I’m a philosophy professor, and it’s a reference to a famous (among philosophers, which means not really famous at all) passage from David Hume talking smack about theology and metaphysics:
I’ve always liked the quote, and I like the reminder that there’s a good chance that much of what I post is bullshit. It keeps me humble.
Well…I AM a kitemaker and my name is Chuck
Actually I’m a “kite person” from way, way back.
Kites are just something that I’ve always loved, and I love sharing kites and kiting with other people.
Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man.
Pixilated
anyone who really knows me will agree with my adopted name. Some days are more noticeable than others.
Der Trihs is the name of a character in the Schlock Mercenary webcomic, and is “Red Shirt” backwards. He tended to get body parts blown off a lot before he retired, and was reduced to a head in a jar several times.
Lawrence Taylor fan? Love that specific model year of the Chevy?
Nothing terribly clever, I’m afraid! I used to be Mayflower because May is my birth month, but I got tired of it after using it for EVERYthing online. In trying to come up with a new username, I figured that my hobbies would be a good source of ideas. I love to sing, so I went to an online thesaurus and entered the word “singer.” Chanteuse was the synonym I liked the best, as it made me sound somewhat exotic–which IRL, I am not at ALL!!
Heh.
I hadn’t given any pre-thought to my username before I signed up. I’m not clever enough to come up with something witty on the spot, so I looked around my office for inspiration. Hmmm… coffee mug, no… telephone, no… water bottle, no… corkboard? Sure.
corkboard.
It’s my own translation of Röde Orm from The Long Ships. And being of Viking heritage (and being quite big), I naturally need a Viking name 
Then I realized that they’d translated it to Orm Red, which I find quite lacking.
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Fetchund**
World’s only Icelandic Fetchund, please explain? ETA: a mutt then?
Kalhoun is my real-life nickname. I needed a prescription filled, and my husband’s friend (who I had just met that day) was on his way to the liquor store/pharmacy and I asked him to do it for me. The pharmacist couldn’t read the doctor’s writing and asked him what my name was. He said, “I dunno…Kalhoun, I think.” So that’s what the pharmacist put on my pill bottle.
It just kinda stuck.
I hate picking user names and if I go for anything interesting I hate it by the next morning. I’ve given up and usually just use my first name. This one is one letter off but there were already a few people that spelled it the way that I do and I didn’t want to confuse anyone. It’s boring but at least I don’t have the urge to change it every other day.
Inigo Montoya is my hero and I’m a lot like him in some key ways. I’m very good at what I do, I’m not really good at anything else, and at the time I was drunk a lot.
Really? I’m another of your ‘dilly dilly’ fans. That was the first song I learned on the piano. Also the last song I learned on the piano, but that’s another story.
Walpurgis is my favourite character in a series of short stories I wrote. He wears livery and enjoys meat croquet.
I loooooove the x files and have a total lack of imagination. My name is Jemma hence the Jem bit.
I have been fascinated by snakes since I was a kid, especially rattlesnakes. Most rattlesnakes belong to the genus Crotalus.
This is profound, so brace yourself:
My kitty is evil. :eek:
When I signed up, I was reading about the Christian Crusader kingdoms. Many of the people involved were insanely religious and/or homicidal maniacs by modern standards (unlike the realm of peace and logic to be found today in the Middle East).
I was taken by Badouin IV, (latinized as Baldwin); undoubtedly the best teenaged leper to ever be King of Jerusalem. Dude had a lot to deal with.
Besides, I had to pick a user name, and it was easy to remember.
Because I am lazy and …
I know it, my family knows it. About the time I signed up it had become obvious that I had passed the lazy gene on to my teenaged sons. It was weighing heavily on my mind at the time - how to help my children deal with this insidious disease when I’d just a soon not bother.
Mine comes from The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. In it, wizards are bad guys, but sorcerers are good guys. It’s discovered by the protagonists (on accident) that soapy water with a bit of lemon melts wizards (temporarily). So the sorcerer comes up with a spell to recreate the effect without having to lug a bucket of soapy lemon water around all the time. The trigger word for the spell is “Arglefraster” (because he wanted something memorable, but that you wouldn’t be likely to say accidentally, in regular conversation).