The Explain your Forum Name here...thread.

[aussie]

No lollies for guessing where mine comes from.

I call Australia home.

[AgentLoaf]

I call Australia home.

I pity you...

[SSH]

As many of you know, SSH stands for "Secure Shell" , a secure version of telnet kinda thing.

When I was small, we were so poor that I didn't have a security blanket or toy, I just had a conch shell that I found on the beach one day (my parents sent me to the beach every day to see in anything valuable had washed up that they could sell or pawn, this despite the fact that we lived 50 miles inland). So "conchie" was my constant childhood companion, and often my only friend. When I was 7, Sir Clive Sinclair invented a cheap home computer and so this replaced conchie as my best friend, but I never forgot him. My forum name is thus a memorial to good old conchie, a loyal friend and good listener, even though all he ever replied with were constant sea impressions.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I thought it stood for SuperScottishHero...must have mixed up something else.

[Blackthorne]

Hmm.

I've used my "handle" for a LONG time.  See, I used to BBS back in the days of modems, when I was all of 11 or 12.  I started out on a 1200 baud modem.  Then moved to a blazing 2400 and then an unheard of 14.4 .....  So I started using the handle "BLACKTHORNE" from James Clavell's Shogun, which I read at the time.  The 519 part that is sometimes attached to the end is merely my birthday, May 19th, 1978.

I know my first name is Steven........

Bt

[Disco]

I wish I knew why Disco is my forum name. All that I can guess is that I named myself that after Bis made disco cool again....not that it ever wasn't, of course.

[Adamski]

Dark Stalkey was the name of my grandmother.

[Inkoddi]

The word Inkoddi is completely random and has nothing to do with anything, therefore i use it.

[Alun]

So I started using the handle "BLACKTHORNE" from James Clavell's Shogun, which I read at the time.

And here I'd assumed it was a reference to Lord Blackthorn from the Ultima series...  oh well.

[Mats Berglinn]

My forum name is my real name because I really like it.

[Hamelkart]

Hamelkart is made of Ha-Melquart, or Hamilcar, if you want.
Some of you probably know that Hamilcar Barca was the father of the greatest generals ever: Hannibal Barca of Carthage.
I kinda like Carthaginians.

[HillBilly]

Well, let's see.


I saw a cow once.

[Ali]

Only once? A true HillBilly would probably have seen a cow three or four times at least. Or so goes my reckoning.

[Cluey]

Clueless3 (or Cluey as I'm known as on some boards)
simply put, when I was 13, I was clueless about what I wanted to be.  My old e-mail was clueless_13@hotmail.com, so it kinda stuck..
Thats so boring.

[HillBilly]

Okay, seriously:

1. There's alot of farms around where I live.
2. It's incredible fun to say "Hilly", "HillyBilly" or "HillyBillyWilly".
3. I like banjo's.

[Albert Cuandero]

This has been my pen name (or rather "mouse name") for a long time now. I think it sounds quite good and I choose it before I new I will ever live in Spain. If I ever have the time for the paperwork I might even change it to my real name.

I like being called Al, since it is also a short version of my given first name.

(actually this is quite a boring story - but hell, if reality was interesting, who would play adventure games?)

[George]

Ah, what the heck… every one else has done one, George is my middle name (how original) and I chose my avatar because I think Terry Pratchett's version of Death rocks.   

[captain Nemo]

I like this hero and I have the same spirit and character as Nemo. And idea of life too. Freedom and friends, you undrestand, yes?

Ok, ok, no jokes. Seriously:
I'm REALLY prince Dakkar a.ka. captain Nemo! I'm still alive!

[modgeulator]

A nickname from back in school. A friend named me this after a conversation about synthesizers in which he kept referring to them as "modulators." So after then he started calling me modgeulator. I originally thought it was a pretty stupid nickname, but then somehow here I am today using it...

[UP]

Well, I just couldn't think for a good name, and thought why would I need to have one yet? Thus, Not Yet. And later I spiced it up with the three dots: "...", so it's mysterious  Heh...