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View Poll Results: Does your handle on these boards mean something to you or did you just pick a cool name?
Yes, my handle has some meaning to me. 26 72.22%
No, I just picked a name that looked cool to me. 3 8.33%
Just picked a name to get on the boards, dont really care about the name. 7 19.44%
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Old 02-12-2004, 01:19 PM
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Default Does your handle on these boards mean something to you?

I was just wondering about handles on these boards.. Did you pick your handle from something important to you or that has some meaning? Or, did you just see a cool name and decide,

"That is who I'll be."

Or, did you just think of some name just to get access to your account?

I picked mine from a piece of literature. It is from the "Thomas Covenant" series written by Stephen R. Donaldson. Samandhi Reaver was one of the bad guys in the stories. Not un-like the ring-wraiths in Lord of the Rings. Dont ask me why I picked a bad guy to be my handle, because I dont think that it was either a good or bad character choice, just liked the name, and it has stuck to me hehe.

How about you? Do you have a story behind why you chose your name? Let me know. I have seen a lot of different names and some seem like there is more meaning than just picking some name. But others, one can tell that it was just a formality to getting access to post on this board (ie.... poops7). Dont really want to know about that one
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Old 02-12-2004, 01:47 PM
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Maybe a week or so before I registered, I was trying to download a map off of PlanetQuake and had to go through FilePlanet. I used the name generator and it stuck.
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Old 02-12-2004, 01:50 PM
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Ooooold nick. I think I made it back in '96 when I created my first mail account =) Means nothing to me or about me though Just like the word executor and I had to add 3000 because all other logins were occupied.
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Old 02-12-2004, 02:16 PM
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I picked mine from a piece of literature. It is from the "Thomas Covenant" series written by Stephen R. Donaldson.
What a great series of books... I picked up Lord Fouls Bane to reread it a year ago or so and never did get all the way through it...


My name ? It was pretty much just random...
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Old 02-12-2004, 05:57 PM
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No importance to my name, but when I signed up I did not expect to be that active on the boards.... so I was wrong

The _005 has to do with mob names getting numbers added if there are more than 1 After all there are tons of lurkers on the message board! And lastly 5 because of the TV show B5 and that was where I remember hearing lurker used to describe the people hiding out in the shadows.

Way too much thought went into my name :P
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Old 02-12-2004, 06:24 PM
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Way too much thought went into my name
Yeah it is hurting MY head thinking about all that <smile> j/k


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What a great series of books... I picked up Lord Fouls Bane to reread it a year ago or so and never did get all the way through it...
You HAVE read the 2nd chronicles, yes? Didnt like them QUITE as much as I liked the first chronicles, but still VERY much worth reading.
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Old 02-12-2004, 10:56 PM
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I choosed Muuss cause it was the name of my main char on live, and i choosed it at that time because i knew the guildies woud easily make jokes about it, hehe :lol:
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Old 02-13-2004, 12:17 AM
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William Gibson.
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Old 02-13-2004, 01:11 AM
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khuong is khuong need i say more!
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Old 02-13-2004, 01:48 AM
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Neuromancer?
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Old 02-13-2004, 02:02 AM
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A mongrel is a mix of two dog races (also called "bastard", I think?). Well, my RL surname sounds very similar to a german swear word for dogs, so that's where my nick comes from, hehe.

Been using it for years and will never stop doing so!
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Old 02-13-2004, 02:14 AM
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My name comes from years ago.... I have a twin brother who was always a little bit bigger than me, so, some of our friends would call me Little Russ... I just shortened it to LTLRUSS. Russ is an abbreviated form of my last name. Bet no one can guess what it is.
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Old 02-13-2004, 02:36 AM
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Yes. She appears in most of his works. A.K.A. Blade (and others).
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Old 02-15-2004, 06:31 AM
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I like to disappear in crowds, so I chose Guest, and formatted it for EQ's talking system - Hail, a_Guest03!
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Old 02-16-2004, 09:20 AM
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I'm such a freak, I've had my nick tattooed on my arm.
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