wha'ts the reason you choose your names and avatars?

[Perfection]

I'll tell all my information now so that I don't have to be bothered agian.

Name: I am Perfect so I thought I'd make it my screen name

Avatar: Switch got rid of his so I assopted it and spruced it up a birt with my amazing artistic talent

Title: Switch was Oddball pentagonal thingy so when I improved it I gave it a improved thing

Sig: See title

Location: SNL RULES!!!

 

[Silverflame]

Like cromagon, I have always been using silverflame as my screennames, although sometimes I have alts such as goldflame or bloodflame. I have no idea how this theme started.

My avatar is random, my signiture is because I like silverflame better than goldflame.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

Hmm, I dont really know? My title has to do with the fact that people are always emailing me asking where I am.....so that is the reason

 

[HotDog Fish]

My name is when I was thinking hmmm....I like Hotdogs...and I like fish! What happens when I put them together?!?! Well after being sick for a couple of days. During my illness I was at home and I found this site. So all thanks to some herring and salmon in a hot dog bun I found this site. My avatar is Kiyone Makibi, she's from the anime series Tenchi Muyou! (actually the just the TV series, she was never in the original one) and I can honestly say she's the coolest person there! (and no I am not a girl, I'm all guy for your information!!) and she's part of the Galaxt Police which isblah blah blah, I'm lazy, to put it mildly it's an intergalactic police organization and actually she's an alien! My sig is once again another anime refrence, but from Ranma 1/2, and yes this makes no sense in either Japanese or English

 

[King of Camelot]

I don't really know why I chose my name, I guess its cause I have always like the King Arthur legend so I named myself King of Camelot, as for my avatar, it looks like a king .

 

[cgannon64]

Well, cgannon64 is:
C--my first initial
gannon---my last name
64---my old locker number (I felt like having a number).

Yes, unoriginal, I know. I have my avatar simply because Spike Spiegal is amazingly cool, one of my favorite characters ever.

CG

EDIT: My avatar is specifically the last scene of Cowboy Bebop, where Spike points at the guards and says, "Bang." Great ending, great ending.

 

[SonOfShaka]

SonOfShaka because I grew up in Zululand and have great respect for the Zulu , and admire Shaka for his innovation of the assegai ; the stabbing spear with which his impis dominated southern African rival tribes .
My avatar reflects my heritage ; one of my ancestors ; Piet Retief was a pioneer leader of the Great Trek when the Boers moved into the continent to get away from the British . He had the unfortunate distinction of having his head bashed in by Dingane during peace treaty talks at Gingindhlovu ...(ROP Rape)

 

[napoleon526]

I'm just an admirer and student of Napoleon. 526 is my house number.

My pic is from the famous portrait "Bonaparte Crossing the Great St. Bernard Pass" by Jaques-Louis David:

 

[andrewgprv]

andrewgprv = My name Andrew Gilbert Platt, and my boyfriend's last name is Arave pronouned Arvee or RV so AndrewGPRV

Elephants have always been my fav animal.

 

[Switch625]

Name: Switch625

Origin of Name: It's the name of a Def Leppard song I like.

Reason for Using Name: I dunno. It just seemed like the thing to do, I guess. I really don't remember why. I've been using this handle for something like six years, and I've slept since then.

Avatar: G'Kar from Babylon 5.

Reason for Avatar: I'm a Babylon 5 fanatic.

 

[ejday]

Name: ejday

Origin of Name: First two initials and the last name: E.J. Day.

Reason for Using Name: I am easily confused and need consistency in my life...
Actually, I used to have a fun "Tophat Cat" name that I would go by in certain forums (it was my email address, too), but when work forced me to have a more serious email, my usual forum names went along with it.

Avatar: OSHA standard signage. In their words: "CAUTION" alerts employees to somewhat hazardous environments. Situations encountered have a possibility of resulting in minor or moderate injury.

Reason for Avatar: I've always been fascinated with things dangerous (all sorts of reasons), and hazard signage sums it up pretty well.

 

[[GR]Ishtari]

Well here gos. "Ishtari is the Queen in Civ 2 as the babylonians. which is ok and have been useing it as my Handle for ten years, i guess, way back then a friend found some info on her and she turned out to be a Goddess of war. figures huh?? anyway the [GR] is my clan sign. the Grim Reapers. As i play OFP. and the pic just fits. I like weapons and tactics.. my Fav tank is the German TIGER I,

napoleon526 Love the pic. wasn't that pic about him attacking spain?? and that he got those heavy cannons though the pass??

 

[IceBlaZe]

I just invented IceBlaZe two years ago, and stuck with it ever since for some reason.

My avatar is the Symbol of the Government of Israel. No special reason for electing it other than being Israeli.

My sig is pretty self explanatory. I am always open for discussions about interesting topics, on the net as well as on life, so I consider myself a "Netizen"

 

[The Last Conformist]

My nick reflects my dislike for people who tell me to think for myself. Independent thought is something I indulge in for my own sake, not to please some polically correct quasi-moralists. And it's got a nice oxymoronic sound too.

My Avatar is from the Units file from Civ II Classic. It's not actually used for anything in that game, but I think it looks cute. I once made a post-WWIII scenario for Civ II where I used this icon for a Barbarian "Mutant" that roomed the deeps, to suddenly surface and eat up your ships (it had the submarine flag), but I've unfortunately lost the scenario files.

The title "Freak" kind of describes the Avatar. And another nick I've been using in games and on fora is Free(k).

The Sig is from a Korean girl that's got a knack for coming up with snazzy sig-lines. I thought it went well with my nick.

 

[cymru_man]

Cymru_man because cymru is Wales in Welsh. Man affixed to the end because it sounded better that way.

Avatar is an ironclad because,... well it looked cool.

 

[Hitro]

My nick is the result of some babbling by my young cousin years ago. I chose it because I had to choose something.

The avatar is the coat of arms of my home city. It's kind of an homage to my twisted local patriotism.

The location simply states a fact, I do live there.

The signature is non-existant, because I don't need one and don't want one.

 

[stormerne]

That's my name and that's what I look like.

 

[napoleon526]

Originally posted by [GR]Ishtari
napoleon526 Love the pic. wasn't that pic about him attacking spain?? and that he got those heavy cannons though the pass??

The painting depicts Napoleon's crossing the Alps into Italy during his 1800 campaign, which ended with his victory over the Austrians at Marengo. And yes, his troops did have to drag their cannons over the mountains, as most of their horses had died. An interesting note about the crossing is the fact that despite what the painting would have us believe, the First Consul actually crossed the alps on an ordinary mule and not the magnificent white horse depicted.

 

[sysyphus]

Sysyhgus is the name of my favourite Pink FLoyd song (see the asscociated thread)

I don't have an avatar because I can't figure out how to get the bloody thing to work!

 

[cromagnon]

Silverflame wrote:

Gold is the root of all evil

Silverflame, there is a great book by Shel Silverstein entitled 'the ABZ Book.' One of the entries goes something like this:

M is for Money. Money is the root of all evil in the world. Money causes your parents to fight. You should put your parent's money in an envelope and mail it to...

Maybe you want to adopt that as your sig. You never know if it will work.

CGannon: I'm used to seeing your other avatar. When did you switch? And what the bleep was that B&W picture of anyway? Looked like some Saturday morning cartoon character.