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Title: Significance behind the name?
Post by: letom8 on April 06, 2006, 11:56:08 PM
Puke, Jetfire, Frog, Manwich!!

I wanna hear how everyone came up with their handles.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Soundwave on April 07, 2006, 12:04:36 AM
Soundwave - Generation 1 Transformer. Probably obvious.
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Post by: domesticoverlord on April 07, 2006, 12:07:53 AM
It's better than house bitch.
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Post by: Ekul on April 07, 2006, 12:09:11 AM
Flip it around and you have my first name.
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Post by: TN_FSP on April 07, 2006, 12:58:23 AM
Soundwave - Generation 1 Transformer. Probably obvious.

How is that obvious :P  I love your sense of sarcasm.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Soundwave on April 07, 2006, 01:00:58 AM
Could be the picture. Although, I suppose you would've had to have seen Transformers to know that.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: TN_FSP on April 07, 2006, 01:03:58 AM
Could be the picture. Although, I suppose you would've had to have seen Transformers to know that.

I saw the show when I was a little kid and remember almost nothing.  I saw a holocost (did I forget how to spell that word?) surviver speak yesterday and my Jewish teacher asked me her name today and I did not know.  Anyway, if you really thought most people would know that, it makes your comment even better.  Like a N.D. moment.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: ladyattis on April 07, 2006, 01:05:02 AM
<--- From the mythos of Attis, a man that was born to the mixing of demon and human in ancient greek mythos that later would kill himself in grief to be reborn as a woman. :shock:

-- Bridget
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 07, 2006, 01:32:55 AM
My initials.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: libertylover on April 07, 2006, 02:06:49 AM
No real significance just liked it as a handle.
The pink bunny thing goes back to my first serious boyfriend's pet name for me. 
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: rabidfurby on April 07, 2006, 02:52:08 AM
I thought it up several years ago when my little sister had a furby. She got tired of it after about 3 days and left it in the computer room. I was in there, thinking of a name to use for some registration or another and thought how funny it'd be to have furbies be rabid and attack the little kids who begged and pleaded their parents for one.

I also occaisionally use GimmeFuel, from the Metallica song Fuel, because I like Metallica and burning things.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Bill Brasky on April 07, 2006, 04:58:30 AM
SNL skit.  I think its pretty funny, cause it's just a name unless you've seen the skits.
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Post by: Brisco County, Jr. on April 07, 2006, 06:27:39 AM
Band name.  I'd misread an album title once and thought it said whether head.  Thought it sounded stupid at the time.  A few months later, I was reminded of it and thought it sounded better.   I suggested it to the guys and we all liked it.

As for the avatar.  You'll have to read the book FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS by Edwin A. Abbott to understand it.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Frog on April 07, 2006, 07:09:54 AM
(http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1484/morrisonhotel3ef.jpg) Track #4
Roadhouse Blues
Waiting for the Sun
You Make Me Real
Peace Frog  <------
Blue Sunday
Ship of Fools
Land Ho!
The Spy
Queen Of The Highway
Indian Summer
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 07, 2006, 09:04:58 AM
The pink bunny thing goes back to my first serious boyfriend's pet name for me. 
The pink bunny with the shotgun?
What did he call you for a pet name, "my pretty little pink ass-kickin' rifle-bunny?"
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 07, 2006, 09:07:23 AM
As for the avatar.  You'll have to read the book FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS by Edwin A. Abbott to understand it.
Dionys Burger's Sphereland was cooler, IMO. Don't bother with Ian Stewart's Flatterland, it's Popular Science-type tripe.

What I do applaud is your TooL quote.
Learn to Swim! Learn to Swim!
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 07, 2006, 09:08:30 AM
Peace Frog  <------

Ahh yes...

Quote
There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Laetitia on April 07, 2006, 02:18:47 PM
The pink bunny thing goes back to my first serious boyfriend's pet name for me. 
The pink bunny with the shotgun?
What did he call you for a pet name, "my pretty little pink ass-kickin' rifle-bunny?"

That's pretty damn cool, compared to pet names like snookum or schmoopy.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Lindsey on April 07, 2006, 03:11:19 PM
Unfortunately mine's not creative.  It's my name.  I'm sure you didn't want to hear from me, but oh well.   :P
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on April 07, 2006, 03:16:48 PM
"baker-baker" is what the homeless guy says on the "Baker 3" skate video.

also, I like to smoke weed.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 07, 2006, 03:27:17 PM
Unfortunately mine's not creative.  It's my name.  I'm sure you didn't want to hear from me, but oh well.   :P

It's OK, Lindsey, I'm sure they wanted to hear from us  :o
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Evil Muppet on April 07, 2006, 03:32:01 PM
A few years ago I had a dream about a muppet that wanted to kick my ass.  In the dream I was walking down a road when a muppet seen me and started to chase me.  It was screaming and flailing its arms.  Muppets are pretty scary.  For some reason the muppet thought I was sleeping with its girlfriend.  It was a really bizarre dream and when I told someone about it all they could do is laugh at me and ask if I was molested by Miss Piggy.  I have no idea what it could have meant.  It was almost as strange as that dream where I was playing the star role in a live action movie of Captain Caveman.    
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 07, 2006, 03:36:35 PM
A few years ago I had a dream about a muppet that wanted to kick my ass.  In the dream I was walking down a road when a muppet seen me and started to chase me.  It was screaming and flailing its arms.  Muppets are pretty scary.  For some reason the muppet thought I was sleeping with its girlfriend.  It was a really bizarre dream and when I told someone about it all they could do is laugh at me and ask if I was molested by Miss Piggy.  I have no idea what it could have meant.  It was almost as strange as that dream where I was playing the star role in a live action movie of Captain Caveman.   

I think Freud said that every dream is a wish. I think you wanted to sleep with a female muppet.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Evil Muppet on April 07, 2006, 03:40:30 PM
I don't think Fraud has anything to do with this.  It isn't a smart idea to sleep with muppets, might get rug burn. 
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 07, 2006, 03:42:31 PM
Yeah, plus they don't have genitals... at least the ones I've seen don't.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on April 07, 2006, 04:08:56 PM
Yeah, plus they don't have genitals... at least the ones I've seen don't.

That could be arranged.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 07, 2006, 04:10:04 PM
Yeah, plus they don't have genitals... at least the ones I've seen don't.

That could be arranged.

Yeah, but wouldn't you have to go to Costa Rica for that or something?
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on April 07, 2006, 04:16:13 PM
Yeah, plus they don't have genitals... at least the ones I've seen don't.

That could be arranged.

Yeah, but wouldn't you have to go to Costa Rica for that or something?

Oh yeah.  I'm sure theres some stipulation against that in the states.  "Muppet rights" or whatever  :lol:
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 07, 2006, 04:18:48 PM
I think adding organs is an unauthorized medical procedure. Let me consult the Merck Muppet Medical Malpractice Manual....
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Evil Muppet on April 07, 2006, 04:26:28 PM
dudes, it is a puppet with a guys hand up its ass. 
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Thespis on April 07, 2006, 04:40:39 PM
Yeah, plus they don't have genitals... at least the ones I've seen don't.

dudes, it is a puppet with a guys hand up its ass. 

If it has a hole, you can have sex with it.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 07, 2006, 04:41:55 PM
I'm glad we got that sorted out!
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bignasty022 on April 07, 2006, 05:00:54 PM
One of my friends came up with it after playing basketball with me during intramurals
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Thespis on April 07, 2006, 05:05:17 PM
I'm glad we got that sorted out!

I do what I can.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Brisco County, Jr. on April 07, 2006, 06:09:58 PM
Dionys Burger's Sphereland was cooler, IMO. Don't bother with Ian Stewart's Flatterland, it's Popular Science-type tripe.

What I do applaud is your TooL quote.
Learn to Swim! Learn to Swim!


Thanks for the heads up.  Never knew Flatland had a sequel.  I'll have to look into it.

Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Torgo on April 07, 2006, 07:05:14 PM
Many years ago, a friend of mine worked for a computer repair company.  Whenever any sales person would call the company, whoever answered the phone would say, "sorry, you'll have to talk to Torgo about that."  Torgo was always conveniently out of town for at least two weeks.  I think his mother died 17 times.  :-P

Torgo was never given a last name, but as telemarketers began to share lists, calls started coming in specifically FOR Torgo...and he somehow developed a last name.  Over the course of time, calls came in for the following names:

Torgo
Torgo Martel
Torgo Marachi
Michael Torgo (or his wife Maria)
Turgo Movachi

About a year after all of that, I was playing in a Werewolf: The Apocalypse LARP (I'm a geek, fuck off)...and I needed to add some fun to my character.  So, I decided to go with "Torgo" as a name, and then change it up to one of the alternatives depending on who I was talking to.  He became my longest-lived Werewolf character and one that I ended up moving to a couple of different chronicles over time.

Then....I saw Manos: The Hands of Fate...and how can you NOT love Torgo?

With all that Torgo in my past, I don't really think I had any other choice when it was time to pick a stage name.  Torgo wins.  :-P


-Mikey T.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Evenstar on April 07, 2006, 07:23:03 PM
When I created this nickname, it was a word used once in the Tolkien novels in relation to a character that only appeared once at a dinner.  "Arwen, also called Undomiel, for she was the Evenstar of her people."  (For what it's worth, I pronounce it Evan-star, not Even-star, because I prefer the way it sounds that way.)  I used it without any difficulties (with a few random recognitions) prior to the recent release of the Lord of the Rings movies.  Now I often have to fight for my nick in different places and just in the last week or so have come up with an alternate if it doesn't work... Vaesse.

Bonus points to anyone who can figure out why I picked my new name... hint, it IS tangetially related.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Laetitia on April 07, 2006, 11:11:24 PM
When I created this nickname, it was a word used once in the Tolkien novels in relation to a character that only appeared once at a dinner.  "Arwen, also called Undomiel, for she was the Evenstar of her people."  (For what it's worth, I pronounce it Evan-star, not Even-star, because I prefer the way it sounds that way.)  I used it without any difficulties (with a few random recognitions) prior to the recent release of the Lord of the Rings movies.  Now I often have to fight for my nick in different places and just in the last week or so have come up with an alternate if it doesn't work... Vaesse.

Bonus points to anyone who can figure out why I picked my new name... hint, it IS tangetially related.

Amazingly obscure - but then again, I don't have the eternal memory from the gods to aid me.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 08, 2006, 08:38:12 PM
Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones.

For the record, I've read Hubbard's Battlefield Earth series, and they're actually pretty cool. Kind of like Hitch-Hiker's guide or Red Dwarf, sci-fi humor. I'll never forget the chapter where the protagonist is being tortured by two lesbians with cheese graters and tobasco sauce. Quite the classic.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mikehz on April 08, 2006, 09:11:46 PM
My name; just my name. (First, and part of the last.)

I got tired of other message boards with so many fake clones it was impossible to tell who was real and who was fake. I decided that from now on, I'd just post as myself, and never under any other name.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Lindsey on April 08, 2006, 10:29:33 PM
Yeah, I don't see the point of some crazy ass name to post under, I'm just me.  Although I can't help but wish I had a more interesting name, like Six, or Pillot Inspector.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Frog on April 08, 2006, 11:44:33 PM
I've been Frog for so long that I get little frog knicknacks on holidays and no-occasions, I have childrens drawings of frogs on the refrigerator, I get pictures of frogs sent to me in e-mail (my main e-mail address has been several incarnations of frogs).  It really began to stick about five years ago when my longest friends father began calling me Frog, out of the blue, even though he knew my name for a decade.  I guess thats how shit like that happens. 
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Brisco County, Jr. on April 08, 2006, 11:52:42 PM
I've been Frog for so long...

The question is, are you a hallucinogenic frog?
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Frog on April 09, 2006, 12:20:00 AM
Not any more
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: WhiskyRblnPatriot on April 09, 2006, 12:24:46 AM
Look up/Google "Whiskey Rebellion of 1794".  In a related note: It is strongly connected with the Alternate History novel, and best novel of all time The Probabilty Broach by L. Neil Smith, in which the the people of Penn. successfully revolted, killed Washington for treason (hells yeah!) and threw out the Constitution. Booya!

The avatar?

Flag of the Whiskey Rebellion of '94.

I'm just a big ol' flaming Anarcho-Capitalist.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Brisco County, Jr. on April 09, 2006, 12:29:08 AM
Not any more


How exactly did that come about?  Did you get tired of people trying to lick you?  If my body started secreting hallucinogenic chemicals, I'd bottle it and open up shop.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Torgo on April 09, 2006, 12:38:39 AM
Yeah, I don't see the point of some crazy ass name to post under, I'm just me.  Although I can't help but wish I had a more interesting name, like Six, or Pillot Inspector.

Actually, it's "Inspektor" with a 'k'....Jason Lee's awesome...  :-P

-Torgo
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Brisco County, Jr. on April 09, 2006, 12:44:50 AM
Yeah, I don't see the point of some crazy ass name to post under, I'm just me.  Although I can't help but wish I had a more interesting name, like Six, or Pillot Inspector.

Actually, it's "Inspektor" with a 'k'....Jason Lee's awesome...  :-P

-Torgo


That he is, but he does lose a point or two for being a scientologist.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Lindsey on April 09, 2006, 12:45:49 AM
Excuse me for misspelling one of the three stupidest names ever.

The other two, you ask?  Audio Science and Torgo.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Frog on April 09, 2006, 12:50:46 AM
Not any more


How exactly did that come about?  Did you get tired of people trying to lick you?  If my body started secreting hallucinogenic chemicals, I'd bottle it and open up shop.

Its not that easy.  You get tired of walking the streets.  
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Brisco County, Jr. on April 09, 2006, 12:56:43 AM
Its not that easy.  You get tired of walking the streets.


My first thought is business expansion.  Such a lucrative business could afford to hire employees.  But I'd have to assume that you have a firmer grasp on the full scope of the situation.  In which, I'll heed your warnings.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Frog on April 09, 2006, 01:15:54 AM
Its not that easy.  You get tired of walking the streets.


My first thought is business expansion.  Such a lucrative business could afford to hire employees.  But I'd have to assume that you have a firmer grasp on the full scope of the situation.  In which, I'll heed your warnings.

I could never hire people to excrete for me.  In business, thats almost never done.  Its unheard of. 
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 09, 2006, 07:34:35 AM
I'm just a big ol' flaming Anarcho-Capitalist.

You, sir, just got a big round of applause from me. :D
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: WhiskyRblnPatriot on April 09, 2006, 12:39:59 PM
I'm just a big ol' flaming Anarcho-Capitalist.

You, sir, just got a big round of applause from me. :D


Danke` shon.  I'm touched.  Really.  These are tears of happiness.


For this award, I'd like to thank my mom, who's a flipping moron, and my teachers...who are the same.
I'd thank "God", but that'd be trite, and His Noodliness hates triteness, and my producer for all his hard work, and the director, and the senor Grip and the secondary film team, and that one guy that I stopped and asked for directions on a sunday morning, and.......


;-)
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Torgo on April 09, 2006, 12:52:03 PM


Danke` shon.  I'm touched.  Really.  These are tears of happiness.


For this award, I'd like to thank my mom, who's a flipping moron, and my teachers...who are the same.
I'd thank "God", but that'd be trite, and His Noodliness hates triteness, and my producer for all his hard work, and the director, and the senor Grip and the secondary film team, and that one guy that I stopped and asked for directions on a sunday morning, and.......


;-)

Don't forget to thank the Best Boy....that's the greatest title in movie history...  :-P

-Torgo
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: WhiskyRblnPatriot on April 09, 2006, 08:48:26 PM


Danke` shon.  I'm touched.  Really.  These are tears of happiness.


For this award, I'd like to thank my mom, who's a flipping moron, and my teachers...who are the same.
I'd thank "God", but that'd be trite, and His Noodliness hates triteness, and my producer for all his hard work, and the director, and the senor Grip and the secondary film team, and that one guy that I stopped and asked for directions on a sunday morning, and.......


;-)

Don't forget to thank the Best Boy....that's the greatest title in movie history...  :-P

-Torgo

Can't...I AM the best boy....thought I perfer the title "MAN"
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 10, 2006, 12:17:00 AM
And don't forget the Gaffer, the Fluffer, and of course, Lindsay Lohan's Ass (blessed be the name).
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Skooma on April 10, 2006, 12:21:42 AM
It's an illegal drug made from Moon Sugar in the games Morrowind and Oblivion. It is addictive and is favoured especially by Khajiit, a race of humanoid felines who have a bit of a sweet tooth.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: EclecticBuddha on April 10, 2006, 10:14:03 AM
Well at one point I was relatively quiet, gave lots of advice, and was fat as hell... hence Buddha... (still fat, im just louder and more pointless).  I also tend to just talk about random pointless shit out of nowhere, sometimes in the middle of my own sentences, and am amused by almost everything... except anime... hence Eclectic. 

I tend to want names with no numbers in them so I changed from bigshow9228 (big show being an old nickname from HS.  Also knows as "The Big Show," "'Show," "Fat Show" and "Weeeeellllllllll" if youre a wrestling fan you get it) and then went with daysofthenewPMW since I love days of the new.  Then the lead singer became a meth head and couldnt pull his head out of his ass and stopped making albums so i went with EclecticBuddha.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Torgo on April 10, 2006, 10:40:57 AM
Well at one point I was relatively quiet, gave lots of advice, and was fat as hell... hence Buddha... (still fat, im just louder and more pointless).  I also tend to just talk about random pointless shit out of nowhere, sometimes in the middle of my own sentences, and am amused by almost everything... except anime... hence Eclectic. 

I tend to want names with no numbers in them so I changed from bigshow9228 (big show being an old nickname from HS.  Also knows as "The Big Show," "'Show," "Fat Show" and "Weeeeellllllllll" if youre a wrestling fan you get it) and then went with daysofthenewPMW since I love days of the new.  Then the lead singer became a meth head and couldnt pull his head out of his ass and stopped making albums so i went with EclecticBuddha.

Worst lyrics ever......
"Get ready for something that you'll never know...you won't see it coming...but I promise you'll know.."

What the hell does that mean!?!

I think Days of the New probably would have stayed around a little longer if Travis Meeks wasn't 17 when they made it huge.  A 17 year old rock star touring the country with Jerry Cantrell and Metallica can never lead to anything good.  :-P

-Torgo
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: EclecticBuddha on April 10, 2006, 05:38:04 PM
Yeah... hopefully that fucking A&E show worked for him... I havent kept up with anything Meeks has done lately.  And fuck you, the big show rocks.  I can actually remember the nite I got that name.  It was a monday night in early June 1998 at Carnegie Mellon University when Big Show rolled a car onto Bob Holly.  I ended up just grabbing some kid and chokeslamming him to prove the other person didnt have to jump if you were strong enough.   I liked Biggy's other finisher that was a kind of reverse ddt setup into an elbow drop called the final cut... that was pretty pimp.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Torgo on April 10, 2006, 05:45:34 PM
Big Show does rock...I love that guy...he didn't write the music...hehe...I think Jimmy Johnston needs to retire...  :-P

-Torgo
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: EclecticBuddha on April 10, 2006, 05:52:58 PM
Jimmy Johnston??? any relation to Jimmy Hart or The Rock???  If hes related to the Rock im sure that Warren Sapp could do his job better... seems to be the trend with those folk.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Torgo on April 10, 2006, 05:57:27 PM
Jimmy Johnston??? any relation to Jimmy Hart or The Rock???  If hes related to the Rock im sure that Warren Sapp could do his job better... seems to be the trend with those folk.

Jim Johnston is the guy who has written the majority of WWF/E wrestlers' theme songs for the last 20 years...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Johnston_%28composer%29

-Torgo
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: EclecticBuddha on April 10, 2006, 06:02:41 PM
lmfao thats such a great career... yet Linda McMahon still gets that shitty wrestlemania song from that album they put out in the early 90's i think.  Its always better when its more simple.  Like the APA's theme was.  Damn what happened to gangrel??? He had the best jobber entrance EVER!
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 10, 2006, 07:42:11 PM
... And fuck you, the big show rocks. 

"The Whole Fuckin' Show" rocks harder. FTL needs a caller with that handle.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Jiperly on April 11, 2006, 12:27:16 AM
I simply made it up. As far as I can tell, its an entirely oringial word- which really helps when making emails and forum accounts.

Doesn't really mean anything, although it does have an odd resemblence to the word "Chippery", but I'm pretty sure I didn't know of that words existance when I invented Jiperly.

If it is an oringial creation, then awesomesause- I have 12,000 hits on Google.

Yay Internet Addiction!
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Driven on April 12, 2006, 12:28:23 AM
I consider myself a very driven person.  If I make a committment I see it through until the end, no matter what.  Seems proper to be my handle.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 12, 2006, 12:40:40 AM
I consider myself a very driven person.  If I make a committment I see it through until the end, no matter what.  Seems proper to be my handle.

It was also a badass movie (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=everythingmic-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB00003CXTM%2Fqid%3D1144816707%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fv%3Dglance%26s%3Ddvd") with Sly and the totally bonable Estella Warren!
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 12, 2006, 04:21:27 AM
I consider myself a very driven person.  If I make a committment I see it through until the end, no matter what.  Seems proper to be my handle.

"Driven" is also one of the many cool songs by Canadian power-trio and Ayn Rand fans, Rush (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002NRQUW/qid=1144829820/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-0137261-0499344?s=music&v=glance&n=5174)
(The liner notes to their album 2112 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001ESF/qid=1144829906/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-0137261-0499344?s=music&v=glance&n=5174) indicate that it is "Dedicated to the genious of Ayn Rand")
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: EclecticBuddha on April 12, 2006, 06:42:12 AM
Rush's drummer is a freakin' god.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 12, 2006, 07:36:22 AM
Rush's drummer is a freakin' god.

Geddy kicks ass on bass, too. Makes up for his whiney vocals.
Anyway, Karma for you for stating the obvious: Peart kicks ass!
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: EclecticBuddha on April 12, 2006, 08:27:33 AM
Is your name perhaps after Cleveland weather legend and wooly bear king Dick Goddard?
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Driven on April 12, 2006, 10:50:59 AM
I consider myself a very driven person.  If I make a committment I see it through until the end, no matter what.  Seems proper to be my handle.

It was also a badass movie (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=everythingmic-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB00003CXTM%2Fqid%3D1144816707%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fv%3Dglance%26s%3Ddvd") with Sly and the totally bonable Estella Warren!

Tis true.  I am a badass, and totally bonable. 8)

I consider myself a very driven person.  If I make a committment I see it through until the end, no matter what.  Seems proper to be my handle.

"Driven" is also one of the many cool songs by Canadian power-trio and Ayn Rand fans, Rush (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002NRQUW/qid=1144829820/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-0137261-0499344?s=music&v=glance&n=5174)
(The liner notes to their album 2112 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001ESF/qid=1144829906/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-0137261-0499344?s=music&v=glance&n=5174) indicate that it is "Dedicated to the genious of Ayn Rand")

I do know that story behind Neil Pert finding Atlas Shrugged, but I didn't know that.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 12, 2006, 12:33:02 PM
Is your name perhaps after Cleveland weather legend and wooly bear king Dick Goddard?

No. And don't call me Dick :P
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 12, 2006, 12:35:15 PM
Vinnie seriously has supernatural drumming abilities, and makes Peart look like a chump.

To quote that great 80's movie Stripes, from the character Francis aka "Psycho":
You just made the list, pal!

Besides, only Danny Carey can make Peart look like a chump.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 12, 2006, 02:12:00 PM
Besides, only Danny Carey can make Peart look like a chump.


Robert Palmer makes Danny Carey look like Peart. Then again, Peart makes Palmer look like Phil Collins, who actually is a chump. Then again again, Phil makes Dave Groll look like John Bonham, which is not a good thing, since he must be almost completely decomposed by now. But I digress. Which is the only thing I'm really, really good at.

Oh I'm sorry, did you mean Dana Carvey? I take it all back. He's the best drummer ever to wear a wig.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 12, 2006, 05:35:18 PM
See this proves my point!  You owe me a beer at PorcFest!
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_drum-skill.html

That list is about as valid as Soviet election results.
But as for the beer at PorcFest... you're on! :D
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 12, 2006, 07:42:16 PM
You would probably be good at using the chicken to measure it.  Give it a try sometime.

A prime example of digression. I prefer beef though. Where is the beef anyway?
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Brisco County, Jr. on April 12, 2006, 10:41:11 PM
You would probably be good at using the chicken to measure it.  Give it a try sometime.

A prime example of digression. I prefer beef though. Where is the beef anyway?

You can't put a cow in your tool belt.


You can if you fold it a few times.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 13, 2006, 12:03:41 AM
::LOL::
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 13, 2006, 07:18:50 AM
You can't put a cow in your tool belt.
You can if you fold it a few times.

"folding"... that's part of that bizarre and dangrous cult involving dimensions beyond the normal two, correct?
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Brisco County, Jr. on April 13, 2006, 05:27:37 PM
You can't put a cow in your tool belt.
You can if you fold it a few times.

"folding"... that's part of that bizarre and dangrous cult involving dimensions beyond the normal two, correct?



Are you accusing me of being one of Dr. Gene Rays Cubites?  For shame.  If it were fashionable, I'd challenge you to a duel.  I'm just a guy who has no problem with cows being brutally folded as many times as necessary so as to fit in a utility belt and you bring forth this vicious allegation.  How dare you!
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 13, 2006, 05:30:02 PM
Yeah and he not folding space, or tuning either.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on April 13, 2006, 06:20:47 PM
Yeah and he not folding space, or tuning either.

Folks, the above is a reminder:
Drunk people should not post!
:P
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on April 13, 2006, 08:27:04 PM
Yeah and he not folding space, or tuning either.

Folks, the above is a reminder:
Drunk people should not post!
:P


HAHA! You know, I was actually at work when I wrote that. Slight grammatical error. Slight geekiness of the author as well.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: fisher on April 28, 2006, 03:25:29 PM
And don't call me Dick

Can I call you penis?
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Lindsey on April 28, 2006, 04:49:28 PM
And don't call me Dick

Can I call you penis?

I prefer "wang", myself. 
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: fisher on April 28, 2006, 04:52:14 PM
 :lol:
That's good.
Wang it is.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Lindsey on April 28, 2006, 04:54:56 PM
I accidentally taught my friend's 10 year old brother the word "wang".  Kind of.  They have these fridge magnets, you know, the letters and numbers...so I spelled "wang" one morning while I was getting milk for my cereal.  Well, now the kid goes around writing "wang" everywhere.  Oops.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: velojym on July 09, 2006, 09:23:09 PM
<--- Bicycle Jim (nickname from some friends) snazzed up a little.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: YixilTesiphon on July 09, 2006, 11:02:47 PM
Two names I had at the amazingly sketchy forums of Totse.com.

Yixil is nonsense, though I think it's azerbaijani. (Somebody later posted some random shit in their text file section using this name.)

Tesiphon used to be Ctesiphon, the capital of ancient Persia, but it looked too much like an STD and too impossible to pronounce.

Hmm, this reminded me of an awesome thread idea.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Equality 7-2521 on July 10, 2006, 12:36:57 AM
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281253.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452281253/sr=8-2/qid=1152506144/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-8734305-2279937?ie=UTF8
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on July 10, 2006, 01:38:21 AM
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281253.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452281253/sr=8-2/qid=1152506144/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-8734305-2279937?ie=UTF8


That's pretty impressive.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Zhwazi on July 10, 2006, 02:46:15 AM
I used to play Halo 2 like every day and night and morning before school. I played in an all-elite clan (the alien, not the skill level, though I was better than decent at it). This all-elite clan had all elite names. Names such as "Zuka 'Zamamee" or "Ruke 'Ladamee" etc. Well the name I came up with was "Keti Kotaree". Keti doesn't mean anything. Kotaree means "Allied with earth" by combining "Co" from "Cooperate" or "Coincide" with the Jaffa (Stargate) word for "Earth". It was just a little ironic thing I felt like putting in there. But I eventually dropped the "Kotaree" because it took too much time to type over and over. And the name Keti just stuck.

I also use the name Zhwazi from time to time. It's Borgiousie (Boor-Zhwa-Zee) minus the bor, and spelled phonetically. Intended to piss off socialists if they're smart enough to figure out where I got it from.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on July 13, 2006, 09:50:48 PM
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281253.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452281253/sr=8-2/qid=1152506144/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-8734305-2279937?ie=UTF8

Heh, it's also a cool reference to a Rush song of the same name as the book (cause those guys are Rand fans)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000001ESB.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001ESB/sr=1-1/qid=1152841777/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7665366-4026306?ie=UTF8&s=music)
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Lindsey on July 15, 2006, 11:42:23 PM
I accidentally taught my friend's 10 year old brother the word "wang".  Kind of.  They have these fridge magnets, you know, the letters and numbers...so I spelled "wang" one morning while I was getting milk for my cereal.  Well, now the kid goes around writing "wang" everywhere.  Oops.

A 10 year old with an obsession of Wang, this may have worrying repercussions  :lol:

Well, we call him "Child of the corn".  There is a reason for this.  The other day he was attacking his sister, and then he forbid me to speak.  He said he'd stab my heart out if I made a sound.  Sometimes he acts normally, but that's about once every couple of months, and only for a few minutes. 
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Equality 7-2521 on July 16, 2006, 09:58:51 PM
Take a listen to 2112, and read Anthem....you'll know where they got the idea from (as they acknowledge)



(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281253.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452281253/sr=8-2/qid=1152506144/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-8734305-2279937?ie=UTF8

Heh, it's also a cool reference to a Rush song of the same name as the book (cause those guys are Rand fans)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000001ESB.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001ESB/sr=1-1/qid=1152841777/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7665366-4026306?ie=UTF8&s=music)
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: fingers on December 21, 2006, 06:00:30 PM
I've played a little piano and keyboards in my life.  (little translating to approximately 36 years ).

You may hear me playing in central TX (Radio Jingles, Indie Music and Films).
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on December 21, 2006, 10:36:12 PM
Hey, you're not Bukka Allen are you?
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Taors on December 21, 2006, 11:07:53 PM
Thought it sounded manly.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: ILikeMoney on December 21, 2006, 11:24:39 PM
I like money.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: RottingNation on December 21, 2006, 11:55:21 PM
Its from the name of my blog 'Reflections From a Rotting Nation' at http://www.rottingnation.com Its generally a reference to this deteriorating country we live in.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Jetfire on December 22, 2006, 01:08:48 AM
Jetfire Armada from transformers
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Charles on December 22, 2006, 01:58:35 AM
no idea
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: fingers on December 22, 2006, 12:39:08 PM
Hey, you're not Bukka Allen are you?

Nope, but I like his playing.   Seen him with Ian Moore, not sure what happened to him when Ian left for Seattle.    I did most of my club playing out in NY in the MHV and NYC in the late 80's and early 90's.     Looking to get back on stage soon, though.   
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: freedom geek on December 22, 2006, 12:40:40 PM
I like freedom and I'm a geek.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: cerpntaxt on December 22, 2006, 12:41:34 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerpin_Taxt
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mike the godless heathen on December 22, 2006, 01:39:08 PM
it all started many a year ago when i finally became tired of the handle twisted_freek, which i used almost everywhere.  i hadn't had internet access for a few years, i forgot the passwords to all my accounts, i needed something new.  where could i possibly find a new handle?  now, i now a lot of honkies think that adding -izzle onto the end of words was a product of the 21st century.  It was not.  If you listen to Dr. Dre's The Chronic you will hear Snoop Doggy Dogg using the terms like rizzle, jizzle, forizzle, and even shizzle, but i digress.  in the early part of the 21st century suburban white boys who thought they were gangstas (not me, i am a drunken potato cart pushin' irish man all the way) started adopting the -izzle word usage thanks once again to Snoop Dogg.  but now the term shizzle almost came to mean whatever you wanted it to.  we now flash back 20ish years ago to the wonderful experiment in socialism, the smurfs.  remember how the smurfs would use the word smurf to mean anything they wanted to?

fetch me that smurf.
may i have a smurf to drink?
my smurf hurts.
smurf you!
get smurfed!
go smurf yourself!
nice smurfs, wanna smurf?

so, we take the word smurf and replace it with shizzle.  why handy you might ask?  because vanityshizzle sounds really fucking gay.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on December 22, 2006, 02:00:13 PM
no idea

It means "manly"
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Taors on December 22, 2006, 02:19:54 PM
no idea

It means "manly"

Bull.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on December 22, 2006, 04:16:33 PM
It's my name too.  I've looked it up in "what should I name my baby" books...
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on December 22, 2006, 04:21:01 PM
interestingly enough, and very much to my delight, this site describes its meaning as "free man"   :D


http://www.babynames.com/Names/name_display.php?n=CHARLES
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: scorch on December 22, 2006, 04:32:25 PM
I've been scorch since my AOL days, back when I was 16 (26 now) it just stuck :)

I am all over the forum world with the same name, sometimes scorchPC as well
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: money dollars on March 06, 2007, 04:47:10 PM
I like money.
cus everyone wants money dollars
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Timothy on March 06, 2007, 07:30:00 PM
Flip it around and you have my first name.

Flip my name backwards and you have... ... My name backwards. :lol:
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: AbsurdParadox on March 06, 2007, 08:41:42 PM
*shrug* No idea, here. Most of my great ideas I don't actually remember. Interesting, since I don't do any drugs.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: rah62 on March 06, 2007, 10:55:15 PM
My initials and the year I was born.

My friends and coworkers call me "Rah", and for a while I even had a "RAH" personalized license plate on my auto.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: John Shaw on March 06, 2007, 10:57:02 PM
My name is my name. This confuses some people online.

I am often more creative about it, but I figure here, I'm among friends.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on March 06, 2007, 11:03:05 PM
My name is my name.
+1 for you.
I am tired of meeting people in NH who I have to memorize TWO names for... and one of them is something ridiculously make up, like "Puke" or "error" or "Markwich"

I figure here, I'm among friends.
You sure you're on the right forum? And not on drugs?
These is libertarians, boy. They don't fight you... means... they lookin' to eat you
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Slacker on March 06, 2007, 11:05:22 PM
Mack is my last name. I was born on the 11th and since childhood had an affinity for the number 11. I think roman numerals are cool too, so Mack XI.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Gordee on March 06, 2007, 11:12:05 PM
Gordee is Americanized version of my first name. Actually, it's Gordie or Gordy, but I like two letters "e".
Hmm... three versions, all pronounced the same. Silly English language eh :P
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: John Shaw on March 06, 2007, 11:13:34 PM
My name is my name.
+1 for you.
I am tired of meeting people in NH who I have to memorize TWO names for... and one of them is something ridiculously make up, like "Puke" or "error" or "Markwich"

I figure here, I'm among friends.
You sure you're on the right forum? And not on drugs?
These is libertarians, boy. They don't fight you... means... they lookin' to eat you

Bah I say! Apart from the occasional troll (We all know who I am talking about.) and the more long winded folks getting annoyed with my short, terse arguments, I figure most people here qualify as "The Good Guys.".

I can put up with five page posts from people I like, so long as the people who like me can put up with my one sentence posts.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: John Shaw on March 06, 2007, 11:16:47 PM
Mack is my last name. I was born on the 11th and since childhood had an affinity for the number 11. I think roman numerals are cool too, so Mack XI.

And Mack XI is two better than Mac-10.

Mac 10's suck.

So you win twice for that one.
As for numbers, 16 has always been my OCD number. (I'm not OCD, but you know what I mean.)
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on March 06, 2007, 11:29:04 PM
(I'm not OCD, but you know what I mean.)
I don't.
WTF is OCD?
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: John Shaw on March 06, 2007, 11:30:07 PM
(I'm not OCD, but you know what I mean.)
I don't.
WTF is OCD?

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Some people with OCD fixate on certain numbers.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: gandhi2 on March 06, 2007, 11:30:45 PM
My moniker has a tale to it.
My school basketball team made it to state championships the year I graduated.  Not having much faith that they'd win, I bet on the game with a pep-band geek classmate who I'd been attending the games that season with as an excuse to hang out: the stakes, his Magic: The Gathering collection versus my hair.  They won the game, I lost my hair.  Afterward, I bore a striking resemblance to the Indian mystic, and some buddies started to call me by the name.  Combined with an Eastern-guru-ish complex and a devoted love to The Great Alfred Yankovic's only film masterpiece(hence the numeric suffix), and I had a nickname that has stuck ever since.  Even my wife and occasionally my parents refer to me by the name.
Since that year, I had made it a tradition to shave my head in October for Halloween.  Some of the favored costumes have included Gandhi himself, Lex Luther, Professor Farnsworth, and Warren Ellis' Spider Jerusalem.  It lasted until I got engaged, when I was informed by my fiance "If you can do it, I will too."
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: John Shaw on March 06, 2007, 11:32:57 PM
Bald women can be attractive. Take the risk and see of she's serious. If she is, hell, it grows back.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Slacker on March 06, 2007, 11:43:27 PM
Quote
Bald women can be attractive.


(http://tinyurl.com/2wj27q)


/groooooooowl :P
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: John Shaw on March 06, 2007, 11:46:05 PM
V'Ger Must "Merge" with the creator.
You didn't see her do it, but I assure you she did the "Quote thingy" with her fingers.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on March 06, 2007, 11:48:17 PM
Quote
Bald women can be attractive.


(http://tinyurl.com/2wj27q)


/groooooooowl :P

I just served an attractive woman with her head shaved this evening at subway.  She pulled it off pretty damn well...as well as natalie portman, and if not, better.

and roman numerals rox.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Lindsey on March 07, 2007, 12:14:42 AM
I like my hair.  The hair on my head. 
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on March 07, 2007, 12:16:57 AM
you got a funny shaped head anyhow..   :P
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: sillyperson on March 07, 2007, 12:26:18 AM
(http://tinyurl.com/2wj27q)
The Bene Gesserit witch... must leave
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: bakerbaker on March 07, 2007, 12:33:38 AM
(http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/v_for_vendetta/natalie_portman/vendetta_portrait2.jpg)

i'd hit it.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: ILikeMoney on March 07, 2007, 01:17:10 AM
(http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/v_for_vendetta/natalie_portman/vendetta_portrait2.jpg)

i'd hit it.

And how!
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: mbd on March 07, 2007, 09:38:55 PM
My name is my name.
+1 for you.
I am tired of meeting people in NH who I have to memorize TWO names for... and one of them is something ridiculously make up, like "Puke" or "error" or "Markwich"

I figure here, I'm among friends.
You sure you're on the right forum? And not on drugs?
These is libertarians, boy. They don't fight you... means... they lookin' to eat you

Bah I say! Apart from the occasional troll (We all know who I am talking about.) and the more long winded folks getting annoyed with my short, terse arguments, I figure most people here qualify as "The Good Guys.".

I can put up with five page posts from people I like, so long as the people who like me can put up with my one sentence posts.

+1. Long posts are for mental masturbators.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Luke Smith on June 27, 2009, 10:17:04 AM
Look up/Google "Whiskey Rebellion of 1794".  In a related note: It is strongly connected with the Alternate History novel, and best novel of all time The Probabilty Broach by L. Neil Smith, in which the the people of Penn. successfully revolted, killed Washington for treason (hells yeah!) and threw out the Constitution. Booya!

The avatar?

Flag of the Whiskey Rebellion of '94.

I'm just a big ol' flaming Anarcho-Capitalist.

No, Washington was not the traitor, the Whiskey Rebellion people were the traitors for illegally rebelling against the United States. Washington was certainly in the right to put down that rebellion.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: BonerJoe on June 27, 2009, 10:28:22 AM
A mildly offensive name made up on the spot while registering for this forum.
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Ecolitan on June 27, 2009, 11:56:20 AM
(http://www.webpan.com/msauers/modesitt/ecolitan_matter/ecolitan_prime.jpg)
Title: Re: Significance behind the name?
Post by: Jetfire on June 27, 2009, 12:54:28 PM
Why bring back a two year old thread luke?