How did you think of your username?
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Topic: How did you think of your username?
Posted By: Bob Greece
Subject: How did you think of your username?
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 03:26
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There are some very interesting usernames on the forum. A lot are based on bands or songs but some of them make no sense to me. So how did you all think of your usernames? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 03:31
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Chipirón: It's the popular name for a kind of squid that's usually eaten in Spain cooked in its own ink, so it's one of the few dishes in the world that's black coloured. Besides, It's the name of my cat, that's completely white... BTW, great thread, I think it can be very funny... ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: rockandrail
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 03:39
For years, I have two main hobbies and passions: rock music and model trains. You got the answer. ------------- Pierre R, the man who lost his signature |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 03:48
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its from a rush song, video vertigo test for echo. Not too exciting, but its a rush name I can count on being unused on pretty much anything, any message board et cetera. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 03:52
I like Moogs (analog synthesizers) and mellotrons (prehistoric samplers). A lot of instruments have a number as well, indicating the version of the instrument. So when you're talking to me, you're talking to a third generation imaginary instrument. Well, some people talk to their computer as well, don't they  ?
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Posted By: oznoG
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 04:02
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mine is spelled backwards (very evil It's was my nickname at highschool. I was always listening to Ted Nugent's album "Double Live Gonzo" so people started to call me "Gonzo". I never got rid of it... ------------- Houdoe, dag en de mazel Erik |
)Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 08:31
My last name 
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 09:00
surely not... must've had a hard time at school. [addition] Mine is the name of the small time covers band I am in. It stands for Cranky Old B *****ds and a Bitch |
goose wrote:Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 11:10
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I actually am a Wizard! -------------  
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:22
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Andrea Cortese is my real name...not very interesting...I'm sorry!
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:27
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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:27
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Well... I'm a big Maiden fan... That band actually made me love prog Btw Your not the 1st one with this idea! I had a thread like athat 2! And someone had another be4 me... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:58
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No negative comments this time Except that my name Neuteboom is a typical Dutch name and always hard to pronounce |
for non Dutch speaking people! By the way, I asked Andrea to be a he or a she because both is possible in Italy!Posted By: kunangkunangku
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 18:42
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mine is the first word that was instantly popped up in my mind when i searched for usernames to sign up with yahoo messenger. it's "my firefly" in indonesian. ------------- i don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. - b.b. king |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 00:47
Hello Erik, It's not both possible in Italy, though, being only a male name! In other european countries I know they use the name also as a feminine...what a paradox: in fact the ancient greek root of it, anér, means "MALE" while the other ancient greek word andrèia means "virility" and "strenght"! |
Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 02:52
The Tarot card, and a good helping of obvious symbolism 
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 04:43
Sotty Andrea  , thanks for your explanation  . I really only know female Andrea's here in Holland so it remains a funny story about the Greeks roots of the word Andrea ..!
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 04:47
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Hello Andrea. Sorry for the typing error "sotty", it must have been a Freudian slip |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:51
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:54
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 08:50
My username comes from a prog album! 
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Posted By: Seyo
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 09:14
| This is a common nickname for my given name "Sead" in my country! |
Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 17:17
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I just love aurora borealis, they're the most beautiful things I ever saw (I saw those a couple of time, they sometime were better than what's on my avatar). They're out when it's dark and cold, it feel so nice to have them when you're out at night. I don't know, I just love them. And since I live in Québec (I'm very proud of that, you know it ------------- Vive le Québec libre!... |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 00:53
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Having your location in Antarctica you should have seen aurora australis!
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 01:27
As does mine , a song on a prog album that is------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 01:34
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My name derives from a song by Enchant that I loved the name of....Progtology. -------------  |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 02:07
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Tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on He has eyes down at the bingo on that lucky Friday night
------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 05:04
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As my fave jazz artist is John Coltrane and Trane is his nickname and based on my family name: Chantraine , I thought of chanting the Trane's praises: which would make Chant Trane but I decided that if one day my newly discovered taste for writing should ever amount to something (one can always dream As you would pronounce that nickname , it is the best way to pronounce my family name for non-francophones around the world is Sean Trane!
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 05:48
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Bilek is my name... simple as that! If you wonder why I chose it, you'll have to ask my mother, because she named me actually I first wanted to adopt black, which close to the original pronunciation of my name in English, but I did something wrong, or someone else already assumed it!!! Strangely, I never saw anyone named black in the forum! I still continue to use that alias in my reviews, though I submitted no more than 30 so far, and because of business I'm not likely to increase this number nowadays... meaning of my name is similar to Andrea's (the male one ------------- Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret: Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
Posted By: Doesburger
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 06:18
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I come from Doesburg, Nederland
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