This is topic is your logname completely random? or does it have a special meaning? in forum Discussions About Orson Scott Card at Hatrack River Forum.
im wondering if there is any real inspiration behind the names you all have chosen... or is just spurts of random letters conformed to make a name?
[ January 16, 2004, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: laraem ]
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
Well, no one ever sees mine because I entered a real name and said to show it to people so now all anyone sees is Julie.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Well, I'm a woman, and I live on a farm.....
Actually this is a pretty lame username. If I had it to do over, I would have chosen something else. But I didn't know Hatrack would become an addiction for me -- I was just signing in rapidly to ask a question about OSC.
On most other forums I go by the username of Redbud (usually followed by some numbers), and that SN does have more meaning to me, but I'm not going into the reasons for that here.
So how about you, laraem? Is your name just Lara and E.M. are initials, or does it mean something?
Farmgirl
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
This is pretty much my SN for everything on the internet (like Ebay, banks, or anything else that requires one). I started a trend in my family because my brother usually goes by mikeneb and my Mom is usually judyneb. The neb part is a part of our last name, I'll leave you to figure that out.
-scottneb-
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
oooooooooooo!!! Scott told us his bank username! Now all I have to do is figure out which bank and crack his password.......
FG
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Well, my name is Porter, and porteiro is the portugese/spanish translation of the word porter.
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
*frantically changes every form of identification and every username on the internet*
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
'Da' because 'the' would be one letter too long.
'_' (underscore) because the first place I used this name at (and I forgot where that was) didn't allow spaces in your name.
'Goat' because I've had hair growing on my neck, much like that on a goat, since I was a toddler, which has caused many people to tauntingly or friendily(?) call me a goat. Of course, since 13 I'ev been shaving it, but the name stuck.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I took mine from OSC's most recent novel, The Crystal City.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I've always liked the name Tom, and thought it would be nice if, you know, he were David's son or something.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Papa Moose! Shame on you for misleading newcomers like that!
FG
Posted by ssywak (Member # 807) on :
And what abut your passwords? What made you chose your passwords? What are your passwords, and do use them all over the place, like at banks, e-bay, and such?
Please, no one answer that!
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Mine is my real name.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Mine is simply an anagram of "Go Mack, Kid!"
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Papa Moose
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
Papa Moose! That's just too funny. Posted by Jestak (Member # 5952) on :
Mine is a character from a book series. I'm curious if anyone knows which books I'm talking about and if anyone has read them.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Mine is too, although it's mispelled in the books.
Posted by laraem (Member # 6103) on :
well mine isnt lara em... or anything of that sort... im just a dude who found something that sounded like a name and stuck it on here maybe eventually it'll have some meaning behind it... ya never know
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
You should name a pet that.
Posted by Diko (Member # 6060) on :
Diko is a character in Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
Back when I played Flight Simulator 1.0 one could activate the magnetos (abbreviated as "mags"), and the onsceen icon then said "mags on." Remove the space and it sounds like a name, and voila!
Posted by SirReal (Member # 5257) on :
Mine's my DJ moniker, also let's you know my penchant for wordplay. Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
My name is Leah. I like Star Wars. I can't spell. So I thought rather than be Liea or Leia or however Her Highness Organa spells it I'd use a much better spelling and pretend that I COULD have spelled that name correctly if I wanted.
Posted by Talaroc (Member # 6080) on :
It is a character name in the book I am writing. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I just sneezed while trying to enter something completely different, and decided to go with the resulting gibberish.
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Noemon is Jamaican.
His user name is his answer to the question, "Can we borrow some of your stash?"
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Every day is a fiasco, but "fiasco" was already taken when I got personalized license plates, hence "fiazko". And let's get this over with now...I'm a girl.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Slash's comes from his addiction to both Guns 'n' Roses and the Atari 2600.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Papa Moose - that was very naughty.
(Grins)
Shan is just part of the real thing. I have a few other SN's in other places, but I never go there because I'm always here. (j/k)
Posted by Poseidon (Member # 5862) on :
Poseidon's the coolest god around.
even though i'm a girl.
Posted by BlackThirteen (Member # 6153) on :
Mine is from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Black Thirteen is the last, most powerful and pure evil. Posted by Camber (Member # 6154) on :
I've used the handle Camber since high school. I was reading the Katherine Kurtz Deryni series at the time, and it ignited my imagination. I've moved on and no longer read her works, but the nickname has stuck.
Posted by RushFan (Member # 5245) on :
I just love RUSH! Even more now since their "Rush in Rio" DVD was released.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
I just think 'o' is a much underused vowel in the English language. It speaks to my sense of equilibrium.
And the letter 'B' looks like sunglasses on their side. Which speaks to my habit of looking at things in quirky new ways.
'k' because it is a colloquialism of 'okay'. Which, as I'm sure you've noticed, describes my easy-going nature quite well.
As for the 'n', well the name didn't look quite finished, I thought to myself, "This username needs an end, an end... Aha!" It expresses my trenchant nerdplay.
As you might have surmised, it took me weeks to brainstorm and focus test this name. Quite an ordeal, and a pretty penny, let me tell you!
...
Oh, who am I kidding? My real life name is Bo Konon. I was just lazy.
-Bok
Posted by Hamburgler 03 (Member # 5993) on :
Robble Robble. (Robble).
Posted by Salaam (Member # 5239) on :
salaam, as in, peace be with you
[ January 29, 2004, 09:32 PM: Message edited by: Salaam ]
Posted by Proteus (Member # 794) on :
Proteus cos my parents had a cruel sense of humour and not because of my affinity for the Lost in Space movie as many people think....
Actually though its because...despite Poseideon's claim Proteus is THE COOLEST GOD AROUND!
An old man who can take on any form he wants. Gotta love the geezer.
[ January 30, 2004, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: Proteus ]
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
Speaking of gods, you should read Enchantment.
(so far only one person ever figured out the refrance on their own)
Posted by SouljaKlipp (Member # 6092) on :
soul - as in down with my dark roots, soulja - as in a clever if not original way of spelling soldier, and klipp - as in the klipp klipp marek... needs to write down his spells
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Marek, perhaps only one person commented on the reference. I strongly doubt that only one person figured it out, especially since I don't think you're referring to me.
What I found surprising is that the person whose Hatrack name is Shlomo didn't get it from Enchantment -- his real name is actually Shlomo. I was gonna call him Little Itzak, too....
--Pop
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
Well, in middle school we learned some Latin in Language Arts to help our word comprehension. Anthropo sounded cool to me, and, well, that was the time everyone was stressing how you're supposed to have something pretty anonymous for your sn. What could be more anonymous than "man"?
I went by Anthropo on the net for several years. When I started on this forum, I tohught it might be time for a cahnge, so I registered as Black Mage(named after a character in the webcomic 8-bit theater) and used the login name Anthropo. When I came back over Christmas holidays and found my Black Mage sn no longer worked, I re-registered as Anthro, which Anthropo tended to get shortened to.
Posted by Gottmorder (Member # 5039) on :
The only real meaning my name has is that it's my secondfary gaming callsign(Harbinger being my first). I thought of it in high school when I was taking German. Sounded good, so it stuck. Although now it makes me feel like I'm doing a parody of a 'Got Milk?' commercial. Posted by Dude Love (Member # 2437) on :
Mine is an anagram of "Dove Deul."
Posted by Master Kakashi (Member # 6165) on :
My username comes from my favorite comic book that none of you have probably heard of. But when I sign in it's Ender Wolfwood Wiggin, Wolfwood from an anime. My password, if I got to choose it, would be the same as all my others, since I always seem to forget it. Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
You can change your password, you know. Click my profile in the upper right area of the screen, below the main menu options.
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
Master Kakashi: You, of course, got your name from Naruto and your login name from Trigun
I've only read parts of the Naruto Comicbook but I have watched all the episodes currently out of the anime. That and Trigun are probably my two favourite animes.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Mine is my name, basically.
The A at the end is so I can tell people that my name contains to Es.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
"to Es" or not "to Es," that is the question!
Posted by Master Kakashi (Member # 6165) on :
Wow, that's St. Yogi! I never thought I someone in this website would like anime, comics, AND Orson Scott Card!! Oh, I am not worthy!!
Right, now Naruto is my most favorite manga. Trigun is really cool too, but I like FLCL even better. The music on it is awesome! Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I was (and still am) doing Latin at school. I wanted something unique, so I combines the Latin and my first love - books - into one name.
Ea quae legit means "she who reads." The two words got shortened into one because a) I liked it that way and b) I wasn't sure if it would let me register with three names. Come to think of it, I was surprised that I could register with a space at all.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Valentine: Please don't make me explain that one people. I read EG when I was 14 years old (now am 23) and I started using that as my email address and misc sn's and it stuck. As a matter of fact, I've caught my little bro calling me Val before.
Btw, I never post on this side, but things weren't moving on the usually "busy side" of Hatrack, so I decided to see what was up over here. Posted by Alyosha (Member # 6187) on :
Mine is from The Brothers Karamazov, which I had just finished reading when I signed up. Since I really liked the book, I wanted to use a name from it (and I decided that Alyosha sounded better and was easier to say than Snegiryov) Posted by eowyn of the mark (Member # 6210) on :
if my log in name needs an explination, i pity you. Eowyn was by far the coolest woman in lotr and she is my hero (or heroine, if i must be pc.) Ii love female charcters that aren't afraid to fight. "For the Mark!!"
Posted by eowyn of the mark (Member # 6210) on :
Dark Thirteen: Kudos to you. The Dark tower series is awesome.. (even if i haven't been able to buy Wolves of Calla yet. The price is outrageous).
Posted by Bant (Member # 6214) on :
Bant...it doesn't really mean anything. The full thing is Bant Dakid, it was a name I came up with when making a D&D character. I figured it out by taking the word Bandaid and adding words Ban[t] Da[k]id. It stuck after that...so much that people at school cal me Bant, and some don't know my actual name.
Posted by Enderwillsaveusall (Member # 6227) on :
My name is from the dashboard confessional song called...you guessed it Ender Will Save Us All. If anyone knows the band Finch then they would know that they have a song out called Ender
Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
mine would be from being very bored at work and as my job doesn't require me to think I do a lot of introspection...and after much of this I described myself as a combination of two main characters in my mind, one I named Reiko and the other Demosthenes...put them together and you have me...ReikoDemosthenes *would go more indepth but it's a looooong explanation...*
Posted by ender_girl (Member # 2707) on :
I needed a quick nick name and was suprised noone had used this one before. Obviously it originated because I wanted to use this forum but I came to use it other places later as well.
And in a way its kinda neat (okay just to me) that its ender_girl and the title of the first book in Enderverse is Ender's Game.
That is all.
Btw, I love all the new 'graemlins'.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Just a nick that started in high school somewhat. It really stuck when I joined the navy. my usual handle at other forums is ender17 and it also goes with all of my email addresses. ender_wiggin was already used so I added 17 at the end for the 17th of april (my b-day). Posted by Ender/Peter(whichever you like) (Member # 6243) on :
my real name is Die_Descoladors and it was a very spur of the moment thing, but the name i put was Ender/Peter(whicheveryoulike) and it worked anywayz. Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
first of all, it's NOT my real name. it is from Roger Zelazny's most famous fantasy series Amber. if you haven't already read it, i suggest you get right to it !
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
Its my nickname from the Missionary Training Centre - based on my surname and being a girl
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
I was opening a Hotmail account, and I was trying very hard to think of something boring and unoriginal, like taking the first three letters of my last name (D-I-G) and making a bad and unamusing pun with it. Well, every version, perversion and permutation imaginable of DIG was already taken, so I wrote digging_holes as a kind of frustrated joke, and it wasn't already taken, so now it's my name on the web. I've grown rather fond of it, especially because people sometimes mistakenly assumes it means something.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:What I found surprising is that the person whose Hatrack name is Shlomo didn't get it from Enchantment -- his real name is actually Shlomo. I was gonna call him Little Itzak, too....
Not only that, we picked out the name Shlomo before we had ever heard of OSC or the book Enchantment - though Shlomo has since read the book and didn't like his namesake much, IIRC.
Posted by Caliph (Member # 6308) on :
Caliph is the name of the Leader of the Muslim people in Syria in the Shadow Of The Hegemon and Shadow Puppets, known also as Alai, Ender's boyfriend ni Ender's Game.
~Salaam.
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
NATO is my initials!
I was just a boring old NAO before my confirmation name saved me. Good ol' Catholicism!
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
I had a friend in high school with a pet rat that he endearingly called his "dog" ... I thought it was just too adorable for words.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Geoff Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Scattered in a variety of Heinlein novels is the ship Romanylass. (two that come to mind are "Citizen of the Galaxy' and Methusalah's Children". Nothing ever happens there, it's just in passing , say "The Romanylass was orbiting the planet". I have always felt and affinity with the Roma so it caught my eye.
Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
Mishto!
Posted by Kamisaki (Member # 6309) on :
My name actually comes from Aymara - an Indian language spoken in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru - which is where I served my LDS mission. It's a common greeting, basically means "how's it going."
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Nato -- how does confirmation change one's name?
Posted by DarkWizard (Member # 6186) on :
I was reading LoTR at the time I got my first E-mail adress and the name just stuck
Posted by alath (Member # 6150) on :
mr_porteiro_head, in catholism, when you get confirmed, you choose a saint, and you use your saints name between your middle name and your last name. So if your name was Sarah Sue Smith before you got confirmed and your saint was Saint Ceclia, then you you would be Sarah Sue Cecilia Smith.
Posted by Unmaker (Member # 1641) on :
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Posted by Kabederlin (Member # 6304) on :
My name is a mix of two star wars names. Once when I was writing something I needed a fake name and went shoveling through my Star Wars Encyclopedia (Im such a geek) and mixed Kabe (A furry Animal) with Major Derlin (Who led the Rebel ground troops on Hoth) and came up with Kabe Derlin... Then I started using the name everywhere... So... Yeah.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
alath -- do you change your name legally, or just on the church records?
Posted by UTAH (Member # 5032) on :
After a futile attempt at every cool name I could think of and in great frustration, I settled on UTAH. The caps lock was on by mistake and I was worried (for 2 seconds)others might think I was making a big deal out of the fact I was from the beautiful state of Utah. And Papa, I finally got around to reading the Crystal City this week. I smile everytime I read your name . . .
Posted by Crux (Member # 6364) on :
Crux: The most critical point.
It is also my stage name I use when performing my music.
Posted by Crux (Member # 6364) on :
Utah, I too am from Utah. Logan.
Posted by UTAH (Member # 5032) on :
Nice ta meetcha, Crux. I was born in Logan Regional Hospital and lived in Avon (right next to Paradise )for the first few years of my life.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
quote: Mishto!
Zalmoxis, that's something I didn't expect to read in this forum ! Posted by Phil Tice (Member # 6370) on :
Mine's my name because I have a hard enough time remembering one name. More than that tends to confuse me. It's hard enough that my family calls me Philip and my friends call me Phil. My head hurts just thinking about it.
Posted by Crux (Member # 6364) on :
Utah,
Avon! oh man, that's rough. My buddy still lives out there and has to drive to campus every day. that's a good 40 min drive. terribly lame.
But that's cool. Where you living at now a days?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"I never thought I someone in this website would like anime, comics, AND Orson Scott Card!"
Are there no geeks on your planet?
Posted by Roland (Member # 5370) on :
Mine is appropriated from the Dark Tower series written by Stephen King. Roland Deschain is most likely the best character ever. And the series is complete and will be published this year. I just wish King had resisted re-writing The Gunslinger (The original rules ok!)
Posted by AnonymousNC (Member # 1544) on :
Glad to see so many folks here into the Dark Tower. I truely love that series. I'm just hoping King didn't sacrifice anything for speed in finishing the series - but I am glad it is finally finishing While I've been into King for years (25 at least), the Gunslinger was a new level IMHO
I'm sympathetic to eowyn on the Wolves of the Calla price. It was a major purchase for me to get Wolves and Crystal City at the same time. It's tough on poor folks to be hooked on books - especially two prolific authors like Card and King
BTW my boring name is to remain Anonymous here in North Carolina - real imaginative huh
Posted by Apooche (Member # 6384) on :
A pooch with an e on the end. Actually its a random jitterish my friend and I used when we were trying to make up a code language in fourth grade...
never worked, but i use the name all the time
Posted by megaotaku (Member # 6389) on :
to master kakashi and st. yogi: THANK YOU!! I thought me and my friend staci were the only people on the ENTIRE PLANET who liked both anime and OSC!!! do you read fanfiction? i must be the only author on fanfiction.net who has posted in both the OSC section and the anime section!!! naruto isn't my favorite anime but i dont hate it. have you read any other shonen jump? one piece is my favorite of all of shonen jump's manga (u better know what manga is)
Oh, and the point behind my sn and stuff (its not my email or aim adress but it is everything else) is that i am a mega otaku. an otaku (at least this is how we translate it among my friends) is someone who is COMPLETELY OBSESSED with anime! (p.s. that's my penname on fanfiction.net. I have two OSC fics up there. if ur gonna read em dont read the one called NOT FROM THE ENDERVERSE!!! it sucks... read "school" and review pleaz) and yes that was shameless plugging
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
From Beverly Crusher on STNG. I couldn't come up with anything, and she popped into my head. I always thought she was cool.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Hmm, ok I've always enjoyed wordplay. Pun and wit together. Also close to pundit although associating puns with pundit is sorta an oxymoron. Oh well.
Posted by Aeroth (Member # 6269) on :
My name is a nod towards Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.
Posted by Kabederlin (Member # 6304) on :
Sephiroth was so cool...
Posted by Jia-Ning (Member # 6406) on :
My log-in name is the name of the oldest daughter in the Ang Lee movie Eat Drink, Man Woman. I really relate to her in some ways . Not only that, that movie was an awesome movie, so this is sort of a nod to that. And I'm Chinese Posted by Lara (Member # 132) on :
I was new to the internet when I first started on Hatrack, I didn't know about handles. I remember being really frustrated that Lara was taken on the more popular free email sites. Incidentally, I watched Dr. Zhivago for the first time a couple of years ago and was disturbed to find my parents named me after an adultress.
Posted by captainmoriar (Member # 6416) on :
Well it comes from the background of the Blood Angels Chapter in 40K but it's roots lie in latin:
mors 1. death
mortificare 1. kill, liquidate, slay
mortuus 1. dead
I use it everywhere but one site and my passwords used to be all the same and just a word but now they are all quite different and letter/number combos
Posted by Erhendil (Member # 6419) on :
My logname comes from the Tolkien's universe. It is, with a different writing, the name of a Navigator Elf. I chose it because I like the resonance and I have always wanted to be different, an Elf for example... even if this one is male one.
Posted by Kyle Kovalchek (Member # 6438) on :
People seem to have this habit, wherever I go, (on the web)to hide the instantly noticable and thuroughly spontaneous geekiness behing a seemingly "cool" name and language. However, when I came here, (being the loyal fan that I am), none here does, so I went with the crowd. Posted by Son_of_Priam (Member # 6411) on :
I chose my name because Priam's son was Alexander and he killed Achilles (in real history of course). Anybody else realise that?
Posted by Kabederlin (Member # 6304) on :
Well you say real history... But the story of Achilles was obviously not real. Or not as real as it is made out to be. And the chance of a guy named Priam killing him is probably narrow as well. But yeah I knew who Priam was...
Posted by johnlocke059 (Member # 6220) on :
I actually took my name from Peter's "Locke" in Ender's Game when I first started using the internet 7 or 8 years ago...gradually it has evolved into "johnlocke059" as you are forced to come up with more complicated names to sign into things.
Posted by Kabederlin (Member # 6304) on :
You do realize John Locke was real guy right... And Demosthenes too... They were symbolic pseudonyms (I'm not gonna try and spell that one right...). John Locke believed in tabula rosa, or a clean slate. His philosiphies were the basis for the Declaration of Independence. Demosthenes warned Athens about the coming macedonian army and was later tried for treason and before they could execute him he took poison and killed himself.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I took my name from Tolkien's "Silmarillion", elder of the Two Trees of Valinor, original Light of the world before the Sun and the Moon.
Telperion the Silver Tree... Laurelin the Golden Tree...
Telperion was the parent to the line of White Trees passed on to the Elves as a gift from the Gods for their love of the silver tree. The Elves then gave the Numenoreans, humans allied to the Elves and the Gods, a sapling of their own. Numenor was destroyed but a scion of it's White Tree went on to it's own offspring nation, Gondor, in the city of Minas Tirith.
I chose Telperion for my love of the Valar and the Eldar, and for my own facination with silver.
Posted by FoolishTook (Member # 5358) on :
I think my name is pretty obvious. But there's more to it than just a reference to Pippin Took.
I thought it fit me, since I storm into every situation thinking I'm the most brilliant person to walk the earth, only to learn how absolutely foolish I really am.
It's also a reminder to myself that I won't learn anything if I already think I know everything.
Posted by littlelf (Member # 6145) on :
my name means little elf in another language, so I've been an elf long before the recent renewed interest in Rivendale, Mirkwood, and Lothlorien.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
mines my initals...
Posted by Altįriėl of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
My name is supposed to be elvish for my real name. I got it from an elvish name generator somewhere along the nets...
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
Ooh..just saw this one. My name is in honor of my daughter, who sings space opera. She's six, and sings all the time. One day I caught her singing a song about her Star Wars action figures (they were singing to each other). Hence, my daughter invented space opera.
Posted by fitbrit (Member # 6529) on :
I'm a research scientist, but in my spare time I run a fitness training business. I'm a Brit living in Canada, so FitBrit is the name of my one pro (me)personal training company.
Posted by Rhapsody (Member # 6514) on :
my name is from the book Rhapsody it's the first in a series I'm reading right now by Elizabeth Haydon and am really enjoying
Posted by pinkstripes (Member # 6566) on :
well, i just decided register today and im trying to pick a name. i look down and see im wearing a shirt with pink stripes.
Posted by Lindsay (Member # 6567) on :
what you're seeing is my real name... which I never use online... but since I can show a separate name from my login on this site, I figured I might as well!
My login, ethuilathelas, has special significance for me. It is actually two words: ethuil, which is the elvish word for spring (literally, "budding"), and athelas, the elvish word for the flower kingsfoil, which has healing properties and is part of a prophecy that helps identify Aragorn as the true king when he uses it to heal... some people. My favorite characters in LOTR actually.
so in other words, it can be just "budding kingsfoil" or even more simply, "spring flower", or it can be a budding tool of the true king, used for healing.
I too use this screenname for just about everything on the web.... but it's such a special meaning for me i don't like to explain it often, except to say it means "budding flower."
Posted by EurasianGirl (Member # 6524) on :
I bet no one can figure out how I got my name Posted by AmmonRah (Member # 6583) on :
Many years ago, when the internet was still innocent, I conversed daily with friends in a chat room using the name 'Ammon', which is the name of a character in a future sequel in the Homecoming series. Anyway..
They were messing with me and calling me Ramen and AmmonRamen and stuff like that one day, and I decided that I liked the sound of AmmonRah and have used it for close to 10 years everywhere that I go on the web.
quote:EurasianGirl Member # 6524
posted May 24, 2004 09:24 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I bet no one can figure out how I got my name
You're an Asian girl?
[ May 29, 2004, 11:50 PM: Message edited by: AmmonRah ]
Posted by PresbyGirl (Member # 6655) on :
I'm a girl and I go to Presbyterian College.
Posted by Gryphonesse (Member # 6651) on :
well, since this thread has been resurrected, I'll throw my two cents in.
Gryphonesse - it suits my temperament. I like animals, love mythological creatures. I'va always loved sci-fi and fantasy. My favorite critter has always been the gryphon, so there you have it.
edit: not to mention, my real name is hard to pronouce and very obscure...
[ July 02, 2004, 12:36 PM: Message edited by: Gryphonesse ]
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
This is basically a test. I've been trying to figure out how to post here for a couple of days--Site wasn't working well with Netscape... On IE now.
So, I guess I'll answer the question... Katarain is a variation of Katarina that I use on the web because Katarina is usually taken. Katarina is a name I gave myself many years ago when first coming online. I stole it from my cat, whom I named Katarina after a character on Days of our Lives... What can I say? I was young...
Posted by senselessbeating (Member # 6662) on :
My name has its own meaning, but it is also a small line from an obscure song of a semi-famous local band.
Posted by Achilles_de_Flandres (Member # 6672) on :
I guess you can guess my meaning (if you read the Shadow Saga)
Posted by WhiteDuckTape (Member # 6678) on :
FLCL w00t (I also like Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and Freakazoid!) Anyways... oh yeah my screen name. Well I was involved in a community theatre at one point in time and was in a heated discussion about which is better... duct tape, or crazy glue. It lead to a friend and I screaming across the stage "White Duck Tape!" and "Clear Krazy Glue!". (kinda like Snot Stew)
Is not! Is too! Isnot Istwo
You get the picture if you don't remember the book.
I even had a street sign made; it hangs in my closet. Posted by Melchior (Member # 5519) on :
My name was after one of the three wisemen that travelled to Bethlehem to visit the baby Jesus. Melchior, Balthasar, and Casper. Also, if any of you are anime watchers, The three "Maji," super computers in the anime Neon Genesis: Evangelion are named Melchior, Balthasar, and Casper. That is where I actually got the name from.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
<Always thought it was Gaspar.>
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