What made you choose your name?

[Beirut]

My life, my love, my dog.

[Brutus]

It is one of the strange nicknames my mother used to call me (one of the others was "Iwan the Terrible"...go figure). Also, I like the sound and meaning of the word and it seemed quite appropriate for this forum anyway. I was actually surprised to find no-one registered as 'Brutus' before.

[Dagobert II]

Hey All;

Dagobert was one of the last Merovingian (Visigothic)
kings who was murdered to allow the succession of the
Franks. Ol'boy took a spear in his eye. Then again, if he did
not, perhaps Poitiers would have never happened...

[Drisos]

My life, my love, my dog.

anyways my nickname is the more greek version of my real name.

[master of the puppets]

Master of the puppets pulling the strings of the world, also it was a name of a very good metallica album. so it sounded cool.

[Reverend Joe]

Dagobert was one of the last Merovingian (Visigothic)
kings

I thought Dagobert and the Merovingian line were Franks... that is what I read in a biography of Charlemagne.

[Craterus]

Do you have a bad acne problem?

j/k, j/k, j/k, j/k ... J/K!!! So sorry, but I just couldn't resist!

I am, in fact, surprisingly fresh-faced.

[Viking]

My ancesters.

[yesdachi]

I totally like the units in STW so I made a play on the word.

[Lemur]

If I remember correctly, Lemur was taken at the time I signed up. So I decided to take a page from Beatlemania.

[Beirut]

Youuuuuuu............. haveaproblemwithmydog?

[Meneldil]

I thought Dagobert and the Merovingian line were Franks... that is what I read in a biography of Charlemagne.

Merovingians were franks. Mérové was the king of the Franks, and he was in no way a Visigoth.

Meneldil is a character from LotR

[doc_bean]

My last names translates to 'beans', so naturally I chose to call myself Mr Bean when I first entered usenet, there was however, another Mr bean in a NG I posted in, so i changed it to Doc_Bean, a sign of youthful arrogance I suppose.

Since I didn't take the opportunity to start a doctorate (don't get me started on those...) I'm starting to find the name a bit inappropriate.

[Reverend Joe]

My last names translates to 'beans', so naturally I chose to call myself Mr Bean when I first entered usenet, there was however, another Mr bean in a NG I posted in, so i changed it to Doc_Bean, a sign of youthful arrogance I suppose.

Since I didn't take the opportunity to start a doctorate (don't get me started on those...) I'm starting to find the name a bit inappropriate.

Hell, you don't need a doctorate to be a doctor. Just look at Hunter Thompson- he was a "doctor of journalism". You don't need **** to be a doctor of journalism (except a degree in journalism- preferably a master's... get it... MD in journalism?)

[doc_bean]

Hell, you don't need a doctorate to be a doctor. Just look at Hunter Thompson- he was a "doctor of journalism". You don't need **** to be a doctor of journalism (except a degree in journalism- preferably a master's... get it... MD in journalism?)

I think it's a bit different with engineering though

Thing is, most people who hang around to complete their Phd are the ones who don't want the pressure of a full time engineering job or the ones that want to boost their ego's. Often both. It's become an empty title.

[Ja'chyra]

Jachyra is a monster from the Terry Brooks, Shannara series I just added the ' (Can't spell apostrophe)

The other name I go by is Aeil, another bastardisation but this time from Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time.

I used to go by the nick Raptor, I was dubbed this in a previous job for reasons we don't need to explore, but it was so popular I stopped using it.

[Fragony]

I have been using this name since the first Rainbow six game. Grenades are called 'frags' in that game, and I was pretty good at tossing them in impossible angles(which got me more then a few 'cheater' accusations). Well me + frag = agony and thus it became 'Fragony'.

[Butcher]

Well in this forum at least I named myself after the MTW trait I always ended up getting.

Although it's not my usual nom de plume on t'internet..

[Ianofsmeg16]

You may thank Red Dwarf, in Particular Lister, for my name :)

[Kagemusha]

In feodal Japan Kagemusha was a doppelganger of for example a famous general who was used to trick the enemy that a certain lord was somewhere, when he was infact somewhere else.

[Geoffrey S]

It's my name, sort of. I'll probably see if it can be changed once I pass the 1000 posts, if I think it's worth it.

[Zalmoxis]

There was a thread on this awhile back.

[Tachikaze]

What's big and gray, floats on water (until Feb 17, 1944), belches smoke, and has four white katakana letters down the side of it?

Give up?

[littlelostboy]

What's big and gray, floats on water (until Feb 17, 1944), belches smoke, and has four white katakana letters down the side of it?

Give up?

Loch Ness Monster? Japanese Dragon? Give up. Is that what inspire YOUR name?????

[Dutch_guy]

There was a thread on this awhile back.

well these sort of threads keep the frontroom alive, you should know that ;)

Every 3 weeks or so, another one of these comes along.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

There was a thread on this awhile back.

There was a post on this a while back

[The Stranger]

Kablam The Name Of The Biggest Spammer With A 5 Minute Floodcontrol

[Marcellus]

I chose my name from Marcus Claudius Marcellus (268-208BC), a Roman general sometimes known as the 'Sword of Rome'. I had just finished reading a bit about him and he sounded like a pretty good general.

[ShadesWolf]

First Part - Clan name from Shogun days
Second part - Favourite football club

[Ludens]

What's big and gray, floats on water (until Feb 17, 1944), belches smoke, and has four white katakana letters down the side of it?

Give up?

Let's see: kamikaze is divine wind, kami means spirit, which is closest to divine, so kaze is wind. Tachi I don't know (yes, fast, but that's a different language).

My guess is Japanese warship from WWII, possibly an aircraft carrier (hence: wind).

Or am I making a fool of myself with my cut & paste Japanese?