Nicks

ramses II. · May 10, 2002, 03:55

What does your nick mean?
I'll explain you mine:

Sethos I. (or Seti I.), (I use this nick in other forums, but when I joined Apolyton, another guy had taken it)
Throne name Men-maat-re, Forever is the justice of Re. 1291-1278 BC ,son of Ramesses I., father of

Ramses II /english Ramesses II., Throne name User-maat-re Setep-en-re, Powerful is the justice of Re, Chosen by Re, 1279-1212 BC (67 years!)
Ramesses II. was followed by his 13th son, Merenptah

Both pharaos from the XIX. Dynasty. See [http://touregypt.net/19dyn03.htm], for example

I think chosing a pharao's name from the dawns of civilization is a good way to show his respect to that civ - and to all civs in general.

Tell me a little bit about your nick.

Ecthy · May 10, 2002, 11:03

Essen ist fertig!

Solver · May 10, 2002, 12:43

Ramses, are you good at Egiptology? Umm I love that.

Personally I find Ehnaton the most interesting, though, with his elder daughter being quite beautiful, as the rumors say.

Scouse Gits · May 11, 2002, 05:34

... full of it!

Scouse: of or pertaining to Liverpool and that part of the UK
Git: disreputable person

Our multiplicity: when we first registered we misunderstood the ACS regulations about e-mail names and thought that SG(2)'s would be unacceptable so we used my work e-mail and both used the same ACS account - some time later my brat daughter SG{3} joined the club "

"

OK? SG[1]

Six Thousand Year Old Man · May 11, 2002, 11:07

Quote:

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
... full of it!

Scouse: of or pertaining to Liverpool and that part of the UK
Git: disreputable person

OK? SG[1]

Much as I suspected

Thanks, SG[1]

STYOM

SlowThinker · May 11, 2002, 16:35

I suppose my nick is clear...

I remember there was a long thread with nicks descriptions in the past already.

Mercator · May 11, 2002, 16:40

There have been many. Not only in this forum, also at the Apolyton/Community and Off-Topic forums...

My nickname has to do with Civ2 maps and a famous cartographer...

(Is the "." used anywhere else than in Germany for indicating ordinal numbers?)

DarkCloud · May 11, 2002, 17:26

This belongs in the OT or Commuynity Forums-

However
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Cloud- my dog's name
Dark- added to make this name seem more 'ferocious' and dangerous.

First used on BBSes in 1996 or 1997,

Scouse Gits · May 12, 2002, 06:17

Mercator -- as i understand it the decimal comma and full point separator are in general use all over (Western) Europe hence1.000.000,123 - the decimal point and commanseparator are of course used in the UK and US ...

SlowThinker · May 12, 2002, 07:47

Scouses were sober two minutes later in another thread:

Quote:

Originally posted by Scouse Gits in Managing cities: the order
12-05-2002 11:29
SG[1] - sober and speaking for SG(2) - he hopes

And so I wouldn't take them very seriously

In Czechia we write 1 000 000,123 (the spaces may be omitted)

Mercator · May 12, 2002, 19:14

But I was referring to the . in "ramses II." That dot indicates that it's "second" not "two". Is the dot in that meaning used anywhere else?

Marquis de Sodaq · May 12, 2002, 22:33

Why a marquis? It's not a far cry from my real name.
Sodaq is a misspelling of where I grew up.

Scouse Gits · May 13, 2002, 03:48

Mercator - I have never before heard of this usage ...

SG[1]

atawa · May 13, 2002, 13:51

Atawa, the dog of LaoBao, my favourite D&D character

Ecthy · May 13, 2002, 15:54

Mercator, whenever I see you posting I think Saint Marcus has striked again.

SlowThinker · May 13, 2002, 16:02

Yes, we write 2. (or II.) to in place of 2nd.

Ecthy · May 13, 2002, 17:55

yep, so do we. in a colloquial sense we also say just "William two" sometimes, but that's rare. and yes, common phrasing is "the second"

MrWhereItsAt · May 14, 2002, 07:50

My wrestling character name.

It came from my crush a few years ago on a girl named Beck. "Where It's At" being a song by artist Beck, the connection was (somehow) obvious.

Now it's a name for various accounts, email addys etc all over the Web.

Messer Niccolò · May 14, 2002, 07:53

... ever heard of Mr. Machiavelli?

SlowThinker · May 14, 2002, 15:14

Quote:

Originally posted by Ecthelion
yep, so do we. in a colloquial sense we also say just "William two" sometimes, but that's rare. and yes, common phrasing is "the second"

always "the second" here.

Mercator · May 14, 2002, 15:47

Quote:

Originally posted by Ecthelion
Mercator, whenever I see you posting I think Saint Marcus has striked again.

I'm getting all confused myself too...
But I was the first with this avatar damnit!

(But I shouldn't go fighting over Mr. Fortuyn

)... I'll probably change it back after the elections tomorrow.

And the dot-thing isn't used in Holland either, it's only one of the few things I still remember from the German I had at school

ramses II. · May 15, 2002, 11:46

@mercator
yes, II. means "the second" and so on (e.g. 21. - twenty-first,
so Wilhelm II. - Wilhelm the Second)

Ecthy · May 15, 2002, 12:10

mercator, are you also a Dutch right winger Nazi Fortuyn voter?

Mercator · May 15, 2002, 15:23

No, (1) I'm not Dutch, so I can't vote (2) he was no Nazi.

H Tower · May 16, 2002, 13:26

H Tower should be High Tower, but since there was only a limit amount of space ... Back in High school gym class playing volleyball, i was the tallest kid out there and was a powerhouse at the net, so my teammates called me High Tower, after the really tall black guy from the police academy movies

Rufus T. Firefly · May 17, 2002, 06:42

Rufus T. Firefly is the name of Groucho's character, the President of Freedonia, in the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup. I've always thought that if I were actually allowed to run a country, he would be my role model.