Ah, so you are NOT Boris and Natasha’s evil boss?
I knew it.
I figured it out in a thread a while ago. 
Anyhoo –
My name is Misty. My art teacher in h.s. ( who I loved because he was awesome ) always gave me passes to get out of other classes to work on my art - with my name misspelled. My favorite way was misstee.
I made this for aim and I did not think twice, I just typed and liked what came out. I have a history of saying things without thinking and this could be one of them. Also, I have those flame shoes from Sha Sha and I like the song Sha Sha from Ben, so that is probably a reason.
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Now, however, I want to use one of my others. The one possibility is Cowboy Cowdung, of whom is my hero inside (I created this character in class out of a french fry box during drug education and it turns out he has a very catchy song). I would also like to be known as Dominatrix Dale, I also created that just for the hell of it.
The one I really really really want is Zanzabar. Ever since I was little I thought that it would make the most coolest EVIL DICTATOR title in the history of EDTITLES. I used to goosestep at PE time shouting “All hail Zan Za Bar, Hoo Hoo Ha!”. I even had iconoclatism because I praised Zanzabar’s spirit in Abe’s copper head on a bed of grass and leather. Oh well…
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A lot of people assume, with mine, that it’s after the inscrutable Japanese superspy created by novelist John P. Marquand. Or that it’s after the same character portrayed by Peter Lorre in the movies.
Some posters have actually called me “inscrutable Japanese superspy.”
Actually, though, I picked up this nickname in the Navy, aboard the USS Monterey. Moto stands for “master of the obvious.” 
Well, by the time I registered here, I already had a blog by the name of Ceci n’est pas une Jen. I liked that identity a lot and figured pasunejen was a fine name. If I’d been thinking when I registered, I would have put the spaces in. But I wasn’t, and I don’t particularly care to change now.
Anyway, it’s from the lovely Magritte painting The Treason of Images.
Ceci n’est pas une pipe: This is not a pipe.
Ceci n’est pas une Jen: This is not a Jen.
I’m a longtime Legion of Super-Heroes fanboy, and my favorite character is Brainiac 5, the guy whose superpower is being a genius. I’m not that smart, though – for one thing, I have done nothing on the time travel front, and no work on a personal force field – and I didn’t want to step on his toes.
So I stepped down one to Brainiac4.
Actually, wouldn’t that be BiblioCatCatDog?
Mine’s pretty obvious, but there’s a nice story behind it, though I’m still trying to figure it out. I have a question about it too. Ooh, mystery! Not.
Though I liked Neil Young, I never really got into him until after I became Cinnamon Girl. Years ago, I had a friend who played acoustic guitar at a small cafe and I’d go have dinner there to watch him. Now, I believe he had a crush on me, but I wasn’t really interested. Every time I walked in during his set, he would stop whatever he was playing right in the middle and immediately start playing Cinnamon Girl. I have no idea to this day why he chose that song for me, nevertheless it became my song. When I first got on the internet a looong time ago, my first handle (on AOL) was CinnamonGirl. I’ve used it ever since in some variation (it’s quite popular unfortunately). Oh, and I do love cinnamon very, very much.
My question though (if anyone can help) is, who was Neil singing about? Someone told me he was referring to black girls, which makes no sense to me. The gist was, “Hey, you’re not a Cinnamon Girl 'cause you’re not black!” So what? I thought it sounded like bullshit anyway. Still wonderin’ though.
At times CG was unavailable, I’ve also been known as ‘Coffee Chica’ and ‘Coffee Goddess.’ I once contemplated getting the vanity licence plate SPICY1, but it was taken. I toyed with the idea of naming myself Caffiend, but I’m opposed to the spelling issues it represents. Oh, and I do love coffee very, very much. 
My name is the hugely unoriginal combination of what I do for a living and the airplane I was flying when I first did the e-mail/screen-name thing. I’ve kept the same name for just about everything online since then.
Same reason, Envy me 77- although some nicer dopers may believe its because I’m in Nevada. Really. you are being too too kind.
[QUOTE=Only Mostly DeadPart of me also sadistically hopes that people may start calling me by my initials, getting 80s schlock pop classic “If You Leave” by Orchestral Movements in the Dark stuck in their heads every time. :D[/QUOTE]
You fucker.
precipitate: not part of the solution
The real story is one of a convoluted set of in-jokes involving a guy named Matt Shaw and his antics. He became the Mattshaw Problem. Someone else became the Mattshaw Solution. I, naturally, became the Mattshaw Precipitate. For a while after that I was the Mattshaw Titration, but no one got it and I moved on to Crapulous Reprobate, which is far too long to use as a login. When I needed a handle, I used precipitate. Its other meanings (not part of the solution, to cause to happen unexpectedly, moving rapidly and heedlessly) evolved in my online persona afterwards.
I haven’t been here long, and I kinda feel like I’m horning in here, but since my handle actually has a story I figured I’d tell it.
All right, youngsters…pull up a piece of the rug and listen to the story of Rico.
Back in the days before the internet got so popular, there were local dial-in numbers that would hook to your computer called Bulletin Board Systems, or BBS for short.
When I signed up on one that would become my on-line home for 2 years, I called my sister and asked her to brainstorm with me on a username. The logic went like this:
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[li]My name is Ric.[/li][li]I play ukulele and bongo drums, as well as several other musical instruments.[/li][li]I used to be a big fan of Ricky Ricardo, on I Love Lucy, and his theme song Babalu.[/li][/ul]
Therefore, the screen name of Rico Babalu was born.
It was my AOL name (and still is, with a varying number addition as my AIM screen name).
When I registered to post here over 5 years ago, I decided to try and get just the first name. It stuck.
Now, off to bed with you whippersnappers! Don’t make me call your grandmother!
If you’re a Brit, or know some Brit slang, then what you’re probably thinking is wrong. It actually has more to do with where I live, but I won’t deny that I had hoped to raise an eyebrow or two. More’s the better.
My neighbor got 2 of the same National Audubon’s page-a-day calendars for Xmas, and she kindly gave me one. I was browsing through it, and I couldn’t resist this.
Sorry to disappoint, screech-owl, but I’m just a really big percussion nerd.
Way back in what a lot of folks consider the early days of the internet, the early ninties, I used my real name as my handle on Usenet. The people IRL started recognizing me. It was pretty cool for a while. “Are you the [real name] who does [that thing] on the internet?”
“Wow,” I’d think to myself, “I’m famous.”
Then I started getting occasional phone calls. “The last [that thing] sucked. Why’d you pick it?”
Time for a nickname.
I kept pet mice in college, and I was in the Magill lineage in my fraternity, so I had the “official” nickname, Mouse Magill.
I changed the first name to the German spelling, and that’s how I got Mausmagill
No, I wasn’t just going for a name no one could spell taken from a song hardly anyone has heard of.
But that’s how it turned out.
Zakalwe is the main character in Iain M. Banks’ Use of Weapons. I just like the name.
grem0517 (previous user name) - again, back to the BBS days. I used to run one and used Gremlin (often shortened to Grem) as a sock when I didn’t want people to know that they were talking with the SysOp. I managed to keep the secret for more than a year. When I shifted to the Internet, Gremlin was usually taken, so I tacked on my birthday and there you have it.
I imagine that my reasons arent all to suprising…
RainGrowsBrite… Rainbow Brite.
She was my favorite toy ever[COLOR] [COLOR=PaleGreen]when I was a kid and still is. Its not to clear how I got RainGrowsBrite… I guess I envisioned a rainbow that drops rain and as it falls to the ground the drops grow increasingly brighter. I know, im a weirdo…
I suppose the Lady could be all sorts of things - but I had Pratchett in mind when I asked for my name change.
A much younger me used to use Random all the time - but it’s a fairly popular name.
Bookkeeper - I am a government finance officer (AKA accountant), AND I own lots of books (about 3200 last count), AND it has three double letters in a row! (I think the last was the real deciding factor in my choice - I’m fascinated by interesting and obscure words and by word origins.)