How does one come up with such unique user names for forum usage?

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new2AMD

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a couple years ago my name was fitting. i came here to get answers to questions. now I try and give answers as well.
 

5ayle

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: rbloedow
I always use my name: Ryan Bloedow

It's unique enough that nobody knows what in the hell my user name means, and they feel sorry for anyone who has it as a real name :p
What a weird last name!

I've never seen another Skoorb!

scrooge + noob = skroob?
 

FeathersMcGraw

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Oct 17, 2001
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Originally posted by: 5ayle
Originally posted by: Skoorb
I've never seen another Skoorb!

scrooge + noob = skroob?

I always figured that Skoorb was the bastard love child of that Hispanic soccer announcer and Mushmouth from the Cosby Kids. "Scooooooooooooooooooorrre-b".
 

badmouse

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Dec 3, 2003
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When i was signing up again under a new name my mouse wasn't working very well. I didn't give any actual thought to a username, just typed in the first phrase that came to mind.

I have sinced cleaned my mouse, and it works fine :D .
 

y2kc

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Sep 2, 2000
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I obviously have no clue on how to pick a unique username... i got caught up int the whole Y2K thing back in 2000. my username sucks.
 

blackdogdeek

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on an sc server where i used to play i picked blackdog because it's the name of a led zeppelin song i like.

when i switched to another server where my other friends played that name was taken so i appended my irl nick to it.
 

Mardeth

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Jul 24, 2002
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I came up with mine when I randomly pressed my keyboard until something that actually sounded sane popped up.
 

nitsuj3580

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Originally posted by: 5ayle
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: rbloedow
I always use my name: Ryan Bloedow

It's unique enough that nobody knows what in the hell my user name means, and they feel sorry for anyone who has it as a real name :p
What a weird last name!

I've never seen another Skoorb!

scrooge + noob = skroob?

or it could be Brooks spelled backwards :)
 

Yaotl

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Jul 7, 2001
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Originally posted by: xSauronx
mines not unique :/

but, since i thought it fit, i wanted to use the name...and just added x's, when most people didnt.

and i use the same handle on every forum i go to.

are you straighedge or something? that's the only time i've seen x's used like that.

mine is aztec, the shortest word i could find that can somewhat be easily pronounced.
 

OREOSpeedwagon

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May 30, 2001
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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: rbloedow
I always use my name: Ryan Bloedow

It's unique enough that nobody knows what in the hell my user name means, and they feel sorry for anyone who has it as a real name :p
What a weird last name!

I've never seen another Skoorb!

Two guys named Brooks I knew when I used to go to this LAN gaming center both went by Skoorb :p
 

OREOSpeedwagon

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May 30, 2001
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I got my name when I was eating some Oreo cookies and was listening to "Time for me to fly" by REO Speedwagon, I looked at the Oreo package and noticed O + REO = OREO, OREOSpeedwagon :p
 

FrOsTxxbYtE

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Oct 15, 2003
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i got my name from that guy named frost from the movie "blade" cause i thought he was cool plus i wanted something computer related in it also
 

Ness

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Jul 10, 2002
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I wanted just "Ness" but it was taken... by someone who hasn't logged on in about 3 years :(

I use Ness as a handle because I look like the game character (from earthbound, Smash Brothers)

so I added the 1469 just like my AIM SN has, which I added in the first place when I first got AIM 6 years ago. The 1-4-69 was added because I was a little perverted high school kid :-x

If *cough cough* any mods were ever kind enough to get rid of that other "Ness" and drop the 1469 off my name I'd love them forever :heart:
 

NL5

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Apr 28, 2003
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Never guess where I got mine.....


Hint - from the S.S.B.



 

Lonyo

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Aug 10, 2002
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Originally posted by: Mardeth
I came up with mine when I randomly pressed my keyboard until something that actually sounded sane popped up.

That's how I pick names for characters in games, random letters until the make something that can be pronounced.
 

SpazzyChicken

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Feb 8, 2002
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Now that I think about it, I can't remember exactly how I came up with mine.

I think that it had something to do with a game of quake 2 that I was playing on a server. I didn't have a real name yey, and this one guy kept being a piece of $hit camper (ie...chicken $hit). I think my name had something to do with that.

I have yet to see my handle used anywhere that isn't me!