How did you think up your Apolyton username?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Obscure thug from Slapshot. As the Chiefs represent the way Hockey is truly meant to play and Ogie Oglethorpe represented the meanest and cruelest villain in the league, I felt compelled to use it.

By the by everyone knows hockey thugs are nice guys off the ice.

[Zero-Tau]

Mine's not really interesting. It's just a term I dragged out of the Night's Dawn trilogy, which I was reading by the time I signed up.

[Kassiopeia]

IIRC "Tau Zero" is a scifi book written by Poul Andersen who is Danish...

[Zero-Tau]

That's right, but I didn't learn that until after I signed up. I'm planning to read it some day.

[Urban Ranger]

I am annoyed that somebody stole my idea of Urban Ranger to write a kit for AD&D. Where can I sue for trademark if not copyright?

[Lorizael]

Eh, AD&D is dead and gone. Make way for third edition!

[Datajack Franit]

I used to be called Fran by my friends but when I came online I soon realized that it sounded like a girlie name

A stupid friend of mine renamed me Frami (Fran from Milan, yes it's SO stupid )

That sounded SO gay!

It soon became Fran.it then just Franit.. in SMAC Alien Crossfire I always played Datajack Roze and Foreman Domai.. well, no thanks

[Giovanni Wine]

Originally posted by Tuberski
From the book " Naked came the Sasquatch" by John Boston.

He captures the sasquatch and teaches him how to cook hot dogs and also gives him heart medication.

Very funny read.

ACK!

Mine:

Well, Giovanni is my first name, but when I tried to register as it i saw it was taken (by a 1970 German guy with 0 posts BTW)

therefore I added to it my favourite drink, Wine (Red Wine to say the truth).

I'm using this nickname in every international forums, although when I'm on an Italian Forum, I use the nickname "Sognatore" which is the Italian for Dreamer.

Saluti

[Datajack Franit]

Can I switch to Franit Gulash then?

[MattyBoy]

Same as Orange (about Capitan)

It's not "just a hamburger." It's a bloody good hamburger!

Err, OK then. :

[Maniac]

My first nick was SMAniaC on the alpha.owo and ACOL forums, a more original nick for SMAC Maniac of course. A few weeks later I registered on the Apolyton forums to post in the Civ3 - The List section. Of course in a civ3 atmosphere SMAC had no part. Also some people thought my nick meant sex maniac, which wasn't exactly what I intended... Therefore I switched to M@ni@c. The @'s to keep it at least a little original. But it's just such a pain in the ass both for me and other people to write that name every time, so just two months ago or so I changed it into Maniac. So from a nick which I haven't encountered anywhere else I now have a nick which you encounter almost everywhere. Oh well, at least it writes easier.

[Ishtar]

Amazingly, I put a little thought into the one I use here. I did a search for goddesses and read up on them til I found one I liked.

On other forums/email I mostly use a version of my initials and name or a nick-name I've had since I was a child.

[Clear Skies]

Ishtar's a cool name I used to be Horus on a couple of other forums, and briefly went by Osiris elsewhere, but there aren't any really good male gods...

[Ishtar]

Why thank you!

I kinna liked Ishtar....she sounds like it be fun to be a little like her

[Dis]

I've had several user names and DL's.

Krushala was my first user name. I've always liked the world Krusher with a K. We used to have an old radio station that called themselves Krusher. KRSR were their call letters. I just added the other part when I was playing SMAC as the morganites. It sounded more african

I also had an Indian (Southern Paiute) name I used briefly. It was their word for the Las Vegas valley.

I also had Black Bart. He was a polite stage coach robber (or trains) If I remember correctly- which I probably don't. Also there is an obscure Iron Maiden song called Black Bart Blues. Plus bart had the Simpsons connection which I love. And I like the colour black, so that was an obvious name.

I had a DL called Fistful of Steel. Basically ripped off from a Rage Against the Machine song. I mainley used this DL to clash with EVC. He was a muslim militant.

I also had a DL called Barfasm. Barf as in the name of the John Candy character in the great movie Spaceballs. And I thought the asm part was a funny touch. I eventually made him french to clash with Blacktide: the french hating DL.

I also had a DL called Ass Monkey. Do I really need to explain that name?

I also had a DL called maryjane. Self explanatory.

I may have had a few more DL's I can't remember right now.

NOTE to moderators. I already confessed to these DL's and was already punished 1500 post counts.

And then my current name Dissident. It was originally Dissident Aggressor which was ripped off from a great Judas Priest song that was also covered by Slayer. I dropped the aggressor part as that sounded too militant. But I like the dissident part. It doesn't necessarily have to be a violent opposition. The dictionary just describes it as one who's opinions differ from others- or something like that. Since I am unique and not like the general american population, I figure that fits me.