The Name Game and the television series Designing Women.
Suzanne Sugarbaker had a maid named Consuela and wanted to play the name game using said name.
“Consuela uela bobuela, banana fana fofuela” and so on.
My name originates from a paragraph in The Golden Sayings of Epictetus.
Socrates was both a great warrior in his youth and, as I’m sure you’re all aware, a great philosopher in his old age. Hence my name, Global Citizen.
HTML won’t make your letters backwards. The only ways to do it are either a graphic, or an active script.
'Scuse the hijack. 
Mine isn’t too interesting, Little Baby Nothing is my favourite song by Manic Street Preachers, who are one of my favourite bands. Its my username for a lot of things
Mine is after my fave composer, think graduation. Very British and slow, but quite moving.
A “whistlepig” is a collouqial name for a rock chuck (I don’t know the Latin).
It is a member of the rodent family, weighs about 8-12 pounds, herbivore, lives in rock piles on the sides of mountains and low-land cliffs. They have a distinctive whistle of alarm at intruders, hence the name “whistle pig”.
I chose it because I couldn’t get subscribed to the SDMB on my first few tries and finally said, “There’s no Whistlepigs, I bet!”
I’d like to change it, but . . .
Sam i am for the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham, which was my favorite before I learned to read.
336 is a warp of my birthday.
not very creative, but distinctivly me.
Intaglio - is a printing method, used to print Money, Stamps, anything that is legal tender, and it is used to keep the Counterfeit factor down.
I was trained as a Printer in the Navy, I work at a Printing Company, so there you are.
I thought it sounded good, and not too much like my original thought of a name Baroness Guttenberg.
I began feeding the stray cats that inhabit the woods to keep them out of my trash. A friendship was formed and soon I was the tick-picker, wound cleaner, tender of brood queens and all-around cat guy.
A litter of newly weaned kits that Momma brought to introduce were dancing all over me as I sat on the back porch, and I pirated the thought from Kevin Costner’s film.
My name is an obscure Simpsons’ reference. There is a scene where Homer is asking Moe advice for a “friend” and he uses the name Joey Jo-Jo Jr. Shabadu to disguise himself. I thought Shabadu sounded cool, and had just seen the episode before I needed a screen name.
So there you have it.
Like a lot of people here, I picked a user name on BBS’s in the mid-late eighties and kept it. At the time, I had hair to my waist, wore only black, and worshipped heavy metal.
At times, it really pisses me off that there is at least one other guy truckin’ around the web that uses this name, but I know for a fact he’s younger than me.
The lettering is, of course, a tribute to both the logo for //\etallica and the fact that in the good 'ol days before graphics, we used ansi characters a lot more than today.
It’s also kinda ironic since nowadays I have really short hair and listen to a lot of hardcore rap. (but still some //\etal too)
Well I am suppose to be quiting smoking, but so far the only ash I’ve kicked is mine for not doing so.
I have a button that says “Ghandi would have smacked you in the head.” I like to smack people in the head…or at least I did when I was in high school.
The 55 and the 69 come from high school. I was captain of the school team in the Envirothon, and got to chose the name. One year we were “Quinquaginta Quinque” (latin for 55); the following year we were “Undeseptaginta” (latin for 69). If only the academic advisor had known what we were talking about…
Herwono is my family name.
Not very original…
From a SNL skit where the guy who sat near the copier would nickname everyone who walked by to make copies.
Imagine someone named Phil walking buy…and he would start his regular greeting…
“Phil…makin’ copies…the Philster…Phil-a-roni…Phil…Phillin’ up with copies…the Philster…Phil-the-drill…”
It’s just so natural and cheesey that ‘Philster’ seemed right the day I signed up
“I wanna be anarchy” from Anarchy in the UK.
I’m from Arkansas, which makes me An Arky…
Dangerosa was Eleanor of Aquataine’s maternal grandmother and the mistress of her paternal Grandfather, William the Troubadour. As their relationship was somewhat scandalous, historians sometimes refer to her as “aptly named.”
Fascinating story Dangerosa. Sometimes the fight against ignorance comes from the most innocent of places.
My curiosity, piqued by your post, led me to this further information on Eleanor, mother of Richard the Lionhearted.
Fascinating.
Colibri is Spanish for hummingbird. I did my thesis research on hummingbirds in Panama.
Missmagic8ball:
Miss cuz well, I have a uterus
magic8ball cuz poeple ask me stupid questions all the time and expect me to answer them.