25-10-2004 11:07									#61
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My best friend, whom I've known for 15 years now, his nickname was Yoda, because he's really tall.

So I got tagged obiwan.

Sort of suits my personality in RL too.

	25-10-2004 11:23									#62
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Name of the best character I ever played in AD&D. An elven conjurer who loved the grease spell, was a pacifist, and killed an insanely large number of people. How many times have we had this thread?

	25-10-2004 11:41									#63
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quote: Originally posted by Straybow quote: OK, did a Google and Wikipedia search of "Jethro" and found out why the name implies 'farmer boy'. No, that's not it. Jethro is the name of a character on The Beverly Hillbillies. "We've even got us a cee-ment swimmin' hole!"

Oh. Well I didn't know that either. The Beverly Hillbillies were well before my time. And I'm confident that most of my classmates who called me Jethro wouldn't have known either.

	25-10-2004 12:24									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui The Frenchie Racist rides again! MrFun... save yourself, before it is too late!

He's a fake frenchie

	25-10-2004 12:26									#65
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quote: Originally posted by Lorizael Name of the best character I ever played in AD&D. An elven conjurer who loved the grease spell, was a pacifist, and killed an insanely large number of people. How many times have we had this thread?

lightning bolt!

	25-10-2004 14:32									#66
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The original idea was to use the first two letters of my name ( 3 parts) but that didn't sound right, so I dropped the last two.

I've been thinking on changing it lately though, and to just use my real firstname.

	25-10-2004 15:13									#67
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Space - because I used to have a fascination with space, and my original internet pseudonym was 'spaceboy' but I wanted to change it and 'Space' was too common.

05 - 2005, the year I would graduate highschool had I not gotten my GED

us - United States, not capitalised because it looks better the way it is.

Im still thinking of something better to change it to. Maybe I'll use my real name in the same manner as many of you do, first name then last initial.

	25-10-2004 15:18									#68
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My poly name is just an abbreviation of my first and last name together, so pretty boring

	25-10-2004 15:45									#69
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quote: Originally posted by LordAzreal Azreal is the surname of my roleplaying alter ego (a Neutral Good ranger). The Lord part is probably a way of making it relevant to Civ, seeing as how ruling an empire is the biggest part of Civ.

I've been reading it as "Azrael", ie, the angel of death, for ages. Or since I registered, at least.


As for my screenname, it's "The Last Conformist" compressed to fit in 15 characters. That, in turn, was a nick I came up with to express my disdain for the pathological need to be "different" common among my teenage peers, particularly as it expressed itself in subcultures with very high degrees of internal uniformity. I've now used it, or variations thereof, as my screenname in most 'Net contexts for years.

In some other places, I'm known as "Free(k)", which should require no explanation, and "Zadzhiff", a name of RPG derivation.

	25-10-2004 16:18									#70
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Mine is basically just an English translation of my real name.

My first name is Vegard, meaning something like "He who guards the home." So, I'm a guardian.

	25-10-2004 16:38									#71
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist I've been reading it as "Azrael", ie, the angel of death, for ages. Or since I registered, at least.

Well my screen name despite sounding similar has no relation to 'Azrael', though people tend to spell my screen name that way on these forums when referring to me. I don't really mind since I tend to know right away they're referring to me.

It's the strangest thing, since I actually came up with the name 'Azreal' for my alter ego before I even knew about 'Azrael'. I could probably have thought up a better name, but I've been using it since I was about thirteen, and well... old habits die hard.

But regardless of how it came up in my mind, I never actually intended it to mean death or anything death related.

It doesn't matter. I'll probably be changing it soon anyway.

	25-10-2004 17:04									#72
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A few years ago, I royally annoyed Drogue's best friend, not knowing she had a very viscious tongue. The name Whaleboy was promptly assigned to me, undoubtably because of my love for Moby Dick

	25-10-2004 17:15									#73
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I pieced it together w/ the help of my 2.5 y/o son, at the time. I wrestled in college and now coach the sport. My son couldn't say wrestling, but came out with "dojo" for wrestling. I used to think maybe he was a reincarnated Japanese national. I came up with "boy" all by myself.

	25-10-2004 17:18									#74
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I'm sorry but that's just too cute!!!

	25-10-2004 17:20									#75
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quote: Originally posted by Whaleboy A few years ago, I royally annoyed Drogue's best friend, not knowing she had a very viscious tongue. The name Whaleboy was promptly assigned to me, undoubtably because of my love for Moby Dick

That isn't why you changed it to Whaleboy, IIRC...

	25-10-2004 17:29									#76
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It is. Previously it was elijah which happens to be my surname with a capital "e" . The story behind that was the lower case was a typo , I just got pedantic about it.

	25-10-2004 17:49									#77
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Last name turned backwards, with a K instead of a C. And apparently my name means "electric locomotive" (i.e. modern train) in many east european countries. So I guess I am supposed to be more powerful than a locomotive. Or some such.

	25-10-2004 18:02									#78
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A mixture of liking dolphins and playing games like EU.

	25-10-2004 18:08									#79
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Mine comes from the ancient name of the city of Ankara, capital city of Turkey, where I was born: Ancyra --> Ancyrean.

After musing over many other fancier sounding names, I thought 'Ancyrean' was relevant, simple and original all at the same time...

Actually I've always wondered what kind of an impression it creates as a nick upon first look, what do you think?

	25-10-2004 18:16									#80
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Hmm...

	25-10-2004 18:19									#81
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My parents.

	25-10-2004 18:19									#82
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When I joined, I was looking at vacation brochures. One of them was from Kontiki Tours, it happened to be the first thing I took note of when it asked me for a user name, so I used it.

Very deep and meaningful, no?

	25-10-2004 18:20									#83
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Arrian = Flavius Arrianus Xenophon. Or just Flavius Arrianus.

quote: Arrian (c.87 - after 145): Greek historian and senator of the Roman empire, author of several historical studies. His most best-known work is the Anabasis, which deals with Alexander the Great.

I read Anabasis (or rather a translation of it) in college and loved it. Considering when it was written, it was amazingly objective. Arrian went out of his way to examine his sources like historians today are taught to do, but was rare back then. He even managed to be critical of Alexander, a man whom he admittedly idolized.

I started using the name when I played Greece or Rome in CivII. I was working on a scenario for CivII when I found this site. There ya go.

-Arrian

	25-10-2004 18:34									#84
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bfg9000: Play Doom II and find out!

	25-10-2004 19:24									#85
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Mine is a derivation from my old LAN handle. "Spiff" was a good choice for a variety of reasons, and I love Calvin & Hobbes.

"Spiffor" is my name on the Internet, because I can't stand the idea of calling myself "Spiff1234" or something. I haven't seen any other "Spiffor" on the net, so I'm confident never to stumble on one.

	25-10-2004 20:00									#86
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Cruddy; pseudo anagram.

Y C Rudd (why see red, why get angry).

Of course, some poster's say it's down to the quality of my arguments.

	25-10-2004 20:18									#87
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Mine is a play on my name, assigned to me for an e-mail address when I got to college. When I graduated, I was setting up an AOL account (:rolleyes and needed a name. This one was unique and easily recognizable to anybody that knew me, so I went with it. When I joined another forum, I used it again, and have just made this my default internet name since then.

	25-10-2004 20:34									#88
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<---almost my last name, almost..

	25-10-2004 21:08									#89
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quote: Originally posted by Whaleboy It is. Previously it was elijah which happens to be my surname with a capital "e" . The story behind that was the lower case was a typo , I just got pedantic about it.

IIRC, you changed your name at most a year ago, and someone on the forum had actually called you Whaleboy.

	25-10-2004 21:10									#90
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Japher? Why you even have to ask, I'll never know.