I garden. I travel.
Originally my “DoperName” was deemed offensive. So rather than change it I simply abbreviated it.
That’s it. Yup.
What I am called by my close friends and my birthdate.
I know, boring…
My nickname throughout my '20s used to be Jesse. Kind of a long story, but my maiden name was James, so when I joined the Navy some friends started calling me Jesse and it stuck. When I got married, though, and changed my last name, it made a whole lot less sense – Jesse has no connection at all to my real first name, and none to my married last name. So it was just a big explanation all the time… When we came back to the US after I left the Navy, that seemed like a good time to go back to my original first name, so I did.
Then, when I first started with the internet, it occured to me to use some version of Jess n my screennames – I liked it because it was still ‘me,’ but not my IRL name. I used a couple of different versions. SkeptiJess was one that I used back on the AOL boards. Anyway, when the new board came up and I registered, ‘Jess’ was available so I registered as that…
Now I wish I’d sticked with SkeptiJess, or something else that would be more easily searchable – I have a heck of a time doing a vanity search with Jess.
I’m Silvercat or Silvercat17 everywhere else, but it was taken here. The misspelling is intentional and based on Thundercats. My online persona is a silver & blue anthro tiger with big furry wings.
Mine isn’t terribly creative. It’s is as much of “electrical engineer / computer geek” as will fit into a yahoo e-mail name. I use the same ID for pretty much everything online.
I really needed to change my Dope handle. Made a list of a couple dozen options and finally got tired of my own obsessive waffling: it’s just a username fercryinoutloud-- this’ll do.
I like back rubs, and sometimes they lead to other things.
Mine doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a mnemonic I used to log in to sites. I don’t think I was planning on even posting at first.
I’m in Bangkok and a long-term resident of Thailand. My real name is not Sam, but I wanted an alliterative effect. There’s already a Bangkok Bob out there elsewhere, and I don’t like the sound of “Thailand Ted.”
No mystery here. Serious basketball fan, with an attention span of roughly 24 seconds to boot.
I am not a number. I am a free man.
It’s Gone’s nickname for The Maxx .
The first part is one of the various nicknames I go by. I wanted to just sign up as Ro, but noooo must have more letters. So, I started digging around in my head for a “last name” as it were, and wound up with Carter, which I am fond of for several reasons, as it ties to names of characters I like on some of my favorite TV shows, with the added bonus of being the name of a road I used to live on.
Me?
I lurked on the dope for *years *before registering. When the SW prequels came out, there was a thread mocking some of the stupid Dark Side names. Something about you had “bad adjective” - “in” = Sith Name. So you have [In]Vader, [In]Sidious, and I’m [In]Sensitive. And I think the contrast involved with being a sensitive sith lord is good.
I’m not a big Star Wars fan. But I dug the name.
My very first alias for a BBS back in the day was “incog”, short for incognito… Clever, huh? Well, it was not long before my brilliant idea was copied, and the name was seldom available, so I dropped the “in” and went by “cog.” Signing up for various crap led to the problem of having a number after my name, so I just jumped past all the short numbers, and went for 88… “cog88”. Before long, there were enough stupid cogs that I needed a 3 digit identifier, and I became cog888. Then some security obbsessed sites want CAPITALS and numb3rs in every damn thing, so I capitalized the consonants. So, thats my lame story of how I became “CoG888.”
But, I have a more interesting story. So ignore all that dribble above, its all a lie. My name is a metaphor for the countless faceless avatars out here in cyberspace. We are all cogs in the great internet machine. I am cog #000888.
Part of a poem.
“The moving finger writes and having writ
moves on, nor all your piety and wit
can call it back to cancel a single line,
nor all your tears wash out a word of it.”
Spelled differently, and I’ve been “slythe” in gaming circles since 1975, ten years before Thundercats first came out.
Mine is rather simple. In the days when I did graphic design for a living, cmyk denotes the color space of the 4-color printing process (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black).
It also contains the initials of my real name, and just like the way it looks, and said a little about what I was into.
Although, I’m now into broadcast and film vfx… so maybe I should change my name to rgb.
Holy freakin’ crap. That is the only comic book I ever read. My husband (then boyfriend) brought it to my house when I was like 19, and I fell in love with it. And I really liked the cartoon too. Not nearly as much as the book. Anyways, thank you for reminding me of it!