In light of everybody's having to choose their status line I thought it would be interesting to see why people chose their status lines and signatures. Obviously, some are pretty explanatory, but what about the seemingly random and nonsensical ones? Oh and hell, why not throw in displayed names too...
(I'd go first, but I gotta go)
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Harry: it is my name. Get used to it
Status line: a reference to the infamous "All Your Base .." game.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
Name: Dukhat is the name of the deceased Minbari leader in Babylon 5. I chose it as my publicly displayed name because I thought it sounded cool. With the new upgrade, people can now change their names. I have no intention of doing so, simply because Dukhat is what everyone here knows me by. And frankly, it irks the hell out of me when people constantly change their names because I have no idea who I'm talking to. (And if you really expect me to remember 700-plus member numbers to figure out who you really are, I'd like some of that weed you're smoking. I don't even know MY number.)
Status line: It says "Senior Member" now. It used to say something else before. I liked being able to change my status line myself, but I guess you can't have everything.
Signature: Quote from an episode of Red Dwarf. Usually I quote from the Simpsons, but this time, I did not.
[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: Dukhat ]
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
My name is my name because--like Caine--I am simply Shik. The current statline comes from a discussion in which my friend Darrius crowned me with the title of being "the white Billy Dee Williams," thus bringing up any number of Jedi & Colt 45 references. The one before that was because my ex had shattered me & I felt completely empty. The sigline is because Jeff Buckley is now & always SHALL be King of Music with Bj�rk as his queen & equal.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Name: Derived from Calvin and Hobbes, which I remembered reading in the car when we moved across country.
Status: A Calvin and Hobbes book.
Sig: Babylon 5. Zathras is just plain funny.
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Name: I am the first of two children of my parents. Also, it's a nifty Borg designation.
Status line: Simple truth.
Sig: More simple truth. But I'm thinking of changing it to something else, even more demeaning to socialism.
[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: First of Two ]
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
WERD. Zathras is da comedic SHIT, yo. I knew a guy who could do Zathras really well; he taught it to me.
"CANnot run out of time! There is INfinite time. YOU! are finite, ZATH!ras is finite, THIS!...is wrong tool. No...no, never that tool..."
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Name: Derived from The Battle of Wolf 359. Since Wolf359 was the first time we ever really saw a big fleet of ships, and I was really getting into starships at the time, I figured 359 would be the perfect thing to use once I got to the internet. Originally I started out as Matt359, simply because it's my name, and then I figured, every just calls me 359, so ditch the name part and become merely "The 359"
Status Line: Used to be "Back With Another One Of Those Block Rocking Beats", which is a line from the Chemical Brother's "Block Rocking Beats". Now it has been changed to "Second Toughest In The Infants", which is the title of one of Underworld's albums, and among my personal favorites.
Signature: Dunno. Just felt like changing the old one, and that was all I could come up with.
[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: The359 ]
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Signature below...
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Name -- Contrary to popular belief, my user name is NOT a reference to the Las Vegas magic act Siegfried & Roy. It is, however, a reference to the Norse mythological figure Siegfried. My experience with Siegfried comes from Richard Wagner's opera cycle called Der Ring des Nibelungen. Siegfried is the central character in the last two operas Siegfried and Die G�tterdammerung. In high school band, we got to play a selection from the latter opera called "Siegfried's Funeral March." It truly is a beautiful piece. "Siegfried" has since become my online persona (message board user names, ICQ nick, handles, etc.)
Status Line -- My status line comes from a couple of in-jokes between myself and my real-life friends. "The Pompatus of Love" is a snippet from The Steve Miller Band's "The Joker," and I was dubbed the Pompatus of Love in college for ability to give sound romantic advice while having a dismal love track record. Flare was exposed to this gag in one of the Interrogation threads. The "On-Call" is from my first summer working as a resident assistant in the dorms. My friends Shaun and Nic would list me on the duty board as "Settegast RA On-Call" and "Pompatus of Love On-Call."
[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: Siegfried ]
Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
Name: My name is Chrisopher. That's MISTER Christopher to you!
Status Line: I really like my truck, a Ford Ranger.
Signature: It's a line from my favourite Gus Gus song. For a little while there I was using the quotes from Andromeda. I might do that again...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
My name is derived from my name. It's my initials.
My status line is actually from a line in a song by the Urge. But it's true. It's a reference to the average acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the Earth.
My signature is pretty obvious. I started rereading The Fellowship of the Ring recently in anticipation of the movie coming out in two months. It was shortly after the whole terrorism deal last month, and, when I read that bit, it seemed overwhelmingly appropriate...
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
The Red Admiral:. No, I'm not a communist as some have jokingly alluded to, it is a combination of several things. 'Red' is my favourite colour, it is also the colour of my favourite football team. Admiral, well it's Trek related and is better than an ensign, and altogther it makes Red Admiral which is a type of butterfly coincidentally - not that I had any design to associate myself with small, cute fluttery things...
Just call me 'Red', everyone else does.
The Red Admiral goes way back, early eighties I think to CB and Ham radio handles, and is now used on every board/web community to identify myself, and is what I'm also called in the 3D modelling world.
Status Line: - has recently disappeared for some reason.
Sig: A cute line I've always liked...
Posted by Obese Penguin (Member # 271) on :
Well,
Obese Penguin: A friend and I play an online game and my old UserID for it was Obese Penguin and he plays as Anerexic Penguin , we like to double team and form Penguin Kill Squads with Slim Penguin and Slick Penguin.
Status Line: I have been deemed unworthy of one at this time , I think
Sig. Line : Its a collection of quotes from CNN made on Sept. 11.
[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: Obese Penguin ]
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Name... uh, it's my name.
Status... in joke.
Siggy... well, it was funny!
Posted by Commander Paris (Member # 119) on :
Name:I just picked it ramdonly a few years ago because I needed a name to use.
Status Line:Not enough posts for one yet
Signature:I just liked 'Good Shepard' and found it amusing how this was the first time someone was counting down, and was early
EDIT: Damn, my signatures gone. Maybe if I posted more I would have noticed.
[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: Commander Paris ]
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
TSN, when I first saw your Status Line, I thought it was from the Radiohead song "The Tourist", but the line from the song is "A 1000 feet per second"
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
Name: MIB. In almost every forum I visit, and every on-line game I play, I prefer to choose names that reflect me and my interests. MIB is obviously for my interest in the mysterious MIB phenomena. In other forums, I go by Cammodude, (Term used when refering to those guys who guard AREA 51 in those white jeep cherokees.)Agent-X, and Victor. (Again. Both names have to do with the Area51/UFO/Alien phenomena.) The only exception to this is my charactor on Everquest. For whatever reason, it wouldn't let me use the name Cammodude or MIB. My 2 prefered names.
Status line: Well it's true. I have been pissing at lease SOMEONE off since the day I was born.
Quote: What can I say? I love The Simpsons and Futurama. I'm thinking of switching to P.J. O'Rourke quotes though.
[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: MIB ]
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
WTF? My status line is gone!!!!
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
You just noticed that? There's a whole thread devoted to it.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
I'm Omega. I needed a callsign five or six years ago when I discovered the Wing Commander series. I was studying the Greek alphabet at the time, and Omega seemed appropriate.
My status line is a reference to a Vorlon saying from Babylon 5: "Understanding is a three-edged sword." It's a good quote for keeping people awake at night.
My .sig... well, I just ran into it, and I liked it. It's about time to change it, though.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Name: well, I needed something to use that was completely unrelated to the many other names I was known as (USS Coyote, The First One, Keyser Soze. . .). I picked it from the Douglas Adams Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy books - Vogon poetry is supposedly the second worst in the known Universe.
Status Line: I just quit my job for various reasons I won't go into here. Then my brother sent me a photo be email, real or altered, that showed a tramp holding a sign with these words. Seemed appropriate.
Signature: My webpage is, well, the web's premier guide to the weapons of Star Trek. OK, it's the only guide to the weapons of Star Trek. It's recently been expanded to feature the weapons of Enterprise, and this little pun just popped into my head. Sol said "your new combination .sig/website link is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Ever." 8)
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
OK, well since I don't want to start my English paper yet, I guess its my turn.
Originally my name was Stingray. I'm a Corvette nut, especially of the Stingray era between '63 and '82 (incidentally my AIM ID is Stingray6382). Eventually, I will own one of these cars. Stingray Corvettes were also the cars the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo astronauts got as windfalls of their hero status. I'm also an avid SCUBA diver and think the aquatic animal by that name is pretty friggin' cool too.
Since then, I've changed it to OnToMars, simply because I'm an advocate for humans to and agressive exploration of Mars and a member of The Mars Society. I might change it though to something else Mars related...
My status line is another reference to Mars, in that one of the largest misconceptions about sending humans to Mars is that we need years of research to find medicines to combat long term exposure to zero-g to and from the Red Planet. Instead, in a plan such as Mars Direct, one simply takes the habitat and burnt-out rocket's third stage and spins them around each other with a tether. This creates artificial gravity and eliminates the zero-g problem. As I would someday like to me a Mars astronaut, someday I will be 'spinning in a circle.'
My first signature was, "Nobody ever looks at a Japanese tourist." Which, when taken compeletly out of context, means nothing. But in the context of the movie Spanish Prisoner, is pant-pissingly funny. However, to explain it, it does kinda give away the ending of the movie, so I won't. Spanish Prisoner was written by one of my favorite playwrights (and director), David Mamet.
I had a quote there for a little while from "Malcolm in the Middle" which was a slight against musicals, as I'm into drama, but absolutely hate musicals.
And my current one is self-explanatory, I just thought it was funny.
Posted by PopMaze (Member # 302) on :
Name: well it's a U2 thing. "Pop" being a fairly recent album and "maze" being a word I liked.
Status line: Dead On Arrival. That's because I'm usually tired because of college.
Sig: Just a great scene from an episode from "The Simpsons".
[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: PopMaze ]
Posted by Tec (Member # 136) on :
Well the name Tec comes from two things, both are related. I did Tech Crew on the plays at the community college I first went to. And during one of the plays I was given the name TechBoy by one of the actresses. So I shortened it to Tec.
Status line: Comes from the fact that when I work on the plays I'm always back stage and out of sight.
Sig: This comes from a bumper sticker I got for my dad. I really liked it so I use it.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
Name: Jay...the phonetic spelling of the first letter of my first name. I feel obscure...and well, so there you go.
Status line: Taken from the hypnotic writings of on Simon aka "Sol System".
Signature: I like the Simpsons. Like that's new or even news. I do however think that Monty Burns is a wonderful ironic sendup of most corporate types and as a result I have generally went for Mr. Burns quotes for quite some time now.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
I really can't remember why I picked MaGiC. It has been my nick since the very first day I logged on to the net and got my first email address via my ISP. It has nothing to do with Magic the Gathering, although I have met several nice peole who thought it did. I suppose I use Magic, because it can be black or white, good or evil, but always outside most peoples perception of reality.
I am not allowed a status line, but it would probably be Pornstar - just for the conversation value you understand.
Sigs were going to be different film quotes, but I never got off Batman (which I love BTW)
[ October 17, 2001: Message edited by: MaGiC ]
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
Name: Taken from the name of a Bajoran Assassin in Deep Space Nine, the name of the ep is "Past Prologue".
Status Line: I recently changed my status line. This one is supposed to reflect a stealth assassin, now you see him and *poof* now you don't.
Sig: The one before this one had a funny dialogue regarding taking the rest of the week off on a Friday, taken from my present favourite show, Law and Order. The episode name is "Showtime".
This one I have now is taken from one of my favourite video games, Final Fantasy VI (III in the US). It happens just after a madman named Kefka harnesses the Ultimate Magic Power and turns a World of Balance into a World of Ruin. The city of Vector is transformed into Kefka's base of operations where he uses the "Light of Judgement" to destroy entire towns.
I kind of found this quote to be quite appropriate given the events of September, 11, 2001.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
Obese Penguin: What name were you using before?
Mr. Christopher: What was the origin of "Fabrux"?
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
Name: Well my real name is four letters and I don't like to use it a lot. I'd like to see anyone with a name Nino Miguel Taruc Colorge-Graca anywher else... Anyway, I took Miguel, my late grandfather's name, and made it into Michael. Michael_T is in short then for Michael Taruc, the name I uses every year in the Aidswalk Los Angeles registration papers.
Status Line: The first one I did was when I was with my first boyfriend, then changed that after we seperated, and then there's the line when I was with my thrid boyfriend. Now I decided to just say the current one because it was either that or use the opening line from the US version of Queer As Folk.
Signature: I am changing it to the opening line of the US version of QAF since I still like it. The other ones were out of boy bands or something else that came into my mind.
Posted by Obese Penguin (Member # 271) on :
I was DHunter then Dr Obvious.
DHunter came from a character I played on an old Email RPG. stood for Darien Hunter.
Dr. Obvious was just a horrible name I picked out one day.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Well might as well throw in my two pence.
NAME: akb1979 - a combination of my full name "Alexander Kevin Branson" and the year that I was born in "1979". Pretty boring and basic - huh? Yeah well I was not aware of the fact that you could select a name that was related to sci-fi, or whatever else you wanted, and at the time that was a common username that I used to identify myself with elsewhere. I might change it, but then people wouldn't know who I am if I did.
STATUS LINE: Not got enough posts - need another 67 after this one to get 250.
SIG: Can't be arsed to think of one. Besides, I have too much fun reading the ones that you have!
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And here we have a thread that rivals "what music are you listening to" for the amount of interest it is generating in my brain.
Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
i'd like mine to be. "i hate clowns"
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Done.
Liam: And, despite your lack of interest, you took the time to read and resurrect the thread?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
From four days ago? I hardly think that counts as a resurrection (quiet, Jesus.)
Anyway, I hadn't logged on to the forums for a couple of weeks. I went through the entire list, right clicking and opening everything in a new window. By the time I got to this thread, my enthusiasm had long since left, having been replaced with anger, and a slightly itchy feeling.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
So, now that this will be my 254th post, who do I talk to about a status line? Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Any Admin. What do you want?
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Ah! Erm . . . Can I get back to you on that one? Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
Name: Charakter from "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" Status Line: Guess I'm just a little bit unimaginative. Signature: Quote from the Simpsons episode "Bart The Genius"
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
quote:Originally posted by Spike: Name: Charakter from "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" Status Line: Guess I'm just a little bit unimaginative. Signature: Quote from the Simpsons episode "Bart The Genius"
Is that an attack on me Spike?
to you if it was! If not . . .
As for my status line . . . I'm thinking about including the smilies in it!
How about this?: "Just loves those smilies!"
HEHE! Posted by Mojo Jojo (Member # 256) on :
Assuming one can still have his status line changed, I'd like mine to be:
You will respect mah Authoritah! (#FF7E00)
If it's too long, please disregard the first two words Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mojo Jojo: You will respect mah Authoritah! (#FF7E00)
I most certainly will Mojo Jojo, on one condition - please tell me where you get those codes from and what they mean!
Posted by Mojo Jojo (Member # 256) on :
Erh... it's a standard format RGB hexadecimal color code.
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
I'm finally a Senior Member! Can I please have this for my Status line: Saint of Rabid Pikachu
Or the more complex version: Saint of Rabid Pikachu
[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: David Templar ]
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Remember, folks, some colors don't show up well at all here. I did akb1979's and Mojo Jojo's, because I can see those pretty well. As for David Templar's... My eyes! They burn! The bright yellow burns!
Seriously, you might want to pick another color, one that can be read easily...
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
I didn't choose my status line. *sniff*
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
It's not my fault if the forum's background color is so pale, how's this?
Saint of Rabid Pikachu
More of a Raichyu color...
[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: David Templar ]
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
The form cuts off at the h in Pikachu. Try something shorter, or without the alternating colors. Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
I thought you could modify my status line when I first joined, but apparently I was mistaken. As for my name, Veers is my favorite character in Star Wars (although he has little screen time). And my signature speaks for itself, the name of the movie where it's from (one of my favorites) is in there.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
I sit possible to get my status line to say "You first," quoting 'Goldeneye'? I like the sound of it...
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
How's that?
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
No, take out the "Goldeneye" part. Just have it say "You First." I was just pointing out where the quote was from, in case anyone cared. And take out the quotation marks!
[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: Veers ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Done.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Thanks. Always wanted one of 'em.
Posted by PopMaze (Member # 302) on :
Okay, how about changing my status line to, "Jobless, and in need of one!"
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
Ok, forget the colors, just gimme: Saint of Rabit Pikachu
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
Hey heres a thread i really meant to answer.. i wrote a long long story in October and hit 'post' only to have the board be offline.. i closed my window and was too tired to rewrite my litany.. i think im ready now..
CaptainMike: Only what everybody in the world knows me as. My freshman year at CCRI i came to school on Hallowe'en dressed as a Starfleet captain. The name sorta stuck, but within the following two weeks i tried alcohol for the first time, and based on my achievements in the field of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum™�� drinking, I became known as Captain to the remainder of my viewing public. Thanks to my behavior at concerts (wearing costumes and bringing toys for everybody to play with) people i dont even know call me 'Captain Mike' .. i dont want to be pompous, so i dont walk around saying 'call me captain', but most everyone calls me that once they know me. This craze peaked when i was a manager of a restaurant and not only was i called captain, but the crew's uniforms all featured between one and three pips so that they could be identified as subordinate to my four-pipped manager shirt... i'm not as crazy as i was back then.. heres a good sample of some of the sadness that happened:
quote: OK, so you get a fifteen cent an hour raise, a new uniform, and the title of Crew Trainer.. all you have to do is tell me there are five lights on the ceiling here.
But Mike, there are four lights..
Maybe you.. didnt.. understand.. me..
'Supposed to Have Transwarp Drive' - referring to the commentary on the Excelsior scene from ST:III. This ones kinda deep for me, because i feel there are a lot of expectations for me that im trying to live up to, and people are telling me what im 'supposed to have' I often feel like id be happy failing and just falling in line, just like Excelsior was perfectly fine with regular warp drive. And when i think of how ive tried to make my life good and failed key times in the past two years, i often refer to it as the failure of the 'Great Experiment.'
My quotes.. McCoy about getting permits to do illegal things.. again from ST:III.. I've done a lot of illegal things in the past two years (if you graphed illegal activities in my life, it would be 1-2 a year for 20 years, then spike up to 20-50 illegal things a year for 20, 21 & 22. and i dont regret any of it. OK, some of it.. but not a lot.
'continued immaturity'.. if you read my posts or my site, this one doesnt need explanation.
'shatnerologists' i just like this, from the Church of Shatnerology site.. just picture velociraptors in a room full of wiener dogs. they should put that in the next Jurassic Park. I'd pay.. plus i like having a shatnerologist theme.. i realize i am becoming a shatner worshipper.. not in the crazy way like the Church, but listening to The Transformed Man (once a day..every day..) makes me think about a lot of things that i should have realized long ago about life.. and Shatner is quite possibly one of the most charmingly flawed human beings there is.. he has done so much wrong, so much bad, but he still amazes the world every day because he is a force of nature. plus he was Captain Kirk.
love is a holographic snowmobile. -- from our password-story challenge. just a powerful statement i have four people to thank for.. ill look up who later.. i made a picture of 'love' Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Done, et done.
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
Oops, I made a mistake, "Rabit" is not a word. What I meant was: Saint of Rabid Pikachu
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Fixed.
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
Shit, Mike. You're gonna have to come down to Embry-Riddle sometime and party. You'd fit in real well with the Riddle Players, our drama club. We make running jokes to Wil Wheaton's acting and the joy that is Wesley Crusher. You'd have a ball. Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Very interesting. CaptainMike's high school friends did not ridicule him when he came dressed up as a Starfleet captain? It seems like a fantasy. Wherever I go, I have to talk with my friends in secret about Star Trek, and if someone brings it up, I say "What are you talking about?"
Because "Star Trek" is gay, kids say, and you shouldn't watch that show with it's cheap special effects (Emmy-winning "cheap" special effects . They say you can see the wires hold up the ship in TOS ("they don't hold them up with wires, you fools!" I want to say to them). And all they ever say is "I hate that bald guy and Spock". They've never even heard of DS9! And they even get it confused with Star Wars ("Hey, Jona, who am I from Star Track (they can't pronounce "Trek"): 'Luke, I am your father!'" *a laugh*
I know this probably should be in the Flameboard, but modern kids only think its cool to watch "Friends" and the like. I'm tired of ignorant non-Trekkeies! My point is, at my school, wearing anything Star Trek is certain death of your popular life.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Whoa, hey! I should visit the Officer's Lounge more often.
Would a kind admin label me as "Master of Detail"?
Much appreciated. Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
COMPLAINT!
My status line says: Just loves those smiles!
But I asked for: Just loves those smilies!
You missed an "i" bubba!
And if ya don't believe me, check the post contruction page at the bottom where is gives the option to "Disable smilies in this post". Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
MinutiaeMan: Done.
akb1979: Fixed.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
YAY! Posted by Dr Phlox (Member # 680) on :
Name: I thought Dr Phlox would be a cool character
Status: Designated Driver, please
Signature: The West Wing is one of my favorite American television series.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Look who's back. Dr. Phlox!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Veers: Erm... You do know that that situation you described above is what is called, in the vernacular, "being a poseur", right?
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
Hey Phlox, I don't think you've made enough posts to have an individualized status line. Wait until you've made at least 250 posts. Then it can be changed.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
An update on me:
Name: Dat, because my full first name is Datshon, but everyone couldn't pronouce it right, so a few friends just shortened it to Dat, which is much easier to pronounce. It's pronounced "Dot". I was PopMaze.
Status line: Well, that really is my current status. As of Dec. 15, 2001, I'm a college graduate with a BA in History. I've got no job and I really need one.
Sig: It still hasn't changed since last time.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
What are you talking about, TSN? A poseur?
[ December 09, 2001: Message edited by: Veers ]
Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
Whoa, hey, haven't been in this thread for a while...
Anyhoo, someone asked what the origin of 'Fabrux' was. Well, a while ago, when I was still in my rabid kitbashing phase (if you want to know more please hop on over to www.starships.cjb.net) and I needed names for ships. So, I grabbed an Encyclopedia and wrote down names of craters on the moon. Now, because of my handwriting, I though I had writtin 'Fabrx' when I had really written 'Fabry'. So, I looked at 'Fabrx' and thought there should be a vowel there and added the 'u'. Then, I was getting a new Hotmail address (evil, evil Hotmail) and didn't want to have to add any numbers or anything, so I used 'Fabrux'. Since then, I used Fabrux for my ID on BBs and the like. Then when we could change our username here, I wanted to use my name, Chris, but it was taken so I used 'Mr. Christopher', a nickname my dad used to call me.
Oh, and could an admin please change my status line to 'Tanked'? Many thanks.
[ December 09, 2001: Message edited by: Mr. Christopher ]
Posted by TLE (Member # 280) on :
My displayed name is what I go by. It used to mean something but now it's just my user name. My status line is self explanatory and my sig is from the Onion.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
The Lone Ensign.
Why anyone would want to be a Lone Ensign, much less The Lone Ensign, is beyond me.
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Dr. Phlox: Dat is correct. You have to be a Senior Member (250 posts) to get a custom status line.
Mr. Christopher: Done.
Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
Many thanks!
Yeah, I remember The Lone Ensign from the TrekBBS. Man, that place is a a madhouse... I don't dare go over there anymore...
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Guess I might as well do this.
I'm a Snay. I'm Malnurtured. Simple enough.
My sig is because I like to kill deer. If I don't kill at least a dozen a week with my Jeep, I feel depraved. And since I'm a Snay (not to mention a Malnurtured Snay), depraved is not a good thing. Does anyone remember what happened the last time a Depraved Snay went running around? Now imagine a Depraved Malnurtured Snay. Terror.
My first quote in my signature is a classic from my dear friend and yours, Omega. I can't believe it has been almost a year since he said that. I think Ultra Magnus had it as his quote too for a while.
The second quote is from the latest "Rolling Stone." I think it sums up how people like to think short-term goals and if they might think about long-term, the world might be a better place.
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
Can anyone change my status line into chipped
Thanks.
Posted by TLE (Member # 280) on :
It was for a competition years ago called Sev Trek. Long story behind it all. Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Spike: Done.
Veers: Yes, a poseur. That's what it's called when you pretend to act a certain way just so people will like you, when you normally wouldn't act that way.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
And to think that the companies who make snowboarding stickers have been wrong all these years when they've used "poser."
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
TSN: Like hell I am. You think I'm trying to impress you people, even though I already have in being a supreme being?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
As always, I'm Shik..and as always, I'm still "invitingly smooth." Like Luther Vandross & a Colt 45, baby.
Had Dogbert & Ratbert for a week. Decided to change to random quotes by friends.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"You think I'm trying to impress you people, even though I already have in being a supreme being?"
Apparently...
[ December 10, 2001: Message edited by: TSN ]
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
What?! What was that? That better not be smart-talk, TSN!
Posted by TheRealCaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
"don't you know.. arent you God!?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
And as we all know from that glorious movie, God was indeed just a poseur. Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"What?! What was that? That better not be smart-talk, TSN!"
For some reason, I found that hysterically funny.
There's a fine line between being yourself, and not being a twat. I'm not afraid to tell friends that I like Star Trek, the Powerpuff Girls, etc. On the other hand, I wouldn't go into a club wearing a Blossom t-shirt shouting "The day is saved!". Although a few people are wearing Transformers t-shirts at clubs nowadays. Crazy.
Besides, how can you like Veers? He did nothing. And Akbar was obviously the star of the films. See him dance!
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Didn't Veers get blown up by a suicidal snowspeeder, anyway? Ackbar, on the other hand, led the Alliance to victory. And he's a big fish, which is *way* cooler then being a lackey to some Sith cyborg.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Snay, that was in the novel of ESB, and not the movie, so I don't say it ever happen. One reason why: it says that the pilot fo that speeder was Hobbie, who survives into the Rogue Squadron books and throughout. The book is obviously non-canon. So Veers is still alive and well somewhere... And besides, he blew up the Hoth shield generator and all those Rebel troops, and who can't admire a great Imperial general? Posted by Dr Phlox (Member # 680) on :
How many posts do I have?
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
You can find your current post count (or anyone's post count, for that matter), by clicking on the little icon that looks like an index card next to a person in your (or anyone's) post.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I'm not quite there yet. When I get there it will probably either say: "Always Wrong" or "Would Rather Be Sleeping"
The name is originally from the Quiche Popol Vuh. I've adopted the name for my show. My Balaam Xumucane is a genetically, surgically, and cybernetically enhanced super-soldier on a regimine of psycho-tropic drugs. Like all of these shock troopers, he follows an engineered religion loosely based upon Meso-American Mythology. After nearly dying in a drop-ship crash, he gets damaged and sets off on what he takes to be a mystical journey and the main characters on the show set off to try to recover him. Anyway, he's very confused and freaked out and potentially dangerous and that's kind of how I feel a lot of the time. I'll probably wind up playing him on the show since I really don't want to subject any of my actors to the make-up.
tagline: Ever listen to Talking Heads? Ever watch Robotech? Ever read Ishmael?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Balaam, have you read Aztechs, by Lucius Shepard? (It isn't quite so bad as the title might suggest.)
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Just read it. Pretty cool. Tnx.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
That's the secomd time this week that I've seen someone spell "regimen" as "regimine". What's w/ that?
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I'm just getting into character. The peyote makes me spell bad.
But I'm thinking of changing it to something else, even more demeaning to socialism. 
to you if it was! If not . . . 
