In my late 20s, for no apparent reason that I can remember, I said to a friend “I wish my name was Squeegee.” Later that same day, she noticed my hair looked like Uncle Charlie from My Three Sons. Then she mashed them together and decided that should be my rapper name, so it became MC Uncle Squeegee. I will neither confirm nor deny the possible smoking of illegal substances that day. The MC was eventually dropped.
And now, a tangent.
To live up to my billing, I wrote a couple songs. One was called Killer Clowns in honor of the name-giving friend’s sister, who is clown-phobic (the song has been lost in the mists of time). The other was called My Butt Hurts. Intro was “My butt hurts from sitting too long/My butt hurts so I wrote this song.” The rest of it was the tune of Tequila with “My Butt Hurts” shouted instead of “Tequila.” I still am waiting for royalty checks.
It’s part of the name of my punk band. My uncle came up with the band name when he was a cook at a fancy country club. The other cooks played a practical joke on him since he was a rookie. They gave him some butterflied pork fillets and told him it was “flander” and it costs $50 for each plate of it. “What is flander?”
It’s wolf pussy.
Obviously, not true, but funny. The band name stuck, and I started using the name Flander on band site logins and such.[
The word amelioration means “the act of improving, amending, making better than before”. I thought of it as a nice, simple declaration of my broadest intentions of my life–to become a better person (whatever that might mean). Also, one of the many internet aliases I’ve used in the past was Ame, so when I was stumbling around for a good Dopername and I found a word with “Ame” at the beginning, it just seemed to click together.
And how did I actually come across this word? Through scanning the Word of the Day archives on Dictionary.com. (It was WotD on July 16, 1999.)
Hey, me too! Maybe I should have been the wallllama…
Anyhow. I am the DeathLlama because I thougt it would be amusing if angels, instead of taking human form, looked like something else…say, llamas. Instead of an angel of death, you’d have a llama of death. And who could take death seriously if he showed up with a scythe in one hoof and a llama snout poking out from his black hood? I amused myself, registered the domain name, and that’s what I am most online places I visit.
Old football nickname, apropos of nothing in my present life. It more or less randomly floated across my brain when registering. It doesn’t really mean anything, per se.
I have been accused of acting to much like a cat on occasions and I also work for a large consultancy, so of my friends at the time, I was the only one who always wore a suit to work.
Hence being Cat In A Suit
Consider me Catbert Although for me its java coding and not HR.
When I was a kid and talking dolls (ala Chatty Cathy, NOT Talky Tina!) were all the rage, I had a talking Casper The Friendly Ghost doll. From day one, the phrase, “I’M a FRIENDLY ghost” (spoken in a very singsong voice) was garbled. My sisters and I thought it sounded like he was saying, “I’M a FRECK a free.”
I just like the way it sounds. I use it for all sorts of stuff. It is very frequently misread as freakafree.
bufftabby, I regret to inform you that you have broken one of the cardinal rules of SDMB. If one mentions a kitteh, one must supply kitteh pictures. So show us Mr. R R J B!
I used to go by the name of slythe. One night, halfway through a bottle of Tully, I decided it would be a great idea to have a “Rename The Moderator” contest.
And came this close to being called “Chicken Of Bristol”.
I used to be here under another name ( which I cannot for the life of me remember… ) and wanted a name change. Pretty early on too, since Cartooniverse is a 99’er.
ABC, I think used to run its Saturday Morning Cartooniverse. Hours of great cartoons. Good childhood memories. Me and Mitch my best pal, sitting on his sofa. Small boxes of cereal, cut open with milk carefully poured into the small wax bag. Good times.
My real life name is xxxxxxxxxSam Clementsxxxxxxxxxxx. Remove all of the “x.”
When I first got a computer, I had to sign up with a name, and it seemed a good idea at the time. I’m pretty much wedded to simple things, so that’s been my online persona everywhere. Boring.
Although for me its java coding and not HR.