What does your Nick mean?

[grinner]

After wondering what some of your nicks mean, I have decide to ask this question... what does it mean.

Mine is grinner which is from the comic book GrimJack and it is a nickname of the main character... John Gaunt aka James Twilley.

LadyCrais is pretty self explanatory... while I have no clue what VBKatLou stands for. Just a question that has been bothering me for a little while.

[Roland]

That is why I use my real name!
Never understood the fun in strange nicks.
It's so unpersonal!

[grinner]

I don't know... my name is Phil, but I have been using grinner for 13 years now. I started using it on a comic board back in 1990 and just kept using it.

[Kerlin]

Kerlin is the name of a persona I've written for for almost 5 years in a "Weyr" in Pern fandom (as in, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern). She's been terrific fun to write and is actually more like Aeryn than she has any right to be...created before Farscape was even on the air ;).

[Roland]

Well, atleast I can say Grinner.
Some of the nicks is like ghryyytdsja ????!!!!

[grinner]

Use the lower case g on my name... Grinner is a TradeMark of GrimJack... and was told not to use the capital G... I could use the lower case g. But it has been about 11 years since I had the problem... But it is grinner not Grinner. I don't know if it was a lawyer looking to make money but there was a lot of trouble on the comic book board about people using names of characters for their nicks that the board was shut down.

[VBKatLou]

Well, my real name is Kathryn Louise, but I never get called that unless I've done something really really bad :finger:

The first time I tried to register on a board, I shortened it to KatLou but that nick was already taken. I had a Visual Basic book laying on my desk so I just stuck a 'VB' in front of it. Not very imaginative, but, as always, I was in a hurry.


BTW grinner - I'm still working on that list. I've added all the other ones too. I figure I may be done searching by 2006. :P

[grinner]

Well, KatLou, as new shows get mentioned I am adding them to the list. I have probably edited it about 40 times now. The one that is on WDsection-table discussion is a little easier to read cause there isn't as many posts on the thread. But I have amended both lists.

[Kyntio]

My nick is a derivative of my real name Cinzia, which means "woman of Kynthos" in Greek. Cynthia was an epithet of the Greek moon goddess Artemis, given because Kynthos was the mountain on Delos on which she and her twin brother Apollo were born.

I just changed it slightly, probably because I'm used to nobody being able to pronounce my real name anyway. People call me tschintschia or djinza or other weird names.. It's very common in Italy though.

[DRD2001]

Well, grinner, you surprised me. I didn't think anyone remembered GrimJack anymore. I've got a pretty good run of them somewhere in my collection.

As for my nick, I seem to end up doing a lot of maintenance and production type work for a living. I use to work for several different amusements parks doing all sorts of maintenance work and repairs. DRDs seemed to fit when describing my worker type personality. The 2001 is a reference to 2001 A Space Odessey. So if there can be a DRD 1812, then I'd be DRD2001.

[grinner]

Don't remember GrimJack... Haven't you heard that John Ostrander has recovered the rights to GrimJack and the city of Cynosure? More than likely, starting this summer, there will be NEW issues of GrimJack. Tim Truman will be drawing it. So the story will finally continue. Some of you FarScape fans think that a 2 year hiatus from new episodes is bad... try 12 years. That is how long I have been waiting for new issues of GrimJack.

Of course I remember GrimJack. If you like hard boiled detective stories with a hint of science fiction and fantasy... this is the comic for you. I have 2 complete runs of the series. One is for reading... one is just because I needed a near-mint set. Grinner will live again...

Look at my Avatar... it is a Demon Knight Star.

[Kyntio]

Sorry O/T but

DRD2001 - or anyone who enjoyed Space Odyssey 2001, for that matter have you checked out this flash movie yet? I love it!

http://www.kubrick2001.com/2001.html

:eek:

[grinner]

GrimJack aka John Gaunt

[grinner]

BlacJacMac

[grinner]

Bob the lizard

[grinner]

Layla the witch

[grinner]

Major Lash

[grinner]

Jerico Noleski

[grinner]

Roscoe

[farscape1211]

Well my nic is rather unimaginative. Farscape for obvious reasons and 1211 because it's my birthday ( I had to tag it to the end when I found out Ben and I share a birthday.)

[Sunderflame]

Sunder is a vampyre/werewolf combination. I took this name from a book called Sunglasses After Dark and my favorite book trilogy Midnight Blue I've always been called by that name. I added the flame when I first saw this beating heart. My heart burns with a flaming desire, hence I added the flame. Sunderflame....pretty drad huh....:rollin:

http://www.imagemagician.org/images/sunderflame/256-hfirebl.gif

[Hegemon]

Peter the Hegemon from Ender's Game. A genius kid as dictator of the entire world? Kewl. :aok:

[MediaSavant]

MediaSavant was a nickname given to me at work by a colleague.

We all work in a media firm, but they all felt I was particularly "savant-like".

I can be very focussed when the topic is the media, but a bit absent-minded on other things.

It's a bit of an exaggeration, but I still thought it was funny.

[Dante'-wants-blood!!]

Well, the name is Dante', and I'm so pissed about Farscape's cancellation that I want Blood in revenge!!!

[grinner]

Originally posted by Hegemon
Peter the Hegemon from Ender's Game. A genius kid as dictator of the entire world? Kewl. :aok:
I was going to ask if that is where you got the name from, but didn't

[Third EYe]

Nick Danger Third Eye, I'm sorry but I spell my name Danger. Any takers?

Firesign Theatre, Nick Danger is one of thier most famous characters. I took on the Third Eye as a nick, in part due to my love of FST (very funny fellows) also, it seemed to fit with the Farscape board here, referencing Noranti's "third eye".

[vf-xx]

If anybody is framilar with macross you might reconize my name then. Anyway it comes from a little known veritech from Macross II (got it from the roleplaying game book) and can bee seen in my sig. It stands for Variable Fighter Twenty or XX in roman numerals. It's not in caps cause i'm lazy :D

[grinner]

What, you trying to be Rick Hunter?

[Egg]

Mine comes from a Samuel Butler quote
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg"
I thought I would stand with the Egg
Source ref Omni mags June 1979:- continuum section!

[DRD2001]

Originally posted by grinner
Don't remember GrimJack... Haven't you heard that John Ostrander has recovered the rights to GrimJack and the city of Cynosure? More than likely, starting this summer, there will be NEW issues of GrimJack. Tim Truman will be drawing it. So the story will finally continue. Some of you FarScape fans think that a 2 year hiatus from new comics is bad... try 12 years. That is how long I have been waiting for new issues of GrimJack.


It looks like I stirred up some things for you grinner. Thanks for the news. I use to work for a comic shop and I've got a few friends who own their own shops, so I'll have to get them to add it to my list and keep an eye out for it. Truman's being back is great too. I really enjoyed his art work and style. That was Eclipse as the publisher, if I'm remembering right? There were so many good books out that all just sort of folded at the same time. I liked American Flagg too. The early stuff was Chaykin at his best. And yes, I've also got several sets of anything that I felt was really impressive.:)

[grinner]

http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/ostrander/
This is John Ostrander's BB. Interesting stuff on it.

The publisher was First Comics out of Chicago Illinois. I use to hang out at the comic store that was around the corner from it. I met alot of the writers and artists for the company.
I have every comic book that First Comics ever put out. I was sad when Ballantine pulled out of Classics Illistrated leaving First Comics in a lurch and leading to the eventual Bankrupcy of the company.

[operaghost666nj]

My nic comes from my fav broadway show Phantom of the Opera. The phantom refers to himself as the opera ghost or OG. When I tried the nic like that it was already taken so I added the 666 which also is in the show. There is an auction in the beginning for the chandlier the Phantom dropped on the audiance. It was "Lot 666 - a chandlier in pieces". It was never meant as the devil's number...LOL. Then I added nj to that because I moved to NJ from The Big Easy to marry a man I met on the internet!!! :love::rollin:

[DRD2001]

Originally posted by grinner
http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/ostrander/
This is John Ostrander's BB. Interesting stuff on it.

The publisher was First Comics out of Chicago Illinois. I use to hang out at the comic store that was around the corner from it. I met alot of the writers and artists for the company.
I have every comic book that First Comics ever put out. I was sad when Ballantine pulled out of Classics Illistrated leaving First Comics in a lurch and leading to the eventual Bankrupcy of the company.

Ok, now I feel old and brain-dead. But I do remember that there were some awesome artists and stories. I'm just hopeless without my CBG by me. Jon Sable was good and I really liked the Badger early on.

Thanks for the reminder. This is the time of year I do my regular inventory in preparation for the local comic book Heroes con. I've had 2 apartment floods and I am still working on getting my collection back in order. I'm still bummed over the loss of a Grendal 1 & 2 (b&w). Planning to get extra Farscape comics for friends while I'm there. (BTW after the 1st flood, all boxes were lifted off the floor in my closet, and the next pipe to break was in my closet again, spraying water from about 1 ft. over the books anyway. Talk about hard cheese):(

[grinner]

How many boxes of comics do you have? I have 39 boxes stuffed with about 250 books apiece. My insurance agent loved me when I came into the agency with about 5000 pictures of each and every one of them. All went into my file, but she was not happy with me.

Don't forget Mars, Nexus, Dreadstar, StarSlayer, and Zero Tolerance. First had some great books.
Sorry about the apartment. Must have been messy.

[Fourty_Two]

Talk about getting off topic... ;D

42 is the answer to the ultimate question about life the universe and everything.

I spell it wrong as an experiment. No one knows that 42 is spelled forty two, but then the brits might spell it the way I have it now.

[Third EYe]

Plank Time

[grinner]

I am all about going off topic. I must live here or something. The more wide ranging a discussion goes, the better.

[DRD2001]

Originally posted by grinner
How many boxes of comics do you have? I have 39 boxes stuffed with about 250 books apeice.

Oof, I'm at about the same, maybe a box or two less. Its hard to tell. You see, when the apt flooded, I discovered that mylars often have tiny pin holes in them. Those that didn't leak were exposed to extreme temps in a sealed bag and could have gotten condensation. Everything even remotely in touch with the water, whether damaged or not had to be opened to prevent condensation and I had to go through each one by one looking for damage for insurance. I have never had the time or space to resort them completely since, over a year ago. And yes, it was a nasty mess. I'm still organizing and fine tuning it. Needless to say, I moved very soon after.

[grinner]

My sympathy. A few years ago I had an offer that I shouldn't have refused on my collection. It was well within the low 6 figures... but I said no. That is filed under "What was I Thinking?" But, there is always hope that one day someone will come along and offer me way to much money for my collection... and this time I will say "HELL YEAH, TAKE THEM"

[trubador]

Trubador --- fairly straightforward --- I'm a lyricist/songwriter (although, I've been away from the music scene for about a decade). Currently in a new job that has gotten me reconnected to the industry, and that creative ember inside is starting to glow again. My alter-ego ---> Mike.

[vf-xx]

Originally posted by grinner
What, you trying to be Rick Hunter?

Nope. The vf-xx is piloted only by micronized zentradi. Sorry.

[anangke]

anangke is greek for need. It can also mean fate. I picked it because I was so afraid to have anything with any part of my real name thinking someone would track me down and kill me. So I picked one out of a mythology book I was reading at the time. And yes I went through all the "Big" names first and this was the first one I came to that wasn't taken. Since i've been using this one for 8 or 9 years now I don't feel comfortable using anything else.

Interesting question Grinner. And an interesting thread to read. I'm always curious about ID's also :)

[janey_13]

My middle name is Jane, and janey is just a variation and then my lucky number 13. :aok:

I wanted to think of a clever Farscape related nick, but I just wasn't feeling creative and since I use janey_13 for other boards and email, etc. I just decided to use it again.

[grinner]

Originally posted by vf-xx
Nope. The vf-xx is piloted only by micronized zentradi. Sorry.
Is that in one of the comics? Because it is not in the books or the anime's that I have seen.

[LadyMulder42]

Mine's pretty easy :) Definitely an X-Files reference and the 42 is naturally Mulder's apt # as well as the ultimate answer (nods to Fourty-two)

I've been LadyMulder for soooo long (was an X-Phile from the very beginning oh so many years ago) that when I became a Farscape fan I didn't have the heart to start a whole new handle again :) So I will always be LadyMulder. But at least it's a Sci-Fi reference :)

[Bekka/Sicosu?]

my names Bekka (actually its Rebecca- but that dull) and my favourate Chr is Sicosu.

i thought this you might have a roleplay section or that i could birng myself to be even weirder than i actualy am, so i combined them so i could slip between.

the ? is cos you would know which one i am.

i think im gonnna have to change my nic cos im not weird enouth

[DorothyGail]

I never really liked my real name. In grand Southern style, my parents gave me a boy's name, always used in conjunction with my middle name. (you know, like Billy Sue, Bobby Joe,.....) It gets me in trouble when I just sign my name, as strangers assume I'm a guy, then I feel horrible because I hate to put people at a disadvantage.......unless they're telemarketers.:mad:

So, I picked a girly name that came from Farscape.

And, now that I think about it, I kinda feel like Dorothy Gail sometimes, but then don't we all, sometimes? Not all of the time, just sometimes.

[kymom5613]

Mine's pretty perfuntory...I'm in Kentucky, I'm a Mom, KyMom was already used, (in another site) so used part of my address...
Hence KyMom5613.

[VBKatLou]

Originally posted by LadyMulder42
Mine's pretty easy :) Definitely an X-Files reference and the 42 is naturally Mulder's apt # as well as the ultimate answer (nods to Fourty-two)


OMG - I'm a long-time fan of both X-Files and Hitchhiker's Guide and I knew Mulder's apt # was 42, but I never made that connection :headbang:

Before Farscape was cancelled, I never went to any bulletin boards except to maybe lurk on the DOM occasionally. I've have discovered so much scifi trivia and tidbits in the last several months! I love it!

[RojAvon]

Mine is a blending of two names from Blake's 7

Roj Blake and Kerr Avon the two lead characters.

It's been a screen name I've used for years since I've been online.

[vf-xx]

Originally posted by grinner
Is that in one of the comics? Because it is not in the books or the anime's that I have seen.

Dunno if it came from the comics or not. I got it from the RPG book.

[NYPinTA]

I had been meaning to ask this very same question for about a week now, but haven't been able to get to the bb long enough to do so!
(should I be worried that I was thinking the same thing as grinner? ;) ) Nah!!
Some people have put some pretty damn deep thought into their nicks, which is so cool.
And...Any reference to the Hitchhikers Guide is always cool!
Mine was more of a joke then anything. I can be a pest. That is my strength for this campaign. Pester everyone till they get sick of me and give me my damn show back! So, I picked a name to fit:
New York Pain in the Ass!! (Besides, I couldn't think of anything cooler so I figured I should try truth instead. )

[vikingscaper]

My anme is a combination of two of my favorite things, Minnesota Vikings + Farscape= viking scaper. This was about as original as I could get with my name.

viking scaper

[grinner]

Originally posted by NYPinTA

(should I be worried that I was thinking the same thing as grinner? ;) ) Nah!!

Hey now, I'm not that bad. Opinionated and passionate maybe, but a fairly decent bloke all the same.

[NYPinTA]

Originally posted by grinner
Hey now, I'm not that bad. Opinionated and passionate maybe, but a fairly decent bloke all the same.

OK. Maybe it would have been more correct to say, 'Great minds think alike?' :rollin: Then I agree!

( I was just miffed because you posted the question first. :D )

[Eve11]

<--- Another X-files reference. The Eves were creepy little brown-haired girls -- clones who were engineered to be geniuses and ended up being psychotic instead. There were ten Eves in the episode. I have an identical twin sister, we've got brown hair and we were creepy-like smart when we were little (although we have since grown out of it). And I'm a big X-files fan, hence Eve11. (And Eve12 when she feels like it, though she's not as much of an internet nerd and anyway likes the name "dannynoarms" referencing MST3K better)

[talyn3]

I'm the third in the line of leviathan gunships, created after the high command saw the first talyn in action against the retrival squad. The PK imprisoned dozens of leviathans around a planet surronded by those PK satilites from LATP, removed their control collars, and got them pregnate. After the first few were distroyed when attemping to starburst, the rest of the ships succumbed to thier fate. Thus I was born into PK custody. Unlike the first talyn, I'm better armed, faster, but not as intelligante. Fearing the gunships ability for free-thought, the techs limited my mental ability, forcing my to rely more on my PK captain for orders.




(originally it was because talyn kicks ass and 3 is Dale Sr. number)

[PkTechSquirrel]

Well mine is obviously a play on Pk Tech Girl, one of the first episodes I ever saw. On the X-Files boards I was LiquidSky, but I kept getting weird messages about a movie that I've never seen...I used it because of a techno song from the early 90's. Anyway...I wanted a Farscapian name, but being angry on the day I signed up (just after cancellation), I couldn't think of anything more creative.

[grinner]

Originally posted by PkTechSquirrel

I'm what Willis was talking about.
Thanks for clearing that up. I always wondered what Willis was talking about.

[spectecjr]

Mine's the name of the pseudo-fictional character I wrote my first magazine column under. Namely, "Spec 'Tec Jr" - the Your Sinclair magazine techy detective.

Very silly. :)

[Rhonda]

My parents couldn't pick anything better than Rhonda I guess.;) Actually my dad was a big Beach Boys fan so I've had to pay for that all of my life. j/k. I would've tried to pick something more creative like CrazyDiamond (love that song) but I was in such a hurry to get moving and registered here. I found out 7 days after word broke out so I felt like I was soooo far behind. I'd try to have it changed but then everyone would worry there was another nerd just like me here!:P

[Susana]

Mine is my first name of my Ren Faire name: Susana Etton. It's derived from my real name, but I don't love y'all enough to tell you what that is ;)

[Eve11]

Actually my dad was a big Beach Boys fan so I've had to pay for that all of my life. j/k.

((Rhonda)) from someone else who's real name gets a "Like the song? Your parents must be fans" conversation three times out of four. It's cute... right up to the point where you want to :headbang: . j/k

[Beaulah]

It's the name of my husband's hamster. Don't ask.

[tinner]

Tinner is what my family called me while I was growing up. It came from my little sister not being able to pronounce my real name. It's also the name I sign my art work with.

[tinner]

BTW, viking scaper, just out of curiosity, why not the Packers?

[Rhonda]

(((Eve11))) Sometimes it's soooo comforting to feel like you're not the only one!!! I hear ya! :D

[Rhonda]

tinner- what a question! no no bad! Bad tinner! :D My old boss was a huge Vikings fan, we're talking Vikings mailbox, Vikings theme wet bar, Vikings clock in his office, Vikings "official" NFL jacket, Vinkings shower curtain and the whole nine yards and he would freak if we used a green pen for any reason. I'm amazed the grass at work wasn't spray painted purple. So you stop that you troublemaker you!!!!:D

[grinner]

Packers and Vikings stink!!!!!!!!
Bear down, Chicago Bears
We will fight our way to victory.

[operaghost666nj]

I was in a hurry to register too and used the nic I've been using for about 5 yrs now. Then, after I thought about it I came up with the BEST new nic...but I guess it's too late. This is what I'd like to use as my new nic....any opinions? I-am-so-johns-girl :rollin:

[VBKatLou]

I think both your names are too much typing :P especially if you post at the DOM where you have to key in your nick and password with every post. I seem to remember AurtherFrellingDent complaining about that on a post somewhere just the other day.

Plus there are WAY too many of us who are "SOOO-Johns-Girl" :rollin:

[vikingscaper]

Tinner,

Thanks for the question! I always love explaining this! I am a Vikings fan because my family used to live in Minnesota and we moved to Wisconsin in 1990. Before we moved, I told my parents that I would never root for the Packers and I have lived that promise up to this day. I also am I season ticket owner and we live about five miles from the border with Minnesota, so I also figured that I would cheer for the team that I am closer to.

p.s. My dad is a Packers fan, but the rest of the family (including harveywhispers) cheer for the Vikings.

vikingscaper

[generic_screenname]

My usual screenname was random_squeegee, but when I went to post something at the Sci-Fi Chanel board, it said the name was already taken - most likely by me in an earlier post and I forgot the password I used. (I picked random_squeegee because I was looking for two words that had nothing to do with each other.) I needed a new generic screenname, so I picked...generic_screenname. So now you know, because I'm sure a lot of people were wondering about that one.

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

OK....I just couldn't stand it any longer :eek: !!! I've also registered my new nic....even if it is LONG :rollin: . So operaghost666nj is now I-am-so-Johns-girl. Yeeeehaaaaaa! :aok:

[grinner]

Originally posted by VBKatLou
I think both your names are too much typing :P especially if you post at the DOM where you have to key in your nick and password with every post. I seem to remember AurtherFrellingDent complaining about that on a post somewhere just the other day.

Plus there are WAY too many of us who are "SOOO-Johns-Girl" :rollin:
I have my netscrape set up so that it remembers all my nicks and passwords. So when I post, I just scroll to the nick and hit enter... no fuss, no muss.

[grinner]

Originally posted by I-am-so-Johns-girl
OK....I just couldn't stand it any longer :eek: !!! I've also registered my new nic....even if it is LONG :rollin: . So operaghost666nj is now I-am-so-Johns-girl. Yeeeehaaaaaa! :aok:
well, that works. Now you can have conversations with yourself like some trolls do on Dom.:ewink:

[Bekka Horror]

well mines now bekka horror because of my infuseasm (yes i know i cant spell) for the rocky horror farscape show idea.

i love farscape
i love rocky

ps i was bekka/sicosu?

[tinner]

From Rhonda:
My old boss was a huge Vikings fan, we're talking Vikings mailbox, Vikings theme wet bar, Vikings clock in his office, Vikings "official" NFL jacket, Vinkings shower curtain and the whole nine yards and he would freak if we used a green pen for any reason. I'm amazed the grass at work wasn't spray painted purple.

Wow, Rhonda, I guess your boss really took that Viking thing seriously! I've seen a lot of Viking stuff, but the shower curtain is news to me. I really do like the Vikings. :cool:

OT, but my husband's brother and his wife, named Rhonda, live in Waukesha, WI. It's my brother-in-law's birthday today (well Friday). :bday: Paul!

[tinner]

From: viking scaper
Thanks for the question! I always love explaining this! I am a Vikings fan because my family used to live in Minnesota and we moved to Wisconsin in 1990. Before we moved, I told my parents that I would never root for the Packers and I have lived that promise up to this day. I also am I season ticket owner and we live about five miles from the border with Minnesota, so I also figured that I would cheer for the team that I am closer to.

p.s. My dad is a Packers fan, but the rest of the family (including harveywhispers) cheer for the Vikings.

Viking scaper, that’s cool. Glad you stuck with rooting for the Vikings. I am a fan of theirs, too, and the Twins, and especially the Wild. :bounce:
My best friend is a huge fan of the Vikes, kinda like Rhonda’s old boss. My friend’s thirteen-year-old daughter says she hates the Vikings and loves the Packers. I think she does it mostly to bug her mom!

[tinner]

grinner,
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: Vikings! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

:hork: Packers!
:hork: Da Bearss!

[farscape1211]

Go : PATRIOTS :aok: Superbowl XXXVI champs :bounce:

Bears :finger: only because they whipped my Patriots un-mercifully. Superbowl XX

Packers :finger: (them too) Superbowl XXXI

[GrandAdmiralThrawn]

Thrawn is a Grand Admiral in the Imperial Fleet. And could quite possibly be considered one of the best bad guys in sci-fi.
And at the risk of being unpopular, go Packers!

Nods to all the Hitchhikers Guide references.

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

is that a negative reply? :eek:

[generic_screenname]

Hell yeah, Patriots, baby!

We got screwed last year. All the stinking Packers had to do was beat the freaking Jets. :headbang:

[grinner]

Originally posted by I-am-so-Johns-girl
is that a negative reply? :eek:
NO, just a remark about why I don't go to Dom much anymore. Nothing negative at all.:D

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:aok: okie dokie grinner! :D

[Scarran Raptor]

well my OL moniker is Shogun Raptor, but I just decided in a show of solidarity and because I just like the big phuglies to change it to Scarran Raptor

[Mivonks]

Well ...

I was in hurry to come up with a Farscape-ish name, but wanted something unlikely to have been taken.

Says a lot for my mental processes, doesn't it!

:D

Matt
Another Oz Member :aok:

[Kurt_eh]

Well, my name's kurt.

My initials are K.A.

And I'm Canadian, eh :D

[Xev]

Mines pretty self explanitory...kinda. I loved the show Lexx, and Xev is cool. Thanks to my TiVo I was able to catch up on all the episodes and when I registered on this board I had Lexx on the brain. It was/is such a cool show.

[Chaym]

First, it's pronounced "H-ay-m" and yes, is derived from the Hebrew "Chaim" but *not* pronounced like that. <sorry for being harsh, I still have flashbacks from this arguement I had with a friend over this and her insistance it be pronounced "the correct way."> Anyway...

Mine is the first name of the fictional character I've been using for 14 of the 16 years I've been in Starfleet: the International Star Trek Fan Association.

Full name is Chaym Gale' Re'ming'ton (n'Maldonado when I got married.) Chaym Gale' means "Life That Walks Alone." Chaym is lupo-felinoid. Think wolf-like face, cheeta-like body, prehensile tail, and can both walk/run on all fours or walk upright. Her planet is called Mohna in the Beta-Minataca system. In the "early years" of my ST fandom, I did tons of background for her and her homeworld. Culture, religion, rituals, government, history, sociological structure, clothing, music, food, housing, geology of the planet, etc. Plus tons of stuff on Chaym's native tribe, the ones her unique fur markings prove she's of, her family life, her search for her ancestors, how she was finally able to make it off planet, how she joined Starfleet, became a leader in holographic imagining technology, a leader in her field of Recreation (in my local chapter, I'm the Chief of Recreation), and a member of the famous heavy-metal band The Galatic Hussies, and cohost of the "Cooking with rRham & Chaym Show", etc.

My character was *never* used for RPG, just tons and tons of stories.

I'm sometimes also Chaym2 (because I frelled up my first time setting up a Yahoo account) and on the newly formed NewJerseyScapers yahoo group "chaymsavingfarscape" again, because of the frell up. (Oh, and also on that group, I'm H.E.Barnes - because it was my orginial profile nick and I accidently used it when posting my "welcome" letter.)

You can wake up now, I'm done. :eek:

~Chaym

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:
uuuuh...that was very interesting chaym!!!
:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:
JUST KIDDING...LOL :D I just couldn't resist it after reading the last line of your post. :aok:

[samati75]

Originally posted by PkTechSquirrel
Well mine is obviously a play on Pk Tech Girl, one of the first episodes I ever saw. On the X-Files boards I was LiquidSky, but I kept getting weird messages about a movie that I've never seen...I used it because of a techno song from the early 90's. Anyway...I wanted a Farscapian name, but being angry on the day I signed up (just after cancellation), I couldn't think of anything more creative.

One of my favorite quotes: "You go, squirrel!", a variation of "You go, girl!" from Sponge Bob.

[samati75]

Samati75 is Sa from my first name, Ma from my middle name, and Ti from my last. 75: year I was hatched. Usually, in chat, everyone shortens it to Sam, but its Sara. I'm a jirl.

[Chaym]

Originally posted by I-am-so-Johns-girl
:zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:
uuuuh...that was very interesting chaym!!!
:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:
JUST KIDDING...LOL :D I just couldn't resist it after reading the last line of your post. :aok:

I'll start emailing you some of my stories my dear! :ewink:

Wait, those are good. I know! I'll tell you all about my species rituals - like the dance we do that tells of how our world was created by the combining of Earth, Sea, Land, and Air. Then describe how the moons chase each other around our planet and the whole creation of our star system. (Yes, very much based on Native Americans.)

Perhaps, I'll describe in minute detail the colour system of our clothing. (Clothing is used for protection and to signify profession, not for modesty - we're covered in fur afterall.) Now there's some Z-reading for you!

Oh, or language. I could give you a primer and some translations. Now, would you want Current Mohnan or Old Tongue? Hmm, you don't have a tail, so teaching you spoken Mohnan would require some face to face work and you using a prosthecic or doing extra work with one of your arms. Mmmm, and your ears don't move independly either. Perhaps we should just stick to the written forms.

John's Girl you still awake now? ;)

How about some stories of our festivals and learning just how important bread is to our people? Would you like me to describe just how to make the many forms?

Now, have you see the map of our world? How about a detailed layout of a typical city? I've got a typical house layout too...

John's Girl?

:zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

:ewink:

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Good one Chaym...you crazy chick! :rollin:
:love2: :love: :love2:

[njak]

how everyone came up with their nicks.....

I've been using mine since.....um.....1995, when I signed up for my first Internet account and needed an email address. I couldn't just use my first name, it was taken. Then I realized the whole family would have to use it, cuz you could only get 1 email address way back then, so I needed something that would work for everyone, i.e. not be too feminine as I am the only female in the family. So I took the first initial in everyone's name n-j-a-k (I'm the "j").

So mostly I use it out of habit at this point, plus I have never, ever found it being used by anyone else, anywhere on the Internet. Lucky me.

I just wish I would slow down and think of something intelligent, relevent or funny instead of just automatically using it sometime.

Or I keep meaning to give it an Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders of Pern twist like "n'jak" or "j'nak" but I just keep forgetting.

Oh, well.....:think:

[AvengerCO]

Well mine is because I'm on the Starfleet Chapter USS Avenger,
I'm the C ommanding O fficer
= AvengerCO

(We're not a company.) check out our website at:
www.ussavenger.org if you're interested!:trans:

[Chaym]

Originally posted by I-am-so-Johns-girl
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Good one Chaym...you crazy chick! :rollin:
:love2: :love: :love2:
How about a children's tune to start your day? :bounce:

Little abotu you cannot hide!
Down your hole I'll catch your hide.
Cook you I will, nice and fried!
Little abotu you cannot hide.

An abotu (a-boe-t-oo) is similar to a hamster, but rabbit sized. A very common way of eating them is in Abotu Puffs - small round rolls stuffed with abotu meat. A common subsitution, especially for Terrans, is chicken. <Yes, I've made them in RL>

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

Sounds yummy Chaym....I'll be right over for dinner tonight! What time??? :rollin: :beer: :thumbs: :hi: :love2: :D

[RueScap]

Okay, my nick . . . I wrote some Farscape stories for myself and invented a new character (who's somehow surprisingly similar to me). When I had to choose a name I came up with the idea to use the letters from my first and last name and rearrange them. The result was Rue . . . (the last name doesn't matter here). The second part of my nick is, as you might guess, a shorter form of the word Scaper. I just wanted to show everyone how much fan I am.

[kitfoxer]

Man, this is gonna be the biggest thread ever if all 3500 of us participate.

My nick refers to the airplane kit I've been picking away at for the last 6 years: a Kitfox Classic IV. Two-seats (if you're real friendly), taildragger, fabric-covered, and uses an engine out of a 1983 Subaru station wagon.

It keeps me out of trouble as best it can...

Kitfoxer;)

[who45]

Well Who45 is because I am a huge Doctor Who fan and my favorite Doctors were the 4th (Tom Baker) and the 5th (Peter Davison).

[grinner]

Bump because there are some new members that might want to explain their nicks.

[BillFrugge]

Bill Frugge aka Sgt. Pinback from the move Dark Star.

I don't know why. It's one of my favorite movies, and I just like the obscureness of the name. I guess I kind of identify with the character.

Trivia: Dan O'Bannon played the character as well as writing the movie. He also wrote 'Alien' and 'Total Recall'

[Frunium Slip]

Well Froonium Rick was allready taken by Richard Manning, so I changed it a little. Besides Froonium was a little too cartoonish for my taste. Frunium with the U sounds more dangerous, you know like Plutonium, Uranium, etc. Then Frunium Rick would be too close to a ripoff, so I thought what goes with Frunium? Freudian-Frunium pretty close so WTF... Came up with Frunium Slip.

Besides it kinda of sings to me...

And the abreviation is FS same as Farscape, eh eh eh eh.

[Frellster]

I have a different nick depending on the thrust of the board. This is a 'Scape board, hence Frellster. I just like how it sounds: "Frellster, Frellmiester, The Frellinator, how's it frell'in?" or something. Stop laughing, Harvey. Its not that bad.

To the former OG. You should read Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera. Its much like the play, but at the end Erique (the Phantom) makes Christine choose between him & Raul. If she chooses him she's to turn a metal Grasshopper, and if she chooses Raul, a Scorpian. Ofcourse, turning the Grasshopper or the Scorpian also activate various mechanisms. I won't say what they do, in case you plan to read it, but its a lose, lose situation. Having to choose between the Grasshopper & the Scorpian is an unenviable position at best. Never cross the Phantom & never get engaged to two guys when one of them is a musical genius with a facial deformity.

I saw a guy once with a grasshopper tattoo on one side of his neck, and ofcourse I asked if he had a scorpian on the other. He looked at me weird. He had an ant on the opposite side. Yes, I suppose that works too.

[mysticalseeker]

Well my nic is pretty straight forward. Mystical in this case refers to reiki/chi. Seeker refers to my position on a quiditch team..... no thats not right. Seeker refers to my quest for knowledge. I like Zhaan, but this is not a reference to her. I have had this nic since 94/95.

[adamthered]

My nick is just a play off my last name: Vermillion.

So Adam Vermillion = Adam the Red = adamthered

[grinner]

Bumping this for those newbies that might want to explain what their nicks mean.

[kechara420]

Well, not exactly a newbie, but I'll explain:) Mine's also pretty straightforward.

Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books are some of my favorites. There is a group of forest-dwelling people (mostly mages) called the Tyledras (sp?). "Ke'chara" is a word in their language meaning "beloved," or "dear one." It's also the name of a gryphon.

Usually kechara, ke'chara and ke_chara are taken, so I added the 420 because my birthday is April 20th.

[Johnsgirl727]

I was in a hurry to register too and used the nic I've been using for about 5 yrs now. Then, after I thought about it I came up with the BEST new nic...but I guess it's too late. This is what I'd like to use as my new nic....any opinions? I-am-so-johns-girl



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VBKatLou
Senior Member

Registered: Sep 2002
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I think both your names are too much typing especially if you post at the DOM where you have to key in your nick and password with every post. I seem to remember AurtherFrellingDent complaining about that on a post somewhere just the other day.

Plus there are WAY too many of us who are "SOOO-Johns-Girl"

LOL!! :rollin: VBKatLou, you are SOOOO right!

[Darth Buddha]

I've been called "Buddha" before, both for world view and for the fact that I can distend my abdomen to an obscene point thanks to several years of yoga (i.e. a "Buddha-Gut").

I read a fair bit on Buddhism of late too.

The Darth part is the fact that I've made my peace with conflict when necessary. Obstacles must be removed sometimes. That is decidedly NOT buddhist. Hence the "oxymoron" in my nickname.

I've also been called...

"Hercules" (from body building):grr:

"Helium Man" (from some radio spots I did, sans helium):bgb:

and many others that would give my secret identity away!:smokin:

[mfa96]

Love the explanations on the names. I especially loved the ThirdEye origin- "...he walks across McCarthur Park and into a great sandstone building *thud* 'oh my nose'..." the Firesign Theatre are hilarious! :rollin:

As for my name, it's pretty simple. I am an art professor who earned an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in drawing and painting, in 1996, so mfa96 it is. And for those to whom it will matter I am a guy behind the keyboard.

[Col. Kathryn O'Neill]

hmmm.. okay i'm game...

It's my nic for my stories and my rpg's.

Kinda funny isn't it.

Col. Kathryn 'Kath' Maire Crichton O'Neill
'Spacekitty'
Team leader (CO) SG2
Teep/ Teek

okay better go explain a few things shouldn't i.....
Spacekitty is a nick that a few friends and I came up with.. and i guess it just stuck.

Col. Kathryn 'Kath' Maire Crichton O'Neill (my full name and in my universe john is my older brother)

CO (Commanding officer) which is the same as team leader SG2

Teep/ Teek (slang for telepath/ telekintic)

[Pilot]

I saw this show once, and kinda liked one of the aliens...he seemed to be piloting some big ship. The ship had a name...Mary? Margo? Inigo Montoya? Something like that. Anyway, I understand that not a lot of people are familiar with this show, so I figured I'd explain it a little bit. Hope that helps.

(removes tongue from cheek, exits rapidly stage right)

[Strj500]

St= Steve, r = first letter of my middle name, j=Johnson, 500= a random number i have been using for screen name for a long time, and there you have Strj500

[Saajak]

Came up with Saajak back in college when a bunch of us were trying to make up our own Trek character. I was supposed to be part Vulcan, and Wheel of Fortune was on and, well, the rest is history....

<--Also a huge Twins, Wild, Vikings fan!

[NYPinTA]

Originally posted by Col. Kathryn O'Neill
Col. Kathryn 'Kath' Maire Crichton O'Neill (my full name and in my universe john is my older brother)

You know, he Would make a cool older brother.... :lol

[NYPinTA]

Originally posted by Pilot
I saw this show once, and kinda liked one of the aliens...he seemed to be piloting some big ship. The ship had a name...Mary? Margo? Inigo Montoya? Something like that. Anyway, I understand that not a lot of people are familiar with this show, so I figured I'd explain it a little bit. Hope that helps.

(removes tongue from cheek, exits rapidly stage right)

:rollin: :rollin:

[grinner]

bump

[Eiley]

I logged on to another site one day and needed a name, so I used this Celtic name because I liked it. Later I wished that I had used the name Celry, but everyone already knew me as Eiley. Celry is one of my nick names in RL that came about because one of my friends always slured my name and it evolved into Celry.

[AnubisCat]

Ok.... well.... AnubisCat......

Anubis- One of my deities. The Ancient Egyptian God of embalming and mumification. Also associated with the modern Grim Reaper and the Greek Charon. He was the one who carried the soul to the underworld for judgement.

Cat-One of my totems. More specifically the black leopard. A symbol of strength, cunning and patience.

[Roland]

Virginia Hey just let me know that it means "A turnip Farscape fan" (Scaper Swede) :rollin:

:smokin: What I always wanted to be!!! :smokin:

[Talon Virgilio]

Nothing

[Aeryn's Boy]

self-explanitory...
I hope...

...yes. :D

[grinner]

Bump for the newbies.

[Zutulu]

okay, I'll give it a go. Waaaaaay back when, a bunch of my friends and I were playing, and we decided to pretend we were aliens (yes, this was definitely waaaay back when :D). So we all picked names by randomly throwing together letters, and mine turned into Zutulu. I stuck with it, and have decided to use it as my online identity. Not much thought into it, but I like it. :aok:

[trubador]

Now THAT'S cool! :aok:
I thought about using my old nickname from my college days (Madman... don't ask), but decided against it.

[grinner]

.

[quendi]

Quendi - "those who speak with voices", the name given by the Elves to their own kind while they still dwelt at Cuiviénen.

When the first Elves awoke, they thought themselves to be the only beings in Arda capable of speech, and so took this name for themselves.

encyclopedia of Arda

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

Hey! Glad this thread was revived! :idea:
Come on newbies...give us your story....it's lots of fun :highfive:

[LtColKiraNerys]

My board name is taken from my favorite character on Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Kira Nerys was a full colonel when the series ended, but when I signed up for AOL on my man's account the name ColKiraNerys was taken, so we decided to go with LtColKiraNerys. I'm one of these types that prefers to stick with one nick so that I don't get it confused with another when I'm posting to any of the various boards I'm signed up with, so I just use my AOL handle whenever I sign up on a new board.:kitty:

[Zutulu]

bump!

[JRyde]

"JRyde" The J is for the first letter of my name, Jonathan. Ryde- just a an acronym for my car. I use this on my car club site and just decided to keep it for all boards rather than trying to remember a different one for each board.

[KellEy.. "red"]

okay... so mine is kinda complex, but i'll do my best...



obviously my first name is Kelley... the capital "E" on the last e in my name comes from one of my other groups... there's another Kelly on that group and they were always confusing us, so i just started using a capital "E" to differentiate.... the "red" is shortened from my chat name.... i started out in chat almost 4 years ago (during season one) as "naturalredhead"... at scapercon 2001, there was a kid there named quinn that asked me why, if i went by red, why didn't i just go by "red"? so, when i got back from scapercon that year, i changed my name from naturalredhead to "justRed"... i added a "dammit" on the end of it as a joke in chat.... sooooo.... that's how i came up with my chatname and then my groups/board name

justRed-dammit -- #farscape chat
KellEy.. "red" for everything else....

did ya'll get all of that? :infinity: :grr:

[SuperScaper]

I first thought about using the nick name from my other chat board, but it is a car site so the name WannaVette did not seem very relevant.

Originally posted by trubador
Now THAT'S cool! :aok:
I thought about using my old nickname from my college days (Madman... don't ask), but decided against it.

I also thought about the nickname that my college mock trial team gave to me (Devil Woman - Would take too long to explain)
So being in a hurry to post I just typed in the first thing that I could think of. Not very original :(

[cytech25]

I have been a cytotechnologist for 25 years and wanted to celebrate that fact with a name.

[asymmetric]

Used to go by "Quicksilver" back in the old old old BBS days, changed to "Nightfall" after reading a fantasy novel "The Legend of Nightfall" which was fairly ok, but the poem in the back really did it and gave a great if campy tagline -- "Darkness comes where Nightfall goes." Went by "The Spectre" for a little while, but I got older and more mature and that nickname was a bit too pompous for me.

IRC came around and both were too long, still are on many servers/networks. I figured "asymmetric" probably wasn't too popular and I was right, so I started using that one after a few years under some other nickname that I won't mention. ;)

Was still too long for IRC, but I've been using it everywhere else, like other online bbs/forums and IM clients, so I just shortened it to 'asym' for IRC, and sign my posts that way since it takes less typing. ;)


From www.dictionary.com / American Heritage dictionary:
1. Having no balance or symmetry.

From thesaurus.reference.com / dictionary.com thesaurus:
(those most relevant to my usage)
awry, cockeyed, deviating, devious, distorted, errant, kinky, meandering, screwy, skewed, warped


More describing my mental state than anything geometrically physical. Always looking for balance, for a center, for that ever elusive focus. Haven't found it yet.

If you want me to be cheeky, I can just say I'm a glutton for punishment and I love it when people don't notice/ignore my nickname in forums, or my usual "-asym" at the end of a message, and spell it assymetric. Yeah. I love that. Maybe I should head over to that "pet peeve" topic elsewhere in this forum. ;)

-asym (not assy)

[Sawyer's Miller]

In my case, my nic was derived from Farscape...

Sawyer's Mill was the place Jack took John fishing in the small hours, and caught a Bass (or was it a trout?)

And where there's a Mill, there must be a Miller. And I grew up watching Trumpton ;)

[grinner]

bump

[CrackersDon'tMatter]

Uh, I dunno...must've just made it up. ;)

[auroraSun]

just read it backwards ;)

[charmedmeat]

Well I got mine from a radom generator on MSN gaming zone, thought it was pretty unique so I took it and have been using it ever since.

[generic_screenname]

Since I'm generic_screenname, I thought I could create a web page and call it genericwebpage. But somebody beat me to it (http://www.genericwebsite.com/untitled.html) Damn.

[Johnsgirl727]

Originally posted by generic_screenname
Since I'm generic_screenname, I thought I could create a web page and call it genericwebpage. But somebody beat me to it (http://www.genericwebsite.com/untitled.html) Damn.
You should do your own webpage. I bet it would be funny.:)

Edit: I just went to that "webpage". Now I know you were pulling our leg. Do'h!;)

[generic_screenname]

Thanks. I'm not as web savvy as I should be, but I'm working on it.

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:bump:
Hey newbies....tell us your story! This was a fun thread I thought I'd resurrect (sp?) from the dead. :D

[grinner]

thank you "the artist formally known as operaghost666nj... now know as I-am-so-John's-girl" I have been meaning to bump this up to the top again.

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:D You're welcome grinner :D

Whoops....almost forgot to mention the CHEESE !!!
:shutup: :thud: :angelgrin :headbang: :smash: :innocent: :roflmao: :bot: :pissed: :highfive: :crazydanc :bonk: :whoops: :bluenana:

I hate when that happens......

[ShawnaTums]

okies - mine started out as a high school nickname/joke.......we had to name our chemistry lab report onto the school's computer - so had to put a name that was more descriptive then TUMSLAB......so my lab partner put - shawnatums.....and she liked how it sounded so i became shawnatums....and she became nikkirolaids.....as my revenge.......

anyways - this was about the same time that i started chatting online and i really didn't ahve any other nickname......so rather than something random and unpronouncable - i choose shawnatums.....and it has been my Farscape boards nic for so long that i am afriad to change it cause no one would know who i was anymore (i'm not able to post frequently so many people barely recognize my name at all anymore.....)

otherwise my new sn is KytteKat.....an anime charecter my roomate drew based on me......

so that's me....

it's nice to know everyone's nick!!!!!

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

BUMP for newbie stories!:bump:

[Egg]

bump ..........not more insurance, we drive on the left,
And P-K4 any offers?

[Lord Loser]

No real good story behind mine. When we were in college a group of friends got hooked on Maelstrom. The goal was to always be on top of the high score board, of course and one of the guys, Bill, try as he might could never get to the top. So the only time he made the top ten he put Lord Loser as his monniker.

I never forgot it and when I was fishing for a name to use on a football picks site, I tried it and have used it ever since. Besides, after my record on the football picks site it's more appropriate than ever.

[shadowrec]

back before independent record companies were the way of the world, i owned one called 'Shadow Records,' and have just always used a shortened version to avoid my real name all over the 'Net

[Audaces]

'Audaces' is the name of the ship my parents live and work on. I think it's a beautiful name so I use it a lot.

[trinamick]

Not a particularly interesting story - any who travel to Kansas already know. My name is Katrina, but most everyone in rl calls me Trina. When my nephew was little, he would always introduce everyone by their full name, but he somehow managed to screw it up every time (leave out letters, run words together, etc.) Since then it's just stuck with me. I used to use kats_meow, but anymore I can't without using a number behind it, and I hate doing that. So for now, I AM TRINAMICK THE MAGNIFICENT! (see the cape?) :tough:

[Umbra]

Not really a story behind it. Umbra is "shadow" in Latin.

I would've taken my preferred nick(the one I usually go by) StarScream, but someone had it already.:(

[MrFlibble]

Fans of Red Dwarf will know this one.

Mr. Flibble is a penguin hand puppet that a temporarily insane hologram uses to intimidate his shipmates.

Watch the episode "Quarentine" and you will understand.

BTW: grinner & I-am-so-Johns-girl, what is the story with the cheese?!? I've just GOTTA know!

[grinner]

Originally posted by MrFlibble

BTW: grinner & I-am-so-Johns-girl, what is the story with the cheese?!? I've just GOTTA know! well... okay. I think it was in February or March/scratch that... it was in June... during my weird news article binge, I posted 3 articles about cheese. One of them was that cheese was more addictive than Heroin... the other was about some smelly cheese... and I don't remember the third one. Once these articles were posted... especially on the cheese addiction thread... there was a very long and well... bizarre discussion about cheeses and other things. When things were being discussed that involved something wierd... cheese would be referenced... and someone would post who has the cheese. And the reply would be grinner took the cheese. I will attempt to find the article again... but I am not promising anything.

[trubador]

Think of it (cheese), MrFibble, as an edible verision of the worship of duct tape. :D

... insert tongue-in-cheek smiley here ----->

[MrFlibble]

trubador,

Thank you for speaking to me in my own language.

Also, Ijust found the cheese thread. What a riot!

[Moya]

Not really a story here...

I couldn't think of anything unique or original when I registered
so, I just used my real name.

Besides, I think it kind of goes with the whole Farscape thing. :D

Cheers,
Moya

[Ancient]

Ancient is pretty self-explanatory, I'm an old coot so i thought it appropriate.

Was pretty surprised noone had taken it.

[Johnsgirl727]

Originally posted by Moya
Not really a story here...

I couldn't think of anything unique or original when I registered
so, I just used my real name.

Besides, I think it kind of goes with the whole Farscape thing. :D

Cheers,
Moya
Cool! Your name is really Moya? And you love Farscape! That's so awesome.:)

[Moya]

Yep, my name really is Moya and I absolutely love Farscape!:D

[grinner]

is it your first or last name?

[Boron]

:confused: I figure I'm halfway between a bore and a moron.:help:

[Egg]

An Oxyboron?

[Boron]

I'm not that smart. I'm from Kentucky, haven't you heard??? We sleep with our dogs and chase our sisters.:confused:

[grinner]

That's better than New Zealand... what with the sheep and all.

[Boron]

Well, Grinner, on the weekends we do it the other way around. :rollin:


:puppy: :whoops:

[debalee]

My husband's nickname for me is debaleedoop, and I thought it best to drop the doop and there you have it.

Although now I think I should have kept it. :D

[MrFlibble]

Originally posted by debalee
My husband's nickname for me is debaleedoop, and I thought it best to drop the doop and there you have it.

Although now I think I should have kept it. :D


It's OK to drop your doop, as long you clean it up right away.


:spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin::spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin:

[blue]

Well, mine is not about Zhaan, and its not about Xanth, its just my favorite color, other than purple, which is not as good a name.

[Spedoinkel]

Well my nic is a misspelling of the odd madeup word from Cannial the Musical (more hilarious fun from try Parker, Matt Stone, and that other guy) I found out after I had been using it a while that I am spelling it wrong.

Other stuff:
My avatar is a pic of GIR from Jhonen Vasquez's Invader Zim. One of the best cartoons ever, up there with The Tick and the classic Pinky and The Brain.

My signature "Fear My TANSTAAFL Fu" is something I made up for my motto on www.everything2.com
TANSTAAFL = There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch is from Robert A. Heinlen's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. It was a little used catch phrase in the sixties, but became widespead from the book. There is a TANSTAAFL Pub in Arlington TX but I've never been there.
A few months ago I changed my motto to "You deny me freshmaker?" as a nod to Jhonen Vasquez's Happy Noodle Boy.
And you all know the quote that is there.

Hey Sacarrn Raptor, nice to see another Zim fan on the board.

[Moya]

Originally posted by grinner
is it your first or last name?

It's my first name.

[Harvey'schurl]

I only recently started posting (within the last two years) on different boards and haven't given too much thought to my screen names. At present I use several screen names because I like making up names.
I usually pick something related to farscape because most of the boards I frequent are Farscape.

For this one Harvey'schurl is for Harvey of course and churl was a mistake. It was suppose to be jirl. I didn't realize my mistake until it was too late.

I like some of my other board names better but don't feel like changing this one.

[Clarsax]

When I was in high school I played the clarinet and alto saxophone in the school bands and was thinking about going into music after graduation. So one of my friends combined the two and gave me the nickname Clarsax. It was the only one I could think of when I signed up here.

[trubador]

so... if you mix Boron with Clarsax, you get..... BORAX!!! :D
(get's the tough stains out)

[Boron]

Originally posted by trubador
so... if you mix Boron with Clarsax, you get..... BORAX!!! :D
(get's the tough stains out)


Trubador, we will keep that in mind if we somehow had a son, or a clone of some sort from both our DNA.


:wingnut: :banana: :banana: :banana:

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

trubador......spew warnings...PLEEEZE! :spew: :spew: :spew: :spew: :spew:

[grinner]

:bump:

[frellyou]

guess. :D

[Spedoinkel]

For Really Enjoyable Listening Learn Yodaling Outside UK

[Onker]

Onker because the Everquest name generator gave me Oynker, for my Troll Shaman.
I thought "There is NO way I'm going to play a game with that name." and then thought "Hey, ditch the Y and it's pretty original!" So for 5 years now I've been Onker, previously I was Krun Chee, the Cheesemaster.

[grinner]

cool... a cheesemaster... I could use more of that.

[Onker]

The world needs more Cheese. Cheese is gud.
Though my kind of cheese is generally movie related :)

[trubador]

:horror: OOOOOOOOOOohhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooo......... :hypno:

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:
More cheese?????

[Madre Farbot]

I got to be honest, but I'm not 100% sure I know who I am. Who am I?

Anyway, who cares. I'm pretty sure it was season two, and it had something to do with Crichton wanting to do something really stupid, like returning to a world full of peacekeepers.

All of a sudden, Sparkie shouts out, you're not farbot. You're madre farbot. Of course we could argue about the spelling. Could it be madra, magra or maybe even madre? Hang on a mo. I've even seen it spelt as magra_harbot, and as for farbot, I've also seen it spelt as fahrbot. So, there you are; I can't even get my own fugging nickname right!
:confused:

[trubador]

Originally posted by Madre Farbot
I got to be honest, but I'm not 100% sure I know who I am. Who am I?

Anyway, who cares. I'm pretty sure it was season two, and it had something to do with Crichton wanting to do something really stupid, like returning to a world full of peacekeepers.

All of a sudden, Sparkie shouts out, you're not farbot. You're madre farbot. Of course we could argue about the spelling. Could it be madra, magra or maybe even madre? Hang on a mo. I've even seen it spelt as magra_harbot, and as for farbot, I've also seen it spelt as fahrbot. So, there you are; I can't even get my own fugging nickname right!
:confused:
So... in other words.... you're the Mother of all Farbots??? :D

[Spedoinkel]

I thought it meant really crazy

[Madre Farbot]

Hey! Thanx a lot trubador. :rollin:

[MrFlibble]

:bump:

[[Elrond]]

Erm, my name is Elvish for "Tolkien geek".

[grinner]

:rollin: Good one [Elrond]

[Riot Chik]

Mine comes from the famous 'Where the hell is my riot?' line, as you might have guessed already.

[Zutulu]

:bump:

[MrFlibble]

With so many new people here, I thought this thread might be fun to revisit.

And so....:bump:

[studentsteve]

Mine is because all of my friends call me a tax dodger student. I have a job as well honest and contribute lots of tax, really i do.

[Lord Loser]

Good Bump...

[grinner]

is that like good beer?

[MrFlibble]

Well it was free...

[Lord Loser]

a good bump comes AFTER lots of good beer

:beergood: (now where's that humpy smilie)

[MrFlibble]

Can I get a HELL YEAH for Lord Loser?!?:applaud:

[grinner]

Originally posted by Lord Loser
a good bump comes AFTER lots of good beer

:beergood: (now where's that humpy smilie) this smilie?

[MrFlibble]

Where do you get those smilies from? :thewave:

[grinner]

google smilies... there are millions of them.

[Lord Loser]

THAT'S THE ONE!!! Went to mysmilies.com, but couldn't find it. However I did come up with this little jewel...

http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/contrib/constrector/cheesess.gif

[grinner]

Originally posted by Lord Loser
THAT'S THE ONE!!! Went to mysmilies.com, but couldn't find it. However I did come up with this little jewel...

http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/contrib/constrector/cheesess.gif I already have it and have been using it... but it hasn't gone into the list yet.

[Lord Loser]

yeah, I've seen you use it (and all the envy it created). Can you PM me the code for the humpy?

[grinner]

Originally posted by Lord Loser
yeah, I've seen you use it (and all the envy it created). Can you PM me the code for the humpy? just right click and copy it. I don't have the code... I got it from someone else on the board. I can't find it anywhere... so I just copied it and whenever I want to use it... I attach it.

[Judith]

My name is from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. In "Room", Woolf wonders why there have been, up to the time she wrote "Room", so few female novelists in the canon. She does a "what if" story...basically...What if Shakespeare had a sister and she had the same talent as him? She would not be taken seriously at that time...and the what if story ends with Judith Shakespare committing suicide.

Now, I am neither a genius, a repressed genius, nor suicidal, but when I signed up, I didn't want a Farscape derived name, because I knew that people on the board would know I love Farscape...otherwise, why would I sign up. So I wanted to share one of my other interests, and I choose Virginia Woolf.

[Judith]

Oh...also in my humanities class in high school I fell in love with the paintings of the Bibilical Judith. Especially one by Artemesia Gentileschi....Grrr....You'd think since I love her so much I'd remember how to spell her last name. Anyway, since then, I've really liked the name Judith, so that was an extra bonus for me.

[grinner]

:bump:

[Hammerhead]

I started a booster club for our local indoor football team, the Lake Charles Land Sharks. I called the club the Hammerheads. Pretty soon I was being called Hammerhead by everyone because myself and just a couple others were all we could get into the group. I have been using Hammerhead on all all the forums I've posted to ever since. Now people call me Hammer, HH, or Hammerhead. But I always sign the post with my real name, Rod.

[Warhola]

My nick comes from Andy Warhol, who's real name was Andrew Warhola. Besides having the same name as him, Andrew, I also think I got more with him in common. Altho he's a painter mainly, especially his poem 'Thursday's Child' feels like it's about me.

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:applaud: Good bump grinner!

[grinner]

Originally posted by I-am-so-Johns-girl
:applaud: Good bump grinner! of course:D... there are many, many new members here... come on and tell us how your nick came about.

[Alexxia]

I'm not really new, but I just found this thread.
My handle is just my middle name, which is the name I go by anyway. I know...boring. But the spelling's kinda different (also not a sign of effort on my part...my mum gave it to me like that).

[grinner]

:bump:

[Jaxa Logan]

Jaxa is a play on my name. And Logan is in tribute to Logan's Run, another longtime favorite of mine.
Jax

[Aeryn_Sun99]

Well, my name's pretty self explanitory...Aeryn's ,y favorite character.....and 99 is the year i graduated from highschool

:crazydanc

[scapergin]

well obviously i'm a scaper, and gin is for gina(but that's not my real name):innocent:

[T'railmixx]

Obvious take on T'raltixx. Loved that ep. T'railmixx was the first thing I thought when I saw how John spelled it on the door.

[Selena]

Selena is the name of a character in one of my books (yet unpublished) ... not enough hours in the day to finish the story to my satisfaction. I do empathize with RED.

As for the Avatar - Aeryn Swine is the brilliant work of Generic_Screenname and is kindly on loan.

[witchdoctor]

Well, long ago, around 1994 or 95, when I first had to come up with a screen name for AOL, I wanted something to do with Doctor Who, but DrWho, DocWho and all such variations were taken and I didn't want someone elses name with numbers on the end, so I came up with witchdoctor instead. Unfortunately, I had to abbreviate the spelling since at the time AOL only allowed ten characters per screen name. That means there is a witchdoctor at aol, but that is someone who picked that name long after I had my witchdoc screen name and after AOL increased the number of characters permitted in a screen name. I have used witchdoctor in postings and in computer RPG's since. The only problem with it is that on many boards, as often as not it has already been taken. So on Kansas I am originalwitchdoctor and on the Dom I am SpiritScaper.

Why witchdoctor? I am a physician. My first wife is a witch and I was involved a lot with the pagan community then, so I added witch to doctor. BTW, male or female, you are a witch. There are no warlocks; that was only on Bewitched and in a series of scifi/fantasy books. I don't really consider myself a witch though. Even then I never practiced the craft, I just liked hanging out with the witches. I have always liked people who were out of the mainstream, plus witches have better parties.:D If I had to choose a term now, it would be Man of Knowledge. That is from Castaneda's series of books. A Man of Knowledge was someone who could dwell either in the world of the sorceror or in the world of science, equally at home in both. My current wife is a christian, so I see a lot from the other side now, though I wouldn't consider myself a christian either.

[grinner]

bump for the newbies...

[JrMissToughChick]

Jr Miss Tough Chick of the Universe was what John said he thought Chiana was in TTLG alot of you already got that though ;)

My two favorite characters on Farscape are Aeryn and Chiana strong women rock! I think I like them both about equil maybe Aeryn a little more because I want to be like her when I grow up(yes I know I am a grown-up sorta) but I thought it was a cool name so I went for it!

~JrMTC~

PS: Grinner Thanks for bumping this :)

[grinner]

not a problem

[BrowderChick]

Do I really need to? :bounce:

[grinner]

sure

[BrowderChick]

Originally posted by grinner
sure


hmmm.... where do I start? :)

[grinner]

I have no idea... start at the middle and go backward... then go forwards to the end... but not all the way cause I don't want to be spoiled.

[BrowderChick]

:rollin:

Should be um .... I dont know. Let's see... BrowderChick. I thinks it means.....

[vikingscaper]

I can explain mine again if you want to hear me rant and rave about two of my favorite things. Nah, I won't do that......just look at my avatar and then figure out my favorite show and you have my screen name.

[BrowderChick]

See... I am not the only one here who did that.

[grinner]

sure... whatever.:P

[BrowderChick]

What does yours mean?

[grinner]

BrowderChick asked me "What does yours mean?"

Originally posted by grinner
Mine is grinner which is from the comic book GrimJack and it is a nickname of the main character... John Gaunt aka James Twilley.

[BrowderChick]

Ok. I didn't read back far enough in this thread. But I know now. :)

[bouyantman]

well....to keep this as clean as possible:lech:..let's just say that i'm very bouyant in water :gasp: :shocked:

SCAPE ON!!

[Judith]

Originally posted by bouyantman
well....to keep this as clean as possible:lech:..let's just say that i'm very bouyant in water

Actually it was a big shock for me when I first found out that that part was bouyant.

[BrowderChick]

:rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[JrMissToughChick]

I know where Judith Shakespeare got hers, but she has probaly posted it earler on this thread so I'll just leave it at that. It's very cool BTW ;)

~JrMTC~

[bouyantman]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
Actually it was a big shock for me when I first found out that that part was bouyant.


lol!!:rollin: ..what dirty thought's you ladies have! :devil: (but that's a good thing!)...i didn't mean that! :shocked:....but, you can say that a little....

[BrowderChick]

Originally posted by bouyantman
lol!!:rollin: ..what dirty thought's you ladies have! :devil: (but that's a good thing!)...i didn't mean that! :shocked:....but, you can say that a little....


:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[fermicat]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
Actually it was a big shock for me when I first found out that that part was bouyant.

Ahhhh, bouyancy........ I wish my chest would always look like it does underwater!! Completely negates the effects of gravity and then some! Would never need a wonderbra (or any bra, for that matter). <blush>

I return you to the regularly scheduled topic of this thread.

And my nick is a way to remember and honor my cat Fermi, who died of cancer in January 2000. She was THE BEST cat ever.

[zelbinion]

In my profession we learn not to underestimate the little guys.
I figured the zelbinion was a good illustration of that. Seeing how the biggest, badest, most feared ship in the PK fleet got the crap knocked out of it