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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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.