Where did you get your 'Poly name from?

[Solomwi]

That was a smiley?

[axi]

Here's a thread explaining some of the older posters' handles:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...s=&threadid=156

Unfortunately, it's been archived now.

Holy nostalgia!

I feel that the posters in the old days were really more interesting types than the people that rushed into Apolyton once CtP and Civ3 came out. The old farts were all real civ buffs.

Apolytoners are becoming more and more silly and immature as the years pass.

[Theben]

Originally posted by axi

Apolytoners are becoming more and more silly and immature as the years pass.

It happens with age.

That was a smiley?

Surely it was not so long ago?

[Solomwi]

Looks more like a spider.

[Theben]

^-^ or ^_^= anime-type smiley

~-^ or ~_^ = winking smiley

[Shogun Gunner]

"Gunner" is a nickname from my basketball days... someone who shoots first, passes second.

One of my degrees is in geography. East Asia was my area of concentration...so I selected "Shogun" for a title instead of "King", "Lord", or such.... It's Civ after all!!!!

[Zulu Elephant]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
I didn't know you were a white elephant, ZE.

lol. I should have seen that coming.

[Whaleboy]

I always thought it was because of, 'no sign, but the sign of Jonah,' and a play on your old nick of elijah.

I'm not familiar with that story?

[MRT144]

my initials and the product of my birthday

[General Ludd]

I'm closeted luddite.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm not familiar with that story?

Matthew 12:38-40

The Sign of Jonah

Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, "Teacher, we want to see a miraculous sign from you."

He answered, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Hence Whaleboy, in the belly of the whale.

[Ben Kenobi]

And you know that elijah must come first.

[Theseus]

Vel got me here, through Google.

Given the subject matter, I guess, I wanted something ancient sounding... Aeson, Arrian, and Velociryx were all huge influences too, so that was my aim. If I had had the opprotunity, I would have gone with Leonidas first, but some none-active had grabbed it.

'Poly was and has definitely been my entree to the online community world... I am very happy with that, and have embraced being Theseus, me.

[Solomwi]

Busted, T. Now slink on back to the on topic fora with your tail between your legs.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by axi
I feel that the posters in the old days were really more interesting types than the people that rushed into Apolyton once CtP and Civ3 came out. The old farts were all real civ buffs.

Apolytoners are becoming more and more silly and immature as the years pass.

Yes. That's right. Because there was absolutely no silliness or immaturity on the OT back in '99, was there? Noooooo, not at all.