Just Wondering.... - Page 2

Taqwus · #11 June 6th, 2001, 11:50 PM

*shrug*

My nick on this board comes from American Indian mythology -- chosen from Online mythological references after some amount of searching. Might have chosen Tlaloc instead, but I decided to opt for something more obscure...

Most of the nicks I use (one board, one nick) come from either mythology or literature, usually with connotations of mischief, deceit, or sometimes outright evil.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

Noble713 · #12 June 7th, 2001, 12:20 AM

My name, and I like the number 713.

Droplede · #13 June 7th, 2001, 12:59 AM

Mine's a newspaper editing catchphrase for when the "lead" of a story (the key summary paragraph, usually right at the top, spelled all funny in newspaper fashion) is dropped down farther into the story than usual, like past the fifth paragraph. A droplede can be a feature (a surprise for the reader) or a bug (when the writing sucks and takes forever to get to the point). Guess which is more common.

Dracus · #14 June 7th, 2001, 01:15 AM

Dracus is the leader of the Dragons (Which also is the same a Draco or dracul and can also be a derive from dracula). I have used this name for 9 years now. As for SEIV, it fits for the leader of the Draconian Empire from the constallation Draco.

[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 07 June 2001).]

Crazy_Dog · #15 June 7th, 2001, 01:25 AM

Mine is my nick 10 years ago playing mpbt in the genie network

Jubala · #16 June 7th, 2001, 01:37 AM

Mine is from the days I played The One Ring RPG. It was the name of a particularly nasty NPC Gladiator...

Spoo · #17 June 7th, 2001, 02:32 AM

Mine's just "oops" backwards.

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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.

Phoenix-D · #18 June 7th, 2001, 03:23 AM

I came up with it and it stuck

Especially when I started pulling name-appropriate stunts in games. One SE3 (hotseat) game I came from behind and won in 5 turns by blowing up all the other player's stars.. at the same time. One turn he's kicking my ***, the next he's down to his war fleet only with all his planets in cinders. Cloacking is good.

The other nick I use is Stalker-D (see a pattern yet? :P) but I only use it in games where I feel like playing with people's heads (CounterStrike, newbies with AWPs on the other team. Me with a knife, FF on. muwaahaa..) since people make lame jokes out of it too often.

Phoenix-D

CaptSpoogy · #19 June 7th, 2001, 05:06 AM

My name comes from my cat, Spoogy. It just happens that he commands a powerful intergalatic starship, so that's where the captain comes in.

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Visit the Spoogy Federation at:
http://spoogyfederation.tripod.com

Dr Strangelove · #20 June 7th, 2001, 05:30 AM

Mine's easy, it's the name of one of my favorite movies. I used to use a variation on my name, but back in the era when message Boards were more open, no registering or having passwords, the atmosphere on some of the message Boards I frequented would often get nasty. I didn't want to have a username to closely related to my real name. It just happened that TNT was having a Peter Sellers festival that weekend, so I chose this one. I could have chosen "Chancey" or "Inspector Cluesceau". The amazing thing is that as I wander around the web and glom onto new Boards I can usually use this username. I guess people forget about the old classics.