Names

POSTED BY: Gomithrous
UPDATED: Friday, January 5, 2007 10:57
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GOMITHROUS

Thursday, January 4, 2007 2:15 PM

I was just reading the "Name a Browncoat - Win a Prize" thread when I thought; How did all of you come up with your names. I came up with mine while watching the Just For Laughs comedy festival on TV, they were doing a Jeapordy spoof and one of the contestants was "Gomithrous, keeper of the Chalise of the Damned", I thought it was a cool name so now I use it for everything. Gomithrous is my name for YouTube, Photobucket, J!NX and here. My dad's name for all of his boards is Chaimaera, so if you know somebody by that name on a board (his favorite one is RPGHost but I think the site moved recently I don't know what it's called now) it's probably my dad. So how did people come up with all their names?

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PENGUIN

Thursday, January 4, 2007 2:20 PM

Opus from "Bloom County" has always been my favorite cartoon...I didn't want to copy his name so I just called myself Penguin!

Clowns to the left of me… ...Jokers to the right...

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, January 4, 2007 2:24 PM

From the Film:
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari He unleashes a Somnambulist upon the townsfolk and terrorises them.... A Sleepwalker with whom you cannot engage.

www.cirqus.com

ISAACSHEPHERD

Thursday, January 4, 2007 2:42 PM

Mine is kind of a boring story but I made mine up when I started playing the Serenity RPG. I always liked the name Isaac. And I can never think of a last name for my character so the gm suggested Shepherd since I was going to create a Shepherd at first and I wanted him to be somewhat religious.

IS

The Bible's a bit fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps.

ZZETTA13

Thursday, January 4, 2007 4:03 PM

Developed the name after getting a computer and getting access to the internet. Name= homage to IMO the greatest si/fi fantasy illustrator that ever was. Frank Frazetta (zzetta13) and 13 my lucky number.

But,Hey, just call me Z

Jayne "Battle of Serenity Valley Mal.Besides Zoey here who in your platoon got out of there alive?"

Zoey "You want to leave!"

Jayne" Damn right I do."

GLADIATOR32

Thursday, January 4, 2007 4:07 PM

Mine's quite boring. I used to play cornerback for the Colchester Gladiators American Football Club, here in Blighty. And 32 is my lucky number - and my shirt number with the club.

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www.myspace.com/32dan32

CAUSAL

Thursday, January 4, 2007 4:28 PM

Well, when I first joined the board I called myself "InevitibleBetrayal"--but I started hating that name pretty fast. In the first place, it was hard for people to write it all out when they responded to me in a thread. In the second, it didn't even make for a good abbreviation ("IB"? ). In the third, I didn't really control myself very well at the time, and was starting to get a bit of a bad rep. So I dumped "InevitibleBetrayal".

I chose "Causal" because at the time I was taking a course in ancient philosophy (the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) and the idea of causality is pretty big there, particularly for Plato. So in the first place, "Causal" just had a nice ring to it. In the second place, I'm a philosophy major, and I'm very interested in the notion of causality in general, and in particular where it intersects with ideas about human freedom and ethics (after all, it would seem that if we're all just meat machines operating according to predetermined causal laws with no real freedom, then the notion of morality falls apart). In the third, I'm also a minister-in-training, so I've got some definite ideas about causality and God, and I especially like to wrap that into my philosophical studies and think about what causality means if it really turned out that God was standing at the beginning of some causal chain.

I try to use Causal on all the places I go--but every so often (maybe one in three or four times) I find that the name is already spoken for. That said, though, chances are pretty good that if you see "Causal" on another board, that's me.

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PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, January 4, 2007 4:42 PM

Rose is my name, Phoenix is my symbol/totem/whatever you wanna see it as. 'PhoenixRose' has several meanings; my name and my totem, myself as a phoenix, and a phoenix that has risen. It means a lot to me and I use it nearly everywhere I go. Often, though, it is taken. If that's the case, I use 'FireRose' or, more recently, 'BrowncoatRose'. On photobucket I didn't think about either of those two alternates and used phoenixrosestar, just because stars are, like, cool, and have always been an interest of mine.
Totally random piece of info: After I had already adopted this as my usual screen name, my cousin was born. She was named Phoenix. Phoenix Skye. It's a great name and one I often want to steal. My aunt did not know of my fascination with the phoenix when she named her daughter.

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COSMICFUGITIVE

Thursday, January 4, 2007 4:51 PM

I wanted to create a username that veered away from character names or Verse language etc. My username refers to River and Simon Tam who are my favourite characters.

It can also apply to John Crichton from Farscape. (I love that show too.)

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AGENTCOOPER

Thursday, January 4, 2007 7:32 PM

My online persona comes from my other all-time favorite TV show.......TWIN PEAKS

Agent Dale Cooper

My son is also named after that character! "Cooper"

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