I'm called Andy and I'm fairly realistic about my gaming ability. I think this thread shows that there aren't many exciting background stories for people's online username. |
Origins of your EG user ID • Page 5
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andytheadequate 9,019 posts
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KnuttinAtoll 6,674 posts
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Registered 10 years agoneilka wrote:
Too busy tickling DFawkses' corpse... who will never be able to tell us how he came up with his ID.
Four pages and still no user Alastair?
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Kay 19,902 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIt's the initial of my first name, basically. A friend of mine at uni called me that as a nickname, so I just used it when I registered. Soon afterwards I realised that it was also a popular female name.
The name I use for all other accounts is much more interesting... when creating my Xbox gamertag, it popped up on the list of random name suggestions. It was silly and made me laugh so I decided to stick with it. I'd change it to that on here too, but I get annoyed when people randomly change their UID and you have no idea who they are.
dmj wrote:
Should have changed it to DmJ
My initials. I was really struck by inspiration the day I registered.
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cov 1,904 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAnother from wireplay/q2 days - originally covenant taken from.the fantasy novels of that name. Hero with uber powers he is unable to use and invariably ends up weeply gently in the corner after everyone dies. Seemed suitable after playing q2dm3 or being drilled 34-0 in a duel by CoG E^Z when i first started playing (and you had to trial to join a clan)
Morphed into covavoo because of another q2 player called vorvavoo and shortened to cov (pronounced cuv cos northern). Also played as Orga[sm]
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RawShark 501 posts
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Registered 7 years agoMine's a pretty straight forward mispelling of Rorschach, obviously.
More interesting is the origin of my PSN handle - DieFliedermouse. I got home from the pub, set up my account while half cut and completely bollocksed up the spelling of die fledermaus.
When I started I want my handle to be Die Fledermaus, Die! But during the long period of typing out the name one button at a time I forgot all about that and the rest is regrettable history.
Edited by RawShark at 18:08:47 07-02-2019 -
retro74 2,651 posts
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Registered 11 years agoMine is just 47orter backwards so not very interesting -
RunningMan 2,940 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI am a man and do enjoy running. -
Armoured_Bear 25,417 posts
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Registered 7 years agoKnuttinAtoll wrote:
Where is DFawkes?
neilka wrote:
Too busy tickling DFawkses' corpse... who will never be able to tell us how he came up with his ID.
Four pages and still no user Alastair?
: (
What happened? -
prettyvacant 194 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThere's no point in asking you'll get no reply -
JamboWayOh 11,157 posts
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Registered 6 years agomonkman76 wrote:
Glo, that's the fucking song! Ahhh, memories of every cunt at school singing that shit at me.
JamboWayOh wrote:
No really exciting history behind my name, my nickname from school added with WayOh.l because there was a song at the time that sounded like JamboWayOh, so it stuck.
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elstoof 22,413 posts
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Registered 13 years agoSpare a thought for my classmate Carolina, who had a fun 1993 -
monkman76 14,157 posts
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Registered 11 years agoMy mate Noel Imit had a nightmare that year too -
mongo116 58 posts
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Registered 7 years agoBlazing Saddles, and like my namesake, I love candy... -
Armoured_Bear 25,417 posts
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Registered 7 years agoprettyvacant wrote:
I don't understand.
There's no point in asking you'll get no reply -
elstoof 22,413 posts
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Registered 13 years agoImagine if James were around in the 70s. They’d have been nothing like the Sex Pistols -
JamboWayOh 11,157 posts
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Registered 6 years ago"Come back on ELO and carry on playing." -
Armoured_Bear 25,417 posts
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Registered 7 years agoelstoof wrote:
Thank god, the sex pistols and most punk was utter shit.
Imagine if James were around in the 70s. They’d have been nothing like the Sex Pistols -
fontgeeksogood 4,648 posts
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Registered 10 months agoEven the album of Crucifucks covers Katie Melua did -
Armoured_Bear 25,417 posts
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Registered 7 years agofontgeeksogood wrote:
It can even taint goddess Melua.
Even the album of Crucifucks covers Katie Melua did -
DakeyrasUK 2,262 posts
Seen 3 hours ago
Registered 6 years agoAny other David Gemmil fans?
Dakeyras is the main character from Waylander, a rather cool assassin with a double firing crossbow!
I chose it as at the explosion of the Internet in the early/mid 2000s I was at uni and loving all things David Gemmil (Waylander being my favourite character).
The UK just ensures it is available as I have it on psn, xbl, nintendo, eurogamer, domino's, BBC etc etc. -
Poorandugly 576 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI'm, uh....
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Dirtbox 90,958 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThe name of my server box in a shared house many years ago that people would deposit random and more often than not vile filth to. It began life as a music/movie server, but you know how these things go. -
Trowel 22,222 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThe benign name I pulled out at random to register for the Underworld telnet talker in 1995.
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ZuluHero 7,083 posts
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Registered 12 years agoKnuttinAtoll wrote:
Ohh what happened to DFawkes? He hasn't posted in a while but did access 6 days ago?
neilka wrote:
Too busy tickling DFawkses' corpse... who will never be able to tell us how he came up with his ID.
Four pages and still no user Alastair?
: (
https://www.eurogamer.net/profiles/DFawkes
Hope he's OK! -
simpleexplodingmaybe 9,050 posts
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Registered 3 years agoSomeone had the one I wanted so I change a few letters to the first word I could think of -
JamboWayOh 11,157 posts
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Registered 6 years agoZuluHero wrote:
That was probably Alastair wiping the remaining evidence away.
KnuttinAtoll wrote:
Ohh what happened to DFawkes? He hasn't posted in a while but did access 6 days ago?
neilka wrote:
Too busy tickling DFawkses' corpse... who will never be able to tell us how he came up with his ID.
Four pages and still no user Alastair?
: (
https://www.eurogamer.net/profiles/DFawkes
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prettyvacant 194 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDakeyrasUK wrote:
Any other Gemmil fans?
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01011001 4 posts
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Registered 6 months ago
from this album ^^^ -
Alastair 23,091 posts
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Registered 17 years agoneilka wrote:
I'm a big fan of newsreaders Burnett and Stewart, actor Sim and cricketer Cook.
Four pages and still no user Alastair?
I thought it was obvious. -
Darling?
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