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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Excalibur on June 23, 2008, 12:14:25 am
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If you don't want to state your real name, just say what it means, and hopefully no-one will go to the trouble of discovering it, etc...
EDIT: damn, babynames.com has a search for "meanings" :rolleyes:
Mine is "Gift of God"
and well, : (ĕkskăl'ĭbər) , in Arthurian legend, sword given to King Arthur by the Lady of the Lake. At Arthur's death Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the lake; a hand rose from the water, caught the sword, and disappeared. Another sword, sometimes mistakenly identified with Excalibur, was drawn from a stone by Arthur to prove his royalty.
I made that mistake... :nervous: mmm and I like this: ĕkskăl'ĭbər
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Not sure about my first name, but my last name means somthing incredibly stupid :sigh:
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Real names or names here? :confused:
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King.
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@ Yellow+Green Lion: both, or the most ridiculous you've come across.
And as for your own personal opinions...(no names mentioned here), well, you can have this:
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EDIT - @ Haloboy below : well change your name to Hellboy100% if you are dissatisfied. ;)
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Real names or names here? :confused:
Both I guess
I got Haloboy100 because I used to play Halo 2, but since now I hate that game my name is pretty obsolete. I wish my name was Flyboy now...
As for my real name:
Aaron Bonato,
Aaron was the brother of moses in the old testament, and IIRC was king or prince of the jews of egypt.
Bonato (pronounced boe-nah-toe) on the other hand, is my surname from the Italian side of my heritage. In Italian it literally translates to "Good Birth", at least according to someone I know who speaks Italian. The Irony in my last name is amazing. Though after looking up the "bo" part of my name, it might mean "Doubted Birth" which makes more sense, seeing as I'm a bastard child :blah:
His last name is Cecace,(Keh-ka-chay) which he tells me translates to "There is ****", or, literally translated, "**** there is"
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Man, mine is so boring and stupid... my last name means son of hob.. :sigh:
Edit: My first name is justin which means true... True son of Hob! :ick:
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Brave/strong/hardy war
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My name means Son of David.
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Eastern European spelling of Alexander (i.e. The Great)
Username because nuclear1_2000 (AT) yahoo (dot) com was my first email address and I'm too lazy to change usernames.
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jr2 = Josh R******* 2 , as the login system @ Lowe's Home Improvement Center takes the first initial, last initial, and then assigns a number based on how many people have the same first/last initials that work there at the same time as you. So I was "jr2" on all the receipts, as well as when I punched in. I just kept the handle for online purposes. As for my name, that's Joshua, "God is Salvation". :)
I'm no longer employed @Lowe's, they laid me off during the low season after I worked there for 2+ years, and then tried to hire me back during spring rush. A bit late, I was already employed elsewhere. ;)
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Hmm.. when translated it would be roughly the same as 'youngling' (sorta), more accurately 'young tree'. Surname would probably translate best as 'charlatan'...
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Someone do a search for James william Dobbs-Reynolds. (I'm double barrelled, but don't assume i'm a toff :p) I can't copy-paste from that website due to phone limitations. But Colonol Dekker is either the guy chasing the A-Team or wing commander fanboyism with a typo. Take it how you want :)
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I guess if my name meant anything it'd be that I'm a maniac with an axe.
Though my fantasy RPG alter ego's name means "Steadfast Echo of the Stars" in Tolkien's elvish :p
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13th Apostle/Family Name
I've actually forgotten where my name Stormkeeper came about. Also, on the subject of names, when my friend got baptised, he took the Christian name Dismas.
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Stave of the Goths
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First name is Jason which means healer (in Greek I think)
Surname is a village in Yorkshire doesn't really mean anything
Username is Wobble which is a nickname a friend gave to me as he misheard my surname and 73 is the year I was born!
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Seventy three, you're about the same as Karajorma i think:nervous: ;D
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Seventy three, you're about the same as Karajorma i think:nervous: ;D
Yeah? Well I'm 36 yrs old. How old is Kara?
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Thirty summink. Roundabout thirty six. If i'm wrong i apologise K :lol: If i remember the first London bash he said once i hit thirty i'll stop going out and stuff. I'm sacred. Plus all my friends are already married and settling down. I've escaped that net already. I'm having a mid-life at twenty six. :shake:
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Thirty summink. Roundabout thirty six. If i'm wrong i apologise K :lol: If i remember the first London bash he said once i hit thirty i'll stop going out and stuff. I'm sacred. Plus all my friends are already married and settling down. I've escaped that net already. I'm having a mid-life at twenty six. :shake:
Not that true! I went out this weekend............and suffered for it all Sunday! :lol:
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Technically, it should be NGTM-1R, but the site doesn't like all-caps or dashes.
It dates back to when I joined DropShipCommand, a BattleTech site, lo those many eons ago. It's patterned after the majority of BattleMech model numbers; NGTM-1R=Nightmare, after the first 'Mech I designed. This was itself not greatly exceptional, being a walking Particle Projection Cannon battery of doom like most noobinator 'Mechs. What was exceptional was that it had been designed using the rules right out of the box set, so it was L1 gear, standard PPCs and single heatsinks, and as such it tended to strain the bounds of sanity to sustain all-weapons fire for very long. However it remains one of the few L1 designs I've ever seen that can maintain continous dual fire with PPCs.
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The name of Jesus in Hebrew which is Joshua (Yahoshua).
"Yah"=Yahweh "Shua"=Salvation
"Yahweh (is) Salvation"
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Victory Of The People/Son of My Right/Crooked Mouth.
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Technically, it should be NGTM-1R, but the site doesn't like all-caps or dashes.
It dates back to when I joined DropShipCommand, a BattleTech site, lo those many eons ago. It's patterned after the majority of BattleMech model numbers; NGTM-1R=Nightmare, after the first 'Mech I designed. This was itself not greatly exceptional, being a walking Particle Projection Cannon battery of doom like most noobinator 'Mechs. What was exceptional was that it had been designed using the rules right out of the box set, so it was L1 gear, standard PPCs and single heatsinks, and as such it tended to strain the bounds of sanity to sustain all-weapons fire for very long. However it remains one of the few L1 designs I've ever seen that can maintain continous dual fire with PPCs.
What did it look like? which Battletech game is this?
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Referenced from here in 2002! Still holds true....
My first user name (and my PXO login) is Black Lion, but I liked Blue Lion better, and you can guess my surprise when the last squadron was the 70th Blue Lions. I was a bit shocked.
Doesn't really mean anything, not a Voltron reference or anything like that, just a name I picked.
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What did it look like? which Battletech game is this?
CBT. As for looks like, I never really nailed that down. Something like the original version of the Warhammer but including Awesome's torso-mounted PPCs, probably. At other times I leaned towards a design more like the original Marauder, but with the upper autocannon mount removed and two PPC mounts on either side of the upper torso that resemble it.
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I remember. I always tried to stuff my 'Mech full of PPCs. Then I couldn't see diddly when I fired.
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Seems to mean raccoon in English. I was a little surprised. Though in my motherlanguage that is obviously a shortened form of archangel Michael. Seems that there is a meaning also in Japanese, but I wont go there.
Family name means safe haven for boats or time in old Finnish, but it could also be a Japanese word. Nobody knows after 400 years.
Mika
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Michael Harbor.
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Michael Harbor.
...something like that.
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Anyone who goes on IRC probably knows my name. :p
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Sizzle McBaconburger?
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My name here is a shortened/Japanese-accented version of my actual name. Which means “youth” or something like that.
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When I was in high school I won this big ol' state essay contest sponsored by the US Institute of Peace. Naturally, they invited me down to the national conference in Washington DC, so my essay (Transitions to Democracy in Benin and Togo: A Comparative Analysis) could be judged against the other 49 state winners. (Yes, yes, I am a genius, thank you very much, thank you.)
While we were there, we participated in a roleplaying simulation concerning Turkey's possible accession to the European Union. We were each given a role and a position to take on the process, so we had something to during bargaining.
I was assigned the role of General Mehmet Battuta, representing the Turkish National Security Council. My job was to threaten to overthrow the government if they did anything too liberal (i.e. recognizing the rights of Kurds to exist.)
It pleased me. I enjoyed it. I completed this task with great gusto.
I have stuck with the moniker ever since.
In reality I have nothing against Kurds, of course; it was just fun to play a hard-liner. Also, my essay took second nationally, which was pretty cool at that age.
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I got mine from a radio show fake commercial where the general message was "Don't chew tinfoil"
as for my real name Matt is shortened from Matthew which has some sort of biblical reference.
My last name means some sort of small east European flower.
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a weapon of mass destruction
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Michael Harbor.
Except no. The closest equivalent is safe haven for boats, not harbor. There is no single English word that would do the trick in here. Note that it could also be an old word for time in certain part of Finland.
Yeah, my login name is my real first name.
Mika
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My online name comes from the game Tyrian, which was my first favorite game. I had played others before, but none that I liked as much as that one.
My real name has a long translation. According to some sources it is "Good Demon King of the Forest."
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A safe haven for boats is a harbor... Or port. "Any port in a storm".
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My real name (first) means "rejoice". Not that I rejoice a lot... :nervous:
My real name (last) has no meaning, or at least I don't think so. It's a family name.
As for my screen name at HLP...
Androgeos - Allusion to the AJ Androgeos of Inferno Release 1.
Exeunt - Shakespearean term meaning "they leave".
On other sites, the meaning of portions of my screen names not used at HLP is...
Altiris - This (http://www.altiris.com)
Helios - Greek god
Geodess - Allusion to the Geodess-1 hypervelocity missile of Inferno Release 1.
Harbinger - Allusion to the Harbinger bomb from Descent: FreeSpace.
Delimis - Random name I found on my cellphone's dictionary. Apparently the name of a species of fungi. :wtf:
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:lol:
Mushroom man!
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My real name (first) means Bright Fame and my surname doesn't mean anything. It's a family name (Actually its a hybrid from the years of moving and marying other families ever since the vikings!, Yes. i am a viking)
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My (very common) name, James, is derived from the story of Jacob in the bible; and literally means 'grabs the heel' this has come to mean supplanter or usurper in modern English, which means "one who wrongfully takes the place of another" which is probably why it's such a common name in the US.
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Cool i didn't know that. I'm a sneaky type in corporate politics. My name fits ;D
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Mine's great:
First Name: Desire and Protection
Last Name: Linenkeeper
Username: iNViSiBLe MaNiaC
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King.
You're a Ryan too, eh?
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1st name means "of the red earth" and "first born" so, it's a pretty big coincidence that I live in a town called Redditch (red-ditch?) and that I am an only child.
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A safe haven for boats is a harbor... Or port. "Any port in a storm".
Here I draw an interesting and risky conclusion that you have spent most of your life in a city, haven't you?
I wish I remembered some English vocabulary regarding geography to explain this one.
Mika
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Try explaining it with the help of good old Google translator
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A safe haven for boats is a harbor... Or port. "Any port in a storm".
Here I draw an interesting and risky conclusion that you have spent most of your life in a city, haven't you?
Nope. Far from. Perhaps a cove? A bay? Inlet?
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Those are words that the translation returns. But it is certainly not a bay like in the context of Bay of Florida or Biscay. We are talking about much smaller scale.
Cape and promontory are also returned, and also make such places, but again certainly smaller than Cape Canaveral for example. Deltas also do. Rivers can also form some, or are actually all the time in process of forming some. The rate of change is so slow that man cannot see the change, but it changes the curvatures all the time as the flow continously tries to minimize its potential energy while flowing. The end result is that old river parts dry up and might make something what we call a "sausage lake", but before that has formed it makes quite good place to set up a boat. And some others that I cannot bother to write here. I think you got the idea.
So the correct translation of family name is to translate it as safe haven for boats since it is more general than harbor or port (which both imply human made stuff) - there is not a single word in English that could do it (and not anymore in Finnish, either). That is if one wishes to use that meaning.
Mika
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An oxbow lake?
(http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC040957/oxbow%20lake.gif)
Above illustration is of a river
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My actual name means "Right-hand son" or "son of my right-hand side", or something like that, anyway.
As for my last name... all I know about it is that freaking everyone mispronounces it whenever they read it. They mispronounced it at my graduation ceremony, even after I corrected them not even a day before! :hopping:
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Dude - join the club - mine if four ****ing letters long and people are always mispronouncing it. :hopping:
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Actually I can't blame them, really. It's not like my name is unpronounceable or anything, just that it's German, and the silent vowel rule is reversed from English, so they pronounce the wrong vowel.
Still, it's become almost a reflex for me to correct someone on its pronounciation, which trips me up the few times people get it right.
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I can blame them. it's Ruta - pronounced rootah - not rut-a :hopping:
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...:wtf:
How abnormal is it that I pronounced it right the first time I read it?
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Fairly
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Yeah, this happens time by time for me when I try to pronounce Chinese words if they have been translated to western alphabets. HINT: pinyin was made for English, not Finnish.
The resulting mispronounciations are horrible. It would make much more sense to write the names in a way we could pronounce them close enough by simply reading the letters, but the entirely misleading system is used since it is a universal standard.
Besides UK people don't even try saying my family name (contains four wovels and a single consonant), fearing I would be upset about it (and the truth is they never get it right). Usually I'm not, since they were at least trying.
Mika
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Mind posting it?
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Negative on that. In any other media it wouldn't matter but Internet wont do.
Mika
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Cool.
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I can blame them. it's Ruta - pronounced rootah - not rut-a :hopping:
It would suck to have that name around certain people... :nervous:
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I don't get it.
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i get free long distance, back when the PSTN was analog.
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Many people also have problems pronouncing my first name. However, when I saw "Ruta", I automatically thought it should be pronounced "roo-tah". ;)
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Well my real first name, Aki, is a short version from Joakim (as far as Wiki tells me), or Saint Joachim to be precise.
I didn't find any meaning for my familyname...
My online name on the otherhand, doesn't mean anything. Just something I randomly came up on the 90's, and I have been using it ever since.
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(http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2282/blackdovexo3.gif)
Yeah, I was a kid and instead of coming up with a great nickname, I had a hard on for Christopher Snipes and so I took his ****.
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First: "who is like God?"
Last: "stream"
http://www.behindthename.com/ (http://www.behindthename.com/)
And Falcon.. well I just liked the bird and was the only thing I could think of at the time. If I could I'd change it to my more commonly used intertubes name Doomfrost.
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Nah, stick with Falcon.
Because.
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9941/1210838607528uw7.gif)
Though, my endorsement probably makes your attempt to run from it justified.
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No... that was pretty awesome right there.
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You never do see the NTC Alexandria, do you ?
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First: "who is like God?"
Hi Michael.
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I know that's gotta hurt.
I have a falcon punch too...
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/sohmingjian/falconpunch.gif)
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First: "who is like God?"
Hi Michael.
Hi Ryan.
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First: "who is like God?"
Hi Michael.
Hi Ryan King.
Fixed.
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I know that's gotta hurt.
I have a falcon punch too...
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/sohmingjian/falconpunch.gif)
I found a KYICK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTe8Pib6syg). :wtf:
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My name means a sign oh Honor and Victory with a sign of nature and the trees and bushes of the world.
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I found a KYICK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTe8Pib6syg). :wtf:
That poor kid was my only reaction. After watching it a few times, did I realise it actually says "Falcon Kick!"
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Enough with the falcon punches :wtf:
Donnelly is O'Donnghaile in Irish, from Donnghaile. The prefix "O" denotes one who is the ancestor of Donnghaile. The word Donnghaile translates to "Brown Valor" or "Brown-haired Warrior." This name was given to someone who was dark and brave.
The Donnellys originally were a division of the clan Cineál Eoghain who derive their descent from Donnghal the fourth in descent from Domhnall, King of Aileach -- brother of Niall Glundubn and ancestor of the O'Neills, the chief family of ancient Ireland.
An original ancestor was Donnghaile O'Neill, who died in 876, was himself a descendant of Eoghain and ancestor of the royal house O'Neill. Donnghaile O'Neill was seventeenth in descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fifth-century king who supposedly kidnapped St. Patrick to Ireland.
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SPARTAN = Self Explanatory.. :)
367.. thats secret stuff ;)
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Eastern European spelling of Alexander (i.e. The Great)
Username because nuclear1_2000 (AT) yahoo (dot) com was my first email address and I'm too lazy to change usernames.
Aleksander?
Patrick, derivated from patricius, a roman word for a novel person of high heritage (say, a senator, or the Emperor himself).
Côté, literally a word for 'side' in french, although it is believed to mean you 'come from the side', e.g. you're a fisher at the coast.