Just Wondering....

[Dr Strangelove]

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.

[Isbla]

My name is the name I use when I play aok Online. Though, it is TOnto_Isbla on there, since I am in a clan.

[Admiral]

It's a nickname I picked up over a decade ago. In fact, the first use of it Online as a handle was in... 1983 or so.

I used to be a very large Star Trek fan (in the 80s)... In the best voice of Ricardo Montalban: "Admiral?"

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Space Empires IV Play by Web

[ZeroAdunn]

You guys who mentioned nicknames, lucky you, I have had the luck of getting stuck with crappy nicknames, Gryo, Jizmo, Gilligan, dipstick etc..

My nick comes from writing. I have a tendancy to write stories, in one Zero Adunn is young warrior who must do battle with a powerfull avatar who has come to destroy the universe.

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Captain, I found your pants.

[Lemmy]

mine is from a RPG called fallout 1, a friend of mine thought i looked like Lemmy, a character from the game, it kinda stuck with me when i started plaiyng multiplayer games, and the M is just the first character of my real name, since lemmy is not an unusual name on the internet

[dogscoff]

I never have more than one handle at a time.

For many years I was The Lobster, because I thought no-one else would ever come up with that name. It came from me mis-hearing a friend saying "carpet- lobbers" as "Corporate Lobsters". (Before you ask, I have no idea why he was talking about carpet lobbers.)

Then one day I met two or three other Lobsters chatting on IRC. I want my handle to be unique so I changed it. I went through loads of names before coming up with Dogscoff, which I use on dozens of Boards / services / communities. When a first name is required I call myself Delegate Dogscoff. I hope this time that I *am* unique.

I came up with the name just by messing around with words, but I immdiately knew it was good. I like the way it sounds like it could mean something or could just be nonsense. Rolls nicely off the tongue as well.

When I get round to it I don't anticipate any trouble registering www.dogscoff.net, .com, .uk or anything else (They're all still available=-)


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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

[urcog2]

You are (a) creation of God, too.