[Agent Lex]

SpaceBass wrote:

Wow, all this time I thought that was the floating, disembodied head of a Bedouin or something.

Well now I know what to change my avatar to!

[Axys Denyed]

Mikeyj wrote:

And you're the only person I've met with an avatar T-shirt...very cool

You obviously weren't at ARGfest-o-con 06. On the first night I wore a shirt with Cy on it so that everyone would be able to recognize me

[Rogi Ocnorb]

SpaceBass wrote:

Wow, all this time I thought that was the floating, disembodied head of a Bedouin or something.

I always saw a disembodied beatnick poet.
*snap*, *snap*, *snap*.

[rose]

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Simply put, I was into The Matrix at the time I came up with the name. I shall bow my head in shame upon request.

Some of us found this board and ARGs because of The Matrix and the wonderful game called Metacortechs. No shame in that.

I like the floaty part of that avatar but I never recognized the Emo Squid. I thought it was a funny caricature.

[SpaceBass]

Wow, all this time I thought that was the floating, disembodied head of a Bedouin or something.

[Mikeyj]

Agent Lex wrote:

Despite its phallic appearance to some, it's supposed to be an Emo Squid wearing Wax Lips. Because it's emo, and they make it smile. I'm so witty.

No Lexy, sorry - it's definitely a waggling, slightly smug penis. And you're the only person I've met with an avatar T-shirt...very cool

[Agent Lex]

I like to think that my name comes from a long story, but it's actually rather short. It does come in two parts, though.

Part the first: "Lex"
One day, years upon years ago, a friend introduced me to his friend. As is custom, we entered each others numbers on our respective mobiles (cellphones to you wacky Americans). My new friend seems to have been incredibly lazy and decided to shorten my already short (5 letter) name to 3 letters, "Lew", then messed up the last letter and didn't bother to change it. So I became "Lex".

Part the second: "Agent"
Simply put, I was into The Matrix at the time I came up with the name. I shall bow my head in shame upon request.

The avatar is just my custom avatar on Kingdom of Loathing. Despite its phallic appearance to some, it's supposed to be an Emo Squid wearing Wax Lips. Because it's emo, and they make it smile. I'm so witty.

I actually hardly play KoL any more, and feel the need to change this avatar.

[Axys Denyed]

My nick is actually the name of a decker I played in Shadowrun. In my early days of venturing onto the net I tried a few different screen names until I tried this one and, lo and behold, it always seems to be available.

As for the avatar...that's a good question. I picked little Cy here for several reasons. For one, I like to mess with people sometimes . For another, I felt sorry for the poor little creature. Cy just pulled a bad hand on that trip through life. For yet another, it reminds me that there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosphy

[Furry Mark]

"Furry Mark" was my nickname at university - originally it was to distinguish me from one of my close friends (and later our best man) who was also called Mark. I got called Furry due to my wild hair and beard - they called him "Greasy Mark" for similar follicular reasons, but that name didn't stick (as oftens happens with grease).

The avatar is one I've used on various boards - it is a heavily modified version of an old picture of Cousin Itt (which was one of my other nicknames...)

[ON3 ARM]

I realize this thread is a little old, but I'm new! So it's all good.

My name I got from some friends when I broke my arm a couple of years ago, they were mocking me while I was trying to play volleyball and baby a tender arm that had recently escaped the clutches of a cast.
As for my avatar, I joined recently to get in on Iris (Halo3 ARG), (ILB was awesome!) and after checking the definition of "ris" on dictionary.com - a branch or bough- I knew the picture had to be made and I have to say I'm quite proud of it.

[myf]

Oooh, I like this thread! I shall now add my rather uninteresting tale to the collection. I hope you're sitting comfortably!

I've been known as myf for the last 13 years or so, several years before I had internet access. When I was 14/15, I had a friend who refused to use his real name, and was known by his chosen nickname by everyone (including his teachers at a fairly posh school). I decided that if he could choose a nickname, so could I. As I'm half Welsh, I wanted a Welsh name, and went through a baby-naming book to find one I liked. I chose Myfanwy, but English peasants can't say or spell it, so it got shortened to Myf. I later decided to have no capital letter, mainly due to laziness when typing it out all over the web - et voila! The story of myf. To this day, most of my friends refer to me as myf, and some do actually forget what my real name is. Most of them think myf suits me far more than my real name. It also turns out that my parents did consider naming me Myfanwy, but decided against it - a fact I only discovered a few years ago.

As for my avatar, a friend of mine got given an "It's Happy Bunny" book. I thought it was really funny, so I went and found a picture to use. It is a fair reflection of how I often feel, but it's cute with it! It was that or a WeeMee, but I hate having pictures of myself around, so the bunny won.

EDIT - June 07 - I got bored with the bunny, and changed to one that is on my new favourite T-shirt from Noisebot.com

[luke]

Random username generator.

My avatar is from the theme song of Dead Like Me, which happened to be my favourite show when I first signed up on UF some 3 years ago.

[Neanderthal]

Well, my name's story is in fact pretty boring.

Back in the day of Marathon 2 lan games I needed a nick and I thought of Neanderthal, I don't remember why or how. Later, when I started playing Myth 2 online I used it again and then there was no turning back. I've used that name ever since (10 - 9 years) although sometimes I've used the nicks Supertrow (Trow is a Myth character), Hrymur (A norse mythology entity) and Nebbi ( a shorter and easier-to-pronounce version of Neanderthal (for Icelanders at least )).

I've only used two avatars here on UF. The first one was the logo for Thoth in the Marathon games, where it was an "ancient personality construct". Now it is Gary Larson's God character taken from this image.

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Edit: Oh, and you can read about Neanderthals on wikipedia

[Lovek]

Good stories! Want to hear a boring one?

My name's Christopher Love. Not a tough one right? But like everyone else, I get lots of mail with my name misspelled. So a guy I used to work with started calling me by the misspelled versions. The most common were Chrictopher (Crick- Toe - Fer) and Lovec (Low - veck). The funniest (an actual mispelling) was Christgopher (Christ - Gopher).

The day I joined Who Is Benjamin Stove? I needed a name. The guy at work had apparently selected Lovec as my nickname of the day, so I used that... only I switched out the 'c' with a 'k'. You know, cuz it looked cooler.

The End.

The avatar is all WIBS. An alien (for the crop circles) wearing a cowboy/farmery-type hat (for the farm/crops) holding a coconut (to represent the infamous coconut-dude... surprisingly, it is NOT a bowling ball). Somehow this avatar and I became entwined during WIBS, and so Lovek the Alien sticks around. He has various other incarnations.

[labfly]

i was a lurker on uf for a really long time before i registered. while i was busy lurking, i began to search for a name for myself. i really wanted to use my real life nickname, but i also wanted to be anonymous because when i first started playing args i kept it a secret from everyone that i knew. ridiculous i know -- but it kinda added to my entire arg experience. (i'm now out of the closet with my arg playing and creating) okay so i was lurking some game and while searching for info for a puzzle, i stumbled upon this orchestration and video called "labfly dreams" which was a piece based on speculations that fruitflies might dream during their short lifespan and what would they dream about.

my avatar is from an experimental film of mine that contains an animated character known as "the ordinary man".