I’m sure one of these threads has been done before, but I think it’s time for a new one!
I’m bufftabby because I have a sweet little, well, buff tabby that I rescued from a parking lot a few months ago. Unfortunately, he (Mr. Rufus Ruffus Johnson Brown) has feline leukemia, so his expiration date is pretty uncertain. I thought this would be a nice way to keep him alive even when he’s gone.
So, what’s your story?
I am the Goddess of Wisdom. Where else would you expect me to hang out?
Yeah, we do these occasionally[sup]1[/sup], [sup]2[/sup], [sup]3[/sup], but they’re fun, and it doesn’t hurt to do it again.
Mine is an anagram of my actual name. I like it because it sounds like a porn name, but it turns out there are several unfortunate people who actually suffer ownership of this handle. Boggles the mind.
Years ago, a friend and I were traveling to some sort of all-day music festival. We got the idea to scam ourselves backstage by claiming to be writing for a zine. She began whipping up ID badges, and we brainstormed zine titles that would sound realistic. We passed a driving-instruction car with really prominent signs stating “STUDENT DRIVER,” and we simultaneously had a “that’s IT!” moment. A few years later, I did a real zine and called it Student Driver. My friends and I have since used it, or a variation, as a name for multiple projects since-- band names, studio names, programming groups.
A few years back, I began using it as a user name after finally letting go of a decades-old username that was overly gothy and dramatic. It turned out to be a fitting name, meshing well with my current student status.
Middle name includes “Anne”
B-day December 25
I was a huge fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals long before he and Jim Steinman wrote “Annie Christmas” for “Whistle Down the Wind”
Hey, sis! How’s Dad doing?
(I found a copy of the name in The Odyssey during class and thought it looked cool. Plus, goddess of love and all that, you know…)
My username is a joke between my best friend and I… ‘‘Olives’’ is our way of saying ‘‘I love you’’ (Olive you, get it?). This ‘‘Olives’’ phenomenon has existed since high school between us. We would pass notes in class, and sign them with little sketched-out olives, occasionally with variance-- skiing olives, for example, or ()() cyberolives.
My freshman year in college she was helping my then-computer-illiterate self create a username on AOL. So we tried every other silly thing we could think of
(’‘VirginNympho’’ was taken, regrettably)
And she was like, ''Okay, how about your birthday?"
And we realized that ‘‘olivesmarch4th’’ does in fact make one think about olives… marching forth. So it was pretty much sealed.
Olives is now a grand phenomenon amongst those who know and love me. Even my mother-in-law signs her letters, ‘‘Olives.’’ I get gifts like olive-themed pillowcases and oven mitts from all of my friends and family. They latch onto it because they consider me a very silly and very loving person, so naturally the dual silly/love symbolism sticks. I often wonder if it is getting a bit juvenile (I am now a mature adult of 24, you see), but nothing else seems to encapsulate the ridiculousness of my nature so well. Like, seriously, I am really fucking weird. I’m not sure it’s something I’ll ever ‘‘outgrow,’’ so I might as well embrace it.
The irony is, I think olives are one of the most disgusting foods ever invented.
But really, when they all stand up and march around, they are rather charming.
Most of my usernames have been mythological in nature but the root words themselves are usually taken so I took to adding a suffix (usually -on or -an) to the end of my favorite gods, goddesses, or concepts. I’ve been using this name for six or seven years now and will probably continue to use it as long as I’m online.
It’s from Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss. In it, she talks about awakening our inner punctuation sticklers. And IRL I am famous among my friends for pointing out their errors. So, it seemed appropriate.
Ironically, I am really a Third Culture Kid.
It’s a descriptor for people who’ve spent much of their childhood years immersed in a culture other than their parent’s, or who’s parents themselves come from different cultural backgrounds. Due to this, we don’t connect with any one culture, but with several. At the same time, it can be hard, as we lack that inherent feeling of belonging; you’re always a foreigner, wherever you go.
The “third culture” describes the culture of internationalism that we’re exposed to. It’s that mysterious culture that makes it so easy for a kid with Iranian/French parents who’s grown up in Ecuador to get along with someone who’s Danish/Japanese, grown up in England.
I picked the name because I connect so integrally with the idea of it. My family has connections to five or six different nationalities, I’ve lived in three different countries, and my passports and languages don’t really correspond to my perceived national identities. The problem is I never looked significantly different from my surroundings, so people would assume that I was native until I’d unwittingly make a mistake (Popsicles don’t exist all over the world, okay?!) and be ridiculed.
My confusion about my cultural background was a big problem for me until I discovered the concept of a TCK. One day I happened to stumble across one of those “You know you’re [insert here] if…” lists on the subject of TCK’s, read it, and cried with relief for a half-hour. I’ve identified very strongly with it ever since.
Colibri is Spanish for “hummingbird.” I did my thesis research on hummingbirds in Panama.
I was not feeling clever when I signed up, so I went to the book shelf, pulled a book off of it at random and took the title character’s name.
That book was The Man Who Never Missed by Steve Perry.
Mine is the title of one of my favorite Tori Amos songs.
It means “turkey (pulyka) breast (mell)” in Hungarian, and should be pronounced “POOY-kaw-mell” if you care about those sorts of things. There’s no real significance to it other than when I was signing up for my first Yahoo account, I wanted to see if I could find a single word email address that did not involve any weird characters or numbers. After giving up on English words, I migrated towards foreign words. After trying “ratatouille,” every possible spelling of “cevapcici,” “paprikash,” “gulyas,” etc., I stumbled on “pulykamell,” which is a ubiquitous menu item in Budapest. (I speak several languages badly [and two well], but I’ll never go hungry in any of them.)
I don’t particularly like turkey breast, or turkeys, but that’s how I ended up with the name.
His real name is Stanley.
I was reading up on Irish mythology when I decided to change from my real name here to my current handle. A Cluricaun is either a different kind of leprechaun or a leprechaun that’s cutting loose. They’re known to drink a great deal and ride animals around pastures until they (the animals) drop from exhaustion.
Sounded pretty fun and it wasn’t taken so that’s what I did. I’m Cluricaun all over the net now anytime I have to use a name.
Mine is an old joke about New Jersey where it is assumed everyone in New Jersey describes where they live in terms of a highway exit. The questioned asked is simply “What Exit?”.
This name (more or less) won an SDMB poll for my name change. It was suggested by Crotalus. I liked it as it is a New Jersey in-joke and when I went off to boot camp as a naive 18 year old, some wise ass asked me when I said I was from Jersey, “What exit do you live by?”
I never had heard the joke before and I answered, “between 105 and 109, do you know the area?”
Several jaws proceeded to drop.
Jim
My name in real life is Susan and I was feeling cute and fluffy when I signed up.
People in real life, however, know me to be a real _itch (just kidding 
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I’m the one at the party having a wonderful time people watching. I am pretty quiet, usually, just compare my join date with my post count, I might reach 200 by the end of the year.
Mine is a throwback from high school, but I am thinking of changing it.
Ludy was the short form of the best name we could think of, Frederic Ludenbaucher III
I think I might change it to Florescent Proscenium since I love the word florescent and I work in a proscenium style theatre. Also since everything about a theatre is generally black I like the idea of a florescent one.
