Explain Your Forum Name

Back in the day I was a serious online gamer and when it came to choosing a name I decided to go with a famous movie villain called Keyser Soze simply because the name was a great one and the movie a winner.
Changed it to KaizerSoza because I wanted the tag to be different but still recognizable. Most clan games were against internationals and they mostly just called me Kaizer but it sounded like K-ZOR.
Decided to just change it to KZOR to adapt to the environment and that was 20 years ago. :)

OMG... exactly the same motivation. Kaizer Sozai!
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You lucky if it was more recent your forum name would probably be "noob-uninstall", online toxicity is at peak levels lately.

That's no lie. This was long before online gaming became so accepted (for lack of a better term). Nowadays people hate on each other for no reason
 
Pretty much worn blue jeans my entire working career/life, thought the alternative spelling was cool in a young hackerz kinda way...spose. :rolleyes:
 
I like this thread - whoever started it!

Cool thread!

I got mine from my WoW days. My nick used to be "Stillborn", but I got hauled over the coals because it upset someone so one day a magical admin froze my world and appeared before me, and demanded an alternate name (it really happened like that). I couldn't think of anything that wasn't already taken, and while it happened my screen kept on freezing and unfreezing, stop-start-stop-start-sto-sta... And so the name was born.

Seeing as it occupied years of my life, I largely became known as Stosta to my online friends, so the nick has stuck (although I do occasionally still use my old one in other places).

Oops! I've been reading your name as "stosa" all along - totally missed the second T. Talk about auto correct issues.

Was a big Stephen King fan back in my school days. Worked at an internet cafe (yes, I am that old) after school. Counter Strike had just landed and I needed a handle for when we needed to play against the customers. I was reading King's The Stand at the time and loved The Trashcan man character and thought it a good name for CS. It has stuck with me ever since.

The Stand is my favourite Stephen King - spotted you immediately with that name.

For myself it was my mouth getting all tongue tied and stuttery. I was playing with my daughter and she was getting annoyed with me and babbling away (she was about a year old) and I meant to tell her to stop huffing and puffing and my mouth garbled it to huffapuffing. When I was asked for a forum name that sprung to mind as the mistake seemed to fit my new vape lifestyle :D
 
My forum name/handle is just my initials followed by the year I matriculated.
I ran a competition about the relevance of the year and it led to some amusing answers at times.

I was the youngest student because my mom, who was a teacher, arranged for me to get in while I was 5 years old.
So in matric, while others were 17, 18 and even 19 years old, I was 16 until shortly before the final exams started. :)

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I was the same ddk also started primary school when I was 5 turning 6

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I used to use FlyFree as a handle. That turned into Crash'nBurn. Seems like YeOldeOke will stick. Unless I discover the Fountain of Youth.
 
My forum handle comes from being a Naval Airman from fall 1967 to spring 1971. Was my call sign from early 1968 until I finished my tour of duty with ATRON 56 (an attack squadron flying A-7B Corsair II's at the time). VA-56 was on duty off Vietnam on the USS Ranger when I was assigned to them, and they were on the USS Midway for the next Vietnam cruise when I finished my tour and was discharged at Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay). Between WestPac's the squadron's home base at the time was NAS Lemoore, CA.

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USS Midway at sea with squadron aboard; 41 squadron flyover; 406 having a bad day on the 41; 401 at NAS Astugi, Japan.

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My forum handle comes from being a Naval Airman from fall 1967 to spring 1971. Was my call sign from early 1968 until I finished my tour of duty with ATRON 56 (an attack squadron flying A-7B Corsair II's at the time). VA-56 was on duty off Vietnam on the USS Ranger when I was assigned to them, and they were on the USS Midway when I finished my tour and was discharged at Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay). Between WestPac's the squadron's home base at the time was NAS Lemoore, CA.

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USS Midway at sea with squadron aboard; 41 squadron flyover; 406 having a bad day on the 41; 401 at NAS Astugi, Japan.

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Awesome info @Spydro. My call sign in the army (infantry) was "Puerto" but will never use it on a forum, just because I'm a gentleman ;).
 
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Im just me. My gaming nic was Cybrix and then evolved to Cybrixgoneloko once I started to play tournament gaming and paitnball but somehow it didnt seem to fit at the stage of signing up. Now that I'm completely mal about vaping and mods it feels like it could be appropriate again.

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Nothing interesting, since my name is Andries, my best friend used to call me Anneries in high school. Then when I met my wife, there was another Andries in their friend group, so her friends started calling me "Ander Andries" that becam "Ander-Dries" and when the wine/beer/brandy started flowing it became "Anneries". So that stuck ...
 
uhm... .mavric69... mavric was/is an old DJ stage name and 69... meh..dinner for 2... :banana:
 
Raindance mix potion,
Raindance put potion in magic pipe,
Raindance make cloud appear,
Raindance is medicine man....

Damn! That sounded less corny in my imagination. My appologies. :doh:
 
Boxerulez comes from my ACVWSA forum days.... because beetles has rudimentary boxer motors and I believe those are the best motors ever built.... hence boxer rules.

Boxerulez and it stuck since then.

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Well used to go by VeXeD but decided to just keep it real and use my real name Daniël...
 
So in matric, while others were 17, 18 and even 19 years old, I was 16 until shortly before the final exams started.

Me three. Or at least I should have been. But then, my three hardest years in high school were Standard 8. It was a clever ploy. I missed national service because I was an old toppie by the time I matriculated. Although being from Swaziland also helped. One day in matric, an army oke came around to the school and dished out call-up papers to all my classmates. He asked "Who here is not from South Africa?" So I did my *slowly raises hand* thing. When he heard I was from Swaziland, he said "Ag no man, we don't want you Communists in our army." I tried my best to look totally disappointed but I'm not sure I pulled it off.

Regarding my nick, I've come to add the JB or sometimes just B because getting "Rich" on any site is almost impossible. I was RichB on an international motorsport site coz Rich was taken already. When they made me admin, I searched for reasons to ban Rich but couldn't find a single post by him. So I banned him anyway and stole his nick. He sent me a long whiny email asking why he'd been banned when he hadn't posted anything or been rude to anybody. I told him it was a computer error and I'd make an exception and let him back but he must re-register under another nick. Yeah it sucks but what are you gonna do? Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
 
I thought that I would skip this thread. Surely everyone knows the song "Puff the Magic Dragon" ....Well maybe not. Sometimes I forget my age.

Folk song made famous by "Peter, Paul and Mary". First recorded in 1963. It has been said that the lyrics are known to all Americans.

I took a trip down memory lane and watched Peter,Paul and Mary singing Puff on YouTube. Would it be possible for such a song to reach No.1 on the charts today ? I doubt it !
 
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