What's in a name? by citizen

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What's in a name?

POSTED BY: CITIZEN
UPDATED: Sunday, August 27, 2006 19:38
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Tuesday, January 3, 2006 11:27 PM

Had this idea while talking to Violetrix, every name has a story:

Mine started because I used to play a Game called Giants at Uni (only as research into computer simulations, you understand) in which was a character named Citizen Kabuto.

I then Started playing Counter Strike where my name changed to Citizen Suicide, because of my tactics that involved running at the opposing side with a knife.

And then getting shot.

At some point which I'm not particularly sure of it changed to Citizen Pain (probably around the time I actually got good...) partially as a nod to my abillities to inflict pain on my opponents (god that I was...) and partly as a fairly transparent nod to Citizen Kane.

I've gradually dropped the pain part (though it still follows me to this day to some degree), but that's the story of my name.

What's yours?

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 12:31 AM

J6NGO1977

Cool game Giants.

Mine is simple. My fave film is Star Wars. J6ngo comes from Jango Fett with a 6 instead of the 'a' because I'm trying to be clever :D and 1977 was the year A New Hope was released

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 12:43 AM

SACIRAK

Sacirak is just my last name spelled backwords
Karicas

http://www.myspace.com/rick72879

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:35 AM

CITIZEN

j6ngo1977:
I sooo would have never been able to guess that!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:08 AM

PSOLARIS

I got the idea for my name in a game I used to play back in 1998. Now, for the life of me, I do not remember what the name of this game was (it was a computer game...ya, I am a computer gamer at times), but I remember that you rode a floating vehicle, and that your mouse look was reversed (meaning you move your mouse up, your character looks downward), and the premise to the game was that you were captured in an alien type ship and you had to make your way out, collecting various alien technologies laying around and using them to your advantage. When you picked up anything and put it in your inventory, a computer voice told you what the item was and you could see it listed in your inventory window. There was an explosive item called "solarus" and I liked the sound of the name, but not the spelling. So I toyed with it and put the silent "P" in front to be clever (right there with ya j6ngo) and I've had it ever since.

I used it playing Evercrack, and Evercrack II, I used it playing Counterstrike, Battlefield and Battlefront, when playing Lineage and Knights of the Old Republic. So if anyone of ya had played any of those, and came across this name, ya, that was me

Psolaris

"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:12 AM

NCBROWNCOAT

My name isn't very original. I'd been lurking for a while and wanted to add to the conversation. Had about 30 seconds to think of a name while I was registering.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:21 AM

FLIPDOG

Mine's none to special either. One day a bunch of friends and I were playing the HalfLife Goldeneye Mod together and they said I needed a screen name. I'm terrible at thinking these things up, so I looked around for some inspiration. I saw an ad for flipdog.com on a mousepad as have used FlipDog since then.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:27 AM

DEMENTEDYAM

Any fans of Dave Barry (a humor columnist for the Miami Herald, syndicated nationwide) will know that at the end of his articles, he has a habit of taking a random word or phrase and saying that it would make a great name for a rock band.

in his review of LOTR 2, he talks about the kung-fu trees, and says at the end that 'combat alfalfa' would make a great name for a rock band.

shortly after, i got warcraft 3, and when it came time to make a battle.net account, of course, combat_alfalfa was the one i chose.

my win/loss record took a pretty sharp dive downhill, so i created a series of new accounts: rabid_tomato, maniac_carrot, demented_yam, and something or other about an eggplant.

demented_yam is the only one that stuck, and now it's the name I use everywhere.

if you see a demented_yam on another board, chances are: it's me

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:40 AM

CBY

Nothing exciting here: It's the short form of my artist name "Chris B. Yond" which is a giddy pun - but I like it anyway and it fits to the music

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http://www.byond-trax.com - my selfmade ambient/lounge/chillout music

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:48 AM

ODDBALLE8

well... my name (being Oddball_E8 but i cant use underscore here) just stems from the movie Kelly's Heroes... cos i looked like the guy before... and pretty much acted like him too... (oddball that is... not kelly)

oh and ive been called "the dude" alot because of it too...

nowadays i have a mohawk and goatee, so those dont apply, but oddball just kinda stuck...

The E8 part is for me to know and you to figure out (at my old job i had a standing bet that anyone who figured it out got a free pizza... that bet is now void tho)

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:51 AM

PSOLARIS

Quote:
Originally posted by OddballE8:
well... my name (being Oddball_E8 but i cant use underscore here) just stems from the movie Kelly's Heroes... cos i looked like the guy before... and pretty much acted like him too...

LOL, when I first saw your name I actually wondered if the Oddball in your name came from that. I love that movie! Probably can quote you every freaking line from it

Psolaris

"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:55 AM

SCIBAMA

Sci - in deference to my favorite genre of books and movies, and

Bama - in honor of the rich and lasting tradition of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Rooollll Tide!!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:55 AM

MAL4PREZ

Please don't tell me I need to explain...

But there is some depth - call it Canuckian irony.

Ask Dr. Science ... he knows more than you do.
"I have a Master's degree ... in science!"

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:57 AM

OOKAMIKAWAHARA

Alright give ya guys a clue into my name as well. Ookami lit translates into the Wolf (kanji or Chinese character is same in both Japanese and Chinese) Fav animal and one of my Japanese nick names. When I end a post with Ookami yori it is saying signed by the Wolf basically.
There ya go and keep enjoying the verse Ladies and Gents.

I ain't disagreen, I only wanted a drink!!!!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:02 AM

SMAUG

To paraphrase John Howe..

How can you not love a Dragon? A creature the size of a 747, with wings, scales, horns and that breaths fire!!! Far too exciting..

They are paragons of wisom and symbols of immortaility.. they can embody evil darkness or they can soar against the stars.. they can tunnel and dwell in darkness, hoard treasure or gnaw at the roots of the universe.

Now Smaug.. more than just a Dragon from the Hobbit.. but a Dragon.. that protected.. needed.. and valued his treasure more than anything.. more than his own life... it just fits..

Smaug..

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:31 AM

GEEKMAFIA

Mine's another simple one the first website I ever used on a regular basis was a buffy spoiler site (the buffy cross and stake). Well when I joined the board I needed a name and the only one I could think of was the name used on the main site to refer to the troika, the geekmafia. Well it's stuck... as I'm sure you've gathered and hence the name.

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Liu koushui de biaozi he houzi de ben erzi.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:49 AM

FOLLOWMAL

Me neither.... no explainin' needed.

No depth either... just love Mal.

"What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle?" Inara

"That it was manly and impulsive?" Mal

"Yes, precicely. Only the exact phrase I used was "Don't" Inara

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:57 AM

CAUSAL

1. I'm a philosophy major (hold the jokes til the end, folks), and the notion of causality is pretty important to philosophy.

2. I'm a theology grad student, and being that I'm a theist, I have a causal view of the physically existing world.

3. It just sounds cool.

Layers upon layers of meaning...

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:58 AM

QUEENOFTHENORTH

What a cool thread - I've always wondered about some of these names. Anyways, mine's fairly simple.

I have a shirt that says "Queen of Everything" which I adore. I considered using that, but thought it might make me seem a little full of myself.

So I changed it to Queen of the North, since I live in the Great White North.

"Sir, you actually said 'wink, wink'. I don't think that -"
"Oh, you'd be surprised."

"Yes, the new plan will STILL involve rocket skates."
"YAY!"

Like books? Go to this thread: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=14862
to find out how to buy mine!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 12:09 PM

PAYNE

Well, I think about politics way too much, you see, and Thomas Paine has always been one of my favorite firebrand, insurrectionist writers. So I modified the spelling a bit in tribute to Jayne. Also, it makes me sound tough.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 12:14 PM

FIAREYNNE

Fia is a nickname for my real name, Felicia, and Reynne is a character I played on World of Warcraft before I moved out of my parents' house and became too poor for MMORPGs.

Also, Fia Reynne is my penname. I used to go by Dervla Nightshade, and I'm not sure I could even explain that one...

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 12:25 PM

DONCOAT

Well, if you take my first name (Donald) and my affiliation (Browncoat) and kinda smoosh them together, you get -- wait for it -- DonCoat.

But wait, there's more. Don sounds like dun, which is a brownish color. So if you have poor diction, when you say DonCoat it sounds like DunCoat which means Browncoat.

I only use this nick here. On the Bad Astronomy board (and a few other places) I go by "Donnie B.", which has a history of its own (equally boring).

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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 12:52 PM

IAMZOE

wish fulfilment.
Must. Be. Strong!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:44 PM

ODDBALLE8

Quote:
Originally posted by Psolaris:

LOL, when I first saw your name I actually wondered if the Oddball in your name came from that. I love that movie! Probably can quote you every freaking line from it

oh i can qoute every line from heart... its the best movie ever if you ask me (with the risk of being lynched by browncoats)...
it helps that im a big WWII buff too... hell some even call me a grognard (but i dont think that applies to me)

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 3:21 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

FINN MAC CUMHAL
Pron. fin MAC kool (more or less), for those not familiar with the Irish affinity for letters that serve no purpose.

Finn was a legendary warrior-god of Irish pagan mythology, depicted in the Irish Legend known as the Fennian Cycle, in which Finn, as Árd Rí Éireann (trans: “The High King of Ireland”), rules Ireland from the Ancient capital of pagan Ireland, Teamhair na Rí (trans: “The Hill of Kings). Finn is the leader of the Fianna, the Irish warrior class.

In Irish folklore Finn takes on god-like characteristics. He is said to be immortal and to have created the Giants Causeway and the Isle of Mann. Finn may have become confused or combined with a much earlier Celtic myth, because some of the characteristics associated with Finn seem to compare well to some aspects of Welsh mythology.

In reality, Finn may be based on a real person, and the Fennian Cycles suggest a war between two rivaling clans for supremacy during the 3rd century around the regions of Leinster and Munster. In fact, Finn somewhat parallels Arthur in Britain. During the 3rd century two rival clans, Clan Baiscne of Leinster led by the warlord Finn and Clan Morna of Connacht, led by the warlord Goll, found themselves in a struggle for supremacy. A struggle that may have and probably did predate the birth of Finn or even his father, but which evidently ended when Finn gained control of both clans. The Fianna of the Clan Morna joined Clan Baiscne and the Finn ruled over a unified region, although this was probably not all of Ireland. It may also have been true that Finn or his heirs may have played a part in the Irish invasion of Scotland which planted the Gaelic language and culture in Western Scotland.

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Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:09 PM

CITIZEN

No offense to any of the others here, but that's the most facinating story of a name so far

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:14 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

I wanted a name that didn't have numbers at the end, people used to call me a cynic, I stuck the two together, noticed it had a ring to it, and it has since grown on me.

I think there is at most one other chris the cynic on the entire internet, but I have yet to run into him (then again I've never punched "chris the cynic" into a search engine either) I've just been told I couldn't have the name once or twice.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:17 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

Quote:
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
FINN MAC CUMHAL
In Irish folklore Finn takes on god-like characteristics. He is said to be immortal and to have created the Giants Causeway and the Isle of Mann.

I've heard that story.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:20 PM

OMELET

There was an intern named Omelet on a radion station called 94.9 Zeta. He worked for the Paul and Young Ron(He's like 50)show in the mornings. He actually was sent to the zoo once as a dare to see how many snakes would bite before he would go numb. Oh the good times. Anyways, the show moved from Zeta to Big 105.9, the classic rock station and Omelet decided to move somewhere else(I forget) and was no more in South Florida. I kind of adopted the name after he left and it stuck.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:21 PM

ELEKA

Yeah...was on Google, searching random things and found this badass either Swedish or Finnish company named "Eleka". They had a very cool logo and I liked the name since Ella/Ellen is my favorit girls name.

Took it, used it in an online game and it stuck.

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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:26 PM

CAUSAL

Quote:
Originally posted by iamzoe:
wish fulfilment.
Must. Be. Strong!

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

*snort*

Ohmigod, you gotta stop that; you're gonna give me an aneurysm!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:36 PM

URSULA

My nephew named me "Ursula" because he thought I looked like Ursula the Sea Witch in "The Little Mermaid". (I do!)

The 4400 came because I double registered on an old chat and couldn't get back in without the number.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 5:27 PM

SPACEHOPPER

I don't know if you had Spacehoppers in America, but they used to be popular in England. They're these fairly big rubber balls with two handles protruding from the top and a smiley face painted on the front (if you can call any part of a ball its front) and you sit on them and bounce happily along.

Sounds nice enough, right? They were accountable for a huge amount of injuries in the UK at the height of their popularity (hence they are no longer popular).

So let's recap... It's a cute, innocent-looking and seeminglingly harmless thing that in fact has the potential to be very violent and dangerous.

Remind you of anyone?

Deep, I know :P

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 5:52 PM

VIOLETRIX

should i do mine again?

i'm violetrix, but i'm haven't always been. since i was fourteen i've been Jane in some form or the other. it started with a jane's addiction cd cover... anyway, in college i became 3jane, (as in Gibson's neuromancer) which got shortened to janie. but you try using "3jane" or "janie" to sign up for email or a message board! forget about it. so i started using violetrix, which is (was) this great perfume that was discontinued. and i haven't had any trouble getting any accounts anywhere. but i still get called "3jane" and "janie" and "sweet jane" (like the lou reed song.)

that's the long version. well, i guess i could make it longer.

-V

i'm quite partial to violetrix now. or violet. or V.

http://violetrix.blogspot.com
you won't remember anyway

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 5:54 PM

VIOLETRIX

Quote:
I don't know if you had Spacehoppers in America

like those pogo balls we had here in the States in the '80's! i had one of those, i think.

http://violetrix.blogspot.com
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 5:57 PM

VIOLETRIX

Quote:
FINN MAC CUMHAL

it's been awhile, but i studied him a bit in college when i was studying Celtic folklore.

http://violetrix.blogspot.com
you won't remember anyway

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:06 PM

CITIZEN

All you ever didn't want to know about Space Hoppers and were glad you didn't ask:

Quote:
Space Hoppers - also known as Hoppity Hops, Hop Ball, and Kangaroo Balls - bounced into the UK during the Summer of ’71 and served absolutely no useful purpose whatsoever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1971/toys1.shtml
http://www.rcoc.co.uk/SPACE%20HOPPER;WHAT%20IS%20A%20.htm

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:06 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Mine came from... umm... my car. Yup. Unimaginative as that may be...

Anyhoo, here's how it came to be:

'Round summer of '97, I was in need of new transportation. My trusty old '84 Honda Civic had finally breathed its last, after more than a dozen years of me abusing and misusing it. Being that it was such a solid and fun little car, I went looking for another one. This time, though, I wanted a little more pep than my old one could muster with its whopping 1.3 liters of mousepower, 4-speed manual transmission, and NO options at all (no A/C, no radio, not even a rear defroster!). After a couple weeks of looking, I came across an '87 Honda CRX - basically a shortened two-seater Civic. The seller wanted $1800, it had working A/C, and best of all, it was the higher-performing "Si" model.

The seller was a Chinese grad student at the University of Texas, who was graduating and heading back to China. I took the car for a test drive, loved it, and when I returned, she said - and I quote: "The car is very... how you say?... Quick-o! Yes?" I drove it home that day for $1600. Still have it, too. I started autocrossing it in '98, won my class a few years with it, and slowly started "improving" it - to the point that it is no longer street legal!

Anyway, I got hooked on CRXs, joined several CRX and Honda web boards, and my username has always been "Kwicko" on all the Honda boards. I seem to suffer from an addiction to those little cars - right now I own three, not including a couple that I've bought and resold.

So that's my story. I'm sticking to it!

Mike

"Kaylee, find that kid that's taking a dirt nap with baby Jesus; we need a hood ornament."

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:38 PM

MOOSE

Been my nickname since my High School football days. (I was the smallest guy on the team)

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 7:12 PM

WORKEROFEVIL

Worker Of Evil is one of the many, many names Odin was known by. I happen to like Norse mythology so I chose one of Odin's lesser known names. For a while (elsewhere) I used the screenname Gullinkambir, which is the name of the golden rooster that crows at the start of Ragnarok, signaling all the warriors of Valhalla to come forth and fight the freed denizens of Niflheim. I'm pretty sure nobdy actually cared about that, but it's too late now, isn't it?

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 7:50 PM

AERIN

I wanted to pick a Firefly-appropriate name, but I lacked time and the appropriate instinct. Robin McKinley is my very favoritist author and Aerin is a character from one of her books. I like the character and always thought the spelling was cool.

I almost went with ChemFerrets, which a friend invented when setting up a Mac homepage for me (I am irrationally anti-Mac and he was trying to convert me). I'm a chemistry grad student with ferrets. I've used that name on a few things, but decided maybe it would reveal what a collosal nerd I am. Oh, whoops.

Jayne: I once hit a guy in the neck from 500 yards with a bent scope. Don't that count upstairs?
Book: Oh, it'll be taken into consideration.
Jayne: You made that sound kind of ominous.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 7:58 PM

HAILFAX

like a lot of people, mine was just random. i had a brain spaz and it hit me. and a misspell. a friend of mine lives on a Halifax Road, and i wanted to use that, but as i was typing it, i misspelled it and it became Hailfax.

though, i didn't even realize that it was Hailfax until i tried to sign in and it didn't work.
and thus ends my tale of my username, i'm also on livejournal if anyone else is there.

We're deep in space, corner of No and Where.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:36 PM

CHRISPV

Well, this is only marginally interesting in the loosest sense. My name is Christopher Peavey. However, I am also the fourth generation of my family to have lived on our cattle ranch in western Kansas. My family's been here for ages. Consequently, our brand is simply "PV."

So, when I was in kindergarten, the teacher tried to teach us to write our names. I was a lazy little bugger, and realized that "Chris PV" took so much less time to print. The name stuck, and to this day I sign off all of my e-mails and personal correspondence with it.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:20 PM

J6NGO1977

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
j6ngo1977:
I sooo would have never been able to guess that!

LMAO. I am so un-creative

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:05 PM

LEIGHKOHL

Mine's boring. Leigh is my middle name and kohl is the end of my last name.

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Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:59 AM

POOBLESNUGGETS

a long series of evolved injokes...

i used to work in a kfc (blech... the smell still haunts me

and on the drive-through, six nuggets came across as 'sick snuggets' most of the time. so, snuggets.

a friend of mine had a sock puppet, for some random reason, that he named poob.

poob + snuggets kinda evolved into poobsnuggets, which just sounded better with a 'le' in the middle. and so, it happened. 'pooblesnuggets inc' was also the name of my faux production company in 10th grade media studies

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Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:17 AM

BWARE42

Mine is pretty boring too. It's my first initial and last name. I added the 42 because I've always liked those numbers together...That, and it's the meaning of life, the universe and everything else.

Am I a Lion?

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Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:42 AM

VERASAMUELS

Well, I was Xenaclone on the Browncoat-board-that-was (see avatar to your left ).

I've decided to go with Vera Samuels here. She's my Firefly OFC, Sherriff of Beltane and the reason Jayne gave THAT name to his gun

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I'm writing the fanfic at the mo' - first part is called..erm...Vera and is in the Blue sun room.

Peeps who were very alert and had their eyes open at Serenity & Serenity2 will have spotted Vera in public as incarnated by me [hey, it's a tough life, bein' an interestin' memory for Jayne, but someone's gotta do it ]

Vera

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

[To my knowledge only one person on the old board 'got' this ]

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Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:43 AM

AMITON

Alright, this has some momentum, so I guess I'll soften up and play, too :)

Amiton is the name I chose for my guide character when I was in Evercrack. We were told we couldn't use player character names, so I had to think a little. I guess that doesn't explain the name, though, huh?

At the time, I *really* wasn't aware that Amiton was a word (and didn't until it was brought to my attention in the taglog *cough*). In my line of thought, it was an attempt to be clever, playing with words. I grew up in a little town in New York called Amityville (perhaps you've heard of the book or movies?), and I wanted to give some credit in that way. Also, since being a guide was a customer service role, I kind of used the french word "ami" to infer a warmer disposition. The majority of the inference was a cross between the two, with the intent to communicate "one who is a friend", with the underlying "one who is from Amityville".

That's actually a shortened version, but there you have it!

Amiton.

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Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:03 AM

PINBALLWIZARD

I had just thought of turning my old pinball machine into a Firefly one (which is finally making some headway now), and I had also found my dad's old record of the rock opera Tommy by the Who. Put two and two together. Most importantly, I LOVE pinball.

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