Just Wondering....

Shyrka · #1 January 15th, 2002, 11:06 AM

Mine is from Ulysses 31's series, my all-time favourite of my childhood. "Shyrka" was the main computer of the Odisseus ship. It was too the only permanent "female" character, except for the girl Thais.

Rhinestone Cowboy · #2 January 15th, 2002, 07:37 PM

As with Many of the other handles out there, mine came from a favorite RPG Character. 1st edition Shadowrun, set in Seattle. RhineStone Cowboy was an Ex Ganger looking to make it big in the Shadows. His Street name came from the fact he liked to walk around in Rhinestone studded Cowboy boots and a black stetson with a Rhinestone Band.

My favorite Tag line of his came when the group was looking to be hired for a job:
"We Don't do Wetwork...Ummm..(Eyes Shift back and forth)...Cheap!

and thus his mercenary instincts were born....

Rhinestone

Jack Deth · #3 January 15th, 2002, 10:10 PM

Jack Deth is a character from a b-grade scifi flick. think it was dollman maybe? or was it trancers? same actor anyway.

ive also been known to use rex dart, from a really old really bad japanese monster flick (mystery science theater did an episode with the flick)

my main internet nick is fixitman, which i started useing on irc way back around 1991. tho it has gotten to be pretty common, so i dont use it much any more.

Fyron · #4 January 16th, 2002, 06:13 AM

My name comes from the SE Ladder, where I am Imperator Fyron, leader of the Kazharii Imperium.

[ 16 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Quikngruvn · #5 January 16th, 2002, 08:17 PM

Quik is the name of my (recently-departed) cat. When I needed to come up with a username when I joined AOL (I didn't know any better then!), I amalgamated Quik with Fukngruvn, from a bumper sticker that played off of Fahrvergnuegung (probably misspelled). Since AOL had a 10-character limit at the time, I had to get creative with the spelling. Thus, Quikngruvn was born, and I've been using it since. I've yet to see this handle already used when I sign up for something on the internet... except when I've signed up for something already and forgot my password....

Quikngruvn

Wardad · #6 January 16th, 2002, 09:20 PM

My youngest boy (then 8???, now 18) and I started a game together, he choose WARCHILD so I got silly and choose WARDAD.

the name stuck, they did not mess with a save game name that started with WD.

The name is basically unused, except on a financial web site forum.

Mephisto · #7 January 17th, 2002, 01:51 AM

Oh well, [K126] is a clan tag from "Team Fortress" and "Counter Strike". In real life it is the first character of a street were some friends and I used to meet to play RPGs. Second is the actual building number.
Mephisto is from the classic German book "Faust" written by Goethe. Mephisto is kind of a devil, however not really evil. He is the "wag" (my dictionary give these words for "Schalk": rogue, wag, fool). This stuck to me from my high school time. :-)