Nicknames

Well, I do feel a bit like Ponder Stibbons myself, but as you know, that was allready taken

Anyway, I noticed that everybody start as a Tourist, which made me think about Twoflower. I use glasses and I've travelled a bit, and I even thought about working with economy-stuff for a while. Anyway, I decided to choose Twoflower and stop pondering about it (pun intended)

Yeah, just stay away from the In-Sewer-ants buisness...

Therul is mine from a long time back, and it means nothing on Disk World, at least not yet...

just as a quick thought, how do you become any thing other than a tourist? is to do with how many posts you make?

Yep

Yeah, I guess if you just visit for a short time, you're a tourist. If you stay for a while, and people start to notice you, you're suddenly a citizen, and they'll demand that you pay taxes and give you all sorts of trouble

My Nickname doesn't depend on anyone of the Discworld.
Igel (Engl. Hedgehog) is also my nickname in real live...
Long long ago my hair stood on end and in the english lesson my teacher
stroke it saying " Hello my little 'Igel' ".
Than it was born...
My buddy called me magic after an mountainbike stunt...

Together: Magic-Igel

I'm just boaring... It's my name.

on the origional forum I was NiDochartaigh... my surname in Irish.

not very creative at all.

That is a wicked name!

know how may posts u need to, erm, post to become somat other than tourist?

The more I think about it, I should have chosen Brutha

With a brain in a Jar, I would have guessed on Igor though you lack the speech (or at least the typing) impediments typical of Igors.

At 100 posts you change into Barroom Thug, and I guess it takes 500 to find out what comes next.

On my nick: my name is Boi, the -ke attachment is dutch for endearment (or belittlement). I am a vegetarian, and have been teased by PTerry-reading and carnivore friends with only eating Oograh (Troll for veggies, flowers and anything else that grows but doesn't move).

Alas I only have two thumbs, one per hand...

Hello!

I'm new, to the forums and Thud. I've wanted to play for ages (big PTerry fan) but there's no one else I know interested.

Anyhow, being new, I thought this'd be the best place to put my first post.

I use 'Pidgeon' on forums... a mate on called me it after I'd used my initials as a nickname in an online game. My initials are P J H N, which if you say as a word, kinda make 'pidgeon'. And it's stuck ever since.

welcome to the thud community! hope you have many fruitful victories (unless you are playing me of course )

Well I chose Windle Poons for two reasons

1) I was reading Pterry's book at the time (Easy quiz for everyone here - What book was I reading?)

and

2) I just like the sound of the name It's something that just rolls off the tounge Win-dle P-oons. Depending on how you say it it even doubles as a swear word. POONS!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windle_Poons

Probably Reaper Man, but might be Moving Pictures as well

My name may be obvious to some, but i guess not to all: when, in Soul Music, Death tries to forget by joining the AM's beggars (foul ole ron, the duck man et al), he becomes known as Mr Scrub - unanimously agreed by his comrades, so it must make sense

Mr Scrub

I am Duir because it's an honour for a timewaster to be called so.
Duir means oak, and there is nothing that wastes time like an oak.
They just stand there for a couple of 100 years, throwing acorns at innocent (or not so innocent) passers-by, and they don't even see the fun in it...
They love their squirrels though

Fantastic! I'm laughing uproariously on a grey Monday morning!

Cheers for that and hope you enjoy the site

Mine was originally an email address that was randomly generated ( my original suggestion had something to do with bats but wasnt availible) and it made me chuckle so i kept it.
Pretty boring really but there you go.

And here I thought you must be a cricket player.

It's not that I am a lot like Magrat, but I do empathize with her. I know how she feels when she tries to bolster her witching confidence with pentagon necklaces and dribbly candles, and tries to figure out how it's possible to do queening in a meaningful way, without much success, although she does care for Verence.

Also, my middle name is Magrat. Only misspelled.

Hey everyone yay first post! Also the name has been my online name since i started playing games online I cant remember the origin but its cool huh? I got a lucky aardvark to go with it so its gotta be good.

Welcome, lord of aardvarks! Happy to see you here.

i have to say that i a truly awesome name aardvark

Somewhere back on Page 1 OB commented that you become a Barroom Thug at 100 posts and I guess we will have to wait until 500 to find out what comes next.

Congratulatiosn to Magrat. 500 Posts!!!! and she is now....wait for it...

Barroom Thug

WP

Hmmm, yes. Never good to taunt the Site Gods on these things. Especially when we think one of the others is seeing to this

But yes, one is elevated to Barroom Thug at 100 posts and (now) to an Apprentice at 500. We're looking for nominations for higher level Ranks for the time when someone posts 1000 and more but congratulations to Magrat for this achievement!

On a motivational note, We've added a new Special Rank of Thudmeister only for those who win a live Thud tournament. To date we're only aware of BeckyO having done so but are willing to consider other we've forgotten or don't know about. Note: it has to be an officially organised trounament, not a weekend with friends round

We'll post an official request for recommendations on Ranks later on so thanx to WP for bringing it to our attention

Damn... Only 8 posts behind Magrat... Wish I had got a few more off before I went on my trip! By the By will there be any cool stuff organised by "the site gods" when we hit the fast approaching 300 member mark?

Please don't tell me I'm the first with 500 posts. It's not like I have no life!

It's those single, unlimited games that did it.

We are pleased to announce that we have a second Thudmeister amongst ourselves-- SANEAlex won the 2003 Thud tournament at the Ankh-Morpork consulate in Wincanton, Somerset. Congrats to Alex and we're elevating him to the Rank of Thudmeister as well.

As to big announcements; we're sitting on one that we hope to be giving imminently. It was planned for tonite but I shall ask my august associate how things are coming on the programming front. Watch this space (or, erm, actually the Announcements forum )

Lee,

I wasn't teasing the site gods I just thought it was funny.

Congrats to SANEAlex...Worthy of the title of Thudmeister.

Me I'm still most defiantely a tourist

Yeah, I know. That why the winking smiley was after it

You're doing well at gaining promotion WP

On another note I've also just made all the site mods "Druids" as that only seems right. The rank will appear next to their name unless they have a higher rank (like SA).

Happy April 2nd all! I thought we would get more stick about the announcement but maybe that will come with the 2nd annual April Fool's when it's offically a tradition

Lee

Pawsntails originally came from the fact that I showed 2 cats who had the prefix pawsntail. I still own 1 of them but no longer show. However I have used the name online so long that it has become my offline nickname also, and it has become my identity. Makes me easy to keep track of lol, people who know me can find me all over the net because of it.

Hiya! Welcome to the forum. We hope you like it here! Someone should start a thread on pets in the Discworld or on forum.

Lee

will do....

i'm still on my first day and this is my 4th post! with my nickname, marrow is the vegetable, not refering to bones,and i use it cos it's just a great word to pop out with randomly in conversations and is amusing when it worries people. (I was very impressed when gromit took such care of his in wallace and gromit "the curse of the where-rabbit" for anyone's that seen that film) Nelly just sorta became my nickname a short while back, so hey, why not nelly the marrow?

yay! another weebls fan! though the cheese family in still win my heart

I have to say "nelly the marrow" ranks very highly on the all time great nicknames. not that theres a chart or anything....

an idea maybe?

Long story behind my handle - I kind of like the idea that things start off as a linear concept (post in - post out), then bloody-stupid johnson designed a sorter and things started coming around - so Cyclo as a blood stupid straight line and UK because it's where I keep coming back to, or because I suffer a typing impediment and can't describe the nausea experienced when studying johnsons's machine.

Short story behind my handle - my wife stole my original, so this was a straight derivative.

Hey all. I'm a new poster etc. etc. and all that stuff. as for the mname it comes from the last hope for mankind in War of the Worlds and the year i was born. Simple really.

LOL! superb!

Welcome, both of you, to the Thud forum! Nice to have you round and may you both post many times more.

Same for the rest of you; sorry can't personally welcome everyone when they first sign on. Someone usually does but if no one did, kick up a stink and we'll see if we can't do something about it

New folk: don't worry, on this forum, about going off topic. That's what the Thudding Drum is all about (and, at times, "Suggestions, Tech problems, etc... ). We just hope you enjoy yourselves!

For some reason in the real world (for a given value of 'real') i sometimes get called "Roland" this has absolutely nothing to do with my real name...but still i get called it. i have no idea why and neither do my friends - who the people calling me it bit random i think

I also get called other things, but if i say them on this sparkly website Dewi and Lee will come and give me a ding round the ear

Friends are sometimes the strangest beings on the planet. The most bizzare crazy nickname I ever heard was Chloe being 'shortened' to closabellajimbob. Strangely it is now in common usage for my poor, poor friend.

what a mouthful!

how on earth are you supposed to say that with out salivating on anyone nearby??

Does she have a sister and two brothers?

I have a sister called Jane and the utility name of "JALEX" was quite often used when my beloved maternal parent called.

No, she has an older brother and sister.

Nice my little sister's name being nikki she sadly was nicknamed nik-a-dik, but only by her closest friends. That was started by closabellajimbob actually. Now she has persuaded us to call her N-A-D so anyone nearby thinks we're calling her 'mad' but she is content. She has to be . Compared to my friends, nelly the marrow is diminished somewhat .

ooooo! that last post made me Barroom thug!

In less than 30 days i am impressed if not dented i have been here almost 7 months and only recently past the 400 mark. If you don't watch out Windle Poons will add you to his race. If he is still taking bets 1$AM Dollar each way on Nelly the Marrow making the top 3 by end of year.

And on the name front i do think "Nelly the Marrow" has that certain je ne sais quoi[1] maybe its that both words have a vowel followed by a duplicated consonant tho you will have to write to the back pages of the newscientist to find out if there is a name for that kind of name.

[1]I am glad that us English are still happy to acquire words from others as i am no good with languages and don't speak French at all well, tho when we use it, it means "that certain something" but a literal translation means ‘I don't know what’. I think lost property translates into found property in French so after almost a millenium of association including minor tiffs like the 100 year war its not surprising that communication is still a bit of a problem between our two cultures.

Out of curiousity about whether the postal service is better than email at this stuff, I've taken the liberty of emailing and posting that paragraph, as follows:

Oh dear what have i done. Well they never published my version of Mond quantum gravity and it included pretty hand drawn pictures but i am not bitter and wont be if you get published so FYI and others if they want.

is the correct address as the various names for things is a favorite of theirs and if you want to ask a really awkward science question like "if you were to take all the boats in the world out of the sea , how much would the sea level drop?"[1] try

[1] 5 micrometres for those that need to know

I have no life *hangs head in shame*

I am extremely flattered (and a little worried ) If only I was clever enough to have achieved such a feat by actual brain power. If a reply involves complicated words like 'glyphs' and 'phoneme' I think I shall fall asleep though.