What's in a name?

POSTED BY: citizen
UPDATED: Monday, August 28, 2006 05:38
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AERIN

Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:50 AM

I wanted to pick a Firefly-appropriate name, but I lacked time and the appropriate instinct. Robin McKinley is my very favoritist author and Aerin is a character from one of her books. I like the character and always thought the spelling was cool.

I almost went with ChemFerrets, which a friend invented when setting up a Mac homepage for me (I am irrationally anti-Mac and he was trying to convert me). I'm a chemistry grad student with ferrets. I've used that name on a few things, but decided maybe it would reveal what a collosal nerd I am. Oh, whoops.

Jayne: I once hit a guy in the neck from 500 yards with a bent scope. Don't that count upstairs?
Book: Oh, it'll be taken into consideration.
Jayne: You made that sound kind of ominous.

HAILFAX

Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:58 AM

like a lot of people, mine was just random. i had a brain spaz and it hit me. and a misspell. a friend of mine lives on a Halifax Road, and i wanted to use that, but as i was typing it, i misspelled it and it became Hailfax.

though, i didn't even realize that it was Hailfax until i tried to sign in and it didn't work.
and thus ends my tale of my username, i'm also on livejournal if anyone else is there.

We're deep in space, corner of No and Where.

CHRISPV

Thursday, January 5, 2006 6:36 AM

Well, this is only marginally interesting in the loosest sense. My name is Christopher Peavey. However, I am also the fourth generation of my family to have lived on our cattle ranch in western Kansas. My family's been here for ages. Consequently, our brand is simply "PV."

So, when I was in kindergarten, the teacher tried to teach us to write our names. I was a lazy little bugger, and realized that "Chris PV" took so much less time to print. The name stuck, and to this day I sign off all of my e-mails and personal correspondence with it.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

J6NGO1977

Thursday, January 5, 2006 8:20 AM

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j6ngo1977:
I sooo would have never been able to guess that!

LMAO. I am so un-creative

LEIGHKOHL

Thursday, January 5, 2006 9:05 AM

Mine's boring. Leigh is my middle name and kohl is the end of my last name.

POOBLESNUGGETS

Thursday, January 5, 2006 10:59 AM

a long series of evolved injokes...

i used to work in a kfc (blech... the smell still haunts me and on the drive-through, six nuggets came across as 'sick snuggets' most of the time. so, snuggets.

a friend of mine had a sock puppet, for some random reason, that he named poob.

poob + snuggets kinda evolved into poobsnuggets, which just sounded better with a 'le' in the middle. and so, it happened. 'pooblesnuggets inc' was also the name of my faux production company in 10th grade media studies

BWARE42

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:17 PM

Mine is pretty boring too. It's my first initial and last name. I added the 42 because I've always liked those numbers together...That, and it's the meaning of life, the universe and everything else.

Am I a Lion?

VERASAMUELS

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:42 PM

Well, I was Xenaclone on the Browncoat-board-that-was (see avatar to your left ).

I've decided to go with Vera Samuels here. She's my Firefly OFC, Sherriff of Beltane and the reason Jayne gave THAT name to his gun .

I'm writing the fanfic at the mo' - first part is called..erm...Vera and is in the Blue sun room.

Peeps who were very alert and had their eyes open at Serenity & Serenity2 will have spotted Vera in public as incarnated by me [hey, it's a tough life, bein' an interestin' memory for Jayne, but someone's gotta do it ]

Vera

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

[To my knowledge only one person on the old board 'got' this ]

AMITON

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:43 PM

Alright, this has some momentum, so I guess I'll soften up and play, too :)

Amiton is the name I chose for my guide character when I was in Evercrack. We were told we couldn't use player character names, so I had to think a little. I guess that doesn't explain the name, though, huh?

At the time, I *really* wasn't aware that Amiton was a word (and didn't until it was brought to my attention in the taglog *cough*). In my line of thought, it was an attempt to be clever, playing with words. I grew up in a little town in New York called Amityville (perhaps you've heard of the book or movies?), and I wanted to give some credit in that way. Also, since being a guide was a customer service role, I kind of used the french word "ami" to infer a warmer disposition. The majority of the inference was a cross between the two, with the intent to communicate "one who is a friend", with the underlying "one who is from Amityville".

That's actually a shortened version, but there you have it!

Amiton.

PINBALLWIZARD

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:03 PM

I had just thought of turning my old pinball machine into a Firefly one (which is finally making some headway now), and I had also found my dad's old record of the rock opera Tommy by the Who. Put two and two together. Most importantly, I LOVE pinball.

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