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[arete]

There are some mind-bogglingly obscure screen names and aviators (sic) out there... Where does yours come from? And when did you first start using it?

Anyone who uses their own name will be severely punished for pointing that out

[Data]

From startrek. When I decided to join I saw that there was a Picard here. I chose another one from his crew.
I started using it when I joined here.

[Kugerfang]

From Counter-Strike's POD-Bot.

[Tervez]

When I first came to the Internet, I was supposed to use Darth Vader as a nick in a forum (Tilt.fi in case you were interested), but it was already taken. I thought I could just change it later to something else, so I just took the word 'Terve', meaning 'Hello' in finnish, and added a z to the end. It kind of stuck after that, and I saw no need to change it.

[Playbahnosh]

Mine has a loooong story behind it, but I'm to lazy to type it all in now. In a nutshell:

"Playbahnosh" is the anglicized version of the Hungarian word "plébános" which means parson or priest. If you pronounce it the right way, you pronounce parson in Hungarian, it's the same. My nick was born back in secondary school, I kinda liked it so I stuck to it ever since.

[TheChosen]

From 2001 to 2004, I suffered severe addiction to Fallout 2, where heroes nickname was "The Chosen One".

Took it, changed it and I've been using it ever since.

EDIt: Of course, I am rumored to be one who shall safe us from the apocalypse someday, so no wonder.

[sgtboat]

Not a big mystery with mine SGT is because I am a us army veteran and I was a staff sergeant when I was in. Boat is just the first 4 letters of my last name:thumbs:

[Halindir]

Halindir..i think i was reading the lord of the rings, and playing too much warcraft some years ago, and came up with Halindir

[ianfreddie07]

ianfreddie07

Ian and Freddie/Freddy, my name. Freddie/Freddy is acutally a shortened version of Frederick.

07 due to 7 being my favorite number.

[Japo]

My username comes from my name + surnames.

My avatar is made up of two things, everything but the snake (the navy officer) and the snake. The navy officer is the naval advisor from Sid Meier's Colonization, here (in A. and A. Reloaded) is the only place where I've used it, and it's not the first avatar I used here (the previous one came from the same game).

I wanted to make it unique somehow instead of just the ripoff it is, but didn't know why and didn't have the talent. Then I was playing a forum game and posted, "Snakes in-vaders (Abandonia pun intended)". Then someone else (actually Lulu Jane) said in turn, "Snakes on Japofran as pun-ishment". So I drew a snake around my avatar's neck and lo, it was not so lame as is my wont, or so I thought. (And in those days of yore you could actually change your avatar without destroying the Universe in your vicinity, believe it or not.)