There was a thread similar to this around a while back, but it wasn't as concise as this one.
Anyway, I always find myself wondering why people chose their usernames or avatars, or what they mean, and I always want to ask but there's nowhere to do so. Hence - this thread.
Username:
Avatar:
Title:
Signature:
I'm pretty sure we have a thread like this already.
Username: is Luke's call-sign in A New Hope
Avatar: I GIS'd "Red Five" and the lego rebel came up. It doesn't have much to do with anything, but it seemed very avatar-y.
Title: My title is an amalgam of Radiohead and Star War (via the song "Fake Plastic Trees")
Signature: I change my sig frequently, it's always just a quote I'm fond of at the time.
Username: Original idea for it is that it's a Mexican Penguin that joins the Green Lantern Corps
Avatar: Slippery Jim DiGriz, better known as The Stainless Steal Rat, a truly awesome book series.
Title: It's from a scene in Doctor Who, where the master gases a room full of people and one guy says 'You're Insane!' and the master gives a thumbs up.
Signature: I've gone back to my traditional Ric Olie quote. 'cos Ric Olie is cool.
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Username : "Duracell" and "Energizer" fused.
Avatar : I always liked how, in the EU, there were multiple lightsaber colours available to darksiders and lightsiders both. When AOTC came out, this cliched "red = bad, blue & green = good" lightsaber colour rule was firmly established and the EU quickly adopted it. I've been pissed off about it ever since. Giving a Nazgul a green lightsaber is my small way of defying the system.
Title : ties into the reasoning behind my avatar.
Signature : relates how the fantards on TF.N will spit on you if you don't allow the thought police to shove the official canon up your ass.
RedFive said:
There was a thread similar to this around a while back, but it wasn't as concise as this one.
Just wait...
USERNAME:For years my net handle was "Booster Bronze" which was my rapper name in my college years, which itself was a play off my favorite superhero, Booster Gold. Eventually I needed a change, so I shortened it.
AVATAR: Piett is my favorite character in ESB, plus some minor modifications to the pic.
TITLE: Lyrics from the National Anthem.
SIG: Don't like sigs.
I'm Ric Olie
A picture of me.
I was possessed for a while, now I'm back.
My website and a vid of my best work.
Well considering you can't spell your name right, I'm highly suspicious of you Frink Ric
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Username: No big mystery, it's my first and middle initials and my last name. No, it's not a homage to actor Michael J. Pollard. :-)
Avatar: As of 5/4/2011, it's my dog, Zoe, who I had for over 14 years before she passed away. (It's been four years, but I still miss her. She was the best dog I ever owned.)
Title: Nothing yet.
Signature: I'm a software developer. You figure it out. :-)
Username: Funkydays - My favourite song off of Cornershop's "When I Was Born For The 7th Time" album
Avatar: Dark Side Of The That's No Moon - Star Wars and Floyd :-)
Title: Self explanatory
Signature: I'm Buddhist ;-)
“Yes, it speaks of the trinity; casting light at the sun with its wandering eye”
Username: A character named wally from the best video game series evarz! (Monkey Island) named Wally calls himself Bloodnose when he becomes a pirate.
Avatar: Its Wally/Bloodnose
Title: Before Wally was a pirate he was a cartographer.
Signature: My audio drama (Plug, Plug, Plug)
Username: My Name + Nintendo System + James Bond Number
Avatar: Erica Rose Campbell (She's a lot better looking than I am).
Title: Just something weird that pops into my head.
Signature: Something weird + Bond-inspired Logo + YouTube Channel plug.
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If you want Nice, go to France
Username: I think I was high when I joined this site and thought "Woah dude, 8 is like the symbol for infinity and an asterisk looks like the big bang. And they're on teh same button. Sweet."
Avatar: She's a stripper from the 1920s, and who doesn't like those? Some of them were your great-grandmothers.
Title: I think it speaks for itself.
Signature: Adywan mentioned receiving Wampa fur in the mail and I believe I commented that if he needed someone to comb it free of charge, I'm up for it. Or something. I think I was high then too. I used to smoke a lot of pot.
asterisk8 said:
Username: I think I was high when I joined this site and thought "Woah dude, 8 is like the symbol for infinity and an asterisk looks like the big bang. And they're on teh same button. Sweet."
Reading that made making this thread worth it.
Title: I think it speaks for itself.
No! What's "AKing"?
Username: Combination of TV's Frank from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Professor Frink from The Simpsons.
Avatar: Usually a rotating set of Professor Frink images.
Title: Whatever strikes me as fun, often taken from a forum quote.
Signature: Self-Promotion, Baby!
RedFive said:
No! What's "AKing"?
According to dark_jedi, "ass-kissing".
asterisk8 said:
RedFive said:
No! What's "AKing"?According to dark_jedi, "ass-kissing".
I thought it meant "axeing" ;-(
greenpenguino said:
Title: It's from a scene in Doctor Who, where the master gases a room full of people and one guy says 'You're Insane!' and the master gives a thumbs up.
Reading this after looking at your new title has me ROTFLMAO
MJPollard's sig says:
There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who do not.
I've always preferred this version:
There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't care.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Name: I used to be Lord__Vader (obvious reasons) but when I decided to start releasing my projects, I wanted something more personal, so I asked Jay if he could change it to Harmy (what my homies call me :-D )
Title: Until I recently changed it to "Han D. Solo" (quite crude, I know, but I just like it - and Falcon kinda looks like a hand too) it had been: "I used to be Lord_Vader but now I'm redeemed." For obvious reasons - to avoid confusion after the name change.
Avatar: Well, that's me :-) But it used to be this:
Again, it's quite obvious why :-)
Signature: Used to actually contain a list of my projects with links to their threads but because it somehow kept f*cking up the layout of the forum, I had to find another solution. Anyway, like Frink said: Self-Promotion, Baby :-)
And to Frink: I'd never heard of TV's Frank before I read your post but now that I know, here's a new avatar for you:
Harmy said:
And to Frink: I'd never heard of TV's Frank before I read your post but now that I know, here's a new avatar for you:
LOL! Thanks, man.
I wondered where you got the classy new avatar!TV's Frink said:
Harmy said:
And to Frink: I'd never heard of TV's Frank before I read your post but now that I know, here's a new avatar for you:
LOL! Thanks, man.
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TV's Frink said:
Harmy said:
And to Frink: I'd never heard of TV's Frank before I read your post but now that I know, here's a new avatar for you:
LOL! Thanks, man.
No problem ;-)
Username: Comes from my middle name, extra X is just there since Lex was already in use here.
Avatar: Just threw there something, I like classic Star Wars and it's great art. I could change it something but haven't come up with anything cool.
Title: Classic SW again and I think it's a really cool and mythical concept. Also it describes me in many ways.
Signature: Again, threw something. Don't really care what reads there.
And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as the Son of the Suns.