Just Wondering.... - Page 5

Jack Deth · #41 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 · #42 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 · #43 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 · #44 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 · #45 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. :-)

Fyron · #46 January 18th, 2002, 08:04 AM

Spoo wrote:

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Mine's just "oops" backwards.

Really? I had assumed that your name came from the spoo in Babylon 5. Apparently, spoo is a food that is even more nauseating than spam, and only Narns will eat it.

Ruatha · #47 December 17th, 2002, 11:57 AM

I started using Ruatha when I played X-wing 1993(the first in the series - before Tie fighter) and needed to name my player.
It comes from a location in the Pern Novels by Anne McCaffrey (Ruatha Hold).
I liked the little white dragon (Ruth) from the first of the books I read but forgot the name, but Ruatha got stuck in the head.
So far I haven't had any competition for the name.
I started using it Online in a chat community "The Castle" in 1994.

DarkHorse · #48 December 17th, 2002, 03:04 PM

DarkHorse comes from my days as a Political Science major. The Dark Horse candidate is the one either given little chance to win, or comes from nowhere to do so.

Perrin · #49 December 17th, 2002, 04:46 PM

I am really horrible at thinking up names Usually I just borrow one from somewhere or take two names and drop the Last name of one and the first name of the other.

Perrin I borrowed from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

Stone Mill · #50 December 17th, 2002, 05:24 PM

This is a great thread. I always wonder about this stuff.

I thought I had some of you figured out...
I made the connections for some of the cool fictional character references.

I was way off on a few, like Phoenix-D:

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I came up with it and it stuck

I thought for sure this was one of the nicest looking modified light Mech units from the Robotech / Battletech series, cartoon, games.