How did you come up with your online name?

Montra is a Kurdish word meaning to take refuge under.

As for myself, having libertarian and conservative tendencies, I can relate to the Kurds on some level. After all, the Kurdish people basically have been marginalized and hunted down by the likes of Saddam and company and are by in large outsiders with no real voice in the world.

As a result, I consider them to be my brothers.

 

I'm a collector. I have about fifty hats and 100 shot glasses from places that I have visited. About 5,000 books, have already read about 4,500 of them. My main collection though is frogs. I've picked them up all around the world. I have cheap little ones that cost a buck or two and others that cost hundreds of dollars. I have maybe 100 at my place in Florida and about 500 on Long Island. Don't ask me why I started collecting frogs because I have no idea.

 

It is an accurate dsecriptor of me. Some of the others that were in the running.

LesbianPornFan

Armstrong Sucks.

Handsome Brilliant Man

SushiMan

 

I like studying WW2.

German tanks were cool.

The official word for German tanks during WW2 was Panzerkampfwagen (Armoured combat vehicle).

 

My name comes from a series of books by Canadian/Australian model/author Tara Moss. The heroine in the books is named Makedde, and I she's she's awesome, so that is my name.

 

I borrowed by screen name from a fictional character of my own creation.

 

I always thought you borrowed that name from one of the Hobbits from Lord of the Rings. I thought his name was Perriquine Took, but their accent probably threw me off.

 

Peregrin, I think it was. Let me check...

Yep! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrin_Took

 

Ohhh! Very cool, I was kind of close!

 

And as I recall, Merry Brandybuck's full name was Meriadoc.

I do wonder what inspired some of Tolkien's names (not to mention other story elements). Probably a lot of similar but older literature that most of us have never even dreamed of..

 

Originally a reminder to myself not to be too partisan. Six months in, it became obsolete and I have regreted it ever since. I wish I could change it. Mods, any chance of this happening?

 

Wolves are my favorite animal and well, I have red hair.

 

My last name is Sparkman.

We Sparkman fellows (my father, uncles, cousins, brothers) all tend to pick up the nickname 'Sparky' among our friends and fellow service members.

A few years ago, my younger brother took to calling himself Sparky3 in email address lists, because he was the youngest brother of three.
I was the middle brother, and so became Sparky2.
Our eldest brother naturally was Sparky1.

Boring I know.
But there it is.

If it helps to spice the story up a bit, we are all raging satyrs, and have had numerous affairs with all the top movie starlets and pop divas.

 

Keep your shirt on, Sparky!

- Space Marine, Star Craft II

 

You could only change your username if you registered again and started from square one. I will ask the other Mods whether we could do this.

 

The first post I read was from libhater.

 

I left the Navy in 1989 at the beginning of the online lifestyle. I took over the family's online presence (that being, I took over paying for it) from my brother. At the time, we all shared an AOL account.
Since my name was to reflect my life, I chose "seamanjim" because I was a Merchant Marine at the time. Oddly enough, the name was already taken. So, my brother suggested "keymanjim" because we all grew up in our parent's locksmith shop. That name stuck and I have been KeyManJim ever since.
Though I use a different online name for my international empire, I grace your presence on this forum with my original, ancient name.

 

Meriadoc is a name of old Brythonic heritage. Tolkien was apparently heavily influenced by the Welsh language (direct descendant of the ancient Brythonic language), and also inspired by old Welsh literature (and the Mabinogion in particular):
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/11/24/tolkien-inspired-by-welsh-language-91466-22323425/

 

That's a lie for you've been here longer than me having almost twice as many postings as I.

 

It was during a visit in the island my family comes from and my granny asked my cousin and me to take the donkey go into the field and gather a kind of long leaf onions and so we did , we took the donkey into the field and started to load it with onions , i was exactly behind it when the animal had a bowel movement and the contents of it's colon ended on my foot , soon after the entire village start using the nickname.
The language of the island is an Albanian dialect, mut mekep in this dialect means (*)(*)(*)(*) with onions.

 

As others have said, that's Peregrin (Pippin) Took. No connection to Perriquine, which has a long i that rhymes with "vine" in the final syllable. I can see that they are otherwise phonetically similar, but it's just a coincidence.

Edit: If it helps, think pear + ick + wine. Say them quickly together with emphasis on the first syllable.

By way of explanation, I'm what's known as a 'world builder', meaning I'm more interested in the backstory than getting the book written. The names of characters in that world are often combinations of parental or other relatives names (a pretty common thing in fantasy writing, actually). Haven't 'played' there in quite a long time, so I'd have to actually look up Perriquine's family connections to remind me how the name was originally derived. (Yes, there really are that many people now that keeping track of all of them requires a database).

 

Robert James is my given name - I took the initials & came up with Arjay The only time I've seen it elsewhere was in a movie credit, an actor had it as his first name. I should look that up.

 

You have two months seniority to me at Political Forum and have inspired my Handle in those two months.

 

^so you signed up here with no name and then signed up again? LibHater couldn't have inspired your name because you were here before him.