Naming convention.

[Caius]

Because he was my grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grandfather(!)

I love RTW.I love my name.Thats im here

[UltraWar]

Because he was my grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grandfather(!)

I love RTW.I love my name.Thats im here

Your original .org name was Decius Curtius

[Caius]

Yeah,, but i forgot the password

[Quintus Of Pompeii]

Haha
My name story is kinda good. I take latin at the moment at school, and one of the charachters is actually a real person. His name was Quintus. So, i chose quintus and seens as though my birthday is in 1993 i got:
Quintus + 93= Quintus93


Quintus

[Whygodwhy]

because of a snow storm I was staying with my aunt for a week. well she has 3 hyper kids so for 2 days I just kept thinking Why god why.

[Abokasee]

Drank the most horrible drink (dunno what it was, something non-alcholic in a glass bottle), so bad I smashed the bottle of the keyboard, all the broken the broken fell on the letters of the board and I put them in my account name in order size like A would be the biggest bit, followed by B, with E being small anough to have to bits on it

[Scurvy]

Haha
My name story is kinda good. I take latin at the moment at school, and one of the charachters is actually a real person. His name was Quintus. So, i chose quintus and seens as though my birthday is in 1993 i got:
Quintus + 93= Quintus93


Quintus

are you doing the Caecilius story?

[César Victor]

I'm sick of this name now. I'ma change it to "Victor the Violent Alcoholic" after another 40 or so days :P

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I'm sick of this name now. I'ma change it to "Victor the Violent Alcoholic" after another 40 or so days :P

> > ?

[Owen Glyndwr]

Owen Glyndwr was a Welsh Hero of the late 14 and early 15th century, and I'm named after him in real life so...therre you go

[César Victor]

> > ?

Gah?

[Scurvy]

i dont eat enough oranges

i also have an unhealthy obsession with pirates

[Derfasciti]

Cool topic.


When I was in 7th-8th grade I was getting pretty interested in the Third Reich and it's history. Many of my friends started jokingly calling me "Hitler" and "nazi". To screw with them, and because I think it's a cool name, I thought of a cool name.

Der= The
Fasciti= Fascist

Derfasciti was born.

[Lord Winter]

I couldn't think of any other name so I just took one from the book I was reading at that time. The name comes from the general forsaken, Sammual, in Robert Jordan's WoT series.

[Forlorn Hope, eh?]

Well the forlorn hope were/are suicidal just like me. And supposedly my ancestors were French-Canadian fur traders.

[BelRiose]

Well, Bel Riose is the name of the last great emperor of the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series (which is like, awesome). The Empire in the series is based on the Roman one in Edward Gibbon's "History of the Rise and Fall..." and Bel Riose just happens to be eerily similar to Belisarius, the rather talented (maybe exaggerated, I'm not well read on the subject) Byzantine general we all know.

-BelRiose

[sbroadbent]

Well, I'm not the first to post it, but mine is also first initial, last name. My online names have gone through a series of changes in the past 10 years, starting with an RPG based name, until I eventually just decided to use my real name.

[Warluster]

My username is unique, no one can figure it out, I will NEVR tell anyone!!


I'll eat my hat if someone guesses right!

[UltraWar]

My username is unique, no one can figure it out, I will NEVR tell anyone!!


I'll eat my hat if someone guesses right!

You have a lust for war plus shouldn't you say that you'd eat your helmet?

[Titan of Gaul]

Prob a stupid question, but how do you change ur name?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi Titan of Gaul,

Prob a stupid question, but how do you change ur name?

All you have to do is wait till your a full member and then a feild will appear in the "change e-mail/password" section. Just type your password in, your new name and away you go, you get yourself a new username! Good luck, cheers!

[ChaosLord]

I started using this first in like 98 I think after reading the book Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan. That bit at first "The lions sing and the hills take flight, the moon by day and sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool, let the Lord of Chaos rule." just sounded good. So, not all that unique but it tended to fit within most character limits and I liked the sound of it so I stuck with it.

Later on I came up with an original one that I use for most things now, ChaotikVisions. The meaning is pretty easy to get and it just has a nice ring to it. I think I originally came up with it when having to register for something and finding ChaosLord and variations taken.

[zoyclem]

My handle comes from the trademark used by a long-forgotten anarchist named Zoy Clem.

He and a fellow conspirator (the Floy Boy) hoped to overthrow the government by defacing dollar bills with stupid artwork and odd statements such as "PLAY MONEY" or "FAKE" in prominent locations. Their signatures overlaid those of the original Treasurer and Secretary.

These two radicals would then spend this capital to place it back into circulation, hoping to confuse clerks and bank tellers everywhere. Or at least that’s how I pictured it.

Needless to say, the plan failed, but the artwork was very good and looked like it belonged on the bills. The only drawback was that the guerilla artists used extremely bright colors, which made the currency stand out like a long-extinct three-dollar note.

Anyway, I came upon one of these bills, and found the name Zoy Clem bizarre enough to remember, so eventually I started using it as a blog handle, partly because it seemed unique (I wouldn't have to worry about others taking it first), and also because it had a somewhat surreal history.

[sapi]

You wouldn't perchance have a picture of one of those notes handy would you?

[zoyclem]

Sapi,

I kind of wish I did sometimes. The artwork was very intricate and the outlining looked to be done with India ink, which added some realistic touches. The bill I came into possession of was a 'BONE' instead of a 'ONE,' and poor George had become a stylized rendition of Elton John with large glasses. Underneath his bust was the title of Elton Geo.

Later, a friend of mine ran across a 'NIFTY' in place of a 'FIFTY.' We learned of still another example one night while talking about it at a party—a girl named Carrie joined us who mentioned encountering a ‘CONE.’ So it seems there were at least three of these works floating around.

We formulated a theory based on our recollections of the bills and the weird statements inscribed upon them: Floy and Zoy were misguided lunatics bent on overthrowing the system, using hopelessly quixotic tactics to achieve this outcome. We never decided on what ‘system’ they were actually seeking to overthrow, however.

I wish the 'Where's George' website had existed when I was passed this funny money, as I could have added the serial numbers into their database and tracked the bill after I spent it. Just think of the places it might have traveled.

[Mother Yoda]

I chose to name myself after Mother Yoda. (aka: Yoda's Mother)

[scipiosgoblin]

One of my heroes is Publius Conrnelius Scipio Africanus. Goblin was my call sign when I was in the Navy. (I startled some Marine pilots at a briefing and they called me Green Goblin.) Therefore, Scipios' Goblin.

SG

[pevergreen]

Just a helpful tip, don't posts in threads that have been dead (no posts) for a period of time. Especially not just under a year.

[Martok]

Welcome to the Org, scipiosgoblin.

As pevergreen pointed out, however, it's usually considered bad form to resurrect old threads like this. In the future, a general rule of thumb to follow is if it's been more than 3 months since someone last posted in a thread, you're better off leaving it be.