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What's in a name?
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What's in a name? // Roundtable
Post by TomG // Jun 24, 2008, 6:46am
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Yes, best explain mine... errr Tom Grimes = TomG. Imaginative :)
Tom |
Post by RAYMAN // Jun 24, 2008, 7:02am
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Rayman .... err Man ray !
I´m a photographer I like what that guy did ....:D
Peter |
Post by splinters // Jun 24, 2008, 7:16am
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Good call Steinie...let's hope that the newcomers also visit the 'show us yer room' thread too. I loved that one...:D
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=840&highlight=show+room |
Post by v3rd3 // Jun 24, 2008, 4:20pm
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Yes, best explain mine... errr Tom Grimes = TomG. Imaginative :)
Tom
For a marketing guy .... yeah!!! :D
At least you're not at Itsy Bitsy Machine.... The joke about marketing there is that if they had to sell Sushi it would be called "cold dead wet fish that tastes good"......
As to my nick.... I suppose it is best explained as the l33t form of green in Spanish... Why? I have no idea.. |
Post by Breech Block // Jun 24, 2008, 4:33pm
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Great thread Splinters.
Well, my real name is Barry and my handle Breech Block comes about through a case of the tail very much wagging the dog. Let me explain:
When it came to submitting my first animation to Caligari, Robot Ninja Assassins From Hell (don't ask), I knew I wanted some form of logo on it so that all my future projects could be identified (blamed) as coming from the same source (a thought I'm grateful for as I have now discovered someone else has posted my The Last Tomorrow animation on You Tube). Anyhow, I came up with this great idea of the logo's lettering forming a gun that would cock, turn and fire at the camera thus smashing the lens which would then form a wipe into the actual movie. Sketching out some designs, I discovered the best way to implement the model would be to have 2 words in the name, one acting as the top slide that would move backwards when cocked, the other forming the main body and trigger. However, when modelled in 3D, the lettering in the design was not quite legible. :(
Oh, it was also difficult to make out the design was supposed to be a gun as well. :mad:
So, overall I was off to a great start. Eventually, I solved the legibility problems by only using one letter to form the bulk of the pistol grip. So, all I needed now was a name that consisted of 2 words, roughly equal in length, both starting with the same letter and that letter looking something like a gun...easy peasy.:D
Of course, it helped that I'm an ex-firearms instructor, so Breech Block as a logo soon sprang to mind; with the added bonus of it complementing the design.
PS: in on-line games, if your fed up of being killed from afar by some prat called Eraser then sorry, that's me as well.:cool: |
Post by v3rd3 // Jun 25, 2008, 7:34am
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PS: in on-line games, if your fed up of being killed from afar by some prat called Eraser then sorry, that's me as well.:cool:
What game(s) would that be? |
Post by moogaloonie // Jun 25, 2008, 8:52am
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Around 2001 I finally gave in and bought a Windows machine to sit alongside my Amigas. I'd been going by etherius at my ISP but decided I needed a hotmail account as well, since there was no reason to avoid hotmail anymore that I had a Windows box ;)
I tried etherius, aetherius, various cartoon, biblical, mythological and historical names as well. I just wanted something that felt right, and didn't end in a number, meaning I was sharing it with someone. I remembered these old hot rod comics I used to read as a kid, and especially the vintage ones I picked up at an antique auto show. Many of the the older ones were from the late '60s and were full of dune buggies, dragsters, slot cars, and those infamously impractical '60s show customs. Being from the '60s, when Nasa and Pink Floyd were racing each other into space, meant there were a lot of spacey and far-out slang terms used in those magazines. The letters page was called "Moogaloonie Mailbag" and I just thought that was like the coolest '60s word I'd never heard anyone say. Somehow that came back to me during the registration process and so I've kept it, along with the hotmail account, to this day.
There was a time when I'd gotten tired of typing it out, and so I still post in a few forums as "Moogal". I didn't want people to think Moo-gal (a girl from WI, maybe?) or muggle or any other wrong thing, so I went back to the long form.
I also show up in some places as "artemusprine". Don't ask me to explain that one. |
Post by Electric Jim // Jun 25, 2008, 11:16am
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Electric Jim = Electrical engineer (day job) plus Jim (real name). If memory serves, in the days of the old trueSpace mailing list -- anyone still remember that? -- I went by the REALLY imaginitive name of "Jim Geier", which is...oh, I bet you can guess. :) |
Post by daybe // Jun 25, 2008, 11:25am
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Well daybe was a nickname I picked up in my 20's oh so long ago, living in a house with a Japanese exchange student living in the back in what was a poorly added addition and this poor fellow spent many a cold winter nights in there with no heat and water, we invited him to stay with us a few times and he had a hard time pronouncing my name David. It came out as daybe! and there you have it it stuck.:D |
Post by jamesmc // Jun 25, 2008, 11:34am
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My name is Martian for shriveled tentacles.
I found out one hot summer night in a remote rural location observing a wheat field being carved out into an intricate design.
After the probes I never really did like jelly beans for some reason... |
Post by Breech Block // Jun 25, 2008, 1:35pm
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My name is Martian for shriveled tentacles
Sorry James, but your wrong. I was also there that night and that grey alien thing clearly said it stood for shrivelled testicles.
What game(s) would that be?
At the moment mainly CoD 4 and Joint Operations. |
Post by jamesmc // Jun 25, 2008, 3:19pm
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Sorry James, but your wrong. I was also there that night and that grey alien thing clearly said it stood for shrivelled testicles.
That would explain why my pant size is smaller now. |
Post by Finis // Jun 25, 2008, 4:26pm
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I considered forum names like Bomb19 and Sector16 but found none that I really wanted to use.
Bomb 19 is an intelligent planet destroying bomb from the movie Darkstar. The name didn't have much connection to me other than I like obscure low budget movies. Sector 16 is the bomb test area where the mutants lived in New Mexico in The Hills Have Eyes 2. I live in New Mexico not far from Trinity Site so that might be a strange reference my location. Unfortunately it would imply that I'm a sinister mutant so that one was off the list.
So I just used my real first name Finis. |
Post by spacekdet // Jun 25, 2008, 5:45pm
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So I just used my real first name Finis.
Do you have a lot of brothers and sisters and were you the last in line? :^) |
Post by TomG // Jun 26, 2008, 1:56am
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Good for you! You've decided to clean the elevator.
And to think that whole chasing the bizarre tomato scene eventually became the first Alien movie. A strange world.
Tom |
Post by Breech Block // Jun 26, 2008, 9:56am
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Sorry James, but your wrong. I was also there that night and that grey alien thing clearly said it stood for shrivelled testicles.
That would explain why my pant size is smaller now.
LOL: Glad to see that alien probe didn't effect your sense of humour James. :D |
Post by behzad // Jun 27, 2008, 3:12pm
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Well daybe was a nickname I picked up in my 20's oh so long ago, living in a house with a Japanese exchange student living in the back in what was a poorly added addition and this poor fellow spent many a cold winter nights in there with no heat and water, we invited him to stay with us a few times and he had a hard time pronouncing my name David. It came out as daybe! and there you have it it stuck.:D
Wow, such a nice story, have you stayed in touch with him :confused: |
Post by TigreStripe // Jun 27, 2008, 8:24pm
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In 1992 when I first traveled around on the net I used Sabretooth as a nick. Some of the forums I was at thought it was from the Marvel Comics villian but it's just love of Tigres.
In 1995 I signed up to an ISP for real net access (previously it had been from BBS's forums then connected to the net). I choose DarkWynd. Of course these days there are 50,000 Darkwynd, wind, etc.
So I went back to more familar ground and have stayed with TigreStripe. |
Post by splinters // Aug 4, 2008, 9:24pm
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C'mon all you new members. Let us know where your user name comes from...:D |
Post by brotherx // Aug 5, 2008, 9:36pm
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I'm not exactly a new member but anyway.
BrotherX comes from about 12 years ago when I used to play Quake 2 in a clan called the Sacred Exterminators. It kinda stuck even though playing in a clan didn't - I really sucked. I have a friend who was still playing until recently.
More recently I am tending to use beegeedee just because it's by gamertag on the 360 and my initials being b g d. |
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