usernames

[Shogoth]

i'm wondering about the meaning of your usernames for quite a while now!
ok, grey randall is clear, pigumon must be a kind of pokemon or so, but what is a dojoboy or even "worse" trabpukcip or txurce?

i know this is rather for the general section, but i care for macusers.

of course i'll also explain my name.

shogoth is actually not a personal name but the name for a kind of creatures in h.p. lovecraft's novels (at the mountains of doom).
it's a giant amorphous mass of cells that is able to create all kinds of organs wherever it wants to :mutant:.
originally designed by "the old ones" as working slaves they develloped intelligence and overthrew (ate ) their masters. right now they're waiting in their caverns in the north pole, but be aware, as soon it gets hot enough we will come after you....

edit: fixed a smiley

 

[dojoboy]

Originally posted by Shogoth
shogoth is actually not a personal name but the name for a kind of creatures in h.p. lovecraft's novels (at the mountains of doom).
it's a giant amorphous mass of cells that is able to create all kinds of organs wherever it wants to :mutant:.
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Great thread, Shogoth!

What you described sounds a lot like the sci-fi thriller, "The Thing." I forget who made the most recent movie version w/ Kurt Russell.

My username is a combo of what my 4 y/o son use to call wrestling (dojo). I was a college wrestler, and a former college wrestling coach. Now, I teach at a middle school and coach wrestling for the middle & upper schools. Well, I would joke around that my son was a Japanese national reincarnated re: dojo = karate training gym (something similar). He was always in the practice room, and still is. I just slapped "boy" on the end of it, hence, "wrestling-boy." Corny, huh? Well, it always has me thinking of my son, well, now its sons. I guess I need to incorporate my second one. Hmm....

 

[gfeier]

Originally posted by Shogoth

of course i'll also explain my name.

shogoth is actually not a personal name but the name for a kind of creatures in h.p. lovecraft's novels (at the mountains of doom).
it's a giant amorphous mass of cells that is able to create all kinds of organs wherever it wants to :mutant:.
originally designed by "the old ones" as working slaves they develloped intelligence and overthrew (ate ) their masters. right now they're waiting in their caverns in the north pole, but be aware, as soon it gets hot enough we will come after you....

edit: fixed a smiley

Can't wait to see your avatar when you get enough posts! Mine's just first initial & first part of last name. Easiest to remember. I have other names on other boards, however. Sorta like Gandalf.

 

[sirromdivad]

Shogoth: good thread!

Dojoboy: that's funny, I had actually been meaning to ask you was style of martial arts you studied (taking 'dojo' for its Japanese meaning)

Mine's just my named spelled backwards -- very boring. But, given how many David Morrises there apparently are in the world, it's the only login name I can pretty much be certain no on else has. well, ok, it's a little geekier than that come to think of it -- it was also the name of one of my favorite D&D characters I ever played. I thought that, with the right intonation (stress on the last syllable of each word, like Sirróm Divád) it was a good Elvish name.

OK, now that I've confessed that to a bunch of people I've never met, I'll wander off to embarrass myself elsewhere...

-dem

 

[Trabpukcip]

Ok mine is quite simple and I've been using as a kind of passport for every legal place I go on the net... forums included...

So, I took it from a Simpsons episode. The one where Homer forget to go get Bart at the end of his soccer game. Bart then try to send thought to Homer and he send "Pick up Bart". So it end up affecting Millhouse and the Millhouse write on a wall facing a mirror "traB pu kciP". So in the mirror we can see "Pick up Bart"... That part of the episode was a joke about a scene in the movie "The Shinning" from Kubrick.

So I thought of it as a cool stupid thing worth using as a name... was it a good idea?

 

[Shogoth]

ah, mysteries are getting unravelled!

please excuse my ignorance, but it's not clear to my what a wrestler is.
i know american wrestling where masked people jump on each other and i think you have also something in the us that is more like the greek original where you have to put somebody on his back or throw him out of the ring. we have a similar traditional sports in switzerland where you wear special trousers to get a grip where you try to put the oponent on his back or throw him out, kicking and boxing is not allowed.

@ gfeier

i'm not shure wheter you realy want to see my avatar, the only man who ever saw a shogoth went crazy the moment he saw it

@ sirróm

hey, it realy sounds elvish! i can barely wait for the next lotr!

@ trabpukcip

ah, somehow i had the feeling i knew your name!
good choice! just lucky we don't have to pronounciate it...
was this the episode where barth gets kind of adopted by a cool father?

 

[Trabpukcip]

Originally posted by Shogoth

was this the episode where barth gets kind of adopted by a cool father?

I beleive so.

 

[dojoboy]

Originally posted by Shogoth
ah, mysteries are getting unravelled!

please excuse my ignorance, but it's not clear to my what a wrestler is.
i know american wrestling where masked people jump on each other and i think you have also something in the us that is more like the greek original where you have to put somebody on his back or throw him out of the ring. we have a similar traditional sports in switzerland where you wear special trousers to get a grip where you try to put the oponent on his back or throw him out, kicking and boxing is not allowed. .....

Understandable, Shogoth. And, unfortunate for America at the same time. "Professional" wrestling here in the States is a sad commentary on the American mainstream. Its more fictional and showmanship rather than skill, and it appeals to the lowest common denominator in our society (my opinion). In America, the style of wrestling I'm involved in is considered "amateur," but in reality it is REAL wrestling (founded on Greek origins). I'm sure you're familiar w/ the style of international wrestling exhibited in the Olympics and World Championships. Uh..., I never made that far, but I did wrestle in the national championships for universities here in the States.

sirromdivad, great username. I had similar thoughts about your username. I believed "sirrom" was a title.

trabpukcip,

gfeier, good ole' steak-and-potatos.

 

[Pigumon]

Wow, this is fun!
You guys picked up really cool names.


OK, my turn.

Does anybody knows "ultraman"? It is an old Japanese Sci-Fi kind of TV program about fictional hero, who protect earth from evil "Kaiju" monsters.

Pigumon is one of the monsters, human-sized but not evil. Rather friendly to people and ugly but cute. My last name is kind of similar.
The true spelling is "Pygmon" according to the website. But I first misspelled as Pigumon because I thought his name came from pig, which is my favorite animal and became used to it. So I did not correct it and keep using Pigumon at every websites or forums.

 

[dojoboy]

Yea, I remember Ultraman. In the early 70s, an Ultraman show was on tv which I watched all the time. Now, FoxKids is producing an Ultraman show, beginning this Staurday morning, for kids. My son is already looking forward to watching it from the promos. Its not a cartoon but in the same fashion as the old show. There is a twist to Ultraman this time, however. I believe he is 3 different personas rolled into one, somehow. I'll see this weekend.

 

[gfeier]

Originally posted by Shogoth

@ gfeier

i'm not shure wheter you realy want to see my avatar, the only man who ever saw a shogoth went crazy the moment he saw it

I'm perfectly safe then. I'm already there.

 

[Beamup]

Well, I might as well get in on this. "Beamup" was modified from "Beam me up, Scotty!" I picked that because people kept saying it to me - one of the disadvantages of having the first name Scott and a largely Scottish heritage. At least I don't have the accent, though I can kind of fake it.

 

[Grey Randall]

HASTOR! HASTOR! HAS-------------

Recognized shogoth immediately ::chuckles::

And I kinda figured out trabpukcip, sirromdivad, and beamup. I just went with my name. I'm Grey Randall on the Apple discussion boards as well... I think I'm Grey_Six on most other ones, and on all SCA boards, I'm on as my SCA Persona. ::shrugs::

already insane gfeifer? I forget how many sanity points a shogoth encounter costs in Call of Cthulu...... Man, I miss tabletop gaming!

 

[Sid]

Gee, there's a lot of thought that goes into those names!

Someone like me is too old, too bald to cope with other identities; now I can see the fun that you have all created. [I had to join this thread somehow…]

 

[Txurce]

My heritage is Basque, and Txurce is my first name (in Basque). Like many Basque names, there's something ancient-era about it that seemed to paticularly apply to Civ.

 

[dojoboy]

Txurce, is Basque (?) the language in Spain which roots are unknown? Meaning, linguists are unable to trace it to a specific language-family.

Off-topic: My neice left last week for Spain. She speaks fairly good Spanish, for a Tennessean, and is attending school in Zarogoza for her junior year of high school.

 

[sirromdivad]

Txurce, how does one pronounce that (in Basque)?

Have you by any chance read The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky? I was at the Strand today (a huge used bookstore in Manhattan, for the non-New Yorkers) and almost picked it up, but ended up just getting what I had actually gone for (a VERY rare occurance.) Am reading another book by the same author, Salt: A World History. Fascinating so far; never really thought much about salt before...

But dojoboy, yes, I believe that Basque stands out as the only currently spoken language whose origins linguists have not been able to trace.

-dem

 

[Trabpukcip]

Originally posted by Sid
Someone like me is too old, too bald to cope with other identities;

It can't be that bad... how old are you? and How bald are you...

 

[Pigumon]

Yeah, pronunciation is really difficult. I have no idea about some of your names.

>dojoboy
There are many ultraman in the series. I like first 3 or 4, which I watched in my childhood. I am not familiar with new ones.
Watching ultraman with son, sounds good. But I do not think my son likes it....

Speaking of pronunciation, I hope your son pronounces as <doh-joh> with the meaning of karate gym. If it is pronounced as <do-joh>, it means a loach (fish) in Japanese.

 

[Txurce]

Txurce is pronounced "Choor-seh." The Basques are the oldest European people, and their language indeed has no links to any other. A BASQUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD is great, especially if you're Basque. You learn things like the guys who killed Roland in "The Song of Roland" weren't the Moors, but the Basques, who were pissed at Charlemagne. Kurlansky wrote it after writing a really entertaining one called COD: THE FISH THAT CHANGED HISTORY (or something like that). He believes the Basques discovered the New World, but kept it secret, because it was their fishing spot!