What's your screen name from?

[Piratecat]

Not long after our youngest cat taught the dog how to let him in and out of our electronic dog door, he managed to go and get himself hit by a car. This earned him the Indian name "Dances with Chevys." The compound fracture in his front leg never healed, and after months of trying the leg ended up coming off.

It didn't slow him down in the least. Due to the stump (and our reoccurring joke about a little kitty pegleg or hook), we used to refer to him as Piratecat. He was stumping by when I first registered on Eric's site and needed inspiration.

Sadly, he's no longer with us - eaten by coyotes, believe it or not! - but he was a darn good cat. It's nice that his nickname stuck around.

 

[Merkuri]

I liked the Greco/Roman god Mercury/Hermes and liked "Mercury" more than "Hermes" as a name (not to mention the substance mercury is pretty nifty, and so is the planet) so I swapped around a few letters in an effort to make it more feminine (it's hard to tell online, I know, but I'm female). The feminine part didn't really work, but I think it's a cool misspelling. And only on the really huge servers (like Hotmail or AOL) is it already taken.

 

[mhensley]

Sadly, he's no longer with us - eaten by coyotes, believe it or not!

In Boston?!?

 

[Beckett]

About seven years back, I was playing on a private Ultima Online shard. I was invited to join the admin staff as a Seer (read- guy who runs adventures). I needed a new name for my Seer character, as we didn't want a public connection between a staff members PCs and their Staff ID. Everything I could think of seemed cliche or derivative. As luck would have it, I was a theatre student at the time, and a fan of Samuel Beckett's work. I had a copy of his Endgame laying around my dorm, so I grabbed the his name, and the rest is history. Beckett's been a useful screen name ever since.

 

[Piratecat]

In Boston?!?

Yup, just outside the city. You'd be surprised how many coyotes live in the suburbs! I know *I* was, that's for sure.

This made my periodic sig particularly ironic. The line was the best punchline ever (changed from a pig joke), "A cat that good you don't eat all at once." When people asked what happened to his leg, I'd tell them all the amazing things he had done - and finish with that punchline.

 

[marionde]

Lastname and initals. No flavor or creativity involved in it leaving me no alter ego or persona. For better or worse, I am just me.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Flexor the Mighty was the only PC I ever rolled an 18/100 strength with. He was originally Cain Entor, but after watching Conan I noticed that one of the bad guys was named Rexor, so I came up with the new name of Flexor! This PC was all about his 18/100 STR, he was constantly exercising...and strking poses to show off his incredible definition. He always wanted Bracers of AC 2 so he could go without armor and just be a ripped guy in a loincloth.

Yes I was a teenager when I played this PC, but I don't think I'll ever forget him.

 

[Wyrm Pilot]

Mine isn't the actual name of a PC, but from the fact that he was trained as wyvern cavalry.

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I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should've been more specific.
-- Lily Tomlin

The Keeper: "Did you have to drop this on the ground, Darien?"
Darien Fawkes: "I was on my way to get a breakfast burrito when I pulled a rat skeleton out of my pocket. What did you want me to do? Hug him? Pet him? Call him George?"

I was ecstatic when they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries.' Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
-- John Christopher Depp II

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
-- Douglas Noël Adams

 

[Goldmoon]

My very first character I ever played, circa 1984. This was before I ever read any of the Dragonlance books by the way.

 

[mcrow]

mine is simple:

My name is Mike Crow

so Mcrow

sometimes it is misread as McCrow or McCow.