I worked for an architect doing drafting/surveying for 4 summers including the summer of '01 when I joined the boards.
Sampiro is from this column of Cecil’s. I’ve used it since the first time I went online (ca. '95) when I was on a vampire kick. Today I’d probably choose either Pablum Picarasso or STEVE HOLT! (Arrested Development reference).
I used to post as Wallstreet Panic Snopes years and years ago (long before they charged a fee) but changed because people who had apparently never heard of Yoknapatawpha County thought I was purporting to be associated with snopes.com
I’m not sure but I think you’ve just insulted my religion. Why would anybody want to make a long story short? 
I kind of want to see if anyone knows where I got mine. Well, except for the ‘x’, which, like the ‘3000’ in MST3K, is just there to show how cool it is.
Ellen Cherry Charles is a character in Tom Robbins’ Skinny Legs and All, and she makes a brief appearance in Jitterbug Perfume. Ellen is my real name, so …
Kizarvexius is the true name of a dragon in Larry Elmore’s SnarfQuest comic that used to appear in Dragon Magazine back in the 80s. Kiz was struck by lightning one day and lost his memory. A wizard cast a spell on him, convinced him that he was, in fact, a duck, and used him to guard his treasure chamber.
It’s a nickname I’ve gone by among close friends for years.
From an experiment by Meselson & Stahl which proved the semi-conservative nature of DNA replication. They used “heavy” strands and “light” strands of DNA.
I just realized this may mean I have one of the geekiest names on the SDMB
Briefly, last name Nottingham, JFK inaugural speech, “Ask not what your country can do for you…”
Godfrey Daniels - a pseudo-epithet used frequently by W.C. Fields.
**anyrose ** is a play on my initials/name - n.e.rose
When I was a kid and talking dolls (the kind where you pulled a string in its back) were all the rage, I had a talking Caspar the Friendly Ghost doll. One of Caspar’s signature phrases was, “I’m a FRIENDLY ghost,” but from day one, my Caspar’s rendition of that particular line was garbled. It always sounded to my sisters and me like he was saying, “I’m a FRECK a free.”
I dunno. I just like the way it sounds.
I was looking around the room I saw my bottle, so …
I was a 17 year-old smartass, and decided to create the name angelofthelord@catholic.org. This was partially because I thought it was funny, and partially because I earned the nickname “Gabriel” in high school (because of a poem, long story).
Then I signed up here. . .and “Angel of the Lord” was the first thing that came to mind. Of course, the name does tend to give the wrong impression. . .
That’s pretty funny. The name I use in on-line deathmatch games is Chuckles or Chuckles the Clown
People went after me as well.
Well, you all know about “Peak Oil”. However, what I see as the real threat to our civilization is…
Yes, we have no bananas.
From the first time I heard the name “Dweezil” (Frank Zappa’s oldest) I thought it was a great silly-sounding name, and used it to refer to all sorts of odd entities (teddy bears, pre-birth name for my first niece/nephew, etc.) so it was only natural that with my first pregnancy, the impending hellion would be called Dweezil while still in utero.
Naturally, this meant the second one had to be named Moon Unit.
And we had to stop at that because I couldn’t quite get my mind around a third kid being named “Ahmet Jewishsoundinglastname” (for some reason, Dweezil and Moon Unit didn’t cause the same heartburn :dubious: (of course, we got 2 for 1 with Moon Unit because she’s a bit of a Diva too).
So my kids wound up being known as Dweezil and Moon Unit in a variety of online forums before I ever even wound up at the Dope. When I signed on here, natch, Mama Zappa was born 
I think it was very courteous of the kids to choose the correct gender to correspond with their prebirth names - My Dweezil is indeed an guy and Moon Unit is a gal.
Yeah, you wouldn’t want a guy named Moon Unit. That would be ridiculous. 
I love the mental image ‘Mama Zappa’ gives me.
Mine is because I was going to post in a thread about the potential for convincing someone possibly unsuitable for motherhood to give her child up for adoption One Time Only, then I was going to drive by lurk the StraightDope again.
The time it took to click on the linky activating my membership the thread was gone, therefore my One Time Only post goes here.
It’s shiny and new…enjoy.
Lurks like a lurky thing in lurkdom.
My name comes from A Canticle for Leibowitz, a book that only I seem to love.
Well, my dad was a jackrabbit, and Mom was an antelope, so it just seemed fitting.