I have two stories fer mine.
The true one: The Custard Trout is not actually a name, it is a title, a very prestigious and noble title, handed down over the course of a thousand generations, only the best could become The Custard Trout, the wisest, the strongest, the fiercest. Also, only those born in my home country, Jelly Lake, would be eligible.
The previous Custard Trout was nearing the end of his life, (only males could be Custard Trouts, the female counterpart was The Cream Pike, kind of like knights and dames), he readied his apprentice, and told him that he must earn his title before the next full moon. Six Trials were set before the apprentice, one for each element, they were: The Trial of Fire, The Trail of Water, The Trail of Earth, The Trail of Air, The Trial of Surprise, and the most deadly of all, The Trial of Golf.
The apprentice spend three days and three nights training for the Trails, and soon, he was ready, he would succeed, he would become the greatest Custard Trout who ever lived!
Unfortunately, he was eaten by a rabbit (rabbits in Jelly Lake are bipedal, fifty feet tall, and very strict carnivores) so the Custard Trout panicked and gave the title to the first person he saw, which was his servant boy, also known as me.
On the first day of my Custard Troutdom, Jelly Lake was attacked by our evil rivals, the Rice Puddingites, I fled instead of protecting my people, because I'm a trouser wetting pansy coward. And here I am today! Hoping that everyone died so they don't find me and tear me to little bits.
The not true one: I liked the sound of it, and I've using it for a while. But I have various aliaseseseses.
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So... why that name?
Aw, mine is dorky.
A long, long time ago, I used to run a Sailor Moon mailing list on AOL with a friend of mine. (I know. I know.) We wanted our screen names to match characters from the show, and I wanted "Tin Kitty" but it was taken (the horror!). I still wanted some form of "kitty", and I figured, I am a very quiet person, so I tagged "silent" onto it and there you have it. I've been using the name for pretty much everything intarweb-related ever since.
Aw, mine is dorky.
A long, long time ago, I used to run a Sailor Moon mailing list on AOL with a friend of mine. (I know. I know.) We wanted our screen names to match characters from the show, and I wanted "Tin Kitty" but it was taken (the horror!). I still wanted some form of "kitty", and I figured, I am a very quiet person, so I tagged "silent" onto it and there you have it. I've been using the name for pretty much everything intarweb-related ever since.
hahaha dork =P
/subcultured used to watch sailormoon long time ago cause he didn't have any access to other animes. and he liked the way they transform all nakedy
I chose Hero not after the concept of some protector or legendary warrior, but after Hero of Alexandria, the Greek Mathmetician Engineer. I wanted to choose the name of an inventor as I fancy myself a madman of pseudo-science despite my crippling math abillities and Hero is pretty nifty. I also happen to be a big fan of old Dial "H" for Hero comics and dig Gil Scott Heron, the poet and revolutionary.
Ack I am sooooo dating myself here…
When I was in Junior High School many of my friends were into Star Wars (up to Empire Strikes Back at the time). They were so into it they even had a club. Me? Yeah I wanted to join…had to take a test and everything on Star Wars Trivia.
Oh the other stipulation was that you had to have an alias, a club name…
At the time I was very heavy into the idea of Darwin's Theory of Evolution…loved the idea…so I decided that would be a cool to have as an alias for that Star Wars club.
I won't tell you just how geeky that got…it was pretty fun and very funny, and I think it accelerated my ability to use my imagination and to write it on paper.
Anyway, when I started making myself known on the internet in more recent years I resurected my old Alias. It is a very ambiguous name, one that can be either male or female, and at the time I was very much about anonymity. Not so big a deal now, but at the time I didn't want my gender to be known.
It works trust me…LOL!
when i first signed up for AOL i met someone on line named bongotez. she was cool but known for changing her screen name a lot to ditch stalkers. she would email her new name to the people she wanted to know it. one day she emailed me saying that bongotez was no longer her name and she included her new screen name. me, being the insane person i was, kept asking her where bongo was. she kept saying that bongo was dead. so, me, being the insane person i was, tried picking the user name bongotez. i was not allowed to have it for 6 months after she deleted the name. so, in order to mess with her in a more timly manner i chose bongotezz with an extra Z. i would IM her saying that i'm not dead and she should stop saying that. she knew instantly who i was. i was like "dammit". and we both laughed. i kept using that name cause the other one i had sucked and when i started signing up for stuff on line it was hard to find a screen name that wasn't taken and didn't have numbers after it so i started using bongotezz for everything. i like the name and it's always available. :)
Haha, cool stuff everyone. My name comes from my days of playing muds. My character got caught in a well, and no one would help him out by lowering me a rope. So I made a second character from a random word on a random page in a dictionary. Hyptosis. Lowered the rope, got my guy out. Everyone talked to me more as Hyptosis and it stuck. Wish something cool would have stuck. =] My character's name was Aura, way cooler than Hyptosis. =\
Later found out Hyptosis is a medical word meaning 'coughed up blood'. Nice eh? Oh well.
Well my name evolved sort of, my real name is Alex, and when we went over Alexander the great in history I started calling myself Alexander the Mediocre (a self-confidence issue, bleh.) Then when I wanted something different when I signed onto DD I thought for a bit, and referred to myself in the third person, the mediocre one.
Kinda lame when I think about it.
My real name being Austin,people often wonder where the "Jim" came from.
Well,a long while back,I was trying to sign up for a forum,but every name I wanted wouldn't go through.So I started making throw-away names. Mr_Bobart,IM_A_BISCOTTI,etc. But then,one went through….Captain_Jim.It…it grew on me.I like to be reffered to as Jim on the net (an sometimes in real life),and there's a character based on me named Jim on the web-manga Gravity (gravitymanga. com)
So yeah. THAR JOO GO
well… i am probably the only person in the world who is obsessive compulsive for nothing but internet usernames…
i can never pick a username. i actually have half an A4 book filled with ideas for names… and have used like 40 differant names in my life. the problem is, i can spend a whole weekend trying to think up a username, use it, then decide it is either:
too nerdy
too tryhard
too stupid (numbers or misspellings)
too fantasy orientated (cassiel, lord of the rings type names, the names that WOW magically creates
or something trivial like that, which will end up with me deleting the name to make a new one…
the only problem is… when i do pick a name that i actually really really like, it is already taken on whatever i want to sign up on. it makes meh so mad…
i also get pissed off when ill sign up for something, then sign up on something else with the same username and find that its taken… this once prompted me to delete my name on the previous thing to keep one name… its no use though… i still use like 30-40 diferant names over the net…
when i do try and choose a name though, i like running it through my head as a animated logo title sequence and see how cool it is… still doesnt really help but is fun :D
i think i am too sef cunsious of what people think of my names… its just usernames say a lot about what type of person you are and can make a great deal of differance when talking on the net. on DD, i just used "Will" because its my name and its available, i know that since its my real name i can never prompt myself to change it for being "uncool" or gay or crap or tryhard…
still, i really wish i could think up a name that there is no chance anyone else could take, sounds cool and doesnt include any numbers… but as i said… i am obsessive compulsive and probably will never decide on one i like… its really crap, i spend sleepless nights trying to think up a good name i swear to God…
thinking up actual "character" names is great fun however, as you can use fantasy names without looking tryhard and you dont have to worry about them being taken :D
below is a list of usernames i have used in the past and why i do not use them anymore:
gunshafted (got from the pungee pits in tony hawks): innuendo
pewterblue (just baked and was imagining colours :D): its just random and stupid
Damarus (Unreal 2004): too tryhard
Greyscale: i didnt like the fact that it can be spelt two differant ways, as this could cause confusion if i was saying it to friends… and besides it is taken in lots of places
CellarDoor: taken in lots of places
Numenos: a name i thought was completely original, but apparently meant something in latin and no site would tell me what… no i got scared and left it… the .com url was taken anyway :P
EMH: the story behind this is that it stands for Emergancy Medical hologram from star trek voyager, the story is that the EMH couldnt think of a name for himself… since he was picky as i am, it seemed perfect to take it and use it as a name… but again it was taken and stood for something else aswell
Dreadnaught: taken in lots of places
Sidriel: not sure of story behind it… but its too trycard
Cassiel: i really love this name, and didnt really care that it was tryhard… but even though its a guys name… its listed under must babyname sites as a girls name… so i didnt take the risk…
Horribilis: this is the French name for that mivie "Slither", but i figured it was too tryhardy and would have been used a lot
Beowulf: too tryhardy… taken alot
Paracelsus: if memory serves me correctly this is the name of a wizard in fantasy history… cool name in my opinion but was too tryhardy to use on the sites i went on at that time
Fafnir: the name of a dragon in an old greek myth (at least i think it was greek) i do like it but i… dont… if that makes any sence…
Ganymede: taken in too many places
High Noon: besically means "the ultimate challenge", but decided against it as it seemed a little to strange as a username… even for gaming…
Silpheed: dont know where from, but too girly
Desrook: like the name, but taken too many places
Agamemnon: like name, taken
Okuninushi: not sure of story… never actually tried it before on anything… so nothing really against this name, just implies that i'm japanese when im not
Razorfox: like the name.. but a little too girly, and it was also my neighbors name and i was terrified he would find out sooner or later that i was stealing it :S
thats about it… sorry for any spelling mistakes or grammer, cant be bothered to check all that :P
edit: what names do you guys like? do you think i was wrong to judge any of these as tryhard?
my name is matt, my primary language is spanish
loco = spanish for "crazy"
Locomatt
Locoma
although many people remember me as Lacoma, so I now wonder what Lacoma is…
maybe I'm a specialist in hard to remember nicknames. I once used "tomodolon" and I couln't even remember it the day before using it.
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