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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)
-------------------- If God didn't want us to fly, he wouldn't have given us Bernoulli's Principle.
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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.
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-------------------- "A film made in 2008 isn't going to look like a TV series from 1966 if it wants to make any money. As long as the characters act the same way, and the spirit of the story remains the same then it's "real" Star Trek. Everything else is window dressing." -StCoop
Registered: Jun 2000
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Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
Member # 343
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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.
-------------------- "The French have a saying: 'mise en place'—keep everything in its fucking place!"
Registered: Jun 2000
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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.
-------------------- I'm slightly annoyed at Hobbes' rather rude decision to be much more attractive than me though. That's just rude. - PsyLiam, Oct 27, 2005.
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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.
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-------------------- "The best defense is not a good offense. The best defense is a terrifyingly accurate and devastatingly powerful offense, with multiply-overlapping kill zones and time-on-target artillery strikes." -- Laurence, Archangel of the Sword
Registered: Mar 1999
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Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
Member # 343
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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..."
-------------------- "The French have a saying: 'mise en place'—keep everything in its fucking place!"
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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.
-------------------- "Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."
-Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney, LeMans
Registered: Mar 1999
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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."
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-------------------- The philosopher's stone. Those who possess it are no longer bound by the laws of equivalent exchange in alchemy. They gain without sacrifice and create without equal exchange. We searched for it, and we found it.
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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...
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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...
-------------------- "To the Enterprise and the Stargazer. Old girlfriends we'll never meet again." - Scotty
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.
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-------------------- My Mother never found the irony in calling me a son of a bitch
Registered: Dec 1999
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Charles Capps
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