The Last Homely House
General => Council of Cobra => Topic started by: Chang on October 01, 2009, 10:21:59 PM
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just curious. we all have our SNs and for some of us they have been ours for a long time. whats the story?
Chang has been my screen name on the Decipher Boards since i played STCCG back in 99-2000. ive used it just about everywhere. no, im not chinese, Chang was a klingon general in Star Trek 6, the one with one eye and quoted Shakespeare alot.
so yeah, explain yours here.
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Gil-Estel is the father of Elrond, also known as Earendil. I loved the story where he went to Valinor to get redemption for the people of Middle Earth. He tresspassed Valinor, but the Valar were not upset, and they valued his attempt. As a 'reward' the remaining Silmaril was placed onto his ship and brought into an orbit around the world. He is considered a star eversince, hence the light of Earendil, our most beloved star.
His name means Light of Hope, and I try to be one in my surrounding ;)
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MONKEY ISLAND.
Nuff said.
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Pepino, the Breve (some say it's an translation error) was Charles Martel's son and Charles Magno father. he was king of the "Francos" (don't know how you say that in english). There are some interesting things about this name: First of all i don't like his "all milytary let's crush them with our cataphracts" style and "i'm the **#%ยจ&#$" king screw all the rest", but i always like his name that in portuguese is an vegetable (!) and i like that kind of irony.
Another nice stuff is that altough he had made several acomplishes for his people (well maybe not exactly "to" them) but he is not near as remembered as his father and his son. So to shortcut the history: i taught that was a nice way of gathering Pippin name (one of my favorite characters) into that "weird" name (vegetable!).
I'm no history expert so i end my talking now.
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Kenddrick is my name. Hmm, if there's a nickname I use for playing occasional games, it would be rambokc. Why rambokc? Well I pretty much idolised Rambo, Terminator, Indiana Jones as a kid, and my names is Kenddrick Chan, so, rambokc. :)
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Christopher Columbus Cornelius IV, my name.
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Mine has a curious story...
Some ten years ago or so, I used to be into an online MUD called Wheel of Time MUD (the game still exists, wotmud.org). MUD's are online multiplayer games, the predecessors to games like WoW. The difference is that MUD's are only text. You have to use your imagination... much like reading a book. They are just as addicting, though. :P
So anyway, in this game, once your character gets to level 5, they get randomly assigned their base stats: str, dex, int, con, etc. These stats can NEVER change and are yours for the rest of the game. Unfortunately, this mechanic led many players to start (or "stat") many, many new characters and level to 5 until they got competitive numbers. Some of the stats would be simply unplayable in the later game. Poor newbies didn't know this and might spend the whole game dying in combat because they didn't spend 100's of hours in the early game.
Every character had to have a different name, and it had to be a good one, otherwise they were tossed in the "Silly Names" room. One night I was stat'ing various trolls... one after another, worthless numbers. The Shop Around the Corner (great old movie with James Stewart) was playing in the other room, so I used Kralik as one of my names. Lo and behold, he got the good stats! So "Mister" Kralik became my online persona while I played WoTMUD for a few more months. Eventually I started using him in other places online.
Since I'm a Jimmy Stewart fan, he is my avatar. I don't own The Shop Around the Corner, so I grabbed a screenshot from It's a Wonderful Life (can you guess the scene?)
Apparently the name means "rabbit" in Czech... not "crab" as suspected. ;)
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I reckon the prize for collest background story goes to our illustrious leader!
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I reckon the prize for collest background story goes to our illustrious leader!
I would give it to CCCORNIV ;)
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I was going to be Dain Ironfoot, but then realized it was already being used. :)
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Ulmo is one of the Valar and my favourite. All waters were under his control. My avatar is of Ulmo meeting with Tuor.
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While I was in high school, a friend played guitar. One day, he and I were conversing about being rock stars. As a trumpet player I never intended to be a rock star, but is still fun to dream. The conversation lead to what we would call ourselves, as far as stage names go, and he chose for himself K.W. Pluckit. I was jealous of his awesome name and asked, "What should I call myself as a trumpet player, perhaps once I'm a famous jazz musician?"
He asked, "What is the name of a famous trumpet player?"
"Dizzy Gilespy," I responded.
"J Dizzy," was his answer. So to this day my SN has always been jdizzy to reflect that. The 001 at the end is because I'm the first J Dizzy.
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NBarden comes from my name.
But on other websites I go by Slightly Insane, SomeRandomDude, coldflame91 or madsciencemusician. For what should be obvious reasons (they're cool!).
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9 times out of 10 I go by my xbox live name -OpsElite, but I have a few others
OpsElite came about in 2002 when Halo 1 came out, and I was in the clan (Ops), and I had always like the elites in the game, so I combined them. Turns out it sounds similar obsolete, which is rather fitting I think.
My other obvious name is MR. Lurtzy, which doesn't really have any special signifigance, other than every time I sign my name, I put Mr. in front, and Lurtz was my favorite "bad guy" from Fellowship.
Other names included Tails (which ironically enough has nothing to do with who it should), and Strummy, which is a nickname my coworkers have for me in real life.
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I'm a menace.
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i think i have my name because my first internet game/forum was runescape and this was the lowest number for legolas available.
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mythreindeer! ha! that is clever. How about Tyron shewlaces
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Locke Smith, classic D&D rouge name
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Its actually
Seymour Butts.
Then there's...
Hu Flung Pu
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Wong Way
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A friend used to go by Rubber Chicken in the old ICQ and early AIM days. We thought of other animal that could be funnier when rubberized.
I've used rubber carp ever since.
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After Middle Earth, in my opinion Dune is the next best fantasy world/realm ever created and I figured heaps of people would use something from The Lord of The Rings for their screen names so I chose MuadDib as a tribute to another great character from a different place.
Had I gone the other way I would have chosen something to do with Gandalf as he is by far my favourite character from the books and the movies. (Except when he acts like a little, scared wimp when confronted by the Witch King)
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I often use this name for my characters in pc games I play: Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Diablo I & II. Mostly given to a fighter class-style character. It's also an unusual name as far as I know so it's not risky to have it already picked when I join some other website or whatever. Completly unrelated to the picture I used though...
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When I originally became interested in DCs (which was when I had recently read The Hobbit and thought I could do some cards from it and make a DC block - I did, and it's somewhere on the old Cobra Cards) I joined the Decipher boards and made a fool of myself posting a whole page of [Dwarven] cards and expecting everyone to review them. When I did this, I was quite young and had never tried to be on a forum ever before (in fact the whole concept was very new to me) and I thought a Lord of the Rings name was fairly apt, and I think I went through a couple of options (like Thorin and some others - I don't remember now) and found that they were all taken. And so I had to think of an LotR character that was fairly obscure that no one else would have chosen it, but cool enough that people would know who the #$&*@! I was talking about, and in the end I hit upon Thranduil. Then I found CC and I stuck with the name (I'm a creature of habit like that).
So, that was a lot of words for a very boring story. But hey - such is life.
Thranduil
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Jerba came in to being back in 1998 or so when I joined the Decipher SWCCG boards. A Jerba, in Star Wars, is a four legged beast of burden. You can see one in front of the Cantina in Star Wars ep. 4. It is also a reference to where George Lucas filmed Star Wars IV's Tatooine scenes on the Tunisian island of Djerba, which transliterated into English is often Jerba.
The reason I chose it? It sounded good, was a Star Wars reference, and it began with J like my name.
I have actually phased out Jerba for the most part, except for use on the SWCCG, LOTRTCG, and Crimson Skies boards. My other name is usually Tervlon. Which I randomly typed one day and decided i liked it.
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ghhhk
Star Wars djarik and great card from SWCCG.
Years ago, in one of the first tournaments that I played in (at a con in Tennessee), I used it to avoid total annihilation in a battle by a competitor who smugly thought he had won the game on that turn. It was after that tournament that I joined up as a Gold Squadron member (Gold 20).
Since then, I've just held on to it as a name as it is rarely a used name on any board/forum/website and is, now, easy to remember.
That's about it.
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After Middle Earth, in my opinion Dune is the next best fantasy world/realm ever created and I figured heaps of people would use something from The Lord of The Rings for their screen names so I chose MuadDib as a tribute to another great character from a different place.
Had I gone the other way I would have chosen something to do with Gandalf as he is by far my favourite character from the books and the movies. (Except when he acts like a little, scared wimp when confronted by the Witch King)
It took me a while to find this thread again..
I was told recently what MuadDib means in arabic: "One who prays for the lonely graves".
Apparently if someone died without any relatives, then the guy who prays for him is called a MuadDib.
Thanks to Kaan on gccg for telling me this, I at least found it interesting.
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Thx for bringing that post back to life. I wasn't around when it first started so it was interesting to read. I've never given much thought to peoples nicknames, but there can be some really nice stories behind those.
My name is Hrvoje (which is a solely Croatian name) and as a some kind of derivation of that my nickname is hrcho. What is interesting is that I was nicknamed so by two friends who don't know each other at about the same time. One friend was from my class in elementary school and the other was from geeky group of friends. It got so popular that I don't even respond to my real name anymore. Even my mother calls me hrcho.
hrcho doesn't mean anything. The word most resembling it would be "hrchak" which means hamster in Croatian. I assure you I resemble no hamster. :)
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Thx for bringing that post back to life. I wasn't around when it first started so it was interesting to read. I've never given much thought to peoples nicknames, but there can be some really nice stories behind those.
My name is Hrvoje (which is a solely Croatian name) and as a some kind of derivation of that my nickname is hrcho. What is interesting is that I was nicknamed so by two friends who don't know each other at about the same time. One friend was from my class in elementary school and the other was from geeky group of friends. It got so popular that I don't even respond to my real name anymore. Even my mother calls me hrcho.
hrcho doesn't mean anything. The word most resembling it would be "hrchak" which means hamster in Croatian. I assure you I resemble no hamster. :)
Just curious, how do you pronounce hrcho?
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Just curious, how do you pronounce hrcho?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Try to say harrow. Now remove "a" and add "cho" instead of "ow".
If you are a windows user, go to Control Panel - Speech and type hhrcho (double h is not a typo) in the voice preview text slot. That's how it's pronounced. :uh-huh:
I still haven't decided if I resent or like my name being tough to pronounce for people whose native language doesn't fall into Slavenian category (especially Germanic languages (English falls into this group) are having a tough time). It does cause me minor problems when traveling, but it is also fun to watch people struggle with it. :lol:
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for the record, I was pronouncing it correctly ;)
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Eh, I thought it was something like "harcho", but I guess I know how to pronounce it right now. You know, it's hard for a Spanish speaker to try to speak a language with five-lettered words and only one of them being a vowel.
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Mythdracon. A corruption of Mithrandir, with a dragon added? Or maybe a mythical dragon? The "Dracon" part comes from one of Heroes of Might and Magic III's campaigns (in the Armageddon's Blade expack) about a wizard seeking to slay a dragon. Unless it was the Shadow of Death expansion.
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Leo is from Leonardo, which is my name, and Kula is from either Kula Shaker (the band) or the character Kula from The King of Fighters. I guess I was playing too much KOF and listening to too much Kula Shaker when I made my first e-mail address in hotmail back in 2002 LOL , leonardokula. Then it stayed as leonardokula and leokula in most websites.
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When I saw The Lord of The Rings for the first time, the Witch-King became my favorite character. But when I tried to create an account on an old email server I don't use anymore, Witchking was already being used. So how did I come to the x5?
During first class in gymnasium, apparently about 5 years ago, we had to chose a password for our computer account on school. I already had a nice one that no one will ever find out, but our teacher told us that it would be much safer to add like a random number and a random letter to it. Butthe x actually wasn't that random, it was more like a leftover from my old, always used nickname DomixXx, which is not referring to porn at all, but to the triple-x-movies. I had the idea from a Czech friend which I actually didn't ever meet after that (which was about 7 years or so ago...).
So yeah, the x5 from my first password somehow remained, and when I signed in at the old email server, I took the x5 as extra letters to create "Witchkingx5". And now I use it everywhere.
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I thought it had to do with the rule of 4 card limit in an LOTR deck. Something like, I AM THE 5th WITCH-KING!
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Well, actually I had once 5 Witchkings in one of my Decks, and as I was writing the Decklist, it was like:
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Witchking x5
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but that happened still like 2 years after I chose to use the "x5" for NIcknames and so on.