A question about everybody's screen names or whatever you want to call them by ebonezer

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A question about everybody's screen names or whatever you want to call them

POSTED BY: EBONEZER
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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:05 AM

Mal=Malcom Reynolds
Licious=short for delicious

meaning I think Nathan Fillion is yummy,or: Mal is delicious!

(alternatively, Mal=bad and licious=tasty. Bad and tasty! Kind of like a naughty treat.)

Mal-licious

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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:10 AM

EST120

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Glad I'm not the only one being unimaginative and using my initials. It's kind of my nickname too. I was just thinking the other day that I should think up a new name. Anyone got any ideas they're not using?

i have been thinking about it today. i think you should pick something that is dear to your heart and not worry about it being closely related to Firefly (that may be sacrelige to say here, but many firefly-related names are already taken!).

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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:33 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

I'm not allowed to talk about it.
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I am Jack's username
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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:36 AM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Finn Mac Cumhal, (pron. Fin Mahk Coo’al)

Finn Mac Cumhal, in Irish Mythology, was the last leader of the Fianna, a band of elite free Irish warriors who served the High King of Ireland in pre-Christian Ireland. The adventures of Finn and the Fianna were recorded in the 12th Century by Irish bards in what is today called the Fenian Cycle, but the stories date to the 3rd century.

There are many stories; most of them rather fantastical, about Finn, but little hard evidence. The most important source for the Fenian Cycle is a 15th century manuscript called ''Acallamh na Sen rach,” which is derived form an older source from the 12th century. The actual story is older still then that, as it records conversations between the last surviving members of the Fianna and presumably St Patrick. Like the King Arthur stories, Finn is believed to be a real historical person, but centuries have obscured the reality and left us only with the legend.

Two of the most eminent Irish legends compose part of the Fenian cycle, the Toraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghrainne, and the ever famous Tir na nOg.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:39 AM

FIREFLYWILDCARD1

Mine is fireflywildcard1:

Firefly...cuz I like Firefly.

Wildcard...forgot the "s" so it would be Wildcards after the 58th squadron in Space Above and Beyond.

1...cuz these are my favorite Fox TV shows and both were cancelled during/after their first season.

Pretty boring really.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:43 AM

ANOTHERFIREFLYFAN

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
Mal=Malcom Reynolds
Licious=short for delicious

meaning I think Nathan Fillion is yummy,or: Mal is delicious!

(alternatively, Mal=bad and licious=tasty. Bad and tasty! Kind of like a naughty treat.)

Mal-licious

Huh... woulda thought it was the word malicious (with the obvious mal connection)

:P

Mine.. well DUH!!! ;)
I've used Another ___ fan pretty much everywhere, it works quite well.

But my AIM screenname (which anyone is free to contact, I'd like to add more browncoats to my buddy list) ReptilianSamurai has a bit more back story to it. My favorite group is Oingo Boingo, and one of their songs is Reptiles and Samurai. I kept trying for screennames on AIM, and all kept being taken until this one. So, ReptilianSamurai stuck... I later named my website ( http://reptiliansamurai.0catch.com ) after it as well, because I couldn't think of anything better... and now there's a little animation to go with it too!

~Another Firefly fan

Keep flying

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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:44 AM

BLACKSHAMROCK5

Well I tried to make it red shamrock or blue shamrock but they were already taken so it became black. The shamrock came from me loving everything that is Ireland and 5 is my favorite number not the most creative but it works.

Shamrock

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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:45 AM

PALADIN

For me, Paladin is my default alias for just about everything. This has been going on for about 8 years now.

I originally got the name from a Magic: the Gathering card titled "Northern Paladin." It was a decently powerful card with low sumoning cost. I mainly just liked the name and picture. Later that same year I became a roelplayer at the local Ultrazone (lazer tag place). I had to choose a name to go by, Northern Paladin was too many letters so I shortened it to Paladin and the rest is history. Unfortunately, I have since lost the card somewhere in the dark recesses of my room.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:58 AM

ELFRENETICO

“El Frenetico & Go Girl” is my favorite superhero team from some straight to video “movies” I worked on years ago. El-Frenetico is a washed up alcoholic Mexican wrestler / crime fighter who is always dubbed. He would spend his days at the bar if not for his hero-worshiping sidekick Go-Girl who motivates him and does most of the actual work. I’d have a picture of him in my title if I knew how to import it here.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 10:06 AM

ROCKETJOCK

Mine comes from a 1980's parody film assembled by members of the Firesign Theater. The Film was called "J-Men Forever", and it was a collection of clips from old Republic Studio's movie serials, with newly dubbed comedy voice-overs. The Commando Cody/Rocketman character was renamed "Rocket Jock", which tickled me; my mundane initials are R.J., which fits too.

"You can't enslave a free man. The most you can do is kill him." -- Robert A. Heinlein

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Monday, May 24, 2004 10:43 AM

ATHERTON

Atherton is my nickname (taken from the former England cricket captain; Mike Atherton whom I apparently resemble) and I thought it fitted in well with the Firefly universe, with Mr Wing.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 10:49 AM

SPACEGENERAL

Immaterial of what Dragonwine might think, http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=5353&m=66269#66269 , I just made it up. There you go, nothing to do with Alien Resurrection...

It's arrogant to believe we are the only inhabitents of the Universe....

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Monday, May 24, 2004 11:19 AM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Guided By Voices are one of my favourite bands, which I got into via Buffy (Teenage FBI was on the first compilation album, and I hunted out Do The Collapse for that tune, and have been hoovering up their material ever since).

There's the Whedonverse connection, but I felt the need to gussy it up some in the Firefly direction, and what with River's "its getting very very crowded in here", the two came together.

MBV for short on the chat, though I worry I sound like a key ingredient in Chinese restaurants....

"I threw up on your bed"

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Monday, May 24, 2004 12:26 PM

HELL'S KITTEN

Quote:
Originally posted by liz:
Quote:
Originally posted by Veritas:
Years ago, I found out the Latin word for truth was veritas.

the spanish for truth is Vera... like Jayne's gun. I always thought it was neat that he named his gun truth. heh.
My name's Elizabeth (duh) and i never got a cool nickname. so...ummmm...yeah.

Hey, there. I'm near certain that vera is actually Spanish for side. And I am certain that verdad is Spanish for "true" and/or truth. Slight difference, but thought it worth mentioning.

I've had my name a long, long time. However, I'm not entirely sure where my name came from - I refuse to believe it's a personality thing - so I'd appreciate any recollections you may have.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 1:12 PM

MAUGWAI

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Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
Yossarian is from Catch-22. He's paranoid, yet his thinking is logical, even if it is skewed. My brain is the same way. Well, half is paranoid, half is logical, even skewed. So, it became Yossarian. Okay, done now.

I love that book! I have never been so shocked and horrified by a novel scene as I was when I read the scene when the plane comes out of the cloud and cuts that soldier into pieces. I literally went from laughing out loud to shrieking to crying, all within about two minutes of reading time.

As for my name, I once had a boyfriend who thought I was so adorable I reminded him of Gizmo from "Gremlins". I used "Gizmo" as my screen name for a while, until I realized people were shortening it to "Giz". So I switched to "Maugwai" which is what Gizmo was, even though I misspelled the word. I've been using it too long to fix it now.

I'm still cute, but I don't eat after midnight.

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."

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Monday, May 24, 2004 1:28 PM

LUPINADDAMS

My handle, Lupin Addams, comes from a character in an unpublished semi-autobiographical novel written by a friend of mine - the character is based on me, so I felt fine about nicking it!
(Plus since a lot of the cooler handles have been taken by others on various lists, I figure there aren't going to be many others out there with this particular name!)

Lupin - of the wolf (yeah, should be 'lupine', but hey...), also a kind of plant...

Addams - just like it sounds. My family is often described as The Addams Family on acid.

"You are what you do."
Andrew Vacchs

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Monday, May 24, 2004 1:37 PM

MAKEROFPATHS

Mine is inspired by the astounding high fantasy series, Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.

Sorcery is an everyday thing and there are many levels of power and practitioners, including humans. Mages are able to access and draw upon warrens or paths of power and achieve levels of ability over health or light or land, or seas, etc.
All of these channels of power and understanding were created long ago and have their limits and secrets. This is only scratching the surface, btw. (I'll just stop there . . . heh, heh . . .)

(Plug for series: The author plans nine books and has just released number 5 -- in UK and Canada but not US I'm afraid. See 5-star reviews at Amazon.)

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Monday, May 24, 2004 2:12 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Well, people seem to think I am a bit off. Odd, strange, insane, touched, weird, etc. And I am a girl.

I use to refer to people as "that girl with the hair", "that guy with the shoe", "that laughing person", and such instead of using their names. We all know what happens next: what goes around comes around. Someone began referring to me as that weird girl. It stuck. Then someone bought the domain name and gave it to me to create a website. Five years later, I have learned a little about site development and coding. So now I am weird and a geek. That's all.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

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Monday, May 24, 2004 2:21 PM

TEELABROWN

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I love that book! I have never been so shocked and horrified by a novel scene as I was when I read the scene when the plane comes out of the cloud and cuts that soldier into pieces. I literally went from laughing out loud to shrieking to crying, all within about two minutes of reading time.

Me too! That was depressing when Kid Sampson got chopped up, than McWatt commited suicide. My gosh, that was depressing at the end.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 2:29 PM

EBONEZER

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
And I am certain that verdad is Spanish for "true" and/or truth. Slight difference, but thought it worth mentioning.

I've always herd veridad used as "right" Like "Ellos le gustan tocar la guitara, veridad?" (They like the play the guitar, right?)

Although now that I think about it i guess it could be traslated more litaraly as "Is it true that they like the play the guitar?"

So now that i REALLY think about it i start to wonder why i even mentioned it.

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Four out of five dentists reccomend calling Ebo a girl.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 2:34 PM

SEAFORT

Like someone else said, I'm always trying to come up with something neat sounding at the last minute and I can never think of anything.

So I stole the name Seafort from a series of sf novels by David Feintuch that I read years ago and always liked. I couple of places I go by Seafort007 (two geek things smashed together!)

Usually I play on some variation of my name, it gets hard to keep track of all these things tho...

"The cosmic baker took us out of the oven a little too early, and that's the reason we're as crazy as we are..."

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Monday, May 24, 2004 3:56 PM

OUTTATHEWORLD

Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Quote:
Originally posted by liz:
Quote:
Originally posted by Veritas:
Years ago, I found out the Latin word for truth was veritas.

the spanish for truth is Vera... like Jayne's gun. I always thought it was neat that he named his gun truth. heh.
My name's Elizabeth (duh) and i never got a cool nickname. so...ummmm...yeah.

Hey, there. I'm near certain that vera is actually Spanish for side. And I am certain that verdad is Spanish for "true" and/or truth. Slight difference, but thought it worth mentioning.

I've had my name a long, long time. However, I'm not entirely sure where my name came from - I refuse to believe it's a personality thing - so I'd appreciate any recollections you may have.

I'm thinkin' a play on "Hell's Kitchen" (the New York immigrant district)?

Take us outta the world....

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Monday, May 24, 2004 4:15 PM

JADEHAND

I am Jack's Hiaku

Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave

Visit WWW.Marillion.Com for a better way to live

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Monday, May 24, 2004 4:34 PM

JADEHAND

Wow, Great responses. Glad I'm not the only one to take from a CCG(Collectable Card Game). A few years back I played Legend of the Five Rings(L5R) based on the Book of Five Rings. Set in feudal Japan with samurai and ninja with magic and demons thrown in for fun. I played mostly the Crab clan which defended the empire from the Hoards of the Shadowlands (demons & undead) The Jade Hand was an item that made smackin' em easier. I also sometimes use Tsukai_Sagasu which was supposed to be japanese for 'Witch Hunter'. I don't know if it actually translates that way. *shrugs*.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 5:09 PM

BEATLE

In fourth grade I brought a bunch of Beatles records to school. Soon everyone started calling me Beatle including my teachers and parents. All through high school I only wrote Beatle on all my papers. A lot of people never new my real name.

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Monday, May 24, 2004 8:14 PM

RAHNEKAT

Simple. Rahne is my middle name (and its pronounced 'rain'). Kat is a derivative of my first name. Together, I am Rahnekat. I've been using that as a screen name since I started surfing the 'net years and years ago.

"Is there blubber?"

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:46 AM

CYBERSNARK

Mine is a veiled Transformer reference.

One of my favourite TF characters is Skybyte, the Predacon shark from Robots in Disguise. Like Skybyte, I tend to be somewhat angsty, highly literate (English Major, which around here means English Lit Major), and somewhat clumsy and silly. I'm also known for being really sarcastic/ironic (nothing like the feeling of tellng someone off and watching it fly right over their heads. It's beautiful).

Skybyte's toy was a repaint of the Transmetal Cybershark mold, and "snarky" means sarcastic.

On other forums, I tend to use "Beast"-related words, both 'cause of "Beauty and," and because I'm one of those wierdos who talks to animals.

I'm known as BeastMaster (a type of Jedi who communes with animals --my Star Wars RPG persona, for JK.net), Flying Beastie ('cause I'm still the "BeastMaster" persona, only airborne on XWA.net), and JediBeast (AMV.org, KaZaA).

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:52 AM

MANTICHORUS

Well, back along, I started writing fan fictions, and I decided that I wanted a unique nom de plume.
Now, I have an interest in legendary animals (e.g. dragons, griffins etc), and there is one called a manticore. See link for more info on said beastie: http://monsters.monstrous.com/manticore.htm
Anyway, the Greek for it was 'mantikhoras', and I thought 'How'd you pronounce that? Mantichorus, perhaps.'
Later (weeks or months), I was looking at another book, and learnt the old term for a narrator was 'chorus'. The two things linked together, and I decided that it was unique enough for my pen name! Phew.

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"BADGER: You think you're better than other people.
MAL: Just the ones I'm better than."
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"MAL: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous.
SIMON: Yes, I'm very proud."

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:45 AM

OOG

Mine's the letters for "Out of Gas", cause it's my favorite Firefly ep. And I couldn't think of anything else.

The other name I use on boards is usually "fsfanatic" cause, I'm a huge (both literally and figuretively) Farscape fan. But I didn't think the Firefly boardies would appreciate that ;) I occasionally use "dolfuns4me" as well, cause I like Dolphins.

Loni

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:50 AM

EST120

hey oog, where is your little quote "you're my kind of stupid" from? it sounds very familiar, but i do not remember it from any episode of Firefly. is it from somewhere else?

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:04 AM

NIGHTTRAIN

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hey oog, where is your little quote "you're my kind of stupid" from? it sounds very familiar, but i do not remember it from any episode of Firefly. is it from somewhere else?

That's a qoute from Heart of Gold. Mal says it to Nandi when she refuses to run.

"You gone got yourself lookin' mighty hideous" ~Jayne

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:36 AM

HATEHATEHATEFOX

Self explanatory, no?

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:02 AM

PEDME84

pedme is one of the many ways you can spell the Tibetan word for "lotus flower." another way is padme, just like the character in star wars. no doubt the reference is intentional, but that is the most exoteric way to spell the name. if lucas really knew what he was talking about, her name would have been "peme."

i picked it initially because i love myth, and i write, and those two go together, so to use the tibetan word for lotus flower that had also been used in star wars was showing myth that went together with writing (if only to me).

84 is a sacred Jain number, but i've seen it in a Tibetan buddhist text, too, so who knows? maybe it just gets around.

- emily

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:12 AM

GRACEOM

Grace O'Malley, or Granuaile (1530-1603) was an Irish pirate chieftan...much celebrated in song and legend.

Grace

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:29 AM

EST120

Quote:

That's a qoute from Heart of Gold. Mal says it to Nandi when she refuses to run.

"You gone got yourself lookin' mighty hideous" ~Jayne

thanks!

some Firefly fan i am, i do not even recognize a direct quote from the show! i am ashamed. :(

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:31 AM

FIREFLYFRIEND

Mine comes from my two all time favorite TV shows.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:00 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

It's Scottish, although I didn't know that when I picked it. See, I thought I made it up. When I was writing a fantasy story, I created a character who was a woman of two worlds, belonging to neither and often had to forgive the frailties and cruelties of men. I liked the name "Channing" and changed it to "Channain" to give it a vaguely elvish sound. I use it for every online e-mail because I don't have to put numbers after it - nobody else has claimed it.

Here's the cool part about it, though. I Googled on "Channain" once and after about eight Firefly entries (go figure

), there was an article about a lake in the Highlands of Scotland by the same name. So maybe it turns out I had an ancestor from that area, once upon a time, who married into the Ferguson Clan (MacFaergis in the Gailic) and the name is actually a genetic memory.

And in case you're wondering, the avatar I'm using is for the sake of the RP "Adventures in Gunrunning." It's actually Jeannette Lee, a RL nine-ball player.

We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:23 AM

OKKAY

In the end credits of Animaniacs (the best cartoon ever created, the 2nd best TV show behind Firefly), at the end they always do a short scene in the water tower. One of the things they did was Yakko saying "And remember, Yakko spelled backwards is Okkay."

BTW, 3of19, I also play the Star Trek CCG game. Interesting.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:59 AM

MISTRESSOFUSELESSKNOWLEDGE

Heh, my screen name derives from my husband hating playing Trivial Pursuit with me, and my tendency to be a smart-alecky know-it-all.

My old nickname was Bronwynn, but I (and my husband) just got tired of it after playing several D&D and Neverwinter Nights characters named that. I thought about using Ishtara SittHakim, which is my old character's name in Dark Age of Camelot, and which is a reference to my favorite author Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody mysteries. But once again, I decided to be different. Sometimes you just want to freshen up a little!

Mistress of Useless Knowledge

"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:25 AM

STILLSHINY

It's all about keeping a good attitude in the midst of all the crap life may throw at you.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:26 AM

FIREFLYWILDCARD1

Quote:
Originally posted by seafort:
So I stole the name Seafort from a series of sf novels by David Feintuch that I read years ago and always liked. I couple of places I go by Seafort007 (two geek things smashed together!)

I liked David Feintuch's Seafort series until the fourth one. After that it felt a little overdone and like he hadn't planned to take it as far as the publishers did. I don't know. But Seafort was my favorite character in that series.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:48 AM

FREEDOM

Well I was a Buffy/Angel fan first so the nickname I usually go with on sites is SlayGal. But I thought I'd do a name change for Firefly and since the whole concept of the show is freedom, that's the name I picked. I like the notion of Mal and the crew being able to fly around without being obligated to do things or being under the thumb of the Alliance.

Also I wanted to use the name of my favorite character but I like the whoel crew so I couldn't pick!

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:51 PM

NUR

My real-life name has several different meanings, one of them including 'light of God'. Nur means 'light' in Farsi, my fiancees first language. It means the same thing in Arabic but apparently if spelling phonetically from Arabic it should be Nour or Noor (like the Queen of Jordan). Its not a big deal to me since I prefer the Farsi, but the person who told me about the Arabic version was quite adament. Apparently its dreadfully important to remember the difference

http://www.thecherryordchard.net

Those who restrain desire, do so because thiers is weak enough to be restrained.
-William Blake

O my Lord! bestow wisdom on me, and join me with the righteous.
-Qur'an 26:83

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:52 PM

OUTTATHEWORLD

Quote:
Originally posted by pedme84:
pedme is one of the many ways you can spell the Tibetan word for "lotus flower." another way is padme, just like the character in star wars. no doubt the reference is intentional, but that is the most exoteric way to spell the name. if lucas really knew what he was talking about, her name would have been "peme."

- emily

I'd guess that the Star Wars character was likely named after the character in Dickson's Dorsai! (or was it Tactics of Mistake?) rather than from the original. Not sure, though!

Take us outta the world....

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:17 PM

JUMPY

okay Jumpy is taking from my email address jumpymcwolf@hotmail.com.

When I first signed up to hotmail I was trying to think of an address straight off that nobody else would have. My favourite animals are wolves thus the "wolf" bit. The rest.......well I just have no frickin' idea! Just popped in my head that my name could be Jumpy McWolf. and that's what I made for my email.

I still puzzle over it to this day, what could I have been thinking about when I came up with that?

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You can't take the sky from me...

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:25 PM

NIGHTTRAIN

Quote:
thanks! some Firefly fan i am, i do not even recognize a direct quote from the show! i am ashamed. :(

you should be ashamed. Go rewatch the entire series 3 times as your pennance.

"You gone got yourself lookin' mighty hideous" ~Jayne

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:03 AM

BENDIS

I chose Bendis because he is a name from the show that was not terribly important. (Poor sucker died in the first five minutes of the first episode.)

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"We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis.
You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw."

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:21 AM

TJACK

My family calls me TJ, and an early/long-time Role-Play charachter was Jack Flash. Shove them both together and you get my E-mail address. Shorten that and you get Tjack.

When faced with a moral question I ask myself; "What would The Lone Ranger do?"

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:04 AM

OOG

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you should be ashamed. Go rewatch the entire series 3 times as your pennance.

Ooo, ooo! I've been bad too! I can't think right off what it is, but I think I should be punished as well!! ;)

Loni

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:41 AM

SAMURAIX47

I've been SamuraiX47 since 1995. For you anime fans it is NOT from SamuraiX...

A cpl factors went into the name...

Firstly the Legend of the 47 Samurai or 47 Ronins, the japanese title is Chushingura. A true story of a young brash lord who was provoked into drawing his sword within the Shogun's castle, a ritual-suicide (seppuku) offense. All of the young lord's samurai were now disbanded to wander as lordless Ronin, but they signed a pact to get revenge against the slimy lord who provoked their young lord. After several years of biding their time, they finally met back up and killed the slimy lord. They were all caught and because they showed such strong loyalty to their dead lord they were allowed to commit seppuku. many movies and tv series have been produced telling of their exploits.

Secondly, in my fraternity chapter, we believe that the number 47 is the most common re-occuring random 2-digit number. Whether you want to buy into it or not, I have to tell you that I see it every day. Atleast 2-3 times a day, everyday, when I drive to and from work, the license plate on the car directly infront of me will have 47 in it. I happened to get a numbered parking sticker for my car for work... there's a 47 in it. My ssn has 47 in it twice... There are hundreds of 47 Factoids... like a mosquito has 47 teeth... Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969, 47 days after NBC aired the last episode of Star Trek... And if you do watch ST: TNG or DS9 or Voyager you'll hear 47 used by Data and others when spouting out techno-babble. In Alias, Syd was involved in Project 47. I could go on and on.

Thirdly... the X is to make it sound more Gen-X... it seemed like everything in the 90s had to have X in it... Xtreme, etc.. So Samurai47 became SamuraiX47 which I have registered all over the internet.

Jaymes
"He ate what was set before him."

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