Origin and meaning of your monicker

Tux · « **Reply #90 on:** July 04, 2003, 04:15:50 PM »

Initially. Of course the meaning has shifted just a bit.

Kanodin · « **Reply #91 on:** July 07, 2003, 04:49:06 AM »

Extract from JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion
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Appendix
Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names
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dîn: "silent" in Dor Dínen; cf. Rath Dínen, the Silent Street in Minas Tirith, and Amon Dîn, one of the beacon-hills of Gondor.
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káno: "commander": this Quenya word is the origin of the second element in Fingon and Turgon

I was trying to find a catchy yet meaningful alias for myself when I started playing Team Fortress Classic (years ago) online. I continue to use it because to me it exposes the method of persuasion within postmodernism.

My avatar is a parody of the posters from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. It was titled Simpson Wars after Bart Simpson casts the shadow of his legacy, Homer.

Tux · « **Reply #92 on:** July 07, 2003, 05:30:03 AM »

One moniker for everything. I used to be that way. I usually use Tux many things, but use other names that are more appropriate (such as when I play BF1942 versus when I play Half-Life mods).

HamsterGal · « **Reply #93 on:** July 07, 2003, 03:37:54 PM »

Quote:

I mean how many 20th century pop culture individuals of class and elegance wore tuxedos?

Fred Astaire? Oh, and James Bond!

Or are you only thinking of late 20th century? There's always the Tick...

Chestnuts · « **Reply #94 on:** July 07, 2003, 08:10:54 PM »

Chestnuts for obvious reasons -

Also was Chester in online gaming, after I used one of my own "alternate" voices to make a voicepack for Unreal Tournament with that name. It's still available at a couple UT voicepack sites.

Ryee_Whiskee · « **Reply #95 on:** July 08, 2003, 08:50:23 AM »

Hi hi all, I think I'm back...tis summer so we shall see.

I started out as LadyJay for an online game called *The Realm* as I wanted something royal sounding and Queen was too presumptuous.

I liked the name Jay so I became LadyJay and it worked well for years. Then Whamm, GI Joe hit the airwaves. I disliked being refered to as a cartoon char, but I wasnt going to scrape the name I came to love. I used it for all my chats and emails so I continued and thats when I coined my catch phrase *Bite Me*. Anytime anyone said, hmmm, LadyJay is from GI Joe, I would reply with BITE ME.

I later was just called LJ for short and I liked that just as much.

Moved on to a game called *EverQuest* and found that we could not use names that had Lady or Sir in them and I just didnt like the way LdyJay looked. So I thunked really hard! I was lost. Talked to my ingame hubby, he was lost. I thunked some more. (yes I know its spelled thought) I knew his fave hard drink was Rye Whiskey, so I tried Rye but we also couldnt use names with under 4 letters. /heavy sigh. I didnt want to be known as Ryewhiskey, and we couldnt get a last name till lvl 20 so...

I became Ryee (pronunced Rye and not rye-e), and at lvl 20 I became Ryee Whiskee (I wanted the whiskey to be in tune with the ryee so taking out the y and adding the e was perfect, if I do say so myself, and I do!

The only other name I ever use is IceyHott, but alot of places dont seem to like that so I shorten it to Icey when needed.

Thats about it from me. Sorry its so long, but you asked and I tend to be complete in my explinations.

destro · « **Reply #96 on:** July 16, 2003, 08:21:14 AM »

i usually use galvatron, but since it was taken, i used Destro, from a villian from GI Joes. don't know why though.

MunchWolf · « **Reply #97 on:** July 16, 2003, 09:01:11 AM »

well .. Destro was the cool one ... and he was all shiney ...

Cobra Commander sucked big time .. why did he stay leader for so long?

-Munch "mmmmmm ... how much better would GI Joe have been if all the characters were drawn as busty women ... mmmmm" Wolf

Tux · « **Reply #99 on:** July 17, 2003, 03:00:54 AM »

Well hopefully you were wise enough to have something else put in while they were removing your sense of humor. ^_- J/K

HamsterGal · « **Reply #100 on:** July 18, 2003, 02:49:43 PM »

*cheesy grin* Don't I wish!

madmike · « **Reply #101 on:** July 21, 2003, 09:18:59 AM »

Hmm... where my name comes from...

Well, I usually use the handle "Greek Fire" on the 'net, but for forums I take "Mad Mike", just because it has a nice ring to it. Contrary to popular opinion, I'm never usually as "mad" as my name implies.

As far as "Greek Fire" goes... well, I'm Greek. 'Greek Fire' actually was a weapon used by the ancient Athenians for sea warfare. It basically was a REALLY old-school flamethrower

During a gig at some open-lawn venue up in New Hampshire (it's been a while, so I don't recall the name...), we tossed a bunch of cheap lighters out to the crowd for our acoustic set. Cliché, sure, but we like giving out free stuff anyways. So a bunch of my friends start chanting "GREEK FIRE!!" randomly, and the name has stuck since then. I guess it was based off of the lighter. Hey, a nickname's a nickname, and at least I can say that there's some cooler meaning behind it.

Cheers, Mike

Chronicler · « **Reply #102 on:** July 22, 2003, 01:57:57 PM »

I use this monicker nowhere else but here. It's a reference to a person that writes things down, chronicles events, which is sort of how I present the animations I do because they have a backdrop of a fictional setting I made up. It also implies a bit of officiality, as if this were important stuff.

I've never really officially done much of anything, including study animation. I just do stuff, all kinds of stuff, so in a way, my brain is just a huge catalog that even I don't really understand. I've never been able to lock myself into saying I do this or that, because there is so much to experience and learn in this life. I am a person truly without place, a living experiment in chaos. I am everything and yet no-thing.

It also contains the word "chronic" which I think was just a tidy coincidence because "chronic" does accurately describe my fixation with boobs.

I also wanted to pick something unique, because I am somewhat known on the internet, and my love of BE has nothing to do with anything else I have ever done on the net, or in terms of other avocations.

_iSpork · « **Reply #103 on:** July 28, 2003, 01:14:25 AM »

Z's been bugging me to post, so here I am.

I usually go by iSpork, but someone beat me to it. So I tried i_Spork, but still, someone else. Oh well. So _iSpork_ it is, but you can drop the underscores as far as I'm concerned.

iSpork is the name of my computer; it pokes a little fun at Apple's "iApplication/iComputer" names (and everyone else trying to capitalize on Apple's originality). Annoying as it is, it's pretty successful.

And it speaks to my feelings about my iBook (I wasn't going to buy one, but it was a B-Day present; I have a really cool wife): It doesn't really do anything stupefyingly well, but it does everything.

So there's the deal. You can all go to bed now.

Serrated · « **Reply #104 on:** July 30, 2003, 01:08:32 AM »

Some time ago I wanted to start a band. I wanted it to have an edgy name. Being the geek that I am, I like puns, play-on-words, etc. So I thought "Hmm... what is edgy, and sounds hardcore?" Then I thought: knives are hardcore. This of course led to: certain knives are meant solely to rip and tear... what is the term for when they have edges (Because it's edgy. Hehe... uh...) made for that purpose?

Serrated! It's a serrated edge!

From there on out, everything I signed up for involved the term "serrated" in some way in order to get out the message. When I realized/remembered that no one I knew played any instruments, the band thing was scrapped. Of course, I kept my accounts for Serrated...

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