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==[[User:AngelKat|AngelKat]]== | ==[[User:AngelKat|AngelKat]]== | ||
Drusilla picked it... | |||
==[[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]]== | ==[[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]]== | ||
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==[[User:Attol|Attol]]== | ==[[User:Attol|Attol]]== | ||
My name, but backwards. | My name, but backwards. | ||
==[[User:beimear|beimear]]== | |||
It's eimear, with a "b". | |||
==[[User:bilco|bilco]]== | ==[[User:bilco|bilco]]== | ||
Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit | Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit | ||
==[[User:bunbun|bunbun]]== | |||
It's kinda from my surname, in a way... | |||
Also elephant made me. | |||
==[[User:butlerx|butlerx]]== | |||
i miss typed butlerc a few years ago and it stuck | |||
==[[User:cain|cain]]== | ==[[User:cain|cain]]== | ||
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==[[User:carri|carri]]== | ==[[User:carri|carri]]== | ||
I wanted giggleberry but its too long. So me being my epically cool self just used my actual 'name'. | I wanted giggleberry but its too long. So me being my epically cool self just used my actual 'name'. | ||
==[[User:cianky|cianky]]== | |||
I mean it's quite literally just my first name, plus the first character of my surname, along with a 'y' chucked on the end of it. But it works! | |||
==[[User:coconut|coconut]]== | ==[[User:coconut|coconut]]== | ||
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==[[User:cooker3|cooker3]]== | ==[[User:cooker3|cooker3]]== | ||
It is my username for the lab machines in the CA building, it's not to do with an obcession with cookers! | It is my username for the lab machines in the CA building, it's not to do with an obcession with cookers! | ||
==[[User:credak|credak]]== | |||
Originally I wanted creadak (notice the extra a), cause Crea Dak was a character I had on Guild wars. I wrote it down, and the admins left out the extra a. I kinda like it better this way now... | |||
==[[User:david|david]]== | ==[[User:david|david]]== | ||
The year that I joined DCU Hasselhoff was given a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. With all the new challenges in my life at that time I found that he was someone I could look up to. I could admire his achievements. He was like an uncle to me. I grew up on Kinght Rider and am looking forward to the new movie coming out this year. And then when I got a little older and started noticing girls I got interested in Baywatch. I wanted to be the stud that he was on that show. Appropriately in 2000 when I joined redbrick he released one of his many hit albums in Germany - "The Magic Colleciton". So I chose david as my redbrick username because ... well actually its not that interesting really, its my name in real life. | The year that I joined DCU Hasselhoff was given a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. With all the new challenges in my life at that time I found that he was someone I could look up to. I could admire his achievements. He was like an uncle to me. I grew up on Kinght Rider and am looking forward to the new movie coming out this year. And then when I got a little older and started noticing girls I got interested in Baywatch. I wanted to be the stud that he was on that show. Appropriately in 2000 when I joined redbrick he released one of his many hit albums in Germany - "The Magic Colleciton". So I chose david as my redbrick username because ... well actually its not that interesting really, its my name in real life. | ||
==[[User:distro|distro]]== | |||
My username before I joined college was "DistroByte" but that was one too many characters for redbrick LDAP. So I chose distro and it stuck. | |||
==[[User:doc|DoC]]== | ==[[User:doc|DoC]]== | ||
It's the initials of my real name. I've been called DoC in real life by friends, family, etc, for as long as I can remember. | It's the initials of my real name. I've been called DoC in real life by friends, family, etc, for as long as I can remember. | ||
==[[User:dogmeat|dogmeat]]== | |||
I was attached to the dog in the fallout games. | |||
==[[User:drag0n|drag0n]]== | ==[[User:drag0n|drag0n]]== | ||
Friends in college said that I needed a nickname, probably because they're too lazy to say my full name "Diarmuid" and I find "Diarm" quite creepy, so basically, "dragon" popped into their heads and it stuck! I used be called siphi (for no particular reason, it was a random name I was known by onli ne), then changed to drag0n (with a zero). The zero is because the user "dragon" is allready taken on rb. But everyone loved the new name so I added the zero. If you hey the other dragon, you generally get a confused hey in response, so I generally have heys disabled. anyways... | Friends in college said that I needed a nickname, probably because they're too lazy to say my full name "Diarmuid" and I find "Diarm" quite creepy, so basically, "dragon" popped into their heads and it stuck! I used be called siphi (for no particular reason, it was a random name I was known by onli ne), then changed to drag0n (with a zero). The zero is because the user "dragon" is allready taken on rb. But everyone loved the new name so I added the zero. If you hey the other dragon, you generally get a confused hey in response, so I generally have heys disabled. anyways... | ||
==[[User:dramabob|dramabob]]== | |||
When I signed up, along with everyone else in known history, back in 2004 I honestly can't remember being asked to pick a username. Imagine my surprise when later that week I got an email telling me my username was "roibeard" (er, my first name). Boo-urns. I approached one of the Kings Of Redbrick ([[User:Dizer|dizer]], [[User:Atlas|atlas]] or [[User:Phaxx|phaxx]], can't remember which) and asked to change my username to the much cooler sounding "silentbob" of "Clerks" fame (and several other, less good, movies). Further boo-urns ensued when t'was revealed that "silentbob" had one character too many, so having joined DCU Drama in addition to RB, I opted to go with "dramabob" - thus was born dramabob. w00t. I admit to being miffed upon hearing that both "bob" and "bobb" were already used up, but found out many many years later that "bobb" was a next door neighbour of mine in my long lost childhood in the mid 1970's. Bizarre. | |||
==[[User:dregin|dregin]]== | ==[[User:dregin|dregin]]== | ||
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My nick was surprisingly enough, from the character on Buffy! Friends of mine in second year of school gave it to me when they noticed the similarities between myself and the insane vampire. Funnily, dru was my second nick on RedBrick, before that I was zerocool | My nick was surprisingly enough, from the character on Buffy! Friends of mine in second year of school gave it to me when they noticed the similarities between myself and the insane vampire. Funnily, dru was my second nick on RedBrick, before that I was zerocool | ||
==[[User:duff|duff]]== | |||
It's my surname. | |||
==[[User:eamon_c|eamon_c]]== | |||
I regret this | |||
I regret this | |||
I regret this | |||
I regret this | |||
Call me Flannel | |||
==[[User:elmer|elmer]]== | ==[[User:elmer|elmer]]== | ||
My username came from my first ever email address(elmer@clubi.ie) which i chose based on the looney tunes character elmer fudd | My username came from my first ever email address(elmer@clubi.ie) which i chose based on the looney tunes character elmer fudd | ||
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Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :) | Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :) | ||
==[[User:fructus|fructus]]== | |||
I am sometimes get called "Fructis", "Fruitcake" or "Fruitcaek", despite "fructus" and "fructis" (the shampoo) being spelt alike thats not where the username came from. Once opon a time I was trying to come up with some username that wasn't going to taken everything time I tried signing up to things, After some thinking I came up with "Fructus Sum" which is latin for "To Be Fruit" which was as close as I could get to "I am mad" in latin with out it being long or just not to my liking. Of course when Redbrick doesn't allow that many chars so I dropped the sum and go by "Fructus" which yes means "Fruit" a long which a whole lot more. | |||
Of Course Fruitcake was my "friends" when they found out where the user name came from after I got sick of the shampoo comments... not sure is it better or worst. haha | |||
Suprisingly Fructus which I like more is starting to be taken on a lot of sites. :( | |||
==[[User:gizmo|gizmo]]== | ==[[User:gizmo|gizmo]]== | ||
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==[[User:gavin|gavin]]== | ==[[User:gavin|gavin]]== | ||
I needed a username I wouldn't forget and seeing as Gavin was written on my underpants I decided to use that. Handy quinkadink that it is also my real name eh ! | I needed a username I wouldn't forget and seeing as Gavin was written on my underpants I decided to use that. Handy quinkadink that it is also my real name eh ! | ||
==[[User:geekity|geekity]]== | |||
Tis from PhD comic, the Thesis arc (a PhD comic take on Matrix) and the character which loosely coincided with Trinity in the Matrix series. It's been my profile on most things for a while, although it was supposed to be geekity2 originally, someone just didn't bother with the 2 when they created my account. | |||
==[[User:gmblitis|gmblitis]]== | ==[[User:gmblitis|gmblitis]]== | ||
Would've been gamblitis but for those dam restrictions!so the idea came in the first place came from my unhealthy obsession with horses and cards! | Would've been gamblitis but for those dam restrictions!so the idea came in the first place came from my unhealthy obsession with horses and cards! | ||
==[[User:greenday|greenday]]== | |||
I was wearing a greenday hoodie and panicked. | |||
==[[User:gw|gw]]== | ==[[User:gw|gw]]== | ||
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I wrote down kehoe, my surname and an old nickname, on the slip. However, due to my incapability to write h's correctly, the admins read it as keloe. | I wrote down kehoe, my surname and an old nickname, on the slip. However, due to my incapability to write h's correctly, the admins read it as keloe. | ||
==[[User:koffee|koffee]]== | |||
I was holding a cup of coffee when I signed up after coconut's Ruby talk in first year. I was put on the spot. | |||
also: | |||
I like coffee, I drink a lot of coffee, I'm known for drinking large amounts of caffeinated beverages. It made sense | |||
==[[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]]== | ==[[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]]== | ||
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==[[User:macbain|macbain]]== | ==[[User:macbain|macbain]]== | ||
He wanted the username 'mcbain' but Karlos (mcbain) got it before him. Being original, Sarv decided that macbain would do instead, so he could forever confuse new users between himself and Karl. | He wanted the username 'mcbain' but Karlos (mcbain) got it before him. Being original, Sarv decided that macbain would do instead, so he could forever confuse new users between himself and Karl. | ||
==[[User:maK|maK]]== | |||
Drugs. | |||
==[[User:marvin|marvin]]== | ==[[User:marvin|marvin]]== | ||
There are three references here : Starvin Marvin from South Park, Marvin The Paranoid Android from Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy and Marvin the Martian from the Warner Bros cartoon. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which one was the greatest influence (hint: it wasn't Starvin Marvin). | There are three references here : Starvin Marvin from South Park, Marvin The Paranoid Android from Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy and Marvin the Martian from the Warner Bros cartoon. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which one was the greatest influence (hint: it wasn't Starvin Marvin). | ||
==[[User:mctastic|mctastic]]== | |||
I mean, it's pronounced "mactastic", but it's spelled "mctastic". | |||
I'm often referred to as Mac, though I heard there was another one during sign ups (looking at you maK > . >) so I went with something more elaborate, "mactastic". | |||
Sadly it was one letter too long, and this prompted zergless to suggest cutting the first a. I did as many first years do while choosing a username, and crumbled under the mounting pressure of the line waiting to sign up behind me. | |||
==[[User:merchelo|merchelo]]== | ==[[User:merchelo|merchelo]]== | ||
On a school trip back when I was young, sitting in an italian hotel, talking to the chef about football, he suddenly asked my name, and he couldn't pronounce my surname, Maxwell, so he decided to italianiase my name, by calling me Roberto Merchello, I thought the name was cool, and started to use it in championship manager, and after registering with the most shittest nick ever, "partyb" I changed it to the 8 char nick, merchelo. | On a school trip back when I was young, sitting in an italian hotel, talking to the chef about football, he suddenly asked my name, and he couldn't pronounce my surname, Maxwell, so he decided to italianiase my name, by calling me Roberto Merchello, I thought the name was cool, and started to use it in championship manager, and after registering with the most shittest nick ever, "partyb" I changed it to the 8 char nick, merchelo. | ||
==[[User:mephisto|mephisto]]== | |||
Diablo and Baal were taken, and i registered after staggering in to college, having been up about 20 hours straight playing a LAN game of Diablo 2. Also my trademark nickname was too long. | |||
==[[User:mo|mo]]== | ==[[User:mo|mo]]== | ||
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The most evil and therefore cool character in a series of books that I was reading. Said series of books has since degenerated into a mush of crap writing. Boo. | The most evil and therefore cool character in a series of books that I was reading. Said series of books has since degenerated into a mush of crap writing. Boo. | ||
==[[User:nanaki|nanaki]]== | |||
Used the name on forums for a while, first thing that came to mind when signing up. Favourite character from FF7. And no, I didn't use a soft. | |||
==[[User:nit|niT]]== | ==[[User:nit|niT]]== | ||
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8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.) | 8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.) | ||
==[[User:noodlez|noodlez]]== | |||
Shorter version of one of my most commonly used user names. I picked that one before when I needed a quick username for an IRC channel and I was eating a bowl of noodles. | |||
==[[User:orly|orly]]== | |||
It was my nom de plume for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanzine punk fanzine] I wrote when I was in school. [[User:pooka|pooka]] signed me up for redbrick the first week of college with it as he thought it was my real name ;-) | |||
==[[User:ornat|ornat]]== | ==[[User:ornat|ornat]]== | ||
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Back the old days of IOL/Indigo's IRC servers I used a variety of names, which all began with the letter p. Eventually, I ditched the different nicknames and used ^P^. Redbrick doesn't support weird characters though, so now it's just p. It also happens to be my middle initial. | Back the old days of IOL/Indigo's IRC servers I used a variety of names, which all began with the letter p. Eventually, I ditched the different nicknames and used ^P^. Redbrick doesn't support weird characters though, so now it's just p. It also happens to be my middle initial. | ||
==[[User:Paddez|Paddez]]== | |||
Used to use the name Paddee on various other online communities/games, Wanted an Irish sounding name so I settled on the variation of Paddy with 2 E's instead of the Y. When signing up for Redbrick the person who took down my name either misheard me or I said it wrong, whatever the reason i am now an Irish-Mexican that goes by the name of Paddez | |||
==[[User:phaxx|phaxx]]== | ==[[User:phaxx|phaxx]]== | ||
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See, nothing to do with fax machines! :) | See, nothing to do with fax machines! :) | ||
==[[User:polka|polka]]== | |||
When I was around 16 or so, I had started using "polkabunny" as a username for quite a few things, or a variation of it when it was taken. Before I came to DCU I was on the First Year IRC channel on Quakenet, and eventually got too lazy to write in polkabunny all the time. Shortened it to polka, then just used it when I got to DCU. And now, I prefer polka. (I also like polka dots, but can't dance the actual polka.) | |||
==[[User:receive|receive]]== | ==[[User:receive|receive]]== | ||
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I really had no clue what I wanted to have as my username so just picked my most used nick name - ru...short for Ruaidhri... | I really had no clue what I wanted to have as my username so just picked my most used nick name - ru...short for Ruaidhri... | ||
==[[User:sadpanda|sadpanda]]== | |||
Well like everyone, I had to pick on the day so i picked a nickname i had been using for yahoo answers. That account has since been deleted for either calling creationists braindead, redneck, ignorant, arrogant fucks or posting a howtohackwindowsandbel33t.on.nimp.org to a "how do i hack and be cool?". | |||
Those 2 things happened the same week so it could be either. The nickname originally came up a few years after the sexual harassment panda episode but I was watching some westboro baptist church protests (the "god hates fags"/"god hates ireland"/"god hates sweden" people who shocked even fox). There would always be a bigger counter protest than their protest. | |||
One of the counter protesters had on the panda suit and had a sign "Phelps makes me a sad panda". I found that funny and used it for a few sites. | |||
Now looking back on it, I don't find it funny at all. Thank you redbrick article for ruining the way I look at my nickname. | |||
==[[User:sandman|sandman]]== | ==[[User:sandman|sandman]]== | ||
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I'm from Kilkenny and 'Scráib' is the Irish for 'Cat-Scratch'! 'Tis a very GAA name, but to be honest I could never play hurling so I picked it really cause it sounded cool... | I'm from Kilkenny and 'Scráib' is the Irish for 'Cat-Scratch'! 'Tis a very GAA name, but to be honest I could never play hurling so I picked it really cause it sounded cool... | ||
==[[User:shaun|shaun]]== | |||
After going through a couple of username changes (previously spike, then dilligaf), I settled on my real name. Mud sticks though, and few people actually use it. | |||
==[[User:shimoda|shimoda]]== | ==[[User:shimoda|shimoda]]== | ||
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On redbrick irc i'm known as Darz0re, It was a in-joke at the time when myself and dizer stuck z0re at the end of out names | On redbrick irc i'm known as Darz0re, It was a in-joke at the time when myself and dizer stuck z0re at the end of out names | ||
hence thez0rekorp.com and z0re.org | hence thez0rekorp.com and z0re.org | ||
==[[User:thegirl|thegirl]]== | |||
induxi0n chose it. I'm the only girl to have ever been in my course (CPSSD) so hence thegirl. | |||
==[[User:tiernep|tiernep]]== | |||
I had cindella for a lab tutor in first year. My login was tiernep, which she found hil...arious and started shouting at everybody, "Hey everybody this guys name is turnip". It stuck. | |||
==[[User:timelady|timelady]]== | |||
I was originally known as xmeabhx because that was my name on another site and I was put under pressure on c + s day so I just picked it. When I got sick of it I changed it to timelady because I love doctor who :) | |||
==[[User:Tiroskan|Tiroskan]]== | |||
I needed a name for a character in a RP years ago. Stuck random letters together til I got something vaguely pronouncable and years later here we still are. | |||
==[[User:tnkrbell|tnkrbell]]== | ==[[User:tnkrbell|tnkrbell]]== | ||
As a kid my dad used to always call me Belle.When I got older and after many trips to Disney I took a loving to the mischiefious tinkerbell from Peter Pan. Tinkerbell though was too long so JesJes decided on tnkrbell instead. | As a kid my dad used to always call me Belle.When I got older and after many trips to Disney I took a loving to the mischiefious tinkerbell from Peter Pan. Tinkerbell though was too long so JesJes decided on tnkrbell instead. | ||
==[[User:tome|tome]]== | |||
my surnam | |||
==[[User:train|train]]== | ==[[User:train|train]]== | ||
It's a shortened version of a gaming nickname I use. | It's a shortened version of a gaming nickname I use. | ||
==[[User:tyro|tyro]]== | |||
It means: A beginner in learning something. | |||
==[[User:tziegler|tziegler]]== | |||
I have a strange addiction to The West Wing. | |||
==[[User:undone|undone]] == | ==[[User:undone|undone]] == | ||
Couldn't think of anything on Clubs & Socs day, so for about 2 days my username was my actual name. Then I picked this, because of the Weezer song, but also because I think it's a nice word. | Couldn't think of anything on Clubs & Socs day, so for about 2 days my username was my actual name. Then I picked this, because of the Weezer song, but also because I think it's a nice word. | ||
==[[User:Urizen|Urizen]]== | |||
A God from one of William Blake's epic poems. Thought it sounded epic, so that seemed right. | |||
==[[User:voy|voy]]== | |||
My name is Wojtek, pronounced a bit like "VoyTech", so voy is just the first part. I was first called voy in Carlingford Adventure Centre by the instructor in 6th class. | |||
==[[User:werdz|werdz]]== | ==[[User:werdz|werdz]]== | ||
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Long story, guys i used to know named me Wilburtino, i didnt really like it cos they were muppets. However, it grew on me over time. Wanted Wilburtino or Will as my username but they wouldnt let me :( so wilburt was the only one left. Like all rb usernames i think, they are spur of the moment. (or admin mistakes) | Long story, guys i used to know named me Wilburtino, i didnt really like it cos they were muppets. However, it grew on me over time. Wanted Wilburtino or Will as my username but they wouldnt let me :( so wilburt was the only one left. Like all rb usernames i think, they are spur of the moment. (or admin mistakes) | ||
==[[User:xoreax|xoreax]]== | |||
Inspired by the username of this cybersecurity guy who gave a really cool talk at DEFCON about an Intel ME (yes, ring -3) exploit iirc. and it stuck with me. we're cooked. | |||
Also the better way to zero out EAX [xor eax, eax]. Pronounced either /X-or-E-A-X/, /X-R-X/ or just /xerox/. | |||
==[[User:zergless|zergless]]== | |||
At the time I was playing Starcraft 2 alot and was going to choose watchmecreep but it was too long. So the first thing that came to mind was zergless | |||
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