[BlackKusanagi]

We all have em. Hell its what we use now in this forum. My question, which is something thats been itching in the back of my head…what does your net name mean…and what inspired it?

[stmercy2020]

I'm one of the rare idjits that actually maintains more than one internet ID.  The main one that I use here, stmercy2020, is linked to my gaming days and is an indication of just how much of a geek I am.  I had a cyberpunk 2020 character once, a sniper, who was part of a (surprise) primarily solo strike team.  The joke was that he was the merciful option because if he took you out it would be over before you knew it (a head shot from over 1500 meters is the sort of insane accuracy that can only be acheived with cybernetics and game mechanics) as opposed to the graphic and painful violence that would ensue if one of the others (most notably, the female full-'borg named Furie) got you.

My other name, used more frequently in business dealings, is a back-of-the-hand reference to my fascination with mythology and trickster tales.  Coyote is one of the best known native American tricksters (along with Inktome, Wisadkejak, and others of their ilk), and Canis Latrans is the Latin name for a coyote.  Once upon a time I was Coyote321 (there was already a Coyote with numbers 1, 12, 123, & 21 already taken) and so, when I needed to acquire another account with both letters and numbers, and I discovered that coyote had become that popular a screen name, I opted to switch over to the Latin.  I never even bothered to check if any of the other numbers were used- I just stuck with 321 because I'd become so used to typing it.

And there you have it, kiddies- the saga of my names.  Wipe the drool off of your desks, smooth the pillow-creases out of your cheeks, now, and wake up.  It's your turn.

[JimmyDimples]

Well, with this one, Jimmy Dimples… I needed an alternate ID myself from the other stuff in my web life since this one treads into NSFW territory all too often.  Back when I first got a web ID, I loved to do Play By e-Mail Role Playing Games.  Essentially, we would get the premise for a campaign/story, and create characters for them, and e-mail back and forth with what our characters did.  Very much like Big Eyes, Small Mouth with no dice rolls. 

Originally, I was in a Sailor Moon PBeM RPG.  But the game-master there wanted to try something else… a superhero RPG.  And we were going to design original heroes and villains, and do our campaign there.  My own hero for that one was a character called Jimmy Dimples, the One Man Walking Freakshow.  He was an abandoned genetic engineering mistake that got adopted by a circus fat lady when she found him as an infant in a drainage ditch.  And he grew up in the circus, learning the skills, and showing his powers (stretching, multiple limbs, and a giant mouth across his belly that spat fire). 

Unfortunately, the RPG didn't take off, and I never got to play with him.  Jimmy just sat in a file languishing, and even the Sailor Moon campaign folded, too.

Then I discovered the massive female genres.  And needing a new nom de net, I figured this one would be as good as any other.

You can check out his intro story and "character sheet" here.

[Bo Inaka]

My story is shorter.  I was in Japan trying to learn the language, and at one point wanted to see if I could find a Japanese equivalent of "the middle of nowhere".  A friend suggested bo-inaka, and it stuck with me.  Inaka means something like "a rural place", and the bo-  strengthens it and adds a feeling of mindlessness, kind of like a tv showing static.  I don't think this word really exists.
Bo.

[AlexG]

I think I answered this one a long while back.  Its no big mystery, its just the abbreviation of my full name, that's all.  8)

Now if you were to ask me about the "Personal Text" for my Net Moniker, yes I admit it, its a paraphrase of a line used by Treat Williams in the movie Deep Rising. And it was either that or use "Now what?"  Which on the face of it, the former certainly fits in much better then the latter when you think about it.  After all, "Now that's something you don't see everyday." is a normal reaction to any unexpected encounter with a real world Amazon.  😮

Goofy as the film is, its one of my (as Siskel and Ebert would say) guilty pleasure movies.  Besides, those Gatling gun rifles used in it are a blast, no pun intended.  😉

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Deadly Pixxxie]

My husband called me "an adorable little pixie" when he first met me.

My reply was…"I am not! I can do damage. I'm a deadly pixie, damnit!"

I added two X's to it.

That's about it.

[Silent One]

Mine is pretty straight forward.  I have a few internet nicknames but the one I chose when when I entered the realm of GTS/FMG was "Silent One".  That was a self acknowledgment regarding the slightly longer than a year stretch of lurking without ever posting or contributing.

[errant12345]

… you know, I honestly don't remember.  ???
I'll post another reply if I do.

[TC2]

Mine is self explanatory.

I collect pictures, photos, videos of FM, FMG content.

I chose 2 because the "original" Collector from DTV thought I was trying to impersonate him.  Not that I would want to, his stories were lackluster in my opinion.  SO!  I became TC2 and now I do my own thing.

[joey7x]

Nothing special, just your average Joe.

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