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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This is probably going to be too long but I can't think how to shorten it.
I was starting a new D&D campaign a long time ago and needed a name. One of my 'friends' swiped the one I was going to use, Corwyn, so I settled on my next choice: Bleys. Both from Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. Bleys wasn't exactly the character I wanted to play so later on I started coming up with stories about the character I had wanted so I morphed the name into Bleydion op Rhys (some Katherine Kurtz influence and some Ann Mccaffrey).
A few years later I joined the SCA (see http://www.sca.org) and needed a historically plausible name so I started doing some research and found a Welsh nickname that was first recorded sometime around the 14th century and meant 'little wolf', or wolfling or wolf cub. It can be spelled quite a few different ways but I settled on Bleyddyn ap Rhys, and I've been using it in the SCA and many places online since then.
The full version is: Bleyddyn ap Rhys ap Gwydion ap Emrys y Gwynedd, which means 'Little Wolf' son of Rhys, son of Gwydion, son of Emrys, who is from the kingdom of Gwynedd (one of the three or four kingdoms of Wales a long time ago).
--Bleyddyn
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I started using lissa as my name on message boards about 7 years ago, and it stuck. I picked it because it's sorta like Elizabeth (my name, although everyone calls me Liz) but not that close. And I like it lol.
~lissa, spwhore
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I'm still best friends with the girls I was best friends with at school, and in grade nine I went babysitting with one of them and we were playing Duck Hunt after the kids went to bed on that cutting-edge-at-the-time Original Nintendo system. Well, we were trying to throw each other off (since the room was so small we were sitting quite close to the TV and it was hard to miss) by heckling each other and at one point I said "C'mon! Shoot their little duckie butts!" and she said "Shut up or I'll kick *your* duckie butt!!" after which she - and then my other friends - started calling me Duckie. And since, 14 years on, these are the same freaks I still hang with, it kind of stuck 
Everybody's trusting in the heart, like the heart don't lie...
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Originally posted by est120:Quote:
I'll be first in line, mi compadre. So sorry to break it to ya.
i will push unsuspecting children and eldery persons out of the way.
I'l use my friend's time machine, and push everyone out of the way.
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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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Mine is may fave D&D Character, a halfling magic user named Alta Runepurler.
I'am such a geek.
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There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
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My husband's nickname for me is "Tink" (yeah, from Tinkerbell) but every variation was always taken no matter what site I was on. Since my favorite thing about my favorite pixie is her temper and her unpredictability, I started using "TerribleTink".
"I'll be in my bunk."
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Mine was originally shamelessly stolen from Robin McKinley's 'The Hero and the Crown'. I stole it for the purposes of creating a character on a RPG, and someone already had the alias 'Aerin,' so I chucked in another r and there you have it.
That was 5 years ago, and since then I've used it in everything from email addresses to IM names to LJ to bb screennames - and I've yet to come across another one. So if you see an Aerrin somewhere on the net, it's probably me!
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Mine is the names of my cats, Spike and Jezebel. (Yes, Spike is named after THAT Spike. He is blond and has fangs, so it seemed appropriate.)
"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb
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Some on the board have seen this before.
I'm a huge Highlander fan and a member of the Methos Harem. 68 wacked out chicks from around the globe who share Methos at our castle on the Nexus.
My official Harem title is "Nape Nibbler". Since all evil immortals - aka 'kimmies' - had names which began with 'K' (in homage to the Kurgan) and as I'm slightly evil, my name is derived as follows.
K + Nibblet = Knibblet
"Just keep walkin, preacher man."
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Originally posted by est120:
mine is just my initials. perhaps i should come up with something more creative.
Glad I'm not the only one being unimaginative and using my initials. It's kind of my nickname too. I was just thinking the other day that I should think up a new name. Anyone got any ideas they're not using?
Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
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