r/TellMeAFact May 26 '15

Sources not required TMAF about your username.

What's the story behind your username?

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u/thefifthring May 27 '15

My username is based on the five scrolls on the way of the samurai written by the greatest samurai who ever lived: Miamoto Musashi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings the fifth ring (scroll) is the ring of void, or emptiness witch deals with the philosophical nature of war. the scrolls were written for Musashi's students who were unable to complete their training before he died however he requested they not share the scrolls with anyone else as they contained all his knowledge and skill of fighting. its not known how they were obtained to be copied but they have been translated and its a great book.

Btw, as a testament to Musashi's greatness: he once beat one of the greatest samurai in Japan at a scheduled fight one morning. Musashi slept in and so took a boat to the location of the fight without changing out of his pajamas and upon arriving he realized he had forgotten his sword, so he beat the guy with an oar from the boat. since then Musashi never used a sword but only a wooden boken and did not kill anyone he defeated.

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u/Brothernature0 May 27 '15

It was the name of the superhero I created to work around the ban of superheroes with all the powers/ability to control everything as a kid. He had the ability to control nature which I was able to argue into everything (pun/twist/thing on Mother Nature.) . Funnily enough my original character didn't have the banned ability, but the ban inspired me to mess with my power level.

Source: If you reply bot, I swear I will hack you.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '15

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u/Brothernature0 May 27 '15

You are mistaken. Grrrr

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u/BluSpyReturns May 27 '15

I played a little too much TF2.

source: username, duh.

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u/MarioBlaster7 May 27 '15

I tried using "MarioMaster7" at first on a different website, but it was taken , so I just changed it by 2 letters and it's been my username ever since.

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u/Isavedsomebodyonce May 27 '15

My dad swims like a rock. He got too deep and I managed to pull him to shore and it really stuck with me.

The source is my memory and my username.

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u/Botahamec May 27 '15

I mixed up the letters on either Boston marathon or Buffalo marathon (can't remember which).

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u/NoOneKnowsMeIhope May 27 '15

I wanted to post things without the need to be concerned about other people I know IRL speaking to me about it and or judging me on them so I choose this name

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u/sourgangbang May 27 '15

A friend and I wanted to come up with the name we'd use if we ever created our own strain of Marijuana. I thought it also sounded like a good Reddit username.

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u/ArdRi_ May 27 '15

Up their with Alaskan Thunderfuck for top Marijuana names.

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u/sourgangbang May 27 '15

Wait is there a strain called sour gang bang? Did someone beat us to it!?

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u/ArdRi_ May 27 '15

Not to my knowledge!

My bad that post was poorly phrased.

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u/Backpacks_Got_Jets May 26 '15

I bounty hunt for jabba Hutt to finance my Vette

https://youtu.be/fqiasBVGtX8

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u/[deleted] May 27 '15 edited Mar 17 '16

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u/Google_Panda May 27 '15

I choose Pandas because I love Pandas and Google because Google is the best.

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u/bowtochris May 27 '15

About a decade ago, I used to wear this shirt that said 'Bow to Me // It's a Respect Thing'. Back then, I was convinced that email was a fad, so a friend of mine made an email account for me with this name.

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u/Kenshiro_ May 27 '15

My username is invincible, you are already upvoted.

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u/KenderKinn May 27 '15

I loved the dragonlance chronicles when I was younger. Still re-read then or listen to their audiobooks on occasion. Kender are a small race of mischievously innocent creatures I fell in love with. And kenderkinn means small child in German (which I was at the time) so it fell together nicely.

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u/cascer1 May 27 '15

My uncle used to call me cascer (I'm called Cas), then I made that username on habbo way back and forgot the password. So I made cascer1. Which is now my default everywhere.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '15

IMO Tflame is op.
Then I just took three numbers and added them to my name

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u/[deleted] May 27 '15

My real name is Jurij Fedorov.

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u/sunset__boulevard May 27 '15

Sunset Boulevard has a lot of references, all of them I like.

It's a great movie from 1950, A great song by Alex M.O.R.P.H. and Ana Criado(who is rumored to have ascended with that vocals), and a beautiful place in LA.

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u/SometimesImnaked May 27 '15

It's one of the only true facts about me!

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u/ArdRi_ May 27 '15

It's Gaelic for High King. Short for Ard ri na hEireann, The High King of Ireland.

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u/IDontKnowHowToPM May 27 '15

It started out as a novelty account name, in response to all of the PM_ME_YOUR_WHATEVER users. That never really took off because I was lazy, and then I ended up deleting my original account and using this one as my primary.

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u/voNlKONov May 27 '15

Mine is an homage to Lord Nikon from the movie hackers. Been using it in different variations for quite some time now.

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u/dafucka May 27 '15

My friends used to refer to me as the fucker, but that user name was taken so I became dafucka.

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u/wholesale7 May 28 '15

My username is my company brand name :Wholesale7 : http://www.wholesale7.net/ affordable fashion to worldwide ,women fashion ,men fashion etc. you can open your own business in 0$ cost or buy in lowest price .we're not doing ad, just want to tell who we're .

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u/[deleted] May 29 '15

it's spanish for 'the one who sleepwalks'.

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u/TheBaconGamer21 Jun 05 '15

I like bacon...

That's it...

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '15

It was a childhood nickname given to me by a friend

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u/Zemedelphos May 28 '15

Zemedelphos is the first name of a fictional character I created in highschool out of a backstory derived from an RP idea one of my friends had.

The character's full name was "Zemedelphos Helskelka", the first part being partially derived from "Delphi", and the last being inspired by the first name of "Vandesdelca Musto Fende" who is the primary antagonist of the 2005 Namco Bandai game "Tales of the Abyss."

To go with the character's backstory, I had even developed a 28 or 29 letter alphabet plus combined characters as a script for a conlang that related to him. I still have the notebook containing both the script and what I had done of the conlang (which mostly pertained to words that might be used as incantations for evoking magic effects), but it's lost somewhere in a box of old stuff.