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this is a topic that's totally not Related to EB, but more to the community.
how did you get your nickname? what does it mean? etc.
my nick (jerby) is pretty fast forward..when i was a kid..somebody made it up..out of teh blue..my real name is Jerry. and a kid just called me jerby..it always stuck..
so?
i'm curious in particular to names like: abokasee, eadingas, etc..cuz i havent got a clue abotu those names ~;)
cheers.
this is a topic that's totally not Related to EB, but more to the community.
how did you get your nickname? what does it mean? etc.
my nick (jerby) is pretty fast forward..when i was a kid..somebody made it up..out of teh blue..my real name is Jerry. and a kid just called me jerby..it always stuck..
so?
i'm curious in particular to names like: abokasee, eadingas, etc..cuz i havent got a clue abotu those names ~;)
cheers.
there's already a thread like this in the front room.~:)
well my real name is:
Gert Jan Gregoor so not much to explain I guess ~:)
It's the first sound girls make when they try to say 'Jezus that thing is HUGE' while fellating me.
plz jebus..spare me that stuff next time..
yes we all wan to know about that, don't we... :embarassed:
It's my first name backwards. It was originally a placeholder, meant to be used until I thought of a better one, but I never did.
Teleklos Archelaou
08-26-2005, 18:52
Mine's an early and obscure Spartan king of little importance.
typical choice..whats so special about him?
Ianofsmeg16
08-26-2005, 19:26
Well, my names Ian
The ...of Smeg part came from an episode of Red Dwarf where Lister goes into an AR game about Medieval times and Calls himself Lister of Smeg
and the 16 part, well 16 is my lucky number for various sporting reasons
Teleklos Archelaou
08-26-2005, 19:41
typical choice..whats so special about him?Hi name sounds cool to me and no one else would ever choose him as a name anywhere else - so I don't have to worry about changing it for different sites.
Shouldn't this thread be moved?
my nickname? just making some random words from the back of my mind...turns out to be a typo for "future" or "next"... I don't know much German.
Malrubius
08-26-2005, 20:23
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=897445&postcount=83
Krusader
08-26-2005, 20:36
Needed a nick quick for a Q3-match and happened to to look at a cover of a book about the Crusades. Changed the "c" to "k" and almost all my friends on the net know me as Krusader, so I've stuck with it.
Geoffrey S
08-26-2005, 20:44
It's my name; looking back I should have made perhaps a little more effort...
His name sounds cool It really does :yes:
Mine is kinda Tolkein & much better than arrrse was.
Lord Hammerschmidt
08-26-2005, 22:16
Instead of calling me Mr. Hammerschmidt, a bunch of my students took to calling me Lord Hammerschmidt. I thought it was catchy, so it stuck.
Goscinio
08-26-2005, 22:23
Well, my cousin had just made up his nick (wich is Trascio btw) and i didn't want to fall behind, so i just made something simillar to that:idea2: (well, sort of ... :rolleyes: )
Idomeneas
08-26-2005, 23:47
Well Idomeneas was the king of Crete during Trojan war and since my father comes from Crete (mom from Olympia).....
yes we all wan to know about that, don't we...
Pervert
happyzappydude
08-27-2005, 00:11
When I first went online I thought to myself that my last name (Dreyer) wouldnt be common place on the web, how wrong I was. (In fact someone with my exact name had a website online the creepy thing was he lived only ten miles from my last home.)So i thought how can I think of a name that no one else has thought of, then it struck me three nonsensical words strung together into some kind of sense. And no one has thought of it.
Probably for good reason.
I just made mine up off the top of my head, like I do on every forum I go to...
I have like, a dozen online aliases
I have "created" my nickname a long time ago when playing Quake 1 multiplayer connected with a 33kbps to the internet was hot.
I needed a impresive name to intimidate other quake players ~;)
Personality.
Everything you say can and will be used against you....'nuff said. :bow:
TK-421 is a stormtrooper designation from Star Wars. I've used it for various Star Wars games in the past and the name has stuck.
vizigothe
08-27-2005, 05:40
vizigothe comes from the 1st game i really played online; Diablo 2, my favorite class was the barbarian and visigoth was taken so i changed and added a letter and it stuck
of course i also have a real nickname, no one calls me Aaron, everyone calls me A.J.
because of my intials and my grandpas favorite indy driver A.J. Foyt
Mr Jones
08-27-2005, 08:26
mine is taken from the counting crows song of the same name. i only started using it wen i joined this forum, just as something out of the blue. now i use it for all my rtw related forums. in real life i have about 14 nicknames, but i can't be bothered to tell y'all wat they r.
Pervert
~:eek:
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:bigcry: :cry: :bigcry:
The Stranger
08-27-2005, 12:26
mhuaahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha not funny....SARCASM i'm the master of sarcasm the official sarcasm thread started the head of the underground sarcasm thread and the real ruler of the .org
where you missing my sarcasm when i was missing the sarcasm in you sarcastic post
Little Legioner
08-27-2005, 12:46
My name comes from Sven Hassel novels. Little Legionaire was a ex French legionaire. His real name is Alfred Kalb and he was a German. When he returned to Germany he arrested by SS and sent out to Fagen then they sent him to penal battalion. He was a muslim and carrying long moorish blade to cut the throats of their enemies and he was shouting "Allahuakbar" when charged over on enemies. ~:handball: He was a really interesting figure. Quite, cruel in war, trustable, some nut and totaly dramatic...
and me and Turkish style Yataghan (standart janissary close combat weapon) similar to Falcata design Turkish blade...
https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/60/img42926vk.th.jpg (https://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img42926vk.jpg)
mhuaahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha not funny....SARCASM i'm the master of sarcasm the official sarcasm thread started the head of the underground sarcasm thread and the real ruler of the .org
where you missing my sarcasm when i was missing the sarcasm in you sarcastic post
damn you're right your so sarcastic, omg what an honour to meet you... :dizzy2:
no serious, respect for Sarcasm (the guy and sarcasm it self)!
no go back being,... sarcastic? ~:confused:
Dux Corvanus
08-27-2005, 13:31
Twenty years ago, when I started at High School, a mate and me created a crappy comic strip for the school newspaper. The main character was Dux Corvan, a late Roman military leader that attended classes and made innocent unintended puns about teaching, learning and human nature. We took Dux because he was a kind of general, and Corvan... well, because it sounded cool.
Many years after I took it as nick for every PC game I played -from X-Wing to Diablo and air sims- and now I use it for everything, including forums and online games. Thus, I avoid damaging my brain cells by inventing new cool names constantly.
the -us ending is to make it more Latin-ish, according to the spirit of the site.
Personality.
no surprise here..
Shrapnel
08-27-2005, 20:49
I was reading about Lt. Shrapnel (later Colonel) and how he gave his name to the spherical case shot in the Napoleonic Wars in the Peninsular, I like the name so now my online name is Shrapnel or Shrap for short. :)
Crusader4thepeople
08-27-2005, 21:01
I just invented mine randomly, dont know why no incentive too just came
Shigawire
08-27-2005, 22:47
From the Dune novels by Frank Herbert.
Fabolous
08-27-2005, 23:28
It was my nickname for awhile, now I am known as phenom in real life, but I decided to keep Fabolous as my online alias.
mhuaahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha hhahahahahahaha not funny....SARCASM i'm the master of sarcasm the official sarcasm thread started the head of the underground sarcasm thread and the real ruler of the .org
where you missing my sarcasm when i was missing the sarcasm in you sarcastic post
Haha.........What? :dizzy2:
no surprise here...
Heh...I really am a lot more sarcastic in real life, where I don't have to worry about my reputation (that's already ruined ~;) ). It basicaly started as an IRC nickname (for which I have no patience nowadays), then it stuck through all the games I went through, Warcraft2, Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, Starcraft: Brood War, Warcraft3 , WC3: Frozen Throne ("Im starting to see a pattern here..." ~D ) Counterstrike, and a huge number of other RTS's, FPS's and RPG's...
From the Dune novels by Frank Herbert.
I thought it looked familiar ~;)
"Muad'Dib," the man said. "I failed you in . . . "
"The failure was mine, Korba," Paul said. "I should've warned you what to seek. In the future, when searching Sardaukar, remember this. Remember, too, that each has a false toenail or two that can be combined with other items secreted about their bodies to make an effective transmitter. They'll have more than one false tooth. They carry coils of shigawire in their hair -- so fine you can barely detect it... With Sardaukar, you must scan them, scope them -- both reflex and hard ray -- cut off every scrap of body hair. And when you're through, be certain you haven't discovered everything."
cunctator
08-28-2005, 15:08
Personality.
dito
pezhetairoi
08-29-2005, 04:15
favourite ancient military unit. Haven't gotten over the awe-inspiring sight of a long line of sharp point sticks yet.
PseRamesses
08-29-2005, 12:26
"Pse" is short for my real name. "Ramesses" stands for my passion of Ramesses the Great and ancient Egypt. I´ve been using this nick since CIVII came out so I´ve used it for some 11-12 years, if I remeber correctly.
Hold Steady
08-29-2005, 14:44
What's probably being said when lined up in a shield wall with enemy approaching with malignious intend
Ellesthyan
08-29-2005, 16:29
Quite a few years ago, after having had numerous nicknames in games and on the web I decided to make one up to keep it a little organised; as I was reading unfinished tales (C. Tolkien) I played a little with the elvish vocabulaire at the back and came up with Ellesthyan. I don't really remember what it supposed to translate to other than something with stars. Though some people tend to think it's a female name (Ellen... shit like that) I'm keeping it just 'cause it's mine, and I'll be certain no one will have my nick already... :dizzy2: ~D
abortretryfail
08-29-2005, 16:41
I think it means " a bend in the river" in Latin. It was in a book I read referring to the position of a roman fort and later the town around it took the name. Ive never actually looked it up so its possible its totally wrong. I took it 'cause it seemed obscure (but memorable). I hate having to try 50 different names to sign onto a site.
Aymar de Bois Mauri
08-29-2005, 20:01
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=897445&postcount=83Nice one. Great set of books. A masterpiece of hard sci-fi with plausible fantasy influences.
Aymar de Bois Mauri
08-29-2005, 20:06
Now guess mine...
dude, with a nick like that..we'll be guessing forever..
because your yellow ferret is called like that?
because your yellow ferret is called like that?
~;) maybe his "wise lynx"?
~;) maybe his "wise lynx"?
LOL ~D
got me there!
AggonyDuck
08-29-2005, 21:54
I'm guessing it has something to do with a comic that stars the knight Aymar de Boys-Maury. ~:handball:
Lord Adherbal
08-29-2005, 22:39
I wanted a Carthaginian name when I started playing Age of Empires 1 on the MSN Gaming Zone. Hannibal, Hasdrubal, etc were all taken, but Adherbal wasn't (I had that name from a novel about hannibal and wasn't even sure he existed). Been using that nick ever since.
Dux Corvanus
08-30-2005, 00:59
Adherbal']I wanted a Carthaginian name when I started playing Age of Empires 1 on the MSN Gaming Zone. Hannibal, Hasdrubal, etc were all taken, but Adherbal wasn't (I had that name from a novel about hannibal and wasn't even sure he existed). Been using that nick ever since.
Carthaginian? Well, the name itself is Punic, but AFAIK, Adherbal was a Numidian king, son of Micipsa, whom succeded, and cousin of Jugurtha, who deprived him of the throne.
BTW, what's that [cF] about? ~:confused:
Aymar de Bois Mauri
08-30-2005, 01:38
I'm guessing it has something to do with a comic that stars the knight Aymar de Boys-Maury. ~:handball:Well, an informed reader. You get the prize. ~:)
The actual name is: Aymar de Bois Maury but I got it wroong when registering.
kayapó is an indian name. :indian_brave:
I was going to base my graduation thesis around them. But I gave that up. Too complex. This is my way of apologizing I guess. ~:) I could go on for a while about their culture but I'll refrain from that. As I'd be the only interested ~;)
pezhetairoi
08-30-2005, 03:32
I think it means " a bend in the river" in Latin. It was in a book I read referring to the position of a roman fort and later the town around it took the name. Ive never actually looked it up so its possible its totally wrong. I took it 'cause it seemed obscure (but memorable). I hate having to try 50 different names to sign onto a site.
Well, ACTUALLY, it's an error message from the MS-DOS days xP 'Not ready reading drive C: [Abort/Retry/Fail?]
I dont know if any of you like Akira Kurosawa films at all, but thats where my name comes from. In "Throne of Blood" the master`s version of Shakespeares Hamlet, the main character is General Washizu, I liked the character so much i stole his name, however i swapped the a and the i around.
Dux Corvanus
08-30-2005, 09:48
I liked the Seven samurai and Dersu Uzala, but found Ran (Kurosawa's vision of Shakespeare's King Lear), to be too long and tedious.
Afro Thunder
08-30-2005, 13:19
I got my nickname in PE class, actually. It would make more sense if I showed you a pic of what I look like in real life. ~:)
Lord Adherbal
08-30-2005, 14:08
Carthaginian? Well, the name itself is Punic, but AFAIK, Adherbal was a Numidian king, son of Micipsa, whom succeded, and cousin of Jugurtha, who deprived him of the throne.
BTW, what's that [cF] about?
there was also a Carthaginian admiral named Adherbal who defeated a roman fleet at Drepana.
And cF stands for "Carthaginian Forces", my old Age of Empires clan. We lasted for over 4 years, but then we started to get bored of Age of Mythology and I tried to move the clan to RTW. But there was hardly any interest in the game and the clan died completly soon after.
Aymar de Bois Mauri
08-30-2005, 14:16
Adherbal']there was also a Carthaginian admiral named Adherbal who defeated a roman fleet at Drepana.
And cF stands for "Carthaginian Forces", my old Age of Empires clan. We lasted for over 4 years, but then we started to get bored of Age of Mythology and I tried to move the clan to RTW. But there was hardly any interest in the game and the clan died completly soon after.[cF]Hanbaal belonged to that clan, right?
eadingas
08-30-2005, 14:40
Eadingas is a dragon that belonged to the main character in a fantasy story I once wrote.
Lord Adherbal
08-30-2005, 14:44
[cF]Hanbaal belonged to that clan, right?
yes, altho he joined after we moved to RTW. He's never been part of the AoE clan.
What a pitty that RTW MP was such a disappointment.
Dago is main character of my favourite book, "Ja, Dago" Zbigniew Nienacki.
Sfwartir
09-02-2005, 18:50
In the Åsatru, Sfwartir/Sfwartr/Svartir/Surtr, is the name of the King of the Fire Giants (Eldjotun) of Muspellheimr. Konnings Sfwartr Muspellheims
Big_John
09-02-2005, 19:02
In the Åsatru, Sfwartir/Sfwartr/Svartir/Surtr, is the name of the King of the Fire Giants (Eldjotun) of Muspellheimr. Konnings Sfwartr Muspellheimsheh, i never would have made the connection between sfwartir and surtr (that's how i've always seen it written).
Wow there are some interesting stories here behind some interesting nicknames. The story behind my nickname for this forum is basic, but is taken from a great scottish band named Biffy Clyro, no doubt a few of you may have heard of them.
Proper Gander
09-03-2005, 01:56
well, i wanted to call myself propaganda in another forum. and as i was typing it i suddenly thought of this. great pun i think.
i'm not the first to think of it though, unfortunately. google proper gander, and you'll see what i mean....
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