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Topic: Where'd your name come from? (Read 9234 times)
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Astorax
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Was watching an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series /derail Is that coming out on DVD? I remember really liking it, but I fear that might just be some distorter nostalgia. Who was the red-headed actress? She always struck me as an ex-porn star possibly. I have no idea why. /derail off Louise Robey is the actress you're looking for I believe. And no, I haven't ever seen any signs of DVD sales for this one. I wish they did though, I loved this show. |
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Murgos
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It's not from David Eddings. It's actually a variation on Murgen (which I had in UO) because I couldn't get that on my EQ server for my warrior.
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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WayAbvPar
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Anyone who has ever seen me on a golf course could pinpoint the origin of my name. I chose it originally as a chat handle in AOL for the duality of my shittiness at golf and being better (as a useful member of society) than 99% of the mouthbreathers iin AOL chat rooms.
Used to use poolsharke (I think that was my SWG beta name) when I played a lot of billiards.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Megrim
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Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.
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Megrim, because i tend to give people dealing with me migrains. Also influenced by the M:tG card of the same name (i liked playing black).
However, quite often my nicks change as is appropriate to the game.
- meg
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One must bow to offer aid to a fallen man - The Tao of Shinsei.
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Abagadro
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Possibly the only user with more posts in the Den than PC/Console Gaming.
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Started playing D&D around the same time as sophmore chemistry so bastardized Avogadro (as in the number) as my mage character and have stuck with it since. It is also coincidentally close to Spanish for "Lawyer" as well, which is abogado.
Also go by Alehonderonus in some circumstances which was the first name of my Scottish Pict Bezerker character (Alehonderonus Gimlet) I created in college while very high.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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Raging Turtle
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Exact same as my MTGO online name - a combination of the cards Raging Goblin and Horned Turtle. It amused me when I made it, but now it seems kinda stupid and I wish I had gone with something else.
Usual online nick is Pyrite, which is another name for Iron Sulfide, more commonly known as 'Fool's Gold'.
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Jayce
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Diluted Fool
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Anyone who has ever seen me on a golf course could pinpoint the origin of my name. I chose it originally as a chat handle in AOL for the duality of my shittiness at golf and being better (as a useful member of society) than 99% of the mouthbreathers iin AOL chat rooms.
Used to use poolsharke (I think that was my SWG beta name) when I played a lot of billiards.
I have often wondered whether you were trying to say you were better than the rest of us, or worse. It's both! |
Witty banter not included.
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El Gallo
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El Gallo is the main character in my favorite muisical, The Fantasticks (originally played by everyone's favorite salty New York cop, Jerry Orbach). The mystical Spanish bandito seemed like a good model for my AC character (a Gharu warrior), which is the game I was playing when I first stumbled onto LtM.
It means "the rooster."
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« Last Edit: April 26, 2005, 07:17:58 PM by El Gallo »
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This post makes me want to squeeze into my badass red jeans.
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Krakrok
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Krakrok is an inside joke and a subtle name grief at the same time. I refer to using the internet, wasting time, playing video games, etc. as "smoking crack". Krakrok actually came about as a dwarf assassin character on Rallos Zek and I've used it off and on in various games since. I have a different handle which I originally used on BBSs that I use for non-video game stuff.
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Fabricated
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~Living the Dream~
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A randomly picked word that sounded good enough for a forum/email/game alias.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Tebonas
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Its my preferred name for my more "down and dirty" characters in roleplaying games. The first incarnation was Tebonas the Kender in a Dragonlance campaign. So when its warriors, rangers, thieves and the likes its Tebonas. The name is the illegitimate child of Tasslehoff (Dragonlance) and Legolas. Yes I was that lazy.
I thought down and dirty fit after reading the LtM boards for a while, and then stuck to that name on related boards.
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schild
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The name is the illegitimate child of Tasslehoff (Dragonlance) and Legolas. Yes I was that lazy. So, who played the pitcher? |
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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The name is the illegitimate child of Tasslehoff (Dragonlance) and Legolas. Yes I was that lazy. So, who played the pitcher?  Hasselhoff? MrHat I used way back when for an AIM handle. Kinda stuck. No matter how I many name changes I tried, always came back to this one. |
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Samprimary
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I used to use a name that I picked out of a Russian clan surname listing, because it sounded unique and original and couldn't be compressed into a nick. Then later on I found out that it was a major Inner Sphere house in something new to me: Battletech. Then only recently it became known most widely as an english translation of a name of a major character in that goddamned cartoon/game Yu-Gi-Oh. Receiving scads of messages from people I didn't know about a series that I widely considered to be among the most brain-dead tripe humanity has ever created was too much. I retired the name and now use Samprimary.
Because my name's Sam, and the name is always registered and/or taken and somewhat generic. So I title myself Sam¹ or Samprimary.
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Ironwood
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I have no idea, to be honest. The name has been with me as long as I've been playing games - right back on the Amstrad and Atari ST. One thing that bothered me was the first time logging in to UO and appearing at the Ironwood Inn. I thought - great, now I just look fucking lazy.  |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Mortriden
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My name comes from some mythical God or Goddess. A horse or half-horse. I don't remember now. I usually use Valhalla when I play any sort of FPS though, occasionally misspelling it because I suck.
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It's like calling shenanigans. But you say "jihad" instead. - Llava
They are out there, but they are bi-products of funny families. If you know funny old people, see if they have daughters. -Paelos
Yes my seed is that strong. I literally clap my hands and women are with child. -Paelos
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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 Voodoolily ( Sauromatum guttatum) is one of my favorite plants. It's really creepy-looking and emits an odor akin to rotting flesh (to attract carrion flies, the primary pollenator). I also used the feminized version of the Latin name, Sauromata, in EQ2, wherein I was Tauren shamaness. Another plant that is sometimes called voodoo lily is actually a different genus, and is also called dragon arum ( Dracunculus vulgaris):  I grow this one in my garden. The inflorescence is 24-36" long, not counting the 2' pedicel it sits on. Smells like death! |
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Murgos
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Who wants stinky masculine looking plants when you can have:  |
"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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Hanzii
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When I started writing for an audience bigger than one, there was a television show with a picked upon character called Hanzii. My real name being Hans, somebody at university started calling me Hanzii. It didn't stick as a nickname but became my pseudonym for my reviews/columns in the university newspaper (and is on 'the books' so no other writer in this country is allowed to use it, which I find pretty cool...)
Now, I do most of my professional writing under my real name, so Hanzii is my online pseudonym
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Ookii
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is actually Trippy
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I started taking Japanese back in High School with a couple friends, at the time we were vicious irc porn-mongers, I happened to run an Fserve. Since I would accumulate much more porn than my friends, they would call me Ookii Hentai, meaning "big pervert", in Japanese of course. I ran with Ookii Hentai for awhile, but stupid kids on Subspace kept trying to strike up conversations about hentai with me, so I just shortened it to Ookii.
It's the only named I've ever used.
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