'Origin' of Your User Name

[NoOneofConsequence]

I suppose most people have guessed this, but my name is from the movie, Princess Bride.

Mine also derives fromt he Princess Bride, though a little more obscurely. When the masked "Man in Black" is asked who he is he replies with the enigmatic "No one of consequence." I always thought it was a cool response and it's almost never taken on boards like this, so when people see it they know it's me.

 

[Oubliette]

I named myself afeter the best card (from a DM's perspective) in the Deck of Many Things. Of course, that's Donjon, not Oubliette, but I didn't have my DMG handy at the time.

 

[Left-handed Hummingbird]

When I ended my days of lurking, and signed up on Eric's messageboards a long time ago, the boards were teeming with animals such as Squirrel Nutkin and others. Thus this name seemed suitable and a name that would stand out.

Huitzilopochtli is the Aztec god of the Sun and war. His name - translated into English - is Left-handed Hummingbird.

The Aztecs believed that when a warrior died in the field of battle they would first serve the Sun for a couple of years; after that they would live forever as hummingbirds. The hummingbird is thus a symbol of the reincarnated spirits of the dead warriors. Huitzilopochtli's animal avatar was actually an eagle.

 

[Wil]

It's my name

 

[bwgwl]

I wanted to use something from Cordwainer Smith's "Instrumentality" future history stories...

hey! don't see too many Cordwainer Smith fans around. that's cool -- and i never made the connection before.

i'm not very original. my screen name is my cat's name.

 

[Agback]

G'day

It's a trophy of my first flamewar. I originally spelled it 'Silverback', but that was too long for a nick on IRC, hence the abbreviation.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Some guy from Ohio]

I am a guy and I'm from Ohio.

 

[Agback]

alumina, silica and water.

That would be Al2O3, SiO2, H2O. What you have is aluminium, silicon, and water.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Aitch Eye]

hey! don't see too many Cordwainer Smith fans around. that's cool -- and i never made the connection before.

i'm not very original. my screen name is my cat's name.

Don't feel too bad, Smith named several characters after his cats. Of course, those characters were themselves cats (or cat derived)...so I suppose, really, you'd have to use the name of someone having an unrequited relationship with your cat to be doing something all that similar. (Hopefully that's not an option.)

I figured that even Smith readers might not pick up on the name; it's nice to now know that there were at least two others on the boards that at least potentially could have. (Hiya to you as well, Lurks-no-More.)

 

[arwink]

I hadn't had a chance to play a character instead of DM for about ten years. I got the chance about the same time I started signing on to various DnD boards. Arwin Khorstar seemed too long to type out every time I logged in, so I shortened it to arwink.