Whoa, at first I pronounced your user name in my head as Suh lye nus thinking it was of Greco-Roman origin.
Then I looked at it one day and thought- he’s making a play on words :smack: it is Silliness
Looks like I was right the first time.
My user name comes from what were a couple of lucky days on the greatest game show ever.
Years ago I went with my parents (I was too old to go on a trip with my parents, but I went anyway, for some shopping in the USA) to a Shriners Convention. When my name was mentioned a group of shriners started singing some barbershop song about “Don’t let Julia, Fool ya.”
It never looked right spelled out that way, so juliefoolie it became.
Well, Alice is one of my middle names, and I often feel like I’m floating through life, astounded by what happens to me. For instance, some random dude just asked if I would like to fuck in his downtown condo stairwell, or failing that, rent the spare room from him. I politely declined. I find that odd.
About 3 years ago someone signed up as Alice-in-Wonderland and the server missed it because the change in hyphens - but I don’t remember what she changed her name to. Does anyone else remember that?
My last name is Rodriguez. I used to be a US Army Drill Sergeant. Lots of the trainees referred to me as “Drill Rod”.
I’d been using this as an online id for a few years before anyone pointed out the potential for dirty minds to twist it into something not originally intended.
I still don’t get it.
It must be some kind of pun meaning 14 k of g in a f p d, because I still don’t get it, either.
I picked it out myself.
I picked mine because, at the time I signed up, I really liked the song “Superman” and the name of the band who sang it. I had no idea it referred to a penalty call in hockey for aggressive behavior and just thought it was a really creative combination of words put together by the band.
I found out the truth later and, since I have, I realize it is kind of appropriate in another way.
Being the misanthrope that I am, I constantly (untentionally) behave in ways that cause me to be on someone’s shit list for brief periods of time or for them to be on the outs with me temporarily.
I think that sound in the distance is a bunch of Dopers’ heads exploding.
Mine is pretty boring.
The night I decided to register, I was pondering the platypus, so I decided “Hey, I’ll be a platypus! But what sort of platypus am I?”
Apparently I’m a prickly sort.
It was readily available.
Go figure.
Part of my favorite poem, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
“The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on, nor all your piety and wit can call it back to cancel a single line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.”
I thought about using Piety_and_Wit instead, but I’m neither pious nor especially witty, so…
Aha,
So you have heard of me? I am The King of Thieves, Bruce Campbell, and a sex machine all wrapped into one. Men, hold onto your wallets, and ladies, there’s plenty of me for everyone!
Yours truly,
Autolycus
steals this thread
“Aleq” is an elision of my SCA name (A le Q, see?) that I started using on BBSs back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and you couldn’t get onto a Commodore 64 board if you had an asterisk in your password. I liked the fact that it’s gender ambiguous and leads most people to assume I’m a guy (thereby increasing exponentially the squick component when I get flirty.) I added the “Smart” part because it’s more amusing that way and it gives people a more accurate impression (read: “warning”) of what they’re dealing with–same reason I went from my natural dishwater blonde to red… ;p-~~~
Lola Granola was the girlfriend/ wife of Opus, from the original Bloom County.
I first started using this handle about… 20 years ago. :eek: I respond to “Lola” as well as my “real” name.
Friend Sampiro,
Sorry I missed this question. Yes, I have shoulder length, rapidly thinning grey hair.
I got mine in a raffle - it was at the bottom of a grab bag.
OK, maybe not. I can’t recall the actual circumstances, but it was born of a chat room conversation. I was using it for a year of so before coming here. It’s unique. It works. Kinda like me. 
Damn dirty hippies…Welcome!
You don’t get to pick your real life name, but when I chose Shirley Ujest, it was one of those Flashes of Brilliance in my pathetically small life.
If I had to do all over again, I would still be Shirley, but I’ve been Jonesing to become Fannie Ramsbottom or Sadie Weisenheimer I think I would have to become a Jewish lady and take up smoking for the second name.
I got a thing for interesting names, what can I say.