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My nick comes from an old epic Beowulf. Im the king of Geats with Hygelac as my wife and Beowulf as my son, who soon fought the great monster Grendel.

That reminded me of an old nickname i used to have in strategy games: Oroles; anybody knows who it refers to???
I always was a cracker to obscure names, derived from history, mythology, scientific names or others

Oroles was a king of Dacia during the first half of the 2nd century BC.
He successfully opposed the Bastarnae, blocking their invasion into Transylvania. The Roman historian Trogus Pompeius wrote about king Oroles punishing his soldiers into sleeping at their wives' feet and doing the household chores, because of their initial failure in defeating the invaders. Subsequently, the now "highly motivated" Dacian army defeated the Bastarnae and king Oroles lifted all sanctions.

Oroles was a king of Dacia during the first half of the 2nd century BC.
He successfully opposed the Bastarnae, blocking their invasion into Transylvania. The Roman historian Trogus Pompeius wrote about king Oroles punishing his soldiers into sleeping at their wives' feet and doing the household chores, because of their initial failure in defeating the invaders. Subsequently, the now "highly motivated" Dacian army defeated the Bastarnae and king Oroles lifted all sanctions.

I,m impressed, somebody really went to wikipedia and found Oroles Hope you'll be with us for a long time sclyd.

Jop is short for Jopasc

Jopasc is short for Jo Pasquale, an English comedian.

10 years ago the guys at work wanted to try out Quakeworld online together, so I had to think of a nickname in about 10 seconds as we walked out the door. As we had some jokes about Jo Pasquale during the day, I chose Jopasc.

I,m impressed, somebody really went to wikipedia and found Oroles Hope you'll be with us for a long time sclyd.

Sure tarbosaurus_geticus, its a pleasure to be with you guys. I had a great time reading the forums. I will be here as long as i have the time. Thank you tarbosaurus_geticus. =)

Sure tarbosaurus_geticus, its a pleasure to be with you guys. I had a great time reading the forums. I will be here as long as i have the time. Thank you tarbosaurus_geticus. =)

Off topic: Just hope you will be more active than most new members, people here just post to make there shell account available.

tarbosaurus_geticus nah, ill be here for good. There are a lot of interesting topics here that caught my attention plus the other stuffs that i could learn. This would probably be my 2nd home, although sometimes i might be off for a couple of weeks or so because of my work but ill see to it that i would be here after work. =)

the name i chose for here, well i chose it cause one i had never seen it, if i have seen someone else with the name i want i wont use it

but i chose sawed off noob, cause i came here to learn, learn, and learn some more. i came here to learn cause i know nothing of what i want to learn here, so i felt noob would be a good fit. and i chose sawed off, cause in real life im not one to mess with. i have been stabed twice, i have had bones broken, and i have taken many many falls, but i always get up and come back for more. i felt sawed of fit because its a lot harder to break a sawed of shotgun then a normal one, and a sawed off puts out just that much more power cause of the less restrictions.

after i learn from here enough to feel i deserve the name i normal use i will switch to what i normal use. i normaly use the name HAK or HAK Metalo. HAK stands for Hated Arsonist Klown, and Metalo is a character i made for one of my short stories (which i later found he was already a comic book character, so i combined them)

i made the name HAK when a friend of mine asked me for a three letter word to put on his wall, i decided to make HAK out of its sound cause i love to solve puzzles and problems, to stretch my brain to its limits, and i decided the letters should mean what they mean because the kids in my school all hated me except for 5 or 6 (out of about 700) while they may have been a little scared to fight me, they didnt like me. and the second letter because i almost got charges with felony arson when i was 13. and klown from my love of clowns as well as ICP (yea im a juggalo, big deal) but i thought HAC looked a little lame, so i decided HAK instead.


and this one for laughs even though i dont use it, my brother gave me the handle Ima_twizted when i was 9 just cause i was so messed up in the head (I'm a twizted)

sry for being so long winded, i do that a lot

Thank you mister sawed off noob for resurecting this topic Ussually new people don't mind looking at old pages, and they are the ones who can explain there nicks as most regulars and veterans explained there nick already.
That sounded like a whole lot of accidents happened to you
Pretty inteligent explainaition and loooong

weither that was sarcasm or not, no problem
and yep, when i explain, i explain things long windedly

weither that was sarcasm or not, no problem

It wasn't sarcasm i ussually don't say anything bad to people inteligent or uninteligent.

thanks, glad to know. i hope u know i ment that in a no offense way. i try and keep the peace *puts up hand with peace symbol*

well i use charls_a as a regular nickname
my name is carlos alberto and charls is for carlos and the _a for alberto, simple eh??

My nickname represents that I like coding...I have several nicks, but I have chosen this for this site.

some (not-so-nice-to-me ;( ) bulgarians said my nick means an old lady >_<. May the God of NickNames blast them ..!!!
oh wait, what are you doing under the rubble scyld ?
j/k