Screen Name origins, why/how did you choose yours? Options

[axelrduvirage]

just another post about how you came about choosing your screen name.



some are pretty self-explanitory..names like OrangeCelicaGT, SeattleChick78 are easy to guess. others like overbasher645, h438467fg0w need interpretation. what is the story behind yours?



mine came about when we played Microprose's GrandPrix 2 F1 race simulator. my good friend Mario had no idea how to brake into turns. just fly through like a bat outta hell and make up the time on the next straight-- that was his motto. i kept telling him to brake, then accelerate out of the apex of the turn "accélère du virage!". he would usually tell me to shutup and taunt me "accélère du virage, accélère du virage, accélère du virage!!" when i was driving. anyway it litteraly means: to accelerate out of a turn. change the spelling and you have a nifty sceen name and player name for racing games-- Axel R duVirage.



BTW if its all looks like French to you you're right. good old fashioned 17th century acadian french, not that pretentious parisian French.

[Ironic]

Back in 84, my mother had a yellow 76 celica. One day my father decided to take her celica instead of his pos 75 chevette. So she took his car and went off to visit her family. While leaving her mothers she ran into the back of a stopped car doing about 25, totaling his chevette. She went to the hospital for a broken leg. As soon as she got home from the hospital later on that night, she recieved a phone call from the same hospital she just left. Some kids pepped up on heroin and alchohol went the wrong direction down Interstate 45 while he was on he was to work. Both cars were going around 70 and had a head on collision. My father broke both of his legs, crack his rib cage, and wasnt able to walk right ever again. If he had the accident in his car he would have died, and that would have made me non existent me being born in 86. I bought my 96 celica myself. 56k miles, owned buy an old guy who rarely drove it. And it had been repainted just before i bought it. I won the car off ebay, and picked it up August 1, 06. My celica was my 3rd car. I spent 27 months working and saving, 3^3 is 27. On august 3rd, 30 months after my 18th bday, an f150 crossed two way traffic without looking both ways and ran into me. I had my 3rd car 3 days, on august 3rd, 27 months of savings, 30 months having the same job, 30 months after my 18 birthday, it was the first accident I ever got into. Isnt it ironic? Don’t ya think?

This post has been edited by Ironic: Apr 29, 2007 - 5:12 PM