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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To TeelaBrown: A woman who knows of Tom L.!!!
Do you like Pina Coladas? Do you like getting caught in the rain?
When faced with a moral question I ask myself; "What would The Lone Ranger do?"
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I picked mine up from the Chinese translation thread.
whoo dahn = stupid
I like to think that I'm 'stupid for Firefly', as in 'crazy for Firefly'
"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"
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Quote:
When faced with a moral question I ask myself; "What would The Lone Ranger do?"
I use to ask myself
"What would Larry, Curly and Moe do?"
Now I ask myself what Jayne would do. It's not always the best answer but it's a lot more fun!
"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"
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Ran across this old thread and so decided to contribute. Interesting to see some of the origins of names, and a special pleasure to see a number of them from books I've enjoyed a great deal (Catch-22, Seafort series, etc).
Anyway, my name is also from a book series, the 'Hooded Swan' series of the 70s, written by Brian Stableford. The main character, narrator, and pilot of the ship in question, is Grainger, a cynical, acerbic, misanthropic near pacifist pilot(the author said he wanted to write a space opera character with views of violence that matched his own). He, like Mal, likes his freedom to do as he wants (and hates either owing or being owed), but because of an accident he was stranded for 2 years on a desolate planet, acquired an alien mental symbiote (that he resents and can't leave him) there, and, when he was rescued, was sued for the salvage cost and so would have to take piloting jobs that he considered virtual slavery to pay it off. (These aren't significant spoilers, they take place in the first chapters of the first book)
Except for the 'aliens' part (which wouldn't exist in Firefly), I'd always thought someone like him would make a good addition to Firefly's 'verse, he's just a great character. So, on a lark, when I needed a name, I chose his.
Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6
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Hi,
The name I picked, "The Real Me", is doubly significant.
Of course, there is that bit from "War Stories" when Mal comes up to Niska and says "Wanna meet the real me, now?" (or whatever the actual quote is).
The other bit is personal. I'm not a kid anymore. I'm not elderly, but from where I am, I can see what that might be like. 
Most of the years of my life I have not been happy with who I was or what I have been doing. There was something missing. I never figured out "what I wanted to be when I grew up", even though I knew since I was a child.
It is only in the last couple of years, in fact, that I have become in tune with the things that I really like. The things that I really want to do, even if they might be considered by some to be childish and silly or worse, unprofitable.
In a nutshell, I want to be more artistic than scientific.
I have come closer to understanding The Real Me. I like him. Hopefully, I'll get to meet him one day...
The Real Me
Got Mudder's Milk?
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Well... mine isnt as interesting as all the others.
After I left the Army, I attened college, meet some guys that were in a Fraternity. They asked me to join and seeing as how I wanted the "Full College Experience" I joined. A few months later, I atteneded the Fraternity Convention in Reno, NV over spring break and drank quite alot. (When I say quite alot, I am using Army terminology, not college terms... by college terms it would be lethal amounts) I usually didnt drink alot when the Fraternity had parties... I learned those lessons in the Army. When we returned, I went back to my mostly non-drinking ways in the Fraternity, but the stories remained. They called me DECKROID: Half man (last name is Decker), half machine. It stuck.
So, every board I go to, every email account I have is deckroid.
I call her "Vera"
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Mine is a phrase Jayne would utter. 
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Whenever I get onto a new message board, I don't want to just use my own screen name (c. I want it to be something relevant to the board. I tried to come up with something that nobody else would use for their handle, and something that fans of the show would get.
Tall Card is a game that Simon, Jayne, and Book play in "Shindig." I can't tell how to play it, but it seems to have something to do with the distribution of chores. Simon was the dealer. Simon isn't my favorite character or anything, but "Ariel" is one of my favorite episodes.
Every well-bred petty crook knows that the small, concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting.
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Sorry for the double post... this post has been edited to the post below...
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Cool thread. Very interesting.
My screen name comes from the Buffy season 5 ep "Crush" as well as my undying love for Spike. Drusilla and Harmony meet for the first time in this ep and Harmony in true Harm fashion utters this line to Spike's former love...."'Cause Spikey don't play that anymore, Morticia".
From thereafter I became known as Spike's Morticia.
I also love Morticia Addams and consider her a great role model 
Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day.... it just means you tried.
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