Where does your screenname come from? - Page 3

Rogan Josh · April 26, 2002, 04:47

I am sure everyone (with taste) knows where my name comes from.

Tolls · April 26, 2002, 04:49

It's a shortening of my surname...proved very useful at Poly, where we needed something to delineate between the 8 different Daves in our socialising group...

"It's your round, Dave!"
"No it's not, I bought the last one, Dave..."
"Not you, Dave...Dave, Dave..."
repeat ad nauseam...

Guardian · April 26, 2002, 05:04

Actually, my screen name comes from my real name. My first name, that is. You know, most names do have a meaning, and so I've sort of just "translated" mine.

According to my name, I am the Eternal Guardian and / or the Defender of the Home.

So, I'm Guardian.

-And yes, I am rather proud of my name.

spartak · April 26, 2002, 05:13

Quote:

Originally posted by devilmunchkin
there is a person named g.m. at cg...that isn't you?
kh: huh?

I registered andye, Gasmaske & NotKeith at Counterglow to stop others using them. I predominately use Spartak everywhere now.

and KH - blow it out your arse.....

GeneralTacticus · April 26, 2002, 05:16

Character (sort of) from Terry Pratchet's (sp?) book 'Jingo'. First used when playing Starcraft on the net, and I've used it everywhere else as well.

Jethro83 · April 26, 2002, 05:17

Mine sounds like a derivative of "Azrael", the angel of death. But it just goes to show that whatever creativity I might possibly have, it doesn't lie in making up names for any fictional characters I make up.

Azreal is a great champion in a fantasy world I made up. He is also the incarnation of an archangel sworn to protect that world (but nothing like Azrael though).

Tingkai · April 26, 2002, 05:50

My screen name comes from Cai Tingkai, a Chinese general from the 1930s.

Cai achieved brief fame when the Japanese decided to occupy a chunk of Shanghai on Jan. 28, 1932. The Japanese order Cai to withdraw the 19th Route Army, but he refused so the Japanese attacked. The 19th and the 5th Route Army held off the Japanese for about a month, despite the fact they received virtually no supplies from Chiang Kai-shek's Nanking government. Cai was forced to pull out his troops when the Japanese sent in 55,000 reinforcements and made an enveloping attack behind the Chinese frontlines.

While the battle ended in defeat (largely because of the lack of support from Chiang), it was a tremendous moral victory. The Chinese troops proved that they were a match for the Japanese, even though the Japanese had artillery and air support.

Cai and the 19th Route Army would later take part in the 1933-34 Fujian Revolt, partially because Chiang cut off funds to pay the troops, but also because Cai wanted to fight against the Japanese (something that Chiang refused to do). The revolt failed and Cai, IIRC, went over to the Communist side.

-=Vagrant=- · April 26, 2002, 05:55

As a huge fan of Vagrant Story on PSX I once registered into a forum and Vagrant was the first thign to pop into my mind.
Currently I'm ranting/discussing/trolling and posting on JREF (www.randi.org),PELIT,Apolyton,True Christians(yes!),Paranormal forums, The Force,Infidels dicussion forum and several game forums.

-=Vagrant=- aka Vagrant aka Vagrant4ever aka Advocatus Diaboli

The Viceroy · April 26, 2002, 05:59

There are a few reasons for my screen name ..

Viceroy was the hardest level you could play on Colonization, one of my favourite Civ style games (or was back in the Amiga days) ..

but mostly, because I love India, im married to an Indian girl from Bombay, and whenever im there, im often the only Brit about, so I get called the Viceroy .. and treated like one also

I also have a strong love of British history in India, and have on several occations gone searching for remnants of the Raj .. found some amazing things .. in the middle of a forest in Materan (outside of Bombay) while I was exploring, I came across a stone post, all overgrown .. I brushed the vines etc away to see the words" Woodside cottage" .. next to it was another stone post with "Mr H. Smith" .. suddenly I noticed a house up the hill that was overgrown .. a little bit of history, left untouched for 50 years .. it was quite a find.

So .. thats why im the Viceroy .. a brit, who loves India ..

Buck Birdseed · April 26, 2002, 06:08

It's from Pratchett. And I'm growing very bored of it.

When I get a chance to change it'll be to "Birdseed", which is what Jehova's Witnesses call everyone outside their group (relating to the prophecy that on judgement day unbeleivers will have their bones picked clean by crows).

spartak · April 26, 2002, 06:15

Change back to Hugo Rune if you like

Harovan · April 26, 2002, 06:18

Ralph is my second name, anglophones would it call middlename. I used it as handle in several role play games, namely Ultima series. The Sir is added to make it unique, and because these games have usually a knightly-medieval background.

DeeEllway · April 26, 2002, 06:47

My real name is Dave Ellway, but I´ve been called Dee since 3rd grade. And I´m NOT related to John Elway

(I get that a lot...besides he spells Elway with one L)

Provost Harrison · April 26, 2002, 07:19

Amazingly close to DL

Well Provost from Provost Zakharov of SMAC fame. I am a bit of a man of science, the University was my favourite faction, and it just fitted for owo.

And Harrison, duh, my surname.

So Provost Harrison

On AIM/MSN I use Riiiiiich. Rich was taken so I just added a random number of i's in the middle (6 total in fact) and hence that name (Rich is my name, by the way)

I also dabbled with AI for a couple of months, but I decided it was total and utter shite and abandoned it.

problem_child · April 26, 2002, 07:28

My name comes from one of the Iain M Banks novels Excession, its the name of a space-craft (back in the days when space-crafts still had captains, mainly to be leaders of the crew- not the ship)

Problem Child was the first ship to encounter the Excession (the "Cultures" name for excessively powerful phenomenon usually of technological/super technological origins of a sublimed or transendent alien species, eg: the big black oblongs in Arthur C Clarkes 2000/2001)

I had considered calling myself Zakalwe or Cheradenine from Use of Weapons but PC had a certain charm I think. Actually I was a very good little kid when I was a.... little kid.

Rand Al'Tor · April 26, 2002, 07:35

Wheel of Time. This is the first time I used this name, and I've used it with the error (should be Rand Al'Thor, I mixed up Dutch and English spelling) in almost all other forums since. (except Newsmax where I'm Perin Aybara from Wheel of Time, wich SHOULD be Perrin Aybara, but was misspelled because I mixed up English an Dutch spelling.)

Dry · April 26, 2002, 07:37

My real initials are YRD.

Dr. Stiby · April 26, 2002, 07:44

Stiby is a nickname my sister once gave me, sort of like a childish way to say my real name (Stefan).
And Dr. is just to get used to my future title, soon to be a psychologist.

Richelieu · April 26, 2002, 07:57

Why? I needed a name and couldn't come up with anything.
Who's the guy ? It's all here. http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=0665A000#5
It also explains the avatar...

boann · April 26, 2002, 07:57

Quote:

Originally posted by ravagon

Who looks suspiciously like a character out of the Dragonlance saga?

The ravagons were the elite hunters despatched to Core Earth to hunt down the Storm Knights.

yeah , she does doesn't she

all the paintings of boann i found were just not how i see her..
i rather like this spirit........
warrior but very female...

thats me.
just have a war with me in civ ....then you will see

OneFootInTheGrave · April 26, 2002, 08:08

I now wish not to have searched
"felch slang" on google...

Anyway, mine is a song from Beck... that is the inspiration, but there was a series on britsh TV with the same name as well...

Skanky Burns · April 26, 2002, 08:10

Well, in highschool I got the nickname Burns... no comment on why

When I signed up for 'poly the name Burns was already taken, so I decided to add something to the beginning of it. My g/f was calling me a skanky wench at the time, and the rest is history

Sava · April 26, 2002, 08:13

I got tired of screen names, so I just picked my name. Sava is my name. I don't feel the need to hide behind a name. And if I want a nick name I'll use "Sava the Assassin", or "Sava the insane liberal".

MrWhereItsAt · April 26, 2002, 08:15

Quote:

Originally posted by korn469
i'll let you figure out the 469 part lol

69 - four times?

Mine is my wrestling Playstation game name. It comes from this thing I had for a girl called Beck once - Where It's At is that song by the band Beck - and hey presto - tenuous connections rule!

Kassiopeia · April 26, 2002, 08:30

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I now wish not to have searched
"felch slang" on google...

Join the club!

Kassiopeia, now, that's a constellation. Cassiopeia for Anglos, Kassiopeia for the rest. Why kassiopeia? First off, the first letter is not capitalized because I forgot to do it. And never bothered to replace it. Secondly, I shuffled through an encyclopaedia - the rest is history.
It does possess meager humouristical value, serves as a Finnish inside joke (closely related to my avatar).

Ecthy · April 26, 2002, 08:44

In fact Eli registered as Builder, so he can't say he registered under his first name out of being unimaginative

I used to be Andz83 - that is 'Andy' (short form of my first name Andreas) typed on a German keyboard with American setting on, turning the Y into a Z. '83 is the year of my birth.

Then Chaos Warrior - it's the title of a hero from Master of Magic, whose name is Warrax. Therefore my AIM name WaraxCW - it's basically Warrax the Chaos Warrior

Ecthelion - elve from Gondolin, gatekeeper and slayer of gothmog the balrog king, first age of middle-earth history. Later on, 2 stewards of Gondor (17th and 25th since the last king), who are Ecthelion I and Ecthelion II of Gondor. hence, ICQ name is nowadays Ecthelion III, so I'll be the first steward Ecthelion of Gondor once the new king line vanished. (this is all related to Tolkien literature, basically related to Lord of the Rings)

other boards:

Ilúvatar - sort of the one godhood in middle-earth thinking, he's Allah for humans, elves, even for the bad ones, but their bosses don't like him anymore so they don't quite pray or anything...

Woyzeck - after a German novel from the 1830s, only used this for a bout a week at CG though

ProvostA - as in Provost Andy, so it was related to ProvostD. I chose this to piss of PH at the early CGN

AndyCandy - my name later at CGN, it's what my grandma (father's side) called me when I was very young

or would that be my mother?

did I forget any?

Rogan Josh · April 26, 2002, 09:00

Quote:

Originally posted by problem_child
My name comes from one of the Iain M Banks novels Excession, its the name of a space-craft (back in the days when space-crafts still had captains, mainly to be leaders of the crew- not the ship)

I like to choose names from this site sometimes:

http://www.znark.com/books/culture/shipnames.html

MrBaggins · April 26, 2002, 09:10

Quote:

Originally posted by Rogan Josh
I am sure everyone (with taste) knows where my name comes from.

do you come from the UK?

Rogan Josh · April 26, 2002, 09:49

Quote:

Originally posted by MrBaggins
do you come from the UK?

Yes, but I live in France and it seems like years since I had a decent curry.

MrBaggins · April 26, 2002, 10:08

I know the feeling. I long for a good Balti. There are some half-decent Curry Houses around NY, but there always seems to be something missing.

Ultimately, I've just got good at making my own, although curry base takes an entire day just to make a batch large enough to make it worth my while, and Naan are a pain in the ass to do. The temperatures involved in preparing are tough to get...