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[Silversmurf]

When was 4 or 5, my family and I were on vacation and staying with some friends who lived in a house quite a ways up a canyon. Their property was up against one of the canyon walls, and they had a large cherry orchard and some rabbit pens. My sister wanted to go look at the rabbits, and I wanted some cherries, so we went out into the yard without telling my parents where we were going.

After I had eaten my fill, we went looking for the animal pens with all the cute little bunnies. We found some empty cages, and were trying to figure out why there were no rabbits in them, when I heard a sound. I turned around, and there was this huge rattlesnake less than 10 feet (that's 3.05 meters for all you non-americans) away from us. We ran all the way back to the house, screaming our heads off the whole way. My dad and brother went out and chopped the snake up into pieces with some spades, buried the head, put all the pieces in a bucket, and my brother kept the rattle as a prize. My mom chastised my sister and me, saying that we knew not to go out on our own because of the rattlesnakes that live in the rocks by the canyon walls.

A while later, I was out on the porch drawing in a coloring book, when my curiosity got the better of me. I walked over to the bucket my dad left on the edge of the patio (WTF dad!), and inside I find a dismembered zombie-snake writhing around like it was trying to get out and exact revenge on the little kid who is responsible for it's being chopped apart by gardening tools. I spent the next 15 minutes or so banging on the locked door into the house and bawling my eyes out. Turns out that my father had left to go somewhere (and took my siblings with him) right after my mom had gotten into the shower (WTF again, dad!)





That story has absolutely nothing to do with me being called snakebite. One day, when I was 14, one of my brother's friends randomly started calling me Snakebite. The end.

You win.

/thread

Brilliant.

[Snakebite]

You win.

/thread

Brilliant.

 

Yeah, that's my default answer when people ask me about my name.

 

Generally it goes something like this:

Person: Oh, your name's Snakebite.  Do you have snakebites?

Me: Huh?

Person: You know, snakebite piercings?

Me: No.  But there is a great story behind it.

Me: *tells story*

Person: Oh, cool!  Wait.  But you never got bitten in that story.

Me: I lied.

 

Personally, I like Leadpaintchips stories.  I can especially relate to the friend with the name solely designed to set people off when they get killed by it.  You don't even want to know what some of my alts were called.   

[Dekibra]

Dekibra ... quite simple choice really

De - first two letters of my first name (Desiree)

Ki - first two letters of the nickname my father gave me (Kiki)

Bra - nooo, not what you think, tztztz...  but the first three letters of my last name

 

Voila

 

btw - any German players here who remember the english textbooks with Toby the dog and Tibby the cat?!

Is this Toby?

No, this is Tibby!

 

Glad I came to like English nevertheless ^^

[Silversmurf]

I spent the next 15 minutes or so banging on the locked door into the house and bawling my eyes out. 

 

I'm sorry but I laughed so hard at this part.  That's why you win in my eyes.  The mental image that conjured up.  Funny mate.

[Beerfish]

I just want to point out that the first letter of my name is a lowercase "L".  A lot of people thought I am icneed which could mean "I see need" but it is not that!   It is LCneed.   LC for short.   LC stands for lostchild which was my online handle at The Sierra Network about 25 years ago.   Need was my character name in Yserbius which was one of the first graphical MMORPG inside The Sierra Network. 

 

Need was also the name of a sword in one of the fantasy books I read back in the 80's.

I'm sorry, I'm very very sorry but I'm still going to be calling you  'Ick need'.  That's how I've always said it and I don't need no illusions shattered!

[Beerfish]

Dekibra ... quite simple choice really

De - first two letters of my first name (Desiree)

Ki - first two letters of the nickname my father gave me (Kiki)

Bra - nooo, not what you think, tztztz...  but the first three letters of my last name

 

Voila

 

btw - any German players here who remember the english textbooks with Toby the dog and Tibby the cat?!

Is this Toby?

No, this is Tibby!

 

Glad I came to like English nevertheless ^^

So your German eh?  Thus your last name must be Brautzenburger

 

Nice to meet you Desiree 'Kiki' Brautzenburger!

[Beerfish]

Yeah, that's my default answer when people ask me about my name.

 

Generally it goes something like this:

Person: Oh, your name's Snakebite.  Do you have snakebites?

Me: Huh?

Person: You know, snakebite piercings?

Me: No.  But there is a great story behind it.

Me: *tells story*

Person: Oh, cool!  Wait.  But you never got bitten in that story.

Me: I lied.

 

Personally, I like Leadpaintchips stories.  I can especially relate to the friend with the name solely designed to set people off when they get killed by it.  You don't even want to know what some of my alts were called.   

I thought it was because every time Beerfish77 outscored you badly and humiliated your Zither that you would declare.   'I was just snake bitten that game!' Hmph, learn something every day.

[Snakebite]

I'm sorry but I laughed so hard at this part. That's why you win in my eyes. The mental image that conjured up. Funny mate.

I'm so glad that you derived enjoyment out of my traumatizing anecdote. You know what they say: One child's abject terror is another man's treasure.

[Gya]

When was 4 or 5, my family and I were on vacation and staying with some friends who lived in a house quite a ways up a canyon. Their property was up against one of the canyon walls, and they had a large cherry orchard and some rabbit pens. My sister wanted to go look at the rabbits, and I wanted some cherries, so we went out into the yard without telling my parents where we were going.

After I had eaten my fill, we went looking for the animal pens with all the cute little bunnies. We found some empty cages, and were trying to figure out why there were no rabbits in them, when I heard a sound. I turned around, and there was this huge rattlesnake less than 10 feet (that's 3.05 meters for all you non-americans) away from us. We ran all the way back to the house, screaming our heads off the whole way. My dad and brother went out and chopped the snake up into pieces with some spades, buried the head, put all the pieces in a bucket, and my brother kept the rattle as a prize. My mom chastised my sister and me, saying that we knew not to go out on our own because of the rattlesnakes that live in the rocks by the canyon walls.

A while later, I was out on the porch drawing in a coloring book, when my curiosity got the better of me. I walked over to the bucket my dad left on the edge of the patio (WTF dad!), and inside I find a dismembered zombie-snake writhing around like it was trying to get out and exact revenge on the little kid who is responsible for it's being chopped apart by gardening tools. I spent the next 15 minutes or so banging on the locked door into the house and bawling my eyes out. Turns out that my father had left to go somewhere (and took my siblings with him) right after my mom had gotten into the shower (WTF again, dad!)





That story has absolutely nothing to do with me being called snakebite. One day, when I was 14, one of my brother's friends randomly started calling me Snakebite. The end.

This story has absolutely nothing to do with you being called Snackbot....

Still, +1 I lol'd.

[Snakebite]

This story has absolutely nothing to do with you being called Snackbot....

Still, +1 I lol'd.

I know that Pronto came from a typo on Pork's part.

Did Snackbot come from you?

[Dekibra]

So your German eh?  Thus your last name must be Brautzenburger
 
Nice to meet you Desiree 'Kiki' Brautzenburger!

Uhm... No

[xrayspex73]

When/how did this thread turn into the unofficial Deutschthread?

 

Wo ist die Diskotek?

[Spork0fdoom]

Spork0fdoom - sporks are close to greatest invention known to man kind..doom because dr doom is a bad ass..so im making a play off of dr doom hence spork0fdoom

[Gya]

I know that Pronto came from a typo on Pork's part.

Did Snackbot come from you?

Yes, but I prefer to think of it as divine inspiration.

[Texasmotiv]

To throw more fuel on the Deutschfeuer:

 

When I was in German class there was an epically 80s video series that we watched called 'Komm Mit!'. Here is a sample of just how terribad it was:

 

 

In one of the videos, there was a scene where our hapless heroes were shopping for T-shits and found one that said "Texas: So hot... it's cool!". They gushed over the "T-Shirt mit dem Texas Motiv". Being a sarcastic teenager this was the funniest thing I had ever seen and soon became my handle in everything that I signed up for (emails, IM, online portals). I only recently have been phasing it out. My avatar is a screen cap I found of the girl wearing the texas t shirt and being so excited about it.

 

I have a hard time telling people the story when they ask me where in Texas I am from. I tell them I am from Indiana and them tell them that the irony of that is funnier than the actual story.

 

Glad to see im not the only Name with German Class roots.

[WattEinSpaas]

This thread is increasingly becoming a kindergarten

[Cute Nug]

People complained that Cute Nug sounded too scary for a happy fun time coop game. So I just went with lokiholland.

 

[Sophloph]

Perhaps there is a correlation between German-gelernt students and DAMP addiction. I as well banged out 3 years of German in High School, however, my haunting videos were all about this teenager group, mainly remembering a almost seemingly pre-puberty Tomas und his crush on a Maedchen named Claudia. Oh that 80's hair and clothing was awesome. Prior to german class, all I knew was "Ich habe eine Groesse Flaben Werfen!" Don't remember how to type umlauts, so please excuse the e's following, thats what they said to do if you don't have an umlaut. Its a great language to learn if you want to get into the medical or pharmaceutical field internationally. I just remember taking it because 1)Learned plenty of Spanish working in kitchen restaurants and 2)Didn't see how learning Spanish would distinguish me from the other 50 million Spanish speaking citizens and non citizens of America

[krishachaos]

My Gamertag is ravenskya

 

Many moons ago when I was but a wee angsty teen, I decided to dye my hair... but the colors did not appeal to me so I decided to get "Raven Black" and "Blue Sky" and mix them together to get a black that shone blue in the light.  It actually came out pretty good all things considered.  People kept asking me which manic panic I had bought so as I joke I told them it was called "Raven Sky" Fast forward to my needing a DnD character name and I called her Raven Sky.  Then I started playing an online DnD game where you could have multiple characters - being fabulously creative they were RavenskyA, RavenskyB etc. 

 

Somehow Ravenskya stuck... and I've been using it ever since.  Most people just call me Raven though... actually this weekend someone mic'd up and say "hey wait, are you THE Raven?" I wasn't sure how to answer that... seems like the opening to a lot of explaining.

[Texasmotiv]

Somehow Ravenskya stuck... and I've been using it ever since.  Most people just call me Raven though... actually this weekend someone mic'd up and say "hey wait, are you THE Raven?" I wasn't sure how to answer that... seems like the opening to a lot of explaining.

 

THE Raven?

Like:

 

Or:

[russ4ua16]

SilchasRuin24
 
 
Pretty cliche'd and boring at the same time, though it's always interesting who picks out the reference.
 
Named after a favorite character from the Steven Erikson novels - Malazan Book of the Fallen
Best epic fantasy out there if that's your buzz.
 
I was 24 when I first got my PS3 back in the day.

One of my favorite fantasy series.

[krishachaos]

THE Raven?

Like:

 

Or:

See what I mean?  I'm so not answering when you ask  "Hey are you THE Raven?" and no... the "That's so Raven" jokes haven't gotten old AT ALL yet, lol.

[Hotlafi]

Hotlafi because my favorite book character was Raistlin. Raistlin was/is a character from Dragonlance. He was a mage and had a dark elf apprentice. His apprentice, Dalamar, would refer to him as Shalafi which meant master. I used that name, Shalafi, in an mmorpg and decided to put a twist on it for DA. Hence, HOTLAFI.

[FMP2013]

4 years ago, I've bought FIFA 2012 and had to create an Origin account. I've tried my name, which is not common, but it was already in use. So, I just abbreviated FIFA MultiPlayer 2012.

When I've bought FIFA 13, I also changed the id.

FMP is also my random initials.

OFF: In Brazil, all first English classes and first book chapters have the infamous frase: "The book is on the table". There are lots of jokes about it.

[The Drone]

Hotlafi because my favorite book character was Raistlin. Raistlin was/is a character from Dragonlance. He was a mage and had a dark elf apprentice. His apprentice, Dalamar, would refer to him as Shalafi which meant master. I used that name, Shalafi, in an mmorpg and decided to put a twist on it for DA. Hence, HOTLAFI.

Nice!  I used a play on his last name for my first AOL account.  I used that for years until The Drone became a thing.