What's your screenname mean?

[Angel Tarragon]

My screenname and my avatar are a match for my evergrowing homebrew. My cat here in reality named Fruity (after the aptly named cereal, Fruity Pebbles) I love so very very much. She exists as a feline goddess to all Rakasta of my world. Whenever I get to play in a campaign that allows Rakasta, I play her.

 

[diaglo]

back in my newsgroup days and when TSR was on AOL i needed a name. so partly my RL background. diablo is spanish for devil. and partly my D&D nature. i'm a rulesmonger wargamer with a highly lawful streak if presented with rules. an imp. but i'm a really good devil. i changed the b to g and voici.

also i found out years later... it is an abrasive used to polish gems. so it has even more meaning now.

 

[der_kluge]

And 99 is just a really big number.

Um, have a seat, my friend. We need to have a chat.

 

[TerraDave]

highly original name of campaign world + my own very exotic name

 

[kirinke]

Well.
Like many of the folks in here, I hate names with numbers. So, I perused the various Tolkien language-data-bases and came across the word Kirinke.
Kirinke is the Quenya name of a small red bird. Probably a cardinal from the text description. So. Kirinke means cardinal in Quenya.

Yup. I am a geek.

 

[James Heard]

Once I proved that I could indeed get restraining orders placed against stalkers I stopped being afraid of using my real name.

I still use a weird email address that once vaguely was based upon Tolkien, but has morphed in the last decade through countlessly idiotic people at ISPs spelling it wrong when setting my master accounts and such. I'm much too lazy to actually correct such things, so there it is.

James has a nicer ring to it anyways, and plus this is the only legitimate way I'm ever going to get Google to ignore the other James Heard - who is some inmate on death row that writes bad poetry.

 

[diaglo]

... James Heard...

whenever i see your screen name i always want to ask you: what did he hear?

it's like an incomplete sentence or something. or the punchline to "how do you keep an idiot in suspense?"

 

[francisca]

My surname is Franks, as in the Teutonic tribe.

The most famous weapon of the Frankish tribes was the Francisca, an axe.

There is considerable academic (read: pointless) debate about whether the axe was named for the people or vice versa.

Either way, I think it rocks as a screenname.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

John Q. Mayhem was the name of the Minister of Outside Relations in the commitee of personalities I made up as a kid. His best friend was John Q. Prufrock, Minister of Romantic Relations. Little poetry reference, there, eh. I was always a geek.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

It's a character name I came up with a couple of years ago, and I really like it! At least 3 characters in D&D games have had that name so far.

It's derived from a really good song from Tricky Woo, called Altamont Raven. I don't know what that song is about.

AR