VileToad on 10/1/2003 at 18:28
Good names are one of the best parts of forums. I'll often browse the indexes just to enjoy the creativity that goes into the names.
I'm who I am because I absolutely love when the guards call me a vile toad or a filthy weed and then threaten to tell their big brother on me.
theBlackman on 10/1/2003 at 22:48
Mine comes from a transliteration of a boyhood nick. Dhu in Gaelic means Black, hidden, secret, mysterious, or unknown as in outside the ken of man.
Glas from the same language means man. Dhu Glas was the nick.
It has become bastardized over the years to Douglas. Translated it means theBlackman. Or the solitary man, or the man of secrets.
Depending on how it is used it can have many meanings. Donal Dhu of old was Black Donal(d), or Donal the Black, meaning mean and viscious killer, or Donald with the black hair.
A short dirk hidden or carried out of sight in a boot, as the Scots and Irish used to do was called a Skean Dhu or "Hidden-secret-unseen" knife (Skean)
jake the Taffer on 10/1/2003 at 22:57
Jake - my name.
the - litle word that fits in the middle and helps the last word to make sense in conjunction with the first.
taffer - the best thiefy word of all time.
DracheCool on 11/1/2003 at 05:31
Drache is the German word for dragon.
Cool is my last name. No, really. Dang, nobody ever believes that, but its true!
Shadow Creepr on 11/1/2003 at 14:01
Mine is related to the sneaky way you play Thief. I wanted Shadow Creeper but someone (who had never even posted) had it....so Shadow Creepr it was.
easterlingman on 11/1/2003 at 16:05
Welllll.... to begin with, I have always been a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien's famous books, and 3 or so years ago I bought the Middle Earth Encyclopedia and read it. The love of my life (at the time, liked to cally me a 'swarthy man', and the entry in the index of the Encyclopedia titled 'Swarthy Men' pointed to a different entry entitled 'Easterling Men'. So I became Easterlingman. To my great dismay the love of my life ceased to be love of my life, but the name stuck, namely because nobody has ever used it before. At least not on the internet.
My @173r3d 1337 name is 3@5+3r|1n6m@n.
Ekim on 11/1/2003 at 17:17
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Originally posted by easterlingman My @173r3d 1337 name is 3@5+3r|1n6m@n. Looks like what we used to get before modems had decent error correction.
P.S. Blackman, according to people round here, the Skean Dhu was moved to the sock/boot specifically so it could be seen, out of politeness, and it had been carried in something not unlike a shoulder holster before then. Do a websearch for "Armpit Dagger" if you want more info on this version of the story.
Eshaktaar on 11/1/2003 at 18:02
No exciting story here: It's just the name of my character in Morrowind. I thought it looked somewhat "Dark Elvish". Don't ask me how to pronounce it, I don't know either :p
