User name allusions

[El_Machinae]

Are there other user names here that are more clever than I might realize? Some play on words or allusion?

I was listening to a talk the other day, and the lecturer commented on 'the Zelig' as if it were a thing. I'd had no idea it was a name with literary significance.

Others?

Feel free to mention anyone on this list before they mention themselves.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/group.php?groupid=329

 

[kochman]

Mine is in tribute to my international cocaine smuggling.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's been speculated that mine has to do with the ancient city of Ur.

Actually, it has nothing whatsoever to do with that place.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Mine is an in joke I have with myself. I guess that means no one but me will ever know whether it's clever or not. And I'm probably biased.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Mine is an in joke I have with myself. I guess that means no one but me will ever know whether it's clever or not. And I'm probably biased.

Mine too, though probably more obvious to outside observers on one level.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I hope you won't be offended if I tell you I sometimes mentally convert your name to Timsgot2muchtimeonhishands. Just because you burst on the scene as a prolific poster.

After the St. Louis thread, I also think of it, your actual name, as the preemptive denial of wrongdoing that you have ready for police officers.

The "grey" part of mine is easy enough to outside observers.

 

[Borachio]

I don't think I'm all that interested in the actual allusions of the usernames. (Though I can be if you want.)

I tend to associate a certain "personality type" (as it were)* with a particular username as I go along. Following on from more or less successful interactions. Or observations of others' interactions.

And these associations change over time, I've noticed. And sometimes usernames get all muddled in my head and I've misassociated one name with another's "personality type".

I guess I'm just easily confused.

* a kind of "voice", almost.

 

[Bootstoots]

My username is assuredly not clever, except by the standards of 10-year-old me. That was my age when I registered my first hotmail account - it was the first vaguely amusing-sounding thing I could think of that wasn't taken and didn't make me add numbers to the end. I still had that account and used it to register here just before my 14th birthday. Evidently I wasn't feeling very creative and just used the same thing for my username. Then, 11.5 years elapsed, and here I am.

 

[Borachio]

It suits you perfectly!

 

[Gori the Grey]

Bootstoots suits? Is that what you're saying?

What a hoot.

 

[Borachio]

Moot.

Now. Let's root the loot, and shoot.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My username is assuredly not clever, except by the standards of 10-year-old me. That was my age when I registered my first hotmail account - it was the first vaguely amusing-sounding thing I could think of that wasn't taken and didn't make me add numbers to the end. I still had that account and used it to register here just before my 14th birthday. Evidently I wasn't feeling very creative and just used the same thing for my username. Then, 11.5 years elapsed, and here I am.

Given your current avatar, I'm reminded of the people who play the trumpet during the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies on Parliament Hill.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I hope you won't be offended if I tell you I sometimes mentally convert your name to Timsgot2muchtimeonhishands. Just because you burst on the scene as a prolific poster.

That would be exactly the first level I mentioned...this has been my 'on-line identifier' ever since I retired. One could consider my 'bursting on the scene' as a migratory pattern...I was just as prolific before, I was just elsewhere.

 

[Akka]

Mine has nothing to do with history. It's just my initials (A.K.) as they are pronounced.
So clever, I know.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Mine has nothing to do with history. It's just my initials (A.K.) as they are pronounced.
So clever, I know.

I will try to stop thinking of you as 'ah-kah', with two soft a sounds, as I always have before. Apparently it was clever enough to evade me completely.

 

[Akka]

I will try to stop thinking of you as 'ah-kah', with two soft a sounds, as I always have before. Apparently it was clever enough to evade me completely.

Probably less a case of "clever enough" and more a case of "different languages pronounce individual letters differently". "ah-kah" (provided it's in both cases the "a" in "class" rather than in "blade") is actually pretty close to the intended sound.

 

[Borachio]

Being French, and all.

 

[Kennigit]

silly knight

 

[AdamCrock]

Bora-Bora Chio-Chio-Chips ! xD

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Probably less a case of "clever enough" and more a case of "different languages pronounce individual letters differently". "ah-kah" (provided it's in both cases the "a" in "class" rather than in "blade") is actually pretty close to the intended sound.

Should have thought of that. Then I could have taken credit for pronouncing it in proper French all this time...making it perhaps the only French I have ever pronounced properly in my entire life.