Preserved Topic: Hmmm...strange names

I've really noticed all of the strange handles that people have, even mine would be strange if you'd never played Unreal, but I was just wondering, how did everyone come up with their names?

(BTW: Doc...what's up with your Email? I keep getting returned mail saying that your address has permanent fatal errors.)




Don't make me come down there! - God

Well depending on the mood Im in I either tell people that I came to my name after watching Top Gun (one of my fav movies) one to many times. One of the piliots names is Jester and I changed the 'er' to 'ah'. Truth is I just like the name Jestah. Always have. Ive been told it fits my personality pretty well to. I dont even know what Unreal is so yeah Skaarjj is a little weird of a name. It sounds like the name of a fish or something, still cool though.

Jestah
ieJestah@hotmail.com
ICQ - 77252449

my "handle" was created when i began playing diablo back in '98. i wanted something that sounded feminine as well as fantasy bookish. it simply means "lady sasha", so its sort of a contraction. sasha was a dog i got for my 15th birthday.

lots of people thought it was french. the name pretty much stuck with me until i began playing UO. it made a dumb name for a character.

My handle's an altered Klingon word, but it doesn't mean anything. I'm no trekkie, but I just thought it had a nice ring to it. (you pronounce it like mike-a or maika.)

Before I roamed the net under the name 'megalomaniac', which is just latin for 'bighead.' No, I'm not. thank you very much. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

: : M a h j q a : :

Years ago, when I worked at my first police department, my partner at the time started calling me Pugsly because he said I reminded him of Pugsly Addams from the Addams family. I changed it to Pugzly for the hell of it.

Pat Richard
Web weenie
http://www.gurusnetwork.com
ICQ 23113317

Mine is based on the speed and voraciousness that I employ when drinking coffee. Friends started refering to me as twitch, so I picked it up.

Before this, I was known as murcurochrome, the iodized crystal antiseptic...for no good reason whatsoever except that it was a long word (misspelled, no less) and I ran a BBS called Zeitgeistjaialaithrombophlebitis.

Nevermind.

I built my first computer when I was 17. My buddy introduced me to the internet shortly after and told me that I needed a 'handle'. Seeing as how the band Jackyl was my personal favorite at the time (They still rank in the top ten) I thought that 'The Jackal' was only fitting.

I soon realized that as original as I thought it was, it was'nt. My friend called me an 'unoriginal bastard', so I thought that it would be only fitting to stick it in my signature.

Got mine from trying to sign up for a hotmail account. Everything good was taken. So I was working in the computer biz and coming off of a bad break-up (ironically we got back together and now I am again going through a bad break-up with the same girl). Anyway "just a bit damaged" cam from a song I was writing at the time and made a cool kinda play on words with my situation at the time.


Walking the Earth like Kane

Funny, I always thought I was original too. I figured no one else in there right mind would ever take a name like Jestah besides me. That lasted till i discoved AOL and realized EVERYONE had that name. Then I built my first website and called it Jestahs Relm. Yes I know now that it was spelt wrong. After submitting it to several search engines and then waiting I decided to see if it worked. I searched for Jestah and about 200 different sites came up ... not including my own. Oh well.

Jestah
ieJestah@hotmail.com
ICQ - 77252449

100 geek points awarded to whoever can tell me where my name came from <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Dan is my first name. I also use it as my account on Battle.net, Ezones, Marijuana.com, Like 10 other places I can't think of, and every place where you don't need to register a name.

- Dan -

[peer] is from a late night of IRC, when a bunch of people were disconnecting with the message "Connection reset by peer." I tried Peer, but that was taken, so I went with [peer]. I am now known as Chuck_the_Plant on IRC, but I don't feel like making a new profile for the board...


I've made a signature image, but my webhost's ftp server is down right now, so you won't be able to see it until I can get it up.




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PeerNet
http://www.peernetmain.net
"I couldn't think of anything stupid so I put something dumb instead." --Khalal

DL-44:

Star Wars?

I've already gone over my nomenclature about 15 times on this forum.. lemme see if I can find a link to which post I explained it in <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">




Never insult someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes... that way, if they don't like it, you're at least a mile away, and you have their shoes.

Tycho? you mean it's not from those little slot-car toys I had as a kid?? <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

oh yeah those were Tyco (methinks)


Walking the Earth like Kane

hehe...alex trebec says: "more specific please"

it's easy enough to look up of course, but I'd be impressed if anyone knows it without having to look it up. I've also gone by DH-17 before, and YT-1300 a couple of times <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

aside from that I also use Goibniu here and there.....twitch ouhta know what that one means <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">




[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 29-08-2000).]

Hey Skarj, I thought your name looked familiar! My handle also came from the Unreal Community, but more specifically from the Unreal Tournament community. My full UT name is: {950}RogueX

ahhh, the exact origins of my handle are a mystery even to me. The guys I use to hang around with about 12-13 years ago (grade 4 <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif"> ) used to call me all kinds of weird permutations of my real name which I think just got slowly weirded and more off the wall until suddenly I'm a turkey gizzard (although that's usually spelled with a g).

Hah! I'm too tired to tell the story again, try a search of the forum, maybe? Mom Wanted to name me "Doc" and Grampa was named Theocritus Ozone? Heh.

Hey! My email bounced? I had some bills I needed to pay at VISI, but that's all handled, I don't think they pulled my plug! Try again, maybe it'll work now, I hope... :/

Your pal, -doc-

Han Solo's ROTJ DL-44

Designed for close quarters combat, this portable and very lethal blaster was often used by Han Solo because it reliably punched through armor. A weapon favoring brute force over finesse, the DL-44 delivers tremendous damage, yet is small enough to be fired one-handed; its effective range is twenty-five meters with a maximum range of 50 meters.

The DL-44's Xciter consumes energy at four times the rate of a standard blaster pistol, draining a power pack after only twenty-five shots. Because of the excessive power consumption, the DL-44's grip has a vibrating "cautionary pulser" that silently alerts the user when the pack is down to five shots or less. A quick release lever and the power packs location - immediately in front of the trigger - allow very quick replacement of drained power packs.

Just as the Millennium Falcon is far from being a "stock freighter", Han Solo's Return of the Jedi DL-44 is a custom-crafted and greatly enhanced. Solo added a zero light scope which relies on the targets heat signature. The galven circuitry is extensively modified to deliver increased damaged without draining additional power. Solo carries the blaster in a quick-draw holster, giving him an added edge when speed counts.



Walking the Earth like Kane

Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue.

It's a real error message from early DOS.

Started off being ReVeLaTioN, on Battle.net, but everyone called me Reve, so it stuck.

The Artist formerly Known As

This is my character's name that i played for 2 years in Ravenloft, an AD&D setting.
She was my favorite character but killed by were wolves.

wow, bit, extra geek points for the elaboration <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">

I couldn't find a name I liked that was free way back when, so I picked up the book nearest to me (the Star Wars Visual Dictionary by chance) and flipped through till I found something not likely to be taken and easy to type <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">



The Blast Tech DL-44 blaster pistol was also widely used by the Rebel Alliance <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">



[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 29-08-2000).]

DL - why should I know Goibniu? Perhaps the memory is failing, but i have no recollection of anything regarding that word..

quote:

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An Irish/Celtic smith god, son of the goddess Danu. He manufactures swords that always strike true, and he possesses the mead of eternal life. He makes the arms for the Tuatha Dé Danann together with Credne and Luchtainel. As a brewmaster he was unsurpassed and his beer gave the drinker immortality. The Welsh called him Govannon.

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you seemed to know a bit about the general subject, thought you might recognize the name. ah well <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

I was working on a simple little site called War Journal, so I am now using it as a handle on these forums. I've also been known to use Grendel, GrenXXIV, Drommond, Lynn, NTwomanHAL (that was given to me by a guy that didn't know I'm male), and on UT I use Stroker.

I should've known that (DL-44's screen name origination)! I have that book upstairs! All this time, I *thought* it sounded familiar! Darn. =D

Wow, and I've never seen a star wars movie ever <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/frown.gif">

Jestah
ieJestah@hotmail.com
ICQ - 77252449

Are you kidding? Watch them! The acting could be better, but at the same time they're very entertaining.

DL ~ ..gawd.. Sorry, I forgot. I did know that, but I guess I'd forgotten. heh

Mine came from a Super Nintendo hockey game I used to play against my roommates. We were trying to think of Russian versions of our names so Kretsinger became Kretsminky.

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http://www.krets.net
Broken promises don't bother me. I just think, "Why did they believe me in the first place?" --Jack Handey

Here I go, earning my geek points. DL-44, your name IS from star wars. It's from the BlaTech DL-44 blaster rifle, prefered side arm of BOTH Luke Skywalker in ROTJ and Han Solo right through the whole series. BlasTech also produces hte DM-92 Blaster Carbine and components for Turbo lasers and Heavy Turbolasers.

Detailed enough for ya?




Don't make me come down there! - God

My nick comes from IRC, its the one i use there, but i just came up with something which i liked the sound of, and when i found the meaning of the verb in english (pure luck i think) i decided to keep it. i tried to change a few times but never managed coz everyone keep callin me Rend on IRC. My sig. comes from Blizzards' "Warcraft2". In the tips section they included some funky tips like "Don't spit into the wind", "Change your underwear every day", "Tell all your friends to buy WC2" and of course "Never Pet a Burning Dog" which turned to be my favorite saying and sig. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Never Pet a Burning Dog
Rend

....little late there skaarjj <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">

Well, once upon a time. . . .
It all started about three years ago at a New Years Eve party with my wife and a load of friends. We had gone out for a very high-class meal to be followed by the usual partying into the night. As the night went on I began to get more and more hammered. And when it came to the cheese and biscuits, I decided that it would be funny to throw the cellery (that I don't like) at the paintings on the wall (over some other diners heads I might add!). Of course some guests did not find it funny, but one of my friends DID and remarked "Oh, you are a Trixter!!!". And it has stuck ever since as my nick-name and not just for the web.



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Wow Trixter ... you seem like a load of laughs. Geez If you threw cellery at a pictuer over someone else head in NY you would be picking the cellery outta your ass. Interesting how everyone got there "handles" or "nicks" but whats everyones real name? Im Jay. Really its James but so is my dads name and everyone used to call me JJ cause of James Jr. Eventually it was shortened to just Jay. Three guesses on Dan's real name ...

Jestah
ieJestah@hotmail.com
ICQ - 77252449

Oooh Oooh.. I know!!

- Dan - ..hint hint..

I have a real name? My parents call me twitch, my brother calls me twitch, all my friends call me twitch, the law calls me Case #51KS001...

I think my real name is Steve...or something remarkably similar to that.

Whenever I meet someone, I usually greet them with "Hi. I'm Wes."

It kind of caught on.

Rend, all this time I've been wondering where I saw that quote before! Now I remember. Good game.

My screen name came from an old Nintendo (NES) game called Dragon Warrior, which they're actually redoing now for game boy. Slime is the weakest enemy in the game; I saw an animated cartoon version of the game (made for kids of course) and thought the Slimes looked really neat... seven years later, it's my screen name in just about everything having to do with the internet.

And my real name is John. My parents were really creative like that.

I loved that game!!
That was the 2nd RPG I ever played through.

That was a long time ago, however.

Btw, Eye of the Beholder was the first <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

- Dan -

The Character Rincewind is a sleazy lazy guy:
Loves: Avoid danger at all times especially when it's live threatening. Getting money from everyone without doing much for them.
(stealing is a good option hasseling is better) Go to the bar waste the money and watch the latest fight.

Rincewind also has a special right because Mr DEATH has to come get him personely.This is because he has been on the "unseen university".This makes him a wizard although he was never graduated and never will be.

He was created by Terry Pratchet in the Discworld books.

I think Rincewind is the best anti-heroe ever that's why i named myself after him.
After using Phantom for ages. But everyone has that name...

My real name is Tom (see the connection with Phantom?? No? me either). age 25 and the rest is not interesting anymore.




See you soon on the darkside of the moon (when the Alchemists don't blow it up that is)

LUGGAGE!!!!!!!!

My real name is Ashael, pronounces Ah-sa-el, and means "Made by god" which is silly considering the fact that im a total atheist.

Never Pet a Burning Dog
Rend

Gee...my real name is Adrian, means 'Dark One', strange thonig cause I'm not of any kind of ancestral african decent and I'm not in the least evil...I think...I'll just go have to check with the voices in my head.

My second name is Christopher, which means 'Christ Like'...bit of a contradiction, eh?

I love the discworld novels, before Skaarjj, my online name used to be 'The Bursar', another character from that series who is completly and utterly bonkers.




Don't make me come down there! - God

lol,

Made by god Designs

Cant go wrong i say.




[This message has been edited by Weadah (edited 31-08-2000).]

Ooooohhh!!!! I love that pic Weadah! Good Work!! Fabulous...great and so on and so forth. Heh...my lovely little ship, the K-56 Shark, currently (litterly, it going as we speak) is rendering a 1 minute animation set to take 45 meg. I'l put a screenshot of it up at some point.




Don't make me come down there! - God

Real name...Phil...rarely use my handle Scansped. It's short for Scandinavian Spedition or Scan Transport, came about during 3 years of Haulin the biways of Sweden and Norway in the early '90s (Doc Ozone Country)....boring...maybe not...
Remember 'Smokey & the Bandit' when 'whatisname' the Truck driver got thrown out of the Truck stop by the bikers, then promptly drove over their bikes with his rig...hehe...never pick an argument with 44 tonnes of truck...ask a Belgium who lost the rear end of his car as a result.. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

Phil you animal you ...

Jestah
ieJestah@hotmail.com
ICQ - 77252449

William Gibson's 'all tomorrows parties'
the 8 is infinty on it's side.

"B00MZILLA in the Lucky Dragon, back in there for what he knows is the first time they work this Lucky Dragon Nanofax, not a game but how you copy solid shit from one store to another. Not sure be gets that but there's free candy and big drinks for the kids, of which he is opting to be very definitely one, right now, hut ifs gone sideways with the bridge burning, and those motherfucker bulklifters come drop a fuckload of water on it, got about a hundred fire trucks and everything here, police, tactical squads, helicopters up in the air, so Lucky Dragon can't do the special thing for the first time they use the Lucky Dragon Nanofax, manager's going lateral, walks the aisle talking to himself. But the store's",
doing business big-time, home office won't let him close, and Boomzilla's started eating candy bars free because the securities are watching the smoke still rise off the wet black garbage, all that's left this end, so you can see the real bridge there, the old part, black too, hanging out in the air like something's bones.
And finally the manager comes and reads from a notebook, ladies and gentlemen, this momentous occasion. jaw jaw, and now they are placing the first object in the unit in our Singapore branch (Boomzilla sees on the TV, out on the pylon, it's a gold statue of the Lucky Dragon himself, smiling) and it will now be reproduced, at a molecular level in every branch of our chain throughout the world.
Checker and two securities, they clap. Boomzilla sucks on the ice in the bottom of his big drink. Waits.
Lucky Dragon Nanofax has a hatch on the front Boomzilla could fit through, he wanted to, and he wonders would that make more Boomzillas other places and could he trust those motherfuckers? If he could, he'd have a tight posse but he doesn't trust anybody, why should they?
Light over the hatch turns green, and the hatch slides up and out crawls, unfolds sort of, this butt-naked girl, black hair, maybe Chinese, Japanese, something, she's long and thin, not much titties on her the way Boomzilla likes but she's smiling, and everybody, the manager, checker, securities, they jaw-hang, eyes popped: girl straightening up, still smiling, and walks fast to the front of the store, past the security counter, and Boomzilla sees her reach up and open the door, just right on out, and it'll take more than a naked Japanese girl get anybody's attention out there, in the middle of this disaster shit.
But the crazy thing is, and he really doesn't get this, standing looking out through the doors at the video pylon, so that he has to go outside and fire up his last Russian Marlboro to think about it, after, is that when he sees her walk past the screens there, he sees her on every last screen, walking out of every Lucky Dragon in the world, wearing that same smile.
Boomzilla still thinking about this when his Marlboro's done, but thinks it's time for a Lucky Dragon Muff-Lette microwave, he thinks of that as his businessman's breakfast, and he's got the money but when he gets back in they got no Muff-Lette, fucking firemen ate them all. Fuck that, he tells them. "Why don't you fax me one from fucking Paris?"
So security throws his ass out.

-WILLIAM GIBSON
"ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES"


what i am doesn't matter...it's what you are that does


corps is mother, corps is father

Umm, Boomzilla8, that dragon is SOO unoriginal... wouldnt it be better to create something of yer own (no offense)? I mean its nice and all but we are picky here. People might even hit you with blunt objects.

Never Pet a Burning Dog
Rend

As God once said 'I know what you did last summer, and what you're going to did next summer as well, steer clear of that girl who buys you the bourbon and coke in the pub'




Don't make me come down there! - God

If you promise to mix some sharp objects in with the blunt ones and throw them anyway maybe I'll try to come up with something more original...

oh yeah...also promise unsolicited comments...


show me yours I'll show you mine...heh heh heh

what i am doesn't matter...it's what you are that does


corps is mother, corps is father

[This message has been edited by Boomzilla8 (edited 01-09-2000).]

Wow that sig is really annoying ...

Jestah
ieJestah@hotmail.com
ICQ - 77252449

thank you Jestah... I am sure I can make it more so just for you and place it under all of your comments so you can see it... heh heh


once again the comments come from those with no sigs and nothing constructive to offer...-grin-

what i am doesn't matter...it's what you are that does


corps is mother, corps is father

Boomzilla, that sig is *way* too big for the board. The file size is something like 69k. Signatures ought to be kept under 10k if at all possible, but 69k is ridiculous. For people with 56k modems, that sig would take like 15+ seconds to download. I'm not really sure if you meant it that way, but I think the signature would look quite a bit better if you eliminated the white "jaggies" around the edges. Either than, or make the edges consistent, so that they are not changing throughout the image. It's definitely an interesting concept, but the file size is just far too big for a signature.

Capt. wOlf, Part time live in San Pedro Harbor in LA, Part time live in Big Bear. I am starting a Life skills ranch and teaching people how to heal, from CHemical abuse, life abuse, and technology neglet. The revolution is over we are in an evolution.
The sea part is well the ocean the wolf is the mountains
Sea Wolf



[This message has been edited by Capt. Wolf (edited 08-09-2000).]

Hey Phil, the truck driver's name was Snowman. Great movie.

~Aaron
Don't ask me how I know what I know or why I do what I do.

Since birth my parents have called me "Buggy". All my family still does. In Junior High I wrote fantasy stories based on a world I created and in that world I was known as "Bugimus". In high school I decided to tone down "Buggy" to just "Bugs".

If you call me anything that starts with the letters b-u-g, I will respond <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

Hey Babamba...thanks for that.. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

....Yes it was a good film, and believe it or no, trucking in reality is a fun occupation...it gets in your blood and wont let go....

I've called it a day on 3 occasions and settled into a management role, only to miss the freedom and camaraderie so bad I went back....4 years this December, since I last drove a truck full time....still wrestle with an overwhelming desire to return to my old employers in Amsterdam (Holland)....as of my last call to them in July, there?s still a job waiting if I want it....nice people.
I guess my strategy must be changing....just quit my job at a Mercedes Truck Dealership....take up my new position as Operations Manager with a small trucking company in late October....lots to do....fun times ahead.... <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

Bugimus...love your new sig....