What is the etymology of your moniker?

Slaughtermeyer · #1 July 11th, 2005, 10:34 AM

I got mine from the Monty Python skit about the joke that won World War 2. It's supposed to be an imaginary German word or possibly a German name.

RCCCL · #2 July 12th, 2005, 08:01 PM

I use RCCCL for everything online. E-mail addresses, B.net, forums, and what have you.

As for the origins, well it happens to be my initials,(Yes, my full name consists of 5 names!)I have a hyphenated middle and last name.

Suicide Junkie · #3 July 12th, 2005, 11:49 PM

Slaughtermeyer said:
I got mine from the Monty Python skit about the joke that won World War 2. It's supposed to be an imaginary German word or possibly a German name.
For general forum entertainment, we hereby present a link:
http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/co...thon/joke.html

kalthalior · #4 July 13th, 2005, 01:13 PM

Hmmm, interesting question. Back in the dark ages of my role-playing days (the original D & D, not advanced D & D), my first character was a fighter named Ragnar.
He was dubbed Calthalion (means to shine strong/dauntless in Quenya) by an elven NPC run by the DM (he loved Tolkien, almost every human character got an elven moniker, like Gandalph was Mithrandir to the elves), so he became Ragnar Calthalion.
After doing some Tolkien research of my own, I changed it to Kalthalion, and years later tweeked it to Kalthalior in another fantsy RPG to denote the title "High/Supreme Commander". Been using the Kal part for some time now in other games/forums - if you see Kalad & Kalax it could be me.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 July 13th, 2005, 05:29 PM

Kaleidoscope?

kalthalior · #6 July 15th, 2005, 05:17 PM

DOH! You've found out my double-super-secret identity!

DeKaye · #7 October 23rd, 2005, 03:52 AM

Well, my name was created with great intelligent thought, debate, and caused a few wars.....

Actually, I named my beautiful male Beta "Fuzzie". I found it rather amusing. When I joined this Forum, I figured that no one would use such a name. It is such an informidable and threatening name. :} Then I wanted a icon to go with it and found a picture of a Beta (AKA Samurai Fighting Fish) on the net (tried taking my own photos - who knew taking fish photos would be so difficult! ). I thought it would be cool to have a fish in space. So I cut, paste, edited and hours later came up with a wonderful picture. Too bad the picture had to be shrunk so small that I can't tell what the heck it is. Maybe someday I'll come up with a better icon - comparable to some of the wonderful ones you all have come up with.

Fuzzie

TurinTurambar · #8 October 23rd, 2005, 02:38 PM

The etymology of my moniker... well, it's the main character in my favorite Tolkien Tragedy: The Tale of the Children of Hurin. Most people already know that. If not:

http://www.lotrlibrary.com/racesofarda/turin.asp

The name Turin means "he who desires mastery" and Turambar means roughly "master of fate." So the name seemed to fit well into the Grand Lord/take-over-the-universe thing.

My avatar is a Common Mode transcription of the name in tengwar letters. I pasted it into MS Paint and put some color behind it, then had DEG do his magical frame/lightsource thingy to it.

My Empire's name, Aa' Turam, is just a play on the roots of the Sindarin, as is the name of its citizens; the Tura'amni.

In Eru's Name, MayYourSunsShineForever
Turin Turambar
Grand Lord of the Tura'amni

Cipher7071 · #9 October 23rd, 2005, 04:08 PM

Interesting thread...
I've often wondered where some of these names came from, so it's only fair that I add my own brief tale.

As I see has been true in several other cases, my moniker is the result of searching for a name for internet use. I started joining a few sites while I was getting my computer science degree, and we were probablly talking about ciphers in one of the classes, so that part of the name just sort of fell out of me at the time. Not only did I find my chosen name to be taken, it was taken in plenty of variations. So, undaunted, I added the extension 7071, which is merely the first four digits in the sine of 45 degrees (or half the square root of 2), and a number that I remember. Thus, Cipher7071.

narf poit chez...narf poit chez...narf poit chez...
Rats. Now I have a headache. BOOM!

Wolfman77 · #10 October 24th, 2005, 11:24 AM

Years ago I went by Wolverine, after my 4-wheeler. People kept thinking it was a X-men reference, so I changed it to wolfman. Not related in any way but the sound. 77 is the year I was born, I use it whenever the name is already registered.