I used to play the Urban Terror mod a lot when it came out and one thing I noticed was how it phrased the message text on the screen when you fragged someone. I can't remember the exact phrasing but it was like "Little Johnny was blown away by Mr X". As such I decided it would bring me a laugh if it said "Little Johnny was blown away by Some Fat Bastard". Hence my nick on QGL. BTW I don't use that nick anywhere else anymore.

How about you?

When I first signed up for QGL, which was probably my first forum, I couldn't think of anything. The speakers I had on my desk for the pc at the time were Mission speakers.... then the legend was born.

http://www.mission.co.uk/

This is the only site I use mission.

Steak Face is my main nick.

I realised I didn't hate the cabinet door, I hated my life.

I was using a cs nickname already taken and it just came to one to name myself after a laser guided bomb, back in the day

It was grade 8, James bond was cool, and I couldn't spell for s***. Merky ≠ Murky.

Room mates all had CS handles ending with hat, there was a powered by redhat sticker on my computer so I used that.

You tell me...

I usually go by Froodle or Froodleme, a word I made up in Grade 8 and has since stuck with me. During the very early days of WoW however, when I was nearly ending Grade 8 I was reading Lord of the Rings and one of the Elfish horses was named Eorl, picked it as my uber Undead warrior and have stuck to it since. Vary between froodle, froodleme, eorl or thrador.

lits gave it to me in about 2001

i always used demon or dem for my nick in arcade game top scores before the advent of pc gaming. seemed to fit well with online quake. i usually use some variant of demon for all my forums n chats n wotnot. coz i'm de mon, mon.

i think its based loosely on russell crowe - gladiator was Maximus or some such.

My in-game nick was taken and I had become quite good at the hellies in DC so I went with deadly-fly. Then I forgot my account details that were attached to a hotmail account that had long since died so when I made a new account I panicked.

lits gave it to me in about 2001

now there is a name i haven't heard in a long time, lits

he was posting on here for a little while after lans died

Was a nic name since the movie came out (1982) and has been the only online name I have ever used. Sometimes its also had the ROM_au tag attached for the Raggedy Old Men tongue in cheek clan of a buddies and mine.

I was looking for a nick with style. Pizazz. Oomph.
I wanted it to sound like a super hero or a carnival attraction...The Incredible...Vegetable. It sounds funny to me I guess, the oppositional nature of something being incredible but also a vegetable (traditionally not particularly incredible). It was just a random thoughht, no real story as such.

Other nicks I have used:
sonofgasman (ref to the TV show Bottom) (Quake, Quake 2)
Fatal_Bert (Fat Albert) (LAN Kingpin)
YourMum'sCuddly (ref to the old "Cuddly" laundry liquid ad starring Mike Whitney) current used for whatever games I play - TF2, BF3 (Xbox) etc
open wound (Q3)
The F***you Man (later changed to F.U.M - from Eddie Murphy) (Kingpin clan nick and one that stuck)

probably others I've forgotten. I never really changed nicks once I started playing a game seriously, but usually if I start a new game I jazz it up with a new name. YourMum'sCuddly is a pretty staple one these days though.

As for other forums...well that'd be telling.

A murky reflection cast from the droplet of insanity as it slowly drops onto the oil bathed puddle of rancid swamp water that is my personality.

I used to play QWTF under the alias of "a_monkies_uncle" (I was 12, f*** off). I tried out for a clan and didn't make it. So I created a new alias to play under (Striker) and trialled a week later and got accepted.

There was already a well known player called Striker, so I changed the e to a 3. I pretty much use this nick for everything online.

Mine is shortened from an old name I used, 'Toll Booth Willy' An Adam Sandler audio skit that I found immensely funny at the time. z0r! was getting used in a lot of things, so Tollaz0r!.

Now I just use Toll wherever I can, if I can't use Toll it's Tollazor.

I was flicking through one of the old Forgotten Realms Avatar trilogy novels at random and there found a character named Dalzhel. Dropped a letter to make it a bit more unique and it stuck.

well, I think it was 1995 ish, and I needed a handle to use on chathouse, and been a large, and vocal kinda dude, copious seemed fitting,

however with-in like a week I found that typing copuis was much quicker, and flowed better than copious ( left hand hits the C key, then the right hits OP, then UI then left S, very quick to type)

has been my online handle ever since, and unlikely to be taken in most places, so I use it for many things

in C.S. i was in the [P.O.R.N] clan back in the day and my name was TiT

Way back in the 4th grade, I was eating one of those cheese sticks for lunch like everyday for a week so my mates started calling me Cheese, but for some reason decided its cooler with the Z and drop the 'se', then like 6 months later 'Cheez TV' came out. Also use Chezz in some games, an old guild member for some reason kept typing it that way.

Started out in the early 90's as ColdBURN (a name I came up with from the burn you get on your hand when undoing a gas bottle connection after decanting it (I worked in a service station), because I had the previous day managed to do to myself, leaving a lovely red stripe on my right palm - should have been wearing a glove!

I kept it that way until about 2000, when all my clan mates shortened it to Coldy, has been the same ever since, to the point now that all of the guys I drink and play poker with call me Coldy, even their wives refer to me as Coldy. Its just stuck in game and IRL....

I had just finished designing a hover car in F-Zero GX. The game generates names for the vehicles based on the components you choose and the name it chose for my car was the “Frost Lynx”

Fast forward an hour and I’m trying to come up with a username. I remembered the car I had just made and thought it was a pretty cool title. That and Lynx’ generally are pretty cool looking creatures, so Lynx it was.

Whoop = short for WhoopAss because at our LAN's I'd kick everyones ass. That was around quake 2, it carried over to quake 3

In CS I ran around as "Sam" for a while because of the game Serious Sam, although some lonely nerds thought it was short for Samantha and started hitting on me.

In everything new its Norah Tihtzoff. I got sick of it saying "sorry, blah blah is taken" so I picked a nick I was pretty sure no other a****** would have taken yet and I'm fond of word play.

I played Pirates of the Burning Seas as a pirate. Everytime I blew into a PVP battle they said I was like a Hurricane, Jim. For some reason my guild etc thought my name was Jim. So I put two and two together...very Piratey Yar!!!

O week about 13 years ago a few mates and I were sitting on a lounge chair in the froint yard while we watched some idiot climb a tree while he was drunk as we said you're crazy mon. The we decided to give each other names like a dude who was passed out was drunkmon and because my pc had dodgy RAM in it at the time my computer kept freezing so I was Dodgymon. I only use the nick in online games. My real life nick is Bonza.

Back in 1997 I used to bring my computer around to my mate's house for a bit of LAN null modem action. He got into Half-Life and subsequently TFC and on one of my first games he said I had to change the name so people didn't think I was him. f***pot was the first thing that popped into my head so here we are. Draconian religious-right QGL forum admins forced me to change it to the much s****** fpot to save the children or something. D*******s :P

Also Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters - a passing reference is made to something called "Troglodyte Wanderer".

Saw this in Japan recently an thought it was funny:

http://trog.qgl.org/up/1303/trog_bird.JPG

Had really chubby cheeks as a baby.

Family/relatives/family friends called me "chubby cheeks" from my birth, somewhere along the line turned into "chubba" and then eventually "chub".

One of my brothers and 3 of my cousins (same family) still call me "chub" today as an adult.

Also Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters - a passing reference is made to something called "Troglodyte Wanderer".

and here I thought it was just a coincidence that Troghouseofporn.com used to play the midi version of Queen's 'I want it all' when you tapped in their url :P

- original name was JIM as it was the only thing that would fit into the high score chart on the old 20 cent arcade machines... this kinda works as my name is James. The butler did it.

- I changed it from Jim to Jeyzus ( cause that's the sound you n00bs cry out as I'm slawing ya, though you guys add more letter e's in there :P ) when I went to my first Yeronga QGL LAN. Apparently one of the admins had 'JIM' already bolted down and it was considered poor form to imitate one of them. To this day it still s**** me having my old nick associated with such a gumby player XD... and the guy's name isn't even James!

- 'Jeyzus' offended too many of the friends and family who were religious zealots so I changed it to 'koopz' as all my old brother's mates called me 'little Coops' when I was a youngun. 'Coops' (and easy alternatives) were taken to I went with the 'k' instead.

These days close mates and family just call me 'Jey', and I usually change ingame nick back to 'Jeyzus' to keep them on their toes ;)

mine was the CS nickname I was using when I signed up for my first QGL lan...

In terms of nicknames though.. in chronological order:

GrannyMay
Fade2Black
F2B
Replica
Suicidal (For DoD only with RQR!)
brett. <-- I still use this one today for anything I play online.

Yeah I should note that I picked it due to the metallica song and at times i also used Creeping Death...

The Counter Strike option of Fade To Black came in after I chose the nickname, they named on my poor opponents.

I go by several nicks, tspec is kind of a variation of my original nick spectre from back in the days when doom was not long out and I was happily running around in coop/dm doom1&2 on a few BBS's. Didn't really matter whether the nick was common or not back then because you were unlikely to come people on other BBS's with it anyway, at least that was my experience, then the internet came along and ruined everything so I altered it.

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http://imageshack.us/a/img717/2386/trognew.jpg

It's a vague memory now. But I recall trying to sign up for something and trying to register variations on my real name using underscores, dashes, etc.

Got the s**** and out of the blue came up with crazymorton. haven't had a rego reject since.

I chose Agamemnon way back ... i dont even remember how long ago - yes its from the Greek tragedies, rather than Babylon 5 as someone asked me one day :P

I also have/ do use:

Roadkill (for FPS games :P)
Grundfaust (for MMO)

I always tried to pick a name that was a little different... hehe

I chose Agamemnon way back ... i dont even remember how long ago - yes its from the Greek tragedies, rather than Babylon 5 as someone asked me one day :P

Isn't it a character in Oz also? The old guy who digs a tunnel.

Short for Creeping Death - former (Original) Quake nick.

I was 14.

Used to be Bluey Zarsoff and then for some unknown reason changed it to GarnGit, might've been pissed at the time!

Can't remember, it just sorta came to me

Needed something to sign up to QGL with back in the day while at a LAN at Scoobys thinking hard for 5 minutes until f***nukle popped into my head, jazzed it up to F**NuKle as was the rage at the time used it for everywhere that allowed it if not used NuKleHeaD.
Then shortened it to fnukle to make life easier as more and more username rules came into play.

Otherwise I use lomu from Jonah Lomu who was my childhood All Black hero.

that's very interesting Lou Scott

Came from a book I read in high school, 'Operation Faust'. This weird little Russian caper about corruption and home-grown terrorism.

It's obscure enough that no-one gets it first in games. Guys from here that I've played with on BF and other steam games will know me as 'Revelation.' not as unique. Another one I use is Aramanthius, name I made up for the demon in my book.

My name came from someone telling me I was a walking joke when I was a kid and I threw the comeback, "I'm just a parody of you". It stuck in my head when I needed to put down a nickname and it was something you wouldn't find in use.

When I first went online (probably around 98) I used the nick MF_Luder which Mulder used in the X-files as an anagram of F. Mulder.

Not sure why but I grew tired of it around the time I started mapping and changed it to Wetwired, which was an X-files episode I liked. As you can guess I was a huge X-Files fan before it went to s***.

stuck with that, but I must have the time I changed pegged to around 1999-2000 as I remember my first map having MF_Luder on it at one stage.

This should be bookmarked or something.
QGL Wiki ?
is that still going ?
Am I still in it ?