Just Wondering....
 

Just sitting here while a turn processes on my 133pentium (slow http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif) and reading the Boards on my flakey computer and wondering. Where do people come up with their Online names??? A few are obvious, ie, their real name, a few are even more arcane, ie Marty Ward and Nitram Draw are the same (backwards names), but Suicide_Junkie???(is this how you play??Damn the odds and full speed ahead??), God Emperor???(a Dune refrence??), just curious. Mine is from the Deathstalker novels by Simon R. Green.

Anyone else??

(this all started with my fiance:
'What you doing??'
'Just reading the Boards hon...'
'Suicide_Junkie....I hope that isn't you... http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif'
'Nope, I'm Deathstalker!'
'WHAT!'
'Um hon, whats the matter???'
'NOTHING, I'm going to watch t.v., its less violent.....'<leaves room>.
'hmmm.....why do partners never understand lifes little addictions???? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif.)

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"The Empress took your name away," said Chance.
Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

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I have two name cause I'm so computer stupid I didn't realize I could use the same name on my home and work computer. Heck it took me 1/2 a day to register for this board....oh well

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... i.e. the only way i ever win a game!

edit = typos!!

[This message has been edited by dumbluck (edited 06 June 2001).]

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My names George. It's a play on Joe Shmoe. Just an average guy.

Took me a while to come up with a variant of George that wasn't taken in all the internet Boards. For some reason there seem to be an inordinate number of George's Online. I wonder why that is...

Geo

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A friend gave me the nickname "Q", from a common mispronunciation of the first syllable of my Last name. I added the "Cap'n" myself, because at the time I was commanding a starship in a play-by-(snail-)mail space exploration game.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

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Well, back when I used to play D&D (15 years ago), I played a character named Tsaarx. And Director comes from my favorite SE4 title. I like the idea of being "Director" of a "Consortium":

"Good morning, I represent a consortium of small businessmen and I would like to offer you the chance to join our little "protection" league. You pay us money, and we don't hurt you..." http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

BTW - I also refer to my SE4 "empire" as the Moebius Consortium, partly as reference to strange mathematics (Mobius strips, etc.) and partly as reference to the comic strip "Moebius". In SE3, I used "Moebius Concordium"; Concordium came from the Interstellar Concordium (ISC) in Star Fleet Battles...

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Lazarus Long is a character from Robert Heinlein's Future History series of novels, which you should all read; the 42 is a reference, of course, to The Answer. (RIP, Douglas Adams)

LL42

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Mine's a slight permutation on the spelling of the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass. I initially started using this in the BBS days, and so snazzied it up a bit.

I always liked the Cat's rather insane ramblings -- Carroll is a good read, even if he was high on opium when he was writing. <GRIN>

--Chesh

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That's how the INS in the USA labels entities from other lands who are working in the States on various work visas. I could have moved to Philadelphia from Alpha Centauri, or from England........and I would be a Resident Alien in either case.

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Mine's a nickname from college. It was that, or Oggy Ogbourn