Where does your screenname come from?

[Rogan Josh]

I am sure everyone (with taste) knows where my name comes from.

[Tolls]

It's a shortening of my surname...proved very useful at Poly, where we needed something to delineate between the 8 different Daves in our socialising group...

"It's your round, Dave!"
"No it's not, I bought the last one, Dave..."
"Not you, Dave...Dave, Dave..."
repeat ad nauseam...

[Guardian]

Actually, my screen name comes from my real name. My first name, that is. You know, most names do have a meaning, and so I've sort of just "translated" mine.

According to my name, I am the Eternal Guardian and / or the Defender of the Home.

So, I'm Guardian.

-And yes, I am rather proud of my name.

[spartak]

Originally posted by devilmunchkin
there is a person named g.m. at cg...that isn't you?
kh: huh?

I registered andye, Gasmaske & NotKeith at Counterglow to stop others using them. I predominately use Spartak everywhere now.

and KH - blow it out your arse.....

[GeneralTacticus]

Character (sort of) from Terry Pratchet's (sp?) book 'Jingo'. First used when playing Starcraft on the net, and I've used it everywhere else as well.

[Jethro83]

Mine sounds like a derivative of "Azrael", the angel of death. But it just goes to show that whatever creativity I might possibly have, it doesn't lie in making up names for any fictional characters I make up.

Azreal is a great champion in a fantasy world I made up. He is also the incarnation of an archangel sworn to protect that world (but nothing like Azrael though).

[Tingkai]

My screen name comes from Cai Tingkai, a Chinese general from the 1930s.

Cai achieved brief fame when the Japanese decided to occupy a chunk of Shanghai on Jan. 28, 1932. The Japanese order Cai to withdraw the 19th Route Army, but he refused so the Japanese attacked. The 19th and the 5th Route Army held off the Japanese for about a month, despite the fact they received virtually no supplies from Chiang Kai-shek's Nanking government. Cai was forced to pull out his troops when the Japanese sent in 55,000 reinforcements and made an enveloping attack behind the Chinese frontlines.

While the battle ended in defeat (largely because of the lack of support from Chiang), it was a tremendous moral victory. The Chinese troops proved that they were a match for the Japanese, even though the Japanese had artillery and air support.

Cai and the 19th Route Army would later take part in the 1933-34 Fujian Revolt, partially because Chiang cut off funds to pay the troops, but also because Cai wanted to fight against the Japanese (something that Chiang refused to do). The revolt failed and Cai, IIRC, went over to the Communist side.

[-=Vagrant=-]

As a huge fan of Vagrant Story on PSX I once registered into a forum and Vagrant was the first thign to pop into my mind.
Currently I'm ranting/discussing/trolling and posting on JREF (www.randi.org),PELIT,Apolyton,True Christians(yes!),Paranormal forums, The Force,Infidels dicussion forum and several game forums.

-=Vagrant=- aka Vagrant aka Vagrant4ever aka Advocatus Diaboli

[The Viceroy]

There are a few reasons for my screen name ..

Viceroy was the hardest level you could play on Colonization, one of my favourite Civ style games (or was back in the Amiga days) ..

but mostly, because I love India, im married to an Indian girl from Bombay, and whenever im there, im often the only Brit about, so I get called the Viceroy .. and treated like one also

I also have a strong love of British history in India, and have on several occations gone searching for remnants of the Raj .. found some amazing things .. in the middle of a forest in Materan (outside of Bombay) while I was exploring, I came across a stone post, all overgrown .. I brushed the vines etc away to see the words" Woodside cottage" .. next to it was another stone post with "Mr H. Smith" .. suddenly I noticed a house up the hill that was overgrown .. a little bit of history, left untouched for 50 years .. it was quite a find.

So .. thats why im the Viceroy .. a brit, who loves India ..

[Buck Birdseed]

It's from Pratchett. And I'm growing very bored of it.

When I get a chance to change it'll be to "Birdseed", which is what Jehova's Witnesses call everyone outside their group (relating to the prophecy that on judgement day unbeleivers will have their bones picked clean by crows).

[spartak]

Change back to Hugo Rune if you like

[Harovan]

Ralph is my second name, anglophones would it call middlename. I used it as handle in several role play games, namely Ultima series. The Sir is added to make it unique, and because these games have usually a knightly-medieval background.

[DeeEllway]

My real name is Dave Ellway, but I´ve been called Dee since 3rd grade. And I´m NOT related to John Elway (I get that a lot...besides he spells Elway with one L)

[Provost Harrison]

Amazingly close to DL

Well Provost from Provost Zakharov of SMAC fame. I am a bit of a man of science, the University was my favourite faction, and it just fitted for owo.

And Harrison, duh, my surname.

So Provost Harrison

On AIM/MSN I use Riiiiiich. Rich was taken so I just added a random number of i's in the middle (6 total in fact) and hence that name (Rich is my name, by the way)

I also dabbled with AI for a couple of months, but I decided it was total and utter shite and abandoned it.

[problem_child]

My name comes from one of the Iain M Banks novels Excession, its the name of a space-craft (back in the days when space-crafts still had captains, mainly to be leaders of the crew- not the ship)

Problem Child was the first ship to encounter the Excession (the "Cultures" name for excessively powerful phenomenon usually of technological/super technological origins of a sublimed or transendent alien species, eg: the big black oblongs in Arthur C Clarkes 2000/2001)

I had considered calling myself Zakalwe or Cheradenine from Use of Weapons but PC had a certain charm I think. Actually I was a very good little kid when I was a.... little kid.