Play the Game: Why the hell are you called that?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My username started out as a self-depreciating, somewhat sarcastic * nickname I gave myself jokingly amongst friends about eight years ago. “I am Beauty Personified! But you can just call me Beautiful, for short.” Of course, no one ever seriously used it. I am, and always will be, just Chris.

  • [I don’t think I’m too bad looking. I’d say I’m good-looking, in an average sort of way. I like to say that my nickname refers more to my “aura”. :wink: However, oddly enough, I tend not to use the word “beautiful” when describing anyone else. Though I did tell a friend, on her wedding day, that I had forfeited the name, for the day, in her honour.]

I got my internet connection around the same time I came up with the nickname, and have used the moniker online right from the beginning, in newsgroups and other forums. My first Yahoo! address was beauty_personified(at)yahoo.com, but I never liked the underscore. All the other variations, however, had been taken by pretenders. :mad: Now, I use the address beautypersoni(at)yahoo.ca, which I like to think has somewhat of a Latin flavour.

When I signed on to the SDMB, “Beauty Personified” wouldn’t register. However, I should have tried a few times, since I had no trouble getting that name later (using the one-time name-change option). I originally used the name “TOTBP” here, which stands for “The One True Beauty Personified”, in light of all the aforementioned pretenders.

Anyhoo…

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Take a funny first name: Bambi
Take a funny last name: Hassenpfeffer
Note that they have a good meter when spoken together, and that they have no relation whatsoever to my real name nor my gender.

There you have it – Bambi Hassenpfeffer, the gay man.

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Well, it’s like this. My father’s surname was Simmons. And my mother’s father’s given name was David. Simple no?

I use it because I’m afraid I would forget some fancy, made-up name. No I’m not either afraid - I’m sure.

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My favorite Schoolhouse Rock song is about pronouns, and the ‘protagonist’ (if you will) of the song is named Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla.
:slight_smile:

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Gee whiz, I really cracked my skull with my username, it´s short for Alejandro my real name.

Thereby it´s dispelled any reference to alcoholic beverages, matter of factly I don´t drink alcohol at all

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‘Happy’ from the Death of a Salesman character. ‘Lendervedder’ is just a really long, fake sounding name, like ‘Van Delay’ or ‘Pennypacker’ or ‘Van Nostrand’ from Seinfeld.

And there you have it: ‘Happy Lendervedder.’ (Note the same great meter as Bambi Hassenpfeffer)

Happy

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I didn’t know that signing up to post that one question so many months ago would turn into a wonderful all-consuming addiction, so I just typed in something I knew I’d remember.

I don’t like it very much, and I think that since I’m now signed on for the long haul, it may be time for a change. I already have an idea or two, but I may open up a “help me choose a new name” thread soon.

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I took my screen name from my job: I mill for a living.

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apparently googling my name i get that Sandlegs is the thing that beach vollyball players get when they are “in the zone” and what not, and i guess they can jump really high.

But i don’t play volley ball, one of my friends came up with the name back in like 95 or so, and i have used it on the internet so far.

We had no idea what it meant, he just thought it sounded cool, and i guess i did too.

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Well, I have a kid who uses the screen name “Mentat” (not on SDMB) - so I thought I would keep in the Dune mode - hence “Auliya”

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It’s because of my great-aunt’s mouth.

Nah. It’s the first letter of my real name G, UnManageable.

I wish I had put Mad, after it. Gumm is searchable.

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My real name is Torie
Short for Victoria Zoe. My mother thought I would be more regal than I am :smiley:

Victoria was simply to cumbersome for me, plus my father did not want me to be called Vickey anymore. So Torie it was.
Creative? Huh?

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“Eddie Furtigan” was the psuedonym I used to get out of trouble in college. I still use it.
Why I shortened it when I came here, I have no idea.

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I don’t remember.

And does anyone know why the people on my Red Dwarf DVDs keep talking to me?

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I think my username involved a long night of drinking tea and thinking of classical, dignified and suitable usernames.

…then I got hungry.

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Merkins probably won’t get this, but here goes small-pink-inquisitive I have many things in common with my namesake, but I’m a bit less wooly. And I seldom wear armor. And my soup comes in cans. Apart from that…

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I also assumed mange tout. Even when the man get out came out I thought mange tout sounded posher, and therefore it had to be true. I’m glad it was.

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I am a physicalist. I actually thought of my username before I had ever heard of this short SF story by Terry Bisson.

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Dr. Memory is the name of the computer that runs the Future Park in Firesign
Theatre’s “I Think We’re ALL Bozos on this Bus”. I’m a “Firehead”. And, all the Good names we’re taken…

mmmmm, Charter Member…I LIKE that…
The Dr. is ON, The Dr. is Happy…

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You wound me, Nocturnal Tick.

If anyone doesn’t know, and wants to know, look up Ghastly’s Ghastly Comic on Keenspace.com and start reading from the beginning.

By the way, I don’t suggest you do this at work, or with small (or large) children present.