[beatspete]

i like music... hence the "beats"... and pete being a common shortening of my real name (peter, duh) it rhymed and made sence.
"Beatspete"

[Corsair]

Originally posted by Thunder
You changed your name because of me? I'm honored

Oh come on, you would have been like if I had called myself Lighting. And anyway Corsair is cooler.

Although I could have been your alter-ego as Lightning

[Cannikin]

Look it up

Bah, fine for those of you too lazy to do so...

Cannikin was the code name for a 1971 nuclear detonation of the new warhead for the Spartan ABM (anti-ballistic missile) program. Conducted over a mile underground on Amchitka Island, Alaska, it yielded 5 megatons (5,000,000 tons of TNT for those who for some reason don't know) and was the most powerful underground nuclear test ever conducted. Seismic recordings measured 6.85 on the Richter Scale.

Also, indirectly caused the creation of the Greenpeace organization (a bad thing in my opinion )

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Corsair
Oh come on, you would have been like if I had called myself Lighting. And anyway Corsair is cooler.

Although I could have been your alter-ego as Lightning

Imagines a couple of spandex covered men in blue and white with golden helmets making comments taken directly from Batman comics... it's Thunder and Lightning!!

[Stunaep]

just imagine...

nyanyanyanyanyanyannya THUNNNNNDER
nyanyanyanyanyanyanyanya THUNNNNDER
THUNNNNNDER, THUNNNNNDER, THUNNNNDER

[an0n]

After seeing the wonders of spandex in action on an hot 18 year-old college girl I think that it is one of mans greatest creations, in the context of the above however, I think it is a terrible, terrible thing.

[JR2000Z]

JR2000 was already taken.

[Fineus]

Originally posted by an0n
After seeing the wonders of spandex in action on an hot 18 year-old college girl I think that it is one of mans greatest creations, in the context of the above however, I think it is a terrible, terrible thing.

Agreed, not to derail the thread but spandex = good. I'd just never wear it.

[Stryke 9]

I always thought Thunder was some kind of lit-geek reference to the Wasteland. But, then again, only I'm lit geek enough here to think that.

Anyway. A long, long time ago, when I was a little kid, I thought this one sounded cool. Vaguely violent-looking/sounding, and if you sound it out, you get something that sort of sounds like "strychnine", and who wouldn't wanna be named after rat poison?

Anyway, I built up a bit of a reputation in certain trades, and kept the handle so that I'd be recognized by my associates. Now, however, I've gained a bit much notoriety under this name, so I'm slowly changing it to Ryder P. Moses on the few boards I can still go to (yes, it's another lit-geek thing. Free pixel to anyone who gets it)

Other handles you may or may not recognize include Satan and Pistola. Satan's kind of a contextual one.

[Ulundel]

WE ARE BORG. LOWER YOUR SHIELDS...and all other ****...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

[mikhael]

Mikhael is my character on FurryMUCK (yes, I hang out there). I picked the name because I like hebraic/angelic sounding names, my parents almost named me Michael, and because Mikhael is my favorite variant of that name.

In my first year on line, I went through a lot of names: Zeist, Ariel, M'Riss, Idriss, Sagan, Thorandin, Nin, Pinion, Anais, Asriel, Avariel, Louis, Ruiz, Bastien, Bastion, Spider, Weaver, Gnostus, DelGato, Ruhk, RuhkFerret and Musashiden and about six or twelve dozen more that I can't remember.

I've been using Mikhael for five years now, and I used Ruhk for about three years.

If I weren't using Mikhael, I'd be using 'lrrodrig', which was my username on the network at Uni when I was enrolled there (and is again now! ) Its never taken, so its a good fallback.

[Ashrak]

Ashrak is an uber-killer-get-payed-a-lot-guy in stargate SG1

[Grey Wolf]

To tell you the truth: Writer's block, and the fact that "Grey Wolf" was already taken on the VBB.

[Unknown Target]

Well, when I first registered on the VBB, i registered as Fighter_Captain. Well, later I decided that name wasn't good enough, so I tried to change it to Unknown Target. Turns out that name was taken (inactive) so I switched it to Unkown Target.

That's the story I tell everyone. What really happened was that I mis-spelled it, and thought it was kinda cool to have, so I just kept it:D

[Razor]

Originally posted by Stunaep


aah, Swat Kats. That was a good show. Too bad they only had one season of it (or at least, I've never heard of more. )

I absolutely posetively, 1000000% agree with you. Hey there is a great site dedicated to Swat Kats. There you can download vidoes from the show, maybe some music, Swat Kats game , Play RPG as any of the Swat Kats or new characters, see fan art, listen to sounds, lines and conversations from the film. The site is just too awesome. By the way, there were two seasons but I never got the chance to see season two. Go T-Bone and Raz. Commander Feral is also funny but kinda stupid. Here's the line:

Razor: Keep that missile insolated commander.
T Bone: Yeah this guy really messes up when he blows a fuse.
CMD Feral: What do you think I am? Stupid?!
T bone & Raz: Bingo!
Commander gets angry.
That was a pretty awesome scene.

Oh the site. SWAT KATS ZONE

[Alikchi]

My great great great (I don't know how many greats) grandfather, Peter Pitchlynn, was chief of the Choctaw indians in the 1815-1830s. He was referred to as "Alikchi", which was "magic man" or "shaman".

My full name is Thomas Pitchlynn Howell the fifth, and it's scary to see your middle name in the history books

[Sesquipedalian]

In his book of advice for aspiring Roman poets, Ars Poetica, Horace cautioned against using sesquipedalia verba, words a foot and a half long.  The deliciously amusing irony fits precisely my sense of humour, and since I'm known for linguistic dexterity anyway, Sesquipedalian is perfect for me.

Besides, it is hardly a common handle.

[Stryke 9]

Originally posted by mikhael
FurryMUCK (yes, I hang out there).

See, this is a prime example of when full disclosure is a BAD thing. I coulda gone all week without thinking of furries sites, for one thing.

[heretic]

I was kicked out of church for asking "un-christianlike" questions. and the priest called me a heretic (probably in anger or something)

it was quite a shock, but it stuck.

[an0n]

A preacher once called me an "Evil, deceitful, wicked, unholy, blasphemous......" I forget the rest, but to be fair I was threatening him with a knife so I suppose that was to be expected.