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[Privateerkev]

yeah same here...

Your parents named you Elite Ferret!?!



I remember when you were Bob the Great and changed it because you got sick of everyone assuming your name was Bob.

As for me, Wing Commander Privateer is my favorite computer game of all time. I still play it. So, in a lot of things, my screen name is Privateer. But, Privateer tends to be taken so I decided to add something onto the end of it. After looking for inspiration through many hours of deep trancendental meditation, I decided to throw my name onto the end of it. Unless you couldn't decipher it from my screen-name, my name is Kevin. But no one calls me Kevin. Due to sheer laziness, everyone shortens it to one syllable and calls me Kev.

And that is my epic story.

[Ferret]

Your parents named you Elite Ferret!?!

well not exactly, it all started back in the year 1066, when William was busy invading England. My ancestors were a group of warrior ferrets under the command of Edward the Confessor, before he passed away. They decided to side with the Normans as they had more 'ferret friendly' policies than the Saxons or Danes.

Then after the war was won my ancestors were rewarded by having a prosperous town in Bedfordshire, South East England, named after their race and being given the title 'of ferrets'. Over the years that title simply merged into a surname such as Smith or Wright, and newborn ferrets were given Christian names as well. My parents were the ones who relinquished control of Ferret Town (as featured in the BC hotseat game - ask phonics or Ramses) in favour of settling down to a quiet life in a country manor. They named me 'Elite' in memory of the brave elite ferrets who performed a crucial role in conquering England from the weasels Saxons.

And that is where my name originates from

[atheotes]

According to a friend of mine... Atheotes loosely means atheist in ancient greek... thats where i got it...

[Mediolanicus]

My real name --> Milan
Italian town --> Milan
Latin name for Italian town -> Mediolanum
Pseudo-Latin for my name --> Mediolanicus

[Caius]

My first .org name was Decius Curtius, but I forgot teh password and created Caius Flaminius.

Changed to Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, and got it to Caius for people like Andres who is lazy.

[Andres]

Changed to Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, and got it to Caius for people like Andres who is lazy.

C is even shorter...

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[Kralizec]

(Count) Hasimir Fenring is a character from Dune. I always thought he was a great character despite that he didn't have an overwhelming role in the plot. He was basicly an agent of the emperor, not in the least place a talented assassin. Despite the fact that he was a loyal friend to the emperor, he eventually refused to carry out an order to kill somebody (either because of affection, honor or both- it isn't made very clear) wich cost the emperor dearly.

The prequels written by KJA Anderson and Brian Herbert put him more in the spotlight, but made him look like a two dimensional sociopath

[seireikhaan]

Hmm... Started as greaterkhaan, which purely came from my obsession with the Mongols at the time(still do, btw). The extra 'a' was thrown in because of a documentary I saw on the History Channel in which the host visited Ulaan Bataar, and revealed that Mongolians, when using the Roman alphabet, spell it 'khaan', rather than 'khan'.

After 1,000 posts, I changed it to kamikhaan, which referenced to the Japanese word "kami", meaning divine(eh, roughly), and I also thought it was ironic because of the fact that "kamikaze" originally came about because of the Mongol invasion.

After 2,000 posts, I changed it to my current name, which means "hell conqueror(eh, roughly(once again)). Thought it looked cool when I was trying to pick out a new alternative username.

[InsaneApache]

This explains my name in detail

Aw Thank yew!

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

It's who I am.

[Spartan198]

I never retreat and I never surrender.

Edit: The "198" is just my year of birth with the number 3 cut off the end.

[Lord Winter]

Destroyer of Hope was taken from the Wheel of Time books, I got tired of it and eventully changed it to Lord Winter paritly because I wa reading A Song of Ice and Fire at that time and liked the Starks and partilly because I just like winter.

[Conradus]

It's the latin version of my name and my granddad once called me that when I just started learning Latin and entering the online world. Kept it eversince.

[Samurai Waki]

I've considered getting a name change.

[TinCow]

The summer between my junior and senior years of High School (1994 I think) I took classes at Cornell Univ. A bunch of my friends were exploring the wonders of the internet by signing up for free AOL accounts. Back then they expired after 10 or 15 hours of use, so we had to keep creating new accounts on a regular basis. The names got silly after a while. Two of the ones I came up with stuck with me after I left. The first was "Calsted" which was the result of slamming my left hand onto the keyboard and then adding an L. I used that handle for RPGs and chatrooms for several years.

The other was "Plastic Cow." That was because someone had told me that the Biology Department at Cornell had removed part of the skin and ribcage of a live cow and replaced it with a plexiglass sheet so that students could watch the animal's digestion process. I have no idea whether it was true or not, but that's where I got the idea. Plastic Cow was my shooter/action handle for a while, but my freshman year of college I was playing some game that I can no longer remember and Plastic Cow was too long for the name field. I had a friend who played Quake as Tinman, so tin sprang to mind and thus: TinCow. I dropped Calsted completely several years ago, and have been exclusively TinCow ever since. Probably will be forever.

[Kamakazi]

Well lets see i have always ben interested in chinese and japanses things. Such as bushido and samurai etc. Then i started studying WW2. I really liked Kamakazi pilots. I started to paly a game called battle field on a site- playbattlefield of which i am still a member and i created kamakazi on there. Since then it is my username on everything...if not kamakazi ,kamakazi339

[_Tristan_]

My namesake is the main character in the novel serial by French writer Pierre Naudin.

The novels depicts France in the Hundred Years' War period without chauvinism, clearly taking into account the failings of the French nobility...

When finding the Org, the name Tristan sprang to mind but someone had beaten me to it so I added the full name...

Being a French member (and one of the few, it seems...) I wanted to use a French sounding name...

[Kamakazi]

Well lets see i have always ben interested in chinese and japanses things. Such as bushido and samurai etc. Then i started studying WW2. I really liked Kamakazi pilots. I started to paly a game called battle field on a site- playbattlefield of which i am still a member and i created kamakazi on there. Since then it is my username on everything...if not kamakazi ,kamakazi339

and now i have no reason for the name cuz playbattlefield jus went offline after me playing it for about 8 years.........