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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Originally posted by seafort:
So I stole the name Seafort from a series of sf novels by David Feintuch that I read years ago and always liked. I couple of places I go by Seafort007 (two geek things smashed together!)
I liked David Feintuch's Seafort series until the fourth one. After that it felt a little overdone and like he hadn't planned to take it as far as the publishers did. I don't know. But Seafort was my favorite character in that series.
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Well I was a Buffy/Angel fan first so the nickname I usually go with on sites is SlayGal. But I thought I'd do a name change for Firefly and since the whole concept of the show is freedom, that's the name I picked. I like the notion of Mal and the crew being able to fly around without being obligated to do things or being under the thumb of the Alliance.
Also I wanted to use the name of my favorite character but I like the whoel crew so I couldn't pick!
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My real-life name has several different meanings, one of them including 'light of God'. Nur means 'light' in Farsi, my fiancees first language. It means the same thing in Arabic but apparently if spelling phonetically from Arabic it should be Nour or Noor (like the Queen of Jordan). Its not a big deal to me since I prefer the Farsi, but the person who told me about the Arabic version was quite adament. Apparently its dreadfully important to remember the difference 
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Originally posted by pedme84:
pedme is one of the many ways you can spell the Tibetan word for "lotus flower." another way is padme, just like the character in star wars. no doubt the reference is intentional, but that is the most exoteric way to spell the name. if lucas really knew what he was talking about, her name would have been "peme."
- emily
I'd guess that the Star Wars character was likely named after the character in Dickson's Dorsai! (or was it Tactics of Mistake?) rather than from the original. Not sure, though!
Take us outta the world....
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okay Jumpy is taking from my email address jumpymcwolf@hotmail.com.
When I first signed up to hotmail I was trying to think of an address straight off that nobody else would have. My favourite animals are wolves thus the "wolf" bit. The rest.......well I just have no frickin' idea! Just popped in my head that my name could be Jumpy McWolf. and that's what I made for my email.
I still puzzle over it to this day, what could I have been thinking about when I came up with that?
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thanks! some Firefly fan i am, i do not even recognize a direct quote from the show! i am ashamed. :(
you should be ashamed. Go rewatch the entire series 3 times as your pennance.
"You gone got yourself lookin' mighty hideous" ~Jayne
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I chose Bendis because he is a name from the show that was not terribly important. (Poor sucker died in the first five minutes of the first episode.)
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"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. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw."
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My family calls me TJ, and an early/long-time Role-Play charachter was Jack Flash. Shove them both together and you get my E-mail address. Shorten that and you get Tjack.
When faced with a moral question I ask myself; "What would The Lone Ranger do?"
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you should be ashamed. Go rewatch the entire series 3 times as your pennance.
Ooo, ooo! I've been bad too! I can't think right off what it is, but I think I should be punished as well!! ;)
Loni
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I've been SamuraiX47 since 1995. For you anime fans it is NOT from SamuraiX...
A cpl factors went into the name...
Firstly the Legend of the 47 Samurai or 47 Ronins, the japanese title is Chushingura. A true story of a young brash lord who was provoked into drawing his sword within the Shogun's castle, a ritual-suicide (seppuku) offense. All of the young lord's samurai were now disbanded to wander as lordless Ronin, but they signed a pact to get revenge against the slimy lord who provoked their young lord. After several years of biding their time, they finally met back up and killed the slimy lord. They were all caught and because they showed such strong loyalty to their dead lord they were allowed to commit seppuku. many movies and tv series have been produced telling of their exploits.
Secondly, in my fraternity chapter, we believe that the number 47 is the most common re-occuring random 2-digit number. Whether you want to buy into it or not, I have to tell you that I see it every day. Atleast 2-3 times a day, everyday, when I drive to and from work, the license plate on the car directly infront of me will have 47 in it. I happened to get a numbered parking sticker for my car for work... there's a 47 in it. My ssn has 47 in it twice... There are hundreds of 47 Factoids... like a mosquito has 47 teeth... Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969, 47 days after NBC aired the last episode of Star Trek... And if you do watch ST: TNG or DS9 or Voyager you'll hear 47 used by Data and others when spouting out techno-babble. In Alias, Syd was involved in Project 47. I could go on and on.
Thirdly... the X is to make it sound more Gen-X... it seemed like everything in the 90s had to have X in it... Xtreme, etc.. So Samurai47 became SamuraiX47 which I have registered all over the internet.
Jaymes
"He ate what was set before him."
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