This is inspired by one of wrings posts.
Everybody that would like to gloat aobut how they came up with their origingal name, or just explain what it means DO IT HERE!
Wouldn’t it be cool to find out others impressions of you based on your name? (In a non pit environment)
I’ll go first:
nevermind Was generally fed up with deciding exactly what to do at the stage in my life that I was in when I signed up. Tried for days to think of a unique, unsappy name. Decided to go w/sarcastic somewhat impatient, "gimme the bottom line or nevermind " name. Yes I like the group, and Gilda Radner.
While I take a temporary break from ResIpsaLoquitor’s thread about my 1900 posts, I’m game for this one. (yes, even though I just posted the link to the explanation last week sometime)
I’m blinx, I needed to come up with a nick for IRC way back and had just seen a movie called “blink” and that was what came to mind, however it was already taken and I changed it a bit.
Quite boring and no special meaning, but I just had to share
I guess most people would assume that ‘QueenAl’ might have something to do with my sexuality, since I am gay (a fact which I find myself mentioning here far more often than I expected). However, I’m a gay female, so if anything I’d have to be a King. Anyway, that’s not the reason for the name.
A couple of years ago I went surfing for X-files spoilers. I found the message board on the XF official site, tried a few dozen names and eventually settled on alberthostin, one of my favourite characters (mis-spelt to fit in the character limit). On that message board, you have a screen-name and an optional nickname. I made mine ‘you can call me al,’ for obvious reasons.
In the fanfic section, I became famous for being able to turn even the most innocent phrase into something sexual (this was before I came out - can we say ‘overcompensation’?) So when I was asking for suggestions for a new name, someone said I was the Queen of the Gutter, and it stuck. I am Al, Queen of the Gutter. I had minions and everything. Someone even started a fan-club, full of people I hardly knew, which was a bit freaky, to be honest.
After I came out, I tried to dissassociate myself from my gutter reputation - never really could of course, but I did shorten my nickname to Queen Al. I no longer post at the XF MB, but I still post a lot at other fora on the same server (with the same username). Some of these people I’ve met in real life, one is one of my closest friends, and even she still calls me Al in real life. I vacationed with her in Florida, and was introduced to everyone as Al, so there are dozens of people in Florida who think that really is my name! QueenAl is my default username all over the web too. A few months ago, however, I registered at a lesbian website and chose a different name, because QueenAl just might have given the wrong impression there.
Well…
Ssarl was a Martian character I invented in the sixth grade when we were forced to keep diaries, but the teachers were not allowed to read them… I wrote a handful of stories based on Doctor Who (specifically, on my video of The Chase and a novelisation of The Monster of Peladon from the school library).
Ssarl began life as an Ice Warrior, and was fairly soon promoted to an Ice Lord (if you actually UNDERSTAND THAT, kudos to you!).
Incidentally, I later discovered that Ice Lord Saarl was A REAL CHARACTER who featured on a Weetabix packet in 1973!!!
Ssarl is now what I use universally, for emails, chat rooms and forums as it has NEVER been taken!
When a friend and I attended a baseball game the peanut vendor was walking through the stands shouting “Hey, Peanuts Here!” We joked that it sounded like he was saying “Hey Peanuthead!” We got to calling each other Peanuthead and it has become our standard greeting.
I’m thinking most of you would belive it came from an insult.
A caveat: This explanation will make absolutely NO sense unless you are a Star Trek fan and a DBZ fan.
Imagine if you will the sheer power Bobbity would have if he took control of the Borg. Trillions upon trillions of damn near unstoppable machine men in their uber-massive cubical and spherical ships. What would they be called? That’s right . . . . you guessed it . . . majinborg.
" * “Zweisamkeit” is not really a word, but is a pun. “Einsamkeit” means “loneliness”, or being together in ones. “Zweisamkeit” basically replaces the “one” with “two”. Thus, it gives the line a totally different meaning."
I’m a sucker for puns (in any language, as long as they’re explained to me), and I adore Rammstein. Going through some posts, it seems like jarbabyj and I have something in common, eh?
Karlene is my real name. I was feeling hero-ish that day, so I just put a super- in front of it.
When my mom was 6 months pregnant, she was still commissioned as a nurse in the US Navy. She was doing rounds in the psych ward that day, and was giving medication to a patient who noticed she was pregnant.
He asked if I’d be a girl or a boy. Mom said boy. (EVIL MOM!)
The guy looked at her again. He said, “Nah. I don’t think so. It’ll be a girl. Whatcha gonna name her?”
“I dunno.”
“What are her grandmothers’ names going to be?”
“Arlene and Kathryn.”
“That’s easy! Name her Karlene!”
Mom liked it. Dad knew better than to argue with a pregnant lady.
And here I am. (But grandma Kathryn thinks that Grandma Arlene got all the glory in my name. Grandma Kathryn is neurotic.)
Well, I think most people think mine means “porcupine” until they read it very carefully; then they do a double take. In fact, they’re right the first time: it’s Elizabethan for “porcupine.”
Every now and again I’ll get a response along the lines of "why would anyone call themselves “Biggirl” or "Shyea, right-- coming from someone going by the handle of “Biggirl”.
So I guess Biggrl comes off as a name that should not be taken serioiusly.
Well, mine’s kind of a southernized pun of No Doubt, but I wasn’t thinking of the band when I came up with it. I just figured all the people here were smart, so I’d have to come up with something that sounded smart.
Somebody in another thread said my handle made me sound like a kid in a Gary Larson cartoon who had knowledge spilling out his oversized brain, while another person said he just now got the pun after seeing it for several months. YMMV.
Michael drayton was an English poet, a comtemporary of Shakespeare. I have read only one of his poems (Sonnet 61: “Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”) so after a little bit I felt a bit weird using the name. For a short time I was SLEEP!, a Mystery Science Theather 3000 reference, but after the crash I became drayton again. Hopefully I’ll be something new soon.
Mine is significant of nothing more than a crushing lack of imagination. When I tried to think of a nick for the first mb I ever partipated in, all I wanted was something vaguely feminine, not clever or descriptive or meaningful, and all I could think of were song titles. “Queen of the Slipstream” was a contender.
I don’t even really like “Sugaree.” I do like the Dead.
