Because I am one. And ultrafilter already had the cool math name.
My user name is a clever acronyme for Many A Tank-Topped Man Cums Loudly.
Okay, no it isn’t. It’s my name and initial, are you HAPPY? You vultures! sobs
“Lieutenant Trip Tripler”.
I happened to pick my name up after a character from a Doonesbury strip. Someone thought I was pretty much like. . . well, it doesn’t matter. I’ll just say I think the name fits.
Tripler
It’s pure coincidence I’m named after the hospital.
I play a trading card game called Magic. Since it is in fact a trading card game, there are price lists and whatnot dictating the prices of various cards. Some time ago I was buying some cards from another player and at that particular time I happened to know what kind of price those particular cards were fetching at that particular time. Since this was one of my first encounters with that player, he thought I kept track of these things all the time, started asking me the prices of other cards at other times, and started referring to me as Priceguy. It stuck, and now I use it as my username in various places.
MG is the name of a Cocteau Twins song i had just downloaded that day and it caught my eye.
Later that night I watched The Simpsons and realized I should have called myself Nuke The Whales after Nelson’s bedroom wall’s poster.
It’s my job.
I’ve lived most of my life outside my native country and even when I’m in my native country I feel like a foreigner because of the amount of time I’ve spent outside.
I guess mine’s the cheesiest.
Nuke the unborn baby gay whales for Jesus !
elfje is a diminuative of elf, the mythical creature.
Also known as The Little Folk, or the Tuath Da Danan, or the Sidhe.
I’m small, green eyed and red-haired, so I figured it was an apt name. Elf is also only 1 letter different than my real name.
Nomen est Omen, as the Romans said…
cleops, now that I have examined it, seems to be combination of Cleopatra and Cheops. Why it ever occurred to me I have only a glimmer of an idea, and that doesn’t amount to much–something about ancient Egypt, but that’s about it. I have no (other) connection whatsoever to Egypt.
Coool, my first post! And I get to introduce myself by explaining to everyone here, all of whom are waiting eagerly to read my words, why I chose my username!
I don’t KNOW why! It just came to me as I sat in front of the “register” screen!
I do like the song by Neil Young, but really I like Steve Stills better. We’re not worthy. I thought about ‘DarkStar’ but CinnamonGrrrl came up first and I liked it. It fits.
Brief intro, if anyone cares - female, 48, married, 1 husband, 2 daughters, 3 cats, and lotsa daffodils coming up in the garden. That’s enough, isn’t it?
My real name is Lester Fuckwhistle.
but really, your guess is as good as mine.
When I was something like 13 a friend and I made up superhero names for ourselves, after getting hooked on the comic Legion of Super-heroes. I don’t remember what hers was, but I named myself Mearl Dox to rhyme with Brainiac 5, Querl Dox. I haven’t seen that girl in years but I’ve stuck with the name.
The -chan is just a cutesy Japanese suffix, sort of like -san for 10 year old girls. I’m actually not sure why I picked Mearlchan instead of Mearl Dox for this board, probably just force of habit.
When I was little, I asked my folks if the song on the radio was about me?
Why did I ask that?
Because it kept saying my name, Andy.
Where does it say that?
So I sang it:
The candy man makes everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious.
After years of torment and emotional scarring over their reaction, I have finally made my peace with the song.
Tertius was Paul’s stenographer for the book of Romans.
As a bonus he is also “the meanest, toughest sonuvabitch in the whole Roman Legion” in Spiers’ example of how battlefield exaggeration is as old as soldiery in Band of Brothers.
I finished undergrad work in '01.
My nick is a tribute to Douglas Adams… unoriginal but I love it. I chose Ford Prefect over Zaphod Beeblebrox because Zaphod is a 2-headed 4-eyed bunghole, and Ford is in all 5 books of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy hehe. Yes, so is Arthur Dent, but Arthur is too uptight (lump-of-coal-up-the-butt-a-diamond-in-a-week uptight). The number 42 is the Answer to the Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything, of course. Those of you who are fans will find this redundant, or will find the urge to read the book(s) again 