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A Rose By Any Other Name
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Posted: 26th January 2003 00:18
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I've been seein' some pretty interesting names on here... and was wondering if you guys could possibley explain where yah got them from?? is there a story behind it?? what does it mean?? Just curious...
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Post #7529
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Posted: 26th January 2003 03:41
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as if it wasn't obvious enough, i stole my screen name from, yes that's right, the character in FFVI.... why? well.... plain and simple, Sabin is the greatest character of that game.
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Posted: 26th January 2003 03:45
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Iain Peregrine is the main charecter of the book I am currently working on. I use it for all my online needs.
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Posted: 26th January 2003 03:58
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Neal's my name. I considered using Poque as my handle, which I use for a lot of my online things, but for some reason I decided to just go with my first name.
-------------------- Hey, put the cellphone down for a while In the night there is something wild Can you hear it breathing? And hey, put the laptop down for a while In the night there is something wild I feel it, it's leaving me |
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Posted: 26th January 2003 04:09
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In 1999, I joined an online, play by email fanfiction group for the FF7rpg. I picked the character Elena, one of the last few available female characters. The 99 I added for when I went into the FF7rpg chatroom, just because it was the last two digits of the year. (I'm still in this group, btw, as Elena. And Tifa, and another character named Lillith.)
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Post #7542
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Posted: 26th January 2003 04:13
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Mine was from a random fantasy name generator on a game by the name of Everquest. Â Freespirit was his surname I added, and use that sometimes, but most of the time I just use Fadien.
-------------------- "And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped” -Sir Bedevere the Wise |
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Posted: 26th January 2003 04:31
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One day, long long ago, a friend of mine called me "Fraudulent Tommy". I enjoyed that and made a screen name of it soon after. But while playing Starcraft, a horrendous typo was made of my name to "Tommah", and I liked that even better, so I upgraded FraudulentTommy to FraudulentTommah. It has quite a better sound, no?
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Post #7547
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Posted: 26th January 2003 04:38
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ok... here's the story behind Mookie...
one day probably two years ago, i was watching a basketball game with a couple of friends. and one of the basketball players name was Mookie Blaylock. He hit a 3 pointer and the anouncer got all excited and was like "Mah-mah-mah-mah-MOOKIE Blaylock drains another three!!!" And it hit me what a messed up name that was. I uttered the famous line: "Who the hell would name their kid Mookie?" The next day, my friends who were at my house just randomly began calling me Mookie. And it annoyed the hell out of me. It began to spread around the school. "Tim's nickname is now Mookie.".. "Call him, Mookie. It annoys the crap out of him" .. etc. Well, after two months, it began to be less annoying. After the third month, it was my name... i was called it more than Tim. I even had some teachers calling me Mookie rather than Tim. But the Mookie era at school has sorta faded. Now I'm back to boring old Tim and Tim-o-ramma-ding-dong-shaka-lacka-Tim-anotor-ness!... believe it or not, i am called that last name at least once a day 
-------------------- Air force... if you ever join the militant wing, join the Air force Army = jockos Navy = seasick nerds Marines = show offs PeaceCorp = hippies AF is the way to go |
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Post #7548
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Posted: 26th January 2003 04:47
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Lilly is the main charater in a book I'm writing.I use the name for a lot of on line things
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Post #7549
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Posted: 26th January 2003 06:10
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When i was registering, i was like "What should my name be?" then i was like "What should be my name."
yeah.  -------------------- No deer for a month. |
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Post #7555
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Posted: 26th January 2003 07:48
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Well...at the time I was registering, I was just trying to think of any kind of random name that wouldn't make me look conspicious. I was playing FF10 at the time and I was like Tidus...who? That went to Tidu cuz it sounds better, and I could've sworn i put a question mark at the end but I guess not.
-------------------- The clouds ran away, opened up the sky And one by one I watched every constellation die And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star I should've known, walked all the way home To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone -Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You" |
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Post #7558
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Posted: 26th January 2003 12:52
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My real name is Morgan so my online name is just a parody of it.
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Post #7570
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Posted: 26th January 2003 16:39
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Sai Sici is a character from G Gundam - he is the gundam fighter for neo-china, and is a disciple of the Shaolin school of martial arts.... it was the coolest thing I could come up with at the time....
-------------------- Kimi ga ite, boku ga iru. Sore dake sa. Sore ga subete sa. Translated: You're here, and I'm here. That's all. That's everything. |
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Post #7583
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Posted: 26th January 2003 18:10
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Dragon_Fire has a rather odd origin. I was listening to my In Flames cd, and I was trying to think up a name that would last, for me to go by. I wanted something that would indirectly give something about me away. Well I looked up and say my little grey statue of a Dragon, because I have a small dragon obsession. I didn't know what to add to Dragon, because simply Dragon was just too common. Well I used to be a bit of a pyro, so I started playing with my lighter hoping to get an idea. I looked down at my In Flames cd, and saw the title of the song I was currently listening to. Dragon Fire.
I looked over to my hand with the lighter in it...saw fire...it was perfect! I typed in Dragon Fire, threw in an underscore for the hell of it, and began my infamous adventure here at the Caves Of Narshe. It seems like a forever ago that I came here, but I've only been here for the span of maybe barely two years. Time flies. -------------------- Okay, but there was a goat! |
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Post #7589
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Posted: 26th January 2003 18:17
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When I joined an online text-based game (it's still around, and I'm still on it) two years ago, I called myself proto. Then, I joined some group thing inside the game called "Sheilk's Elite Commandos", and I put SEC in front of my name, and I just used it everywhere else I went.
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Post #7592
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Posted: 26th January 2003 19:51
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I have used many names on the Internet, but The Minstrel Boy is probably my favourite. There's no real story behind the name; there's an Irish folk song that I enjoy with the same name, and I'm a musician myself, so I decided it would be kinda neat.
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Post #7600
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Posted: 26th January 2003 22:03
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Being an Irish girly I know a lot of Irish songs.I think I know that one...how does it go???
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Post #7608
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Posted: 26th January 2003 22:48
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The name "Super Moogle" is an unimaginative pun on the well-known DC comics hero Superman. As you can see, I just switched the "man" with "moogle". I came up with the idea on a whim when I signed up for the CoN forums, and it's stuck ever since.
I originally had a regular little moogle avatar to go with it, but eventually I pestered R51 long and hard enough to let me used the neat caped moogle avatar that you see here. Rich (Denise's fiancee, then under the name "ToiletDuck") was kind enough to make it for me. For the record, I like Batman a whole lot better than Superman; always have and always will. DF and others inform me that the name "Bat Moogle" would be the coolest thing since chutter (long story), but it seems that it's too late to change the name now. Besides, it would be super hard to make an avatar of a moogle in a Batman suit. Oh, well. -------------------- "I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking." ~Dorothy L. Sayers "The truly remarkable thing about television is that it allows several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely." ~T.S. Eliot "Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality - in your own mind!" ~ Bruce Lee |
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Post #7613
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Posted: 26th January 2003 23:20
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the Name Del S comes from my real first name- Derek. the 'S' is from my second name. Im not gonna reveal it...
im looking for a good avatar right now. either a 40k or St. Mirren Avatar. but for now... the trooper looks closest to an eldar gaurdian... -------------------- "Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato." -George Santayana "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." -Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony. |
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Post #7619
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Posted: 26th January 2003 23:44
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Lilly,
"The Minstrel Boy to the war has gone, in the ranks of death you'll find him." Does it ring a bell? -------------------- Fear the Minstrel Boy, for he sings. |
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Posted: 27th January 2003 00:28
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Randy Rhoads was Ozzy Osbournes guitarist from 1980 til he died in 1982, and hes a really big inspiration to me, hes the whole reason i started playing guitar. Therandyrhoads is my aol screen name also, and i had to put "the" on the front because just "randyrhoads" was already taken. now that you all know this, i guess now we can all have conversation. and if it turns out youre a real backdoor bandit, ill just block you.
lovely. -------------------- You watch the world exploding every single night Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death Hello to eternity and live for every breath Your time will come... |
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Post #7625
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Posted: 27th January 2003 00:47
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Minstrel Boy
Yes I kinda remember it,though its been a while -------------------- Things have not changed You have changed Henery David Thoreau |
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Post #7629
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Posted: 27th January 2003 01:06
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"Land of songs!" say the warrior bard, "Though all the world betrays thee! One sword at least thy rights shall gaurd one faithfull harp shall praise thee!" I love that song, I thought your name might be from it. |
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Posted: 27th January 2003 01:09
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Lets see well I don't actully remember how I came up with the name Gwah but I did and really out of lazyness and the lack of a better name havn't switched it yet. Actully it was originally Shadowgwah but out of convience I just shortened it to Gwah.
-------------------- We all have our own hells and fires we must pass through, but when you have passed through them, you must ask yourself. Was I consumed by the flame? Or was I tempered by it? Quitsis - "Whip, Chaingun, don't bug me I'm killing" |
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Post #7631
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Posted: 27th January 2003 03:58
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I have a dream that people are so intellegent and wise thay won't need government, but it's a dream. An Anarchist's Dream.
-------------------- At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) |
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Posted: 27th January 2003 04:24
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gozaru is the informal of gozaimasu in japanese which is a sentence suffix used to uh emphasise state of being. most stereotypical anime samurai use gozaru liberally (in addition to other rarely-used words). one day a loooooong time ago on HM MB, everyone had like a name "HM Pikachu" or "HM Farmgrl" et cetera, so i made "HM Gozaru" arbitrarily and gozaru stuck.
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Post #7659
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Posted: 27th January 2003 04:33
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Hsiu is part of my actual name. It means 'virtue'. Fufufufu...
Hsiu is just one of my nicknames and is the most normal name among a host of puns and rhyming variations on 'Hsiu-Hsien'. I use Hsiu for nearly everything because it's a pretty good bet that no one else is using the name. Plus it's exhausting to maintain the image conjured by nicknames like "Lady Damnation", wheras I've had years of experience being Hsiu :) -------------------- "Turd-cookies!...they're hot and soft, though..." Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. Â - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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Posted: 1st May 2003 14:28
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:BUMP:
I just followed Lilly and Iain's lead and named myself after a character from an FF6 fanfic I'm writing, since I'm so enamored with developing his character. 
-------------------- ~Status Report~ * Completed... Dragon's Head * Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending) * In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal * Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began |
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Post #11813
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Posted: 1st May 2003 15:09
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My name spawns from the happenings in a very large thread (122630 replies and still gaining) on the Guardian messageboards, which you can find here. I gave up trying to follow the thread ages ago, but you're welcome to.
 -------------------- Western wind, when wilt thou blow? The small rain down can rain. Christ, if my love were in my arms, And I in my bed again! |
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Post #11818
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Posted: 1st May 2003 17:11
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Mine come from my name, the soccer club I used to play for, and my old soccer number.
-------------------- What would Zorro do?-Homer Simpson |
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