I always liked the name of that comic book anti-hero Deadpool. I just sliced off the Dead.
I actually hate it when people chatter on endlessly with absolutely no point, and I feel like I’m subjected to it all the time. But I love the word.
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I actually hate it when people chatter on endlessly with absolutely no point, and I feel like I’m subjected to it all the time. But I love the word.
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reads Rigamarole’s post, then thinks of own post… then thinks of posts in general…
Wow, you must not like me very much! 
E. is my real first initial, and **Thorp **is an old family name (which hasn’t appeared as a surname in my family since the 19th century…but my mother and one of my cousins have it as a middle name).
Simplified version:
Mr. Stasaeon: “Anastasia, you are my star, my Anastasaeon!”
Me: “Awww!”
Mr. Stasaeon: “You are my flower, my Anastasalily!”
Me: “Err…”
Anastasaeon, it is.
I used this user name in another board from when I lived in Tokyo (still work there, but live in Yokohama) and spent all my times in bars.
Now happily married and in Yokohama, but somehow YokohamaEx-Player doesn’t seem as fun.
I love these threads. You always learn so many interesting things. Ellen Cherry is the name of a Tom Robbins character. Ellen is my real name, which is what I signed up with, lo these many years ago. So boring. So I whipped it up a bit with the “Cherry” a few years ago. When I see it, I think “Ellen’s Cheery,” which I mostly am. 
Practice, practice, practice!
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine]
I was reading Sharon Kay Penman’s novels about Henry and Eleanor when I signed up.
My real first name is androgynous, so I enjoy having an obviously feminine username.
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Having once played Richard in a community theater production of “The Lion in Winter,” every time I see your moniker on these boards I am reminded of Eleanor’s line: “I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How’s that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn… but the troops were dazzled.” It would take a king to win a woman like that!
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold]
They’re synonyms for my usual username (my other option was “Ghost Line”, which in retrospect isn’t that bad). When I signed up for here, some oddity in the accounts system seems to have trouble with names with “ed” in, although at the time all I knew was it wouldn’t accept it. This is the only place I use Revenant Threshold.
My original username is not from mythology, but from computer programming. I saw a friend doing some work, and it was the name of a variable…I think. Google searches for it only turn up results from me, programming, or German, so if you see a shadeedge about, it’s probably me.
Unless they’re not being funny. In which case it’s the German. 
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huh, up until now I always read your name as Reverend Threshold - although you never seemed overly religious.
A long time ago my name was typed in all caps except for the small e at the end. Eventually (some change in the system, I think just after the sdmb winter) the software wouldn’t let me type it all in caps and I never tried to again… So the pun of my name doesn’t work.
Its my last name.
[QUOTE=clayton_e]
A long time ago my name was typed in all caps except for the small e at the end. Eventually (some change in the system, I think just after the sdmb winter) the software wouldn’t let me type it all in caps and I never tried to again… So the pun of my name doesn’t work.
Its my last name.
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Funny, but that’s one of my middle names. And “E” is my first initial.
I’m not getting the pun, though.
Clayton Smalley? But that doesn’t sound familiar.
I like seeing things in 3D
“Právník” is Czech for “lawyer.” I used to live in the Czech Republic, and I’m a lawyer. Literally translated, “právník” means something like “truther.”
I’m a hairy gay man who lives on the edge of the second largest swamp in Georgia. Hence, swampbear.
I signed up just so I could post to “I shouldn’t have laughed at that” . Apparently, I lack imagination so I just used the first thing that came to mind.
I’m also a bit odd and tend to laugh at a lot of things others may not find so funny. I must say, I feel pretty comfortable here, though. :dubious:
Mine is just a pre-emptive strike against anyone who may ever try to pit me. I imagine somebody typing “I pit Mostlyclueless for being totally ignora”- ‘aw, fuck it’.
(Obviously, it’s also a H2G2 reference, where Earth is classified as “mostly harmless”.)
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
Funny, but that’s one of my middle names. And “E” is my first initial.
I’m not getting the pun, though.
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[QUOTE=gigi]
Clayton Smalley? But that doesn’t sound familiar.
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When it was CLAYTON_e.. The pun.. or is it really a pun? It’s a small e.