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Topic: Explain your name
started by: L33T_h4x0r_d00d

Posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d on Feb. 28 2001,12:39

Tell what your name means or what amusing anecdote lead to you choosing it.

I didnt put much thought into mine. The site was about being l33t and h4x0r1ng. And I am a d00d. So I chose Personguy...but it was already taken. So I chose L33T_h4x0r_d00d. There. End of story.

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Posted by Wolfguard on Feb. 28 2001,12:57

It was given to me by the Gods and they revealed it to me in a scrabble accident.

or you could go look up the thread where this was already discussed...

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Posted by Vulu on Feb. 28 2001,13:05

I wanna change my name to Nero! Or CocaineBetty! Seriously, I thought Vulu sounded cool. So there.

Posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d on Feb. 28 2001,14:05

quote:
Originally posted by Wolfguard:
It was given to me by the Gods and they revealed it to me in a scrabble accident.
or you could go look up the thread where this was already discussed...

Like we dont have new people since then?

Posted by Wolfguard on Feb. 28 2001,14:34

quote:
Originally posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d:

Like we dont have new people since then?

yes, and they can go find the thread where this info is posted...

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Posted by Jynx on Feb. 28 2001,16:41

C'mon, Wolf, yer actually assuming that he'd think before he posted--even I know better!

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Posted by DeadAnztac on Feb. 28 2001,18:38

Lemme see, my handel is Anztac, and I was previously declared Dead. There we go!

~Anztac

Posted by hal0 on Feb. 28 2001,19:21

i'm fairly sure this has been discussed about 8 million times.

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Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Feb. 28 2001,20:51

i wanted a name that instiled fear into my enemies but still held a certain amount of my schizo nature hence DKB was born!

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Hey DKB shu'p with all that jibba jabber ya crazy foo!

Posted by Vulu on Mar. 01 2001,11:05

Hey DKB shu'p with all that jibba jabber ya crazy foo!

That's not as funny as I thought it would be...

Posted by Blowgoats on Mar. 01 2001,11:12

It's self-explaintory, isn't it? No, really this was a joke between a couple of friends and I and was stuck with me. Oh well......I'll guess I'll always be the one who blows goats...Whatever. I don't care.

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Posted by Vulu on Mar. 01 2001,11:18

Are goats hung like horses?

Posted by Spydir Web on Mar. 02 2001,00:01

well, I used to go by BootLeg, but I just kinna bored with it (plus it was a little unoriginal). So I figured that I liked web stuff, networking, and I had just killed a spider 30 minutes before, so it just kinna hit me "Spider Web", but I changed the spelling to be a little more original.

I used to go through a handle a month, always changing just to change. I like some of my really old ones, though...

oh yeah, I think it's ok to "restart" another thread about something that's been discussed before, simply because there's new people and the other thread might be really old. I mean, you guys get pissed if someone posts in a old thread and if they start a new thread with the same idea as an old one... make up your minds

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Posted by whiskey@throttle on Mar. 02 2001,00:29

I'm not telling you what it means (gotta maintain some degree of mystery), but here it is in context:

quote:
Tyler Kyle wowed the crowd during qualifying with an over-jump into a whiskey throttle stage dive wrecking both his front wheel and left arm in the process.

Lovely.

It also has an aviation tie-in: whiskey being part of a pilot's phonetic alphabet, and throttle being...well, the throttle.

I threw in the "@" to give it that "drinkin' whiskey at the throttle" edge, which I think is a noble idea.

Whiskey is good for barf.

Posted by Observer on Mar. 02 2001,04:31

< Here, >

< here, >

< and here. >

Yet we apparently don't have any use for good moderators who can move threads and such.

-edit: Though I never mentioned it in any previous thread, my handle comes from back in the days when a friend and I used to do demos for the C64, as if any of you have seen such works.

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This message has been edited by Observer on March 02, 2001 at 11:33 PM

Posted by LazyGit on Mar. 02 2001,16:11

Err, basically because I am one. (Git's a semi-swear word in Britain, I think they have it in Oz aswell, I don't know).

I originally signed on with AOL (forgive me, I was young) and they gave me some bullshit name so I thought about getting another one. I went for f4nny magnet but that didn't really suit me (obviously, p4infully hon3st would also be a good name for me) so I tried LazyGit. I had to plump for LazyGit111 though. And I've stuck with LazyGit ever since, people just love the name, it's cool. It actually looks good aswell, as in it's actual visual appearence, very aesthetically pleasing.

It also contains the two least used letters in the English alphabet: 'z' and 'a'
cheers

Posted by DeadAnztac on Mar. 02 2001,16:31

How is a one of the 2 least used letters in the english alphabet? I would think it would be q and x. or maybe z and x. but a is used alot.

Posted by Blain on Mar. 03 2001,03:30

I call myself Blain because it is my middle name. Actually my middle name is Blaine, but I was sooooo drunk when I registered that I actually spelled MY OWN MIDDLE NAME wrong (kind of like now) so I am now called Blain.

Hooray for beer!!!!1

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Posted by LazyGit on Mar. 03 2001,09:45

Well, you're fortunate, Blain. My sister's middle name is spelt wrong, it's supposed to be Janine but my Dad had a hangover when he told the priest or whatever and he said Jamine and spelt it with the 'm' aswell.

Sorry, DeadAnztac, I think you're wrong, it's definitely 'z' and 'a'.
cheers

Posted by masher on Mar. 03 2001,09:51

Letter frequencies
< http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1999-03-11/feature2.html >

Look at the 15th and 16th paragraphs.
q and z are the least used letters. According to his survey anyway.

edit: It doesn't really make sense that a vowell is a least used letter. It would have to be a consonant

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This message has been edited by masher on March 04, 2001 at 04:54 AM

Posted by masher on Mar. 03 2001,10:01

also < http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/lh_frequencies.pdf >

The second page gives 16 different letter frequency tables, and an average table.

The average (per 1000 letters) is

E 123.3
T 90.8
A 78.9
O 76.4
N 70.9
I 70.9
R 68.0
S 62.3
H 49.9
D 39.2
L 38.0
C 31.0
U 28.6
M 27.1
F 24.1
P 23.0
Y 19.8
G 18.2
W 16.9
B 14.4
V 10.7
K 5.8
X 4.0
J 3.3
Q 2.7
Z 2.1

They also give references for their various lists.

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Posted by masher on Mar. 03 2001,10:07

oh yeah, although I've explained my name before, I'll do it again...

Its a refinement of the nick that I have (had - haven't been there for over a year) on the forums at < theforce.net >. The original was a reference to the garbage masher that the fab four were stuck in, in SWIV: ANH.

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Posted by MeatJam on Mar. 03 2001,10:44

Power Puff Girls, i thank you.

Posted by LazyGit on Mar. 03 2001,15:18

Nah, I'm pretty sure that 'z' and 'a' are the least used letter in the alphabet or nothing would make sense.

Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 03 2001,16:26

quote:
Originally posted by LazyGit:
Nah, I'm pretty sure that 'z' and 'a' are the least used letter in the alphabet or nothing would make sense.

Posted by DuSTman on Mar. 03 2001,16:37

I think it's highly unlikely that any of the vowels rank among the least often used...

Posted by DuSTman on Mar. 03 2001,18:39

Ok. to solve this debate a wrote a little java code to count the occurrances of each letter in a text file.. I chose the IETFs RFC0788 (smtp specs) as a representative document.

Here are my results..

I have entirely too much time on my hands.

This message has been edited by DuSTman on March 04, 2001 at 01:42 PM

Posted by GOD on Mar. 03 2001,20:06

IS IT NOT OBVIOUS!

Posted by GOD on Mar. 03 2001,20:06

IS IT NOT OBVIOUS!

Posted by GOD on Mar. 03 2001,20:06

IS IT NOT OBVIOUS!

Posted by GOD on Mar. 03 2001,20:07

IS IT NOT OBVIOUS!

Posted by GOD on Mar. 03 2001,20:07

IS IT NOT OBVIOUS!

Posted by GOD on Mar. 03 2001,20:07

IS IT NOT OBVIOUS!

Posted by whiskey@throttle on Mar. 03 2001,20:39

times like this we could use a classroom mod.

Posted by Nene on Mar. 04 2001,14:35

Um...yeah, I remember doing this before, but for reasons of clarification, it is "Nene" pronounced "Nee Nee". My nephew came up with that. He couldn't say my real name. We are not discussing my real name. Nor my middle name. hehe.

Nene Power

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Posted by askheaves on Mar. 04 2001,17:39

GOD, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave the party.

That was sort of fun.

Like I explained minutes after I registered... I went to slashdot, registered, and SillyPutty was taken (like every combination of english words is). I saw an Ask Jeeves ad, and it struck me. Yippie. I really actually hate this name and would rather go to Silly Putty, but I don't want to lose my several dozen posts.

Posted by LazyGit on Mar. 04 2001,20:33

Dustman, you can hardly call an smtp spec text file representative of the entire universe of words.

'z' and 'a' have got to be the least used letters in the alphabet, haven't they? Think about it for a bit. When the hell do you ever see those letters in words? Hardly ever. I think some of you guys have got letter blindness or the reverse or something.
cheers

Posted by kai on Mar. 04 2001,21:26

dude, wtf. how can you keep claiming this shit. we've freakin spelled it out for you. a is a common freakin letter

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Posted by Jynx on Mar. 04 2001,21:47

Oh, why not.

I break everything I touch, therefore I'm jinxed. Net-ize it, and you get Jynx.

My new goal in life is to irritate everyone as efficiently as LazyGit has done. LazyGit, you are my idol!

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Posted by luth13n on Mar. 04 2001,22:46

Well, I've been a Tolkien fan for a while, although I probably haven't read enough of him to be a REAL fanatic. Luthien was one of the more interesting female characters (read: does not sit in front of a fire till she gets married and then has kids.) apart from Eowyn, but since most people who've read Tolkien have heard of Eowyn and Luthien is more obscure I picked that one.
Plus, one of my friends recently taught me how to speak 1337, so I net-ized my name a bit.
Oh yeah, I'm also a newbie here.

This message has been edited by luth13n on March 05, 2001 at 10:46 PM

Posted by DuSTman on Mar. 05 2001,00:15

quote:
Originally posted by LazyGit:
'z' and 'a' have got to be the least used letters in the alphabet, haven't they? Think about it for a bit. When the hell do you ever see those letters in words? Hardly ever. I think some of you guys have got letter blindness or the reverse or something.
cheers

Interesting point, that, actually, a friend of mine showed my a passage of text and asked me to count the Vs, i got 4 (most people got 4). There were actually 6. Seems that it's standard for the brain to percieve the vs in certain words as fs.

But I don't follow your logic about A being one of the least used..

The thing about my letter counting tool is that it's difficult to find decently representative texts in txt form.. and you can't really claim that any texts letter contribution perfectly represents the entire language.. That said, here's something less technical - treasure island by Robert Louis Stevenson, the text courtesy of project gutenberg.

Posted by blanalex on Mar. 05 2001,01:58

Really easy!

Mine was my login name at college, 4 first letters of last name and 4 first letters of first name...

Alexandre Blanchette -> blanalex

It's not original, 1337 or whatever but I think it's fine.

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Posted by kai on Mar. 05 2001,03:26

your not original? mine's my freakin name.

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Posted by Vigilante on Mar. 05 2001,07:31

The last of the Brunnen-G?

Posted by Hellraiser on Mar. 05 2001,12:44

quote:
Originally posted by Vigilante:
The last of the Brunnen-G?

You sick fuck

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Posted by kixzor2 on Mar. 05 2001,18:45

Mine name means Kiss and Kick or something like that. Kix is my usual net name.

The 2 at the end is cause my first attempt at signing up went bung.
If it's special l33t time, then it's |<1Xz0r.

Posted by Vigilante on Mar. 05 2001,20:51

Any idea when the next season starts?

Posted by LazyGit on Mar. 06 2001,16:06

Dustman and everybody else, you still can't really say that that book is representative, although it may be because that program you're using must have some kind of weird quantum effect in it to do with the RAM or something which is making it read a disproportionate number of a's.

It has to be a and z that are the least used because they're also the first and middle letters of the alphabet so it makes really sense, it's like it's fate or something.
cheers

Posted by DuSTman on Mar. 06 2001,16:54

Well, I guess you're not for convincing

I give up, believe that if you wish.

Posted by Southparksam on Mar. 06 2001,18:25

my name is sposed to be {v}@+r!*

which means matrix

But stupid ubb code wont let me

Sam

Posted by Southparksam on Mar. 06 2001,18:25

my name is sposed to be {v}@+r!*

which means matrix

But stupid ubb code wont let me

Sam

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Posted by justcozz on Mar. 06 2001,22:31

I started with cozzo but never got a email till recently. So my second attempt, well just cozz. My last name is cozzolino.

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Posted by melk0r on Mar. 06 2001,23:22

my name is actually a character from a book. "the silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien. hes the typical evil god who instills fear into the hearts of the most courageous of foes.

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