Re: What's with the name, Buddy?

Posted by darth_paul on 2006/5/5 23:18:35

The last post for this was in Oct. of last year? Well, then let me just throw mine into it then. I am darth_paul and here's why I call myself that. (It's on C2F as well if you wanted to know, but anyway...) Back when I was in college over 6 years ago the Phantom Menace came out on video and dvd and while it's not the greatest Star Wars movie, it was all that was available to Star Wars fans at the time. So, my roommates and I all went out and bought copies. We were watching it one day and I just happen to own a really cool Darth Maul t-shirt and was wearing it during a viewing of the movie and one of the guys was like, "you really like that character don't you?" and I said, "yeah he's bad ass or something stupid like that" so he replied, "Well I'm going to start calling you "Darth Paul" (since that's my real name and it's just a dumb play on words.) So, what started out as just a stupid joke became a name that I could use all over the internet, although I put the underscore between the two words because it's usually taken as one word, and so far I've only had to add the number 99 to it on renderosity.com for some reason that it was already taken the way that I do it. (9 is my favorite number and I just did 99 in case there were actually nine of them, so if I have to pick numbers then I'll use nines until I get something not taken which is easier for me to remember.) Also, my custom avatars are usually a Darth Maul image turned green with a green double-bladed lightsaber in photoshop because green is my favorite color and it's as if it were me as a variation of the character.