Topic: Origins of your forum name?

[NWR_insanolord]

The "Insano" part of my name actually evolved from something I did in Madden, using the create-a-team feature and one of the premade logos I used inspired me to call the team the Insanos. The username is meant to be taken as me being Lord of the Insanos. The funny thing is over the past couple years friends of mine have taken to calling me "Lord" as a nickname, and I'm fairly certain they aren't aware of my Internet name.

[Patchkid15]

Well... on NWR my name is Patchkid15 which is semi derived from my name Patrick. Everywhere else my name is papatch15, which came from the paper mario character, and i simply retained the 15 from my previous username.

[EasyCure]

Didn't we already have a thread like this? Oh well!

I'm curious where you got your username.

My name comes from the Soul Calibur fighter Maxi.

I am pretty good with him and he has an similar personality as me.

I always wondered if it was from SC and i'm glad i was right! As for that last part.. uhm i have to go back and play Soul Calibur.. lol

As for me..

Formation and early years (1973–1979)
The first incarnation of what became The Cure was The Obelisk, a band formed by students at Notre Dame Middle School in Crawley, Sussex. The band .... featured Robert Smith (piano), Michael "Mick" Dempsey (guitar), Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst (percussion), Marc Ceccagno (lead guitar) and Alan Hill (bass guitar).The first real incarnation though came in January 1976 when Ceccagno formed Malice with Smith and Dempsey along with two other classmates...., Smith now also on guitar and Dempsey switching to bass. Increasingly influenced by the emergence of punk rock, Malice's remaining members became known as Easy Cure in January 1977.Smith and Dempsey had, by this time, been joined by Lol Tolhurst from The Obelisk on drums, and new lead guitarist Porl Thompson. Both Malice and Easy Cure also trialed several unsuccessful vocalists before Smith finally assumed the role of Easy Cure's frontman in September 1977.

That year, The Easy Cure won a talent competition with the German label Hansa Records, and received a recording contract. Following disagreements in March 1978 over the direction the band should take, the contract with Hansa was dissolved. Smith later recalled "We were very young. They just thought they could turn us into a teen group. They actually wanted us to do cover versions and we always refused." Thompson was dropped from the band that May, and the remaining trio was soon renamed The Cure by Smith.

And there you have it. The reasoning behind it was, well The Cure was one of those bands i'd always heard of but never listened to. When i did my mind was blown and music was never the same again, seriously. No other band can play some vastly different styles and make it sound perfect and seem effortless. To grow from one genre/style to another over your career is one thing, but to be able to produce vastly different sounding music on a single album is simply amazing. Thus they left their mark on me, and the name stuck not only as something that sounds pretty cool, but I've applied my own personal meaning to it.

Now you know!

Also, those of you hear when I first showed up might remember my first avatar:



Which is The Cure's fourth studio album, Pornography (1982). The shrunken image is a little hard to see but if you follow the link, you'll see the image of the then 3 Cure band members on the album cover. The Cure's first album, Three Imaginary Boys, was actually the first inspiration for a username when i decided to join the forums but i couldn't for the life of me get a damn comfirmation email, so i went through a ton of variations on that name before getting lucky with EasyCure. Oh, for those of you who have played Animal Crossing on-line with me, you may find this image familiar.. as its my Curiosa town flag!

[bustin98]

Way back when, Yahoo used to have the real time chat. They also had those easy emoticons you could quickly add to the chat. One of them was 'Bustin out laughing'. For some reason that stuck with me. I was trying to decide on a username and that's what popped in my head. I had originally bustin97@yahoo.com, but I lost the password and couldn't retreive it, so I moved on to bustin98@yahoo.com. And I have just kept the name for the past 12 years.

[EasyCure]

And now its short for "Bustin' out kids left and right" or just "Bustin' makes me feel good"

I've personally never been a fan of numbers in usernames or emails, but thats just because its easier to remember a name/phrase than a slew of numbers. One or two isn't bad obviously (as in your case) but i hated having friends emails or instant messenger names be something like SuperMario123456798. That wasn't a typo either, i meant the 9 to come before the 8 to show how annoying it can be. You sit there thinking "oh it wasn't that hard, it was sSuperMario123456789@__.com" and two seconds later you get that notification that the email wasn't delivered cuz you fucked up their retarded name! UGH!

/rant

[NWR_insanolord]

I made it a rule for myself to never use numbers like that, but more for uniqueness and creativity. Actually even I have trouble remembering how to spell my AIM screen name (mtndeworcrabjuce) because I forget how I abbreviated it to fit within the size limit.

[Caliban]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliban_(The_Tempest)

I have not read the book, and I liked the name but it so happened that I was doing some research and came about this name and the character's personality which at the time I identified with. I still like the name just as much as I like my first name.

[EasyCure]

I made it a rule for myself to never use numbers like that, but more for uniqueness and creativity. Actually even I have trouble remembering how to spell my AIM screen name (mtndeworcrabjuce) because I forget how I abbreviated it to fit within the size limit.

Yeah i'm the same way. Unless I had no choice but to add a number in it, i wouldn't. For instance, when i mentioned earlier how i originally went with "ThreeImaginaryBoys" as my username for the forums; if it were too long i might of settled for "3ImaginaryBoys" or something like that.

[BranDonk Kong]

I used to burn CDs and sell them in high school and put "produced by Brandogg" as a joke. But then I realized it was pretty easy to get this name without adding any numbers to the end, so I use it just about everywhere.

[Stogi]

Well I once frequented a *EXPLICATIVE* forum and wanted my user name to rhyme with my favorite way of smoking. I also wanted it to sound japanese for some reason, but since no Japanese name/word rhymed with the word "Blunt", I decided to use the word "Stogy". And thus, KashogiStogi was born.

I recently changed it to Kashogi Y. Stogi because I thought the "Y" gave the name a little more rhythm and also because one of my middle names starts with "Y".

[BeautifulShy]

Didn't you have 2 other accounts on here Stogi? If so what is the story with those?

[Stogi]

Yes I did.

My first name "Don'tHate742" was derived from a rhyme I had used quite often; e.g. Don't hate, celebrate; but any word could replace "celebrate" as long as it rhymed. The "742" was taking from the Simpsons address.

Requiem came from a beat I made that sampled from the easily recognizable theme of "Requiem for a Dream." It was the first beat I've ever made, but it was the one that got me started. So I called myself Requiem in honor of that theme.

[GoldenPhoenix]

A phoenix that is gold.

[King of Twitch]

you should be in school! not running around, hunting down lost civilizations!

[DAaaMan64]

It was 1997 and I needed a name for my AOL 4.0 account. My mother miss heard my original version (DAAMAN64) and put in DAaaMan64, and that stayed because I started using it for everything for unity and easy remembering. Also no one has the name. Lastly, I continue to use it because the name has a nice resume:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=DAaaMan64&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

10 pages of google results, and I own daaaman64.com

[that Baby guy]

It's just my name.  I typed in my name, and BAM!

[BeautifulShy]

So there isn't an story about your username thatguy?

[ThePerm]

i used to have a friend named rocky creek

when im not theperm, i'm themightyperm, theultimatperm, majorperm, or thepermman, permy, permanator

before i was theperm i used the user name the pest, and pestilence on bbs boards as early as 92'  my brothers handle was plague so i could either go with pestilence, famine, or death.

[Stratos]

i used to have a friend named rocky creek

when im not theperm, i'm themightyperm, theultimatperm, majorperm, or thepermman, permy, permanator

before i was theperm i used the user name the pest, and pestilence on bbs boards as early as 92'  my brothers handle was plague so i could either go with pestilence, famine, or death.

Don't forget Permutation!

Hey, Insano, that's funny that you are called 'lord'. I had a friend whom people liked to call Jesus because he had really long straight hair and a beard that bore a striking similarity to how Jesus is stereotypically presented in American pop culture. Much like your new avatar.

[Mop it up]

You know, I'm actually NOT as much of a clean freak as my username might have you believe. That doesn't mean I don't like things clean, I'm just not obsessive about it.

I'm pretty clumsy though, and what do you do when you make a mess? You mop it up. Since I figured I'd be making a mess of things on forums due to my tendency to drift off-topic and my poor social skills, I thought it would be a fitting username.

My name comes from the Soul Calibur fighter Maxi.
I am pretty good with him and he has an similar personality as me.

So Maxi from Soul Caliber is the strong silent type?

[BeautifulShy]

Well there are times where I am like Maxi. He is overconfident and confrontational.He get things done.

[Stratos]

You know, I'm actually NOT as much of a clean freak as my username might have you believe. That doesn't mean I don't like things clean, I'm just not obsessive about it.

I'm pretty clumsy though, and what do you do when you make a mess? You mop it up. Since I figured I'd be making a mess of things on forums due to my tendency to drift off-topic and my poor social skills, I thought it would be a fitting username.

My name comes from the Soul Calibur fighter Maxi.
I am pretty good with him and he has an similar personality as me.

So Maxi from Soul Caliber is the strong silent type?

Maxi from Soul Calibur must also get teased by Cassandra and Sophitia while playing Animal Crossing.

[Mop it up]

Maxi from Soul Calibur must also get teased by Cassandra and Sophitia while playing Animal Crossing.

Who the bloody mop is Cassandra and Sophitia? Do you have friends outside of NWR? How dare you!

[Stratos]

Maxi from Soul Calibur must also get teased by Cassandra and Sophitia while playing Animal Crossing.

Who the bloody mop is Cassandra and Sophitia? Do you have friends outside of NWR? How dare you!

LOL, did you ever play Soul Calibur before?

And so what if I see other women. We aren't exclusive or anything. Last I heard, we weren't even an item. And what of you going off all over tarnation. I know you have accounts on other places like GameFAQs, whom you incessantly speak of. I thought you were over GameFaqs?

[Mop it up]

You really think I've played Soul Caliber?

You never stop visiting your first forum. Well okay, so technically THIS is my first forum, but GameFAQs is the first place I, you know, posted.