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What made you choose your particular Alias?
Tikay10
Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
Am keen to know how & why some of you chose your alias.
Some are obvious - Boxster is from his Porsche love, RSPCA12 does his animal welfare, & we don't need a reply from MattBates.
Others are a mystery though, so let's hear why you chose them.
Replies can be from ANYONE, but aliases like @StayOrGo @mumsie @Jac35 @Enut @eon1961 @aussie09 @EvilPingu are the sort of things I'm looking for.
Some are obvious - Boxster is from his Porsche love, RSPCA12 does his animal welfare, & we don't need a reply from MattBates.
Others are a mystery though, so let's hear why you chose them.
Replies can be from ANYONE, but aliases like @StayOrGo @mumsie @Jac35 @Enut @eon1961 @aussie09 @EvilPingu are the sort of things I'm looking for.
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Mine is rather boring - it's a phonetic version of my initials.
I'm sure most of you can batter that.
Obviously with it being the name of a (rather creepy) 70s TV character, for the past few years I've been fully expecting to have to submit a name-change request at any moment.
They did listen , I told them to use a band name that would invoke the sense of an "antiquated family business name".[7]
The band were so impressed with me, they affectionately called me Mumsie and named themselves after me ( Ignoring my advice.)
Mumsie just stuck, out of my hands to be honest.
[7] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumford_&_Sons
All the Henrik7 etc etc and Larsson7 etc were taken so I added a D and put in my favourite scoreline.
My alias needs explaining? You often call me Tuney because my surname is Tune! But I'm guessing that maybe you need me to explain it to others, so here goes. When I was at school one of my nicknames was Enut (surname backwards) so was easy to use as an alias, most of my other nicknames would not get past the swear filter. Interestingly Enut can also look like the misspelling of an expletive but as I have never sworn in my life I wouldn't know that.
On other sites I have used the alias Kidcreole (the best live band in the world, but from the 80's so the children won't know who they are) and unluckyagainpaul as it sums up my poker skills, I never play badly I have just run horribly for about 10 years!
I'm at the table now so I C U before I get your money.
The place CU is most well shown is on the chess site I play because on that site I'm called kingCU, most people who see it will probably think the C and U are initials but I myself know the C and U are me saying good bye to the king.
Dam near ripped her leg off.
I live in Essex, and my name is...yup, no originality here.
Called PhilGreen111 or ABC Geriatric on other sites...
in those days in the building game and on the sites,it was a tough group of guys who worked there [none of this health and safety shenanigans] and the steel erectors were famed for being a bit mental ,just for the fact they spent most of their days walking around on four inch beams hundreds of feet of the ground without harnesses etc,even when they were supplied with them,they never used them as it got in the way of the work [and they were on bonus] when you are a foreman of a crew like his,you cant take any nonsense ,and if someone stepped to far out of line or god forbid try skiving off from doing the work, it would most times lead to a straightener [square go] on a patch of waste ground, for if the gaffer [my old man]was to let one of them away with it,sooner or later they would all be taking the pi**
one day a couple of his crew were at my house,me and my bro were in the kitchen,next door and we heard them talking about someone on the crew who had tried to take the pi** one day and was sorted out with a quick headbutt, and one of them said,that will teach them not to mess with [THEMADMONK] as that was there nickname for him when he lost his temper,
after that me and my bro used to call him that [not to his face] when we were talking about him
I remember dialup was a thing, and I used to get kicked off the internet by my parents if someone wanted to make a phone call. Many, many high scores were lost because "CLOSE THAT GAME DOWN NOW I NEED TO USE THE PHONE I TOLD YOU TEN MINUTES AGO".
Anyway, used that name ever since, but Sky has a 10 character limit so I had to shorten my alias, so Evilpingu made sense.
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I remember when @SkiItaly was asked the same question in that interview on the old Sky Poker channel:
"I like Skiing, I like Italy, and I like skiing in Italy"
Loving these stories.
Keep them coming.
It is my name & birth year.Apparently my Mother was in labour a long time & it was my Dads sense of humour to give me that name.