Just Wondering....

[capnq]

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"

[DirectorTsaarx]

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..."

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...

[LazarusLong42]

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

[CheshireKatt]

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

[Resident Alien]

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.

[Oggy ben Doggy]

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

[Taqwus]

*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