Story behind the Username

[MalteseMick]

I lived in Malta for four years until last year and my first name is Michael so MalteseMick had a certain ring to it.

[pooface]

I lived in Malta for four years until last year and my first name is Michael so MalteseMick had a certain ring to it.

Sounds more like you were partial to the odd pack of maltesers to me hehe

[WOIIFTM]

I'll turn my answer into a quiz: my avatar and username are linked, my username is an acronym. Eternal fame for the one that posts my 'full' username.

Why, I like Zappa, what more can I say?

[Maxwell]

I'll turn my answer into a quiz: my avatar and username are linked, my username is an acronym. Eternal fame for the one that posts my 'full' username.

Why, I like Zappa, what more can I say?

That album was in my opinion, music wise exactly as the title - Were only in it for the money. nice user name

[pooface]

I'll turn my answer into a quiz: my avatar and username are linked, my username is an acronym. Eternal fame for the one that posts my 'full' username.

Why, I like Zappa, what more can I say?

OK, so are you saying that you're an ex dream-elite team member??? Since, as far as I know, the acronym of your username is "We're Only In It For The Money"... So, makes me think you're a DE team member hehe

lol, Maxwell just beat me to it

[Maxwell]

OK, so are you saying that you're an ex dream-elite team member??? Since, as far as I know, the acronym of your username is "We're Only In It For The Money"... So, makes me think you're a DE team member hehe

lol, Maxwell just beat me to it

Lol nice answer all the same haha

[Sicilian]

OK, so are you saying that you're an ex dream-elite team member??? Since, as far as I know, the acronym of your username is "We're Only In It For The Money"... So, makes me think you're a DE team member hehe

[silverfox0786]

i tell you pooface i'm extreamly ill with a cold and fever and reading your DE post just made my day was ROFL all the way

[WOIIFTM]

That album was in my opinion, music wise exactly as the title - Were only in it for the money. nice user name

Here you go:


to the winner

[silverfox0786]

Wrote a reply for this, pressed the back button by accident, then forwards and message had all gone Grrrr Firefox :angry:

Anyway, as I stated previously, I have quite a few usernames, and this is the only one which doesn't really have a story to it... I just chose a username randomly, and this one was it, lol. I think I might've used it before when younger as a mild childish insult, is where it came from, lol...

As for my other usernames, my most commonly used for day to day stuff like emails etc, comes from just my surname and initials. It was the first proper username I was ever issued, which I received when I went to university. And it's stuck with me ever since...

My other username comes from a mick-take from when we used to text obscenities Basically, try typing an insulting word, which could also be used as a name for female genitalia on nokia (at least older ones anyway) predictive text. You'll come up with a word that I just used as my username. However, everytime I tried it on most places, it was already used, so I used the year that I first started to try it, and have stuck with it ever since...

And my final username (I say that, as it's my xbox live name) comes about, again from university... Now I usually get flamed on xbox live for this, because I'm always told I have wrote it wrong The username is foobar, and am constantly told it should be fubar!!!!! (all the exclamations, as it's c00l to do that ). Anyway, as some of the users here will probably know, I am not talking about fubar, but the foobar that I got for my first piece of C+ programming :

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main()
{
   char foo[] = "Hello,";
   char bar[] = "World!";
   printf("%s %s\n", foo, bar);
 
   return 0;
}

Anyway, there you have my stories hehe

I have to say pooface with your username on here and the avtar you chose i have to say it goes really well 'count pooface' has a certain ring to it ;P

[Larry-G]

i dont really have rhyme or reason for my usernames other than the fact that i tend to get bored and change the name from forum to forum.
saying that i common user name i do use on most forums would be DUDE. this is just a name i have used for around 10 years all the way back to the old xbox 1 hacking days.

i was also for over 3 years a senior moderator on a well known cable forum untill one of the admins decided otherwise. but hey there are plenty other forums i can offer my very own brand of assistance on.

for those intrested you may have bumped into me under any of the following names on various forums.

00DUDE
DuDe
DUDE
taxman
technerd187
RuberDuck.

amongst others.

[WOIIFTM]

...
RuberDuck...

Out of curiosity, what's a ruberduck (or is it a typo?)

[Larry-G]

Out of curiosity, what's a ruberduck (or is it a typo?)

back in the days of illegal cb radio ( am band 70's and early 80's ) it was slang for a mobile magmount antenna. and i'm a radio geek.

[Conaxthewarrior]

I bought my VU+ Duo a few weeks ago and when filling in the forum membership page had'nt a clue what ID I should call myself but knew the ID had to be somthing connected with television. On the CBS Action channel at the time was a program "conan the warrior" and suddenly the idea came, a parody of "conan the warrior" and tv related......Conax the warrior!!!!!!!! Perfect! (Conax being, as much as I could gather, one of the forms of tv signal encryption like videocrypt or Videoguard etc).
hastily typing in my new find, I forgot the spaces inbetween the words!!!
Conaxthewarrior

[Conaxthewarrior]

I believe the term "rubber duck" originated from the USA. Truckers would use it as an ID over their CB radio. I remember it was also used widely by the general public during the period when the single "convoy" was played on the radio in the late 1970's. I found this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(song) for more info.
Anyway, thats my theroy.
Conaxthewarrior