Re: Fun thread - your favourite bot names...
 

lmao @ Cpl. Shrike... :D
Alexander_the_L33t... lol! Hm, Arthur Dent... another one of those Douglas Adams readers, huh?
Well, I called a bot "Harun Al-RushIt"... but sometimes it's not so much the name that makes it funny, but just how the name sounds or what's behind ot - or the general impression. Take Pierre's approach: Those old texts aren't funny at all, but the combination is hilarious!
Some more of my favourites are "Killing you softly" and "Fraggermeister" (which is phonetically 99% identical to "Jägermeister", a famous German liquor...). Most other names I have are funny if you're German, but the gag gets lost in any other language. 9_9

@ PMB: Thanks for the info, that was quite interesting! I don't speak french, but with Latin and Spanish knowledge it's not too difficult to get at least a general idea of some passages. That first text really was half Latin! Was this really "officially" French or still Occidental?

Re: Fun thread - your favourite bot names...
 

Aahh so that's where i got that name.
I couldn't remember where the heck i got that name from.

Yep im a big SciFi fan.
Although it is quite some time ago since i read my last book.

Re: Fun thread - your favourite bot names...
 

Is it really possible to forget names like Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Tricia McMillan (aka Trillian) and of course Marvin, the depressed android?! :D
I recently dug one of the books out of my shelf again, flipped two or three pages, and 3 or 4 hours later I discovered that a) I had read the entire book again and b) it was kind of late... *g*
So much from these books has been taken over by others. Wasn't a mapper or texturer involved in the making of as_iraq and cs_iraq who called himself Zaphod Beeblebrox? And Trillian is the name of a chat tool now. Not to forget Bablefish, the translation site - it has its name from that little fish you had to slide into your ear, where it lived from your brain waves and translated any language into your own... 9_9
It's a good thing, though, that the bots here on this forum are not like Marvin from HGTTG - they'd all commit suicide at round start! :D