I know we do this all the time, but it’s usually quite interesting. So here’s another mundane “how’d you get your screen name”, somewhat interesting post padding session.
Here I’ll start:
I’m Ophanim because some bastard took Seraphim, and Cherubim is just gay. I was going through a big Angelical research phase.
Oh yeah, I figured that them big ass NUDE’s would attract SOME attention.
Ophanim
Not Voted, **Coolest, Dumbest, Happiest, Drunkest, Surliest, Gayest, Most Godly, or anything else! ** Damn you all to HELL!
That’s the only thing that got me in here, and I’m pissed about it now! Oh well, as long as I’m here… It’s a long story, but I’ll try to keep it brief.
My parents named me Steven when I was a wee lad. As I grew older, I started going by “Steve” (FYI - that’s short for “Steven”). If you will, notice the similarity between “Steve” and “Steve-o”. “Steve-o” is simply “Steve” with a “-o” tagged onto the end of it. That “-o” came from a coworker who just one day called me “Steve-o”. Ever since then, it just sorta’ stuck.
Things are random only insofar as we don’t understand them.
Well, I was making a new screen name for AOL so my parents couldn’t read my mail (Hey, I was, hmm, maybe 14?). Anyway, I wanted a new screen name. All the clichés were taken and I was getting irritated. So I went THUNK and hit the keyboard and came up with “srgn” A few vowels and some consonants later, and you have Surgoshan.
Okatym suggested making up definitions for it, like “The process by which sock lint is transformed into toe jam” or “How ordinary playground sand becomes kitty litter”.
If getting called nicknames makes a screen name, then eventually you’ll be seeing posts from “Cockman” (my last name is Brockman)
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
Hi, Ophy! You knew that that word would get people to look, huh. hehehehe!
<say, where’s my postcard, dear?>
How I got my name. Hmmm. Well, it’s like this: I like purple, best color in the world. I also like stuffed critters, teddy bears in particular. Put them together and you have purplebear!
You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming.
Og Mandino
That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.<a true Wally original!>
It’s coming Purple hon’ I’ve had a lot to do this last week with my sisters weddin party and all, and making them there thank you cards. I haven’t been to the post orafice to pick up the stamps yet. I’ll try to send them Tahmary. Thanks fer waitin sweetie.
::realises he’s using long hidden southern drawl and needs sleep::
Ophanim
Not Voted, **Coolest, Dumbest, Happiest, Drunkest, Surliest, Gayest, Most Godly, or anything else! ** Damn you all to HELL!
My name is one I occasionally use to sign things I’ve created. (my favorite example being a series of very very odd little posters I put up around campus one rather slow week…(my favorite was the picture of the chimpanzee using a typewriter-with the title “Strumpet Teaspoon”))
For those who don’t easily understand phonetic french, Nu Vo Da Da renders down to
Nouveau(Nu Vo) Dada (Da Da (duh))
And that of course, means “New Dada”.
I’d like to think that that doesn’t really describe my posts, but I’m not too sure really.
I posted this in my post party thread, but what the hell, i’ll add it again here too. Shagrath is the lead singer of one of my favorite bands, Dimmu Borgir. I’m not too shocked if you haven’t heard of them… they are a Norwegian black metal (not as in, African, but as in evil, dark, etc) band. If you like that kind of music, check em out, you’d probably like em.
“Through twilight, darkness and moonrise
My scarlet tears will run
As stolen blood and whispered love
Of fantasies undone”
My namesake was a natural philosopher circa 500-400 BC. The first to develop a rational concept of the atom. I’m a physics and philosophy geek and so I chose the name Democritus.
i’ll never forget how i got my handle. when i was playing jv baseball in 8th grade, i got this mad crazy alergic reaction to something in the air. we still haven’t figured out what it is, and it happens about once every couple years or so. my eyes got really swollen, and one of the seniors on the varsity squad said, "hey, look! his eyes look like pennys! (the coin) ever since then, they called me penny. well, when i was trying to pick a handle for the first time, i tried penny, and it didn’t work. i didn’t wanna be penny 1236t9er or anything, so i remembered that on the team, when i made a good play, all the other guys would yell “penny’s the man!” and there’s no spaces cuz the first time it couldn’t have spaces, so i don’t give it spaces.
I thought and thought what would be the easiest nick to type without using just one letter and aha came to mind. I can type it in a nanoflash. Watch… aha aha aha aha aha aha aha… see? heh heh
I Don’t Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling. famous C&W song
I enjoy Nietzche, it sounds cool even without the explaination, it’s easy to give to someone as an e-mail address “I’m SwimmingRiddles@blahblahblah.com”, and it’s obscure enough to use as my handle for EVERYTHING. It’s never taken as a handle.
Plus, I get the added bonus of impressing people with quotes from German philosophers.
“Flinx” is the hero of a series of science fiction books by Alan Dean Foster, set in his “humanx” commonwealth. I read most of the series in high school and really enjoyed them greatly. He has this great poisonous flying snake named “Pip” who protects him.
I just really liked the series and stole Foster’s “Flinx” from him. Gee, I hope it’s not a trademark.
“Facts? Facts are useless. You can use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!”
Homer Simpson
Yojimbo is the title of a great film starring the legendary Toshiiro Mifune and directed by Akira Kurasawa. It was remade as “A fistful of dollors” and “Last man standing” . I first used it as a player name for quake.
Im handy around the house. Umm, you weren’t thinking of the other meaning were ya?
Also, it’s lower case, all of it, despite numerous attempts by other users to make it a big “H”, it’s supposed to be some because its more efficient. Umm, you weren’t thinking of the other meaning were ya?
Shagrath is the lead singer of one of my favorite bands, Dimmu Borgir. I’m not too shocked if you haven’t heard of them… they are a Norwegian black metal (not as in, African, but as in evil, dark, etc) band. If you like that kind of music, check em out, you’d probably like em. 