in order to get to know each other better I thought it might be a cool idea to let you people tell us something about your signature, avatar or nickname. Why did you choose a certain picture or why do you use a certain slogan, saying or part of some lyrics in your sig? What were your thoughts behind this or whats the secret behind your nickname?
I see some football pics here, Stewie from Family Guy there, "Bleed the day" here or some "Theres a vortex in the fridge" there just to name a few.... What's the thoughts behind this?
Well, my sig is for my (yet not relaunched) bootleg trading site, so it's obvious IMO. My nickname comes from a Metallica song (you may know it... lol). Back in 2005 I listened to the Turn The Page single version alot and then jumped onto some DC hubs so I chose this to be my nick. Since then I'm using it everywhere. And my avatar is dedicated to my favourite football player, Ryan Giggs. That's all.
my friends and me, we have a hobby soccer team and my nickname there is norbinho...so, i'm also using it in my "trading life"
as you can see the avatar i use shows mr. metalgod, james hetfield, and me in copenhagen this year...meeting him and lars, kirk & rob was the best day in my fan life.
Ride The Lightning Until It Sleeps - my signature - is just some fooling around with metallica song titles that sounds cool to me!!
my username: the name "Bob Garage" came about 12/13 years ago. I was running a rock club with a friend but attendances weren't great. It was at a time when Garage and Jungle dance music was at the hieght of its popularity. So in order to get more people into our rock/metal club we called ourselves "Bob Garage" and "Billie Jungle" and used to put out flyers with just the name of club on and underneath "with DJ's Garage and Jungle". This actually worked and we had a load of dance music fans turn up at our club. By the time they realised they were in a rock club they had already paid and we had a no refunds policy on the door so even if they didn't stay we'd made the money off them. After that the names stuck and for the last 12/13 years all over the internet I sign up to anything with the usernme Bob Garage.
my avatar: its the british lions (rugby) logo from their summer tour of South Africa. I keep meaning to change it again, but haven;t got round to it yet.
My signature: Well the picture is just a load of signiture bar images rotating. all including my interests.... Metallica Fan, Guinness Drinker, Cardiff City Fan, Wales Fan, Slayer Fan, Firefox User, Linux user etc. All pretty self explanitory.
The words are lyrics from a Gama Bomb song. Classic lyric writing at its best!
Theres a vortex in the fridge,
The food flies about
Throttled by sausages
I cannot get out!
cool.
ok as for my current sig, its my trade site banner. im always changing them so it wont last long.
as for user names, i started of with
real life deadone (maiden related) i then shortened it after a few years to
realdeadone
i also used on my own graphics site MDO (mrdeadone) which was also my cod clan tag at that time.
so for the last few years i have gone to deadone to keep it simple and im staying with it
Well, I used to be a crazy fan of the game TombRaider.
Everybody around knew how dedicated I was to this game.
So I joined my name Tayfun & Raider which sounded great to me.
I got my first e-mail with this nickname and has so on become my identity.
Let's see. Been a Metfan for 25 years and almost everyone who knows me calls me Metfan. 72 is for my birth year.
As for my sig, well not to get too personal but after many years of abusing my body with recreational drugs and alcohol, I quit everything. Frantic was a song that really helped me along as the main chorus was just how my life was and I was heading down that path. As much as everyone dislikes St.Anger, listening to that album over and over was a good release as I was facing some of the same demons James was. So it will always hold a high place for me.
Happy to say I am a social drinker now and drug free for 5 years. Normally not the proudest thing I like to admit but I kicked the habit so not ashamed anymore about the choices I made.
Metfan72 wrote: As for my sig, well not to get too personal but after many years of abusing my body with recreational drugs and alcohol, I quit everything. Frantic was a song that really helped me along as the main chorus was just how my life was and I was heading down that path. As much as everyone dislikes St.Anger, listening to that album over and over was a good release as I was facing some of the same demons James was. So it will always hold a high place for me.
Happy to say I am a social drinker now and drug free for 5 years. Normally not the proudest thing I like to admit but I kicked the habit so not ashamed anymore about the choices I made.
