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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2885 Joined: 11 Mar 2009     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1097 Joined: 18 Feb 2009    | Some cretins have shown poor judgment in connecting my name to my posts. Humbug, I say. I will never understand these people. Although, I may have some part in my own undoing. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3814 Joined: 1 Mar 2009    | I don't get abused for my name, I'm surely not the only one with a messy hairdo. I just point it out to the people. But soon, that name will be insufficient when I get dreads. Or maybe it will still be crazy... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2347 Joined: 21 Aug 2008     | I have to assume people think I'm black. I don't know really. a friend on Xbox Live used to call me blackie or black-a-roo, or something else, and being called that always made me laugh and I fell in love with the name. You'd have to ask other people what they think based of me based on my name, maybe they think I'm an eccentric, in which case their right. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 842 Joined: 27 May 2009     | names are important and i dont specificly mean usernames, but names in generally. it has long been believed that a names gives you power. that one is to covet their own name and to use it wisely and sparingly. so it could be that at least in some small way that a name like ThrobbingEgo could make you subconsciencely or consciensely i guess think of yourself as a person with a bigger ego, hence power. where as if your name was something thing like SmallandInconsequential you may feel more humble. either way i think the meaning and folklore behind names, and the reasons people choose the names that they do and interesting topic of conversation and study. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2465 Joined: 12 Jul 2008   | People assume that it's because of the Motorhead song. It's not. |
Muckraker Posts: 300 Joined: 6 May 2009    | It's my real name, actually. Well, sort of, my real name is Rick van 't Hof. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 389 Joined: 24 Aug 2008    | I'm usually 'randomish' And it means nothing at all, so nobody asks. le sigh |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2906 Joined: 21 May 2008  | People assume me and Incredible Bullshitting Man are the same person. (Thank you Iron Ninja). |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1327 Joined: 13 Jan 2009   | My xbox live gamertag is Pope Cexxi, and everyone at first is like "Whaaaa??" and then they're like "Ohhhhh!!" |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 895 Joined: 28 Jun 2009   | Beats me. Hopefully they get to thinking im some sort of time traveler or sci-fi hero. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 364 Joined: 26 Jan 2009  | Three words. MGS Name Generator. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1135 Joined: 26 Mar 2009 |
Nothing, actually. My brother keeps calling me a muslim terrorist whenever he sees it, but he's really the only one who has ever done that so I guess the statement doesn't hold much weight. I do notice lots of people seem to have trouble pronouncing it, though. It's "Mow-sah-red" with emphasis on 'Mow', not "Mow-zaaa-red" or "Mozza-red" like I've heard. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1071 Joined: 7 Feb 2009   | That I'm a haxor. I was kidding.... guys? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2940 Joined: 22 Jun 2008   | It goes something like , Hey that's that one guy from the wheel of time, right? Awesome. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1367 Joined: 12 May 2009    | Usually letters, or some sort of characters. I mean...if they didn't...how would we know it was a name? Morne |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1664 Joined: 9 Aug 2008    | Ares Tyr is pretty simple mythology stuff. The God of Battle and War from Greece, and the God of Battle and War from Norse mythology. Male, strong, nerdy. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 691 Joined: 22 Oct 2008   | I dunno what people think of my name. Apparently some minor musician uses the same name, and there's a site called Knitting Knonsense (both of these facts courtesy of Google), but other than that it doesn't carry much meaning. I remember thinking that I wanted a neon sign with nonsense written on it with a silent 'k' once. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 843 Joined: 3 Aug 2008 | Crafter_Man What else do you need to know? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 726 Joined: 23 Jun 2009    | I've been using Scrythe as my username for over six years now, and I'm finding it increasingly hard to be able to USE my own username due to someone stealing it and using it on every possible forum/MMO/whatever. Even on the Zune social... thing. Lately I've been having to use TheScrythe as my user for things like Zune or Games For Windows Live due to this. Almost every realm in World of Warcraft has a level 1 Scrythe for whatever reason. Another thing that irks me is when people try to find some off-the-wall and far fetched explanation to it's meaning. It means absolutely nothing in any language whatsoever. I made it up when I was in Unreal Tournament... err, tournaments when I was a freshmen in high school and it's stuck since. I've heard some crazy things from people like "Doesn't Scrythe means 'fairy' in German?" or something to that effect. (It's "fee", by the way, in case you're wondering) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1282 Joined: 1 Jun 2008   | Khedive Rex? I'm not really sure how people respond to it. ... It's got K's and X's and stuff so I suppose it's possible people would think of it as a random RPG generated name, even though it's not. If they're familiar with Latin they might catch the reference to nobility... I guess I'll ask, how does "Khedive Rex" strike you? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3593 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | There's two things in my name, let's look at them: 1. Booze, a liquid known for it's addictive qualities and ability to render people incomprehensible. 2. Zombie, an undead creature known for cannibalistic tendencies and confused warbling. Combined: A zombie that drinks alcohol instead of eating flesh, his undeath being powered by the wonders of booze, a Booze Zombie. He is still rendered a rambling wreck, but it's hard to tell where drunkenness ends and undeath begins in that respect. He's the most awesome zombie ever, yo! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 791 Joined: 1 Apr 2009   | I think people think "What the fuck does that guys name mean?." |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 115 Joined: 3 Jun 2009  | people think I have pillow for an ass because of name. but that's only happened once before |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2551 Joined: 20 Jan 2009  |
Yeah, thats what I remeber him for too. Nobody seems to notice me. I'd rather catch some flak than none at all, at least than it means people cared enough to look. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1711 Joined: 5 Jun 2009  |
My 'friends' tell me they find it hard to believe I'm a guy looking at my posts, username, and avatar. "Dude, only girls use alliteration and/or 'monkey' in their username. And your avatar doesn't help you either." But I can't change it. (Although I really couldn't think of anything better as a username. I was playing "bloons" with the monkeys and stuff, and the only thing I remembered in school one day was my teacher yelling at everyone to use the 'metric' units on the ruler.) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2112 Joined: 17 Nov 2008 |
Why can't you change the avatar? Mojo Jojo would suit your name pretty well. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1711 Joined: 5 Jun 2009 |
I was actually talking about the username. And I really don't wanna browse for like half an hour on what pic looks the best. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4397 Joined: 19 Feb 2009 | Dude I loved your Freud avatar. My username is pretty straight forward, I'm a traceur. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2112 Joined: 17 Nov 2008 |
I think that suits sonic pretty well. Sega, if you're reading this, don't make an open world parkour-based Sonic game. That's... that's not going to be well received. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4397 Joined: 19 Feb 2009 |
Can't be worse than that kart game. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4052 Joined: 23 Dec 2008  | my username probably makes... um... i have no idea what reactions are too it. no one has ever told me anything definitive about it, despite the fact i use it everywhere. people often treat me as a bit unstable, but that's how i get treated in reality as well, so im not sure whether that counts. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2112 Joined: 17 Nov 2008 |
Which one? Sonic Racing, or the upcoming one? Or that skateboard, nay, gravity board thing? Edit: Crap, there's a whole series of them! Edit redux: It gets worse. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 76 Joined: 21 May 2009   | What kind of jack ass puts Prince in their name. Oh god he's a marth fan boy. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2239 Joined: 5 May 2008  | My name often leads to the reply "you're a ninja" and seemingly everyone thinks it is original...every...time...make it stop! |
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I don't make enough of an impression to have any sort of effect.