The sexy secrets behind NPF's Usernames

[Lyaer]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mauve

Looks like it's French (surprise!). The French pronunciation on there sounds closer to "muv" as in "push" than anything, but maybe closer to "mohve" than "mawve." In any case, both of those are recognized in English, and when you get right down to it, words are defined by usage, not dictionaries, so.

[Ecks]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I've said this before, but mine is the result of an old password being turned into an email and used here for a user handle because I didn't think I'd be sticking around.

To break it down:
Blue - my favorite color
Star - because I pulled it from an RP character's last name
Ultor - Latin for "avenger," because the Avengers cartoon had just come out, I had gotten really good at pulling strings to give people who pissed off my friends and I a ton of misery, and I'd been futzing around with Latin

What can I say? It was high school.

I finally get it now, thanks much blues, your name has caused my puzzler to puzzle furiously on many occasions. I would puzzle it, and puzzle it, until my puzzler was sore... and when I couldn't let it go, I'd puzzle it some more.

[Overcast]

Overcast, simple thing I was thinking about clouds that day and so I put it down.

This was just about an eternity ago after I found out they had basically dumped the old forums and thus the account I had forced into hiatus. Which was good because that is where I dumped most of my internet noobishness anyway(apologies for that by the way[twice so since I still had a couple ounces to dump off]) and I have never used this name for anything else since.

[Bard The 5th LW]

My name should be obvious to any 8-bit reader. I have considered changing or shortening it on many occasions especially with the new forums making it inconvenient. I'm keeping it like this though. Long and cumbersome, out of spite for the people who made it so I have to change it out of convinience, and not on my own whim.

Originally Posted by Magus

Magi in general are pretty awesome, there is also Magus from Chrono Trigger and the magus from The Thief, which was an awesome book.

I was wholly convinced that I was the only person to ever read this book. I never thought I would meet someone else in the depths of the interwebs who has read it.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by BardTheFifthLightWarrior

My name should be obvious to any 8-bit reader. I have considered changing or shortening it on many occasions especially with the new forums making it inconvenient. I'm keeping it like this though. Long and cumbersome, out of spite for the people who made it so I have to change it out of convinience, and not on my own whim.



I was wholly convinced that I was the only person to ever read this book. I never thought I would meet someone else in the depths of the interwebs who has read it.

I've also read it. I don't remember much, since it was many years ago, but I remember I liked it. Also that they ate a lot of olives and sweaty cheese.

[phil_]

Hey, look what I found after two nights of searching?

It's the story of my underscore in comic form. I don't care that you don't care; I found it so I'm linking it.

[wx4caster]

ummm

wx is an abbreviation for weather
4caster is a shorthand for forecaster
and i am a meteorologist, aka weather forecaster.

and rookie was taken...

[Terex4]

My original name DruidoftheDead was born of my love of undead. Everything has a protector, civilization, nature, but not the undead. They idea of an undead druid tickled me enough that I had to use it as a persona.

Eventually I got bored with it as I got older and decided to turn my druid email address into a spam email since that's what it had in it more than anything already. Stuck with no originality (I find good inspiration rarely) I asked my 4 year old daughter to spell something for me. She threw together the letters that form this name. Unfortunately the name was taken so I asked her for a number. Being 4 years old, 4 was the most important number to her and she picked it.

I've considered switching back to Druid but I'll probably wait until I have an internet company that won't try to screw me over for at least 6 months and I'm more active again before I make such a change.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Originally Posted by Terex4

[...]

How nerdy am I for reading your name as "Teresa"?

[Terex4]

Originally Posted by InsaneGenius

How nerdy am I for reading your name as "Teresa"?

Wouldn't be the first time I've been confused for a girl.