Where does your screenname come from?

[boann]

BOANN - Boann is the Celtic goddess of rivers.

she was the wife of
Nechtan, a god of the water. Likewise, Boann was herself a
water-goddess, and one of her myths concerns the water.


legend has it that once the Irish river Boyne did not exist. Instead, there was
only a well, surrounded and overhung by nine hazel-trees bearing the sacred
crimson hazel-nuts of wisdom. No mortal humans, and no gods, not even the
highest gods, were allowed to eat the hazel-nuts. Only the salmon living in
the holy well were given this privilege, and as the nuts fell into the water, the
salmon would eat them and immediately know all things.




Only Boann, a curious goddess, dared to approach the sacred well, and as she did so,
the waters roiled and rose up, overflowing the pool and rushing at Boann in mighty
waves. Boann ran swiftly and escaped, but the waters continued to rush out upon the
land, creating the river Boyne, named after the lady Boann.

The wise salmon were washed out of their well by this catastrophe and to this day, they
swim up and downstream searching in vain for their hazel-nuts.

[Ari Rahikkala]

I have explained this name something like three times already... but pleased to serve . A few years ago, some weeks before registering to Apolyton, I had decided to be imaginative and create the pun "LightEning" - I can't actually remember if it had any special meaning in its conception, but anyway, I explained it to myself by this phrase:

Seeking enlightenment.
Lightning fast.

Fortunately, over time, people have learnt that the "typo" is intentional - but it has really taken its time...

I have also thought of switching to using my real name, Ari Rahikkala, around here, since that's what I use on ezboards, and since I would like to see all the imaginative misspellings of my last name...

[Guynemer]

Georges Guynemer, a French fighter pilot in WWI. I first learned of him when I bought the old flight-sim classic Red Baron, which I played for years. Guynemer's story really fascinated me, and I identified with him quite a bit.

[TCO]

My initials...

[Paul]

I'm not very creative, so I just registered with my first name.

[Urban Ranger]

From an inside joke we had during my undergraduate RPG-ing days.

[devilmunchkin]

devilmunchkin has been my primary nickname since i was in high school. my sophomore year, i dyed my hair black for the first time on halloween and wore all black and black makeup. my spanish teacher called me devil woman. at a later date, the bully on the bus called me the Happy munchkin. my best friend put the two together...
and dm i've been ever since.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Georges Guynemer, a French fighter pilot in WWI. I first learned of him when I bought the old flight-sim classic Red Baron, which I played for years. Guynemer's story really fascinated me, and I identified with him quite a bit.

You mean you're constantly lost in the clouds.

[spartak]

Spartak after the Football team I support - Moscow Spartak.

Spartak is a simplification of Sportivniy Klyub or Sports Club.

Previously I was Gasmaske as a joke connected to the Gasmaske smilie at ACoL. Before that I was andye - which wasn't the slightest bit imaginative.

[devilmunchkin]

omg! it's you from cg!!!! you're the one with all the definitions and smilies after you huh?

[spartak]

Sorry - that went right over my head DM. What exactly was it you wanted to say?

[KrazyHorse]

What she meant to say was: "update my kills, you assmonkey!"

[Case]

I took my name from the main character in William Gibson's book 'Neuromancer'
At the time that I picked it I was operating under the mistaken belief that I was going to become a computer programmer [my first year of university crushed that illusion ]

[spartak]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
What she meant to say was: "update my kills, you assmonkey!"

[Asher]

Originally posted by Case
I took my name from the main character in William Gibson's book 'Neuromancer'
At the time that I picked it I was operating under the mistaken belief that I was going to become a computer programmer [my first year of university crushed that illusion ]

So what do you do now?
And what do you mean crushed that illusion? Hated doing programming?

[aaglo]

In my highschool there was one guy with the same name as I had. So my classmates invented me a new name...

[MrFun]

I was not in a creative mood when I created my current and only, screen name for my Apolyton registration.

Even though it's not creative, I guess it suits my personality alright.

[devilmunchkin]

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

[Eli]

Originally posted by Paul
I'm not very creative, so I just registered with my first name.

Ditto.

[KrazyHorse]

DM: he owes me ten points...

[Case]

Originally posted by Asher
So what do you do now?

I changed to an Economics/Arts double degree

Originally posted by Asher
And what do you mean crushed that illusion? Hated doing programming?

I both hated and sucked at programming

[Mr. President]

There was once a reggae-dance hybrid artist in around 1995. He only had one famous song, whose lyrics didn't make sense, but it had a cool beat. His name was . . . Mr. President!!

In addition, there used to be a little in-joke in my social group at my old school. I was the only American (indeed, the only foreigner) in a Tasmanian high school. Just about the only thing they knew about America is that it has a President. I was American, hence I must be "Mr. President", one of my friends was the Vice-President, and so forth.

[mindseye]

Way back in the dark ages of the Internet, before the advent of web browsers, the net was a primitive, cold, UNIX-type world. User IDs (at least for my ISP) were case-sensitive and could only be a max of eight characters. I've used this ID for various things ever since.

You have the coolest screen-name on Apolyton, Felch X.

You wouldn't say that if you knew what "felch" meant in gay slang. I snicker every time I see Felch X's name.

[Asher]

Originally posted by mindseye
You wouldn't say that if you knew what "felch" meant in gay slang. I snicker every time I see Felch X's name.

Dude, I know exactly what felch means. I thought for sure he was going to have to change his name when he first created it (I posted this in one of his very first threads too).

I, too, snicker every time I see "Felch X" as a poster in a thread. That's why he's got the best screenname on Apolyton.

[KrazyHorse]

If only I knew what you guys were talking about...

[Asher]

Check your PMs.

[KrazyHorse]

Dude, that's gross.

[Asher]

He should be thankful the mods are so clueless with the slang terms these days. But now that so much attention's been drawn to it he's in for it.

[Pius Popprasch]

Pius Poprush, spelled the german way. Inspired by Micky Mouse and Donald Duck and Civ3.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by boann
BOANN - Boann is the Celtic goddess of rivers.

Who looks suspiciously like a character out of the Dragonlance saga?


The ravagons were the elite hunters despatched to Core Earth to hunt down the Storm Knights.