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Posted January 01, 2016
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tinyE: SNL skit: Tiny Elvis
Oh!...I was convinced it was in tribute to easyE!
Posted January 01, 2016
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tinyE: As opposed to? XD
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Emachine9643: I don't know, she started with the AOL thing and then ended it with "I'm your rowing friend".... It just confused me. I feel dirty now.
Reminds me of a joke. Here's my ad-libbed version of it:

Three men decide to save money and book a hotel room together for the night and are surprised to see that it only has one bed, but decide to stay anyway. They awake in the morning after a night of partying and the guy on the left says "I had a dream last night that I was being jerked off by a gorgeous woman" and the guy on the right says "Wow that's a coincidence, so did I!" The guy sleeping in the middle of the bed says "I had a dream I was skiiing."

Rowing, as in "one who likes to arrange things in rows" :P

I made up my name in 2000 when I started Ultima Online, my first MMORPG. I had just watched Gladiator and was partly inspired by Maximus and Roman nomenclature.


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Tarm: I'm from Sweden so figure it out yourself. If you can with all the characterizations both figuratively and literally speaking.

Edit: I think I chose it at the dawn of the internet when meeting persons on the net meant typing on usenet. Back then something like my name was original. I got used to the name, realized it sounded like a real name and kept on using it.
"the pugnent smell of one's skin after a night's sleep specifically following a long night (and sometimes day) of drinking beer." :P

From Urban dictionary

"tarn (tärn)►

n.
A small mountain lake, especially one formed by glaciers"

I had just read this definition as I was looking up etymology of my own name :) That would be my honest guess.
Post edited January 01, 2016 by Tarnicus
Posted January 01, 2016
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Tarm: I'm from Sweden so figure it out yourself. If you can with all the characterizations both figuratively and literally speaking.

Edit: I think I chose it at the dawn of the internet when meeting persons on the net meant typing on usenet. Back then something like my name was original. I got used to the name, realized it sounded like a real name and kept on using it.
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Tarnicus: "the pugnent smell of one's skin after a night's sleep specifically following a long night (and sometimes day) of drinking beer." :P

From Urban dictionary

"tarn (tärn)►

n.
A small mountain lake, especially one formed by glaciers"

I had just read this definition as I was looking up etymology of my own name :) That would be my honest guess.
That's really nice of you to take the time for poor old me but I do spell it with a m. Tarm. Got probably more with me growing a self-confidence and laughing at non swedish people thinking my name was just that. Heh. Sometimes I miss the old internet days.
Posted January 01, 2016
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Tarm: That's really nice of you to take the time for poor old me but I do spell it with a m. Tarm. Got probably more with me growing a self-confidence and laughing at non swedish people thinking my name was just that. Heh. Sometimes I miss the old internet days.
Yeah I was wondering if it was perhaps one of those words where m/n are interchangeable, but that's probably me going back to my high school Japanese. I can relate to your "back then something like my name was original". It took years for another Tarnicus imposter to turn up!
Posted January 01, 2016
I didn't choose my username. My username chose me.
Posted January 01, 2016
Ganni = translates to John in Maltese
1987 = well take a guess.

Not the most creative name and easily one that I can remember :)
Post edited January 01, 2016 by Ganni1987
Posted January 01, 2016
The sound the cat made in chapter four of James Joyce's Ulysses. Basically an alternative spelling for meow. Reflects my love of cats and literature.
Post edited January 01, 2016 by mrkgnao
Posted January 01, 2016
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Tarm: That's really nice of you to take the time for poor old me but I do spell it with a m. Tarm. Got probably more with me growing a self-confidence and laughing at non swedish people thinking my name was just that. Heh. Sometimes I miss the old internet days.
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Tarnicus: Yeah I was wondering if it was perhaps one of those words where m/n are interchangeable, but that's probably me going back to my high school Japanese. I can relate to your "back then something like my name was original". It took years for another Tarnicus imposter to turn up!
You have to think simple!
Tarm is a word with a direct and very defined meaning in Swedish. Back in the day there wasn't that many Swedes around on the proto net so I had little competition. When that started to change also words and meanings started to blur because of the influx of languages and cultural meanings. But I'm a grognard so I stay with my name.
Posted January 01, 2016
Random, made-up namey-sounding confabulation. I've come up with dozens of such phrases (Ask me about the weird workings of my brain!). It sounded kind of funny, so....
I might have been subconsciously influenced by the various names for Whatsisname Ryder in the Space Mutiny episode on Mystery Science Theater.

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mrkgnao: The sound the cat made in chapter four of James Joyce's Ulysses. Basically an alternative spelling for meow.
See, I've always mentally pronounced your username as "Mister Kay Now".

(I see MaGog is up to v6.6.5 -- will you be doing anything special for 6.6.6? Blood red background, perhaps? Or all hyperlinks redirecting to YouTube videos of black metal songs?)
Posted January 01, 2016
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mrkgnao: The sound the cat made in chapter four of James Joyce's Ulysses. Basically an alternative spelling for meow.
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HunchBluntley: See, I've always mentally pronounced your username as "Mister Kay Now".

(I see MaGog is up to v6.6.5 -- will you be doing anything special for 6.6.6? Blood red background, perhaps? Or all hyperlinks redirecting to YouTube videos of black metal songs?)
One of the reasons it's still at 6.6.5, is that I have nothing special for 6.6.6. I am tempted to skip straight to 6.7.0.
Posted January 01, 2016
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mrkgnao: One of the reasons it's still at 6.6.5, is that I have nothing special for 6.6.6. I am tempted to skip straight to 6.7.0.
Now that would be truly diabolical.
Posted January 01, 2016
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Tarm: You have to think simple!
Tarm is a word with a direct and very defined meaning in Swedish. Back in the day there wasn't that many Swedes around on the proto net so I had little competition. When that started to change also words and meanings started to blur because of the influx of languages and cultural meanings. But I'm a grognard so I stay with my name.
Haha okay now I've got it :)
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HunchBluntley: Random, made-up namey-sounding confabulation. I've come up with dozens of such phrases (Ask me about the weird workings of my brain!). It sounded kind of funny, so....
I might have been subconsciously influenced by the various names for Whatsisname Ryder in the Space Mutiny episode on Mystery Science Theater.

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mrkgnao: The sound the cat made in chapter four of James Joyce's Ulysses. Basically an alternative spelling for meow.
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HunchBluntley: See, I've always mentally pronounced your username as "Mister Kay Now".

(I see MaGog is up to v6.6.5 -- will you be doing anything special for 6.6.6? Blood red background, perhaps? Or all hyperlinks redirecting to YouTube videos of black metal songs?)
That part of our brains works similarly :)
Post edited January 01, 2016 by Tarnicus
Posted January 01, 2016
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Tarm: You have to think simple!
Tarm is a word with a direct and very defined meaning in Swedish. Back in the day there wasn't that many Swedes around on the proto net so I had little competition. When that started to change also words and meanings started to blur because of the influx of languages and cultural meanings. But I'm a grognard so I stay with my name.
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Tarnicus: Haha okay now I've got it :)
Don't forget other cultures meaning of it too. My name might be the only transcultural name here on gog.

Edit: Removed stuff.
Post edited January 01, 2016 by Tarm
Posted January 01, 2016
Mine was from one of my FO3 chars I liked
Posted January 01, 2016
My username stems from two characters from two of my favorite games from the 16-bit era of gaming. Ness from the SNES game Earthbound and Sonic the Hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog games on Sega Genesis. They were part of my childhood from the 1990's.
Post edited January 03, 2016 by NessAndSonic
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