General / Off-Topic Why did you pick your user name?
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I'm disappointed. I thought it was your real name.
It would explain why the hitman I ordered couldn't fulfil the contract.
The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like - and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain, the practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language: the speech you hear decodes the brain wave matrix.
It is a universal translator that neatly crosses the language divide between any species. The book points out that the Babel fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore it both proves and disproves the existence of God:
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could evolve purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys. But this did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme for his best selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up for God. Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
It is a universal translator that neatly crosses the language divide between any species. The book points out that the Babel fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore it both proves and disproves the existence of God:
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could evolve purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys. But this did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme for his best selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up for God. Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
That's just showing off MSB
I think he must be more famous than he's letting on; someone named a barn after him!
It's totally relevant to my first passion. Actually, it represents two at once. The avatar is relevant to my second. (or should that be third [haha])
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Mine was easy as well... Fenris is my real name and Fenris is a Wolf in Norse Mythology.
I'm getting really confused now... I thought the TJ stood for... The Jockey
I'm getting really confused now... I thought the TJ stood for... The Jockey
Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
I'm a fan of Battlech, so yeah... the reference is not lost on me. heh. I do like Jenners... in the new Battletech game they're super fun to have in my lance.
Still, it wasn't the real genesis of my username, even though it probably is cooler than NIMH. lol.
Surprising. I thought it was the MechWarrior reference as well.
Mine was easy as well... Fenris is my real name and Fenris is a Wolf in Norse Mythology.
I'm getting really confused now... I thought the TJ stood for... The Jockey
jaw = floor.
You found out TJ is my MOD alter ego who gets blamed for everything!
What gave me away!?!?!
Crikey! this thread is far more entertaining than I'd imagined (it's taken me over a day to bring myself to click on it, boy do I feel stupid).
For my part, it's approx. 1/3 accident, 1/3 lack of imagination and 1/3 because the name Nick Succorso had already been taken.
For my part, it's approx. 1/3 accident, 1/3 lack of imagination and 1/3 because the name Nick Succorso had already been taken.
Big sci-fi fan, which im guessing most here are. Dr.Device (MD Device, Molecular Disruption Device) is the massive weapon from the Enders Game novel series. Which, and I didn't know this at the time obviously, is used to destroy the Formics (which i imagine look like the Thargoids) home world
I'm just such a badass!
I was playing a game 'Solar Realms MUX' back in... 95/96. My character was Captain John Sheridan. I was a huge B5 fan. However I decided I wanted my own story, my own character and to create my own legends. So I changed the character's name. First he was Jeff Davenport (Jeff from Sinclair and Davenport from a character in the Channel 4 sitcom 'Drop the Dead Donkey'). But that soon gave way to Jeff Ryan (Jeff from Sinclair and Ryan from Major Ed Ryan). Similarities to Jack Ryan were coincidental because I hadn't seen any of those movies or read the books yet.
Nickname since the mid/late 90s, have used variations ever since.
I'm called Chris and am kinda hairy.
I'm called Chris and am kinda hairy.
Well, that goes without saying. +1
username: wanted something "spacey" for my CMDR name and none of my other forum usernames would have been suitable.
avatar: the Martian Queen, the most badass looking ship from this wonderful book (plus it vaguely resembles an Imperial Clipper turned into an evil overlord's warship):
avatar: the Martian Queen, the most badass looking ship from this wonderful book (plus it vaguely resembles an Imperial Clipper turned into an evil overlord's warship):
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