BF2S Forums User Name Meanings

Well... in 1990 I (secretly) fell in love with an exchange student from Ireland. Her name was Murphy, which is "Murchu" in Irish Gaelic. "Ní" is the female prefix for names, her brother, for example, is "O'Mhurchu". The "h" inbetween "M" and "u" denotes the genitive form, so you can think of "of Murphy". The pronunciation, by the way, is kinda "nee-wOrk-oo" (with the stress on the capital o).
OK, I am male, and chose a female's name as my nick, but -- who cares? Or: who knows, except I put that public in an internet forum?

Edit: whoever is interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language

Last edited by NiMhurchu (2005-08-26 11:54:27)

well....... mh.... it could be hard to explain my name

not such a long story for me.

my real name is Mortimer and a friend with whom i played a lot of Quak2 always called me mort.
so i decided that my first online game name would be mort4u and it is it since then, around 1996.

the french and italiens think its quite funny cause "mort" is dead in french and my other nick anme in RL morti wich means "the dead" in italien and "mord" in german is murder.

Last edited by mort4u (2005-08-26 07:53:25)

My name is from a piece of music by a band called MOGWAI.

Helicon has several meanings but the one I prefer is a mystical shield that ancient greek warriors protected themselves with in battle.

My favorite character in a D&D type game was a magic-user/thief called Cavendel. I have used that title for most on-line games and tons of site login names.

I just thought of mine as well, not too interesting.  This is my first online gaming experience and it seemed like fun playing as commander in the BF2 Demo, so that's it. 

Now I think that's what I'll try to play as mostly, quite a different experience than on the battlefront in a squad.  Very rewarding to help out the sqauds when they need it.  Not to mention the thrill of taking out enemy troops with arty.

Weeell way on back in 7th grade our class was tasked to make a "don't smoke" type poster for a project that could have any subject you wanted.  So, me and one of my friends made a poster with a huge comic strip about a stickman with a top hat named Mr. Bad Idea.  Mr. Bad Idea smoked everywhere he went, and in the end he got thrown off a bus into moving traffic.  Then he tried smoking in a full body cast in a hospital and caught on fire.  Heh, the dangers of smoking.  Ever since then I've used Mr. Bad Idea or some form thereof in every online game or e-mail or whatever that I can do it in.

Last edited by mr_bad_idea (2005-08-26 16:12:03)

Games I've played as 'sinir' (been the same nick since '98)

HL/CS
MOH
BF1942
COD
BHD
BFV
SWG
WoW

Since I have had a Gamespy account under sinir for years I couldn't use the same nick for BF2, Im still pissed about it, thus sinnir

Last edited by sinir (2005-08-26 20:10:31)

Well lets see. When I was in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University there is a tradition where the Juniors of my cadet company (C-2) give nicknames to the Freshman class. These nicknames are given in accordance to something that stands out about the Freshman. They are also quite drunk when giving these names so sometimes they either are crazy or don't make sense.  Now also Upperclassmen can also send Freshman on "Details" basically missions of either importance or simply playing a prank on their classmen. So this is where the Kilroy name comes in.

Eric Faulkner a Junior of mine at the time sent me to find Anthony Littman one of his buddies. So I looked about the dorm for him and found that he was taking a shit in the community bathroom. I went back to Eric and told him where Anthony was. Well Eric told me to go back and look over the stall and stare at him. Which may seem like a screwed up request but we do all kinds of fucked up things in the Corps of Cadets so this wasn't anything abnormal in the strange categories.

So I went back and stood in front of the door to the stall. Put my hands on the top of the door and slowly looked over. He was reading a newspaper when he suddenly realized that someone was staring at him from over the stall door. He looked at me with bewilderment and then said in a calm manner, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" which I replied back with, "Sir, Junior Detail, Sir!".  As Freshman you have to start and end any sentence with Sir.

So from his vantage point sitting on the toilet what he saw was the infamous Kilroy image. Also as a Freshman you don't have any hair or at least VERY little since its all mostly shaved off. Think Basic Training short hair.

Needless to say when it was time to give me a nickname several were blurted out. Keep in mind that I am also Half Japanese but I am rather large cuz my Dutch heritage makes me 6'3" tall.  So the nicknames had a slight Japanese feel to them. Kamakazi, Tojo, Rising Sun... When Littman finally said, "Kilroy". Well that seem to stick and so the Juniors gave me the nickname Kilroy.

Ever since them I have been using that nickname in one form or another on lists and in games. And well the 97 part comes form the fact that that was my year in College. Class of 97.

kilroy0097 was what wasn't taken in BF2. So that's what I used.

Cheers.

My nickname, believe it or not, was not taken directly from the Jimi Hendrix song with the same title... though it most likely was indirectly as you will see.

One day in 1997 I was over at a friend's house watching some comedy central trying to come up with a spiffy handle to use online. There was this comedian on the television doing a standup routine (not entirely sure, but I *think* it may have been chris rock) and the set props he had in the background were two gigantic words VOODOO CHILD, and I was like 'Hey! That sounds pretty cool!' From then on I have been using that as my nick. So, although I didn't directly get it from Hendrix (he was a bit before my time... though he was an incredible guitarist!) I am pretty sure that the comedian most likely got 'voodoo child' from the famous song.

Mine's from a someone who does body piercings called Quintin.
It's fun cause you can use it as an RP name.

I'm half Japanese, half Afro.

well.. it's a mohawk now, but you can't see me over the net!! .. or can you?