Socks or Real People?

There are two apparently new members at OT.com, HelpMeObiWanKenobi and Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold. Are these new, real posters or is this a new thing regular posters are doing?

Because if it is some new deal, I want to create a sock named ManyBothansDiedtoBringUsThisInformation. Either that or SompeetalayVereTanTeNachtVakeCheeta. That's right, I'm reserving sock names.

Well that's why I'm curious; because there's something rather funny about those user names. But hell, maybe that's their real names, who knows?

I was just kidding anyway - I have no desire to sock.

Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold has posted in the past, he seems independent. Don't know about HelpMe though.

When signing up here, I think many of us feel the need to come up with a Star Wars related name, only later realizing that doing so is kind of lame.

Using a famous quote from the films as a user name is very uncreative and therefore quick and easy to come up with, yet still somewhat amusing at the same time. So I don't see it as all that suspicious.

C3PX is an assassination droid sometimes comicly mistaken for C3PO.  I don't know what a CP3S is...

Gaffer Tape is a theatrical and film tape used to secure cords and equipment... and boobies!!!

C3PX was my attempt at coming up with something Star Wars related, if I could do it again, I would have given my user name some more thought. C3PX was a protocol droid that had been converted into an undercover assassin droid from one of Dark Horse's Droids comics. So yeah, I have a lame, poorly thought out something Star Wars (EU no less) related user name.

Because everyone was asking, my name is a meta-textual reference to the idea that a dictatorial Sith would even bother with an election! Ha! Ha! Ha! Oh, the very idea! Even if elections were held, who else would receive votes?! Oh, what a hoot I am!

See, a name like "vote_for_palpatine" is rather clever, and requires more thought than simply stealing a name from an EU character, or some other random Star Wars reference. Gaffer's name is another great creative Star Wars related name that required some thought.

My name represents the height of utter nerdiness. Akwat Kbrana was a Mon-Cal Jedi I ran for years in the old West End Star Wars RPG.

Akwat Kbrana said:

My name represents the height of utter nerdiness. Akwat Kbrana was a Mon-Cal Jedi I ran for years in the old West End Star Wars RPG.

 Hence the picture of the Witch King, got it!

TV's Frink said:

... and Professor Frink from The Simpsons.

 WHAT?

Mine was created by using a complex algorithm to combine my name, a videogame console, and a code number I remember from some obscure series of spy movies.

xhonzi, as C3PX accurately guessed once upon a time, is the Albanian phonetic spelling of my actual last name "Jonesy" or "Jones" really.

Yousock !

TV's Frink said:

Since this is now the "explain your nick" thread, mine is a combo of TV's Frank from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Professor Frink from The Simpsons.

And I've been looking for an opportunity to tell you how awesome your screen name is:

Your screen name is awesome.

Mine is from a group my friends made in high school, back when everyone was obsessed with GoldenEye 64.  We all picked numbers, I got 005.  When I wanted to change my lame first.last@juno.com email address (to give you an idea of how long ago this was), it hit me to spell it out.  I've used it for everything ever since.