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[Kagus]

There's a Norwegian weirdo by the name of Lasse.  He did some exceptionally popular editing work a while back, including one video on YouTube which now has more views than the population of Norway.

[LASD]

There's a Norwegian weirdo by the name of Lasse.  He did some exceptionally popular editing work a while back, including one video on YouTube which now has more views than the population of Norway.

Yes, I think he is Lasse Gjertsen. The videos are hilarious. The one where he compares Scandinavian swearwords got me laughing, especially because of the way he said the Finnish word "Perkele". Normally it's like the manliest word in the Finnish language, but he made it sound all flowery and girlish. 

Lasse is more the swedish/norwegian name (but used in Finland as well), but because Lassi is a bit more rare, I get very often mistaken as Lasse and I have to pronounce very clearly "LassI" again and again. I think it also has something to do with the weird Finnish language and lazy pronounciation.

In other news, I've heard that the Norwegians tell same kind of dumb jokes about the Finns that the Finns tell about the Swedish. I assume you, Kagus, are Norwegian, so is this true?

Few examples: (apologies to all Swedes. They really aren't this stupid.)

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How do you sink a Swedish submarine?
  -Dive and knock on the hatch, someone will definitely open.

What does Sweden have that Finland doesn't?
  -Neighbouring country with intelligent beings.

Have you heard about the Swede whose library burnt down? His both books were destroyed and the other one wasn't even colored yet.

[Ixoran]

Mine comes from the days of playing phantasy star online for the DC.
I was making a force, and I wanted to get a pinkall section ID (they tend to get better force related drops) and I knew I wanted an X in it, and thus Ixoran was born.
Yet sometimes, this completely made up name is taken, and I use Ixoran X, or Ixoran.X or IxoranX.
I find it far superior to the genki_monkey I created in my early teens...
I use it for pretty much every account I have now, though, for characters, I always have to save it for the mage types.

DUKE 2.0

You name isn't Spot is it? XD
is it:
duke
mike
buck
Fred
Finn?

I work with dogs, so i've seen some weird names like buttmonkey, or fucker, or captain wiggles.

[Dae]

Either way, Faces of Mu is an awesome name.

Way better than "Feces of Mu" for instance. Indeed, you chose wisely.

[A_Fey_Dwarf]

My initials are in both my first name and my last name, Beat that...

T   M  S                  SM T
ThoMaS Montgomery SMiTh

They are in order for my first name and in reverse order for my last name.

My account name on the other hand is not as exciting, just a DF reference that fits my personality.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

My name comes from my old WoW account, where I played a dwarf warrior.
Magnus was taken, so I made up a sufficiently dwarfy name up.
The Eater of Chickens bit is because I like eating chicken.

[Kagus]

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Yes, I'm Norwegian.  Well, somewhat.  I was born in Norway to a Norwegian father and an American mother with Norwegian ancestry, and I was raised in the states.  Because of this interesting background, I get to have dual citizenry, which allows me to go to lovely places like Cuba (American passport?  Hell no.  Norwegian passport?  Yeah, okay, whatever).

As for joking, the Norwegians prefer making fun of the Swedes.  The Swedes spend some time switching the jokes around to have "Norwegian" instead of "Swede", but most of the time they're busy making fun of the Danes. 

[Will]

My name is Will, but take my word for it I'm pretty creative... just not with names....

And that's my story, not quite as inspired as the rest of yours.

[sir diesalot]

I got my name from playing Dark Messiah Multi player, strange thing is that after i changed my name to this i got a hell of a lot better. The name has now stuck through everything i play except my pre-dark messiah games where i am called Scintoth (you can spell my name from some of the letters) or ninpirate (my friend wanted a runescape buddy so i made up a random name, this being a cross between a ninja and a pirate).

[McDoomhammer]

Should we call you Scott?  Shot in the dark.

Maybe the improvement was unintentional propaganda working for you... people saw the name and discounted you as a threat because of it?

[Qmarx]

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[Ghost of a Flea]

I stole the name of an airship from Philip Reeve's Hungry Cities Chronicles. I think it's mentioned once in the entirety of all four books.

Wait, it might have been a limpet. I'll check.

[Eater of Vermin]

Dunno.  [Shrug]


(BTW, have you finished with that rat?)