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Title: What does your name mean?
Post by: KYGOTC on April 17, 2007, 09:56:56 PM
Im sure alot of the people on here dont use their real names. Im sure "Wyre Wizzard" isnt a real leagaly binding name, and if it is, you have my deepest apologies. My display name is the result of me mixing around 6 letter blocks and coming out with these 6 letters in this particular order. K-Y-G-O-T-C. I thought it sounded cool, so now I tell everyone to call me that. What does YOUR name mean? RCMerchant? Mr. Briggs Inc.? Poogie? Andrew? and all the others. What's the skinny?


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: RCMerchant on April 17, 2007, 10:00:59 PM
 My real name...is Ronald Christopher Merchant. No deep meaning here!


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: ulthar on April 17, 2007, 10:01:14 PM
We've had this discussion before (in a thread I BELIEVE started by Ash), but since we have a lot of new users, I guess it's fair game again.

Ulthar is a town in an HP Lovecraft story titled "The Cats of Ulthar."  You don't want to kill a cat in Ulthar.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Menard on April 17, 2007, 10:07:56 PM
My display name is the result of me mixing around 6 letter blocks...


Happy to see that you are still playing with blocks. (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Happy/happy-073.gif)


Menard is the name of the doctor in Fulci's Zombie (1979).


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Scott on April 17, 2007, 10:42:04 PM
Scott means something like from Scotland or something.  :smile:


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: LilCerberus on April 17, 2007, 10:49:56 PM
I'm a Gemini, born on the Chinese year of the dog.

I'm a little teapot, shrt & stout. So What's your excuse?


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Raffine on April 17, 2007, 11:27:36 PM
"Raffine" is a rather innocent-sounding name that actually was one of the extremely demented sadist bad filmmaker Andy Milligan's many fake names he used in his film's credits to hide the fact he did practically everything on his movies, including cinematography, sets, costumes, editing, special effects, gore effects, makeup, etc.

Cute story: Milligan was once under suspicion for murder when a prostitute turned up murdered (nailed to a fence and stabbed to death) the night before an identical death was filmed for a character in GURU, THE MAD MONK. Some of Andy's friends felt he may have been out the night before "practicing" for the next day's shoot. When asked about it years later, Milligan would only giggle.

His films include THE GHASTLY ONES, THE RATS ARE COMING! THE WEREWOVES ARE HERE!, FLESHPOTS OF 42ND AVENUE, and THE BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHER. Costumes, sets, and production design by "Raffine".







Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Zapranoth on April 18, 2007, 12:16:20 AM
Zapranoth is a demon-lord from _Empire of the East_ by Fred Saberhagen (an outstanding sci fi/fantasy tale if ever I've read one).

"This time a bass quaver, that told of madness rampant in the foundation of the world; this time the whole world shuddered and sickened with the coming up, and the light it case before was blue and horrible."


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Trevor on April 18, 2007, 01:33:55 AM
 :twirl:

I am Trevor T. (for Thomas, after my Dad) Moses, born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) on September 11, 1967. There were five hours of total darkness after I wuz born, this was probably due to the fact that I was born at 02h30 in the morning.  :teddyr:

I am a film archivist by trade www.national.archives.gov.za (http://www.national.archives.gov.za), I am single and looking  :twirl: and send warm wishes to all.



Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: akiratubo on April 18, 2007, 02:13:33 AM
Akira Tubo is an unintentional misspelling of "Akira Kubo", an actor from many a '60s Toho production.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: fortunato on April 18, 2007, 02:31:41 AM
Fortunato is, of course, from Poe's "Cask of Amontillado." Maybe one day I'll change it to Brown Jenkin or Dr. Pangloss. I like literary names.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: dean on April 18, 2007, 07:11:12 AM

My name is Dean.  Hence Dean.  Great story really.


Yeah, so I've always thought that the people with the boring names [like me] are really people with outrageous names and just want to hide
in obscurity and monotony.



Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: trekgeezer on April 18, 2007, 09:10:37 AM
Duh!?


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Poogie on April 18, 2007, 10:56:45 AM
After reading all these I'm a little hesitant to put why I used my name "Poogie". It's the name of our first cat when Dennis and I were married. There's also a reason why we named the cat "Poogie" but that's a secret.  :buggedout: :teddyr: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: JaseSF on April 18, 2007, 11:17:11 AM
Jase is short for Jason, my real name. The SF part stands for Sci-Fi as 1950s Sci-Fi was the thing that basically lead me to be the type of movie fan I am today and it is still by far my favourite period for Sci-Fi film output. Also I was once known as "sfaddict" on IMDB and that's a nod to that period of time as well.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Newt on April 18, 2007, 11:20:34 AM
Ummmm.....

Yes, my name is Rebecca.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: raj on April 18, 2007, 01:00:57 PM
Robert
Andrew
Jacoby.

figured it was simple enough to use my initials.

And Poogie, I think we get the message.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Doc Daneeka on April 18, 2007, 03:28:03 PM
I thought Mr. Briggs Inc. just sounded sinister for a while. Then I picked back through my comic collection and found I learned the name "Mr. Briggs" from Aliens Vs. Predator: War.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Gerry on April 18, 2007, 04:19:57 PM
Gerry is short for Gerald, which means "Mighty with Spear".  My wife thinks I am aptly named.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Menard on April 18, 2007, 04:37:48 PM
Gerry is short for Gerald, which means "Mighty with Spear".  My wife thinks I am aptly named.


(http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Happy/happy-073.gif)


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: KYGOTC on April 18, 2007, 05:13:48 PM

Cute story: Milligan was once under suspicion for murder when a prostitute turned up murdered (nailed to a fence and stabbed to death) the night before an identical death was filmed for a character in GURU, THE MAD MONK. Some of Andy's friends felt he may have been out the night before "practicing" for the next day's shoot. When asked about it years later, Milligan would only giggle.

His films include THE GHASTLY ONES, THE RATS ARE COMING! THE WEREWOVES ARE HERE!, FLESHPOTS OF 42ND AVENUE, and THE BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHER. Costumes, sets, and production design by "Raffine".

I heard alot of Milligan's films has been lost. Do you think that there is a chance that they will resurface?


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Raffine on April 18, 2007, 05:56:32 PM
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I heard alot of Milligan's films has been lost. Do you think that there is a chance that they will resurface?

According to Jimmy McDonough's essential Milligan bio The Ghastly One Milligan's last producer Lew Mishkin, the son of Milligan's original producer the legendary William Mishkin, got tired of paying for the storage of the negatives of all the films he and his father had produced over the years so he tossed them all in the trash.

Of the twenty or so films Milligan made about half are now considered lost. The Milligan films that survive are battered, faded prints which wound up in some grindhouse storage room. Several of them are badly edited (well, so to speak). The one exception to this is the print discovered for Something Weird's DVD release of THE BODY BENEATH. The title sequence has the same washed-out, streaked print look but it suddenly switches to a pristine print revealing all the glories of 70's 16mm.

It's possible a print of THE NAKED WITCH or THE FILTHY FIVE may turn up one of these days. Heck, somebody found a pristine complete print of Carl T. Dreyer's LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC (1929) a couple of years ago in the janitorial  closet of a madhouse in Oslo, so a beautiful print of GUTTER TRASH or TRICKS OF THE TRADE may be buried in your granny's closet!!


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: KYGOTC on April 18, 2007, 06:18:08 PM
Ijust watched the trailer for THE GHASTLY ONES on youtube. That one is definatly on my hitlist now. What other films of his are worth buying?


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Zapranoth on April 18, 2007, 08:16:10 PM
Ummmm.....

Yes, my name is Rebecca.

But nobody calls you that... except your brother?

hahahaa.... karma point.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on April 19, 2007, 02:10:01 PM
My name Richard. Cut it down to Rich and put my last name for good measure. I'm like James Bond got say the whole name.  :smile:


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Yaddo 42 on April 19, 2007, 04:05:10 PM
Yaddo is the name of a real house with a "shadowed" history (the owners were trying to explain the history to their child who pronounced "shadowed" as "yaddo") that was mentioned in a biography I read about pianist/composer/racontuer/wit/drug addict Oscar Levant about the same time I went online. I was unaware of the writer's colony located there at the time.

42 because I needed a number for my email with that name and I didn't want to keep enter numbers until one was available, Douglas Adams and the HHGTTG and the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything came to my rescue.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Raffine on April 19, 2007, 04:24:09 PM
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...the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything came to my rescue.

So, what was the question?  :smile:

Wrong thread, I know, but major kudos for the Ignatz avatar.

 I've had Jay Cantor's 1987 novel Krazy Kat on my shelf for years; I really need to pull that one down and read it again.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Raffine on April 19, 2007, 04:48:34 PM
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What other films of his are worth buying?


I could never with a clear conscience recommend anyone watch (let alone buy) any Andy Milligan film still in existence. If Ed Wood is the "Fine Wine" of Bad Movie makers, Milligan is the "Toxic Jailhouse Moonshine which was Filtered through an Unclean Sweaty 300lb Granny-Molester's Filthy Socks" of Bad Movie  makers.

That said, Video Kart has a nifty double feature of THE RATS ARE COMING! ETC./BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS.
A review: http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/a-d/bloodthirstybutchersrats7072.htm (http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/a-d/bloodthirstybutchersrats7072.htm)

Something Weird has that great print of THE BODY BENEATH, which is probably the best film Milligan made... but it's still a Milligan film.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Dennis on April 19, 2007, 08:26:53 PM
I actually have 4 names, Dennis is the one that has the fewest letters so that's the one I use. Don't lknow if it means any thing or not.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: flackbait on April 19, 2007, 08:57:28 PM
I got the name flackbait from a world war 2 bomber
(http://www.si.edu/harcourt/nasm/gal205/flakbait.jpg)
and yes I'm a weird dude.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: rebel_1812 on April 22, 2007, 12:38:22 AM
Cuz I'm a charismatic young rebel  :wink:


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 22, 2007, 01:08:04 AM
Fortunato is, of course, from Poe's "Cask of Amontillado."
One of my favorite stories In pace requiescat!
 
I was born November 1st, All Saint's Day, what was once called Allhallowsday; the day after Halloween, or, All Hallow's Even, anciently "Samhain" (not pronounced anything like it's spelled).  I had to hit 40 to realize that Halloween is my new year's eve.  Hence, I am Allhallowsday. 


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Ash on April 22, 2007, 02:31:28 AM
Robert
Andrew
Jacoby.

figured it was simple enough to use my initials.


No way!
I have to admit to you RAJ...
This entire time I've known you online here, something like 5 years now, I presumed that you were an Indian-American.
Not Native-American...
But from India.

I don't know...I hear the name "RAJ" and I think Indian or Middle Eastern.

------------------------------------------------------------

As for my screen name.
It goes back to THE YEAR 2000! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwDdc52udI)

I had a cat.
His name was Ash.
I created my Internet handle Ashthecat.
I used that for years.
Then I shortened it to Ash.

End of story.   :smile:


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: BlackAngel75 on April 22, 2007, 03:37:08 AM
To Trevor: Yes, a fellow African! I'm not the only one (my last name is Moses too, no relation, though) :smile:.  As for my member name, I'll break it down like this:

Black-- for the way my skin is darkly packed
Angel-- I'm a nice guy (not a saint)
75-- my year


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: RCMerchant on April 23, 2007, 05:59:44 AM
To Trevor: Yes, a fellow African! I'm not the only one (my last name is Moses too, no relation, though) :smile:.  As for my member name, I'll break it down like this:

Black-- for the way my skin is darkly packed
Angel-- I'm a nice guy (not a saint)
75-- my year

Wow. I got confused! By your avatar,I ythought for a few minutes you were Menard! Sorry! I should have known better...as you r not evil...(just kidding,Menard! gulp....!)


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: KYGOTC on April 23, 2007, 12:07:49 PM
To Trevor: Yes, a fellow African! I'm not the only one (my last name is Moses too, no relation, though) :smile:.  As for my member name, I'll break it down like this:

Black-- for the way my skin is darkly packed
Angel-- I'm a nice guy (not a saint)
75-- my year

Wow. I got confused! By your avatar,I ythought for a few minutes you were Menard! Sorry! I should have known better...as you r not evil...(just kidding,Menard! gulp....!)

Yea! I got confused too. I was like "A Menard comment without a vulgar remark attached to it? arg! CONFUSION!" 


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Shadow on April 23, 2007, 11:51:22 PM
Years back when I first got internet access, I went to register at the forums at the Scifi channel. I wanted to use the name of a comic book character I had created, Darkfyre. Alas, someone had already taken that name. I thought a little bit and went with Shadowfyre. The name kind of grew on me. I began using that name on other boards and pretty soon I preferred it to Darkfyre. It got to the point where people just began calling me Shadow and that nickname stuck. Even my wife calls me that most of the time now.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: BlackAngel75 on April 25, 2007, 12:07:16 AM
To Trevor: Yes, a fellow African! I'm not the only one (my last name is Moses too, no relation, though) :smile:.  As for my member name, I'll break it down like this:

Black-- for the way my skin is darkly packed
Angel-- I'm a nice guy (not a saint)
75-- my year

Well then, I will find an avatar more suitable for my f**king taste :teddyr: (sorry)

Wow. I got confused! By your avatar,I ythought for a few minutes you were Menard! Sorry! I should have known better...as you r not evil...(just kidding,Menard! gulp....!)

Yea! I got confused too. I was like "A Menard comment without a vulgar remark attached to it? arg! CONFUSION!" 


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Menard on April 25, 2007, 09:35:00 AM
Well then, I will find an avatar more suitable for my f**king taste :teddyr: (sorry)

When you reply to someone with a quote, it does help to place your reply outside of the quote. This serves a dual purpose of not confusing people and making your point seen.

Cute attempt at trying to be vulgar; for a three year old. Practice some more.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Mr_Vindictive on April 26, 2007, 04:35:39 PM
Well then, I will find an avatar more suitable for my f**king taste :teddyr: (sorry)

When you reply to someone with a quote, it does help to place your reply outside of the quote. This serves a dual purpose of not confusing people and making your point seen.

Cute attempt at trying to be vulgar; for a three year old. Practice some more.


Does this mean that BlackAngel's avatar is going to show up in your posts now, as does Zaps?  Wait....that might be a bit confusing.   :wink:


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Andrew on April 26, 2007, 04:39:00 PM
Does this mean that BlackAngel's avatar is going to show up in your posts now, as does Zaps?  Wait....that might be a bit confusing.   :wink:

It is not as if we often suffer from a lot of clarity (or even lucidity) around here.


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: Fausto on April 26, 2007, 06:37:08 PM
Anyone who has ever seen Forbidden Zone knows where I got my name. I just like the sound of it. The only thing that scares me is that people will see it and think I look like Herve Vellachaize, which is not the case. I did used to refer to myself as being the "King of the Sixth Dimension" on myspace, the Sixth Dimension in this case being a state of mind rather than an actual place. I would make all my college friends knights and would write blogs referring to the various messed-up adventures that took place between classes. It was almost like roleplaying, except it wasnt serious and we just made stuff up as we went along; I would post royal bulletins about what was going on, and they would post comments in response.  :teddyr:

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/forbiddenzone/index.html


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: BlackAngel75 on May 03, 2007, 12:47:23 AM
OK, no more confusion and got a new avatar.  Make no mistake I do love, love,love transformers.  Soundwave was a better choice, Starscream is a b***h!  Andrew, is it possible that I can send a drawing as a avatar?


Title: Re: What does your name mean?
Post by: DodgingGrunge on May 03, 2007, 05:06:29 AM
I have long had an amusement for the dynamics of language, the subtleties of English in particular.  Some years back, I found myself with a free domain credit and in search of a name.  I made two large lists, one consisting of adjectives, the other nouns, and wrote a computer program to spit out random combinations at the push of a button.  It came up with some catchy but meaningless phrases before creating "Dodging Grunge".

It occurred to me that the apathy at the core of grunge culture had a potential weakening affect on adjectives associated with it.  As such, "Dodging Grunge" could both describe one in a state of non-grunge, as it is being dodged, but it could also apply equally well to someone grungy who *attempted* to dodge it, but well, gave up and had a burrito instead.

My real name, in case you couldn't gather from my gaudy signature, is Josh.  OoOoh!