Explain your Username

Mine is a pretty lame story but here goes:

No, it has nothing to do with the cult TV show "Fame" tho I used to watch it long time ago...
My friends were just discussing how choosing the right name is an important step if you reach out for fame.
So one made a stupid comment "what if your name IS fame?"...a little more bla bla and I ended up as Fame.
I know,I know, its the most stupid story you heard in your life but thats just what happened - and we were 9 years old, so please
The rest is history, everyone calls me Fame in real life up to this very day,and I mean EVERYONE-even the guy in the supermarket!
Hell...even the TEACHERS in school used to call me Fame, I kid you not!

So anyway, what about you?
Explain your Username...

P.S - DE NIRO - you're excused

(Unless you want to explain why its all in capital )

When i joined i didn't relise you couldn't change your Name,i put them all in capitals for some reason and "Thats That"

I chose Don_Andrew because, I guess I like being called "Don" (who doesn't want that kind of power?) And Andrew because well, my name is Andrew.

I hate mine. I was originally The Jackal but changed it before 100 posts (meaning about four hours after I joined)

I changed it to Don Vercetti because of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I would change it in a heartbeat if people weren't used to the name.

Mine is how I sign up everywhere if possible. I try to keep it simple so I wouldn't have to write it down for every single site I sign up. Afsaneh is my real name. 77 is the year I was born.

I hate my username. I kept the one I had from the IMDb boards, but it's so damned long! Basically, the main idea behind it was, IMO, Don Corleone (both Vito and Michael) are my favorite film characters of all time, and IMO, Michael is the best, and most complex character of all time. The "xXx" on each side signified one of my least favorite characters of all time (that being...uh...xXx). Basically, out of every great, deep film character you get, there's always at least 2 (or 1000) more characters that are just stupid. Um, then again, maybe I just like the way "xXx" looks when typed, who knows?

My name, angie ( Angelica), the first letter of my last name Z and my age.

My name. Angela is my first name, Marie is actually my sister's middle name - I don't like my real middle name.... and it makes me feel a little more anonymous.

Mine is pretty simple. Its just my last name...

My name is Letizia. But my last name starts with an M and not a B. The B came from high school... one of my teachers pinned it on me.

We were studying Napoleon Bonaparte, and his mother's name was Letizia. So after that, my teacher would always call me Letizia Bonaparte, and it stuck.

He even moved my name up in the roll sheet and used to call "Bonaparte?" during attendance. And I had that teacher for two other classes as well, and he'd still call me that without explaining why... so other people started thinking that it was my real last name, and pretty much everyone else at school used to call me that, too. :rolleyes:

DonFerro55.

Don because I love The Godfather.

Ferro because it's my name.

55? because I figured DonFerro was taken.


I wish more than anything I had put DoctorFerro, kinda like Vercetti. I knew after I started that the whole "Don" thing was lame for me, so I just started calling myself "The Doc" a little later. People still address me as DonFerro, but I prefer Doc. I don't really care, but wish I was not "Don"Ferro.

I think people know the "Doc" thing more a lot more than the "Don" thing with me though, which is good.

The Doc

I think u mean Vice City, but your forgiven.

Mine is pretty original seeing as it is my name.

I think u mean Vice City, but your forgiven. [/b][/quote]Ugh, I'm thinking of that name too much.

MaryCas is psuedonym of course. I was not internet savvy when I joined the Gangster BB; my first and only internet affiliation (are there others?? ). I chose MaryCas to be unidentifiable and untraceable. I didn't want any identity theft or internet stalkers (paranoid you say?). I figured using a feminie name would really throw people off. I originally used the Mama Corleone avatar. In the beginning of my membership I made sure to make my response non-gender specific. It became a game to see if people responded to me as if I was a female. There were a few. plaw asked me out on a date and Geoff wanted to know my measurements (only kidding). Soon I realized that the board and the internet were "safe". Then I revealed my identity, changed my avatar (not a self portrait), and even posted some pictures. A long explanation, but MaryCas is my mother in law.

That makes two of us. :p

MaryCas, I thought you were a female forever.

No, only for the last 10 years or so...

Money is one of God's greatest gifts to us humans. We need it much more than love, our family, and our close friends. But money is something we always need. That's why we have to use different methods to obtain the green paper that breaks up relationships and makes us kill our sisters and children. We need to get money.....fast! or else we die. I wish there was a beautiful 28 year old woman made out of money. Sure she would have been in everyone's pockets at least once of twice, and had more coke poured on her than a plane flying from a coca field in Medellin. But no matter where she had been, I would still love her, because she is young, attractive, and loving in generosity.

And that's why I mob for money.

No, only for the last 10 years or so... [/b][/quote]

Same here...I didn't know how to refer to you...

As for mine, my name is Gina, I'm (1/2) Italian, and I'm a girl. I sort of wish I had just used "Gina," but it's alright.

Mine is this

Johnny -cause my name is john

and Stiltz cause I really am 7ft1 inches tall

so thats what i came up with

Well I came across this BB just after watching a documentary about Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski. And I figured that would be a cool(no pun intended )name.

Tony B. That's me. When I was a kid, my neighborhood friends would stand on the sidewalk and yell at the house, "Yo Tony...wanna come out and play?!" YoTonyB just became an easy screen name to remember and use.

tony b.

Marienjo
Marinus
Floors

My initials of my full name.

I named myself after David Hasselhof. And then I tattood his face over my chest.

Well that explains it all!

I chose mine because "Turnbull is a good man..."

I decided on AppleOnYa because of it's similarity to a prominent character in The Godfather .... Luca Brasi.

Apple

Fellini film that is one of the first movies I recall seeing on the big screen (at the drive in ) when I was very young.

Also, the day I registered on this site, I happened to be rummaging through my purse which was of the La Dolce Vita line and saw the brand tag inside.

Thought that summed up everything about my being - lucky and grateful for everything I have, everything I own, everything I am.

The Sweet Life.

he's one of Us, he's a GoodFella.

GoodFella

I chose my name because I am 75% Irish, I like the Mafia, and my lucky number is 28.

Well I liked the name of 'pop's capo' Tony Cipriani in GTA3 but changed the last name from the italian- Cipriani to the greek- Kyprianou. Because Greeks and Italians are very similar

Well, my family is from Sicily. The Babe part was a salute to the Yankees.

I just wanted to represent no other character on the board but myself. Just myself.
But putting in my real name was dangerous, all those Interpol agents spoil your nerves when you're being wanted for a couple of decades already... (currently I have an additional charge: illegal storage of arms on my avatar... )
So I ended up as Me. Just Me.
International girl of mystery.

When I originally started here on this board my member name was Patrick but I didn't my name being out there so I asked the Don if I could change it, he said yes but on the condition that 1 day he will call on me to do a service for him (although that day may never come) In anycase, I always sign up everywhere now as Irishman12. Irishman just because I'm about 80-85% Irish (or so I've been told, even though few on this board wonder how I come to that estimate). And the number 12 is a story in itself. I'm a HUGE Michael Jordan fan (if you ever saw my room in middle school you'd understand). Well I read that his brother's number (Larry) was 45 and Michael thought he was only half as good as he was so he took 23 (because in sports you can't have 22 1/2) so he just rounded to 23. I just thought about doing that with his number, and so I arrived at 12!

I think mine pretty much describes itself

I WANTED to put Don vincent but I put and e instead
of an I so stupid

So YOU'RE the Partagas from "When the women are away, the Men will play" :p

Straight from Ripley's (i.e., Believe It or Not), it's been my actual nickname for 20+ years. Explanation: Hanging out with various Hawg organizations and getting a large rattler tattooed on my right shoulder and arm! I'm just glad I didn't choose a Mickey Mouse tattoo (probably wouldn't have lived if I did ).

I always wondered where you got the name from!

I'm just going to pretend I didn't read that first sentence...

Isn't "Partagas" the same name that Bill Clinton used when he starred in the porno classic "Sometimes a Cigar Isn't a Cigar"?

Aw... I thought SC was explaining his screen name!

SC are my initials.

You are going too fast for me....I don't see the link here...can you explain it more clear for me?

I registered here not so long after seeing the trilogy, so I thought of Vito and just chose it..
And i really dont like it now..

You are going too fast for me....I don't see the link here...can you explain it more clear for me? [/b][/quote]Nah, we're talking Apples and oranges here. She was just being sarcastic: AppleOnYa = Apollonia

From the great Jack Woltz dialoge. except unlike Tom Hagen I am Italian, Irish not German Irish. So Jack Woltz woud call me his.

Daigo Mick friend

I used to have a different name.. I don't remember it though.. it was something unoriginal like Don Vito or something like that.. I didn't like it.. I didn't post much with it anyway and I stopped posting altogether for a while.. like, for a year I think.. then I came back.. but couldn't remember my old name or my password and I didn't have the same e-mail account to email me the password and stuff.. So I got a new one and picked Bogey.. because I'd just got done watching Casablanca for the 9238475th time that day.

I think people used to think I was a boy.

Don't worry, a friend of mine at school once joined the boards (attracted by the many online games, even back then), and mispelled "intelligence" as "intellegence." What a word to mispell.

Mine was coined at the spur of the moment, an appropriate name considering the board, though at the time (and even now) I have little knowledge of the Mafia and its shennanigans. I also love "Capo" as a title. I'd much rather be a Capo than a Don. Only "Consigliere" sounds anywhere near as elegant as (an admittedly cacophonous, if nothing but beautiful too) "Capo".

In essence, "Boss of the Mafia."

But who would want to be that?

End of ramble (if you're not asleep by now).

Mick

I'm guessing everyone assumes the answer to mine. Very easy...I am a Sly fan and I'm an Italian, so I simply feminized "The Italian Stallion." I also from time to time, shorten my last name to "Tambo" (as in Rambo)


TIS

I remember him well, and yeah, that was pretty funny in the beginning! He was actually a decent chap, though; and, I wonder what has become of him??

Ahh! My absolute FAVORITE of ALL misspelled words!!!! Misspelled! :p

That makes two of us. :p [/b][/quote]How's about for post number 2000, we shorten it to XDC?

Ask Don Cardi.

Mine is just my name (duh). "Lauren" was taken, so 8 is a random number.

Mine came from this thing my brother-in-law and I wrote in a class we had together which involved a cat who smoked. Her name (she was a girl cat) was Cancerkitty, and I thought it sounded kind of cool and it was unique so no one online had taken it yet, so I started to use it for various things including the BB.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Fancy misspelling misspell. How embarrassing.

"Intelligence" is doing fine.

Mick

I always loved that line by Woltz when he was yelling at Tom Hagen ("I don't care how many daigo guinea WOP greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork!")

Of all the derogatory names in that line, I figured "goombah" was the least offensive.

Hey...I never thought of that!!!
Scratch the 'Luca Brasi' link, this makes MUCH more sense!

Thanks, JGeoff



Apple

My is my last name my Grandfather came from Italy what i love about it is that no one has that last name. its one of a kind. even my friends call me Intenzo.

Isn't "Partagas" the same name that Bill Clinton used when he starred in the porno classic "Sometimes a Cigar Isn't a Cigar"? [/b][/quote]No, it was when Clinto sang on the classic song, "Devil with a Stained Dress On."

Mignon is my real name. I hate that name. I have no idea where my parents came up with it. At least I know I'm not the only one in the world with that name. :rolleyes: I like Mig alot better though.

Before I knew you were an adult I thought your name was from a game called twisted metal. The huge tank you had to beat at the end was named mignon

I don't think that makes you feel any better though

Mignon, your name is actually very beautiful and has a great meaning. I usually ask people what their name means and most of the time they don't know. I think it is great to have name with a great meaning if you know about it.

Your name is short form of mignonette or mignonnet and in French it means delicately beautiful or charming and pretty.

What a beautiful name!

DMC,
A tank huh? Me and my son use to play twisted metal but I don't remember the Mignon tank. Thanks you did make me feel better.

Af's,

Thanks that was so nice of you to say that. It was so hard to grow up with cuz it is so hard to pronounce. I do enjoy The steak though.

I just looked into it and the name was minion sorry

Hey you were close though. I like playing that game.

Mine's too difficult to explain.

Your name's not Beth? Ha! I always thought it was. (Or are you being sarcastic?)

I guess I picked Tom because it's The Godfather name nobody would want.

If you wanted the Godfather name that no one would else would want, then I think Fredo would have been a better choice.

If you wanted the Godfather name that no one would else would want, then I think Fredo would have been a better choice. [/b][/quote]lol Yea how about DonFredoCorleone

Ya never know, Fredo could have been the smart (smaht!) one. Rocco could have missed Fredo but was too afraid to tell Michael when Fredo swam away and off to shore. Fredo was probably sipping on a bannana dacari in the Bahamas while Michael was crying to Lamberto in Rome. Do I hear...The Godfather IV? Oh man, I crack myself up...

Freddie is my first name (although I'm evolving into a 'Fred'). The "C" is a play on names with Fredo Corleone. Hence, Freddie C.