I’ve had this username since waaaaaaay back on the BBS I used at school and I used to be able to safely say that I was the only Brainfizz on the web. It meant that I always got the username I wanted when signing up to anything, e.g. brainfizz@aol,hotmail,yahoo, whatever.
Alas, a good thing has ended. There is another Brainfizz on the web. An artist named Jelene from Kansas City. It turns out that we’ve got a lot in common. She’s a professional artist, I’m a well published poet, we both like similar things, etc.
So, do you have a usernamesake? If so, are they like you?
Bah. When I first became Legomancer I did several web searches on it and found nothing.
Now I’m some kind of artist, a quake player, and someone on a scandinavian message board. Drives me crazy. It’s MY name, people, find your own goddamn name!
There’s someone on the web who shares my real name; he’s active in groups that make models of military tanks, though I haven’t seen much new about him for awhile.
Unfortunately for me, based on this Google search my beloved moniker has been co-opted by some very odd people. I can’t even figure out what half of them are in relation to.
As a bonus, there is now a mullinator.com, which is aparently a shrine to some yokel’s Supra.
I thought I was one of a kind, but there must be a man out there somewhere with my user name and he must have “size issues” and an insatiable appetite for porn to judge his e-mail that accidentally winds up in my inbox.
Except when I signed up on AIM, I haven’t found another Homebrew. But I was actually surprised by the moniker being available when I signed up here and at other message boards and such.
Geez. Where do I begin?!? Not only is the an imposter named winstonsmith on this very message board, they’re everywhere! I’ve even heard there’s a book written about me. :dubious:
But people say it all the time - when introducing people to our long-haired presenter Jonothan, in the style of James Bond (i.e. last name first)
(meet Ross, Jonothan Ross)
do I get the lame award?
WRTTOP - I am weak with names. I either choose my own name, or whatever thing is in my life at that moment. Right now I am discovering Terry Pratchett, so my namesake is a character from one of the books. One time I was in the middle of a certain playstation game so I called myself Fortesque (not in the SDMB)
in the SDMB I have only been lobley and (duh) Lobsang
“Harli” isn’t my most common screen name that I use. My other is a Hungarian nickname, so it’s fairly common in some areas.
As for Harli though…there’s someone with a LiveJournal with my name (not me), and there appears to be an escort in Dallas as well. There’s a few others too.
Often I will go with HarliQ which is short for Harli Qwynn. I’ve never come across another of either of those two.
Of course, I don’t think “Lissa” is all that unique of a name to begin with. I do like the idea of having the same moniker as a “Lissa Explains it All” page.
