What's in a name?

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CITIZEN

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:27 AM

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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J6NGO1977

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:31 AM

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

SACIRAK

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:43 AM

Sacirak is just my last name spelled backwords
Karicas

http://www.myspace.com/rick72879

CITIZEN

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:35 PM

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

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PSOLARIS

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:08 PM

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'"

NCBROWNCOAT

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:12 PM

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.

FLIPDOG

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:21 PM

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.

DEMENTEDYAM

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:27 PM

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

CBY

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:40 PM

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

ODDBALLE8

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:48 PM

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)

PSOLARIS

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:51 PM

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'"

SCIBAMA

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:55 PM

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!!

MAL4PREZ

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:55 PM

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!"

OOKAMIKAWAHARA

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:57 PM

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!!!!

SMAUG

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:02 PM

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..

GEEKMAFIA

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:31 PM

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.

FOLLOWMAL

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:49 PM

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

CAUSAL

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:57 PM

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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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

QUEENOFTHENORTH

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:58 PM

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!

PAYNE

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:09 PM

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.

FIAREYNNE

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:14 PM

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...

DONCOAT

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:25 PM

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.

IAMZOE

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:52 PM

wish fulfilment.
Must. Be. Strong!

ODDBALLE8

Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:44 AM

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)

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Thursday, January 5, 2006 1:21 AM

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.

CITIZEN

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:09 AM

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

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:14 AM

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.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:17 AM

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.

OMELET

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:20 AM

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!

ELEKA

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:21 AM

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.

CAUSAL

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:26 AM

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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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

URSULA

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:36 AM

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.

SPACEHOPPER

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:27 AM

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

VIOLETRIX

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:52 AM

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

VIOLETRIX

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:54 AM

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
you won't remember anyway

VIOLETRIX

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:57 AM

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

CITIZEN

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:06 AM

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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KWICKO

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:06 AM

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."

MOOSE

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:38 AM

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

WORKEROFEVIL

Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:12 AM

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?

AERIN

Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:50 AM

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.

HAILFAX

Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:58 AM

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.

CHRISPV

Thursday, January 5, 2006 6:36 AM

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!

J6NGO1977

Thursday, January 5, 2006 8:20 AM

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

LMAO. I am so un-creative

LEIGHKOHL

Thursday, January 5, 2006 9:05 AM

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

POOBLESNUGGETS

Thursday, January 5, 2006 10:59 AM

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

BWARE42

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:17 PM

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?

VERASAMUELS

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:42 PM

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 .

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 ]

AMITON

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:43 PM

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.

PINBALLWIZARD

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:03 PM

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.

CITIZEN

Thursday, January 5, 2006 6:12 PM

Quote:
Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

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

I think I might...

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MATTIE

Thursday, January 5, 2006 7:58 PM

My name.... Humm.... Well, like many others, I needed a name fast, and my real one just wouldn't do. I wanted an appropriate 'verse name, which could have been anything, but I sat here for about three minutes racking my brains trying to think of one.
Then it hit me. In the episode The Message, Jayne recives his fantastic hat from home, along with a letter. He proceeds to read the letter out loud. It says something about a member of his family being ill--Mattie.
To me, Mattie is a sibling to Jayne, even if that's not really the name he says. So, I guess you could say that I'm claiming a relationship to a member of Serenity's crew.

Wacky fun!

GRIMLOCK

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:47 PM

Simple answer, for me, Grimlock was may favorite Transformer when i was growing up.
While its on my mind, can I import an avatar of my own choosing?

THECOLLECTOR

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:26 PM

Mine spawned by the Peter Straub book "Shadow Land"... In the book there is a scary ghost type thing called "The Collector"...

Other Names on other boards I've used have been

Razgriz - Which is an Ace Combat 5 thing
ShadowsBite - Which is a book by Stephen Dedman... awesome book I might add...

Brilliance is like 4WD... It allows you to get stuck in even more remote places...

DARKEYES

Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:09 PM

When I used to play D&D (I've since moved on to sci-fi rpg's which do far more to captuer my interest) my character was inflicted with cursed eyesight. The outward signs was that basically he looked like he never slept. He had children, and I roleplayed most of them, each carried the curse and the surname "Darkeyes".

"The sash indicates lordhood."

SERYN

Friday, January 13, 2006 12:02 AM

er, crazily enough, can't remember why I started using this name, it was when I was a kid, before I even saw a computer.

A serin is a very small british bird, for some reason we had to choose names of birds, my sister chose Robin and my best friend linnet.

Of course theres a grand love in my family for using y's instead of i's, so Robyn, Lynnet and Seryn.

All my emails and other user names are variations on this, Seryndippyt, Serynity, and even the god-awful Serynade (I was desperate) the only one I had different was Annyaenne (two-year-old for 'aunty Helen')

ta daaaa, not too interesting really.

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"She's a mite whimsical in the brainpan."

SIMONWHO

Monday, January 16, 2006 5:21 PM

I'm a Doctor Who fan.

RIVER6213

Monday, January 16, 2006 5:32 PM

In CounterStrike, Team Fortress Classics, and battlfield 1942, I was known as River1138 long before I ever heard of Firefly. "1138" comes from Lucas THX-1138 movie.

I live for Headshots!

GIXXER

Monday, January 16, 2006 6:11 PM

1986 Slabsider Suzuki GSXR-1100G.

Kaylee would like it. Old, unsophisticated, unbreakable, quite the badass in its day.

Obviously outclassed by modern equivalents, as indeed I am myself, I'd still choose it because of the hoot that comes from something that will go fast, but doesn't mollycoddle (or come to think of it, does not give half a hump about the continued survival of) the rider.

You know Marv from Sin City? Just like that.

G

Got X-Rays?

EMPXENU

Monday, January 16, 2006 6:30 PM

Mine is from scientology... well, not the 'emp' bit. I added that 'cause I'm a fan of Last Emperor.

"I think, therefore I am... I think"

KOMELION

Monday, January 16, 2006 6:38 PM

Well mine handle comes from a kid in my old eighth grade science class. This kid started to free style about me, “Maxamillion, he’s a chameleon, from Vermillion,” something like that. I thought to myself, “Hey, I like that chameleon part.” Not knowing how to spell it I looked it up. “I don’t like the spelling though.” So I changed it to komelion. I made it shorter and easier to spell. Also, chameleon was already taken at hotmail.

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Well, here I am.

FIZZ6KITTY

Monday, January 16, 2006 6:45 PM

Very nice Komelion! I like! :)

Okay, mine's kinda silly... My real name is Katie but my Mom calls me Kitty and I just got my Master's degree in physics so will be bored in class one day I was trying to think up new ways to spell boring old physics. lol! Came up with FIZZ - 6. :)

GLOBLABSURDITY

Monday, January 16, 2006 7:34 PM

It's come to my attention that the world itself is uniquely absurd. Hence the globl (worldwide) and the absurdity. The 'a' is omitted for artistic flare, or some such? Absurdity in life is what keeps me happy. Literally. I need to laugh so as not to cry. The more absurd the better. So as not to define myself as a cynic--I'd rather be considered as an absurdist. How's that for creating a new frame of thought & being.

*Never judge a book by it's movie*
*The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark,less sharp version of the truth*--D.Koontz (Forever Odd)

ROLAND

Monday, January 16, 2006 7:37 PM

Mine comes from the main character in Stephen King's series 'The Dark Tower'. I've always loved the name Roland after reading the first book in the series. It is my login name on most sites and my character name in many computer games I play.

DAX82

Monday, January 16, 2006 7:48 PM

Dax is the pomade I use for my hair and 82 is the year I was born.

COPILOTLEONARD

Monday, January 16, 2006 7:49 PM

Well if I were on the Serenity ship, I would so totally be the Co-Captain and my last name is Leonard so I figured why not?

"I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all"

IMIN

Monday, January 16, 2006 7:57 PM

I'm In- get it?

Well it is what Jayne says when the Cap says they are whores in Heart of Gold.

I just thought that it was funny.

THESOAPBOXER

Monday, January 16, 2006 8:24 PM

I am a Graphic Designer. My "company," through which I do my independent projects, is called Soapbox Production & Design.

(Traditionally, a soapbox is used to stand upon when making a declaration or tirade of opinions.)

My Graphic Design Instructor forced (read that again, forced) me to change my email address. (Apparently idaho_stallion wasn't "professional" enough for a screen name. Pfft!)

I settled on the_soapboxer based on my "company." (I'm clever!)

Or it's a statement against my hatred of bathing, in that I want to physically beat up bars of soap.

No, it's the first one.

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Juhguh JEE HUA jun kuhPAH!

CITIZEN

Monday, January 16, 2006 9:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
I'm a Doctor Who fan.

You expect me to believe such an obvious fabrication.

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More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.

DAMROD

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:35 AM

Lord of the Rings fan also: Damrod-Dunadan of Gondor, a Ranger of Ithilien

Have a better one!!!

Always bring grenades!!!

SAMEERTIA

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:44 AM

I originally wrote Ertia as a character in a sci-fi story, that evolved into a novel, that then fell by the wayside, and then later was made utterly obsolete.
(For more on that, check the essay on my website entitled "Too Late. Or How Joss Whedon Stole My Man")

http://home.ripway.com/2004-2/75835/toolate.html

Anyway, I started using Ertia's name when I started writing fanfiction on the web...err...a ...ummm...LONG time ago. She became my Highlander identity, and and then she really became, well, me. Or I her. I'm not sure how that worked.

I registered here as Ertia but then when I went to log in it kept telling me I didn't exist, so I re-registered as SameErtia, hoping that people wouldn't think there were two of us.

N0SKILLZ

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:50 AM

Lets see...

It started off in Counter-Strike... way back in the beta days. I pretty much sucked, and being the not so creative person I am, I just went with NoSkillz (gotta add the 'z' to be "1337")
and i'm just to lazy to think of a new name.

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"Right Now/ Somebody's stuck in Iraq, Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing/ In a war he's not really sure the reasons/ So we show our support when the press misleads him/ Though we mourn / Remain proud / Salute the troops..."-Ryu of Fort Minor
Death is like sex in high school... If you knew how many times you missed having it you'd be paralyzed- Georgia Lass (Dead Like Me)
*Andersen AFB, Guam*

NUCLEARDAY

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:48 AM

lol, some good interesting stories in here, so i suppose I'll share as well.

on my good days i fancy myself as something of a writer. years ago i was working on a book, and i can't usually start on anything until i can come up with a title: a ways of focusing my energy i suppose.

anyways, it was a post-apocolyptic story in the vein of Mad Max, etc. when i can come up with them, I like titles with double or hidden meanings, so i was playing around with words, and came up with a New Clear Day. (new and clear... nuclear, insert nerdy snorting here.) kinda cheesey and not so clever but it sort of stuck.

long story shorter, it was around the time i first got an online-capable computer. the spelling tends to change alot, and after countless rough drafts the gorramn story never seems to get done, but the frelling name never seems to go away :)

i also tend to go by the handle gibson grey at times, which has a much shorter story. gibson = both mel and william gibson, and grey is the surname i've used for roleplaying since i was like 6 years old.

KOMELION

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:49 AM

This here is my very favorite thread. I like reading all the posts. Like Kaylee says, “I like meeting new people, they’ve all got stories...” And good stories at that.

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Well, here I am.

LOLA

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:52 AM

hmmmmm...so it's actually my car's name.
and my alter ego
full name : Lola Falula super crime fightin' ace.
But funny enough the name I always use when I need to fill out somethin'like a magazine subscription, or I'm at an odd party and don't feel like giving out my true name....cause really..when it comes down to it how many Lola's do you know?
(I mean that aren't pole dancers or 80yr old granmums)
Of which...as so far..I am neither.

besides, if you got the retro in ya you can wander about slightly drunk singing "Copacabana" at most parties and get yerself a second glance.
there you have it..tonight I'm just Lola a heartsick Firefly fan.

Lola

"ever sailed on a Firefly?"

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:57 AM

I think mine speaks for itself.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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"...turn right at the corner then skip two blocks...no, SKIP, the hopping-like thing kids do...Why? Why not?"

FREELANCEPILOT

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:03 AM

There is a game, which i have actually never played, called freelancer that allows you to buy the firefly (special download required) in game. Plus i like the idea of freelance writing. I identify with wash a lot, and he's my favorite character, so
FreelancePilot.
Got spaceship, will pilot.

Wash: Yeah, but psychic? That sounds like science fiction.
Zoë: You live on a spaceship, dear.
Wash: So?

RHYIANAN

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:53 AM

The story of my name isn't too interesting. In third or fourth grade, I read a book where the queen of the faeries was named Rhiannon. Something in the name drew me and it immediately became what I called myself in any game I played with my friends. However, since I had never seen or heard of the name, I mispronounced it, saying ri-ON-an instead of rye-AN-on. As I grew older and found out my mistake, I still liked my version better, so I tried to find a way to spell it that would reflect my pronounciation better. I don't think it quite worked, but it's closer.

Wash: Yeah, but psychic? That sounds like science fiction.
Zoe: You live on a spaceship, dear.

KANESKI

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:54 AM

Took 'Kane' from the original C&C. Bald, evil guy with the awesome sadistic grin. Started adding 'ski' on the end of forums, signups, etc... since 'Kane' was commonly taken. As for the 'ski'... I'm a Ruski :D

P.S.: Yes, I know the 'ski' on the end of last names originates more from Poland than Russia. Details.

JELLYBEAN

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:35 AM

No great story behind my name. Decide I wanted a new one when I signed up here so I just started thinking of any random words or terms that came to mind before finally settling on JellyBean.
Huzzah for randomness.

KOMELION

Saturday, February 4, 2006 4:17 AM

I’m bumping for the new people that might want to share.

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Well, here I am.

NOVASTARCLOUD

Saturday, February 4, 2006 4:27 AM

Mine is pretty silly. I love science, astronomy mostly and I think novas are really awesome. It's my yahoo name. I wanted just "NovaStar", but somebody beat me to it; so I stuck 'cloud' at the end.

SERENYTY

Saturday, February 4, 2006 4:54 AM

Serenyty seems obvious, but actually... it's not.

When I chose this, I was... 12. It became my internet alias. I was having a Sailor Moon phase, and Serenity is the name of Usagi (main character) in the past. I thought it was cool, but I liked "y"s. *shrug*.

It all worked out, then.

~A message from Serenyty~

SAFEAT2ND

Saturday, February 4, 2006 4:59 AM

I am a consumate softball player. Live and breath it sadly.

It actually stuck from one game. We were playing a team obviously better than my team. I hit the usual screwball, it was a close play at second base. I had to slide. The result of the slide was I was safe at second, but I broke my wrist. I wrapped it and played the rest of the game. We won.

Not very Firefly-ish, I know.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

GUTTERBALL

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:00 AM

I'm sure you're all thinking that I have a smutty mind and belong in Book's Special Hell, but the nickname -- which is my sole on-line nickname, if you ever bump into me elsewhere -- comes from being terrible at bowling back in high school.

I bowled six straight gutterballs in the same game in which I bowled three straight strikes. The guys dubbed me GutterBall, and it has hung like the fated albatross around my neck ever since. It followed me to college and hence into the professional world.

Gorrammit.

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Please remember that the 9:30 show is completely different from the 7:30 show. Don't forget to tip your waitress.

BELOWZERO

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:07 AM

Well, I live in Alska, and it's been very very cold here, and when I joined the board it was about 35 below zero so....ANd I needed a name right then. If I could change it I would. I think I like "Reaversbane" a whole lot better. :) Maybe I'll use THAT one on the OTHER Browncoat board.

So many Reavers...so little time. Heh heh.

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

If you make my favorite show disappear forever, you *will* go to a very special level of hell, one reserved for child molesters, people who talk at the theater, and Fox executives.

DRAGONMASTERZERO

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:37 AM

Well mine is a purely gamer inspired name

Dragon Master is a title that the main character attained in Lunar: Silver Star Story

and Zero is from the Maverick Hunter Zero from the MegaMan X series.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Saturday, February 4, 2006 9:23 AM

Well - on every forum I've ever been on I've been my favourite character's little angel. Charmed: Leoslittleangel;
CSI: Horatioslittleangel;
Harry Potter: Siriuslittleangel...

So for Firefly, I'm Serenity's - because she's my favourite.

I can't really remember why it began.

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19 conversions and counting!!!

CHRISMOORHEAD

Saturday, February 4, 2006 9:39 AM

This is the name my daddy gave me. Anyone planning on pointing out the perverse double meaning to my last name, don't, it's been done at least 100 times and only ONCE was the joke even slightly amusing.

"Deep in the battlefield covered in blood
Lies an Airborne Ranger dying in the mud
He fought for his country and he died like a man
Though some people back home just wouldn't understand"

CITIZEN

Saturday, February 4, 2006 1:17 PM

I can't believe this thread is still going!

It's great to see though, some really interesting stories.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.

HAPPYWLAD

Saturday, February 4, 2006 5:51 PM

Mine was given to me due to my oh so jovial and unconstrained demeanor. (note sarcasm)

The only thing that matters is how well you walk through the fire.
C.B.

OLDFOGEY

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:23 PM

Well I'm... not young, and most times I feel
sort of fogey-ish (what's an ipod?). Also my
real name is Jane. That one's been taken.

Needless to say my favorite lines all sound
something like this: "JAAAAAYNE!!!"

KEVAR

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:41 PM

Kevar was bestowed upon me by my favorite brother-in-law when I was about seven and he has called me it ever since.(my real name is Kevin) Chances are, if you run into a Kevar elsewhere it's me. I love all the screennames though. Anyone familiar with the Pat Cadigan book "Synners"? can appreciate the beauty of screennames/alternate identities.

DIANASPR

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:49 PM

so I dont have a cool user name, I need one that has to do w/ what I like
but how can I figure a name when
I like old salsa(the music) Ella Fitzgerald,alternative, sci-fi(Firefly), cars, and the victorian time
its all over the board but id love a name that involes all that i am.

DRAGONFEAR987

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:53 PM

my name comes from the dragonlance fantasy series, dunno if neone here has ever read any of those books. but during middle school a friend got me addicted to those books, and id read em nonstop. neway one day i was looking for a name for a game and i started using dragonfear. dragonefear was the term used in the series for the fear that people felt whenever dragons came close. it wasnt really magic, i dont remember exactly how the books explained it, its been ages since ive read them, but it was pretty much just the feeling of terror that people felt when the dragons came. the number is simple enough, just take them from the top right of the keyboard. its usually either 987 or 88 when i make profiles.

SAKROVISHE

Tuesday, May 9, 2006 4:29 AM

FREDGIBLET

Tuesday, May 9, 2006 4:53 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
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.

First off I just wanted to comment on this, when me and my friends would play Goldeneye on the N64 my cousin would always forgo weapons to play as The Slapper. Since the default weapon was the karate chop.

My name:

Fred, I was homeschooled for the majority of my school career. When I was dumped back into public school in 8th grade there was already a Jeff in the class (my real first name is Jeff) so one of the other kids called me Fred. The name stuck and to this day I think there are people from my school who still think that that is my name.

Giblet comes from the fact that I used to play lot of Unreal Tournament, I was much better than all my friends so I usually ended up killing them easily (one game of Quake 1 ended with the score 20 to 1 my lead). When a body blows up in a shooter the pieces are called gibs, hence fredgiblet.

Stupid, but no one else uses it so I keep using it.

EDIT: I got the idea to Google my name from this post, everyting that came up is from me, though I don't specifically remember it all.

SERVANTOFKUSHIEL

Tuesday, May 9, 2006 5:19 AM

My favorite book is Kushiel's Dart. It is the story of a courtesan who is also a spy. The main character is a whore (In the book they are called Servants of Naamah) who reminds me very much of Inara. Great tragic fantasy novels.
So SERVANTOFKUSHIEL just kinda fit.

P.S. A little extra - Kushiel is the god of pain and redemption in the books.

NAUGHTYMAN

Tuesday, May 9, 2006 5:55 AM

Nothin' too clever here folks.Saw the BDM.Heard Mal say the line and thought to myself "that ones gotta be taken already,guess I'll end up as nottyman or something".The rest is history.Also the name sort of fits my personality,although I'm by no means a badass,I am kind of a wise-guy,joker type.I'm also naughtyman on most other Firefly sites except for the official Serenity site.

"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all"

SHINYGEEKET

Tuesday, May 9, 2006 6:23 AM

Mine is fairly simple as well. Shiny is probably my most used word from the FF 'verse so of course I wanted to use it as apart of my name. The Geeket part, well that just seemed like the best word to describe myself

"We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'."

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