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by **Miserable Liar** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:07 pm

Miserableliar

From The Smith's song 'Miserable Lie'. When I joined, the song was playing on my computer so there you have it, my marvellous story

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Website · by **elko** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:19 pm

Fascinating stuff Matt, really, but nice thread.

My name is Ellis. As I recall, someone misheard 'El' as 'Elk', and that was that. At various times it was 'Elkminton', 'Elkster' and 'Elkmeister', but Elko stuck a bit and I started using it for various online things. Only a few people call me it now, but it works fine as a forum name and things.

by **Miserable Liar** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:21 pm

Ah well nice one Ellis (although I nearly died with boredom

), your username has now lost it's charm abit though, wouldn't you say?

Website · by **elko** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:24 pm

Nope!

Charming as ever, fella.

*winks*

by **The Boy with a thorn in his side** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:35 pm

A friend called me this a few days before I found this place (with no intented smiths connection) He rang me while I was signing on and i figured it would be good. I was wrong, it just looks like I messed up

I had always wondered about your name Elko, never got round to asking.

by **HandsomeDevil** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:09 pm

I chose HandsomeDevil because of the Smiths song....obviously

xx

by **Perfect Drug** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:02 pm

Well, a long time ago, on a forum I had to find a name. And since I was playing NIN's "The Perfect Drug" and Trent was singing You are the Perfect Drug, the Perfect Drug, The Perfect Drug . It... happened.

by **Mr-Shankly** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:04 pm

You should of stuck with Elkminton. I would be honoured to have such a grand title.

Mine speaks for itself reall.y

by **Herzeleid** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:20 pm

it means heartache in german. and is the name of Rammstein's debut album a band which i am rather fond of.

by **scavenger** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:43 pm

My username comes from two different songs. Originally its from the song Take You On A Cruise by Interpol. The line is "I am the scavenger between the sheets of union." Although I think that may have negative connotations and I am in no way related to the breaking up of any marriage, Ive always loved the way the vocals and guitars blend at that point in the song. Second, my username is also from Seasick yet still docked.

I would like to change it though, Im tired of it now.

by **the_queen_is_dead** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:17 pm

take a guess, and you'll probably be right.

elko. 'elkmeister'.

Website · by **elko** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:12 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (scavenger @ Sep 26 2005, 09:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> My username comes from two different songs. Originally its from the song Take You On A Cruise by Interpol. The line is "I am the scavenger between the sheets of union." Although I think that may have negative connotations and I am in no way related to the breaking up of any marriage, Ive always loved the way the vocals and guitars blend at that point in the song. Second, my username is also from Seasick yet still docked.

I would like to change it though, Im tired of it now.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
If you do want it changed, just say to what, and thy will be done.

by **Grim O'Grady** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:40 pm

Well mine hmmmmn...
Grim = grim up North (so it kinda gives my location away) & in the sense of opposites as I'm not grim (well maybe sometimes hee-hee)
O'Grady = well I wanted to celebrate my Irish roots (of Irish blood & English heart) but I couldn't use my Mams maiden name as it would give away half my security passwords heehee but it's def' an O'something.

love

Grim

by **chicken** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:58 pm

i use chicken on every forum i belong to.
it comes from my video gaming club, because the computer i built is small enough to be a "toaster" (which is one of the nicknames assigned to them), and i flippantly said one day that it could probably toast a chicken. those present found that rather amusing, so my computer was then dubbed the "chicken toaster". since the vast majority of video gamers adopt handles that are supposed to be threatening or intimidating, i wanted to be different and just call myself chicken. sometimes i go by the handle "coelacanth", which is a long and convulted story. (look that up on wikipedia

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by **Pashernate_Lover** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:27 am

I sat there musing over what to call myself on this forum...something with Morrissey, but something with a ring. I looked through every song I had and saw Pashernate Love and decided that it would be ironic if I were to choose PashernateLover as my name for a few reasons... the main being that I am a straight edge and therefore I am never really anyones "lover" (at least not yet). I had a laugh or two over it, chose it and got a screen name to honor that and confuse everyone that has ever met me :-P

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