where'd you get your name?, bored at work Options

[Thistledown]

Thistledown is another dragonlance name. I came up with it as a name for a kender (A race with no concept of personal property, immune to fear, look like elven kids, gets wanderlust) back in 94 or 95. After thinking about other kender names, I thought of two words that fit and put them togather.

I used the character in a couple d&d campaigns, then when I found the dragonlance forums at collage, he became one of my main characters and my screen name there. Now I use it and a variation 'thistledownsname' pretty much everywhere.

Since then, the name has been given to an actual kender in one of the books (many years later), and I've found out that in other systems, thistledown is what they make Cloaks of Elven Kind out of. I think it's also a type of horse irl.

[LynGrey]

LynGrey was the name of a bastard sword toatin healing cleric i had in DnD my first game.. and it is also my E-Mail name from 7th grade.. when e-mail was getting big =)

other names i commonly used Jack Will or Kalaeb Krist those are like my SR names. I Usally stick to Izukul, Aydin, Frayen, and LynGrey to DnD =)

[Drain Brain]

I know people have had their thoughts about my screen name - whether it's because I'm an awakened character freak, or know the magic rules backwards, but it's a lot more convoluted, and less exciting than that.

Back in the days of the OLD dumpshock forums (they were sandy coloured back then, IIRC), I joined. At the time I was sharing my dad's computer and email address. I utilised, simply, the first part of his addy as a screen name.

He used to be a health inspector and spent a lot of time down drains (the handy jobs you can get when you have no sense of smell, neh?) and used "Drain Brain" as a callsign on the CB radio they all used.

Thing is, now that I am all grown up (matter of perspective) and have my own address and computer, I'm still stuck with it! To make matters worse, he's now joined on here and had to suffer me using HIS name! He ended up as "Rakshasa" (yes, like the D&D shape-shifting-monster-thingy).

Go figure...

[Catsnightmare]

Back when I was first introduced to the internet I was trying to pick a handle to use and hit writers block (as usual). My cousin suggested that I use the name of my last RPG character to start with. The last game I was in was a short-lived T.M.N.T. campaign, where I played the group's combat monster. A 6'4" 300+lbs super-strong psychotic cat-hating mutant mouse, Casey 'The Cat's Nightmare'

[Maollelujah]

It a play on the word hallelujah with a Maoist twist.

[DocMortand]

heh...mine's a bit wierd. Doc Mortand is a zombie musician I created to play yahoo games...very weird. Used to mooch around and eat people's brains for greetings...

Normally I'm the Grey Fox, but kept this one for here...who knows why.

[vapor]

mine comes from an online fps i used to play with a bunch of euro's... my ping was really bad one day so instead of running from one place to another i appeared to be teleporting.

one of the euro's made that comment that it "was like trying to shoot at vapor"

it's stuck ever since.

[Large Mike]

Mike is my actual middle name, and when I got it (at the tender age of 14 or so) I was the largest of my friends. This is no longer the case. It would be more accurate to call me MediumMike now, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[Sokei]

MY SN was originally taken from this:

Sohei - Warrior monks; relatively modern term describing the armed warriors that acted as military muscle for major religious establishments from the 9th Century until the 1580’s.

But due to another person having that name on another board i frequented back in the day I took to misspelling it. rather stupid reason but i thought I would chip in here. :rotate:

[JavaLamp]

Back some years ago, I used to frequent the TMBG java chat lounge, I went by SOLYD there, but that's another story, occasionally I'd sit in my recliner on the ceiling, pull out my javalamp and bask in it's relaxing presence. Started using Javalamp sometime after that.

[Trax]

To be honest, I have no idea where I came up with Trax. I was trying to get into an MUD but all the other names were already taken (and thinking back on it, they were stupid names anyway). At one point I just entered Trax and i've been using it since then.

[BookWyrm]

Well, that's in three parts;

My first, BookWyrm, is a variant on the nickname all those of us who enjoy reading. I mearly shanged the 'o' in worm to a 'y', making it the classical 'wyrm', meaning dragon. That & later I picked up a shirt from Off World Designs with the moniker on it.

My second, The Horn'd One, comes from the fact that sometimes I wear a set of ceramic horns to the fetish nightclub I regularly 'haunt'. The first time I wore them, on a Valentine's Day, a goth friend suggested I wear then every time, and the nickname evolved from "Horny *****" (my real name has been edited) to the one I use now.

My character's street name, Tangent, comes from the dual life he leads, being a freelance armed courier 'by day', & a shadowrunner 'by night'.

[PBTHHHHT]

Some friends back in college were playing Starsiege Tribes online and were kicking butt on a server. They gloated at how the other side was rather easy. I ran downstairs, waylayed another guy's computer to get on that server. I made up this nickname at the last minute as it sounded like the noise when you give someone the raspberry. Kind of like a last bit of defiance to give them as much trouble from winning the game.

I got on the server, stopped my friends cold from beating the game and letting the clock run out (15 minutes). Part way through I called them upstairs and asked how they were doing on the game and they said for me to get on since they needed help because of some punk named PBTHHHHT kept them from winning the game. I replied that I was already on...
their response after it sunk in... 'You Bastard!' Heh.

They told me it was a good nick to keep, it's unique, and as one person have said, "it's a phonetical nightmare!" :biggrin:

Ok, that was waay too long of an explantion, time for me to go back to my little hole. :P

[CountZero]

You have three guesses to tell where my screen name's from, and the first two don't count. :D

[Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_*]

Bruce Sterling?

No... Wait. Stephenson.

[Fortune]

Mine just comes from one of the last characters I actually got to play IRL ... a very lucky and somewhat light-fingered Raccoon Shaman.

[Pthgar]

pthgar, a cartoon cockroach character I created in high school. The first (and only) cartoon he was in postulated pthgar's First Law, "Everything the ever taught you was wrong."

[Drain Brain]

[Pthgar]

Oddly enough, I've never had a SR character named pthgar. It was the name of a bar our first team/players bought in the game 11 years ago.

[The Grifter]

Most obviously, my character's name is taken from the Grifter of the WildC.A.T.S. comic book, and is based almost entirely on him.

My other character is a decker who goes by the handle Fallout, which I thought was just a cool name, plus it's one of my favorite computer games of all time. Except for Steel Brotherhood or whatever. That sucks.

[Little Bill]

Little Bill is Gene Hackman's character in Unforgiven, and the name of the first Shadowrun character I had run in years. Little Bill (the dwarf) to contrast with Big Bill (the Troll).

[Chibu]

I was a lamer once =(

but, i'm better now. My name is Japanese for genitals. And, now, that's how the net know me, so, it'll be like that for awhile.

[The Grifter]

Least you had the chibu's to fess up to that one, omae. LOL

[Sharaloth]

My screen-name's based off a short story I wrote once. It was set in this big city that I named Sharaloth because I thought it flowed and sounded cool.

[BookWyrm]