A question about everybody's screen names or whatever you want to call them
POSTED BY: ebonezer
UPDATED: Saturday, June 26, 2004 08:01
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Like Mal I am captain of my own ship, figuratively at least. I never liked working for companies and answering to flunkies and management types who never had a clue what they were talking about, and were usually jerks, so I struck out on my own and, like the crew of Serenity, take jobs as they come and manage to get by doing what I want and staying free. I don't deal with anyone I don't want to and I don't do anything I don't want to. I'll never get rich but I don't deal with the long hours and stress I see so many others put themselves through. When I saw Serenity I found myself agreeing with everything Mal said and did and got chills up my spine during the final exchange between Mal and Simon (see my signature if you don't remember it) so took my name from that. I had never thought about why I had done it until I saw Serenity, that's probably the biggest reason why I'm a Browncoat, no show has ever shed so much light on my own life and beliefs before.
"...we're still flyin'."
"That's not much."
"It's enough." Malcolm Reynolds and Simon Tam - Serenity
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I misspelt 'reflexive' and thought "hey, good Star Wars name!"
It first got used as my username (and later a character) over at the Star Wars Galaxies RP forum, and has since then gone on to be my nom de anonyme pretty much everywhere I go online.
Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so... very... pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
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Fred comes from my college days... a character I created had the power to only be seen if the other person knew Fred was there; otherwise, Fred was invisible. It became known as the "Fred field". Sadly, it carried over into my real life, and plays hell with me when I'm driving. I have more people trying to merge into my car....
1988 is the year I graduated from college.
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Aeron Storm was a name I came up with years ago. I have since used it for several different characters I've written. For some reason I can only think of the detective and the superhero off the top of my head!
Plus I've had the email addy since before I was in college! (And that's quite a while...)
Mal: "They don't like it when you shoot at them. Worked that out myself."
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MiloraDell was the name I was using when I won my first RPG!!
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"The pessimist and the optimist have one thing in common: they both think that this is the best of all possible worlds." Voltaire
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It's german and has connotations meaning "contractor" or "handyman" by best guess.
As a small engine expert, I often get stuff no one else can fix, or will even try, and after I repaired a pretty old Kreidler (little motorbike) for this very german dude (who barely spoke english) - he started callin me that, and it stuck.
-frem
diefuxdie
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My name comes from a Star Trek/Babylon 5 movie parody my fellow countrymen are working on on an amateur basis. It’s fairly new name, I was oblivious of that movie project until very recently.
I use the name because it reminds me how glad I’m that scifi as a genre suits me so and that I have a sense of humor which extends far and wide.
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Browncoat1 is fairly easy. I first started posting over at the official board back in '02. Someone already had "Brwncoat" so I went w/ Browncoat1.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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Well, I was learning about Daedalus and all that, in Latin at the time.
And I had just gotten a Dreamcast with Phantasy Star Online. I needed a name for a character so I took Daedalus and morphed it into Daelus. By taking out the two middle letters, obviously.
Not much of an interesting story, but there you have it.
"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
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Everyone heard's mine.
But I can tell you where "Yossarian" comes from.
Note before story: Yossarian's my brain. It needed a name. Long-ish story.
Yossarian is from Catch-22. He's paranoid, yet his thinking is logical, even if it is skewed. My brain is the same way. Well, half is paranoid, half is logical, even skewed. So, it became Yossarian. Okay, done now.
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard
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