How did you think up your Apolyton username? - Page 3

November 11, 2002, 18:00

LulThyme
pronounced in French same as "L'ultime" The ultimate
almost noone notices even french speakers which is fun.
A few years ago (96 if im not mistaken) I was in a pharmacy, waiting for my name to be called with a friend, and I was saying it would be fun to take a real word and adding lots of useless letters like there are so many in French that wouldnt change the sound but make it almost unrecognizable.
There happened to be lots of those corny flaky love books, with titles such as "L'ultime passion" (or The Ultimate Passion) and red covers with a drawing of some hunky guy kissing a not-much dressed lovely lady, so that was my inspiration.
I used it on my fav BBS that evening and it has stuck since then (6 years ago now).

Its been really succesfull
I use Lul as a short for it (some of my rl friends who play a lot online with me even call me lul sometimes and yes i know it has a funny meaning in dutch)
and usually seperate it Lul Thyme, LulThyme, or Lul_Thyme depending on what kind of characters are allowed.
the seperation makes it even harder to notice the meaning for a French speaker
The only ppl who notice really are those who actually try to pronounce it assuming it is French (if u prounouce it as if it were english it doesnt work)

Andemagne · November 11, 2002, 18:05

won't tell

gsmoove23 · November 11, 2002, 18:14

My inspiration, Smoove B

http://www.theonion.com/archive/archive_smooveb.html

Nubclear · November 11, 2002, 18:17

My name is credited in part to Tassadar (character from Starcraft) and partially to the Itar-Tass news agency

Felch · November 11, 2002, 18:30

Chill name, smoove. I got my name after hearing an Onion audio segment, being interested by a new word I heard, and deciding to find out what it meant.

Then I added an X for the Malcolm X flavoring.

Dauphin · November 11, 2002, 18:33

I'm surprise your name hasn't been censored.

Immortal Wombat · November 11, 2002, 18:36

I'm not. It's far more acceptable than *****, ****, *** or ****, (the female dog, two birds and the Vice-Prez). Simply because nobody knows what it means.

Starchild · November 11, 2002, 18:42

It started out as a username that I though sounded cool. I have since built an entire psychological complex around it with varying degrees of meglomania and a godhood fixation worked in.

tinyp3nis · November 11, 2002, 18:46

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Originally posted by Starchild
It started out as a username that I though sounded cool. I have since built an entire psychological complex around it with varying degrees of meglomania and a godhood fixation worked in.

Should I too?

MattyBoy · November 11, 2002, 18:59

Love this thread, except that I'm very disappointed that Loinburger is actually just a hamburger.

Kassiopeia, don't change your name, it has an excellent ring to it.

redbull, is that your favourite drink?

As for MattyBoy, it's a nickname I picked up while playing D&D with my older brother and his friends. Fatty and MagnumFlatty somehow didn't work as well for me and Batman was taken.

Odin · November 11, 2002, 19:17

I'm Norwegian, need I say more? My classmates call me Selz, since my last name (Selseth) sounds like the shampoo Selsun Blue.

NeOmega · November 11, 2002, 21:46

I called myself mafia for quake II
it was taken when i ttried to set up e-mail accounts, so I changed it to newmafia or neomafia
then after getting stoned as hell, and becoming a felon, I questioned my sanity, and wondered if I was somehow trying to carry out some alter ego.
So I changed it to NeOmega.... mostly because spelling it NeO with O being the omega symbol would look cool in my opinion.

Lorizael · November 11, 2002, 22:31

What a sad, sad story...

It was the name I used for an elven conjurer back in 2nd edition D&D. His name was Lorizael Lomaut, master of the Grease Spell (and creator of the spell, Lorizael's Grease). He was my favorite character, though now my favorite character is Theces Pyorial, a somewhat less heroic person than Lorizael was.

Anyhow, I always thought the name was very creative so I used it for everything and really loved the name. Couple months ago I was reading the second edition Eldar Codex from Warhammer 40,000 and lo and behold, there's a one page story fragment with a single mention of an Eldar Guardian named Lorizael.

Apparently my mind remembered the name, and when I was looking for a cool sounding elven name (Eldar are just Space Elves, basically), it pulled this from the deep recesses of my memory. So sad... I was so disappointed. Best name I'd ever invented...

So I think I'll probably start using Theces Pyorial and Zirectiliac (character from a novel I'm writing) instead of Lorizael, but I don't know, I still like the name.

Hmm, I wrote far too much for the little that I actually said.

Six Thousand Year Old Man · November 11, 2002, 22:40

I couldn't think of a good name, so I just kept the default name that the 'poly registration wizard created.

Tuberski · November 11, 2002, 22:49

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Originally posted by loinburger

Beef. It's basically just a well-made hamburger, but with an Olde English name. They serve them at Alfie's Inn. (I always have mine topped with jalapenos, grilled onions, and tobasco sauce, plus a bit of salt.)

I thought loinburger was chopped tube steak.....

ACK!

H Tower · November 11, 2002, 22:58

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Originally posted by loinburger

Beef. It's basically just a well-made hamburger, but with an Olde English name. They serve them at Alfie's Inn. (I always have mine topped with jalapenos, grilled onions, and tobasco sauce, plus a bit of salt.)

Alfie's is great! In fact, when I go home for break I think I'll have to go for lunch sometime

My name is a shortened version of High Tower, a nickname I had in high school. something to do with me being really tall

Tuberski · November 11, 2002, 23:05

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!

Frozzy · November 11, 2002, 23:34

Quote:

Originally posted by MattyBoy
Kassiopeia, don't change your name, it has an excellent ring to it.

I really have to agree with this comment

Keep it Kassi!!!

Quote:

redbull, is that your favourite drink?

Actually, my favourite drink is "Milo". It's cocao with a Kiwi twist

I was just drinking RB at the time...

orange · November 12, 2002, 00:20

When my cousin and I were younger we used to dabble in Visual Basic...we'd make games and pretend like we were going to have a company one day and market them. We called ourselves "Orange Software" because we hated Macs. When I first got AOL I had to pick a username, and this was about the same time we picked a company name, so I picked OrangeSoftware...only it was a maximum 10 characters...so i went with every other letter of Software and got...

Orange Software --> OrangeSfwr

I had it as my name for most everything, but people kept spelling it wrong or calling me "Swiffer" so I shortened it for simplicities sake...

OrangeSfwr --> orange

it's what most people called me anyway...orange...

chequita guevara · November 12, 2002, 00:59

With me, it's sort of obvious. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution is a hero to millions of youth around the world. Che, btw, is ponounced, "shay."

Chegitz is a Yiddish word, pronounced "shay-getz." When said about a gentile, it means thug, a**hole. My Jewish comrades, being the great people they were, decided one day to start insulting me in Yiddish. When they got to shaygetz, my creativity kicked in. I said, "Shaygetz? Shaygetz Guevara, yeah, that's the ticket." My comrades groaned. Soon after I got a job at the school computer lab and I wanted a psuedonym for my email, so I transliterated shaygetz to chegitz, to make the phonetic pun visual.

The Vagabond · November 12, 2002, 02:13

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Originally posted by loinburger
My first username was technophile, since I always played as Zakharov in SMAC.

I haven't played SMAC in quite awhile, so I changed to loinburger since loinburgers are delicious.

You traded so gorgeous name as technophile for loinburger?? That was your big mistake, man.

CapitanGarlic · November 12, 2002, 02:56

Hmm...

Started with 'Garlic' when my brother spontaneously said "Hey, garlic" when he meant to say "Hey, Eric". I don't understand either.

I then tagged Captain onto it when playing the original Team Fortress (for quake I), but one day misspelled it as Capitan. I was tired, but decided that the change was for the best.

The next thing to change was the spacing: I decided that Capitan Garlic was too much effort to type when compared to CapitanGarlic.

I've since kept it, because I know that no one will be insane(stupid)enough to try and steal this handle. It's one way to be sure that I'm unique.

ixnay · November 12, 2002, 03:00

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Originally posted by CapitanGarlic
Hmm...

Started with 'Garlic' when my brother spontaneously said "Hey, garlic" when he meant to say "Hey, Eric". I don't understand either.

I think I had something in my throat and just sort of gurgled it out. Though I don't really remember when that happened.

orange · November 12, 2002, 03:01

i never noticed that it was Capitan, rather than Captain...weird...

orange · November 12, 2002, 03:02

you two are brothers? I thought you were roomates.

------> Loop

orange <-----

That's me, out of the loop

ixnay · November 12, 2002, 03:06

Yep. He's two years younger than I and will be going to my rival school (U of Montana) next year. Though my roommate did register a gimmick account last year after seeing how much time I spent on apolyton.

Blisterz · November 12, 2002, 03:21

I lived on the street for most of my teenage years 14-20, where everyone uses a nickname. One summer when I was around 16 I got scabes really bad (quite hard to get rid of when you live on the street. I got them so bad I had scabs all over my hands, and my shoulders. I was the a lot younger then most of the other people I lived on the street with, and that summer everyone started calling my Blister boy. Then It got shortened to Blister.

A friend of mine met a girl and decided to move accross the country with her, so he showed me how to set up an e-mail account at the library so I could keep in touch him. When I tried Blister for my Hotmail log in, it was taken. So I tryed a few things, the first to not be taken was Blisterz.

I have been using it ever since every time I need a log in name on the internet.

I am expecting at least one "ewwwwwwww"

Frozzy · November 12, 2002, 03:53

Wow... Very interesting story Blisterz

Alex · November 12, 2002, 07:52

ewwwwwwww

loinburger · November 12, 2002, 10:17

Quote:

Originally posted by MattyBoy
I'm very disappointed that Loinburger is actually just a hamburger.

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