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Fibber's

2010-02-07T18:08:15Z

Robby: I havent bee to fibbers in over a year and I havent drank regularly there since 2008, get your facts right, GAWD.

It's unfortunate, yes, but this coming year will probably see the first generation of newbies among which NOBODY knows what Fibber Magee's is. Forgetting about "Bacchus", I shall refer to Fibber's as if it is still standing.

Fibber's is dark. Fibber's is dank. Fibber's sells alcohol. Fibber's plays excellent music. Fibber's plays it loud. Fibber's plays it very loud. Fibber's smells. Fibber's is sweaty. Fibber's is on Parnell Street. Fibber's should be a part of everyone's college experience. Fibber's have a baldy DJ. Fibber's has a beer garden where you go to give your beating eardrums a rest and cool down a bit. Fibber's has big smelly rocker guys who look like they'd kick your ass at a moments notice but when you talk to them you realise they are all wusses at the end of the day. Fibber's has goths.

Fibber's, Is No More.

--Spock

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Located just off O'Connell St, Fibber's is a night club that has gone through many guises. It was called Fibber's for many years until recently the management decided that it was time for a change.

First they turned the basement into a seperate club called Subterrania, this club was totally different to anything Fibber's (or the customers) had seen before. People wearing Adidas were invited into the building, later emerging with the bulging eyes and pallid skin normally associted with those folks unfortunate enough to have been captured by a cult and been injected or administered large amounts of drugs and subjected to rythmic mind control music for many hours. Eventually Subterrania was closed down when the police raided it for evidence of a sinister underground cult called "neeeeah", it was later uncovered that the members of this sinister cult would identify themselves to each other using bizzare hand signals in a similar manner to the Freemasons in the greater British empire. These hand signals varied according to the rank of the individual, initiates were restricted to simple hand gestures and wiggling of posteriors, while the higher ranking members were capable of performing bizzare and elaborate and potentially hypnotising movements with their hands. The night of the raid was a dark one for the Gardai as they lost several of their members months later when the desire to wear tracksuits and shave ridiculous patterns into their heads. The cult was obviously not eradicated, it has since gone underground and has not been heard of since.

Once the management had been cleared of charges involving luring leather clad psychopaths into Subterrania to be used as muscle bound thugs for the cult, they decided that a change of image was in order, the upper floor was renovated and the usual customers were moved down into the deep dank bowels of the basement where the full horror of the time spent by the cult in the basement was revealed. Many customers never recovered and to this day can be seen strapped to tables in mental hospitals murmering "not right, too bright, too bright" and being operated on.

Eventually the upper floor was reopened, much to the delight of the, by now, traumatised individuals. As one of the first people to enter the new club (now known as "Bacchus" after the Greek god of wine) I was able to witness the looks of horror on the faces of those poor people. Glass was evident and unbroken, there were working lights and the toilets (previously a source of pride at their decrepitude) were clean.

The customers retreated downstairs again and never returned, except when the downstairs bar was REALLY busy and the doors weren't locked. It was peaceful for a while, but it was not to last. A club, called the Back Gate was connected to the Fibber's beer garden, previously a place of solace and relaxation. Evidently the staff and customers of the Back Gate were born in a field, or at least sprung from the loins of something in a field since they were devoid of the DNA strands in their genetic structure responsible for closing doors. As a result, the harried and lost Fibber's customers were regularly treated to the dulcet tones of Boyzone and Five.

Generally speaking, the customers like to remember Fibber's thusly, some particularly deluded individuals still see it like this :

Upstairs we had the bar and the pool tables. You came in through the front door and to your left were the window tables while to the right was the bar. As you walked further into the bar there were cubicles, rife with scarred grafittid wood, while to the left were the pool tables. And at last you came to the dance floor, where the only light was from the glow of the beer and the occasional working light bulb in the ceiling.

Downstairs was the smaller bar,it hasn't changed very much except with the introduction of proper tables and tiles on the floor. There is a dance floor, smaller than the one upstairs, and there was a bar, but there are more tables there now.

There was a beer garden, and it was good, and then it was a building site, and that wasn't so good. Now its a beer garden again, but seeing as how you can hear the utter SHITE being played in the Back Gate next door, it isn't all that relaxing any more.

There has only really ever been three complaints from anyone in Fibber's

1. The drink is vile, to which is said "generally yes, live with it"
2. The music is crap, to which is said "fuck off somewhere else then" (althought occasionally the argument about goth music being moaney wank and metal being incomprehensible shit ensues)
3. There are several fat bastards dancing violently out there, one of them broke my arm, to which is said, often with a tear in the eye "ah, but thats what makes it Fibber's"

Fibbers, as this writer recalls, had a wonderful friendly atmosphere (as long as you weren't in white jeans or Adidas gear) awful drink, and incredibly violent music. It was perpetually dark and the lighting was enough to give a brick an epileptic fit. You'd have to have experienced it to know what i'm writing about here, but while each element of the club sounded absolutely horrible (crap drink, violent fat people, etc) it was one of the best, nicest places you could go, to meet some of the finest human beings in Dublin.

--Silk

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As an aside here, there is a mailing list in existence which is also called fibbers. It originally was centred around the club, until they went and "renovated".

fibbers (small f) the list is now a reasonably happy and busy alternative-geek-and-sort-of-a-community-list, like redbrick.babble with slightly more relevance. It's now subtitled "Discussion list for Fibbers regulars, irregulars, and others".

It's mentioned here cos a number of [[Brickies]] were instrumental in making the list what it is today - most notably Toaster, Wishkah and Silk, aided and abetted by Carrot and others.

If you'd like to join the list, mail fibbers-subscribe-request@listserv.heanet.ie with any message at all.

The list is mid-volume, and run mainly by gothwalk (me) in my more public guise as Drew Shiel.

--gothwalk

It still exists(fibbers, not the list)
it's full of emo kids though these days. Twiggy and tulean tend to hang out there.

Origionally from the [[Encyclopedia]]
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]

Committee

2009-10-17T15:54:43Z

Robby: /* 2008/09 */

The name given to the leadership of Redbrick. Elected every year at the Annual General Meeting it is composed of 13 members: three admins, three helpdesk, Webmaster, a first year rep, a Secretary, PRO, Ents Officer, Treasurer and Chairperson. The First Year Rep is elected at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), usually held during Clubs & Socs Week at the start of October. You must be a first year member to run for this position. All members of the committee are given ops in #lobby while the admins, along with previous system administrators still in the root group, hold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_user root]. The webmaster may also hold root, upon passing a root competency test.

They are the Society's most popular target for abuse and insults and work tirelessly and without compensation for the Society they love so much. A list of past and present Committee members can be found at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/committee/

An alternative view of the Committee is that it is a collection of the power-mad, the arrogant, the popular and the insulting. All members have their own opinions on that matter but most will agree that without the Committee Redbrick would not be able to function, and for that, and perhaps that alone, they deserve thanks.

--Cain

Originally from the [[Encyclopedia]], updated by atlas and coconut

The committee can be contacted at: committee@redbrick.dcu.ie

Or, you can e-mail individual members via their RedBrick addresses.

=== 2009/10 (Current) ===
Chairperson
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Secretary
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Treasurer
Seán Hand ( revenant )
Events Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
Public Relations Officer
Dan Fox ( maiden )
First Year Representative
None ( to be elected )
Helpdesk
Austin Halpin ( haus )
Diarmaid McManus ( elephant )
Gautam Wadhwa ( gw )
Webmaster
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
System Administrators
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
David Ó Laigheanáin ( coconut )
Alan Walsh ( sonic )

=== 2008/09 ===
Chairperson
<del>Robert O'Reilly ( robby )</del>
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Secretary
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Treasurer
Leah Doyle ( bambi )
Events Officer
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Public Relations Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
<del>John Needham ( colossus )</del>
First Year Representative
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Helpdesk
<del>Seán Hand ( revenant )</del>
Séamus Ronan ( train )
<del>Gavin Tubritt ( gamblitis )</del>
Webmaster
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
System Administrators
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )

=== 2007/08 ===
Chairperson (also known as Failchair)
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Secretary
Kevin Fox ( undone )
Events Officer
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Public Relations Officer
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Education Officers (also known as Helpdesk, also known as Faildesk)
PÃ¡draig O'Connor ( landa2 )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
David Ó Laigheanáin ( coconut )
Webmaster
Richard Dalton ( d_fens )
System Administrators
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )

[[Category:Encyclopedia]]

Committee

2009-10-17T15:53:52Z

Robby: /* 2008/09 */ added crossed out robby as chair, lest we forget.

The name given to the leadership of Redbrick. Elected every year at the Annual General Meeting it is composed of 13 members: three admins, three helpdesk, Webmaster, a first year rep, a Secretary, PRO, Ents Officer, Treasurer and Chairperson. The First Year Rep is elected at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), usually held during Clubs & Socs Week at the start of October. You must be a first year member to run for this position. All members of the committee are given ops in #lobby while the admins, along with previous system administrators still in the root group, hold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_user root]. The webmaster may also hold root, upon passing a root competency test.

They are the Society's most popular target for abuse and insults and work tirelessly and without compensation for the Society they love so much. A list of past and present Committee members can be found at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/committee/

An alternative view of the Committee is that it is a collection of the power-mad, the arrogant, the popular and the insulting. All members have their own opinions on that matter but most will agree that without the Committee Redbrick would not be able to function, and for that, and perhaps that alone, they deserve thanks.

--Cain

Originally from the [[Encyclopedia]], updated by atlas and coconut

The committee can be contacted at: committee@redbrick.dcu.ie

Or, you can e-mail individual members via their RedBrick addresses.

=== 2009/10 (Current) ===
Chairperson
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Secretary
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Treasurer
Seán Hand ( revenant )
Events Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
Public Relations Officer
Dan Fox ( maiden )
First Year Representative
None ( to be elected )
Helpdesk
Austin Halpin ( haus )
Diarmaid McManus ( elephant )
Gautam Wadhwa ( gw )
Webmaster
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
System Administrators
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
David Ó Laigheanáin ( coconut )
Alan Walsh ( sonic )

=== 2008/09 ===
Chairperson
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
<del>Robert O'Reilly ( robby )</del>
Secretary
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Treasurer
Leah Doyle ( bambi )
Events Officer
Lotta Mikkonen ( attol )
Public Relations Officer
Carri Fuery ( carri )
<del>John Needham ( colossus )</del>
First Year Representative
Emma Gallagher ( emma )
Helpdesk
<del>Seán Hand ( revenant )</del>
Séamus Ronan ( train )
<del>Gavin Tubritt ( gamblitis )</del>
Webmaster
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
System Administrators
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )

=== 2007/08 ===
Chairperson (also known as Failchair)
Andrew Harford ( receive )
Secretary
Kevin Fox ( undone )
Events Officer
Kat Farrell ( angelkat )
Public Relations Officer
Damian Rhatigan ( dano )
Education Officers (also known as Helpdesk, also known as Faildesk)
PÃ¡draig O'Connor ( landa2 )
Eoghan Cotter ( johan )
David Ó Laigheanáin ( coconut )
Webmaster
Richard Dalton ( d_fens )
System Administrators
Andrew Martin ( werdz )
Cian Brennan ( lil_cain )

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User:Robby

2008-11-12T21:29:04Z

Robby:

[[Image:hardgay.jpg]]

WRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Robby:

/rB/

18/12/07

NEVAR FORGET

TimeLine2007

2007-12-19T01:39:27Z

Robby: /* December */

Intersocs

2007-07-05T15:59:39Z

Robby: /* #Intersocs */

[[Category:Humour]]
== #Intersocs ==

#Intersocs is an irc channel, where you can go and talk to people from other netsocs around the country, if your into that sorta thing.

'''To Join #intersocs:'''
type: ''/j #intersocs'' - into irssi (chat)

'''To leave #Intersocs:'''
type: ''/part CROWD OF ASSBANDITS, Redrick ftw'' - into irssi

other acceptable /part messages:

/part dick mongers

/part farewall, cross-eyed pidgeons

/part i <3 u all, but thats cause im a fag...

It is recommend that Redbrick users do not go into #intersocs, but if you feel you want to explore, remember the following:

- spam is encouraged, ascii porn, paste the bible, etc.

- The people in #intersocs love bots, especially ones that talk down to them.

--[[User:Joe5ie|Joe5ie]] 04:03, 13 Sep 2006 (IST)
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Redbrick user comments on #Intersocs:

sNrt:

"I think they are a complete shower of cunts"

----
Redbrick user comments on joe5ie:

dregin:

"He seems to be a sexy bastard who I would someday consider impregnating"

everyone else:

"He is a spa"

"Jo5ie isnt a chick? O_o"

Nerd

2007-05-08T00:18:38Z

Robby: /* The "Blenders" */

Theres are many varients and varieties of nerd, collected here is but a small cross-section of them.

== The STOCS Nerd==

[[Image:STOCS.JPG]]

A modern day variant of the STOCS nerd, though still similar in many ways to their ancestors. Note particularly their sloping gait, slack jawed stare and the anti-social aura of superiority which surrounds them. This lesser spotted variant of nerd is generally best avoided, lest you attract their attention.

Except robby, robby isn't a nerd, i mean look how ninja he looks.

[[Category:Humour]]

User:Robby

2007-04-15T12:50:06Z

Robby:

== Spartan King [[Simon]]==
* We're in for one wild night.

* [[w:Spartans|Spartans]]! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight we dine in Hell!

* A new age has come: an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.

* This is where we hold them! This is where we FIGHT! This is where ''they'' DIE!

* Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for all time.

* Give them nothing! But take from them everything!

* ''[After Xerxes offered to make Leonidas Warlord of his Empire, if he would only kneel before him]'' Wow. That is generous. But you see, there is a problem. Slaughtering so many of your men today, has left an awful cramp in my leg ''[stretches]'' and thus kneeling will be difficult.

* There's no reason we can't be civil. ''[Stated while his soldiers spear wounded enemies.]''

* ''[After being threatened with the deaths of the Spartan women]'' Clearly you don't know our women. I might as well have marched them up here, judging by what I've seen.

* The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed.

* Spartans! Prepare for glory!

* [''After a Persian emissary declared that their actions were madness''] Madness? This is SPARTA!! [''and then kicks him down a well'']

* ''[Response to an Arcadian saying their choices were to retreat, surrender, or die.]'' Well that's an easy choice for us to make; Spartans never retreat. Spartans never surrender!

* ''[After dropping his helmet and his shield whilst being asked to submit]'' You there, Ephialtes, may ''you'' live forever.

* ''[Dying words]'' My Queen! My Wife! My Love.

*No Spartan dies today!

== Dilios ==
* Now, as then, a beast approaches, patient and confident, savoring the meal to come.

* It is not fear that grips him. Only a heightened sense of things.

* It is said that we Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known.

* Immortals. We put their name to the test.

* The Immortals, they failed our king's test, and a man who fancies himself a god feels a very human chill run up his spine.

*[Last words of the film.] So my king died, and my brothers died, barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. But time has proven him wise, for from free greek to free greek the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives, not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds. Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Persian hordes face ''obliteration''! Just there the barbarians gather, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300. Yet they stare now across the plain at ''10,000'' Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! Ho! The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one! Good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we could imagine. Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300! ''To victory!''

== Dialogue ==
:'''Leonidas''': Before you speak, Persian, know that in Sparta everyone, even a king's messenger, is responsible for the words of his voice. Now...what message do you bring?
:'''Persian Messenger''': Earth and water.
:'''Leonidas''': ''[Laugh]'' You rode all the way from Persia for earth and water?
:'''Gorgo''': Do not be coy or stupid, Persian. You can afford neither in Sparta.
:'''Persian Messenger''': What makes this woman think she can speak among men?
:'''Gorgo''': Because only Spartan women give birth to real men.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Persian messenger''': All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water. A token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.
:'''Leonidas''': Submission...Well that's a bit of a problem. See rumor has it that the ATHENIANS have already turned you down. And if those philosophers and boy-lovers have that kind of nerve...
:'''Theron''': We must be diplomatic.
:'''Leonidas''': And of course Spartans...have their reputation to consider.
:'''Persian messenger''': Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king.
:''[Leonidas draws his sword and points it towards the Persian messenger, whose back is to a large, deep well]''
:'''Persian messenger''': Madman! You're a madman!
:'''Leonidas''': Earth and water...you'll find plenty of both down there.
:'''Persian messenger''': No man -- Persian or Greek -- no man threatens a messenger!
:'''Leonidas''': You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city's steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same!
:'''Persian messenger''': This is blasphemy! This is madness!
:'''Leonidas''': ''[He looks at Gorgo, who nods to him]'' Madness? '''THIS! IS' SPARTA!!'''. ''[kicks the messenger down the well]''

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': You, what is your profession?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a potter, sir.
:'''Leonidas''': And you, Arcadian, what is your profession?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a sculptor.
:'''Leonidas''': And you?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a blacksmith.
:'''Leonidas''': ''[Turning towards the Spartans]'' Spartans! What is ''your'' profession?
:'''Spartans''': ''Harooh! Harooh! Harooh!''
:'''Leonidas''': See old friend, I brought more soldiers than you did.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:''[The ground begins to shake and small rocks roll of the cliffside]''
:'''Captain Artemis''': Earthquake?
:'''Leonidas''': No Captain, battle formations.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Persian Emissary''': The thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you! Our arrows will blot out the sun!
:'''Stelios''': ''[grins]'' Then we will fight in the shade.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die!
:'''Captain Artemis''': Earn these shields, boys!
:'''Spartans''': Harooh!
:'''Leonidas''': Remember this day men. For it will be yours for all time.
:''[Persian Officer rides through the ranks on his horse to address the Spartans ahead]''
:'''Persian Officer''': Spartans! Lay down your weapons.
:''[spear flies from the Spartans meeting the Persian officer]''
:'''Leonidas''': Persians! [[w:Molon labe|Come and get them]]!
:''[Persians sound the advance and charge towards the Spartans]
:'''Leonidas''': Give them nothing! But take from them...everything!

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Xerxes''': It would be nothing short of madness for you, brave King, and your valiant troops to...perish...all because of a simple misunderstanding. There is much our cultures could share.
:'''Leonidas''': Oh, haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Xerxes''': Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
:'''Leonidas''': And I would die for any one of mine.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:''[The Spartans hold up their shields as a flurry of Persian arrows blot out the sun. Suddenly, Astinos begins laughing]''
:'''Stelios''': What are you laughing at?
:'''Astinos''': You had to say it! "We'll fight in the shade!"
:''[Other Spartans laugh with him]''

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': Dilios, I trust that scratch hasn't made you useless.
:'''Dilios''': Hardly, my Lord. It's just an eye. The gods saw fit to grace me with a spare.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Stelios''': It is an honor to die by your side
:'''Leonidas''': It is an honor to have lived at yours.

Emo

2007-04-15T00:42:08Z

Robby: /* undone */

After many users both layed claim to and denied their affiliation with the tag "emo", it has been decided that the wiki is the best Redbrick tool with which to lay the matter to rest. Here is a list of known emos on Redbrick and pics with which to both prove their "emoness" and identify/avoid them in the real world.

==aisling==
[[image:aeris.jpg]]
03:20 < Aisling > but i feel emo
^^ Proof enough.

==atlas ==
[[Image:Atlas_emo.jpg]]

Although not showing some of the more classic emo signs this person never seems to be happy, and has almost never been recorded smiling. That, and his other somewhat "unusual" habits make him emo enough for this page.

Saturday, 25th Feb 2007, Doyles Pub
receive: this is ac/dc! enjoy yourself
atlas: I shall do no such thing

== doc ==
[[Image:emo_doc.jpg]]

== dregin ==
[[Image:emo_dregin.JPG]]

'''BREAKING NEWS: '''Dregin just came out of the emo closet to Castle in #lobby. Check [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~dregin/emo_out.txt here] for proof.

== gizmo ==
[[Image:emo gizmo.jpg]]

gizmo's second baptism.

==ornat==
[[Image:emo_ornat.jpg]]

Don't let this user's seemingly happy facade fool you, as this photo evidence proves her emoness. Also has a strange obsession with hugs.

==phaxx==
[[Image:DSC01727.jpg]]

Apart from the trademark frown, phaxx appears here to be taking an uncharacteristically feminine interest in hair, make-up and wearing womens clothing; all hallmarks of the emo.

== twiggy ==
[[Image:emo_twiggy.JPG]]
Likes to mention the war - emo.

== undone ==
[[Image:Undone_emo.JPG]]

[[Image:Rocky-horror-picture-show06.jpg]]

''Undones Movie Days''

Photographical evidence of undone on the loose in the real world has proven hard to come by.
He has made it onto the list due to his constant claims to haircare prowess and threats to kill his parents in #lobby. Any better pictures may save the life of many an ill-educated DCU student should they approach him unaware of his "emoness" so, please act with the utmost urgency in passing these on.

Emo

2007-04-15T00:41:29Z

Robby: /* undone */

After many users both layed claim to and denied their affiliation with the tag "emo", it has been decided that the wiki is the best Redbrick tool with which to lay the matter to rest. Here is a list of known emos on Redbrick and pics with which to both prove their "emoness" and identify/avoid them in the real world.

==aisling==
[[image:aeris.jpg]]
03:20 < Aisling > but i feel emo
^^ Proof enough.

==atlas ==
[[Image:Atlas_emo.jpg]]

Although not showing some of the more classic emo signs this person never seems to be happy, and has almost never been recorded smiling. That, and his other somewhat "unusual" habits make him emo enough for this page.

Saturday, 25th Feb 2007, Doyles Pub
receive: this is ac/dc! enjoy yourself
atlas: I shall do no such thing

== doc ==
[[Image:emo_doc.jpg]]

== dregin ==
[[Image:emo_dregin.JPG]]

'''BREAKING NEWS: '''Dregin just came out of the emo closet to Castle in #lobby. Check [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~dregin/emo_out.txt here] for proof.

== gizmo ==
[[Image:emo gizmo.jpg]]

gizmo's second baptism.

==ornat==
[[Image:emo_ornat.jpg]]

Don't let this user's seemingly happy facade fool you, as this photo evidence proves her emoness. Also has a strange obsession with hugs.

==phaxx==
[[Image:DSC01727.jpg]]

Apart from the trademark frown, phaxx appears here to be taking an uncharacteristically feminine interest in hair, make-up and wearing womens clothing; all hallmarks of the emo.

== twiggy ==
[[Image:emo_twiggy.JPG]]
Likes to mention the war - emo.

== undone ==
[[Image:Undone_emo.JPG]]

[[Image:Rocky-horror-picture-show06.jpg]]

Photographical evidence of undone on the loose in the real world has proven hard to come by.
He has made it onto the list due to his constant claims to haircare prowess and threats to kill his parents in #lobby. Any better pictures may save the life of many an ill-educated DCU student should they approach him unaware of his "emoness" so, please act with the utmost urgency in passing these on.

File:Rocky-horror-picture-show06.jpg

2007-04-15T00:41:11Z

Robby: rocky

rocky

2007-04-03T00:55:25Z

Robby: /* Spartan King Leonidas */

My Nick is short for '''Robert'''! ''OMFGWTFTBH''.

Ummm, so like i realised how shit this page was, so what the hell! '''300 quotes FTFW!'''

== Spartan King [[Leonidas]]==
* We're in for one wild night.

* [[w:Spartans|Spartans]]! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight we dine in Hell!

* A new age has come: an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.

* This is where we hold them! This is where we FIGHT! This is where ''they'' DIE!

* Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for all time.

* Give them nothing! But take from them everything!

* ''[After Xerxes offered to make Leonidas Warlord of his Empire, if he would only kneel before him]'' Wow. That is generous. But you see, there is a problem. Slaughtering so many of your men today, has left an awful cramp in my leg ''[stretches]'' and thus kneeling will be difficult.

* There's no reason we can't be civil. ''[Stated while his soldiers spear wounded enemies.]''

* ''[After being threatened with the deaths of the Spartan women]'' Clearly you don't know our women. I might as well have marched them up here, judging by what I've seen.

* The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed.

* Spartans! Prepare for glory!

* [''After a Persian emissary declared that their actions were madness''] Madness? This is SPARTA!! [''and then kicks him down a well'']

* ''[Response to an Arcadian saying their choices were to retreat, surrender, or die.]'' Well that's an easy choice for us to make; Spartans never retreat. Spartans never surrender!

* ''[After dropping his helmet and his shield whilst being asked to submit]'' You there, Ephialtes, may ''you'' live forever.

* ''[Dying words]'' My Queen! My Wife! My Love.

*No Spartan dies today!

== Dilios ==
* Now, as then, a beast approaches, patient and confident, savoring the meal to come.

* It is not fear that grips him. Only a heightened sense of things.

* It is said that we Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known.

* Immortals. We put their name to the test.

* The Immortals, they failed our king's test, and a man who fancies himself a god feels a very human chill run up his spine.

*[Last words of the film.] So my king died, and my brothers died, barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. But time has proven him wise, for from free greek to free greek the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives, not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds. Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Persian hordes face ''obliteration''! Just there the barbarians gather, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300. Yet they stare now across the plain at ''10,000'' Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! Ho! The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one! Good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we could imagine. Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300! ''To victory!''

== Dialogue ==
:'''Leonidas''': Before you speak, Persian, know that in Sparta everyone, even a king's messenger, is responsible for the words of his voice. Now...what message do you bring?
:'''Persian Messenger''': Earth and water.
:'''Leonidas''': ''[Laugh]'' You rode all the way from Persia for earth and water?
:'''Gorgo''': Do not be coy or stupid, Persian. You can afford neither in Sparta.
:'''Persian Messenger''': What makes this woman think she can speak among men?
:'''Gorgo''': Because only Spartan women give birth to real men.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Persian messenger''': All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water. A token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.
:'''Leonidas''': Submission...Well that's a bit of a problem. See rumor has it that the ATHENIANS have already turned you down. And if those philosophers and boy-lovers have that kind of nerve...
:'''Theron''': We must be diplomatic.
:'''Leonidas''': And of course Spartans...have their reputation to consider.
:'''Persian messenger''': Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king.
:''[Leonidas draws his sword and points it towards the Persian messenger, whose back is to a large, deep well]''
:'''Persian messenger''': Madman! You're a madman!
:'''Leonidas''': Earth and water...you'll find plenty of both down there.
:'''Persian messenger''': No man -- Persian or Greek -- no man threatens a messenger!
:'''Leonidas''': You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city's steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same!
:'''Persian messenger''': This is blasphemy! This is madness!
:'''Leonidas''': ''[He looks at Gorgo, who nods to him]'' Madness? THIS! IS'''SPARTA!!'''. ''[kicks the messenger down the well]''

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': You, what is your profession?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a potter, sir.
:'''Leonidas''': And you, Arcadian, what is your profession?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a sculptor.
:'''Leonidas''': And you?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a blacksmith.
:'''Leonidas''': ''[Turning towards the Spartans]'' Spartans! What is ''your'' profession?
:'''Spartans''': ''Harooh! Harooh! Harooh!''
:'''Leonidas''': See old friend, I brought more soldiers than you did.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:''[The ground begins to shake and small rocks roll of the cliffside]''
:'''Captain Artemis''': Earthquake?
:'''Leonidas''': No Captain, battle formations.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Persian Emissary''': The thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you! Our arrows will blot out the sun!
:'''Stelios''': ''[grins]'' Then we will fight in the shade.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die!
:'''Captain Artemis''': Earn these shields, boys!
:'''Spartans''': Harooh!
:'''Leonidas''': Remember this day men. For it will be yours for all time.
:''[Persian Officer rides through the ranks on his horse to address the Spartans ahead]''
:'''Persian Officer''': Spartans! Lay down your weapons.
:''[spear flies from the Spartans meeting the Persian officer]''
:'''Leonidas''': Persians! [[w:Molon labe|Come and get them]]!
:''[Persians sound the advance and charge towards the Spartans]
:'''Leonidas''': Give them nothing! But take from them...everything!

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Xerxes''': It would be nothing short of madness for you, brave King, and your valiant troops to...perish...all because of a simple misunderstanding. There is much our cultures could share.
:'''Leonidas''': Oh, haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Xerxes''': Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
:'''Leonidas''': And I would die for any one of mine.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:''[The Spartans hold up their shields as a flurry of Persian arrows blot out the sun. Suddenly, Astinos begins laughing]''
:'''Stelios''': What are you laughing at?
:'''Astinos''': You had to say it! "We'll fight in the shade!"
:''[Other Spartans laugh with him]''

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': Dilios, I trust that scratch hasn't made you useless.
:'''Dilios''': Hardly, my Lord. It's just an eye. The gods saw fit to grace me with a spare.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Stelios''': It is an honor to die by your side
:'''Leonidas''': It is an honor to have lived at yours.

User:Robby

2007-04-03T00:54:12Z

Robby: /* Spartan King Leonidas */

== Spartan King [[Leonidas]]==
* We're in for one wild night.

* [[w:Spartans|Spartans]]! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight we dine in Hell!

* A new age has come: an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.

* This is where we hold them! This is where we FIGHT! This is where ''they'' DIE!

* Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for all time.

* Give them nothing! But take from them everything!

* ''[After Xerxes offered to make Leonidas Warlord of his Empire, if he would only kneel before him]'' Wow. That is generous. But you see, there is a problem. Slaughtering so many of your men today, has left an awful cramp in my leg ''[stretches]'' and thus kneeling will be difficult.

* There's no reason we can't be civil. ''[Stated while his soldiers spear wounded enemies.]''

* ''[After being threatened with the deaths of the Spartan women]'' Clearly you don't know our women. I might as well have marched them up here, judging by what I've seen.

* The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed.

* Spartans! Prepare for glory!

* [''After a Persian emissary declared that their actions were madness''] Madness? This is SPARTA!! [''and then kicks him down a well'']

* ''[Response to an Arcadian saying their choices were to retreat, surrender, or die.]'' Well that's an easy choice for us to make; Spartans never retreat. Spartans never surrender!

* ''[After dropping his helmet and his shield whilst being asked to submit]'' You there, Ephialtes, may ''you'' live forever.

* ''[Dying words]'' My Queen! My Wife! My Love.

*No Spartan dies today!

== Dilios ==
* Now, as then, a beast approaches, patient and confident, savoring the meal to come.

* It is not fear that grips him. Only a heightened sense of things.

* It is said that we Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known.

* Immortals. We put their name to the test.

* The Immortals, they failed our king's test, and a man who fancies himself a god feels a very human chill run up his spine.

*[Last words of the film.] So my king died, and my brothers died, barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. But time has proven him wise, for from free greek to free greek the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives, not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds. Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Persian hordes face ''obliteration''! Just there the barbarians gather, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300. Yet they stare now across the plain at ''10,000'' Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! Ho! The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one! Good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we could imagine. Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300! ''To victory!''

== Dialogue ==
:'''Leonidas''': Before you speak, Persian, know that in Sparta everyone, even a king's messenger, is responsible for the words of his voice. Now...what message do you bring?
:'''Persian Messenger''': Earth and water.
:'''Leonidas''': ''[Laugh]'' You rode all the way from Persia for earth and water?
:'''Gorgo''': Do not be coy or stupid, Persian. You can afford neither in Sparta.
:'''Persian Messenger''': What makes this woman think she can speak among men?
:'''Gorgo''': Because only Spartan women give birth to real men.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Persian messenger''': All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water. A token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.
:'''Leonidas''': Submission...Well that's a bit of a problem. See rumor has it that the ATHENIANS have already turned you down. And if those philosophers and boy-lovers have that kind of nerve...
:'''Theron''': We must be diplomatic.
:'''Leonidas''': And of course Spartans...have their reputation to consider.
:'''Persian messenger''': Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king.
:''[Leonidas draws his sword and points it towards the Persian messenger, whose back is to a large, deep well]''
:'''Persian messenger''': Madman! You're a madman!
:'''Leonidas''': Earth and water...you'll find plenty of both down there.
:'''Persian messenger''': No man -- Persian or Greek -- no man threatens a messenger!
:'''Leonidas''': You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city's steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same!
:'''Persian messenger''': This is blasphemy! This is madness!
:'''Leonidas''': ''[He looks at Gorgo, who nods to him]'' Madness? THIS! IS'''SPARTA!!'''. ''[kicks the messenger down the well]''

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': You, what is your profession?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a potter, sir.
:'''Leonidas''': And you, Arcadian, what is your profession?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a sculptor.
:'''Leonidas''': And you?
:'''Arcadian Soldier''': I'm a blacksmith.
:'''Leonidas''': ''[Turning towards the Spartans]'' Spartans! What is ''your'' profession?
:'''Spartans''': ''Harooh! Harooh! Harooh!''
:'''Leonidas''': See old friend, I brought more soldiers than you did.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:''[The ground begins to shake and small rocks roll of the cliffside]''
:'''Captain Artemis''': Earthquake?
:'''Leonidas''': No Captain, battle formations.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Persian Emissary''': The thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you! Our arrows will blot out the sun!
:'''Stelios''': ''[grins]'' Then we will fight in the shade.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die!
:'''Captain Artemis''': Earn these shields, boys!
:'''Spartans''': Harooh!
:'''Leonidas''': Remember this day men. For it will be yours for all time.
:''[Persian Officer rides through the ranks on his horse to address the Spartans ahead]''
:'''Persian Officer''': Spartans! Lay down your weapons.
:''[spear flies from the Spartans meeting the Persian officer]''
:'''Leonidas''': Persians! [[w:Molon labe|Come and get them]]!
:''[Persians sound the advance and charge towards the Spartans]
:'''Leonidas''': Give them nothing! But take from them...everything!

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Xerxes''': It would be nothing short of madness for you, brave King, and your valiant troops to...perish...all because of a simple misunderstanding. There is much our cultures could share.
:'''Leonidas''': Oh, haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Xerxes''': Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
:'''Leonidas''': And I would die for any one of mine.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:''[The Spartans hold up their shields as a flurry of Persian arrows blot out the sun. Suddenly, Astinos begins laughing]''
:'''Stelios''': What are you laughing at?
:'''Astinos''': You had to say it! "We'll fight in the shade!"
:''[Other Spartans laugh with him]''

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Leonidas''': Dilios, I trust that scratch hasn't made you useless.
:'''Dilios''': Hardly, my Lord. It's just an eye. The gods saw fit to grace me with a spare.

:<hr width="50%"/>
:'''Stelios''': It is an honor to die by your side
:'''Leonidas''': It is an honor to have lived at yours.

User:Robby

2007-04-03T00:53:28Z

Robby: /* Origin */

User:Gizmo

2007-02-27T17:39:06Z

Robby:

'''gizmo''' (real name: '''Simon''', formal title: '''Chairman Gizmao''') is the chairman of [[Gamessoc]]. 
 

He is known for his authoritarian style of leadership and has enacted the "One Week Plan" (Games Week) which involves the collectivization of Gamessoc and reorganization of the constitution to convey fascism.
 

His title, 'Chairman Gizmao', was given to him by [[User:coconut|coconut]] at the Gamessoc EGM in early 2007 after the latter's election as Ordinary Member was overruled by the veto of gizmao. He didn't want the job anyway.

[[Image:Simonsoc.jpg]]

''gizmo was awarded the Gamessoc congressional medal of valor on 17 occasions for single handedly organizing all of Gamessocs events for the entire year.''

User:Gizmo

2007-02-27T17:36:24Z

Robby:

'''gizmo''' (real name: '''Simon''', formal title: '''Chairman Gizmao''') is the chairman of [[Gamessoc]]. 
 
He is known for his authoritarian style of leadership and has enacted the "One Week Plan" which involves the collectivisation of Gamessoc and converting the society to communism.
 
His title, 'Chairman Gizmao', was given to him by [[User:coconut|coconut]] at the Gamessoc EGM in early 2007 after the latter's election as Ordinary Member was overruled by the committee. He didn't want the job anyway.

[[Image:Simonsoc.jpg]]

gizmo was awarded the Gamessoc congressional medal of valor on 17 occasions for single handedly organizing all of Gamessocs events for the entire year.

File:Simonsoc.jpg

2007-02-27T17:36:05Z

Robby: simon soc

simon soc

User:Gizmo

2007-02-27T17:35:36Z

Robby:

'''gizmo''' (real name: '''Simon''', formal title: '''Chairman Gizmao''') is the chairman of [[Gamessoc]]. 
 
He is known for his authoritarian style of leadership and has enacted the "One Week Plan" which involves the collectivisation of Gamessoc and converting the society to communism.
 
His title, 'Chairman Gizmao', was given to him by [[User:coconut|coconut]] at the Gamessoc EGM in early 2007 after the latter's election as Ordinary Member was overruled by the committee. He didn't want the job anyway.

[[Image:http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~winters/pictures/simonsoc.jpg]]

gizmo was awarded the Gamessoc congressional medal of valor on 17 occasions for single handedly organizing all of Gamessocs events for the entire year.

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2007-02-27T17:32:46Z

Robby: /* robby */

Feel free to add an an entry about your username below!



==[[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]]==

Cool picture I have hanging up. Have had it for ages and its by Art Wolfe.

==[[User:atlas|atlas]]==

I originally handed in my student card, and said "Use my first name, please". I got an email later giving me my username as 'James' ( my middle name ). When I asked them to change, I decided to go with something a little cooler. I had been up for hours before that playing Mechwarrior somethingorother, and the Atlas mech was my favourite. I also, occasionally, feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders.

==[[User:bilco|bilco]]==

Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit

==[[User:cain|cain]]==

I always thought Cain got a raw deal. Firstborn son of Adam, built the first city on earth and he's remembered for allegedly killing his brother Abel though the evidence is, to put it mildly, unconvincing and God was clearly biased against him. When I joined Redbrick, Cain was gone so I got Caine, which was the spelling of the name in an RPG I played at the time. Dropped the 'e' in my second year.

==[[User:calyx|calyx]]==
Misread the name of a song. In a perfect world, I would have been calx.

==[[User:cambo|cambo]]==

An abbreviation of sorts on my surname (campbell)... original eh?

==[[User:cammy|cammy]]==

I was using it as a web handle long before I joined Redbrick. It comes from the name of one of my first roleplaying characters that wasn't just a bunch of stats. The name for that roleplaying character though, came from the computer game Streetfighter 2.

Well actually cammy was my second choice. I would have liked to use The_Dead_One but that exceeds the 8 character limit.

==[[User:coconut|coconut]]==

On Clubs and Socs day 2005 I was put on the spot while joining Redbrick. It went a little something like this.

Keeper of Membership (I forget who it was): "Okay, and pick a username." 
Me: "What... now?!" 
KoM: "Yes." 
Me: "Right now?!?" 
KoM: "Yes." 
Me: "Errr.." *looks down at the free chocolate being given away - notices the wrappers and ingredients* "Em.. coconut?" 
KoM: "kk lol" 
Me: "I'll change it later." 

That last part was, evidently, a lie.

==[[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]]==
I was assigned the username colmmacc for the purposes of my first ever internet account (and job), colmmacc@clubi.ie , way back when in 1995/6 (I think). Ever since, I've used it for all my accounts and it works at every domain on which I hold an account. Despite the huge coincidence, my username is fact not just a mere contracted concatonation of my real name "Colm MacCarthaigh", but is fact an acronym. It stands for "Colm's On-Line Memetic Mechanism [for] Accessing Complicated Computers".

==[[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!

==[[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.

==[[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.

==[[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...

==[[User:drusilla|drusilla]]==
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: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

==[[User:exzantia|exzantia]]==
As many, many people have pointed out, my name seems like a random string of letters, and it kinda is... When I was signing up for a Yahoo mail account in '98 everything I tried was already taken. I was not having under-scores or numbers so I decided to come up with something that would always be available! I thus far have succeeded.

==[[User:fatwa|fatwa]]==

In first year, whilst learning to program, my friend Andrew wrote a program that printed out "That's a fatwa on you, mein freund".
I thought it was funny and it must have stuck in my head for redbrick registering. Also, it's short for "fat wanker".

==[[User:fox_chic|fox_chic]]==

Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :)

==[[User:gizmo|gizmo]]==
My nick came from a combination of thinking gizmo was a pretty cool name due to that little flurry critter in Gremlins and also cns putting me on the spot on Clubs And Socs day when I first joined so that I couldn't think of anything else. Strange, but true.

==[[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 !

==[[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!

==[[User:jesjes|jesjes]]==
My name is Jessica. And people from home call me Jesi, and at some stage during sixth year I decided I much more liked Jess. So when I got THE INTERNETS, I just called myself jesjes. It stuck.

==[[User:keloe|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:kpodesta|kpodesta]]==

Because that's my real name. I thought Redbrick was some email yoke - all else fails, I was getting a decent email address.

==[[User:lithium|lithium]]==

Coz I like the sound of it. And coz it goes crazy when you put it in water. And not because of the Nirvana song.

==[[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.

==[[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).

==[[User:mo|mo]]==
Due to my considerable soccer talent, I was nicknamed "mo" after Mo Johnston, the scottish football hero.

==[[User:MoJu|MoJu]]==
It's in a similar vein to HoJu(Homer Junior) from the Simpsons. Given to me by a someone on a forum after they saw a picture of me and thought I was the aforementioned Mordeth. So they suggested Mordeth Junior which was then condensed to MoJu. I then adopted it as my second online nick.

==[[User:montoya|montoya]]==

The name is that of a character from the book "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. The specific character is Inigo Montoya, a Spanish swordsman out for revenge against a 6-fingered man who killed Inigo's father.

==[[User:moridin|moridin]]==

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:nit|niT]]==
Originally my name was a combination of many words that described me, and was dreamt up whilst I was at college in Aylesbury. It all started when I got a demo copy of Diablo from my cousin in Singapore, and us lads built our first LAN at my mate Dave's house. We also played Carmegeddon, the Star Wars game and Quake 2 (of which my mate Dave had a 600mhz processor and TWO 3dfx cards linked up in parallell - he was our God). It was necessary for me to have a character name in Diablo so I chose Nitsuj Buaya Chen, the latter two meaning 'Crocadile man that snaps up ladies' (in Singapore slang) and monkey (as my star sign is golden monkey). I later joined a CS clan called Black Legion and people naturally shortened my name down to nit. At that time I also had a friend who was called 'kippy' in real life and online, so I started using nit in real life too. Later I joined a 'talker' called theManor which was a twin site to the LambdaMoo, there was a guy there who set it all up and went by the nick 'beN', he and girlfriend sadly died in a car accident and so manor spods paid tribute but capitalising the final letter of their nick, hence why I use niT.

==[[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]]==

8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.)

==[[User:ornat|ornat]]==

You'd have to ask my parents that question. Ornat is my real name, and unlike popular belief, no, I am not a guy!

==[[User:p|p]]==

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:phaxx|phaxx]]==

Originally from the character Lord Fax in the book [http://www.google.com/search?q=dragonriders+of+pern Dragonriders Of Pern] by Anne McCaffrey. I used Lord_Fax in [http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm MS Comic Chat] for a while. I saw somebody using a 'ph' instead of an 'f', and thought, in that usual 13-year-old way, OMGZ COOL, and promptly became LordPhaxx.
I was LordPhaxx for a few years, until until around 16 when I met a bunch of other Irish nerds one afternoon. [[User:jerry|jerry]] was among them, and commented, "With a name like LordPhaxx, I expected you to be taller."

So er, I dropped the pretentious 'Lord', and I've been 'phaxx' ever since.

See, nothing to do with fax machines! :)

==[[User:receive|receive]]==

It was Michelle Smith (swallow) that dragged me along to sign up during first year, so I'd handed over my 4euro before I'd begun to think of a username, so I turned and said "Shit, Michelle, what will I pick?" and she suggested "receive" because it went so well with swallow. Stupidly I agreed, and it stuck (after we found a spell checker to check how to spell it that is), so i never changed it to anything better. Ironically, i never have been at the receiving end of swallows abilities.

==[[User:r0b|r0b]]==
Rob is my name *shock* *gasp* rob was taken so used r0b instead. Amazing story tbh

==[[User:robby|robby]]==

its short for robert...thats cool no?

==[[User:sandman|sandman]]==

I didn't. It was assigned on the basis that a) I was asleep and b) I read comics, didn't I? Ironically, I hadn't read much Sandman at the time.

==[[User:scraib|scraib]]==

I'm from Kilkenny and 'ScrÃ¡ib' 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:shimoda|shimoda]]==

It was a character in a book (Illusions by Richard Bach) I read during my formative years. Another rb user thought the description of the protagonist was suited to me so I nabbed the name.

==[[User:singer|singer]]==

I was a singer in a band. The guitarist mocked me for being the singer by calling me "singer". The nickname stuck. Non-Redbrick people address me as singer! My 2nd choice username was "scano".

==[[User:spanner|spanner]]==

In fact eeh! picked it out during the hay days of eeh gift grub and in fairness now sometimes im a bit of a spanner.

==[[User:spock|spock]]==

I chose spock because I had no idea that it would follow me around for at least the next 10 years.
I didn't even know what Redbrick was when I was joining, and when I had a membership form thrust
in my face by Hyper on Freshers day 1996, we had three preferences for username. I put down "spock" as my first preference. It wasn't taken, and that is how I didn't end up with the username "data", or "benji".

==[[User:svan|svan]]==

Sarunas Vancevicius. First letter of name, then first 3 letters from surname.

==[[User:thedara|thedara]]==

My nick was given to me years before redbrick on irc (irc.phishy.net) I was the first person some americans had met called Dara and they
found that interesting for some reason or other and hence I became thedara.
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

==[[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.

==[[User:werdz|werdz]]==

A long time ago in a net cafe far, far away, a sexy asian friend by the name of quank said "Hey Andrew, stop using the name andrew in CS. Use werdna instead. It's andrew only backwards!" - That lasted about five minutes until people got bored trying to pronounce it ("OMG! WERDNA! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!") and just started shouting werdz instead ("OMG! WERDZ! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!"). And that's my life story up until this point.

==[[User:wilburt|wilburt]]==

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)