Where did your handle/username come from?

[Tdarcos]

I'm curious and I don't remember if this was asked before, but where did you come up with the username you're using here? If you'd be willing to tell us, I for one would love to hear it.

Now, as for me: Waay back in the primordial era,, millions of (Internet) years ago, probably 1984 or '85, I wanted to poke fun of the idea that someone whose 3 names have six letters each, has some satanic connection because of the number 666, so I decided to make up a character name for a story I wanted to write. Ironically, he was supposed to be the bad guy. Over years I decided I liked the name more for the hero, so eventually that's what he became.

Well, I'm into computers, so I notice some of the names of mathematical functions, both in Fortran and Basic, e.g. ABS for absolute value, ACS/ARCOS for Arccosine, ATN/ATAN for Arctangent, COS for cosine, SQR/SQRT for square root, Tan for Tangent, and in Fortran, because of it's popularity in scientific computing problems, duplicate versions of these preceded by the letter "D" for double precision, e.g. DABS, DARCOS, DATAN, DCOS, DSQRT, DTAN.

So, if you use TAN, Sine, and double arccosine, you get TANSIN DARCOS. So now I needed a middle name, and I had two conditions: I wanted it to start with the letter A, and be six letters, so that it gets the 6-6-6 cachet. I didn't like any of the other mathematical function names, so I thought, what does the name represent? Defiance, in effect a "take that" to those who think a name with 6 letters each had satanic significance (note these same people did not seem to believe this applied to some real people, e.g. Ronald Wilson Reagan). So, perhaps the name represents not just defiance, but something else, perhaps... arrogance?

Bingo! Drop one of the letter "r" characters, and you have the name.

Sincerely
Tansin Arogan Darcos
or Tansin A. Darcos.

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[AArdvark]

Didn't we cover this at one time?


https://www.joltcountry.com/phpBB3/view ... n+Williams

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Bingo! Drop one of the letter "r" characters, and you have the name.

wrong

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Didn't we cover this at one time?

https://www.joltcountry.com/phpBB3/view ... n+Williams

I apologize for calling the Commander a dickmuncher in that thread. I was going through some stuff, maybe?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Legend

[AArdvark]

It was a difficult time, back in 2012

[Tdarcos]

Didn't we cover this at one time?
https://www.joltcountry.com/phpBB3/view ... n+Williams

Well, excuse me for not remembering a question asked literally ten years agp! I don't know how you found it, when I do searches here they almost never work.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The search here is broken!

You are right about that.

[AArdvark]

It's ok, I can't remember stuff from ten years ago either. I just remember putting all the links and audio clips in my post was a pain in the ass.
Rereading it makes me want to replace all my old Photobucket pictures with photos that don't have the watermarks over them.

In order to find that other thread I did a search for Robin Williams.
Will PhpBpbbph ever get better?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

It's me. I screwed it up when we went to 3.

[gsdgsd]

I was setting up an account. I was so excited! I typed in my initials. It wouldn't accept three characters. I typed in my initials twice. It would accept six! Years later, I found out that everyone on planet fucking earth types in my initials twice plus gmail dot com when they want to rent a car or flirt with bots on Ashley Madison.