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I haven't done this on the 'old' boards until now, so here's K.K. Fusion!
That's weird, but kinda fun.
I'm Mange Tout - which is French for 'eat all'. I am not the famous Frenchman who eats light bulbs and bicycles, in fact I am not French at all, and there are a small number of things I don't eat.
I'm aware that the name can also be parsed as Man Get Out, but that is just coincidence.
Gary Gnu, of The Great Space Coaster television program.
I really did have a nasty cough when I joined the Dope, and I've come to like the name enough to keep it for here.
It's my nickname in real life. Except there everyone has shortened it to Bean.
The Red Fury. 2008 Dominant European Football Champions. About damn time too, not like I have a lot of years left to wait.
WC in S.A. '10 next.
'ello
What can I say, the guy's my hero.
I've done this before, but...
Silvercat is my usual online identity. Silvercat was taken at the Dope, so I went with an expanded form.
Mine is from an old inside joke between me and my hubby. It is a reference to 90-weight oil, which is very thick, sometimes called axle grease.
I'm a mean drunken member of the wee folk. Well I'm not that mean. I'm not a Red Cap or anything.
Phalanx...the name I wanted but was denied on that dying other planet...
Former military man, phalanx is a military formation...
Phalanx sounds badass....
It has an "X" in it, I am partial to words with "X", with the exception of "Xavier" where the "X" is pronounced "Eggs". God I hate that.
Trouble was my cat, and I used his name on one board, then when I registered at Snopes, Trouble was taken. So I said, wait a minute, I want to be Trouble again! And so it goes. I really want a new name/identity, but I can't decide on one.
Once upon a time I was reading Heir to the Empire. One of the Star Destroyers in Thrawn's fleet was called Stormhawk. At the time I was getting into the BBS scene and I needed a handle (that's what we called screen names back then), and I thought stormhawk sounded cool so I used it. The uppercase letter was omitted due to laziness. I had a few others, mostly animal themed stuff. I was also into heavy metal, so I guess it was a sort of theme. Some of the other ones I used were firebear, silver dragon, redstar, maybe a couple others I can't remember. If you were on some of the San Francisco East Bay BBSes in the mid 90s you might remember me, I was fairly active.
Anyway, before long the Web rose to prominence and BBSes started dying. I discovered that while stormhawk had been locally unique it was not globally unique. So, still in a metal mood, I went for the pseudo-German misspelling you see before you now. I don't know if it still suits me really, but what the hell, I've had it forever now. No one else is using it, which after all was the point. (Yeah, I Googled myself. Yeah, those are all me.)
Ha - I missed that so far. Good one!Quote:
Originally posted by ivan astikov
It's Russian for brain.
Short for "pseudotriton ruber ruber," a type of salamander I used to collect as a boy.
It's both the name of a rock song I really like, and a reference to the SDMB's Pit Rules.
"Fach" is a German word meaning "compartment", but is also used to classify opera singers thus. "Verwirrt" means confused. Most of my singing life I've been vacillating between tenor and baritone (and I still essentially sound like a baritone on the bottom and a tenor on top), so there we are.
I made it up. I called my late cat Bo a bunch of different nicknames, and this was one of them.
And don't think we're not curious about the story behind that.Quote:
Originally posted by NinetyWt
A decade ago when I joined the Dope, I was reading about the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Took the name from King Badouin IV, Latinized to Baldwin.
When I first started needing a username on the internets, I had two cats, one named Feather and one named Lou. A friend suggested putting the two together, and lo, featherlou was born.
I was accused, by my friends, of acting too much like a cat on occasions and as I also worked for a large consultancy, I was the only one who always wore a suit to work.
Hence being Cat In A Suit
Consider me Catbert, although for me its java coding and not HR. ;)
I wish I could remember who it was, but when I once noted you'd think I'd have been promoted by now, some funny fucker suggested I'd then have to change my name to General Electric. I've decided to pretend I meant to imply that joke all along.
I started running in high school and have continued since(up to that accident a few years ago) and my name is Pat.
I'm Icelandic, so obviously I needed a Viking name. And the coolest Viking of them all is Orm den Röde from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Ships", which in english becomes WormTheRed.
My name is Julie.
Yeah, I'm that boring!
I'm BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed on the dope. Not only was that too long to use here, I wanted a bit of a change. At one point someone was replying to me (I think it was Autolycus) and was too lazy or in too much of a hurry to type my name, so wrote something like BellRungalupagus. I liked the ring of it.
The whole excommunication thing comes from my utter disdain for organized religious dogma after being raised RC. Or really any dogma, I suppose, but the religious kind was closest to home.
Note that I haven't actually been excommunicated. Maybe if I go to my church and ask politely they'd do it for me.
My folks and their friends called me Muffin when I was growing up, so although it is not my legal name, it is a name that I have always responded to.
Oh. I don't know why, but I always assumed your name was some sort of pot-smoking reference...Quote:
Originally posted by ivan astikov
Mine is dumb. I'm not actually Brewha. Brewha was my roommate while I was in the USAF. Well, his last name was actually Brewer, but he was the original Brewha. I bought a computer and got internet through AOL. He heard about this whole instant messenger thing and signed up on my compter. He logged on once and decided it wasn't worth ever doing again. So, when I tried it out, I used the account that had already been setup on my computer. So, I became Brewha. I've been using it ever since - mostly because I don't want to have to remember another username.
Mine is something I came up with after reading the quote that is in my signature on the SDMB (and would be here, too, if the character limit were longer)—Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. Do not listen to those who keep saying that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the clamor of the vulgate is always close to madness. It's from an advisor to Charlemagne, and ironically is the first recorded use of the phrase "Vox populi, Vox Dei".
I started using the nom de 'net of Aleq waaaaay back in the BBS days--it's an elision of my SCA name. Since the local SCAdians were overwhelmingly also the local computer geeks and also active on or hosting most of the BBS' it was an easy way to be readily identified online. As time went by I got a leetle tired of always being assumed to be a guy and the name wasn't terribly clever in an of itself so I added the "Smart" bit because I hear "Oh, don't be such a SmartAleq" quite often. I had a Dope account under "Aleq" starting from when the board came over from the weird interim privately hosted incarnation, then I didn't have internet access for a long time, including losing the ISP specific email account that the Dope account was tied to, so I just opened up the SmartAleq account. It might have been nice to have the two names merged but back in the day they didn't do that, oh well.
That makes you a cat.Quote:
Originally posted by featherlou
KITTY PIC TIME!
Claptree is the slightly contrived translation of the Swedish word klappträ. It's an instrument used in olden days for beating laundry dry, seen here in the hands of a Polish washer woman.
My friends and I took to the word, as it makes for a nice insult - words ending in -trä have a nice ring - of a person's intelligence. I consequently made it my own, anglified it and it's been my online identity since forever (1999 or so). Until fairly recently, the only google hit not related to me was this play.
[quote=kk fusion]Ha - I missed that so far. Good one![/quote:34vk6n42]Quote:
Originally posted by "ivan astikov":34vk6n42
Someone's going to be really missing the headsmack smiley over here, aren't they?
Regular readers will know, but when I first joined the Other Board there was already a "Diogenes" (a name I used to use elsewhere) so on about the fourth attempt I picked this name from C S Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet. It is both the Martian inhabitants' own name for their planet, and the proper designation of the archangel who runs the place (he's often simply called Oyarsa, but that is his function, and when not at home he uses his own name instead).
Mine is a combination of Guinevere and Anastasia. When I was in high school, I was really into Arthurian legends, and then later on, I was on a mailing list for fans of the movie "Anastasia", and everyone started adding "astasia" to the ends of their names. And let's face it-Guinastasia's pretty unique.
That didn't help. That green stuff is hell on the lungs!Quote:
Originally posted by Indistinguishable
A-ha! So it is pronounced as in Guinevere, as opposed to as in Guinan from ST:TNG. I have wondered this, but never got around to asking.Quote:
Originally posted by Guinastasia
Yawndave: the main character in a rock opera written for my high school garage band.
Hi Julie, my name is Jill. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Julie
My previous board name, Shayna, is my sister's dog's name. I really don't want to be my sister's dog anymore -- I'd rather just be me.
I'm big and I'm a girl.
waves madlyHi!!!!!!!! The brie is almost out of the oven, so the first official meeting here of the 'liberal but not a fucking lunatic society' can be start! I'll save ya a seat.Quote:
Originally posted by Biggirl
Hey there! Just so you know, I am a fucking lunatic. That's what everybody tells me. But it's not because I'm a liberal.Quote:
Originally posted by wring
It's all good - pull up a chair!
http://www.yourdictionary.com/silenus
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Silenus
What can I say? When a name fits, it fits!
Well I guess it depends on who you ask as to whether or not I'm a Liberal Lunatic, but I like your ideas and would love to subscribe to your newsletter.
When I first became active various places on the inter-tubes, I was re-reading the Anabasis (and finding more insight about leadership in that text than all the corporate training my Sun Tsu devouring colleagues were encouraging me to take, but that's another story...) And I was 41 yrs old. (Ah, lost innocence!)
Hi wring. Got no brie on me, but sage derby and Pacifico Clara oughta do in a pinch. If Biggirl doesn't mind a little crowding, I'll just sit over in the "not exactly not a lunatic" corner. Quietly. Occasionally chortling.
Sage derby. Mmm.Quote:
Originally posted by xenophon41
I need to join Biggirl in the "lunatic but not because I'm liberal" corner. If you think I'm strange now, you shoulda seen me when I was an anarcho-capitalist!
Well, it has just come to my attention via a friend through PMs that even though I've dropped my sister's dog's name as my username, I am still not free of sharing the same name as a family dog. <sigh> It's a cute story, though. . .
My sister-in-law (Spiny Norman's sister in Denmark) and her husband got a puppy a few years ago, and guess what my niece and nephews named her?
Yup, that's right; Jill. after me.
It drove my BIL crazy, as he hated when he had to yell at the dog not to do something or other, as it made him feel wrong, like he was yelling at me. I think he's come around now.
The funniest story is when one of the boys asked his mother, shortly after they'd gotten her, just out of the blue, how many breasts does Jill have? Charlotte was utterly aghast, thinking he was referring to me, and replied, "Well two, of course! Why on earth would you ask that?!! :o ". His answer provided the needed clarification that he was asking about the DOG! :mrgreen:
It has been suggested that I change my username here to Miss Thang. I'm currently mulling it over. :)
Friedrich Nietzsche is my favorite philosopher. In his written work he is notorious for being hilariously boastful. In Twilight of the Idols two of the concluding chapters are entitled, ''Why I Write Such Great Books'' and ''Why I Am a Destiny.'' Thus a dancing star is born.
Captain Ridley's Shooting Party was the codename members of the Government Cypher School used to disguise their true identity, when moving into Bletchley just prior to WW2. These were the guys who broke the enigma code, amongst others, and were instrumental in winning the war, as the allies were able to pinpoint exact locations of axis ships and armour through decrypted messages (a member of the team, Alan Turing, is my "academic great-great-grandfather", which is quite rare, as he only had one PhD student).
The members of the shooting party were all middle aged mathematicians, chess masters, linguists, crossword experts, logicians, philosophers, authors etc. It wasn't a very effective ruse, given that hundreds of people, not at all looking like a shooting party, suddenly descended upon a small town, but there you go.
Do you mind explaining that avatar? It's kinda freaky. ;)
I believe it's a circus master character from a British comedy show (specifically, Papa Lazarou from The League of Gentlemen). It's sort of intentionally freaky.
ETA: Link
And it's been removed, as some posters thought it was a guy in old-fashioned blackface :!:
My sig is my explanation.
also...
I used to be in graphic design for print, but now I'm into CGI, 3D modeling, animation and visual effects. I thought about changing my name from what it was at the other board to something more relevant and profound, but ahh well... I like consistency.
PLUS, cmyk has two of my initials from my real name (the 'k' and 'c') and in the middle is 'my', so it's mine. And I've always been fascinated by color and color theory.
And you say the letters, it's not a word. see-emm-why-kay.
Ulfhjorr, Wolf-Sword, is the name of a character in the epic saga I've created in my head and am trying to get down into electrons. Who knows...it may actually happen some day...
Eddy, Teddy, and Freddy are the three senior (and VERY LARGE) cats in the ETF household (currently numbering one human, nine felines, and a whole helluva lot of books). That's Ed in my avatar.
I've also got a horse, Ben, but he doesn't live with the rest of us -- doesn't do very well with all the stairs in a townhouse.
Sorry, but I pronounce it as a word. Simik. :DQuote:
Originally posted by cmyk
No, no, no, it's pronounced ''smmick,'' with prolonged emphasis on the ''m.''Quote:
Originally posted by Julie
:mrgreen:
If you must, "smmick" (or"simik") will do. ;)
Quote:
Originally posted by wring
Oh, good, you've still got it going! And Biggirl's arrived. I've got some coffee brewing, btw.
Mine's a dumb play on "Snoop Doggy Dog" (which is what he was going by when I first joined the boards).
As requested in this thread. :) (I don't have Lou any more, though.)Quote:
Originally posted by Muffin
Clothahump is the name of the ancient turtle wizard in Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger novel series.
Way back in 2000, I signed up with the Motley Fool message boards. At the time, I was working with NEC in their undersea fiber optics division, so I chose my name based on that: submarine->sub, optics->light. The space travel/lightspeed-related meaning didn't strike me until much later, when I was wondering why SF discussions were coming up on my vanity searches.
I'm sure most of you are familiar with Lynne Truss' book Eats, Shoots and Leaves. It awakened my inner stickler a few months before I joined the SDMB and so I picked that name. I've mellowed a bit and have become much less of a stickler and much more of a whatever-works-for-me-and-you-er, but inertia's a powerful foe.
I'm going to hijack this to say I love your avatar! It instantly makes me think of Japan.Quote:
Originally posted by sublight
I'm elelle on the SD, a name I've used for awhile in various places, it's a play on my initials, and a play on gender terms.
I've been wanting to change it anyway, so here chose "vrilles", a French botanical term for twisted tendrils. I'm a horticulturist, so it's apt for the way a plant's tendrils reach out into the world, and twine about the internet. So I'm thinking. But, in seeing how it reads, the i gets mashed up with the double ll's,(continuity,tried there too), so hard read. What do y'all think?
I'm glad to see so many great folks here.
My name from Over There won't fit (ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies). A few years back while trying to think of a yahoo username that wasn't already taken, I came up with Rabid Renaissance. It fits me, though rabid (as in fervent and enthusiastic) may imply a higher level of physical activity than I usually partake in, though my mind never stops. I am a Renaissance Woman, a lesbian, a Jack of all trades and a master of none. I have at least a low level of ADD. I enjoy and am interested in so many things simultaneously that I sometimes feel a little...rabid. I also think that as a species, we humans are in dire need of a renaissance of both thought and action to prevent us from turning into a complete cancer on this little blue planet of our's.
It's how you get to Neverland! I wanted a unique name and liked how it sounded, so there you have it.
I'm a Lady when I want to be.
Rest of the time I'm Mack.
Anne, here.
Kinda dumb, but I was sans wit when I registered, and figured there already had to be an Anne on here, not realizing that this place is fresh meat!
I joined several internet groups while I was living in Cairo, Egypt, and started using "CairoCarol" as both an indicator of my location and as a nod to "Surabaya Sue," a lunatic Scotswoman who in the 1930s brazenly descended upon Java, drove herself across the island to Bali (a remarkable feat at the time), and settled herself in, starting a guest house and taking up with the locals. She was imprisoned by the Dutch during WWII because of her advocacy for Indonesian independence. She wrote a book about her adventures, but much of her descriptions of her exploits seem to be a bit, ah ... inventive. However, in broad outline her story is true.
The name "CairoCarol" seemed an apt way to combine the fact that I was living in Egypt with the fact that my heart has always remained in Indonesia.
Mine's a reference to The Wire. There's a character named Jimmy McNulty, and one of the characters (Bubbles) pronounces his name in a way that sounds like "McNutty."
As a long time Doctor Who fan, my user name is based on a remark made by the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) in Pyramids of Mars, the remark was something like "I'm a timelord, I walk in eternity, Sarah".
I liked the sound of it, plus I was bored with my old username, so I emailed Tubadiver and got it changed.
Now I'm Walker in Eternity on two sites.
I knew it. Good stuff.Quote:
Originally posted by ivan astikov
Oh, and I'm this guy.
If you've ever explained this before, I missed it. Thank you for clearing that up!Quote:
Originally posted by Clothahump
I never could find anyone to jam with when I was playing guitar, so I got used to only playing the rhythm parts. Never learned how to play lead guitar.
Erguotou is a kind of Chinese firewater. I like alcohol.
Mine's from Harry Potter--Professor Lockhart's useless "Peskipiksi Pesternomi" spell. Read it as pesky pixie.
I first used the name back when I was writing HP fanfic (did I just admit to that? :shock:), and then when I signed up for other sites I wanted something I could remember. So even though I'm not in the HP fandom anymore, I'm peskipiksi everywhere I go on the net.
Elyanna is a character I made up when I was 13ish. She was pretty much a Mary Sue. Now it's just my other name.
fessie was my favorite cat, a Maine Coon/angora mix who died too young, from kidney failure.
I still miss him.
But dood, Chinese Firewater would've probably been the best username of all time! Missed opportunity!Quote:
Originally posted by Erguotou
Oo I love brie. I have a recipe where you slice it in half and slather the layers with apricot preserves and diced jalapeno and crushed pecans before baking. Yummy.Quote:
Originally posted by wring
Ethyl Mercaptan is the stinky compound added to propane gas so that it can be smelled when there's a gas leak. I figure that's a fairly good representation of my posting style - mostly harmless but leaves people wrinkling their noses.
Oh holy blast from the past-I used to watch that all the time when I was a kid.Quote:
Originally posted by garygnu
The Flame-you should know by now that I LOATHE S.T. in all shapes and forms. I'm a Star WARS girl all the way.
I don't think I've ever actually HAD brie, honestly.
Oh, well. Wouldn't be the first time...Quote:
Originally posted by cmyk
And when I first saw your username, I thought, "Man, he should have gone with McNulty for that. It's so similar."Quote:
Originally posted by McNutty
My father used to call me "Liberty" because it's kind of like my actual (nick)name, Libby.
The 3701 was my prisoner number when I got arrested at the Summit of the Americas protests in 2001 in Quebec.
Taken together, they make kind of a lame generic4321 name, which I don't like sometimes, but it's the name I've used for 8 years, and I'm the only one out there.
My user name identifies a political ethic, namely that rights accrue from the private ownership of property.
It seems that the word liberal has a differnt meaning in the UK than the US. Here we tend to think of liberals as permissive rather than being in favour of private ownership accruing rights. That seems more like the ethos of the Tories than the Liberals here.Quote:
Originally posted by Liberal
It normally means what you think it means in the U.S., too. Liberal is just using the traditional definition, which is more similar to modern-day Libertarians than anything else, really.Quote:
Originally posted by Walker in Eternity
When I was signing up for my first online service back in, oh, 1993 or so (AOL, as opposed to dialing directly into BBS's and such), I was frustrated at the "choose username" screen because all of my first choices were taken. Naturally, I wanted to avoid the dreaded numerical suffix that would testify to my lack of originality ("'Janus' is not available, would you like 'Janus15809'?"), but I was running out of options. Then, while sifting through my brain, I came up with the name you see here. It was invented by my brother, who was at the time running a move-by-mail role-playing game, and this was the surname for my character, a prince and heir who had left his castle and was traipsing across the countryside trying to uncover some conspiracy or other. Naturally, nobody else had used it, so it went through without the numbers attached. I signed up, and have been using it ever since. I've kept it because of its uniqueness, which makes vanity searching, both on message boards and the Internet generally, much easier; like sturmhauke, I'm the only one on the web. That kind of long-term historical utility is pretty rare in cyberspace, so I'm likely to keep using it for the duration.
I just did a Google search for "Vox Imperatoris". It gets a lot of results from Mafia games I hosted on xkcd (I kind of introduced it to that board) and one for a Diplomacy game I'm hosting; none from the Dope, though, which is odd, since I'd assumed that it was supposed to be searchable now. I seem to be the only one of my kind of the web.
The most embarrassing part, though, is that it shows my Pandora station as the first result, especially since that is my casual email address (as opposed to the one I use for official things, which is my first and last name).
SQUEEEE! You're here!Quote:
Originally posted by Lady Mack
My old nick, Little Wing, was picked in desperation (I was drawing blanks) when I was signing up on SDMB. I took it from a SRV CD that was sitting on my desk at the time. I've wanted to change my nick for a while but posted so infrequently that it wasn't worth the effort.
Cranky Old Broad. I'm cranky*. I'm old**. And I'm a broad. Pretty self explanatory. 8-)
* Actually I'm fairly easy going. It's only when the hormones take over (I'm pre-menopausal...oh joy) that the crankiness comes out.
** I'm 45 but sometimes I sure as hell feel older.
;)Quote:
Originally posted by troubleagain
*mwah*
My new user name is a reference to The Simpson's season 5 episode "Homer goes to college". It's always been a personal favorite reference.
So you're already a Mafia veteran? Are you holding out on us for any particular reason? Does Santo Rugger smell so funny that you haven't wanted to come out and play? It may not be much reassurance, but I will do what I can to keep him from peeing on you...Quote:
Originally posted by Vox Imperatoris
Back in 1982 I chose "LoneWolf" as a CB handle (I was only 16. Feel pity for me). This became corrupted over the space of about a year to "LeanWilf". It's pretty easy to remember, rarely taken as a User Name and it's far less pretentious than the original which makes me smile.
... Well you see there's Zombies!
... And they're At The Window!
It's meant to bring to mind the terrible voice acting of the original Resident Evil for the PS1. I know they don't say the word "Zombies!" at any point, but if you imagine one of the characters blurting this out somewhere in the mansion, you get an idea of what was going through my head at the time.
The Martini-Enfield was a .303 calibre British service rifle adopted in the mid 1890s, based on the Martini-Henry rifle seen in the movie Zulu. (My primary interest is military firearms, generally from the Victorian era to the Korean War or thereabouts, in case you hadn't guessed ;) )
Most people, however, think of "Martini" as in "James Bond's Cocktail", so my username manages to have a double meaning- it's not only the name of a vintage British service rifle (and thus reflects my main hobby and interest), it manages to combine connotations of The British Empire, Sophistication, Intelligence, Wit, Adventure, and Small Arms into one short title that sums me up pretty well, I think. :mrgreen:
That's what I thought - the drink + the classic motorcycle.Quote:
Originally posted by Martini Enfield
I've used the decidely uninspired calgaryjimbo in many locations over the years (name = Jim; home = Calgary), but when my wife, featherlou, started badgering me to join The Board That Shall Not Be Named, I actually found some inspiration. Rather than go for one of my more obvious pop-culture obsessions like Star Trek or Superman, I went with a Princess Bride reference. And thus, Dread Pirate Jimbo was born. On this board, I was typing stuff without checking my spelling as I registered and didn't even notice that I forgot to capitalize the words. D'oh. Oh well, no biggie.
Burn, Baby, burn. (That's what I meant to say five days ago. Seem to have experienced a slight delay.)Quote:
Originally posted by TheFlame
Mine is silly but has stuck with me for years and I am loath to change it now.
I started using the net back on Prodigy in the early 90s when I was a kid in the 4th grade. I don't remember what my user name was then, but I do remember that when I wanted to move to AOL so I could hang out with my friends in the chat rooms in about (I think) 1994 or 1995 (that would make me about 12) that name was taken. I was under a bit of a time crunch to come up with a new name as I had a friend at my house helping me figure out the AOL thing and so I just went with my initials, NAF. That didn't work so I tried again with something else, that didn't work. Then I thought of George Lucas, who at the time was my hero (and in 1994 he hadn't done anything to change that) and tacked on 1138 after his much underapreciated (to my 12 year old sensabilities) film THX1138. That one worked.
So, now I am NAF1138 everywhere on the net, since it's easier to have a single net identity than multiples. So that's why there is a person who signed up to these boards while there were less than 500 members and actually chose to keep numbers in his name.
My user name is an old joke/expression in New Jersey. The joke is that everybody in NJ lives near a highway exit. The reality is that most people in NJ do live near a highway exit. :D
In the dialect of New Jersey, we say "What exit?" rather than "Which Exit?"
How I picked this name was the result of a fun voting process and most importantly by the suggestion of Crotalus.
Jim
When I chose my username I hadn't realized that Dr. Drake is the name of a character of a character on a 90's sitcom, but the avatar should help with this! I have a doctorate, I am male, and I think ducks are neat. Also dragons.
We have a salesman that will come into our engineering office, usually just to chat. In a good mood, he will go around singing, "Kiss my hairy a." I know, salesmen.
On the other board, I was DirtyHippy, a nickname I got in high school, back in the 70's.
I just love the letter J.
My name starts with J and every now and then when i change my name on MSN it includes J somehow.
"The J Word" "Vitamin J" "It's a J!" "The J Way" are all examples of this.
Many years ago when i was causing trouble on another board and signed up a new sock every time i got banned, i always used J's somehow, either in the email address i signed up with, or in the actual name.
If the moderators were actually looking for me, they could have found me.
One aphorism used to describe the distinction between a language and a dialect is that "a language is a dialect with an army and navy". Hence why Mandarin and Cantonese are considered dialects despite the fact that speakers of those tongues can't understand one another, and, conversely, Swedish and Norwegian are considered languages despite the fact that speakers of those tongues can understand one another.
I'm always getting my panties in a knot about people denigrating regional and subcultural dialects, so it's kind of like I'm representing dialects with rogue armies trying to cast off the yoke of linguistic oppression.
(I'm also a sociolinguistics major who cares way too much about all this stuff for his own good.)
Most of this stuff was developed post hoc, and "Hostile Dialect" itself was just the winner in a Franchi-style naming contest over at the Board of Darkness. That was, however, actually based on the language/dialect/army/navy thing. That was a criterion set aside for the contest/poll.
By the way, I am a lunatic liberal and I'm not ashamed of that!
Looks like a rag on the Roma people...not seeing how that's real different, personally...am I missing something?Quote:
Originally posted by CRSP
Heh, me too!Quote:
Originally posted by Vox Imperatoris
But I grew up in a black neighborhood near Baltimore, so maybe I'm just used to it.
Woah, that's awesome! You should start a thread about it!Quote:
Originally posted by liberty3701
My username is a tongue twister in Hungarian. It means "Jamaica belongs to the Jamaicans."
Jamaika = Jamaica
A = (definite article)
Jamaika-i-ak-é = Jamaica - (belonging [to somewhere] e.g. America-->American) - (plural) - (possesive)
(also, Hungarian has copula deletion in the third person singular present when you would use "Ser" in Spanish)
so it's "Jamaica is the thing that belongs to the people of Jamaica."
On edit: Upon Googling, apparently "Jamaica" may be spelled "Jamaica", and not "Jamaika", in Hungarian...
missred or some form of it is a name that I've used on the internet since the late 90s.
I've had the nickname of Red on and off all of my life because of the red hair. The "miss" is to denote gender.
That, and folks don't always "read" me right away.
Ah! It works on two levels! I like!
Ha! Yep, used to be a few miles off exit 2 from I-95 in Ewing...Quote:
Originally posted by What Exit?
Joe
OtakuLoki
Well, 'otaku' is a Japanese word meaning, among other things, 'fan*.' In the US it's come to mean a fan of Japanese animation.
Loki is the Norse god of mischief (and evil).
So, I'm calling myself a trickster with a taste for Japanese animation.
*Well, usually it means 'obsessed, socially inept fan who can't be bothered to shower regularly' but I don't like to mention that part of it. ;)
The original form of my name is Campionachi, which I made up for a religion class in school. We had to come up with prophet names for ourselves, and this is what I came up with. I combined camp, ion, and the suffix -achi. Camp because I love to camp, ion because I'm a science nut, and the suffix because it was common in the names of other prophets we studied.
I changed it to Campionaki to be more phonetically spelled. A complete phonetic spelling would be Camp-ee-own-ah-key.
Joe, I love your new avatar. And it's actually very appropriate for nethack (not that anyone would post on a nethack message board with avatars, but that's another story).
It's a long story. In 2001 when I first joined a forum I was still grieving over the death of my sister Sasha. She had an anaphylactic reaction after accidentally stumbling upon a fire ant nest. So when it came time to think of a name, I thought of her and typed in "bigbugsstingtokill". That name sorta annoyed people though because it was long and made no sense, so I eventually just abbreviated it into "bbs2k". I stuck with that for awhile, but even pronouncing "bee-bee-ess-too-kay" seems like a chore, so I picked up the single syllable nickname beebs.
Really.
Sorry to hear about your sister, beebs. I bet I wasn't the only one assuming your username meant you worked for the BBC...Quote:
Originally posted by beebs
My nick is German. Directly translated it means "togetherness". What I found interesting when taking German is that "einsamkeit" means "loneliness" (eins = one, zwei = two). I sort of liked the idea of reverse-engineering the meaning to be "alone in pairs". The feeling you can get when you're with other people, but still feel completely disconnected and alone.
Plus, one of my favorite bands has a song with the lyric "Bewahret einander vor der Zweisamkeit" (Save each other from togetherness). How bitter! :D
Usually on other boards I'll go by h0taru, but I go back and forth between the two. On AIM and other chat progs I usually go by some variation of "shadows on the sun". There seem to be a few different possibilities for the origin if you google it, but I won't tell ya which one it is. ;)
I parse this as "Otoucaloki" because of Otoucalofa Creek, one of several creeks included in a Demonstration Erosion Control project which I worked on as a graduate student.Quote:
Originally posted by OtakuLoki
PapSett- shortened form of my 2 chosen dog breeds- PAPillon and Gordon SETTer
Both you and joe are killing me with those avatars. I have never frequented a board that uses avatars so this is taking some getting used to, over all; but you and joe are killing me.Quote:
Originally posted by Hostile Dialect
Hostile, which came first on the dope; you or Harmonious Discourse?
My user name references Queen Nzinga of Ndongo who had a servant provide his back for a chair when the Portuguese governor denied her a seat at a peace conference, hoping to disgrace her. Or so the legend goes.
Mine is a reference to Tom Goes to the Mayor, a show that was on Adult Swim a couple years ago. The main character, Tom Peters, is so completely forgettable that every time his name appears in print it's spelled wrong in a different way. I don't really identify with him, but someone spelling Tom Peters as ridiculously as Taumpy Tearrs just.. tickles me endlessly.
The avatar is Tom in Hell.
Okay, at risk of starting out with a bad rep from the get go I must apologize. My post was trying to be over-the-top sarcastic. Ever since 05', when I first abbreviated my name to "bbs2k" I've always changed the story of what it used to stand for and why because the real story is much more embarrassing. In fact, think of it sorta like The Joker explaining how he got his scars.Quote:
Originally posted by Martini Enfield
The bbs2k -> beebs nickname though I believe started with a coouple of friendly folks in the MMP, and I liked it so it stuck.
Thanks. Looks like I made the right choice - I've had 2 or 3 other people say they liked it too...Quote:
Originally posted by Hostile Dialect
Joe
I use this name on another board. When I registered for that MB, I just looked around my desk for inspiration. I was drinking a bottle of seltzer, and the label had the words "Sodium Free." I smushed the two words together, and that was that.
I decided to use that name on this board as well, for the sake of consistency.
Boring, I know, but you asked!
I needed a name when I joined that other board in 1999 and Jill (formerly Shayna) suggested I go by Grace because I liked the tv show, Will and Grace. Lame, but true.
Who you callin' lame, girl?
:mrgreen:
After a marathon Firefly viewing session, I wan't feeling all that creative when I signed up to the old place. I go by other, more creative names on different boards, but decided to avoid confusion and just stick with the same old one when signing up here and Giraffe. I didn't exactly set the world alight with my number of posts at the Dope, but just in case anyone was wondering "Hey, where's that Wash guy that occasionally posted in the Game Room?", well here I am.
My dissertation is on gluings of polyhedra. And it's just a neat word. I used to be Tenebras, but I decided to go with Greek instead of Latin this time around.
I'm pretty sure I came first, but I was called fetus back then. And I was always getting confused when fessie or furt or any of the other 4-6 letter uncapitalized F names posted. Then I switched to Hostile Dialect and thought I could breathe freely---and then Harmonious Discord came back from her hiatus. C'est la vie.Quote:
Originally posted by Nzinga, Seated
To flesh this out for those who don't know, bbs2k is actually from bigbabysweets2000, Big Baby Sweets being a criminal mastermind in the movie "Big Money Hustlaz", sort of a white "Dolemite" for ICP fans.Quote:
Originally posted by beebs
And to expand on my earlier comment about wheresgeorge04's new avatar, Nethack is a dungeon-crawling computer game based on D&D where the player starts off with a pet kitten or puppy who is, hilariously, far more powerful than the player him/herself. Total coincidence re the avatar, but when I shared the picture with the #nethack IRC channel, everyone cracked up.
I'm not saying you're lame. I'm just saying you picked a lame name. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Jill
psst Hostile: Harmonious Discord is a he.
Mine is from an episode of M*A*S*H, where Frank Burns is trying to teach Koreans to speak english. He gets into an argument with Hawkeye because he was late taking over for Frank. So Frank calls him "stink fish pot" which the Koreans repeat. I've never understood what it meant, but it always made me laugh.
SFP
Hi, my name is Rachel. Only that was taken on the SDMB, so I went with stunningly original middle name route. On the one hand, it's boring, on the other, I do like gender specific names, and it's easy enough for people to remember and type. So that's good.Quote:
Originally posted by Jill
I think my username describes me well - most people see me as Vulcan-serious at first, but as they get to know me they realize ( I hope!) that I can't stop seeing the funny side of everything and I'm willing to try almost anything twice. Also, I like to sing.
I know a couple of guys named Renee. :lol:Quote:
Originally posted by renee
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Originally posted by runner pat
Wouldn't they be Rene, not Renee? Similar to fiance/fiancee (screw accents today).
Pun on my name.. Well my last name, really. One version of the old SDMB boards allowed names to be partially in caps (not just when you logged in, but what others would see when you posted).
As "Clayton Smalley" "CLAYTON_e" was similar. After the board's software stopped letting me do that I realized that I found the all caps then the "small e" to be rather annoying.. so the pun doesn't make sense anymore.
Mine is the title of one of my favorite Tori Amos songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0wRxVr30k
Zsofia was my SCA name. The funny thing is that nobody who would remember me from the SCA would remember that, since I didn't really use it much (I mean, it felt weird, you know?)
Let me put it this way: you'll never see me in picture threads.
Oh, in reality? I just like the word. Always have. I also happen to like The Mysterious Mr Quin and hold out hope for Harley Quinn as the villain in Nolan's next Batman movie.
I've always liked this quote from David Hume where he's talking smack about metaphysics and theology:
And since I teach philosophy, it seemed like an appropriate handle. Besides, it's a helpful reminder that most of what I post is probably bullshit. ;)Quote:
When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Great quote, Sophistry. It reminds me of certain passages in Max Stirner's more aggressive and unfortunately largely unknown Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum (The Ego and its Own), a book that needs to be (re)introduced to the philosophy student's must-read list.
On the SDMB, I was meenie7, which is an abbreviation of Lindramine (pronounced Lynn-druh-meen), a fake name I made up when I first got on the internet. After a lot of people told me it sounded like a cough medicine to them, I shortened it to meenie. 7 is my favorite number.
CrashMyBicycle is a phrase from the song "South Carolina" from John Linnell's (from They Might Be Giants) side project State Songs. It's a little joke on myself because I have a balance problem which makes it impossible for me to ride a bicycle (or stay upright in crucial situations, sometimes...) I've used it before on a different board and I found it shortened nicely to CMB or Crash, which is also good. :)
[quote=Rabid Renaissance]So you're already a Mafia veteran? Are you holding out on us for any particular reason? Does Santo Rugger smell so funny that you haven't wanted to come out and play? It may not be much reassurance, but I will do what I can to keep him from peeing on you...[/quote:r0ktgb3j]Quote:
Originally posted by "Vox Imperatoris":r0ktgb3j
Just saw this—done.
My name is Robin, and I just tacked on the Ms because I'm kinda sensitive about being mistaken for a man. So MsRobyn it is.
I have another alias that I use elsewhere because I found out that I was sharing MsRobyn with a domme. It was weird getting chat requests from other women asking to be allowed to go to the bathroom.
When I type fast, I can't spell "trial". After cleaning off twenty or so test files called "tirial" the sysadmin at a certain place of work stuck me with it as a nickname. Many years later and my website is tirial&Error... (yes its a bad pun. But it's mine).
I came up with this one for my blog on fine arts and music.
Mine has nothing to do with the eponymous Robinson.
Back when I decided that using my real name as a posting name wasn't a good idea, I was massively into the semi-trip-hop instrumentalists Red Snapper.
One particularly chilled-out tune I was into Crusoe Takes A Trip. I still like it. When the drums kick in at about 1:45 it really takes off.
Mine is just because I wasn't able to come up with anything witty when I signed up to the Dope lo, way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth (OK, 2003 :oops: )
Rather than the impersonal "Nothing Special" which was all my brain could come up with at the time, I finally changed it a bit and went with "Noone Special" which at least says I'm a sentient being and not an object... (and that I can't spell for s***, since it should have been "No-one"; but whatever :))
I found a full streamable version here in case anyone else wants to hear it. Not bad.Quote:
Originally posted by Crusoe
Noone Special, I always figured your name was a pun and your last name was actually Noone. :)
Yeah, and I'm an old-time Rock Star. :DQuote:
Originally posted by McNutty
Right.... I wish!
As for the pun -- no, I was just totally lacking in creativity that day, as well as in grammar. But the Peter Noone references (as well as "Noon Special"* references ;)) eventually came from other quarters :)
* Which apparently is a term used in some parts of the English speaking world to describe a quickie-on-the-side over lunch break? Never heard of it before, and googling doesn't seem to bring anything up, but I like the idea! :D
It's more commonly called a "nooner".
It's my confirmation name.
"Chaco" is my favorite: dog, place and shoes, in that order. I'm a guy and "420' is what I paid for my house. If you want to amuse yourself it's really a reference to the Columbine Massacre, Marijuana and Hitler's birthday.
My user name reflects my attitude to the few short years we have on Earth,by a happy coincidence it was also the title of a movie about one of the greatest artists ever,Vincent Van Goch,though I haven't actually seen the film myself ironically.
I also owned Lust for Life on an Iggy Pop album when I was younger but I try to keep it quiet.
But as I said earlier the main reason is because I love travel,new experiences,adrenaline kicks and new knowledge.
Several years ago, I was in the habit of keeping a dream journal. One night I dreamed that I was reading an extremely fascinating book of poetry, and I made a point of memorizing the author's name so that I could look up more of their work later. When I awoke, of course, I couldn't recall a single line of poetry (which is undoubtedly for the best, as I am no Coleridge); but I did remember the name. So a couple nights later, when I impulsively signed up for a free message board, that was the first user name that came to mind.
Needless to say, there is no poet with that name; however, through the magic of the internet, I have learned that the phrase "terri fel" does occur in the Anglo-Norman metrical romance "Bevis of Hampton," where it signifies that Terry, Bevis' squire, fell down.
I believe that "terrifel" may also be an archaic variant spelling of the Portugese word "terrivel," which means "terrible." However, I have yet to meet any archaic Portugese who can confirm or deny this.
If I'd known I'd still be using it today, I'd probably have given it more thought to begin with. Oh well.
Winston is a nod to Winston Churchill, Smith is a very common British name. The name was contrived to be thoroughly and instantly recognizable as British, and (to a lesser extent) to Brits (or those familiar with British literature and/or culture) as a commoner.
I used this name on another board and just used it here. I hope nobody from that board recognizes me here.
[b]phouka[b] - pronounced "POOH-kuh"
IRL, I go by my middle name, Robin. My favoritest of Shakespeare's comedies is A Midsummer Night's Dream, and my favorite character in that play is Robin Goodfellow, aka Puck.
One of my favorite books from my college days is War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. One of the characters in the book is a phouka, an archaic version of "puck". Also, another favorite movie is Harvey with Jimmy Stewart, whose best friend is a six foot tall invisible rabbit, a pooka.
My poster name is a common noun and should only be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence.
Nothing too creative here. It's my favorite color and my favorite gemstone.
I lurked for two year before signing up at That Other Board because I simply could not come up with something as creative and clever as many of the names already there. I finally found a thread that I had to put my 2 cents in and Ruby was the hastily chosen name.
My user name is my function in life, according to the dog. :D
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My best friend in high school started calling me "Tunaman" for reasons I cannot fathom. It probably has something to do with The Doors and weed, but I've actually never asked him (I never wanted to, actually).
Spacetime for Springers by Fritz Leiber is one of the all time great Science Fiction stories. It's the tragic story of a kitten named Grummich.
I was casting around for a user name on another board, thinking about how Spring is my favourite season when the spoonerism just came to me. it's a name I'm really happy posting under.
I'm G'neighbour on a few other boards (which I mention because some of you may know me there). That came about originally as a name for G'Dope because of the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
For anyone who still doesn't know my name means "The Thief" in Irish.
I never posted in this thread, did I?
Elendil was a great King of Men in ancient Middle-earth. He appears briefly in the prologue of the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. He'd be a great guy from whom to be descended, if he weren't, you know, fictional.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elendil
Huh, evidently, neither did I!
One Cent Stamp was the name of a band I played in from about 2000-2004. (You wouldn't have heard of us unless you happened to live in central Utah during that time, and were into obscure local music.) It sort of became my online handle during that time, and stuck afterwards.
I don't appear to have either. Huh!
My previous handle (Caerie) was a name I had going back to when I fourteen and using IRC for RPGs. The nickname I used was a gender neutral epithet for one of my characters and I was consistently assumed to be male by other players. I finally just went ahead and made it Caerie instead, as Carrie was taken. That name, chosen at the age of fourteen and based largely on the fact that I had to misspell it to lay claim to it, has stuck with me for a lifetime.
And of course Zuul is from Ghostbusters.
Wacky, neither did I.
My husband calls me Sarafina sometimes. The way I spelled it is just a bit of a joke since I spell Sarah with an H.
Marsilia is the vampire queen in the Mercy Thompson book series by Patricia Briggs. At some point in the not-so-distant past, people were changing their names to coincide with vampire fiction, and I decided to go with a vampire that few people would think of. It sort of stuck.
My original name here (0ut0fMyHead) was, in all honesty, a play on the fact that I'm nuts.
I prefer Marsilia. :P
My how times haven't changed... :kitteh:Quote:
Originally posted by CatInASuit
It's a reference to the Gems from Steven Universe on Cartoon Network as well as the word "frood" or "froody" from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Yeah, those animated colorful genderless feminine aliens. Frood means someone who is cool, calm, together, and carries a towel. I just wanted a nerdy username with things that I love. I used it on another forum so I just used the same name.
I'm glad you explained that.Quote:
Originally posted by Froody Blue Gem
I'd been talking you for months before I figured it out.
Mine? Eh, it's just a riff off a name I had from some old board, and I thought, "That's no insult! That's a proper name!"
No, I don't put a lot of thought into these kinds of things.
I guess people need to be familiar with SU and Douglas Adams stuff to piece that one together. However, maybe they would just get the "froody" reference because gems are a pretty universal thing. I guess the name came to me on the other site putting the two things together so the account was born.Quote:
Originally posted by JizzelbinI'm glad you explained that.Quote:
Originally posted by Froody Blue Gem
I'd been talking you for months before I figured it out.
Mine? Eh, it's just a riff off a name I had from some old board, and I thought, "That's no insult! That's a proper name!"
No, I don't put a lot of thought into these kinds of things.
That is a cool username and I didn't know that's where you came up with it. I figured with the J, it was a takeoff of your name but I wasn't sure if there was more meaning. With Jtour, I figured it was a play on "detour" with the first letter of your name before it.
I knew the Froody but not the Blue Gem side of it. I also know where my towel is.
That's funny. No, jtour is just some family friends used to call me "JT."Quote:
Originally posted by Froody Blue Gem
No, there's no real meaning behind "Jizzelbin" -- it's just stupid and I ran with it, because it's good enough.
Good enough for a message board.
I guess I was just going on assumption with the Jtour thing. I have made that false assumption for months now,Quote:
Originally posted by JizzelbinThat's funny. No, jtour is just some family friends used to call me "JT."Quote:
Originally posted by Froody Blue Gem
No, there's no real meaning behind "Jizzelbin" -- it's just stupid and I ran with it, because it's good enough.
Good enough for a message board.
I do like the username though, it's cool.
At least you can successfully hitchhike around the galaxy and have it all together. Despite my username, I think I am the opposite of the definition of the word. Always good to know where that towel is.Quote:
Originally posted by What Exit?