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uNbRokeN
Profile Joined May 2004
105 Posts
July 14 2004 20:35 GMT
#61
elky was elkyaj, or elkyahj or elkyajh. dont remember which.

and i think fish eye could be something related to a fish eye lense used with video camera's. they sort of see everything, could be that he is expressing how observent of a person he is :\

i got a couple

why reach? such a weird verb to have ur name as.

why blackman? got a thing for african people?

what the hell is arang? it sure does sound nifty.

suker ( maybe he likes to suck the cack? ), smurf?

i've also wondered what NTT stood for, and what happened to that biatch.

as for those of you that see boobs when looking at oov, yall watch far too much porn and or need to get laid.
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vGl-CoW
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Belgium8305 Posts
July 14 2004 20:49 GMT
#62
I think 'giving someone a fisheye' is some kind of shady sexual move which I won't explain here. :D

And learn some French, "jetaimemina" means "I love you, Mina". :D

And to the guy above me, 'NTT' sounds like 'entity' when you say it out loud, it's that simple. :O
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uNbRokeN
Profile Joined May 2004
105 Posts
July 14 2004 20:54 GMT
#63
gay
nipples
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
July 14 2004 21:23 GMT
#64
arang is love
i thought elky came from alcohol
NTT is entity

as for smuft: http://www.teamareola.com/interviews/smuftInterview.php
"teamareola.com: Where does "Smuft" come from?

Smuft: When Slayer, Sven, NTT, myself and a few others joined [iDEF], my ID was [iDEF]Smurf. Some of the koreans I was playing with at the time called me 'smuft' because they could not find 'r' on their keyboard. So I made it easier for them and changed. I also discovered..."
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Abang_Zealot
Profile Joined June 2003
Indonesia866 Posts
July 14 2004 21:25 GMT
#65
They can't find 'r' on their keyboard???? What??? 1 finger typing gogo?
uNbRokeN
Profile Joined May 2004
105 Posts
July 14 2004 21:46 GMT
#66
i never seen a korean keyboard and i doubt u have too so u really shouldnt assume at how hard it is to find the r key on a korean keyboard.

as for smuft, i had read his nick in my mind as smurft up until this point.

wow.
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DoubleStormIII
Profile Joined January 2004
Korea (South)2610 Posts
July 14 2004 21:57 GMT
#67
Well, it should be that those Koreans didn't know how to spell 'Smurf'. Guess that's all. Smurf and Smuft looks similar.

Btw, Sarang is love. Arang is a character who comes out in Korean legend thingy.
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Breeze
Profile Joined October 2002
Bulgaria989 Posts
July 14 2004 21:57 GMT
#68
Isn't Elky short for Elkantar, I think he was even mentioned in some report by Grrrr... many years ago when Grrrr... visited France for some tourney. I think it was mentioned that Grrrr went into Elky's base with a few unsieged tanks and killed him or something like that

And Smuft was LustedSmurf before or am I wrong?

And I REALLY don't think that progamers get their names in a different way than any other player
micro soft, macro hard
hasuwar
Profile Joined April 2003
7365 Posts
July 14 2004 22:09 GMT
#69
Slayers Boxer means First Contender if no one said it already(not reading these)
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Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
July 14 2004 22:09 GMT
#70
On July 14 2004 21:43 l2obot wrote:
It's time to explain to the noobz how Boxer got his name.

We all know that Slayer was a great player back in the day.

Boxer's old name was gonia.

One day, gonia fought "Slayer" in a boxing match.

CONCLUSION: gonia changes name to Boxer.

kthx


Wrong, I will give you the definition that Lim yo hwan gave himself on the Dvd he released, I'm saying this from memory, but I saw it only 2 days ago.

At first Lim Yo Hwan was part of large clan, it started with a 'P', something like POS, and they had a sub-section of the clan that was _Boxer. When he started to become and good player he decided that he needed a fierce name, and he looked for a bunch of fierce english words and came upon the word Slayers, then he talks about what it means translated into Korean and he liked it so therefore he is Slayers_`Boxer` not because he defeated the pro named slayers - _-;; wtf you people getting your information from.
Inspire
Profile Joined March 2003
132 Posts
July 14 2004 22:10 GMT
#71
BlackMan is simple he was wearing always black clothes but i don;t know if he does it till yet, but it is an exclamation.
distant_voice
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Germany2521 Posts
July 14 2004 22:12 GMT
#72
On July 15 2004 06:46 uNbRokeN wrote:
i never seen a korean keyboard and i doubt u have too so u really shouldnt assume at how hard it is to find the r key on a korean keyboard.


afaik there's no such thing as a korean keyboard, they use exactly the same ones as foreigners do.
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uNbRokeN
Profile Joined May 2004
105 Posts
July 14 2004 22:14 GMT
#73
its not interesting because they get it any differently, its interesting because they are sick at bw, and now that they've become something what their name stands for means more to others than it did before. oh hell no u cant hold me back no more, its time to bust out with the abstract metaphor, what was i waiting for? all i needed was the feel but for real what the hell am i talking about?

twas a poet and i didnt even know of it!

excuse me, xellos and julyzerg are good examples that a gamers name dont mean jack, and there is no real value given to it besides the value needed to use it for proper identification.
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uNbRokeN
Profile Joined May 2004
105 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-07-14 22:19:52
July 14 2004 22:19 GMT
#74
On July 15 2004 07:12 distant_voice wrote:
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On July 15 2004 06:46 uNbRokeN wrote:
i never seen a korean keyboard and i doubt u have too so u really shouldnt assume at how hard it is to find the r key on a korean keyboard.


afaik there's no such thing as a korean keyboard, they use exactly the same ones as foreigners do.


well, i lived in turkey for 4 years and they use the roman alphabet for literature, and in turkey they do not have the same keyboards as they do here. (edit, i live in the US)

there are extra letters in the alphabet, and the same applies to korean, they may not have r in the roman writing style of their language. this should be taken as an example, not an assumption please.
nipples
exalted
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States3612 Posts
July 14 2004 22:52 GMT
#75
I READ 3 KINGDOMS BEFORE, IT"S THE COOLEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!



I read it too long ago, I definitely need to read it again, I was so pissed when they started dying, gah..
too easy
z7-TranCe
Profile Joined November 2002
Canada3158 Posts
July 14 2004 22:55 GMT
#76
large room,many typewriters,many monkeys

i don't know.
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Chris307
Profile Joined June 2004
3095 Posts
July 14 2004 23:11 GMT
#77
SLayerS_ was a clan tag.

In China, late 1800s early 1900s, there was a group of people called The Fists of Righteous Harmony, that were known to foreigners as "Boxers" because they practiced martial arts.
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Chris307
Profile Joined June 2004
3095 Posts
July 14 2004 23:14 GMT
#78
Elkantar shortened his name to Elky.

Rekrul once went by the ID "][_urker" then hit puberty and decided that was retarded, so he spelt lurker backwards.

Grrr.... chose his name because that's how he felt whenever he lost a game. Oddly enough, it's pronounced differently all over the world, and in Korea it sounds less like an angry animal and more like the Xena warcry.
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
July 14 2004 23:15 GMT
#79
On July 15 2004 02:25 DoubleStormIII wrote:
Jju, I don't know. There is no Korean word matching this, unless it is related to some sound or something.


In Japanese it means steal, is this possible?


I don't know abot Terato though.


Terrato was a Titan (Earth elemental) in Final Fantasy VI, although according to Google there is also a Terrato in Pokemon.


Eji..I think it's a Japanese word.


I couldn't find anything on it.
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gravity
Profile Joined March 2004
Australia1988 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-07-14 23:18:26
July 14 2004 23:18 GMT
#80
On July 15 2004 05:35 uNbRokeN wrote:
why blackman? got a thing for african people?

I think he like(s/d) to think of himself as "dark" or whatever.
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