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bratwurstdimsum · 03-03-08, 08:49 PM

I have a very strong collecting interest in German militaria, Helmets, medals especially and now branching into the Kriegsmarine. Thus the "Bratwurst"

I am also Malaysian Chinese raised in Australia.

Thus the "Dimsum"

And I LOVE food. :rotfl:

Hans Schultz · 03-03-08, 08:55 PM

It's my grandfathers name.

Powerthighs · 03-04-08, 01:32 AM

http://www.optimusrhyme.com

Captain Vlad · 03-04-08, 07:04 AM

'Vladmir' is an oft-used RPG name on my part. He was my first TES: Arena character (A Nord barbarian), and when I started playing a text-based RPG a couple years later, I used the name again. Since I played the game, off and on, for about eight years that incarnation of the character became one of my RPG 'hall of fame' characters and versions of him have appeared on everything from Knights of the Old Republic to Sid Meier's Pirates. Thanks to his wanderlust and a tendency to have bizarre things happen to him, several other players have said they think all the 'versions' are in fact, the same person, and he unconsciously hops times and dimensions just to find the next cool thing to do.

Thanks to the extended amount of time I played that game, I've also ended up with more people who know me as 'Vladmir' or 'Vlad' than as 'Larry', and thus, Vladmir is my usual web identity. When used in a nautical or military themed environment, such as this one, I often attach 'Captain' to the front, and thus, my user name. In such cases, I almost always shorten the name to 'Vlad', as it sounds more piratical.

AkbarGulag · 03-04-08, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Captain Vlad

When used in a nautical or military themed environment, such as this one, I often attach 'Captain' to the front, and thus, my user name. In such cases, I almost always shorten the name to 'Vlad', as it sounds more piratical.

:rotfl: Awesome

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Originally Posted by bratwurstdimsum

I am also Malaysian Chinese raised in Australia.
Thus the "Dimsum"

I tried expalining to some Australians that DimSums were aussie food. They tried to tell me it was first made in Korea

ReallyDedPoet · 03-04-08, 08:04 AM

The dead ones are the best ones.

RDP

Skipbo · 03-04-08, 08:09 AM

Skipbo was a nickname given to me by my son and daughter and their friends during the late 1980's. They often played a card game called "SKIP-BO" and for some reason started calling me Skipbo or Skip then and ever after. I was normally reading, working, watching TV, listening to shortwave or police band scanner radios - anything except playing SKIP-BO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKIP-BO

skwasjer · 03-04-08, 09:10 AM

Well, uhm. This dates back about 11-12 years to Quake 1 (FPS game). I played online probably as 'Player' (default name), and after a while came up with 'squasher'. However, since I wasn't 'that' good at the time, I wanted to dumb it down a bit and sortof rewrote it phonetically in Dutch as skwasjer. Since a few years, I like to keep it short: skwas

1480 · 03-04-08, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

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Originally Posted by 1480

It's my star number.

What kind of star number? Is it SAO 1480, RA 9h 17m 28.479 sec, DEC +79 deg 48 min 36.27 sec, visual magnitude 9.2? (epoch 2000 coordinates)

The star shaped piece of tin that sits on the left side of my chest at work....but most of us are like the banditos in Blazing Saddles "badges we don't need no stinkin badges".....

Rockin Robbins · 03-04-08, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by 1480

The star shaped piece of tin that sits on the left side of my chest at work....but most of us are like the banditos in Blazing Saddles "badges we don't need no stinkin badges".....

capt_frank · 03-04-08, 11:11 AM

"Capt Frank's" is a great Seafood Market on Boynton Beach Bld., Boynton Beach, Florida. The name just stuck with me...

Mush Martin · 03-04-08, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

The dead ones are the best ones.

RDP

Career note to self: Never become a professional poet
or visual artist.

Iron Budokan · 03-04-08, 11:33 AM

I was sitting home one day watching my dog lick himself when the phone rang. A disembodied voice said, "Report to 601 Shayla Drive at nine o'clock tonight. Drive by once and flash your headlights twice. Then park across the street and go around back behind the dry cleaners... and come alone."

Being in the habit of following advice from disembodied voices that tell me to visit scary parts of the neighborhood, I immediately drove to the reqeusted address. I walked around back. At the end of a narrow alleyway I saw a guy wearing a trench coat with the collar turned up. The shadow of his hat brim shaded his furtive eyes.

"Howdy," I said. "What's up?"

"I hear you play Silent Hunter. Heard you're kind of a freak who even plays at 1x sometimes. Heard even your little boy likes to play and that he's a better kaleun than you are."

"Yep. We both love it. Great sim, great immersion."

"Maybe you don't know this, but there's a super website that caters to subsim gamers like yourself. It's called Subsim.com."

"Hm. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll check into it." I turned to go.

He grabbed my arm. "Wait. You can't just log onto the site and start jabbering. You have to have a proper handle." He took out a notebook and ticked off a name. "From here on you will be known as Iron Budokan. Remember that name. Iron Budokan. This will allow you access to Subsim.com."

"Sounds like fun. Thanks. Any last instructions?"

My strange benefactor lighted a cigarette. The wavering flame illuminated his face, highlighting his red beard. He looked vaguely familiar. "Sink them all. Oh, and download GWX."

"Gotcha." I started to walk away. "By the way, what's your name?"

"You can call me Thomsen." Then he turned away. My interview was over.

I walked back to my car and pulled out of the parking lot. As I drove past the alley I glanced back inside but the man who had been there was gone. How strange, I thought. But I drove back home and logged on to Subsim.com and have enjoyed it ever since.

FAdmiral · 03-04-08, 03:11 PM

Back in the early days of internet gaming online, a friend told me about this
brand new gaming site called "America Online". He said I would need a handle
to log into it to play games & such. Being that the strategy naval was my best
strong point, I went for FleetAdmiral but it was already taken, Admiral was too.
So I picked an F for Fleet and added the Admiral to it. I have been know almost
everywhere as FAdmiral for the past 19 years.....

JIM

Keelbuster · 03-04-08, 03:16 PM

I've got this thing about breaking keels....

03-03-08, 08:49 PM	#61
bratwurstdimsum Sparky Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 153 Downloads: 143 Uploads: 4	I have a very strong collecting interest in German militaria, Helmets, medals especially and now branching into the Kriegsmarine. Thus the "Bratwurst" I am also Malaysian Chinese raised in Australia. Thus the "Dimsum" And I LOVE food. :rotfl: __________________ The convoy lights are dead ahead The merchantmen lay in their bed The thump of diesels hammers down In the oily sea-the killing ground His knuckles white his eyes alight He slams the hatch on the deadly night A cunning fox in the chickens lair A hound of hell and the devil dont care -Iron Maiden

03-04-08, 07:04 AM	#64
Captain Vlad Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Pollard, Oklahoma Posts: 679 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	'Vladmir' is an oft-used RPG name on my part. He was my first TES: Arena character (A Nord barbarian), and when I started playing a text-based RPG a couple years later, I used the name again. Since I played the game, off and on, for about eight years that incarnation of the character became one of my RPG 'hall of fame' characters and versions of him have appeared on everything from Knights of the Old Republic to Sid Meier's Pirates. Thanks to his wanderlust and a tendency to have bizarre things happen to him, several other players have said they think all the 'versions' are in fact, the same person, and he unconsciously hops times and dimensions just to find the next cool thing to do. Thanks to the extended amount of time I played that game, I've also ended up with more people who know me as 'Vladmir' or 'Vlad' than as 'Larry', and thus, Vladmir is my usual web identity. When used in a nautical or military themed environment, such as this one, I often attach 'Captain' to the front, and thus, my user name. In such cases, I almost always shorten the name to 'Vlad', as it sounds more piratical. __________________ "Stop sounding battlestations just to hear the alarm."

03-04-08, 08:04 AM	#66
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,897 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	The dead ones are the best ones. RDP __________________ Back in the Day

03-04-08, 08:09 AM	#67
Skipbo Sailor man Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 46 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Skipbo was a nickname given to me by my son and daughter and their friends during the late 1980's. They often played a card game called "SKIP-BO" and for some reason started calling me Skipbo or Skip then and ever after. I was normally reading, working, watching TV, listening to shortwave or police band scanner radios - anything except playing SKIP-BO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKIP-BO __________________

03-04-08, 09:10 AM	#68
skwasjer The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,549 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 3	Well, uhm. This dates back about 11-12 years to Quake 1 (FPS game). I played online probably as 'Player' (default name), and after a while came up with 'squasher'. However, since I wasn't 'that' good at the time, I wanted to dumb it down a bit and sortof rewrote it phonetically in Dutch as skwasjer. Since a few years, I like to keep it short: skwas __________________ S3D - Silent 3ditor (v0.9.9) - S3D homepage - Open sourced S3D file parser API's - SUBSIM thread SH5 mods: Speech Recognition for SH5 \| Digital UI Clock Tutorials: [TEC] Import/export 3D models to/from game using S3D [TEC] How to work with the model viewer in S3D - VIDEO

03-03-08, 08:55 PM	#62
Hans Schultz Sparky Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 150 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	It's my grandfathers name.

03-04-08, 01:32 AM	#63
Powerthighs Beach Leaf Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 287 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	http://www.optimusrhyme.com

03-04-08, 11:11 AM	#71
capt_frank Watch Officer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the North Carolina Sticks Posts: 335 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	"Capt Frank's" is a great Seafood Market on Boynton Beach Bld., Boynton Beach, Florida. The name just stuck with me...

03-04-08, 11:33 AM	#73
Iron Budokan Sea Lord Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,778 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	I was sitting home one day watching my dog lick himself when the phone rang. A disembodied voice said, "Report to 601 Shayla Drive at nine o'clock tonight. Drive by once and flash your headlights twice. Then park across the street and go around back behind the dry cleaners... and come alone." Being in the habit of following advice from disembodied voices that tell me to visit scary parts of the neighborhood, I immediately drove to the reqeusted address. I walked around back. At the end of a narrow alleyway I saw a guy wearing a trench coat with the collar turned up. The shadow of his hat brim shaded his furtive eyes. "Howdy," I said. "What's up?" "I hear you play Silent Hunter. Heard you're kind of a freak who even plays at 1x sometimes. Heard even your little boy likes to play and that he's a better kaleun than you are." "Yep. We both love it. Great sim, great immersion." "Maybe you don't know this, but there's a super website that caters to subsim gamers like yourself. It's called Subsim.com." "Hm. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll check into it." I turned to go. He grabbed my arm. "Wait. You can't just log onto the site and start jabbering. You have to have a proper handle." He took out a notebook and ticked off a name. "From here on you will be known as Iron Budokan. Remember that name. Iron Budokan. This will allow you access to Subsim.com." "Sounds like fun. Thanks. Any last instructions?" My strange benefactor lighted a cigarette. The wavering flame illuminated his face, highlighting his red beard. He looked vaguely familiar. "Sink them all. Oh, and download GWX." "Gotcha." I started to walk away. "By the way, what's your name?" "You can call me Thomsen." Then he turned away. My interview was over. I walked back to my car and pulled out of the parking lot. As I drove past the alley I glanced back inside but the man who had been there was gone. How strange, I thought. But I drove back home and logged on to Subsim.com and have enjoyed it ever since. __________________ "You will take on England wherever you find her ships, and you will break her power at sea." --Iron Coffins, Herbert A. Werner http://kennethmarkhoover.com

03-04-08, 03:11 PM	#74
FAdmiral Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 1,079 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Fleet Admiral Back in the early days of internet gaming online, a friend told me about this brand new gaming site called "America Online". He said I would need a handle to log into it to play games & such. Being that the strategy naval was my best strong point, I went for *FleetAdmiral* but it was already taken, Admiral was too. So I picked an F for Fleet and added the *Admiral* to it. I have been know almost everywhere as *FAdmiral* for the past 19 years..... JIM __________________ If you\'re not taking losses, you\'re not doing enough. RAdm. Kelly Turner, USN ********************************** www.fairtax.org

03-04-08, 03:16 PM	#75
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I've got this thing about breaking keels.... __________________