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What's your screenname mean?
- Thread starter Arbiter of Wyrms
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I'm especially happy that I found something that works on three seperate levels. 
der_kluge
Adventurer
Short answer: It's the name of a German opera by Carl Orff - "Die Kluge". I'm not sure how to write up the German pronunciation, but suffice it to say, it's not pronounced "die klooge".
Long answer: I needed a hotmail account when I moved from Arkansas to Kansas City several years ago ('98) because my friend said it would save me from losing all my emails. Given that hotmail was so popular, I struggled to find a unique name that wasn't already taken 47 times. So, looking at my stack of CDs behind one (one of the few things I hadn't packed yet), I found that name. I took it to mean "the clever" or "clever guy" not knowing that in German, the word "the" can have masculine or feminine meaning, and that "die" (pronounced dee) is feminine. "Der" is masculine, which is what I intended. So, the name should actually be "der Kluge" which means clever guy. Instead, I'm clever girl, which is both incorrect, and somewhat ironic since I'm apparently neither clever, nor a girl. The full title of the opera is "the king and the clever woman" or "der koenig und die kluge" (presumably).
So, despite the gender identity crisis, it's stuck with me for all these years. I wasn't even made aware of the fact that it was wrong until about 3 years ago.
Long answer: I needed a hotmail account when I moved from Arkansas to Kansas City several years ago ('98) because my friend said it would save me from losing all my emails. Given that hotmail was so popular, I struggled to find a unique name that wasn't already taken 47 times. So, looking at my stack of CDs behind one (one of the few things I hadn't packed yet), I found that name. I took it to mean "the clever" or "clever guy" not knowing that in German, the word "the" can have masculine or feminine meaning, and that "die" (pronounced dee) is feminine. "Der" is masculine, which is what I intended. So, the name should actually be "der Kluge" which means clever guy. Instead, I'm clever girl, which is both incorrect, and somewhat ironic since I'm apparently neither clever, nor a girl. The full title of the opera is "the king and the clever woman" or "der koenig und die kluge" (presumably).
So, despite the gender identity crisis, it's stuck with me for all these years. I wasn't even made aware of the fact that it was wrong until about 3 years ago.
JoeBlank
Explorer
Mine is a shortened version of my real name. I thought I was being clever years ago when I started using it, the idea that someone would have "Blank" as a last name struck me as funny.
Then Arthur Blank rose to fame by first building Home Depot into a huge success and then buying the Atlanta Falcons. Not as funny now that I know actual people have Blank as their last name.
Then Arthur Blank rose to fame by first building Home Depot into a huge success and then buying the Atlanta Falcons. Not as funny now that I know actual people have Blank as their last name.
R-Hero
Explorer
Arbiter of Wyrms said:
Roderick Hero or R-Hero to my close personal freinds. (Sounds like 'our hero' don't it.)
I had used the name in 1st ed the first cavalier I wrote up. (I played him like a paladin with braggin' rights.) We had so much fun roleplaying between characters that he became one of my favorites.
That being said, the name was orignally stolen from an old Atari game caled H.E.R.O. (Helecopter Emergancy Rescue Operations, I think?.?) The player had a helecopter-backpack and flew into mines to rescue miners.
The sad part is for years I thought that I had came up with the idea on my own and had not plagerized it. A couple of my nephews had came accross an old atari and box of games at my parents house and was playing it a few years ago. I would still be in the dark if they hadn't have been interested in the old archaic 2600.
Aries_Omega
Explorer
My Name
Way back in the day before I knew the joys of non-AOL internet I wanted a SN that wasn't taken up or I could have but had to have a million numbers attached to it. I was born in April, hence Aries. Omega....I like the symbol and ehh....the name flowed well. I use it for all my SN's. Funny thing is I met some pagans at my last duty station when I was in the Army and I signed all my emails with that name. The group was an amalgamation of different faiths...not just witches. The Wiccan's of the group thought not only that I was a very experianced 3rd Degree....since I knew a lot of "inside" things about Gardnerian Wicca but also that was my craft name. The name stuck even at work since a few of my sergeants and my commander went to circle also. Funny thing is I am not Gardnerian...just raised spiritual...and dated a Gardnerian for a bit too.
Way back in the day before I knew the joys of non-AOL internet I wanted a SN that wasn't taken up or I could have but had to have a million numbers attached to it. I was born in April, hence Aries. Omega....I like the symbol and ehh....the name flowed well. I use it for all my SN's. Funny thing is I met some pagans at my last duty station when I was in the Army and I signed all my emails with that name. The group was an amalgamation of different faiths...not just witches. The Wiccan's of the group thought not only that I was a very experianced 3rd Degree....since I knew a lot of "inside" things about Gardnerian Wicca but also that was my craft name. The name stuck even at work since a few of my sergeants and my commander went to circle also. Funny thing is I am not Gardnerian...just raised spiritual...and dated a Gardnerian for a bit too.
jinx crossbow
First Post
I've got a mixed name
crossbow ist the translation of my name
jinx are my dice, thy roll tooo often 1s
crossbow ist the translation of my name
jinx are my dice, thy roll tooo often 1s
jinx crossbow
First Post
die_kluge said:
It's pronounced "dee kluge"
the u like in flu
the g like in plage
thalmin
Retired game store owner
thalmin was the most memorable regular npc in a campaign I was running. He was a crippled dwarven smith in my lizardworld campaign from about 14 years ago. I took it as my screen name when I first got AOL so my players would have an idea who was e-mailing them.
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