Originally posted by $tormin
Some of you have interesting names and i wanted to know why you chose them.
mpanty is an americanisation of my name, which is Marco Pantanella...
Actually, there's a funny story behind turning "Pantanella" into "panty"...
I used to play
Grand Prix and
The Cycles from Accolade, back in 1991... very
ooooold games I tell ya (whooops, Wing Commander...
)
In any case, these were Grand Prix games, one for Formula 1, the other for motorcycling. And you know... there was a spot where you could enter your name...
Well I tried to put my full name, but it just
didn't fit... so I had to shorten it... and coincidentally I chose to americanise it (at that time, I didn't know what "panty" meant in English...
), and it became "Marc Panty".
So later, even for my WC2 full name, I chose Marc Panty, and "Keen" for callsign...
"mpanty" is just simpler and shorter, and that's the whole story... <G>
But what about "$tormin"??? Where can
that come from? <G>
[Edited by mpanty on 05-11-2001 at 10:11]