VERY Much OT indeed: Funny names

[Mormegil]

Hi all!

This is strictly off topic and also very silly, so please stop to read if you belong to the serious kind.
Yesterday evening while brushing my teeth I started to think about how people always tend to invent nicknames, especially in MEPBM.
We all have heard of Muzzy, Urzy and the other nasty nazzy boys. Most Easterlings are named so strange - if they would just say them to themselves often enough, Khand would not be so dry a place.
So there is enough raw material out there to advertise a MEPBM nickname contest.
I do this in the certainty that I have already won the thing. There is a nice FK commander whose name does not even need much altering:
Mr. Shagrat... I mean.... you know.... Shag-rat... nudge, nudge!

Waaaaaahahahahahahahaha!

Come on, beat this, I bet you can't !

[Per Bovbjerg]

I have seen quite some funny names in the games I have been in.

It goes without saying that the name I invented, "Din Mor" is the most hillarious one to me. To the average, non danish player this name might just seem stupid, as it consists of a bit of the names, of some of the more famous ME chars (Mor-Galad and Din Ohtar), but in danish, Din Mor just means, Your mom :)

On another note, ME once change the name of a char I wanted to name. Think I requested the name, "Now f**k of" (I was a bit annoyed at a DS agent who had stayed at my capital for several turns, assassinating most of the my chars there. When the turn came through, I had a char called "Now go away" :) (So much for freedom of speech ;)

[Fletch]

I've always been partial to "Conqueror Jones"

[Player]

There's always:

Whoremouth
Ourfunhill-man
Egonion (shortened to Onion by a valiant enemy once)
Idonefell (and can't get up..?)
Singarounda (Italian scout leader...)
and last but not least,
Idiot for whomever is playing Rhudaur in 66...

[LOTRPBM]

My personal favorites have been "Jiwhattaguy" and "Non-stealth Loser", a Woodmen character named by a teammate who was frustrated by his characters failure to get any steath bonuses whatsoever. It was his 21st character, and, sure enough, he had no stealth....

Mark

[FrightfulTales]

Here's a few I have used/heard over my MEPBM Career.

"Nimrod"el sorta speaks for herself.

The lovely Cardolan Maiden Fondle-us.

And my personal addition, Elwrong, because no elf should be more powerful then any single Nazgul, let alone all of them.

FT

[Player]

Fondle Us wins...that's it, that's all.

[RKFloyd]

How about my Woodman female emmy, "Maid of Wood". Get it?! Yeah, I know, it's lame.

I used to enjoy naming camps "camp of flying" or "flying the flag" or some such. A visiting enemy would get the message

" XXX is located in the camp of Camp of Flying flying the flag of . . ."

or

"xxx is located in the camp of Flying the Flag flying the flag" . . .


Russ

[loraelin]

There was once Fire King commander called Buttrot. Poor guy.

Colin

[Clint]

Game 39 has Ulrik (Sindar so he claims!) naming his characters after us GMs - so we're taking great pleasure in killing "Clint", "Sam" etc... :-) Not quite that funny but very satisfying...

Clint (player)

[Mormegil]

so you like Fondle Us better than Mr. Rat Shagger ?
Well, well... still waiting to be convinced

BTW has anybody made the mistake of naming a character after his girlfriend, proudly telling her - and some weeks later having to explain that she was eaten by a giant spider?
Not an experience I can recommend to share...

[Clint]

BTW has anybody made the mistake of naming a character after his girlfriend, proudly telling her - and some weeks later having to explain that she was eaten by a giant spider?

Nope - the wife wouldn't like it... :D
Clint

[Player]

My wife is currently a Regent about to take Minas Ithil, while my 13 month old daughter just killed 2 Khand Captains in 1 turn by challenge and assassination. Good girls both. I'm the 10 commander sitting at home transferring leather to my allies... Of course, if my wife's picture isn't one of the hotties, I hear about it...

[Vanya]

bah an old friend of mine has ya all beat.......Steve perhaps you remember this one.....


Tnucyllems

and no I am not going to help anyone with that...either you will see it or you won't.....

But it is still the best name ever given to a character...


Clint btw don't punish me....afterall the gamemasters allowed it in play.....


Thus that makes my friend Blake the master of names

[nanook]

I'm still amused by the old standby, "Tight Security."

Originally posted by Clint
quote:

Nope - the wife wouldn't like it...


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BTW has anybody made the mistake of naming a character after his girlfriend, proudly telling her - and some weeks later having to explain that she was eaten by a giant spider?
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One ME buddy always names a chr after his wife and TRIES to get her eaten by a giant spider.

Nanook

[FrightfulTales]

Vanya,

I am sorry to say that your friend's submission is neither good or clean fun, which I believe was the point of this thread. He should be "so proud" to have pulled such an immature and crude sheet over Harly's eyes, and you boasting about it just makes it that much sadder. The mere fact that you were unwilling to explain it in the first place should tell you and everyone else something.

FT

[Vanya]

Oh please get a little less stuffy......life is fun and the fact that once in awhile things that should not get by do makes life that much more amusing that is what most comedy is about...

Strange that people think things like Shag Rat, Fondle us and Nimrod'el??? are funny but mine is not funny is that not sort of a double standard.......They are all along the same lines......

When your high horse stumbles and falls please I would like to watch.....as the old horse dung in the face was always an old comedy sketch classic.....

[Player]

No they are not along the same lines. And is his horse so high, or is it that your gutter is so low?

[Mormegil]

@ Vanya

if you don't know the difference between a flat adolescent off-color joke and an intelligent pun which might come out a little slippery, I can't help you.

@ brad

don't you think involving your whole family in this game makes you prone to blackmailing?
:D
The long forgotten order 655 might become interesting for your opponents...

[Nick]

I once named a charactor -- Dark Servant Male 17 spaces exactly. I was playing free. Harly notified me I could not name the charactor that, as it plays with program. Sorry Clint you better start redoubling the watch on names now. A free counterpart is also illegal but I forget what it was.
nick

[Clint]

I once named a charactor -- Dark Servant Male 17 spaces exactly. I was playing free. Harly notified me I could not name the charactor that, as it plays with program. Sorry Clint you better start redoubling the watch on names now. A free counterpart is also illegal but I forget what it was.

If we find anyone doing this then we'll either ban them straight or give a strong warning. I've only had to ban one player in 10 years of GMing and don't like doing it. Not only does it lose us income (clearly) but it just leaves a very bad taste. If you see it then tell me and I can investigate at length.

We've managed to curtail or stamp out a lot of the excesses that some players go to (I know it's a game and very tempting to step outside the bounds sometimes!) and want to keep it that way.

Clint (GM)

[Player]

Originally posted by Mormegil
brad

don't you think involving your whole family in this game makes you prone to blackmailing?
:D
The long forgotten order 655 might become interesting for your opponents...

When my daugher escaped the dungeons of the Havens of Umbar recently, I breathed a sigh of relief and called my insurance agent to be ready for the next time...

[Mormegil]

yeah, that adds a new and somewhat creepy quality to it when old Ji is whispering to you : "I know your names, and I know where you live...."

[Player]

Ji doesn't scare me, I married an Italian...Nazgul vs the Family? Ha!

[Mormegil]

interesting, my girlfriend is half-italian, but I never thought about that potential...

...you mean Ji could just wake up some day finding the head of his beloved red-eyed horse next to him?
Or imagine some guys in black coats and hats wandering around in Kal Nargil, loudly talking about how all that woodwork tends to catch fire...
On the other hand, it might prove difficult to cast concrete blocks around the feet of a ringwraith...

[nanook]

... Dark Servant Male
If we find anyone doing this then we'll either ban them straight or give a strong warning.
Clint (GM)

Clint, I'm with you about prohibiting that and its variations, but a strong warning seems enough for a first offense. To my enduring shame, I once tried to name a chr "A Balrog" (Bill Feild stopped me). I won't do it again, but I was just trying (lamely) to be amusing. A full ban for one idiocy seems heavy.

Nanook/Dan

[Arthedain73]

Your "A Balrog" might have been forbidden but my "B Balrog" sailed right through. He was an agent who accompanied armies. No one tried to challenge him or assassinate him.

Regarding slippery names, I use it all the time. It is as easy as transposing letters. The letters "I" and "E" are really good. If Joe Blow does not study his turn or bother to check his character list, whos fault is that? We protect children from their own bad judgements but adults should realize that not everyone in the world is without some slyness.

Persons without "intuitive sagacity" (to use Sun Tzu's term) can learn "intuitive sagacity" the hard way. Better in a fantasy simulation than when money, careers or real lives are at stake.

[Player]

Originally posted by Arthedain73
Persons without "intuitive sagacity" (to use Sun Tzu's term) can learn "intuitive sagacity" the hard way. Better in a fantasy simulation than when money, careers or real lives are at stake.

Come come now, won't that be ... "unfair" ... ;)

[Arthedain73]

Only to the mentally inflexible.

[dorune]

Which is why you should always do warmups before mental exercises or you risk pulling a cerebral muscle.