The "Explain Your Username" Thread

[Bill3000]

My first name + 3000. I'm not exactly sure why I picked 3000 outside the fact that it's sort of a nifty number.

Over here we measure our fuel economy in miles per gallon. Over there it's gallons per mile

You are a traitor to the metric system.

[flipside]

Originally posted by Bill3000

You are a traitor to the metric system.

Last time I checked Britain was not a French colony.

[Bill3000]

Originally posted by flipside


Last time I checked Britain was not a French colony.

Last time I checked, only America, Liberia, and Burma did not use the metric system.

Besides, it's only consistent for someone to use the same system of measurements for everything. The British should use some decimal multiple of kg/m or m/kg to measure gas efficiency, not use the awful Imperial System.

[Nikolai]

The metric system is superior in every way, and much easier.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by flipside
Last time I checked Britain was not a French colony.

Indeed, rationalty has never arrived on those islands

[SlowwHand]

The metric system hasn't been used all that long.
Europe needs to return to the Base 10 system and quit trying to be innovative.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Tassi
Oh, I still am. Its just that, as a commie, I was too lazy to keep typing in "Comrade" every time I wanted to log in

Can I quote this in the next cap/com debate??

[Aabraxan]

I initially signed up here under another name, which I soon decided I didn't like, so when I went to change my login, I went back to my MOO2 days. For MOO2, I needed a way to sort planets by their colonization dates and (roughly) how developed they were. So I began naming them alphabetically: Aabraxa, Basilica, Catatonica, Dublin, etc. Eventually, I began calling my people the Aabraxans. So Aabraxan seemed like a good choice.

[SlowwHand]

Oh, man. I just assumed it was based on Santana.

[Bill3000]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
The metric system hasn't been used all that long.
Europe needs to return to the Base 10 system and quit trying to be innovative.

Base... ten... system? But, uh, the metric system is already base ten. Unless you mean some other sort of system, which in that case I'm utterly confused about what the PRH you are saying.

[SlowwHand]

You being confused is no big shocker.

[Aabraxan]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Oh, man. I just assumed it was based on Santana.

That would have been much cooler and I probably should have claimed that. I do recall that at one time, I was naming my first planet Aalderaan (probably misspelled from Star Wars) and changed it to Aabraxa. It's very possible that I got the second name from Santana, but I really don't remember.

[Bill3000]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
You being confused is no big shocker.

Of course I am. I was the founder of Demesos, after all.

[Q Classic]

The origins of my name are now lost to the sands of time, but it may have something to do with the mathematical properties of 4,913.

[Datajack Franit]

SMAC + my high school nicknname

I'd use my best nickname but I don't want people putting their noses into my gay personal profiles