I’ve been lurking for a few years now. Have made the occasional post and have always wondered…why people chose their particular SD names.
Some are obvious, some are imaginative but easy to get, others must have some meaning behind their choice.
I’m just kind of curious to know. If your handle has a story behind it, care to share?
Thanks
M
PS Baci was a much loved Siamese cat who blessed me with his presence for about 12 years. It’s nice that his memory can be perpetuated in some way by me adopting his name for these boards.
I was feeling lazy the day I signed up and didn’t want to try to create a clever screen name. I went to my bookshelf, pulled a book off of it at random and took the main character from it. That book was The Man who Never Missed by Steve Perry.
I like food and I like trying new things to eat. Mange tout is French for (approximately) ‘Eats everything’. I myself am not French though.
Pre-emptively, no, I won’t be surprised to learn that people thought it was (or misread it as):
-Man get out
-Magnet out
-Mangetout in the sense of immature peapod
-Mangey trout
In the OTC, there are some awesome nicknames, and one of my personal favourites is “the robotron” or “the robotron 5000” for a particularly anal friend. He hates it, says he wants everyone to call him “Uncle Mike”.
Trouble is, he’s nineteen years old and a little creepy. I think it makes him sound like an internet groomer.
My Neice and Nephews call me Uncle Harry, but no-one else ever should unless talking to them!
I got to this board through another board I frequent. That board is (mainly) about riddles and puzzles. There, I “rised” to the level of “Uberpuzzler” (it’s post-count dependent).
When I came here, I thought about keeping that title, but the “uber” sounded a little pretentious. So, off went the uber, leaving Puzzler behind.
I narrowed it down to two names: VunderBob and The Hostile Amishman, the first being a play on wunderbar, German for wonderful (and the punchline to a joke that I’ve forgotten).
In the end, I picked the first because it was easier to type and it fit well into my false egomaniac web personna.
Right around the time I joined, I noticed a poster named TaterTot, and said “MMMMM, I love tater tots!” At the time, I was really digging Philly Cheesesteaks too, so there you go.
I just had to find something that wasn’t taken. RumMunkey is nonsensical. I tweaked the spelling of “Monkey” to match “Rum” to better my odds of uniqueness.
There was a band I was in about 15 years ago. We were trying to come up with a band name. I told a friend of ours we were considering buns2000. He said that would date pretty soon so we should go with buns3000. We called ourselves Baked instead.
I’m afraid mine’s not terribly imaginative in terms of being unique to the Dope, as I’m known as Mindfield pretty much wherever I go. The nick itself was simply the result of a brainstorming session back in early '98 on band names from which I would hopefully pick one to label my music with. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite turn out that way, as it ended up that there formed some local rock band in the US with that name, as well as some kind of band in Scotland with it as well. And then I discovered that The Prodigy (not a band I was particularly aware of at the time) had released a song called “Mindfields” in '97, so that pretty much wrapped it up for any hopes of using it as a band name. So, I just kept it as an alias for the 'net.
Cal Meacham is the name of the Tall, Dark, and Handsome deep-voiced hero of the 1950s movie This Island Earth. Besides being a Ph.D. scientist, he also flies jet planes and ends up fighting a Bug-Eyed Monster.(And played by a guy named Rex Reason – could you ask for a better name for a movie scientist?) It’s everything I could want. I got the “scientist” part down OK, but I’ve been having trougle with the rest.
Actually, I prefer the version in Raymond F. Jones’ original stories and novel. The movie sadly jettisoned the plot of the book, and managed to screw it up where it did follow it, and never even explained what the hell the title meant. Read it if you get the chance. You’ll find out that the interociter is a lot more than a triangular TV screen with a built-in zapper.
My username is the result of my first name taking on diminutive forms that slowly deviated well past the original form. Now it just looks like fake Japanese, but it’s cute. I also use it almost everywhere for the sake of convenience.
