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#2617768 7-Dec-2020 20:09

Mine originated from when I purchased my first domain (murfy.co.nz) because murphy.co.nz was not available.

Now a French company has launched using the name “Murfy” and suddenly I’m getting a whole lot of emails for them.

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#2617775 7-Dec-2020 20:21

Hammerer:
Hammerer is an extended variant of my nickname, Hammer, which I used on another NZ website at a time when I was regularly wielding a hammer. I'd prefer my actual nickname but it is the same as a family name / surname so it is always taken unless it is a website I've created.

Now I use a different moniker which doesn't hit anyone else's preferences. One day I'll get it changed here too because I've been told in various places that some people interpret "Hammerer" as aggressive. My son used his name on Runescape and was banned because some German users read it as a racist death threat.

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#2617779 7-Dec-2020 20:24

Got it as a number plate for my 21st present.
Spent quite a few days coming up with all sorts of ideas and it just seemed to be the best one that matched my car I had at the time.

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#2617808 7-Dec-2020 20:45

angleaut = pronounceable 8 character phrase from random password generator

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#2617811 7-Dec-2020 20:47

Age and inclination.

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#2617824 7-Dec-2020 21:13

Back in 1999 when I started playing Everquest, I created a Troll character and wanted a suitably Trollish name. Being a fan of Discworld novels, I picked a relatively minor Troll character I liked.

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..when I typed it into Foothills (a MUD from about 1992) ..

Wowsers, small world. I spent thousands of hours on Foothills (and to a much lesser extent Surfers/Resort/Forest/etc) under another name.

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#2617832 7-Dec-2020 21:40

I think this tells you everything you need to know.

Plus, early on in my net days I saw some blokes choosing handles like WhiteWolf or DeathIncarnate which seemed a bit OTT on the machismo front, so also a antidote to that.

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#2617833 7-Dec-2020 21:42

Have always loved red wine.🍷 Not white or bubbles. Have had the handle since mid 90’s.

The avatar is the Drinking Bacchus which is a Baroque-period oil painting by Italian painter Guido Reni. The painting depicts the Roman God of Wine Bacchus as a Putto (a chubby, naked child often depicted in fine-art) helping himself to a bottle of red-wine while urinating.

ps: I don’t drink while urinating, well not since I was a late teen 😊.

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#2617835 7-Dec-2020 21:45

FineWine:

The avatar is the Drinking Bacchus which is a Baroque-period oil painting by Italian painter Guido Reni.

It's nice but you'd think he would have made it a little bigger ;-)

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#2617836 7-Dec-2020 21:46

My name and how many kids I have

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#2617848 7-Dec-2020 22:44

Alfred made me write lines when I was a bad boy and it stuck

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#2617854 7-Dec-2020 23:04

I once had occasion to ask a friend for his password for something or other. His reply was wheelbarrow. I decided it's just so random that it would make an excellent username that nobody else has, meaning I can use it across multiple forums without fear of "that username is already in use".

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#2617856 7-Dec-2020 23:21

Wheelbarrow01:
I once had occasion to ask a friend for his password for something or other. His reply was wheelbarrow.

Purely out of curiosity, what was your friend's username and which site was this for? Asking for a friend...

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#2617861 7-Dec-2020 23:35

neb:
Wheelbarrow01:

I once had occasion to ask a friend for his password for something or other. His reply was wheelbarrow.

Purely out of curiosity, what was your friend's username and which site was this for? Asking for a friend...

I assure you it wasn't for anything interesting. This guys still doesn't have Facebook, let alone internet banking and the like. He's as computer literate as a teabag - and likes it that way, although he does enjoy that his iPhone can tell him what the weather and tides are doing - he reckons that's a pretty handy tool lol.

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#2617877 8-Dec-2020 06:45

Mine is from the rugby club I played for (many years ago now)...

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