Other than the title of Arden Ranger that refers to the Rangers in Forest Arden in the Amber universe, I am the only one out there it seems
A quick google image search comes up with my pic.
We had a near-miss. Several years ago I encountered a “TOMNDEBBIE” on (I believe) MSN. They had a profile indicating a profession of mainframe programmer (as I am) and a love of horses (my Deb owned one at the time) and a couple of other points of similarity.
They also publicly expressed a rather exuberant interest sex (worded in such a way that I interpreted it as an interest in simultaneous, multiple partner activity). Inasmuch as Deb and I do not share that particular interest, I was generally glad that no one ever confused us.
There weren’t any others with my user name when I first “logged on” using it in 1980 (true, I was only 3 years old, and the internet consisted of my Fisher-Price “talk and learn” toy), but there are a surprising number of Tony Barber’s Underwears out there now. I have met and and chatted with the following :
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[li]A [/li][li]A podiatrist from Kansas[/li][li]The owner of a lingerie shop (Called, funnily enough, Tony Barber’s Underwear [/li][li]A Dutch goat herder[/li][li]4 separate chartered accountants in Wooloomooloo, NSW[/li][li]A homemaker from the Vatican City[/li][/ul]
I believe there are about 1302 other people with this username out there still to meet.
-Bubba.
There’s apparently a Christian singer named Ellen Cherry (nice picture, but not me) and Google reveals about a billion hits on the name, a couple citing the character Ellen Cherry Charles from Tom Robbins’ novel Skinny Legs and All, which is where I got my name.
I’ve also googled my own name, and found a school board member from somewhere in California. That was a little surreal.
Got you beat… 13,400,000 hits. On the first page are Wilson Sporting Goods, Wilson Combat, Robert Anson Wilson, Mt. Wilson, Wilson College, and the Wilson Center… but no links to me or my namesake.
In the scary world of wrestling fan fiction, there are several other hardygrrl’s.
My real name comes up to a South African ambassador.
Since I’m named after a certain Purina product, a Google search found alot of dog food-related sites. However, I was the person online using that name and now there’s some guy on a baseball board and two gamers that are dogchow.
I did get the SDMB on the third page of my search, though. That’s a good sign.
It might help to know I was the first digchow online. I left out that very important word.
Um…just to check, are you the same one who goes to the two boards on my sig?
my username is usually elf, or Elf, but those were already in use here.
There are a lot of elfs on the web, apparantly everybody wants to be one.
I used that username first about 3 years ago, as it is only one letter different from my real name (and no, my real name is NOT Alf), and therefor easily remembered.
Google reveals that I’m a porn-loving gamer with a live journal and membership of about a million obscure message boards. In fact, he’s the man I’d secretly love to be.
I have to have the word ‘mud’ in all my user names.
My nickname is literally Mud, so it’s spethal to me…
My usual username of Azrael is so popular it was even already taken here, and on LiveJournal where I had to resort to throwing my first name on the front of it.
A Google search for Legolamb mostly turns up LotR parodies. There would appear to be the odd two or three other Legolambs out there in cyberspace though.
Incidentally, I’ve been calling Legolas this since 10 years ago when I first discovered and failed to wade through Tolkien’s books. I’ve not seen a parody yet that uses anything different.
“Psyche” is a noun. Also a figure from Greek mythology. “Sike” is what you say when you fool some gullible person. I’m picturing you clicking that phony link going “It’s… not… working…” I fished you in, and now you won’t admit it.
An idiotic metal band (gasp, such a thing exitst?).
http://opengrave.cjb.net/
Google came up with about 230 results for Knckers, and I scrolled through a couple of pages, most of which were Monty Python references (which makes sense, since that’s where I got the name). Didn’t find anything that was an actual PERSON called Knckers. So I seem to be alone.
Hooray!
I am stunned and dismayed to discover that there is someone called “rockle the dilz” on some sort of webpage called www.poosmoke.com - I don’t even think I want to know what in the hell that is. I shudder to think …
Most of the other references involved Chinese or Japanese characters, or those funky little accent marks that you find in some of the Eastern European languages (Czech, I think, since the links end in .cz).
But, MY use of this username came from the one and only nickname I had in high school, an alleged “German pronunciation” of my real name.
A couple of Scientologists from Memphis bandy my name around.
It’s really from my sweetie bassett hound who, after owning me for 14 years, was put to sleep December 31.