Explain your user name!

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Taken from the title of a book by Ed Regis:

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Mambo-Chicken-Transhuman-Condition/dp/0201567512

The real great mambo chickens were the result of breeding several generations of poultry in a centrifuge. Those wacky scientists, eh?

Apparently, before The God Thing was known as Mr Stinky Pants, he was The Great Mambo Chicken. I am not "the" great mambo chicken, just "a" great mambo chicken. To avoid confusion, I'm going to change my user name when my lease on this one expires.

 

[RegFan]

I wanted to call myself Thelin (I just made up a word that sounded good)

So you didn't get it from that Star Trek TAS episode then?

I haven't watched TAS.

 

[Kestra]

If I have to explain my username to you, that means that you haven't seen enough TNG or paid it the vast amounts of attention it deserves. So I'm not going to explain it to anyone. Go watch all seven seasons of TNG and the get back to me. And don't you dare take the easy way out and google it instead!

Actually I just always thought it was a pretty name and I wanted a username that sounded girly enough for people to know that I'm female. Plus I like that it can be shortened to "Kes".

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I wanted to call myself Thelin (I just made up a word that sounded good)

So you didn't get it from that Star Trek TAS episode then?

I haven't watched TAS.

It would have been a good choice:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Thelin

 

[O'Dib]

Mine spells out my RL last name, except it's scrambled to look like something out of Dune, and also Irish, for some reason.

 

[The Borg Queen]

I'm gay and I'm a big fan of the Borg, they're the best concept ever.

Even though they're so badly written it's criminal, if they had half the sense Star Trek squeezes from it's plot-contrived idiocy, there'd never be a show ever again after any episode with them in. Because there wouldn't be a Federation anymore.

 

[Eyes]

My username is one I use all over the Internet. The 'Eyes' bit is a nickname I have, mainly because its a shortened version of my first name, and generally the first thing people notice about me is my eyes (and that's because I'm shortsighted and wear glasses).

Don't ask me where the 330 came from. It just sounded fairly good when added on to Eyes, and I've stuck with that ever since.

 

[Amaris]

An axiom is a self evident truth. As someone committed to the truth, always, I felt that would be the best name for me. My previous username was J. Allen, which is pretty self explanatory, really, but I do like my new username.

 

[captcalhoun]

captcalhoun derives from Captain Mackenzie Calhoun the badass captain of the Excalibur in the New Frontier novels. a character so badass he can only exist in novels. he's so badass he makes Robau look like an ass.

sometimes, i think about changing it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

RJDiogenes was a famous Arena Rock band back in the 70s. Their best-known song was "Ballad Of The Idealistic Cynic," which has been favorably compared to "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Okay, that's not true. The RJ part is my first two initials-- Richard John-- and Diogenes was an ancient Greek wiseass. He was said, perhaps apocryphally, to be admired by Alexander; he was also said, also perhaps apocryphally, to have mouthed off to Alexander. So the story goes, Alexander brought Diogenes to Alexandria to impress him-- Alexander once said, perhaps apocryphally, "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes" --and after showing him around, asked, "Is there anything else I can do for you?" Diogenes replied, "Stand a little out of my sun."

I created the name in 1993 when I signed on to AOL, and the internet, for the first time. The instructions said to have three names ready, so I picked "Baby Driver," "Diogenes" and one other that I can't remember. All three were taken. Rather than let AOL add some random numbers to one of them, I prefixed Diogenes with my initials and a legend was born. Seventeen years later, RJDiogenes is now Copyrighted and I use it as the name for my business.

 

[FPAlpha]

Alpha was my first "true" (in a way that i really played his role and not maximised his stats to steamroll everybody) roleplaying character who was an native american Special Forces guy able to improve his body via magic (Physical Adept for anyone who knows Shadowrun) and who followed the Wolf Totem (hence Alpha male).

FP is short for Fanpro, the company which produced Shadowrun up until a few years ago where i was a regular member of their chatrooms (and since Alpha is taken on most message boards).

 

[Haggis and tatties]

That was my supper the night i decided to stop lurking and join up to Trekbbs.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Means "thundering iguana" in Italian. Kind of a nonsensical joke that went out of hand. In the end, I like how it sounds.

I'm a physics groupie.

Does astrophysics work for you, too?

 

[Amaris]

...Diogenes was an ancient Greek wiseass.

I would love to see this as the official Encyclopedia definition.

Means "thundering iguana" in Italian. Kind of a nonsensical joke that went out of hand. In the end, I like how it sounds.

I like how it rolls off the tongue. Plus, it would look great as the headlining wrestler on a Lucha Libre marquee.

 

[selina]

My user-name comes from Selina Kyle, a character in Batman Returns, played by Michelle Pfeiffer. I think she was the best catwoman ever.

 

[TheBrew]

Mine comes from the second season episode of TOS, The Apple. Mallory is the last redshirt to die, by stepping on an exploding rock. Since my feet have never really obeyed me (and I've had the broken bones to prove it) the name seemed particularly apt.

Plus it's generic, short, easy to remember and spell, etc.

Y'know, I thought that it was because you were a ducks fan.

My name is from a song by NoFX.

Friday night we'll be drinking Manishevitz
Going out to terrorize Goyem
Stomping shagitz, screwing shicksas
As long as we're home by Saturday morning

Cause hey, we're the Brews
Sporting anti-swastika tattoos
Oi Oi we're the boys
Orthodox, hesidic, O.G. Ois

Orthopedic, Dr. Martins good for
Waffle making, kicking through the shin
Reputation, gained through intimidation
Pacifism no longer tradition

Cause hey we're the Brews
Sporting anti-swastika tattoos
Oi Oi we're the Brews
The fairfax ghetto boys skinhead Hebrews

We got the might, psycho mashuganas
We can't lose a fight, as we are the chosen ones
Chutspah driven, we battle then we feast
We celebrate, we'll separate our milkplates from our meat

We're the Brews
Sporting anti-swastika tattoos
Oi Oi we're the boys
Orthodox, hesidic, O.G. Ois

 

[iguana_tonante]

Means "thundering iguana" in Italian. Kind of a nonsensical joke that went out of hand. In the end, I like how it sounds.

I like how it rolls off the tongue. Plus, it would look great as the headlining wrestler on a Lucha Libre marquee.

Esta noche, para vuestro entretenimento, me voy a presentar el campeon invicto national, el massacrador de los Galapagos, el terror de las playas... El Iguana Tonante!!!

 

[Amaris]

Means "thundering iguana" in Italian. Kind of a nonsensical joke that went out of hand. In the end, I like how it sounds.

I like how it rolls off the tongue. Plus, it would look great as the headlining wrestler on a Lucha Libre marquee.

Esta noche, para vuestro entretenimento, me voy a presentar el campeon invicto national, el massacrador de los Galapagos, el terror de las playas... El Iguana Tonante!!!

I can hear it now!

 

[Trippy]

Mine is pretty obvious. My favourite character from Enterprise, the series that was still on air when I signed up

 

[SeerSGB]

Star Wars Fan + Doctor Who fan = screenname. Sort of like "you got chocolate in my peanut butter, no you got peanut butter in my chocolate.", the two just seemed to go together.