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Screen Names

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Friday, March 31, 2006 9:36 AM

Okay, I deeply apologize if there has already been a thread like this, but I always find them interesting. It starts with a very simple question. What does your screen name mean?

Most people just assume mine is a misquote of one of Wash's most famous lines, but in truth it is actually a nod to that and the beginning of
Forest Gump one of my other favorite movies and one I quote almost as often as Firefly and Serenity. Anywho, on to the next person.

~*Hannah*~

"Pain is scary." -Jayne
Mal=Hotness on an unknown level

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Friday, March 31, 2006 9:39 AM

MILFORD

My name actually has a long and interesting story. I suck at coming up with things like that so I used my last name. Wait, that does suck, but it isn't that long. I'll make it longer, here we go, um, it's also my dad's last name, and his father before him. We have a long history with this name. Very handy. That's all I've got. And they lived happily ever after, somewhat moved by the important lessons they had learned along the way, but better for it.

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Customizeable handmade baby gifts personalized by my wife! Check them out at www.baby-bobo.com. All proceeds go towards international adoption.

Leaning into the wind that used to carry me-Stavesacre
That's why I don't kiss'em on the mouth- Jayne Cobb

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Friday, March 31, 2006 9:52 AM

GORRAMREEVER

the one I use here is exactly what it looks like. But on most other sites people are very confused by handle : ryahi_k or ryahik(if for some reason I can't use an underscore in my name)
It literaly stands for "Are Ya High K?" R YA HI K

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Friday, March 31, 2006 9:55 AM

WASHSYOUNGERSEXIERBR

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

My screen names a little work of genius
Im a lot like wash myself but cos im not the real wash i came up with the catchy idea of being his sexy younger brother. Which is also true cos im sexy and young! PERFECT!

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:01 AM

ARCADIA

I started writing fiction at 13 I started looking at named websites to find character names. I decided to start posting on one called UUNC (unique, unusual, and creative names) and I wanted a name that was, well, unique, unusual, and creative. I found a long list of alternative names to Caitlin. I figued that since Caitlin is basicly the new Katie (Katie is my name) that these names were basicly alternative to my name, too. I chose Arcadia because I liked it best on the list. I use it here, on UUNC, and behindthename.com.

I used FireflyFi on nanowrimo.org, because I signed up last september and Serenity was so close to being release... Fi are the first two letters of my last name, pron. FEE. Some of my friends call me by this name. :-)

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"Objects in Space"
River: It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think...

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:04 AM

COPILOT

It just sort of came to me. At the end of the BDM with River in the Copilot's seat she was River but sainer and kind of reminded me of myself so yeah that's where the name came from.

An I carried such a torch

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:14 AM

SIGMANUNKI

Well a bit of a story.

While driving with a buddy, he started telling me how much his brother hates Leonardo DiCaprio. He told me that his brother said that there should be another character in all Leo's movie call Clubby The Bat Wielding Clown. Then when Leo said something stupid Clubby would come on screen and beat Leo's pretty boy face in with his bat.

I said, that that'd be a great handle. He then took it before I could claim it. So, my search continued.

Now my handle comes from when I was doing some hobby research into the ancient Babylonian religion.

From memory, or perhaps I crossed a number of concepts, Sigma Nunki is the capital city of the gods. Also sigma is a mathematical symbol and Nunki is Akkadian for "The prince of the earth."

Nunki is also an acient Babylonian proper name.

Actually, just looked it up:

http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterThree/SumerianInfoOfAnnunaki-Anakim.ht
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Nunki is all the above. Sigma probably got put in there because I'm a mathy person

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"We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit."
-David Suzuki

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:21 AM

SADLITTLEKING

Well, as you all know, "sad little king" is how River described Badger when she read him. I just adored her accent during that scene and the name's a nice reminder of that. I love you, Summer. Call me sometime.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:22 AM

ORPHEUS

A lot of people think my name is a direct reference to The Matrix, but all of these people must not have paid any attention to those movies, since my name is not Morpheus.

When I was thinking up names, I wanted to go with something from Greek or Roman mythology. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice was always one of my favorites, thus, my name.

Also tying into the mythology bit, since a lot of planets/moons in The Verse have mythological names, I thought Orpheus sounded like a good name for a planet.

Then there's the easy explanation: I was listening to the song "Orpheus" by a band called Ash when I was thinking up names.

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"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:23 AM

DANFAN

I loves the Steely Dan!

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:25 AM

FOLLOWMAL

Ok, my screen name is literal....

Follow Mal

ergo: FollowMal

I really would too! Wherever he led.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:33 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Laziness?

No, really, when I first signed up for an account here I tried three different user names that I thought were witty or creative and all of them were taken. So, frustrated I just entered "Browncoat1". Suprisingly it was not taken. That or everyone is more creative than that.

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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:39 AM

ZZETTA13

Well my S/N is most likely one of the easy and simple ways to come up with one.

I'm not a geek. Not smart enough for that and I'm worse than a dork. Why? Because I'm an old dork.

If you want to know where my S/N came from follow the link below. Then if there are any questions(or comments)get ahold of my secretary. Wait I haven't got a secretary. Well then just post here at the forum.

http://jandjcyberauctions.com/frazettaforum/index.php

the S/N zzetta13 breaks down as: zzetta 3/4 the name of a famous si/fi-fantasy artist that I like and 13= my day of birth.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:40 AM

LYSANDER

For those of you who have some kind of background in Shakespeare, you should be familiar with my name. Lysander is one of the lead lovers in A Misummer Nights Dream. I've been acting for 22 years and I've been performing Shakespeare for the past 10 years. Lysander is the first Shakespeare character that I played when I started performing in our local Shakespeare festival.

Simon: What if he(Mal) tells you to kill me.
Zoe: (without hesitation) I kill you.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:49 AM

NUCLEARDAY

What's this? A chance to talk about myself? No... I couldn't ;p Oh wait. Yes, I can :)

It's sort of wonky out of context, but well... I've been using this handle for many moons and I suck with picking names, and well, it's still what I use for my emails and such, so it'd be a bother to change everything and it looks like it's here to stay for some time.

It's sort of a play on words. It's from a story I've been working on for... oh, a decade now, and it doggedly refuses to get, well, anywhere. (Yeah, it's a cliche doing the struggling writer thing, but hey the chicks dig it :) The title's A New Clear Day, and in the context of the story it's sort of a metaphor. (I'm a sucker for post-apocolyptic genre stuff so I thought I'd try one about people trying to find meaning in their life after the Big One, a reason to go on, etc.)

Anyways, it's now my albatross, if you will. And I still find it relevant, I guess. Like the death card in tarot, for me it signifies transition as opposed to an end. Tragedy and loss sucks, but I've found it also reminds me to focus on the important things in life. And that's enough waxing philosophical for me :) Anyways, I always enjoy reading how people pick their names, usually an interesting story, figured I'd throw my two cents in.

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You can take my hope when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:51 AM

RIVERGIRL

coz for some reason or other I am always RIVER when I take those which character are you tests

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:55 AM

DEEPGIRL187

Nothing special behind mine. I was listening to AOL radio, and "Deep" by Nine Inch Nails came on. I remembered that 187 was the police code for murder (hey, I was a teenager, it sounded cool), so there you have it.

At last.
We can retire and give up
this life of crime.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:56 AM

DONCOAT

I was in a bit of a rush when I signed up, since I was eager to reply to some thread or other. So I just smooshed my real first name together with "browncoat".

It works, sorta kinda. Don sounds a little like "dun", a brownish color. So DonCoat is both me and what I am...

Only one other place I hang out online these days: the Bad Astronomy / Universe Today forum ( www.bautforum.com). I'm "Donnie B." there. So creative...

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I don't disagree on any particular point.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:00 AM

KUANGZHEDE

Kuang Zhe De = "Nuts" As in, flying without core containment.

Kuang Zhe De

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:09 AM

EVILDINOSAUR

Mine is pretty obvious...

"Everything looks good from here"
"Yes, yes this is a fertile land and we will thrive, we will rule over all this land and we will call it, this land"
"I think we should call it your grave"
"Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal"

"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:20 AM

EMPXENU

I'm an enemy of scientology. And a fan of the Last Emperor. That's all.

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Jesus was a spineless pinko-commie pacifist

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:23 AM

JOSSISAGOD

Mine's relatively simple, I LOVE all of Joss's work and worship him. I'd love to be half the artist he is when I'm his age So,

JOSSISAGOD!

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:36 AM

SHINEYSHINDIG

Mine's like it says... gorram, with an extra "e" in there... better look to that.

I confess to getting hooked on shiny... just picturing homer say it, just once on the simpsons!!

And, who doesn't like shindigs??

(homer: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........shiney)

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:47 AM

SASSALICIOUS

It's my livejournal name, which I've had since I was 16, I think.

It's a combination of two of my favorite words . . . Sassy and Delicious.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:58 AM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Mine has no real story or meaning. I just made it up `cause I think it sounds cool. It's actually a shorter version of a name I use in video games, Kayna Rune. Another one that I use is Shi'ara Blade or several variations thereof.

At www.wotmania.com I use Aourune Sedai. Again, first part made up. I won't explain Sedai here but if you're familiar with "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan, you'll know what it means.

Anyway, I just like to make up names.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 12:01 PM

SIGMANUNKI

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one with a name based on something old. Not that I'm surprised at all. We got a smart bunch of people here. It was bound to happen.

Mmmmm, literature.

Now I'm in a sharing mood

So, another story.

Once in high-school, I was at a buddies house, just sitting around. He asked me if I wanted a beer. I was driving so I declined.

But, he kept pressing the issue. Stuff like, come on, it's only one and we're not going anywhere for a couple hours. etc etc. I'm sure most of us have been there.

After refusing several times (he wasn't getting the hint) I decided to say "No!!! Peer Pressure!!!" in a funny way, as kind of a joke. Perhaps he would stop.

I don't know what happened, but it came out wrong. I miss-pronounced Peer. It came out Beer.

So, "No!!! Beer Pressure!!!"

I do think that some actually came out his nose. Wacky fun

I've actually considered using it (Beer Pressure) for a handle, but eventually ended up deciding on Sigma Nunki.

Ah nostalgia...

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"We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit."
-David Suzuki

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Friday, March 31, 2006 12:02 PM

REGINAROADIE

Two things lead to my name.

The Regina part is because I've lived the last five years of my life here in Regina, Saskatchewan (that's up in Canada, y'know). For all intents and purposes it is my hometown, so I pay tribute to it.

And the roadie bit is from the fact that I love travelling and going on road trips. I also wouldn't mind being a roadie for a really good rock band. I have no idea how one becomes a roadie and if it's just a summer thing or if one could make a career out of it. But I just think it would be cool to tag along with someone like Sam Roberts or something like that.

I came up with the name two years ago. I was planning this road trip to end all road trips that fell apart at the last minute, and I created a new e-mail address for potential people to come with to contact me. So I guess it kinda stuck.

I don't mind. Think it's rather catchy.

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"I think one of the greatest things about modern America is the computerization of medical records. As a volunteer sheriff, I can look up anyone's psychiatric records and their surgical histories. Yeast infections. There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably...because we're down river...from that old bread factory."

Dwight - The Office - 209 - E-mail Surveillance

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Friday, March 31, 2006 1:45 PM

SIMONB

I will probably get the prize for the most boring screen name, but this was the first site like this I've ever signed up for (nothin' else has made me wanna do anything like this before Firefly - plus, also seeing what a friendly bunch everyone was) so I couldn't think of anything to put....

...so Simon's my real name and 'B' is the first letter of my surname.

How sad's that one? (y'all still awake out there?!)

- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die

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Friday, March 31, 2006 2:10 PM

GHANIMAPIRATE

My sn is pretty simple. I first created my sn for the site www.dreamersofdune.com, which has died.

My favorite character from the Dune series is Ghanima, which in Fremen means 'spoil of war'. And I like pirates. Go figure.

Mal- Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. Besides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. There's a whole airflow.
Inara: And you'd know that because...?
Mal: You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 2:13 PM

GIXXER

Mine's easy for anyone else out there with flies in their teeth. Slabby 1052cc oil-boiler.

Nowhere near the top of the heap any more, but it would rather die than roll over and let anyone else beat you on acceleration or top speed. Not overly concerned with the pilot's comfort, welfare or indeed continued survival.

The antithesis of modern product liability pussyfooting. If it had a catchphrase...

G

If you wanted something sensible, you should have bought a cardigan.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 2:14 PM

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

Well...where mine comes from is a funny story.....

Basically, back before I officially joined, a lurked a lot (shameful, I know

). For some reason, after reading some fics and noticing images of the male BDHs (excluding Book sadly), a plot bunny started percolating in my then shaggy melon about our four blue-eyed BDHs needing to rescue their brown-eyed lovelies (cuz if you use the Joss-certified (mostly) pairings of Mal/Inara, Zoe/Wash, Simon/Kaylee and Jayne/River, you get four couples with the same gender-to-eye colour matches).

So...from there, the plot bunny started growing and I though about a fic title like "The Blue Eyed Brigade" in reference to Serenity's male crewmembers (was working on a slightly/moderate AU premise that only Book got offed in the BDM).

But then I realized that to submit the fic, I needed to join...which i was gonna do anyway regardless of a fic evolving in my head. So I started thinking about what screen name to have...until it hit me. As the author, I got to command the actions of the BEB (see the corrolation yet

) in the story (plus I am blessed with azure-tinted peepers myself), I thought "Hell, why not 'BlueEyedBrigadier?"

So that's the story of the name...that so far hasn't gained any meaning since no fic has been written of yet

...mainly cuz I couldn't figure out how to have the ladies get captured when you have a solider, a psychic assassin, a Companion with at least decent self-defence skills and a mechanical genius as the four characters.

BEB

Literature has shown us some of humanity's greatest achievements; history, some of our greatest failures -- Alun Lewis

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Friday, March 31, 2006 2:18 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST

The Somnambulist.

An old fashioned word for sleepwalker... I use it not as a nod to the ANGEL episode Somnambulist, but from my favourite black and white silent film:The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari wherein a mad Physician travelled around towns with a cabinet, in which he would let loose a sleepwalker or Somnambulist to go about the town performing the doctors nefarious deeds.

www.cirqus.com

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Friday, March 31, 2006 2:36 PM

GRIZWALD

Because it wasn't taken??

- Seriously, that's why. I wanted a Firefly reference and couldn't believe the first one I tried wasn't taken.

Besides, I like Griswold cast iron ware.

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They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!

Click on my profile for my Annoyingly Long List of Firefly Links.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 2:37 PM

AUNTYCHRIS

screen name origins: interesting subject. I was trying to make a statement about my religious "non-affiliation", and include my actually name (Chris), and being that my sister calls me the anti-christ (because of my religious "non-affiliation") I came up with "auntychris" (meant to put a t on the end but goofed up). Sometimes I'm just too damn clever for my own good, ya know.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 3:18 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Everyone has origins and meanigns for thier names. I feel all lonely. Doesn't anyone else like to make up cool sounding names? Am I the only one? *weep* Just kidding.

Well at least there are some cool names here. And some of these stories are pretty interesting.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 3:27 PM

ZOEROCKS

ZoeRocks - cause she does! I just like Zoe cause she takes no gorram cr*p from anyone. Pretty simple.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 3:27 PM

BROWNCOATSANDINISTA

BrowncoatSandinista -
I, like the rest of you, can be called a "Browncoat" and I was listening to the Clash's album "Sandinista" when I joined. This prompted me to look at the similarities between the "Browncoats" both in the context of the show and real life and the Sandinistas. We're pretty similar, sans the human rights violations ((I hope...))

If anyone gets nosy...Shoot em.
Shoot em sir?
Politely.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 3:37 PM

DRU

Dru is short for Drusilla. A vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 4:18 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

E. C. Gordon is the main character in one of my favorite books, Robert A. Heinlein's Glory Road (and no, it's not about a basketball team - go read the book!)

I also answer to the names Oscar, Scar, Flash and Easy.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 4:31 PM

ROCKETJOCK

Mine comes from an odd little film called "J-Men Forever", which got quite a bit of play on the USA network's old "Night Flight" weekend programming block in the 80's.

It consisted of footage from a number of old Republic Studios cliffhanger serials cut together and re-dubbed to a script written by two members of the Firesign Theater comedy ensemble. The resultant wonderful mess centers on a war waged by government agents and superheroes against dope smugglers from the moon.

"RocketJock" was the name the film gave to the Rocketman/Commando Cody character, and I immediately adopted it as my call sign in the Blue Blaze Irregulars (a Buckaroo Banzai fan group). It's served as a fannish handle in various ways ever since.

"Hermanos! The Devil has built a Robot! Andale!" -- Numero Cinco

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Friday, March 31, 2006 5:03 PM

MILFORD

Lysander was also a famous warrior-king of the Spartans. He died at the battle of Termopolaye. Amazing story that. IF you're interested at all in historical ficiton, Stephen Pressfield wrote an interesting book about it called Gates of Fire.

But Shakespeare is nice too.

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Leaning into the wind that used to carry me-Stavesacre
That's why I don't kiss'em on the mouth- Jayne Cobb

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Friday, March 31, 2006 5:16 PM

SAMEERTIA

Well, usually I'm just Ertia, the opposite of inertia and all, but when I tried to register here the first time, something went wrong and Ertia got stuck. So now, I'm the SameErtia, as in the same old Ertia I've always been. ;)

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Friday, March 31, 2006 5:31 PM

PASTORBADGER

I use mine on one church forum, two car forums, and no other science fiction forums. I'm a retired pastor from Wisconsin. So? Creativity isn't my specialty. I always say, "God got around to creating everything already. I'm not going to waste His day shooting for original." ;)

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Friday, March 31, 2006 5:33 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Ahhhhhhh, Doncoat, there is no badder astronomer than Phil Plait. Luv him.

After aeons of lurking I was desperate to post some highly significant piece of fluff (no, Joss, not lint, no screaming necessary) and tried to sign on as FloralBonnet, after a favorite line.

Gorram! Didn't work. Taken, I guess, but no longer in use.

Fooey.

Interested less in a creative s/n than in carping the diem, I quickly amended it to FloralBunny, and soon signed on at the Serenity movie board as the same.

I feel a bit stuck with it, but upon reflection I realize it could have been far, far worse.

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----

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Friday, March 31, 2006 6:30 PM

SHINYFAB

My sister and I will say to each other "Darlink, that's faaaabulous" in a very Eva Gabore way. I started shortening it to fabu and then fab. When I started watching Firefly I loved Shiny as an original saying. So there ya go.

Bwah!

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Friday, March 31, 2006 7:31 PM

ZOID

zoid is a Greek suffix meaning "animal; living being; life". That's why it's uncapitalized. I pronounce it "zo'-id", as opposed to "zoyd".

v/r,
-zed

P.S.
There are many other zoids on the net. I'm none of those. Think of me as a 'protozoid'.
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

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Friday, March 31, 2006 8:40 PM

ARISLYN

Heard it somewhere once, thought it was pretty.

Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 9:57 PM

SERENITYSEEKER

It's what I seek.

In one sense, I'm looking for our beloved ship to return to us someday, our favorite band of misfits sailing through the black.

In the other sense, it's what I look for in everyday life. The world's too gorram crazy nowadays, and people die of too many stress induced problems. I've realized there ain't nothin' in this world gettin' too high-strung over so ya just gotta settle down and find your own little place of Serenity.

Keep flyin'.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 10:19 PM

XXBROWNCOATXX

I do say, Everything I thought up was already taken. So, as you can see I got veeeery creative. I lost many nights sleep and stressed long hours to come up with this name.

"See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like"

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:52 PM

MAGHAFFAR

Most mishaps in aviation and computer interfacing come down to two words:
Pilot Error.
I'd just found this site & wanted to get involved,
so I typed my standard username of MAGHAFFAR,
but was planning on using "Crazy Ivan"
as a s/n 'cuz I love things that fly [planes, spaceships, etc/]
plus I knew that "barn swallow" and "crazy ivan" were both flying jargon --
love Wash's line: "Here's something you can't do." -- anyway, Pilot Error
intervened in my attempt to edit / change my s/n after I'd entered MAGHAFFAR,
so there it remains.
Oh, the "m" is for Mohammad, the "A" is for Abdul. Ghaffar is the last name.

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