The Life Of A LittlBUGer

Why the alias ‘LittlBUGer’ you might ask?  Well, it’s quite simple really.  Way back when, you know, 1995-ish or maybe a bit earlier, when I first started to really get into in the gaming and online and just the general PC scene, I know I needed an alias as all do.  At that time, it was ‘Redeye’.  Why that, I can’t remember for the life of me, but it was short lived.  Soon came the day where my friend had internet access through AOL (yes AOL, it was like version 2.0 and it was all we had damit) and they were going to put me on their account with my own screen name and everything.  So, I had to think up something, something that would be unique, bold, be semi-comical and yet describe me as a person in the online world, of course as well as being within the AOL 10 character limit, naturally.  And thus, I remember playing good ol Doom back in those days, kicking other people’s asses, and I remember very specifically one quote from someone a moment after I killed them during a multiplayer match for like the 10th time in a row.  He said “Damn you little bugger!” and that just stuck.  I had to shorten it of course and for fun, I decided to capitalize the ‘BUG’ part, but essentially that was it.  It was only later that I found out a ‘little bugger’ in some extreme slang form in England or some other country actually meant ‘gay or homosexual’ or something of the not-so-good sort, but that was no-nevermind so I put it behind me (no pun intended) and just corrected anybody if they said anything (which was once or twice in my life).  Then again, most of the mistakes in my alias come from people not being able to read and stating it as ‘LittleBurger’…. Grrrr that gets on my nerves.  Anyway…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like, to write some sort of diary online, maybe about yourself, and then to have anyone in the world be able to read the same thing as you sit there, reading everything about yourself that you just got done writing, and then wondering “What the BUG?  Why did I write that?  I don’t even know what that means?!”?  Yea, me neither.