Where Did Your Username Come From And How Old Is It?

[GuyBoy]

My actual name is Guy. My wife is from a Roma background and adding “boy” to one’s husband’s name is pretty common, hence GuyBoy.
My avatar is my rugby team, Harlequins.

Cool thread BTW; there are some great user names on here.

 

[Gradine]

It's the name I've had for all 40 years of my life.

Come to think of it, that's a good 34 years longer than I've had my first name, so...

 

[cbwjm]

My actual name is Guy. My wife is from a Roma background and adding “boy” to one’s husband’s name is pretty common, hence GuyBoy.
My avatar is my rugby team, Harlequins.

Cool thread BTW; there are some great user names on here.

Would be great if you also had a surname like Chapman.

 

[Gorgon Zee]

made me curious: How old is your username? Where did it come from? Is there a story behind it? Is it just for EN World, or are you that around the internet?

When I was in college around 1986, computer games were frowned on and the college would shut down accounts or send nastygrams to people who played games, so we developed aliases -- disposable game handles -- to log in as. Most people had a pattern of names, as you had to change them regularly. I went with cheese based names.

Even now, I still use some for MMOs and other CCRPGs. Typical ones include

• STIL TON, usually a paladin or anything in a Dune game ...
• EDAMME, often a cleric
• DANISH BLU, typically a goofball
• CHÉ D'DAR, a revolutionary

and GORGON ZOLA, uppity magic user, who later morphed into GORGON ZEE.

And now, because "Graham" is an easy name to write wrongly or call out as "Garth" or a host of other names I might miss, I tend to use ZEE as my name in coffee shops or similar places.

Oh, I also had an Everquest wizard that, due to my hideous typing ability, was called GROGNOLOZA.

 

[cbwjm]

Even now, I still use some for MMOs and other CCRPGs. Typical ones include

• STIL TON, usually a paladin or anything in a Dune game ...
• EDAMME, often a cleric
• DANISH BLU, typically a goofball
• CHÉ D'DAR, a revolutionary

This sounds like the kind of names my friends and I came up with to avoid having our user names censored. Names like Drew Peacock, Hugh Johnson, and Mike Oxlong. I'd like to say it was when we were young and immature, but we're in our 40s and this was just a year or two ago.

 

[Incenjucar]

A vague reference to one of my first D&D 2E characters - a pyromaniac ninja - filtered through some experiments with language to imply "plays with fire". Probably picked it up in 1998 on the old WorC forums. I'm playing a variant of that old character in Pathfinder, now.