Whence Your Moniker?

[capnq]

does anyone remember the old threadwith the information on everyone's nick ??

I remember it, but haven't been able to coax the search engine into finding it.

Mine is from an offline nickname from a friend who shortened a mispronounced Version of my real Last name to "Q"; I added the "Cap'n" part myself, because at the time I was a starship captain in a play-by-(snail-)mail space exploration game.

[Deathstalker]

Mine comes from the series by Simon R. Green (main character was Owen Deathstalker). Absolutely amazing series. I came onto the shrap Boards and saw all these neat names and realized I had to put some thought into it (mainly I saw the name 'God Emperor' and said 'neato!'. Use this name for here and the Geoff Johns comic Boards. Unfortunately it is already taken for the MTG:Online game )

[Trajan]

Trajan = Dead Roman Emperor

I am a Roman History buff, and find that I enjoy reading about Trajan more than most any other Roman leader.

Any how...

Cheers!

[dogscoff]

Dead Roman Emporer

As opposed to all those live ones...

I love the names on this forum. We got some real characters here, and the names really reflect them. Kind of like in the Ian M Banks Culture novels, where the super-AI ship Minds choose their own names, memorable examples being the "Fate Amenable to Change", the "Grey Area" and the warship "A Frank Exchange of Views".

Dogscoff is just something that had a nice sound to it and (more importantly) was pretty much guaranteed to be unique. I do regular google searches to make sure no one else is using the name. Is that sad? Probably...

BTW, Ragnarok, if you ever want to talk about Norse mythology, you'll find at least two interested parties on this forum. Have you used the Space Viking shipset?

[ July 28, 2002, 23:11: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by dogscoff:

BTW, Ragnarok, if you ever want to talk about Norse mythology, you'll find at least two interested parties on this forum. Have you used the Space Viking shipset?

Oh yeah? Who's those parties? But no I haven't used the Space Viking shipset in a game yet. Why do you ask?

[Growltigga]

'Growltigress' is the name of one of my cats, my wife calls me 'Big Tigs' amongst other things (the cat is nicknamed 'Little Tigs' or 'Geroff' yew bastard') because I am bouncy, pouncy, flouncy, trouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun (I think). Hence 'Growltigga' and like Dogscoff, no-one else is sad enough to use it.

"Growltigga" was also in TS Eliots' 'Book of Practical Cats' as the swashbuckling pirate bravo cat who was eventually made to walk the plank by some siamese.

Kind of fits with my roguish, piratical but fun-loving persona

[dogscoff]

bouncy, pouncy, flouncy, trouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun

And you call me sad for knowing Ren & Stimpy's Log song...

I haven't used the Space Viking shipset in a game yet. Why do you ask?

Well, Ragnarok=Norse=Viking...