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[Bullion]

Toady, why did you come up with that name?

[Deon]

And while Toady tries to answer here, tell me, how can a bullion type? I didn't know about any kind of mineral life before.

[Bullion]

Simple, i'm not a mineral, i'm a cross between a bull and a lion, i just dropped the extra L because people always told me i spelled it wrong.

[Toady One]

Toady One?  We had lots of toads around when we were growing up in California, and we often put "A Toady One the Great Production" in the intros to our little BASIC games.  After we poured the concrete for the pond in the backyard, we wrote "A Toady One the Great Production" in it with our fingers (the pond later got hundreds of tadpoles then toads to augment the two or three koi [aka carp] we had out there).  I wasn't personally Toady One until we decided on our names when we put up the site in December 2000.  ThreeToe had a guinea pig, Faustus, at the time.  Faustus is his avatar.  Mine is a photo of a small toad statue that I have.

Unless you were asking about "Dwarf Fortress", as this is the DF General Discussion forum, in which case, I was hoping it was self-explanatory.

[Bullion]

Ah, i've always been wondering where the name came from, Thanks.

[sneakey pete]

Holy heck, i guess i'm dyslexic. for the last year i've thought it was "today one". Not a good sign

edit: oh god, this means i've been spelling it wrong for a year... people must think i'm a nut!

[Savok]

...to augment the two or three koi [aka carp] we had out there...

You have carp in a pond in your backyard?! How are you still alive?

[Baneslave]

You have carp in a pond in your backyard?! How are you still alive?

Toady One doesn't have fishing enabled and there is water source allocated inside the house.

[McDoomhammer]

It's simpler than that... He tamed them.  Didn't even need a cage.

[PTTG??]

I've allways wondered. I guess that the next natural question would be where ThreeToe comes from- but I almost prefer the mystery.

[Will]

Its explained in Toady's reply, guinea pigs have three toes or at least that one did. That's what I got from it anyway.

[Deon]

That pig had 3 toes after the worldgen events.

[Kagus]

Not that anyone would care, but since this thread would fizzle without some sort of tangent I would like to provide the background for my own name.

I normally go by the pseudonym "CrazyGoblin" (long story) in other games and forums, but when I joined here I wanted to be a little bit "incognito".  I tried to spell out "CrazyGoblin" in one of the ingame languages, but found that none of the races have words for themselves (or anyone else, for that matter).  I settled on "Kagus", which is the goblin word for "crazy".


Naturally, "CrazyGoblin" doesn't always fit the game I'm playing.  So, for certain medieval-period games I go by the names "Gavinrad the Pure" (untainted by experience or skill) or "Sir Pippin the Slightly Daft".  I also go by "The Nevada Kid" in one Wild West-themed game.

[MaxVance]

This is my real name. No, I'm not scared of stalkers or kidnappers or anything. Just for an "interesting" story, I'll tell you why I removed the space.

It started with the release of Mario Kart DS. When I was setting it up for online play, the game told me my name would be displayed as "Max Vanc" due to character display length. I removed the space to fit in the last letter, then a month later joined a forum using that name. I've used it pretty much everywhere since then.

[Dame de la Licorne]

Mine, well, I have the whole mythical race thing going.  My email has to do with dragons.  'Nuff said.
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