where did you get your escapist username from?

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King Toasty

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Mine is my internet-persona. I have a long and dark history with this name; I accidentally started a guild war on a few forums, had a tangle with Anonymous and briefly caused a hacker-scare on some sites. Good times.
 

Mr.Numbers

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My teachers repeatedly falling off their chairs at my answers in Maths and Physics.

As a side note, peristalsis is the muscle contractions used in the throat whilst swallowing.
 

FUAU

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An acronym I made up: fucked up, as usual. People seldom realize this, but it's supposed to rhyme with luau.
 

crudus

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Well, when I was like 8 I played a Digimon game. The faction I chose was the Blue Falcons. I decided to make an AIM account and call it Bluefalcon(taken so I settled on blufalcon which was also take so blufalcon520). I needed to make a new one a few years later. I changed the color and decided to keep the misspelling as sort of a signature. My screenname changed to greenphalcon (fairly unique, I didn't need to add numbers). I started playing WoW a few years later. I threw greenphalcon through several translators to see what happened (I didn't want accuracy, I wanted something that sounded good). Apparently you can't have spaces in your name in WoW so I kept half of the name. Green translates to crudus in latin. The rest as they say is history.

ReservoirAngel said:
My favourite movie at time of making account: Reservoir Dogs
My name: Angel (yes, that's really my name)
Well, it is a good name. Kind of hard to live up to though.
 

TheDarklite

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Dark because I am an evil sadistic creep and.... lite because I am half-assed unfinished software?

Nah, just kidding ;P

I use this on everything these days, it just popped into my head out of nowhere.
 

Cyyowyn

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Cyyowyn. Just kinda popped into my head one day when I was creating a character for a GURPS campaign. Anyone who knows what GURPS stands for gets a cookie. GO!
 

AvsJoe

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Vitor Goncalves said:
Yeah, I am that unoriginal.
Who needs originality when you have an awesome birth name!
Flatfrog said:
I still have the frog today, fifteen years later, and the lady in question is now Mrs Flatfrog and the mother of my two Flatspawn.
Hahaha... do you often refer to your kids as Flatspawn?
Bad Marmoset said:
I am a small primate of the genus Callithrix but I am not very good at being one and sometimes act in a worryingly human manner.
Geez, you should see a therapist about that.
SaneAmongInsane said:
Sane Among Insane

Sometimes I feel like the only sane human being left on the planet.

Though that begs the question how can one be considered Sane among the Insane? Maybe they're the normal ones.... OOHHHH!
I love using this [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/quotes?qt0483105] quote!
You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example. In the eighteenth century, no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person, anyway. Ah! Ah! Along comes this doctor, uh, uh, uh, Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, well, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. Ah? He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do you call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, cut to the 20th century. Last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger in this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. Jim, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is just a plot they made up so they can sell you disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See? There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion. You... you... you believe in germs, right?

- Jeffrey Goines [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003138/] (Brad Pitt [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/]), Twelve Monkeys [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/]
 

Plucky

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Based off my Runescape Psuedonym Plucky9, removing the 9 made it more of a..well im not sure, but the lack of umber looks lsightly refined, but i could never remove the 9 from my RS name though.

The origin of Plucky9 came from an episode of Recess, when TJ said somthing like "It's up to a Plucky young boy and his pet monkey to scale the erupting volcano, mt bloodkill" or somthing like that.
 

Bernzz

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The origin of Bernzz came from what a primary school friend called me, as a random nickname he came up with.
 

Steppin Razor

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maddawg IAJI said:
Because unlike going to a hospital, what I did lets the OP know that the search bar exists and how he should use it before posting a thread. It also lets everyone else now that this topic has been one of the most overdone ones in Escapist history. Seriously, I see a thread exactly like this maybe once a week.
You do realise that everyone that posted in here is incredibly unlikely to create a thread like this within the next 6 months, right? It's the people that don't post here and don't see this thread that will make the next "where's your user name from" thread that you're so tired of seeing. Complaining about a repeat thread in a repeat thread is like trying to convert Christians to Christianity.
 

5t3v0

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My name in leet speech, though my name is Stephen People tended to call me Stevo...
 

RuralGamer

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From a really old episode of Scooby Doo (back when it was good(and waaaaay before my time)) - the one with the Ghostly Gondolier; this guy says "Don't get lost in the fog" and then laughs a bit and for me that was the most unnerving moment of Scooby Doo. No idea why I chose it though, but it was probably because when I started this profile, I was stuck for a name.