Lobsang – maybe based on this guy?
Ghanima – from Ghanima Atreides of the novel Children of Dune.
Otto - Otto Sump, perhaps?
I believe there’s a doper called Winston Smith the protagonist in George Orwell’s *Ninteen Eighty Four. *
D’oh! I was responding to the post above it and didn’t see Loach’s next post in which s/he did pick mine off. Indded, it’s from Repo Man (there’s somewhat more to it than that but it’s a rather pointless and fairly dull story so I won’t bore myself by typing it).
Howyadoin,
Coldfire - from the Rush song of the same name.
Betcha can’t figger out mine?
Oh… well, that was fast…
:smack:
-Rav
Inigo Montoya – Many Patinkin’s character in Princess Bride.
Kid_A – Radiohead’s 4th album.
Hardly obscure…
I’m sure no one will guess mine. Or Lute Skywatcher.
Jackknifed Juggernaut – Radiohead song, Airbag.
acrossthesea – Weezer song, Across The Sea off Pinkerton.
I’m pretty sure about the first one, not so sure about the second.
Haven’t a clue. Fill us in!
Typical. Everything’s always got to do with Eve. Always Eve. Never anyone else. It’s All About Eve. 
I think I’m gonna win for obscurity. My usename is the title of an out-of-print 1975 earthquake disaster pulp novel by David Lippincott. It’s got a wonderfully lurid cover I’m gonna have to scan in one day…
OK, I just did a search and it got ONE star on Amazon and the reviewer suggest you “avoid this piece of trash”. Now my feelings are hurt…
Was I one of them? If not, count me in and make it three or four. I love that song, and the Jesus Lizard in general. I coincidentally share the same first name as the apartment-wrecker David Yow wrote the song about.
My nickname is a personal reference so no one will figure it out, but my Location is a music reference…
Mine is literary.
[ul][li]5 time champ – A known Jeopardy reference[/li][li]Ataraxy – It might be a reference to a Terry Fox album[/li] [li]auntie em – An assumed Oz reference[/li][li]Badtz Maru – I think that’s a Star Wars character[/li][li]Capt B. Phart – An assumed Don Van Vliet / Magic Band reference[/li][li]Corbomite – A possible Star Trek reference[/li][li]Dryga_Yes – It could be an art reference [/li][li]epeepunk – Assumed vinyl record format / genre[/li][li]Eutychus – Possible Biblical reference about the boy who came to life[/li][li]Fish42 (42fish) – Possible reference to a Jason Vincent Scarpace painting[/li][li]fishbicycle – A possible card game reference[/li][li]gex gex – An assumed video game reference[/li][li]Hello Again – It could be a Car’s reference[/li][li]HenrySpencer – A possible reference to the father of the Usenet[/li][li]HoldenCaufield – An assumed Catcher in the Rye reference[/li][li]**Interrobang!? ** – An obvious reference to the punctuation mark[/li][li]John Carter of Mars – A possible reference to Burrough’s ‘A Princess of Mars’[/li][li]KarlGauss – Possible reference to the mathematician[/li][li]LindyHopper – A possible dance reference[/li][li]longjohn – Probably underwear, but a possible Bluesology Baldry reference[/li][li]Ludovic – A possible operatic reference[/li][li]Mr. Blue Sky – A known E.L.O. reference[/li][li]Neidhart – Possible fake wrestling Anvil reference[/li][li]pepperlandgirl – An assumed Butthole Surfers reference[/li][li]Roberta Plant – A known Led Zeppelin reference[/li][li]Rufus Xavier – An assumed Schoolhouse rock reference[/li][li]Snooooopy – Do Charles Schulz comics count?[/li][li]SolGrundy – Possible Batman comicbook villian[/li][li]Spiralscratch – A known Buzzcocks reference[/li][li]Spit – An assumed reference to the ‘Persecution of Genius’ band [/li][li]Ukulele Ike – A possible Vaudevillian reference [/li][li]waits – A possible Tom reference[/li][li]Widdershins – Possible Wilfred Childe Rowland poem reference [/li][li]WSLer – Could be a reference to the Worker’s Socialist LEague[/li]Young Mr. Grace – An obvious AYBS TV show reference[/ul]
To nitpick, Exapno Mapcase is the humorous transliteration Harpo gave to seeing his name in Cyrillic characters on a Russian poster. He was the first western movie star to be granted a Russian tour.
For the rest of the family, Julius Henry is Groucho’s given name, and RTFirefly is from the character Rufus T. Firefly that Groucho played in Duck Soup. There are a couple of other Marxist names I remember seeing at one point or another, but they may not have chartered themselves.
Eve, interestingly, was created from her own rib.
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[ul][li]Badtz Maru – I think that’s a Star Wars character][/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Not quite. Badtz-Maru
Steve Wright is neither a BBC DJ or an American comedian.
Severian is from Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, I assume.
I thought we had an Alessan here, and there’s an Alessan in (if I remember right) Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. ?
Ilsa Lund isn’t the name of Ingrid Bergman’s character in Casablanca? That’s what I think of whenever I see the name.
**Frylock ** is a character from the Adult Swim cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Evil_Ash is featured in the movie Army of Darkness.
CandidGamera refers to Gamera, the giant turtle from Japanese monster movies, and the TV show Candid Camera.
Mine is a corruption of a pop culture reference, but I’m in the process of selecting a new handle.