The CONTINUING Story Behind Your Alias

Who'd'a thunk it'd get to be so long so fast? Keep telling those stories, folks! They're fascinating!

-Melin
Board-Goddess-In-Training

So is ckdexthavn gonna volunteer, or do we have to drag him here? :)

Your Quadell

I got my nick by using my totem animal (the Squirrel which I bastardized so it would fit on MIRC) and the name of the gay subculture group where I tend to fit in (i.e. cub). :) On this note, Until recently I assumed Sunbear and Papabear were gay. I know better now. The bear movement is one of the largest gay submovements, fyi, and almost anytime you see bear, cub, otter, Daddy, or Papa (especially for older men) then more than likely that person is gay. :)

Have a great day.
SqrlCub

No huge story here - Falcon's my nick on IRC. It's also my spirit animal, so that's why I chose it. It also means I don't get hit on when I'm on IRC, thank God...

Quadell, CKD already did explain his name -- just in a different thread at a much earlier time and in a different area altogether. :)

Here's the link: http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000023.html

Hmmm...no offense, but I sense an imminent change in a couple of SDMB aliases.

the beginning of my first e-mail address ten years ago. very lame, but it's stuck with me...what can I say, I'm a man, we don't like change.

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The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
George Bernard Shaw

So if I picked a handle of BearOtterCubDaddy, it would be roughly equivalent to ILikeToDateMen? Well, I learn something every day.

Your Quadell

First they take a perfectly good synonym for "happy" and now...

I would have been a lot happier not knowing that little bit of info, Sqrl!

Bear, cub and otter "movements"?? I thought I was about as gay savvy as a straight fellow could be but what the hell are you talking about?

Otters?



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Tim
"My hovercraft is full of eels."

I always thought those were ranks in the Cub Scouts.. wait a minute...

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"I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn't."

My ex girlfriend's (and my) best friend used to call me mangeorge. If I asked her why, they would both go into a giggle-fit. I never got a straight answer. I still love them anyway.
If you're out there, Ella & Betty, please tell me now.
Peace,
mangeorge

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Work like you don't need the money.....
Love like you've never been hurt.....
Dance like nobody's watching! ....Unknown

Mangeorge - about what year did they start calling you mangeorge?

About 1982 or so, as I recall.
mangeorge

About 1982 or so, as I recall.
mangeorge

Now I know how that happens

Sorry to but in here, with that exciting question unanswered, but:
Hmmm...no offense, but I sense an imminent change in a couple of SDMB aliases.
I don't see any changes coming up.However, if any of you folks should decide to change your name or become multiple personalities, it takes some doing to handle the "preferences" set for your name.

I don't actually know how you would drop out (not "dismember", I would think)under the original name. I wonder how many names they will tolerate?

Mine's easy. I have five cats. My favorite is named Popoki, "cat" in Hawaiian. Where I don't live but really, really, want to.

Okay, really lame but:

Greek mythology is a really popular way to choose a name on AOL (as most of you probably know), and so the more common names go fast. Cassandra was (I think) a Trojan princess or something like that. She had the gift of prophesy and foresaw the downfall of Troy. [b]But[/i], she was cursed so that no one would ever believe her prophesies, so she got to watch her beloved city burn, and couldn't do anything about it. How sad. Anyway, I like to be a little different (and Cassandra was already taken), so I change it to Cessandra (which is pronounced with a soft C and a snooty sounding a: Suh-son-dra).

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Heres the story on my nick name:

On IRC, i used to go by the name of Adobo (Name of a Filipine dish, and powdered sauce mix you find in latin stores, made by "Goya :)). I used it because it was original, and memorable. On one of the channels i frequent on EFNet, the people there started calling me doob (evidently it stems from a typo made during a chat session :)). Then a few months later a girl there started calling me "Doobie". That went on for a while, and then i saw the word "dubious" on some web page while i was chatting, and it struck me to change my nick to "Doobieous". So, now i go by the nickname "Doobieous" (Even my friends IRL started calling me that since we were all bored and thinking of nick names to call eachother. And yes, i still visit EFNet for chats LOL.

Well, theres really no story in mine. I've never been one to ever get any nicknames that have stuck. Thats really strange because I'm surrounded by friends in high school and college that love giving nicks, In 4 years of football, fraternities, dorms, and bartending I can't think of anyone other than me who only goes by his first name. My last name is long and simple. I was always kinda disapointed by that, but then knowing two good friends who have gotten the nicks Nippler, and Cleatus that are virtually all we call them, it could be worse.

As for why I picked that word, it is both self-depricating and arrogant at the same time. Thats kinda me, I am stubborn, pretty bright, and a triva trove, but i try not to take myself to seriously. Its also original, descriptive, and gets attention.

My other choices would have been Dionysos, Bacchus, and Neophyte. The first two being the greek and roman gods of wine and revelry respectively, and the last you can look up if need be, but it would have lost its validity by now. Omniscient just seems to fit the spirit of this site more.

OK, totally mundane. My first name is Dave, my last name begins with W, the last 4 digits of my Social Security # are 0071.

Sheesh, it's such an effort to be boring....

The Dave-Guy, however, is something that I just happened to invent during correspondence with a friend. It's turned into a kind of persona, although just how to describe it escapes me. It's merely another role I play, or another name I refer to myself as, similar to Dad, Husband, The Jerk Who Didn't Let You Merge On The Thruway.



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The Dave-Guy
"since my daughter's only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?" J.H. Marx

I spent three years getting up before dawn in high school(long, horrible story), three years in the Army doing the same, and now I'm usually up at dawn, whether or not I go to at sleep at night. I play fetch with the dog or lie in bed pretending I'm asleep so I don't have to cook breakfast, and I listen to the dawnbirds singing.

Dawn is my middle name, too.

mangeorge -

*giggle, giggle*

OK maybe I'm out of the loop. What happened in 1982? Zyada? Mangeorge?

Wasn't Boy George popular around then?

Um, yep!

Mixture of pomposity and humility I guess. First thing that popped when asked for handle. Wasn't aware at the time that there was already a Siamese brother and didn't remember that the adjective was sometimes applied to (by?) Unca Cece himself.

????
Peace,
mangeorge

It's my first name. Either that or "Toastmaster". :P

So unoriginal,
Louie

Mine derives from the Marty Robbins song of the same name. One night several friends and I were hanging around, playing music, having a fews beers and a smoke, and it was getting late and we were winding down, energy waning, nobody thinking of any songs to play, and I remembered that tune and started playing it. For whatever reason, they all just went nuts over that one (which, of course, details a day in the life of an Arizona Ranger with a big iron on his hip).

After that they all started calling me Big Iron, and I have to say that I've had plenty worse nicknames in my life.

I am a symbiont.

When I was 4 or 5 my dad said to me: "Son, you're gonna be a politician or a preacher - You just don't stop talking!"

Close but no cigarr. Grew up to be a radio jock, now turned management.

Still talk a lot, though, so the nick is a play on charlatan.

ct

Quadell said:
"So if I picked a handle of BearOtterCubDaddy, it would be roughly equivalent to ILikeToDateMen? Well, I learn something every day."

Well if you took out the otter/cub reference it would work because they talk about conflicting physical characteristics. Otters don't have body hair in gay lingo, and cubs tend to be young bears (there is a lot of debate on that in the gay world) whereas bears tend to be fat, hairy and older. If you named yourself something like QuadellBearDad. You would basically be saying that you are an older (Daddy's tend to be in their 50's or look thereabouts), fatter man who likes to be called Quadell for some reason ;) <EG>. I guess that destroyed all the stereotypes of gay people being young, smooth, neat individuals. Although not quite the sleazy leather look. I guess I should start a new topic.

SqrlCub

My first name is Meg (short for Megan, and a story in itself) and my boyfriend-hopefully-soon-to-be-fiance and I call each other "Beefcake" because we were both, well, beefier in college.

I have been slythe since 1976. It was my first attempt at joining the S.C.A. It's also the name I use at Gaming and Science Fiction conventions.

Once upon a time, I used the SN "BroknBak", abbreviated to fit aol's old 8 letter rule.
After my last (7th) back surgery, I decided to change it to reflect the improvement in my back.

FixedBack

I use HeadlesCow because when I was trying to come up with a name for Starcraft all the ones I could think of were already used so my friend told me to use headlesscow b/c when he bought a Gateway computer they gave him a foam cow and in the car ride home his sister and I both pulled on the cow at the same time and I ripped its head off. It was either use that here for simplicity b/c I know use hat as my handle for alomost anything I do online or use my nickname "Cecil" but I thought Cecil would create a problem on this board.

Well, mine's not that exciting, but it has a history.

My first and middle names are Jason Ronald. A friend in college used to like to call people by their middle names, especially with the first initial, since she said it sounded "cool" (like H. Norman Schwartzkopf, F. Murray Abraham, etc. etc.) and used to call me J. Ronald ( I usually only go by my first or last name or variant thereof). Since my last name (Remy) is common enough, it's tough to use as a handle, and so I started using Jron. Now, most people confused this with "Iron" so I started using Jayron. The "32" got added since the handle "Jayron" showed up in a few places, and I just started using Jayron32 as my standard handle.

BTW, in the pre-internet days, I used to be a BBS junkie in Southern New Hampshire, and went exclusively by the handle "Kermit" in those days. Again, too common, and I like to keep my handle the same from place to place, so I use Jayron32 as my handle everywhere now.

Roshni (or Roshnee, depending on the romanization) is simply Hindi for 'light'. Sounded cool.

My hiatus AOL name is Roshni41, 41 being my lucky number.

Average
White
Boy
:)

Actually, it's just my initials.

Yo jayron!!! We grew up in the same area - where you from? Merrimack boy myself... nice to see a fellow Granite Stater on board :)

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Cave Diem! Carpe Canem!

Mine may seem obvious, but there is a story. I joined the Navy in 1984 when punk was in full swing. I showed up to boot camp with my hair bleached white and standing every which way, black leather pants and jacket, engineer's boots, a chain around my neck with a padlock (masterlock IIRC), and a safety pin through my cheek. My company commander took one look at me, pulled me out of the line for haircuts and said,"I want Squid Vicious here to have the first haircut". The name stuck and followed me everywhere.

Squid, I can just imagine the look on your CC's face when he saw you! Yes, a rare treat; the humiliation of a punker. Good thing it was only temporary.

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...it has never been my way to bother much about things which you can't cure.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain

Mine is spotgirl because I am female, and also I have a dalmatian and I call him my spot dog. Keep in mind that everything everyone has said about inbred dogs comes true in dalmatians, mine is irritable, deaf, and knows exactly what shoes cost the most so he can use them for chew toys, but he is the best dog ever (At least to me)

Well, at the risk of winning the "Most Boring" award . . . My first name is Jodi. My last name starts with an "H". Its all lower-case because I brought it over from a triv site where the play is so fast no one uses caps. Snooze.

Diane is my name and besides, "Diane, Goddess of the Universe" was just too damn long.

The Kitten part (Kitten8808 on AOL and the old board) is a longer story. When I first came online 4 1/2 years ago I was pretty naive about all the perverts online (I have since joined the ranks). I let my older kids choose a screen name and my daughter came up with Kitten (the 8808 was courtesy of AOL) because she loved cats.

It wasn't too long before people started to associate Kitten with someone older and something sexual so I made her chose a new name.

She had a few friends that knew her as Kitten8808 so I told her I would keep her SN active until she could tell all of her friends the new name. Since I hadn't thought up a SN for myself I used hers until I could think of something clever. I never did and I met more and more online friends so I was stuck with it.

I have another SN, Stormie, that I have been using in another area for a few years. It is an actual knickname that I have had since high school. An old boyfriend gave it to me because he said my green eyes get "stormy" whenever I would get pissed off or, :::cough::: horny. It was a weird co-inki-dink that I married a guy whose last name is a close variation of Storm, so it is even more appropriate.

I keep telling myself that I am going to combine Kitten with Stormie, but I haven't done it yet. Too lazy.


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&gt;^,,^&lt;
KITTEN

Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.

Olentzero you came from Merrimack...I still live there.

Tyler's a nickname from my youth in Texas (real name's Jill - how boring is that?). And naturally, being from a long line of story-tellers and having been raised in the land of weaving a good yarn, I gained a great appreciation for the oral tradition. In college, I was a member of the Forensics Team and took a second place in the state of California for my interpretation of Lord Richard Buckley's cool story, God's Own Drunk. There just aren't enough story tellers anymore. Our kids are missing out on a great tradition.....



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StoryTyler
The fun starts here!

Buck is a college Fraternity nickname that came about because I almost always have a knife on my person. At the time it was a small Buck pocketknife.

Even though nobody knows me, I might as well share.. I used to be part of a community on AOL based around a game creation system known as ZZT. The trend at the time was to create small pseudo-companies, bascially groups of people who would create games and release them under the company name. I had decided to start a company. Eventually I decided to use the British version of the last letter of the alphabet and stick 'soft' on it. Hence: zedsoft. Then I posted a message one of the ZZT messageboards on AOL and asked if anyone wanted to join my `company'. (My AOL screenname at the time was Tristam418, for what that's worth.. I got it from someone's alias on my dad's BBS, because I couldn't think of anything else.) Someone with the screenname ZZTOmega asked me if I wanted to merge with his company (Omega Productions) and I said "sure", so it became Zed-Omega Productions and I changed my screenname accordingly, to "ZZT Zed". When I started using IRC, the space closed up, and eventually I lowercasified it. Of course, on IRC (specifically AUSTnet (http://www.austnet.org/)) nowadays I'm just "zed". *clears throat* Thank you. Now back to my regularly scheduled lurking...

Due to the I-40 thread, some folks think I'm from Arizona. Visited many times, but never resided there. During my evil younger days, I read a series of books by Tanith Lee. Very sensual but subtle writer of sci-fi/fantasy. In The Lords of the Flat easrth series, she explained that when a man becomes a sorcerer, he adds -EK to the end of his name, and a woman adds -AZ. At this time I was both- not bi (not that there's anything wrong with that!) but both. Hard to explain even now. So I mooshed my name (Rachel, and don't spell it wrong) in with the endings and came up with AzRaek. When I was looking for a cool online moniker, there it was again. Thought I killed it, but no such luck.

I have a bright red 4x4 that sees a lot of mud. I'd come home from the trail and my wife would say, "Look at that dirty devil!", and it stuck. She even got me a personalized license plate with "DRTYDVL".

I have always insisted on Jonathan--or, at the very least, not John. ("Johnny" is right out.) It often gets shortened to J, or JP. We call each other "Doctor" in med school sometimes for an ego boost, and "Dr. J" stuck.

My other nickname at school--which I probably should have used--is J-Train, after getting drunk one night and declaring that "when the J-Train pulls up to the station, everybody gets off."

Dr. J

PS: The best nickname story I ever heard: I used to know this guy that everybody called Smokehouse. I finally asked him why, and he said, "Because that's where the meat hangs."

Thomas Barton was the name of the character I spent the most time roleplaying, back when I did such things. Master criminal, sort of a medieval Godfather.

My friends at work call me "Holly Hobby" because they claim I look like her- something about my long hair. I don't really get the connection (I don't wear bonnets or anything) but I like the name. I used to hang out on another message board where my name was "HollyHobby". When I started here I made the mistake of registering after drinking a couple of beers (I'm a cheap drunk) and I screwed the whole thing up. So now I'm simply "Holly", which doesn't convey the deep sense of meaning, whatever meaning that was, as my former name.

Not so hard to figure out....I've always been very independent and strong-minded. I've done some travelling, lived in some cool places, seen some sights, met some characters, had some interesting jobs -- all fodder for great stories (and my name's Tyler). Check out Squirrel Depravity in Tennessee, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes on Opal's TM page (Teeming Millions Tales) for a sample.

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StoryTyler
The fun starts here!

In the 5th grade (circa 1973), I had a pair of red Chuck Taylor's (Converse) that I wore to school everyday. One of my friends called called me "ConMan" & it stuck. Though many people today associate more with my last name - Connolly.

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"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
E A Poe

I might as well post a boring one. It is my last name. Ohhhh ... exciting.

Pony was a personal call sign I used in the Air Force. I'm kind of a Mustang freak (except for the Ford Mustang II abortions) so the name stuck.

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"...send lawyers, guns, and money..."

Warren Zevon

Another simple nickname:
My first name - my birthdate
veera13

You were born in 1913!?!?!? Wow!!

Narile, the Aian Drake, is a character in a series of stories that I am writing/have written based on a RPG world I created. He was a moderately often re-occuring NPC in the game that I would use as either a source of arcane knowledge for the players, or as an adventure seeder.

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&gt;&gt;Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry....unless the other guy is bigger than you.&lt;&lt;

---The dragon observes

I'm new so I'm not sure anyone cares but I feel like sharing so...My real name is Kristen but my family calls me Lulubell or Lou for some reason I've never understood so most of my good friends call me Lou as well. I also like it because it is androgynous and this makes me feel free for some reason.

Well, I was trying to think of a new handle for myself, and for some reason I remembered my boy scout camp days, when we would take the tenderfoot scouts on "snipe hunts." (Snipes were fictional animals--the idea was to get the greenies lost in the woods hunting a non-existent animal.) But for some reason I misremembered the name "snipe" as being "snark," so I called my new SN "SnarkHuntr." Then later on I cancelled my AOL account and lost that name. Going with the "Snark" theme, I signed up with AOL again later on and arbitrarily came up with "berry" as the second part of the name (don't ask me how--it just popped into my mind).

More than you probably wanted to know, but this is MPSIMS.

[RTA]

Remember Tutankhamen Alamoe

[NanoByte]

Just grabbed something quick that would imply a minimal presence.

Ray

[Gaudere]

"Gaudere" is Latin for "to rejoice". My middle name is Joy, so figured it suited me. I think Gaudere has something to do with rejoicing or partying in French, too. I have no idea how to pronounce it, so I say alternately "gawd-air" and "gawd-ear".


Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.

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"Eppur, si muove!" - Galileo Galilei

Um, I was inspired by Ranger Doug, of Riders In The Sky (America's favorite singing cowboys)



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Ranger Jeff
The Idol of American Youth

[Globe-trotter]

My friend Tim from South Carolina has called me Moosie ever since I've known him (that and Meanass Moosie). In fact, he calls every Canadian "moosie". The nickname stuck. Now if I could only see a moose in r/l... ;)

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The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

[Persephone]

My AOL SN is Mrstrag767. My husband's SN is Tragdjames...a play on his stage name, Tragedy James (he's a musician). Hence, I am Mrstrag. I wanted to be Mstragedy, but that was taken. So was Mrstragedy, and Mrstrag. 767 is just my birthdate. My 2 year old has a screenname too...Kidtragedy. Cool, huh? My dad says it sounds like a character from a Marlon Brando movie, but I like it.

[Quarterat]

It's where I'm at (French Quarter).

[Eissclam]

Well if *lurkers* get to post :)

Some of my friends/soccer buddies used to call me Iceman, most likely due to the fact that the first syllable of my last name is prounounced "ice", though it is spelled Eiss. Anyway, I sort of liked Iceman but my wife (then girlfriend) hates it. She also hates the fact that when we fly together my hands get all clammy (on account of the fact that I hate to fly) so she once said "Iceman? They should have called you Eissclam!" I kind of liked that, too.

[furt]

mine is short for "furtigan" (which is what I go by everywhere else on the net; why I shortened it here IHNI), which is the last name of a fictitious chracter that accompanied me throughout college. I got mail, was quoted in the school paper, pfoto in the yearbook, etc, under this name.

my signature comes from a real documentary on TV about compulsive gamblers. Imagine a horse fifty-year-old gambler saying "Well,...

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it all started with marbles in school...

[matt_mcl]

Gaudere: It rhymes with cow-DAIry.

[SoxFan59]

"SoxFan59" arises out of my lifelong and deep devotion to the Chicago White Sox baseball team. My father had season tickets, and as an adult I continued that tradition through the year of the big strike, when I cancelled my season's seats and have yet to renew them. I go to games, but no more than 2 or 3 a year, usually on business.

The "59" part of my sceenname is a double tribute to the year of my birth and the last year when the White Sox made an appearance in the World Series. As I grow older, I'm beginning to get a complex, and fear that what was true of Mark Twain and Halley's Comet may be true of me and the White Sox pennant hopes.

In a nod to the thing sqrlcub was discussing, I discovered having the letters S-O-X in my screen name brought out some strange notions in people. I get some bizzare e-mail from people with foot fetishes. Also, much to my chagrin, "Sox" seems to be a code word for "condom," particularly amongst the homosexual crowd on the world wide web. I have gotten some REALLY strange e-mail to say the least.



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SoxFan59
"Its fiction, but all the facts are true!"

[Gundhilde]

Actually, it's Gundhilde the Viking Queen but that was too long. I read in some science magazine (forgot which) that she was, well, a viking queen who was on her way to marry some guy named Harald Bluetooth (what a last name!) and somehow died on the way in a bog, and was preserved...of course, the article was about "bog people" and I wish I still had it, but....I started to go by the alter ego of Gundhilde the Viking Queen, and people for some reason liked to call me that....so I just figured it would make a decent alias. Wish I could find more info about the (supposedly) real Gundhilde, anyone able to send me some sites or something? Gundhilde@att.net

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"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." --1984

[Gaudere]

Gaudere: It rhymes with cow-DAIry.

Thanks, matt_mcl. You took Latin? Dang, neither of my guesses had the right pronounciation. Wish I knew exactly what it meant/how it was pronounced in French...uh, omniscientnot? :)

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"Eppur, si muove!" - Galileo Galilei

[AuntiePam]

It's AuntiePam as a dig to my kids, who refuse to give me grandchildren.

They all know how to breed -- they just won't do it.

And I'd be a *good* grandma too! I wouldn't butt in at all -- they could raise their kids however they wanted to.

Just let me visit once in awhile, babysit, bring little gifts, read to them, take 'em for nature walks, teach 'em to ride a bike and drive, tell them how wonderful their parents are.

Dammit! I could do it too. <sigh>

[Gundhilde]

Actually, it's Gundhilde the Viking Queen but that was too long. I read in some science magazine (forgot which) that she was, well, a viking queen who was on her way to marry some guy named Harald Bluetooth (what a last name!) and somehow died on the way in a bog, and was preserved...of course, the article was about "bog people" and I wish I still had it, but....I started to go by the alter ego of Gundhilde the Viking Queen, and people for some reason liked to call me that....so I just figured it would make a decent alias. Wish I could find more info about the (supposedly) real Gundhilde, anyone able to send me some sites or something? Gundhilde@att.net

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"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." --1984

[Pixoid]

I'm kinda short, kinda little...kinda Pixie-ish. But Pixie's a little too girly. And I'm kinda smart, kinda interested in computers...and the -oid part was just kinda...weird. So I liked it.

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"I'm just a manifestation of your imagination." -- Me.

[SqrlCub]

SoxFan59 said, "...I get some bizzare e-mail from people with foot fetishes. Also, much to my chagrin, "Sox" seems to be a code word for "condom," particularly amongst the homosexual crowd on the world wide web..."

That is news to me. I hear raincoat more often. This looks like it could be a new thread. :)

SC

PS I apologize for any unwanted emails that you have received due to the other parties misinterpretation (sp?) of your nick.

[Jasmine]

Well, I just decided that if I was going to offer my opinions to people, I wanted to use my real name.

Besides, it's not like some psycho could track me down. There are, I trust, quite a few "Jasmine's" in the world, so I think I'm safe.

This is NOT, however, in any way, shape or form a criticism of people who use "handles", so you just put those flamethrowers away :)!

[Satan]

Ah, so now I get to talk about my nickname! Needless to say, others have talked quite a bit about it...

First of all, so many people walk around acting like they're God. If nothing else, I certainly get to show that I am not guilty of that!

The fact is, I love the shock value. And with the exception of a few Christian militia types I've run across, nobody seems offended, and in fact, many have come up with very humorous commentary about it, and I'm all for humor.

There's a hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres named Satan (pronounced Shay-ton or something like that) and I'll just claim I'm a big fan of him when I do run into anyone who finds offense. That certainly bewilders them...

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Brian O'Neill
CMC International Records
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ICQ 35294890
AIM Scrabble1
Yahoo Messenger Brian_ONeill

[Drain Bead]

I want a Satan jersey, but I have to go up to Buffalo to get one...

Flora McFlimsey was the heroine of a very funny mid-19th century poem about a society girl ("Flora McFlimsey of Gramercy Square," I believe) who was all upset because "she had nothing to wear." Liked the name, liked the poem, liked the gal.

[Stevie Rave On]

I am a Stevie Ray Vaughan fanatic. 'Nuff said.

[Eutychus]

Mine is biblical. In the book of Acts we're introduced to a person named Eutychus who was sitting in a second floor window listening to the apostle Paul preach. Paul taking his cue from any good Southern Baptist preacher, went on and on into the night. Eutychus, I'm sure tried his best to stay awake, but as the sermon got longer and longer, Eutychus got sleepier and sleepier, and eventually fell asleep.

And promptly fell out ther window.

Although no miracles are attested to his name, nor any good works, I have chosen to take my name from one who, I believe, can be rightly called the patron saint of all those who fall asleep in church.



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Saint Eutychus
www.disneyshorts.org (http://www.disneyshorts.org)

[pluto]

I originally used this name on AOL just because it shares a few letters with my real given name (Paul). I soon learned that the ambiguity among the cute Disney dog, the cold, distant planet, and the Roman god of the underworld was a bit of an icebreaker and I just got used to it.


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"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"

[pluto]

Eutychus, IIRC wasn't your namesake "taken up dead", Paul stopped preaching long enough to raise him from the dead and then carried on? I've sat through sermons like that. Lyle Lovett wrote a funny song about the preacher going on and on...

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"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"

[StStella]

I was a lurker for quite a while and just started posting a couple of days ago, I was sooo nervous, silly, huh?

Any way in case anyone is interested- this is how I came up with StStell: I have a wonderful dog, a St. Bernard named Stella, therefore StStella was easy to remember and make me smile when I see it.

[Darwinself]

Its plain to see that Darwin could use a few elves to trim some of the stray genes floundering about......


Queen of Maroons

[Darwinself]

Its plain to see that Darwin could use a few elves to trim some of the stray genes floundering about......


Queen of Maroons

[ChiefScott]

I'm a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy.
My first name is Scott.

Voila.

[Polycarp]

In 1989 I was staff at AOL's predecessor PC-Link, and used my patron saint, who was Bishop of Smyrna and martyred twice at age 86 (don't ask), as my screen name. When I joined this board, I re-used it.

[omniscientnot]

Gaudere: As far as pronunciation in French is concerned, it would resemble Go There, but "there" pronounced as many Americans (and English-speaking Canadians) do, i.e. "dere". BTW, there's no French word I can think of which would be etymologically derived from that word.

P.S.: In Latin, Matt had the general idea, IMHO. Plus, I like the "cow" and "dairy" bit :) I believe the word would be correctly pronounced GOW-DAY-RAY but with the "day" and the "ray" in a brief rather than elongated form (i.e. as if you had "da" instead of "dayyyyyy" and "ra" instead of "rayyyyy"). If you get my drift :D

Pluto: Make that a Greek god of the underworld and you've got yourself a triple-crown winner! ;)

[Gaudere]

Oh, crap. Now I have no idea how to pronounce my own name. Well, I am making an executive decision here. "Gaudere" will *not* be pronounced to rhyme with "cow-dairy" (how undignified), but will be pronounced "Gau-DERE", to rhyme with "so THERE!" as in "It's *my* dang name and I'll pronounce it how I like--so THERE!"

Thanks for your help, Matt and omniscientnot. :)

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"Eppur, si muove!" - Galileo Galilei

[vanillanice]

My favorite song is Ice Ice Baby,and i wanted to be alliterative. I thought of vanillaspice,but that would've been dated by now. Out of dice, mice, twicelice,and price,I liked nice best. I'm wondering about Stoidela.

[SqrlCub]

Omniscientnot said, "Pluto: Make that a Greek god of the underworld and you've got yourself a triple-crown winner."

Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld. Hades was the Greek god of the underworld. If you think of it planetarily it will make more sense. All the planets are from the Roman counterparts to the Greek gods. BTW, the underworld was known as Tarterus in Greek mythology.

SC

[Brando]

Brando is my beagle's name. His full fancy name is "Mutiny on the Beagle", taken from Brando's "Mutiny on the Bounty", "Bounty" = ship = another ship is Darwin's "Beagle", beagle = my dog.

I tried for Darwin but I think it was taken.

Brando

[Wordsmith]

A goldsmith works with gold; a wordsmith works with words. Makes perfect sense.

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Wordsmith: One of the elite few who knows that George Herbert Walker Bush was a Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog.

[omniscientnot]

My humble apologies to Pluto re: Roman/Greek Pluto. All I can put up as a defense is that it's been more than thirty years and, memory being what it is.... well, you know... :)

[zoony]

My first job as a trainer came with the University of Manitoba Men's Volleyball Team. The U of M Athletic Teams are known as the Bisons. The VB program has referred to itself as 'zoons from time immemorial, why I don't know. I even have a t-shirt that says this.

Z



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"Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy

[Ringo]

I still want to hear from Stoidela...

Well, I'm a Chinese 1 student, and our teacher assigned us Chinese names by first name and last initial-- John A in my case. Yue- Ha\n is the Chinese equivalent to John, and Ai\ is the initial. That's in the Romanized system of pinyin, which uses tone marks that English keyboards aren't adapted to, which is what the odd punctuation is in there for. I later found out that "ai\" is the Chinese word for love, so I'm John Love... It sounds like a lounge singer. David Allor, who sits next to me, became Ai\ Da\ We\/i -- literally, Big Guard Love. So things could be worse.

--John

[TVeblen]

Thorstein Veblen.
He was a reclusive, cynical crackpot in the Gilded Age. Oh, he was also an off the wall genius.
In the days of the robber barons and Victorian haute excess, he lived in aloof Nordic isolation and developed the Theory of Conspicuous Consumption.
I've always liked that. There is always the quiet observer who will--ka-CHING!--point out the hard truth that somehow eludes others.
I just admire the guy.

[Sealemon88]

Because "Hot_N_horny696969" was already taken.

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You say "cheesy" like that's a BAD thing.

[J String]

Not enough spaces for my name when I get high scores on video games, so I shortened it.

[lswote]

Let's See What's Out There Engage.

Captain Picard's last line in the first episode of Star Trek The Next Generation (a 2 parter called "Encounter At Farpoint".

To me it says, go down the unknown path and do it now, don't put it off for some other time.

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In this world, you must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.

[pepperlandgirl]

My names comes from the movie "Yellow Submarine" remember, they were saving Pepper Land from the blue meanies. And of course Pepper Land comes from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, so I have a double Beatles reference there :)

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"The bitch, oh the bitch, the bitch is back...I'm a bitch cuz I'm better then you, it's the way that I move
The things that I do..." Elton John
"People try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend..." The Moody Blues
"To start, press any key. Where's the any key?" Homer Simpson.

[Osip]

In high school I was a serious Slavophile.
Anything to do with The Soviet Union I was interested in. This was considered very odd by my peers here in Huntsville Alabama.
Two of my favorite Poets were V. Mayakovsky and Osip Mandelstam. When I started on line at AOL I could not get Mayakovsky to fit. Amazingly someone had taken it.
So I chose OsipMand. I was quite tired and did not really consider al my options when I logged on here. I think back I could have found a much more interesting name. I dunno something like "Bakcbone flute" or "cloud in trousers."
of course Osip is quite easy to remember for my less than a pot of coffee days.



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There's not a single grey hair on my soul,
nor senile tenderness either.
I've shaken the world with my voice's power:
There I go handsome,
Twenty-two years old

-Mayakovsky-

[RTFirefly]

Rufus T. Firefly was Groucho's character in Duck Soup, perhaps the best of all the Marx Brothers movies. I've been a big fan of theirs since high school.

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Homepage: www.galacticgovernment.gov (http://www.galacticgovernment.gov)
Occupation: Galactic Emperor
Location: Trantor
Interests: Palace intrigue, hereditary successors
--Profile by UncleBeer

[Mr. Cynical]

Why Mr. Cynical?

Aw, beats me. I think Bi-Polar Bear would have been 1. Un-original 2. Misleading :o)