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I was wondering how all the lot of Mofo came up with your names. Some of yours are obvious, but others are a tad more befuddling. Please, indulge my boggle and share the story behind the creation of your name. :cool:
sunfrog
06-16-05, 01:01 AM
One day,
After it had rained hard all night, I went outside to get the mail.
On the sidewalk in a little spot of dappled sunlight was a little frog. He looked like he'd had a rough night and was warming himself in the sun. "Hello little sunfrog" I said as I passed by on the way to the mailbox at the curb. In the mail was a free AOL disk.
On the way back inside the little frog was still there. He looked happy to be out of the rain and glad he had found a little spot of sun to sit in. "Well, nice to meet you little sunfrog" I said. "Bye, gotta go" When I went inside I signed up for AOL and needed a screen name. I chose Sunfrog. That is the story of my first day on the internet and also how I got my name.
firegod
06-16-05, 01:11 AM
I came up with this name about 15 years ago. I was a teen who played D&D and did alot of BBS calling. BBS means "Bulletin Board System", and it is a program run by a computer (or computers) that you can use your computer to call and interact with, leaving messages, chatting (if there were multiple phone lines and other people online), or whatever. I created a demi-god type character in D&D who concentrated on fire-based powers right around the time an online buddy of mine told me that I was the best "flame war" chatter she ever met. I don't think that was a very common term at the time, but if it wasn't, it became one. Bingo; I decided I was Fire God. I've stopped using the name a few times since then, but have used it almost exclusively for the past 4 years or so.
SamsoniteDelilah
06-16-05, 01:18 AM
Mine is from a John Leguizamo monologue.
LordSlaytan
06-16-05, 01:30 AM
My best friend of old used a nic named Slaytanika, I named my bayonet that I used in the war Slay, and my favorite books are the Thomas Covenant series which has a Sauron type character named Lord Foul...it just came to me to make up LordSlaytan. Not very exciting.
it just came to me to make up LordSlaytan. Not very exciting.
at least yours didn't literally come out of thin air, and though i've asked to change my name a second a last time to something more thought out, Yoda never got back to me.
Mine is just the initials of my first, middle and last names.
JasonRobertScarpelli
BTW, isn't there a thread on this already???
Why do you want to change your name again? :confused:
Why do you want to change your name again? :confused:
Huh?
LordSlaytan
06-16-05, 02:50 AM
She's talking to eyes and there is a thread like this somewhere, though I'm too lazy to hunt it down. No biggie.
I was talking to eyes http://bestsmileys.com/eyes/15.gif
LordSlaytan
06-16-05, 03:14 AM
at least yours didn't literally come out of thin air, and though i've asked to change my name a second a last time to something more thought out, Yoda never got back to me.
Sometimes you have to remind him, buddy. He has nearly a dozen sites he owns/operates, plus he works. Try again.
I'm like you firegod, I use my name exclusively. I'm Lordslaytan EVERYWHERE!
I'm like you firegod, I use my name exclusively. I'm Lordslaytan EVERYWHERE!
Me too I am LordyLord..... opps I'm nebbit everywhere :yup:
Holden Pike
06-16-05, 03:36 AM
Click HERE (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=1682), HERE (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=3588), and HERE (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=7892).
Click HERE (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=1682), HERE (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=3588), and HERE (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=7892).
Did :rolleyes:
LordSlaytan
06-16-05, 03:54 AM
That's what I was waiting for. heehee
Pikey never misses anything. :yup:
sunfrog
06-16-05, 05:45 AM
John Leguizamo went to the other side and never came back.
What does nebbit mean?
What does nebbit mean?
I was talking about Holden Pike, if people start a new thread he has a great memory for similar threads, finds them and posts links to them. :yup:
Tacitus
06-16-05, 06:15 AM
Tacitus - Roman public official and historian whose two greatest works, Histories and Annals, concern the period from the death of Augustus (A.D. 14) to the death of Domitian (96)
It's a pretty oblique reference to something from years back.
It also means 'the quiet one'.
Count yourselves lucky, I almost chose Suetonius...
Piddzilla
06-16-05, 06:31 AM
Peter is my name, my friends call me Pidde, Pidde + Godzilla = Piddzilla. A buddy named me that after we changed the lyrics to the song "Godzilla" by Fu Manchu (originally by Blue Oyster Cult). And yes, I have told this fascinating story once before on this forum.
Sinny McGuffins
06-16-05, 07:30 AM
Sinny - A Clockwork Orange slang for "movie".
McGuffins - A term used by Alfred Hitchcock to refer to items, events, or pieces of knowledge that the characters in a film consider extremely important, but which the audience either doesn't know of or doesn't care about. Examples: the engine plans in The 39 Steps, the statue with the microfilms in North By Northwest, and the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.
blibblobblib
06-16-05, 09:29 AM
Thats a very creative name Mr Guff. I thought it was something to do with 'Guffings' which is like a slang word to encompass a collection of interior items...of sorts. As in "Look at all those guffings in there" Then i just thought it was to do with Guffing, slang for farting, blowing-off, bottom burping whatever you want to call it. I thought you was being sinfull for guffing so much. So it looks like i was wrong on both accounts.
I wish i could say my name was well hought out, and has deep philosophical meaning, but unfortnuatly, it does not. Several years back there used to be a show on Saturday nights over here in the UK hosted by the marvellous Noel Edmonds. On this show there featured a rather hilarious, yet horrifyingly annoying character known as Mr Blobby. Mr Blobby would often run around shouting "BLOBBY BLOBBY" and destroying anything he came into contact with. I often find that when i get drunk i sometimes become a similar character to Mr Blobby; red faced, drooling, shouting gibberish and smashing into things.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1993/gallery/340/blobby.jpg
Therefor my name arose out of Mr Blobby's imortal and world famous last words -
"Blobby, blobby blib blobby, blibblobbyblib blob blob. Blobby."
R.I.P To the greatest Blobby that ever lived. His soul and Kindness shall live on...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38688000/jpg/_38688451_noel_150.jpg
And yes there is only one Blibblobblib on the net...ME! Any imposters shall be forced to wear Noel Edmonds shirt, displayed above.
For many years in the 80s and 90s, and the early days of the net (read:SLOW), I went by the name Overmind. This harkens back to the BBS days Fire is speaking about, when I used to log in to play Black Dragon on The Source on my 1200 baud Microbuilt, a computer that had no screen, and used a thermal printer as it's interface.
http://www.microbilt.com/images/Termin1.jpg
Then I moved on to AOL with the Overmind name, which had come from an Arthur C Clark book called Childhoods End. Late 90s I started reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, which contained a group of people called the Aes Sedai. Sort of the magic-user's of the series. It was at that point I canged my user name everwhere to Sedai. Has been my cyber-presence ever since.
A little long wided, but I wanted to talk about my old Microbilt. ;)
Tacitus
06-16-05, 10:20 AM
http://www.microbilt.com/images/Termin1.jpg)
Crikey! That's almost as basic as my old ZX81 (hey, I had the 16k RAM pack y'know ;) )
http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/img/zx81-1.jpg
Crikey! That's almost as basic as my old ZX81 (hey, I had the 16k RAM pack y'know ;) )
http://tecfa.unige.ch/%7Enova/img/zx81-1.jpg
You had a screen :(
Tacitus
06-16-05, 10:32 AM
You had a screen :(
Well, an ancient TV which took 5 minutes to warm up and weighed as much as a Jeep Wrangler... ;)
Austruck
06-16-05, 10:59 AM
1200 baud modem? You lucky dawg. I had to struggle around CompuServe in the late '80s on a 300 baud Hayes plug-in modem on my semi-IBM-compatible Tandy 2000 with dual floppy drives but no hard drive. I did have 256K of RAM, though, so ha ha.
Anyway, I used to be Maui in those days, a smoosh-up of the last letters of my maiden/pen name, Linda M. Au I (the first). That started in junior high. But then I hit AOL in the early '90s and switched over to Austruck, and that's what I've been ever since. If I go somewhere where Austruck is taken, I try to just add a "1" at the end for simplicity. I dunno WHO could be also using Austruck, though. A web search usually turns up truck services in Australia. :)
susan...not a screen name but it's hebrew meaning lily....
The Taxi Driver
06-16-05, 11:49 AM
everyone has cool stories on how they got their name. i wish i did. My original name Michael Myers was obviously because i really like Halloween. and my name now is also obviously because i love Scorsese's "Taxi Driver"
Holden Pike
06-16-05, 12:08 PM
McGuffins - A term used by Alfred Hitchcock to refer to items, events, or pieces of knowledge that the characters in a film consider extremely important, but which the audience either doesn't know of or doesn't care about. Examples: the engine plans in The 39 Steps, the statue with the microfilms in North By Northwest, and the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.
Except it's spelled MacGuffin.
http://members.liwest.at/hitchcock/macguffin01.jpg
Blister
06-16-05, 01:00 PM
hmmm, not really an interesting story to my name.
One day I was thinking about how people only worry and care about the big problems, whereas people should also take care of the smaller problems in their life, Like blisters, they're small, but care about the problem long enough and it'll disappear, rather than remain for a good while. So basically 'The Blister Exists' is telling people to care about the smaller problems in their lives and not just the big ones.
and by coincidence, it is also a song.
LordSlaytan
06-16-05, 01:12 PM
I was talking about Holden Pike...Yeah...but what does the word nebbit mean? ;)
The Sarge
06-16-05, 01:39 PM
Mine was my nickname at my last place of work. My work mates christened me 'The Sarge' after the large amount of female office & shopfloor staff i got 'busy' with.
MovieMaker5087
06-16-05, 03:20 PM
Everyone always asks me this...
sigh.
Anywho...
I like to make movies. Hence, MovieMaker. That's an easy one.
As for 5087 (I think I might have already explained this on another thread... I don't know...), that was the year for one of the first movies that I had ever written. It was a sci-fi film about a civil war in space (almost, but not quite like Star Wars) and the year that I chose was 5087, simply because I had space ships that went like uber fast. So I figured, hey, mankind isn't gonna make ships travel through space at fast speeds anytime soon, so why not make it a true sci-fi film by basing it waaaaaaaaaaaay into the future? I did, and I chose 5086. But I didn't like the sound of that. So I re-chose the year to be 5087. Why it's attached to my user name is because this movie was my first major attempt at cinema (which, by the way, it never saw the light of day after I hand wrote two scripts, one be 143 pages and the other 163 pages. I last left off on part three, right when I started to get other ideas. I don't know... maybe one day I'll return to the films, they were pretty original and were in no way like Star Wars), and I always thought I'd remember it (this attempt was a pretty big landing stone for me) by attaching it with the name MovieMaker, since I felt the two deserved to belong with another.
And that's the back story. I don't know... I'm contemplating the fact that I might retire the 5087 when I reach exactly 5,087 posts, and go on to create MovieMaker5088, then make a new one each 5,000 some posts. But I don't know yet. 5087 is a key factor to the name MovieMaker itself, and it also has a special meaning to me myself.
Uncle Rico
06-16-05, 04:46 PM
Two words. Napolean Dynamite. I found Rico to be by far the funniest character in that movie.
undercoverlover
06-16-05, 05:31 PM
my name is from an underground garage song i heard one time
Holden Pike
06-16-05, 05:36 PM
my name is from an underground garage song i heard one time
Which was probably a cover version of the song by .38 Special. :yup:
Everyone always asks me this...
Yes, will people please stop persecuting Moviemaker with their questions
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I don't know where my name came from - but i'll retread how i got it (and maybe that way i'll find out)...
Joined the internet world before web browsers (or decent web content) - needed a name under which i could baffle my US cousins in Telnet chat rooms - wrote Golgot (and then my US cousins baffled me by asking me how you pronounced it. All i know is that it's not with a 'Godot' style French soft-ending - even tho that was part of its inspiration. Erm, i think. No, i know. Yes, i think)
And i thought all that made me a firestarter in the intraweb stoneage.... but no...
1200 baud modem? You lucky dawg. I had to struggle around CompuServe in the late '80s on a 300 baud Hayes plug-in modem on my semi-IBM-compatible Tandy 2000 with dual floppy drives but no hard drive...
;)
Weeee. Tandy computers? ZX Spectrums? (And high end ones too - with screens!) I'm there, I remember EGA monitors. Hell, my Uni computer was one of those original 'portable' ones you could use as a demolition ball, with the green text screens and a fan that could power a lawnmower. But keyboards with printouts? That was all new on me. :)
But going back even further... Tac - i've read that old Roman ponderer you're named after. He suited his name as i remember - he was most chilled.
In fact, everyone seems to have sussed out names, even those that think they don't (and The Blister Exists just made me listen to Blister in the Sun too, which was a bonus ;)).
Altho...
Except it's spelled MacGuffin.
Must you ruin people's dreams? Must you? Shouldn't we all just treasure our ignorance, like a slightly soiled but content and dozing child? Hmm?
Yeah...but what does the word nebbit mean?
:rotfl:
Yeah, come on nebulous, spill the beans.
Lance McCool
06-16-05, 06:40 PM
Lance - Because it makes me feel like a Ninja Turtle... Plus, I feel it has more pizzaz than my real name: "Phil"
McCool - Because it's my actual last name
McCool - Because it's my actual last name
Lies will be punished! (if they're film related, and you say them near the man who terminates with pike)
Lance McCool
06-16-05, 06:46 PM
Lies will be punished! (if they're film related, and you say them near the man who terminates with pike)
No, it really is McCool. :indifferent:
No, it really is McCool. :indifferent:
Oh, ok then :)
Although i'm not sure i'll truly believe you until you give me your address and pin number ;)
But man...It's like....Phil McCool, Cosmonaut. Slick name, if you ask me.
But man...It's like....Phil McCool, Cosmonaut. Slick name, if you ask me.
:)
It's true!
You should run with that one Phil. Come on, be true to yourself (and then join NASA - the headlines would be quality :yup: - 'Phil McCool masters Mars!' ;))
Lance McCool
06-16-05, 09:24 PM
Cosmonaut may sound like a cushy gig, but I think I'll take a pass. Those new-fangled computers they've got sure are shifty bastards...
http://www.pdacool.com/graph350/art_00503_hal.jpg
Sinny McGuffins
06-17-05, 09:26 PM
Except it's spelled MacGuffin.Yeah, I know. But I prefer McGuffins, I think it's a better way to spell a second name.
Besides, I don't think there's anyone apart from you who really gives a *****.
r3port3r66
06-17-05, 10:52 PM
The year I was supposed to graduate college was '99, as--guess what?--a journalist! But since I was already working as a TV reporter in San Francisco, I decided to drop out of college but remind myself that I would have graduated in '99.However it seemed that everyone on the web was a '99 journalist because I could never register the name "reporter99" at any website. But I could register "reporter66"(nines upside down). Hence, I became "Reporter66" or "r3port3r66". Boring huh?
Austruck
06-17-05, 11:01 PM
Not necessarily boring at all ... but really hard to type. ;)
r3port3r66
06-17-05, 11:04 PM
That'5 th3 truth!
Austruck
06-17-05, 11:07 PM
H33 H33!
Why do you think we always call you something else: r3 r66, rep, but few of us brave typing out that whole name. Sorry, dude. ;)
r3port3r66
06-17-05, 11:20 PM
Hey! That's rGG to you young lady ;)!
Austruck
06-17-05, 11:28 PM
LOL......oh, honey, anything you want if you keep calling me "young lady"! ;)
r3port3r66
06-17-05, 11:39 PM
I'm sure the kids think so. Besides, they still ask you for I.D. when you use the credit card!
Austruck
06-17-05, 11:43 PM
Flatterer.
r3port3r66
06-17-05, 11:49 PM
Not sure. Perhaps I should see the photo on your driver's license!
Austruck
06-18-05, 12:05 AM
You mean, the one where my expression looks like I had my foot run over by a bus after just finding out my mother stole Tom Cruise away from Katie Holmes?
No, I don't think so.
r3port3r66
06-18-05, 12:18 AM
Actually, it's the one where it says your true weight, DOB and hair color! Oh, maybe it's not so true! :)
Yeah...but what does the word nebbit mean? ;)
Nebbit is pet name my Husband Robert calls me, it comes from a hebrew word Nebish and a cake we once saw called a nebb cake, i think it is close to calling me his little munchkin. :blush:
undercoverlover
06-18-05, 06:18 PM
Which was probably a cover version of the song by .38 Special. :yup:
actually no it wasnt
Dr West
06-18-05, 06:27 PM
I decided on mine as at the time I was watching Bride Of Reanimator. And if you don't know Dr West is actually Dr Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) the lead character.
blibblobblib
06-18-05, 07:30 PM
Besides, I don't think there's anyone apart from you who really gives a *****.
I care...
IDigCereal
06-18-05, 08:52 PM
I dig cereal.
Couldn't think of anything else.
Uncle Rico
06-19-05, 12:14 AM
The Question is do you really dig that cereal?
so long as they're Froot Loops
Sinny McGuffins
06-19-05, 11:59 AM
I care...There's always one isn't there.
;)
Pyro Tramp
06-21-05, 10:19 AM
My names from when i was sat in the road smoking a joint and thought i looked like a tramp and at that time i was also burning something. Go figure.
I thought it sounded cool and it was also my msn name when i registered. Though now i've (i think) matured a lot from those days, i'm contemplating changing it something more practical.
My names from when i was sat in the road smoking a joint and thought i looked like a tramp and at that time i was also burning something. Go figure.
I thought it sounded cool and it was also my msn name when i registered. Though now i've (i think) matured a lot from those days, i'm contemplating changing it something more practical.
nah, keep it, it's who you are here :D
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