acctually. (hehe, cb radio is like a forum, if you think about it that way) chum means friend. so yes, this is very likely the meaning.

JakJak · Post by **JakJak** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:40 pm

Mine is just a random cover name I thought up for this place... lul

I wish I had a better story D:

zeekgenateer · Post by **zeekgenateer** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:46 pm

Eh mostly the good stories come after you choose a name. And the people who spend a long time on a name, eh, better off doing sommat else.

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:52 pm

JakJak wrote:Mine is just a random cover name I thought up for this place... lul

I wish I had a better story D:

But you're a legacy member.

You don't need a good story, you've got you.

Post by **Dissension** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:54 pm

Oh, the evolving vernacular of the forums. First we were dinosaurs; then we became whatever that longwinded title Buck gave us was; now we're Legacy Members?

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:56 pm

Dissension wrote:Oh, the evolving vernacular of the forums. First we were dinosaurs; then we became whatever that longwinded title Buck gave us was; now we're Legacy Members?

Yes. I feel that members that have been active this long deserve an awesome title.

Besides, I'm pretty sure that one has been used before.

EDIT:

Buckdida wrote:Those guys are oooooold legacy members. Like, they've been around as long as Ebly and Diss. I'm very glad to see their return as well!

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:04 pm

I just noticed I only joined this year. Am I really that new?

Oh well. At least I've been reading longer than most of you.

Post by **Dissension** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:07 pm

I wanted something cool for another site about six or seven years ago, so I looked for synonyms of an idea I wanted my username to express. I can't remember what that was, but this was a synonym of a synonym or something like that, I think? Anyway, I've used it since then.

PeanutButterSandwich · Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:19 pm

Teh Brawler wrote:
PeanutButterSandwich wrote:for mine.... peanut is my favorite HP character... so i decided to use his full name...
The funny thing is that there is a legitimate forum member who's name is Grape Jelly.

You are obligated to have a crush on her.

...um.... sure....

Challenger01 · Post by **Challenger01** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:47 pm

Well, mine went like this (and there is some evolution process here)
First: Challenger_lover2007(my original Yahoo! account, which is still valid, I use it everyday)
Progressed into: challengerlover2007 (no underscore for simplicity)
Further progressed into: Challenger01 (the whole "lover" bit got to some people)

It was originally my love for the Dodge Challenger (specifically the 2010 but mostly the 1971). I made the Yahoo! account in '07, which is where 2007 came from. Then on some site my name was too long, so I shortened it down to "01" so I could say I was the first, and also, a Dukes of Hazzard reference. So yeah, progression is awesome!

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:06 am

SomebodyYouKnow wrote:
Liam wrote:Australianese for "nickname"?
to my understanding (which is often wrong) yes. "handel" is a term used by truckers on the cb radio. its like a username, acctually. (hehe, cb radio is like a forum, if you think about it that way) chum means friend. so yes, this is very likely the meaning.

Uh

No

No really, all of you. It was a reference. As much as I didn't expect it to be gotten, I certainly didn't expect everyone to assume it was anything less than silliness.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:29 pm

Shush, the editorial office of the Oxford Dictionary will acknowledge this as a legitimate term once I have kidnapped their queen.

They will acknowledge my new currency, too.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:39 pm

that sounds awesome.

MilesKingford · Post by **MilesKingford** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:04 pm

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Post by **Sleet** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:14 pm

Gee I wonder where someone could get the idea of naming a humanoid fox Miles. ^.^

MilesKingford · Post by **MilesKingford** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:45 pm

Do you really have to nitpick? It was over a decade ago and Sonic games were very popular back then. I could change the name if I wanted to but the name has grown on me and the character himself is nothing like Miles Prower. And I have not used any other names from Sonic games or other humanoid animals.

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:47 pm

MilesKingford wrote:Do you really have to nitpick? It was over a decade ago when I wrote the story and Sonic games were very popular back then. I could change the name if I wanted to but the name has grown on me and the character himself is nothing like Miles Prower. And I have not used any other names from Sonic games or other humanoid animals.

I'm just joking around. I'm not trying to be critical or anything. It's perfectly fine.

I actually loved the name Miles too when I was little for the very same reason.

mariomarc · Post by **mariomarc** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:40 pm

i have a cousin named Miles

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:47 pm

i have the cutest little baby nephew named miles!! ^^

Anthroguy101 · Post by **Anthroguy101** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:44 pm

@Yappyfox: You called yourself anthro "guy" when you were a boy?

Blue Braixen · Post by **Blue Braixen** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:29 pm

Mine was a pun off of "Felix Da Housecat"
Not very original, huh?
Also, dogs are my favorite animals, so, yeah.

Challenger01 · Post by **Challenger01** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:33 pm

Tha Housedog wrote:Mine was a pun off of "Felix Da Housecat"
Not very original, huh?
Also, dogs are my favorite animals, so, yeah.

Which coincidentally enough is the name of an artist who had a techno song featured in NFS: Underground 2. But yeah, cool name!

p33wii · Post by **p33wii** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:38 pm

I'm not that proud of my user name but it works pretty well with my robot avatar. To tell the truth the way I came up with it is pretty interesting. I used to like pokemon and I was signing up to this dodgy pokemon website when a popup came up advertising the ps3 and wii so I just typed that in. Since I couldn't read very well I spelled it wrong and have used it for nearly every user til now. I am disappointed with the fact it can be googled and found easily though.

MilesKingford · Post by **MilesKingford** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:15 pm

Sleet wrote:
MilesKingford wrote:Do you really have to nitpick? It was over a decade ago when I wrote the story and Sonic games were very popular back then. I could change the name if I wanted to but the name has grown on me and the character himself is nothing like Miles Prower. And I have not used any other names from Sonic games or other humanoid animals.
I'm just joking around. I'm not trying to be critical or anything. It's perfectly fine.

I actually loved the name Miles too when I was little for the very same reason.

Oh...I can not always tell on these forums when people are not serious, there should be an emotion icon selection so that people can indicate when their joking, being sarcastic, and so on.
I avoid being funny myself because there is always a 50/50 chance of others finding my jokes funny, especially if its on the internet because its more difficult without visual assistance.
Sorry, did not mean to derail the topic.