Name Stories

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:47 am

[QUOTE=blake]my name came from my name irl...

great story i know[/QUOTE]

You story copier

Ideal Maxima · Post by **Ideal Maxima** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:06 pm

my name came from when i was getting my Xbox Live Gamer Tag. I couldn't think of anything for my tag, so since my brother was getting my account, i let him choose the name. His current/favorite car is the Nissan Maxima. So as a tag he put in Maxima. That was already taken. When the
"that name has already been taken" screen came up, it had a bunch of suggestions listed under it. One of them was Ideal Maxima. He chose that one. I didn't like it at first but then i looked up the definitions of it. Then i realized what it meant and started using it for everything.

Macleod1701 · Post by **Macleod1701** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:36 am

Well I'm Scottish, so I'm descended from a clan, Nicol - MacNicol - Macleod - Others. So thats the name! Plus it was Highlander even though according to the film they were from the completley wrong part of Scotland....damn Americans

moltovir · Post by **moltovir** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:56 am

[QUOTE=Aegis]I've been using Aegis for sometime now. I think I'm getting onto 6 years. Unless I'm wrong, it is latin for 'shield', which fits perfectly with my nature as being someone who is defensive, and protective of my friends and family.
[/QUOTE]

It's greek

Great name though

My name in my counter-strike era (due to my lack of talents that didn't last very long) was molotov, but when I started BG2 and joined Gamebanshee I realized it had to be fantasised, so I played around with some letters and came up with Moltovir. Later, in morrowind, I added a surname, so the full name is now Moltovir Gunastran.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:27 am

[QUOTE=moltovir]It's greek

Great name though[/QUOTE]
So it is. And hey, according to the roots, I belong to Minerva

moltovir · Post by **moltovir** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:33 am

[QUOTE=Aegis]So it is. And hey, according to the roots, I belong to Minerva

[/QUOTE]

lol

Yesterday I read in a surname dictionary that mine (Guns, yes that's true, my name is Guns, please don't laugh

) means son of Odin

I even have a Moltovir day! (Wednesday means son-of-Odin's-day)

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:37 am

[QUOTE=moltovir]lol

Yesterday I read in a surname dictionary that mine (Guns, yes that's true, my name is Guns, please don't laugh

) means son of Odin

I even have a Moltovir day! (Wednesday means son-of-Odin's-day)

[/QUOTE]
So, you're the son of Odin, and I'm the shield (Or in some translations, Breast Plate

) of Minerva...

I like my station in life more...

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:09 pm

My name comes from an ID I use at work. When I first came on I wasn't planning on steying for this long so I didn't want to bother coming up with anything.

Oh well..

And does anyone else thing that CE is somehow trying to imply that SHE is Nature's gift to science???

j/k

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:40 pm

[QUOTE=jopperm2]And does anyone else thing that CE is somehow trying to imply that SHE is Nature's gift to science???

j/k[/QUOTE]
Don't listen to him, Love. I know you're Nature's gift. Both to Science, and SYM

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:03 pm

And does anyone else thing that CE is somehow trying to imply that SHE is Nature's gift to science???

She is! Duh! She's like, fully fledged, over qualified genius!

Demortis · Post by **Demortis** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:07 pm

so if CE and Fable had a kid would that child be a dictionary or just really smart? (this is a hypothetical stiuation not ment to be taken as there were to accualy have a kid. *whew* now that the disclamer is out there)

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:16 pm

What's in a name? I'll play your game, you rogue!

Me, my name has its roots in gaming. First, there was the character Galuf from Final Fantasy 5 (which I had in the back of my mind for a while, despite not actually playing the game). Then, that name resurfaced after I start using that as the name of my Dwarf Fighter character in Icewind Dale 2. Finally, I decided "Aw heck, it sounds so good for a Dwarf, and you like Dwarves, so why not name yourself 'Galuf the Dwarf?'"

Bam! New name, new board, and the rest is history.

Ekental · Post by **Ekental** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:20 pm

Sorry if this thread has been posted before...

I was just curious at the SNs in general since many I found strange and thus wanted to know more about the way they were created and their general history.

GFreeman · Post by **GFreeman** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:45 pm

gfreeman...if you break it apart it says "Gee a(soft) free man?" Quizically sarcastic. Or actually its from Half Life 2...

Macleod1701 · Post by **Macleod1701** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:22 am

[QUOTE=GFreeman]gfreeman...if you break it apart it says "Gee a(soft) free man?" Quizically sarcastic. Or actually its from Half Life 2...[/QUOTE]

I would never have guessed 'sarcasm dripping from every pore'
Makes people with glasses into hard asses with weapons and as I have glasses I like it!

KoreeGahn · Post by **KoreeGahn** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:54 am

All you out there playing BGII would know my name.. Yes it's taken from the annoying evil beer drinking dwarf Korgan in baldurs gate II, I just thought it fitted my mood when I signed up on GB, was stuck in BG II and came here searching answers

Ode to a Grasshopper · Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:50 am

The nickname 'Odie' is from my first name Ode to a Grasshopper, now long lost along with my old password

I'm not here much anymore, so it didn't seem worth the effort to get it back.
das_hermit was the next one, it came from an irate high school associate's attempt to get revenge for a comic my best friend and I made about him called 'El Squirto'. Don't ask...anyway, das_hermit was a hermit with an afro, and being aloof by nature during high school and having an afro I liked the name. El Squirto wasn't too fond of his name though...

Mr Spanky was an extremely customized character I made for a wrestling game my cousin had while he lived with me for a while. Mr Spanky was a martial artist, and so was not only utterly inappropriate but also consistently beat the more conventional characters my cousin came up with.

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:09 am

Maharlika...

... is an old Filipino word for "noble man" or "one with royal blood."

Hey Odie... I thought that with the Spanky thing, a Monkey would not be far behind...

Ode to a Grasshopper · Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:22 am

The character's full name was Soap on a Rope, but I needed a short name and Mr Spanky was the most humiliating I could come up with.

Did someone say...Monkey?