Explain your screen name

[Kooldino]

Now that you told us what your avatar means (http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39199), tell us what the significance of your screen name is, and how it came about.

Mine is derived from my name (which is Dana...and no, I'm not a girl, sorry!). When I ran track in high school, "Dana" wasn't a hard enough name I guess, and I was usually called "Dino" by the guys I ran with.

So in '97 when I signed up for hotmail, my friend told me to choose a screenname, and suggested my nickname. But Dino was taken. He then told me to throw a "cool or something" in front of it. Taken. I changed the "c" to a "k" and it went through. I've held onto the name just for the sake of consistency.

[efty]

My name is Eftychios and since most people non greek have a hard time pronouncing it right I use Efty for simplicity.

[Ribbit]

I'm wondering if Kooldino is collecting information about us

[ZokesPro]

Way back in 1992 I called myself Zokes cause I had Marzocchi Zokes suspension on my mountain bike and when I got into college I changed it to ZokesPro.



Disclaimer: Suspension pic may differ from actual suspension on ZokesPro's mountain bike.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Mine is... hmm... not quite sure what my name means. Oh well.

[Tempest]

Well, mine's just one of those über-l33t names that one comes up with when he has to find a screen name real fast. That, and I actually like the game in question.

But I'm actually pretty sick of the name by now.

[Sethos]

Ok so my name...

The history: I when I was a kid I used to be quite the theif, quite good too, but then I grew up and realized that this was stupid and wrong...

There is a character in a book series that I read: Sethos. He is also a former "Master Criminal" and has now (1914) turned over a new leaf and become a helper of the people you might say.

Another nickname that I was given by the same book series was: Ramses... both were pharos of ancient Egypt...

~Sethos (ver. 2.0 fully honest now thank you very much )

[Technoid]

Hm...explain my name.......it's a nontranslateable ancient Cybertronian word (I lost track when Kup and Perceptor started to argue about the translation to modern Cybertronian )

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by Ribbit
I'm wondering if Kooldino is collecting information about us

haha, that suggestion is SO absurd!











Thanks to my info gathering, I know where you live. Expect my represntatives to drop by later to speak to you.

[Ribbit]

I predict Kooldino's next thread subject to be "Explain your sig"

Hmm, about my nick... it sort of comes from the days when I was a little kid and the family had an Apple ][. There were two things in particular - games which recorded your high score along with a three-letter 'ID', and the UCSD Pascal system, which had three-character disk labels. Of course, everyone used their initials in the games and on their personal Pascal disk (we all tried programming to some extent, only dad and me got anywhere with it), but I've got two middle names and therefore four initials, which won't fit. So my dad suggested I shorten my name (Robert) to 'RBT' and use that, and I've always used it as a login and whatever since then.

So why Ribbit? Well, if you try to say "rbt" as a word (rather than R-B-T), you'll sort of say something which sounds like "ribbit". There you go.

So it really does have nothing to do with frogs.

[mmp121]

Mine comes from back in my college days. MMP121 was my userid in college. I've used it ever since for email and the like, as that's what my friends and familiy members know me as.

[redgreenbluex3]

i dont know

[K6-III]

First CPU from AMD to be faster at something...

....and that kickass trilevel cache...

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by K6-III
First CPU from AMD to be faster at something...

....and that kickass trilevel cache...

Oh yeah, that CPU was badass in it's time.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by K6-III
First CPU from AMD to be faster at something...

No it wasn't. Those 486 DX4s were there too.