How did you choose your online gaming name?

[JB]

Errr... It's my initials. :sad:

[Toxteth]

Mines from an episode of the young ones (university challenge episode, some of you may remember).

The questions were things like 'who holds the world record for the largest number of marshmallows put up ones nostril?' and 'who holds the world record for the stikiest bogey in the world?', all the answers were Toxteth O'Grady. :doh:

I have had several names though, Mrs Doyle (from Father Ted) and JackTheNipper when I was a v. young lad.

Now I just call myself Toxteth and people often ask me if I am from Toxteth (in Liverpool), but it definately isn't that... :blink:

[Gone_Away]

I'm a Ninja. Also, I'm a Freak in the classic RPG sense of the name.

[Blunt]

when I got my 1st ISP account, I spent ages trying to register a name; but it was AOL (spit) and with gazillions of yanks already signed-up it was almost impossible to get a name I could live with.
as I was smoking these at the time...
I tried to get phillyblunt, that was taken so I swapped it round to Bluntphilly...
I used to play delta force as Blunt_instrument but dropped the last bit after a while and became Blunt.
I did use "I see dead people" in cs1.3 for a while (appropriate as I was dead mostly), but it was a bit of a mouthful, so I reverted to Blunt.

[Cain]

When I started playing CS I had never tried another FPS before, thus the name 'cannon fodder' seemed appropriate. Then when I stumbled onto N42, and later found my way here, I realised that there already was a player by that name (whatever happend to him, btw?).

I thought about it for a bit and figured I might as well go with the first murderer in history, hoping some of the talent might rub off. Gen 4:15 also was reassuring in keeping me alive a bit longer, but that dont seem to work... Divine intervention isn't what it used to be.

[Dingo]

Cos I eat Babies!!:crazy: :ph34r:

[Soulbringerx]

:withstupid:  Yummy

[Bastet]

Nothing fancy,
 
Once messed up a exam i should have done, so ppl called me the blackout, eventualy shorting to blackout. When i moved to collage that nick faded and i started playing Asherons Call, name gen there gave Ninwa Banli-Zan, which was allready used so i butcherd it to Niwa Banli-Zan, which i still use, and used on CSS (playing as Niwa) untill i started on boomer where TL told me to use my wow char name (Bastet)
 
Still have Niwa on my MSN, these days complemented by / Bastet :narnar:

[BigFatCat]

Easy, I'm fat, hairy and I like eating fish and sleeping.

[TeaLeaf]

TL told me to use my wow char name (Bastet)

Otherwise I'd not know who the heck you were!

TeaLeaf started as [TEA]_Leaf in CS as a joke name - I had the idea of getting a group of casual gamer friends together to set up a joke clan and all play using the [TEA] clan name, my name was [TEA]_Leaf.  Old timers still know me as 'Leaf' or 'Leafy' from my [TEA] days.  Other potential clan [TEA] members would have to follow suit and would be called [TEA]_Cake. [TEA]_Bag, [TEA]_Pot, [TEA]_Towel, [TEA]_Time, etc - you get the idea.  Anyway, the idea remained a private one and I never bothered to persuade friends to join me in my comedy [TEA] crusade and when I joined dMw the potential clan name -=[dMw]=-[TEA]_Leaf was deemed just a bit too wierd, so I became -=[dMw]=-TeaLeaf.  TL is the obvious abbreviation for TeaLeaf.  TL however spawned my WoW names: phonetic TL = Teaelle and the 'elle' bit also made reference to the fact my first toon (my mage) was a female character.  The rest of the WoW names came about because I couldn't be bothered to come up with a bunch of unique names, so Teaell, Teael, Teaele and all the other variations were created.

TL.

[Penfold]

My original name, Pendragon is twofold:

Firstly, I wrote my thesis on Roman Britain andthe Romano-British. Uther Pendragron kept popping up in various legends and folk-lore and I always liked it as a name

Secondly, a good friend died in a motorbike accident and the last time I had spoke to him he was at the PENDRAGON Festival in Wales, so it seemed fitting.

My lastest incarnation, Penfold, is what Tealeaf kept calling me a couple of LAN's ago, and at the time I was thinking that I should have a name change. I went with it as I used to love that little chubby hamster fella on Dangermouse and, best of all, it can still be shortened to PEN which is what most people call me.

PEN

PS. Penfold is also a rather nice New World wine I'm rather partial too

[Carr0t]

Back in the day (tm), when I was just getting into online gaming, and was about... 13 I think, I used 'KingGing' on CounterStrike and UT. Simple. I was ginger, and thought I was good (I was wrong). As I got a bit older, I thought that sounded more than a bit immature, so I looked around for another name. I'm tall, ginger, unfortunately not hugely muscular, but I do really like the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, particularly the ones featuring the Ankh Morpork City Watch, so I took my name from Captain Carrot of the watch. My MSN name does actually have the Cpt. in front of it, but I thought in an online FPS or RPG world that might consitute trying to give myself authority that I hadn't earned, so I dropped it.

[Dr Sadako]

What can I say. Big fan of the Japanese horror movie Ringu (The Ring).I discovered the movie back in 2000, way before it had become a huge success internationally. I used to play by the name "Mark 13" (biblical reference) that came from the cult movie Hardware. However, no one got the coolness of the name and everyone thought I was 13 years old ...
So I changed to Sadako based on the character from the movie Ringu. The "Dr" part in the beginning of my name was added by TL once I finished my PhD in Chemistry. :byebye:

[sheepy]

I cannot actually fully remember how i got mine or how it came around.
I have been through a few incarnations such as "cavesheep" and i think i pld under "caveman" for a bit. unfortunatly the name "sheepy" was taken so my alias of sheepeh steped in. also under sheepet (as it sounded more feminin and my 2nd toon is a female human priest, also have sheepher (mage) sheeplock (lock strangely enough) sheepat (hunter) u can kinda see a theme here.
Also I have a horde shaman called asspit

[Blunt]

I cannot actually fully remember how i got mine or how it came around.
I have been through a few incarnations such as "cavesheep" and i think i pld under "caveman" for a bit. unfortunatly the name "sheepy" was taken so my alias of sheepeh steped in. also under sheepet (as it sounded more feminin and my 2nd toon is a female human priest, also have sheepher (mage) sheeplock (lock strangely enough) sheepat (hunter) u can kinda see a theme here.
Also I have a horde shaman called asspit

Benny told me it was coz you once s**gged a sheep:narnar: