Average
White
Boy
Actually, it’s just my initials.
Average
White
Boy
Actually, it’s just my initials.
Yo jayron!!! We grew up in the same area - where you from? Merrimack boy myself… nice to see a fellow Granite Stater on board
Cave Diem! Carpe Canem!
Mine may seem obvious, but there is a story. I joined the Navy in 1984 when punk was in full swing. I showed up to boot camp with my hair bleached white and standing every which way, black leather pants and jacket, engineer’s boots, a chain around my neck with a padlock (masterlock IIRC), and a safety pin through my cheek. My company commander took one look at me, pulled me out of the line for haircuts and said,“I want Squid Vicious here to have the first haircut”. The name stuck and followed me everywhere.
Squid, I can just imagine the look on your CC’s face when he saw you! Yes, a rare treat; the humiliation of a punker. Good thing it was only temporary.
…it has never been my way to bother much about things which you can’t cure.
Mine is spotgirl because I am female, and also I have a dalmatian and I call him my spot dog. Keep in mind that everything everyone has said about inbred dogs comes true in dalmatians, mine is irritable, deaf, and knows exactly what shoes cost the most so he can use them for chew toys, but he is the best dog ever (At least to me)
Well, at the risk of winning the “Most Boring” award . . . My first name is Jodi. My last name starts with an “H”. Its all lower-case because I brought it over from a triv site where the play is so fast no one uses caps. Snooze.
Diane is my name and besides, “Diane, Goddess of the Universe” was just too damn long.
The Kitten part (Kitten8808 on AOL and the old board) is a longer story. When I first came online 4 1/2 years ago I was pretty naive about all the perverts online (I have since joined the ranks). I let my older kids choose a screen name and my daughter came up with Kitten (the 8808 was courtesy of AOL) because she loved cats.
It wasn’t too long before people started to associate Kitten with someone older and something sexual so I made her chose a new name.
She had a few friends that knew her as Kitten8808 so I told her I would keep her SN active until she could tell all of her friends the new name. Since I hadn’t thought up a SN for myself I used hers until I could think of something clever. I never did and I met more and more online friends so I was stuck with it.
I have another SN, Stormie, that I have been using in another area for a few years. It is an actual knickname that I have had since high school. An old boyfriend gave it to me because he said my green eyes get “stormy” whenever I would get pissed off or, :::cough::: horny. It was a weird co-inki-dink that I married a guy whose last name is a close variation of Storm, so it is even more appropriate.
>^,^<
KITTEN
Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
Olentzero you came from Merrimack…I still live there.
Tyler’s a nickname from my youth in Texas (real name’s Jill - how boring is that?). And naturally, being from a long line of story-tellers and having been raised in the land of weaving a good yarn, I gained a great appreciation for the oral tradition. In college, I was a member of the Forensics Team and took a second place in the state of California for my interpretation of Lord Richard Buckley’s cool story, God’s Own Drunk. There just aren’t enough story tellers anymore. Our kids are missing out on a great tradition…
StoryTyler
The fun starts here!
Buck is a college Fraternity nickname that came about because I almost always have a knife on my person. At the time it was a small Buck pocketknife.
Even though nobody knows me, I might as well share… I used to be part of a community on AOL based around a game creation system known as ZZT. The trend at the time was to create small pseudo-companies, bascially groups of people who would create games and release them under the company name. I had decided to start a company. Eventually I decided to use the British version of the last letter of the alphabet and stick ‘soft’ on it. Hence: zedsoft. Then I posted a message one of the ZZT messageboards on AOL and asked if anyone wanted to join my `company’. (My AOL screenname at the time was Tristam418, for what that’s worth… I got it from someone’s alias on my dad’s BBS, because I couldn’t think of anything else.) Someone with the screenname ZZTOmega asked me if I wanted to merge with his company (Omega Productions) and I said “sure”, so it became Zed-Omega Productions and I changed my screenname accordingly, to “ZZT Zed”. When I started using IRC, the space closed up, and eventually I lowercasified it. Of course, on IRC (specifically AUSTnet) nowadays I’m just “zed”. clears throat Thank you. Now back to my regularly scheduled lurking…
Due to the I-40 thread, some folks think I’m from Arizona. Visited many times, but never resided there. During my evil younger days, I read a series of books by Tanith Lee. Very sensual but subtle writer of sci-fi/fantasy. In The Lords of the Flat easrth series, she explained that when a man becomes a sorcerer, he adds -EK to the end of his name, and a woman adds -AZ. At this time I was both- not bi (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) but both. Hard to explain even now. So I mooshed my name (Rachel, and don’t spell it wrong) in with the endings and came up with AzRaek. When I was looking for a cool online moniker, there it was again. Thought I killed it, but no such luck.
I have a bright red 4x4 that sees a lot of mud. I’d come home from the trail and my wife would say, “Look at that dirty devil!”, and it stuck. She even got me a personalized license plate with “DRTYDVL”.
I have always insisted on Jonathan–or, at the very least, not John. (“Johnny” is right out.) It often gets shortened to J, or JP. We call each other “Doctor” in med school sometimes for an ego boost, and “Dr. J” stuck.
My other nickname at school–which I probably should have used–is J-Train, after getting drunk one night and declaring that “when the J-Train pulls up to the station, everybody gets off.”
Dr. J
PS: The best nickname story I ever heard: I used to know this guy that everybody called Smokehouse. I finally asked him why, and he said, “Because that’s where the meat hangs.”
Thomas Barton was the name of the character I spent the most time roleplaying, back when I did such things. Master criminal, sort of a medieval Godfather.
My friends at work call me “Holly Hobby” because they claim I look like her- something about my long hair. I don’t really get the connection (I don’t wear bonnets or anything) but I like the name. I used to hang out on another message board where my name was “HollyHobby”. When I started here I made the mistake of registering after drinking a couple of beers (I’m a cheap drunk) and I screwed the whole thing up. So now I’m simply “Holly”, which doesn’t convey the deep sense of meaning, whatever meaning that was, as my former name.
Not so hard to figure out…I’ve always been very independent and strong-minded. I’ve done some travelling, lived in some cool places, seen some sights, met some characters, had some interesting jobs – all fodder for great stories (and my name’s Tyler). Check out Squirrel Depravity in Tennessee, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes on Opal’s TM page (Teeming Millions Tales) for a sample.
StoryTyler
The fun starts here!
In the 5th grade (circa 1973), I had a pair of red Chuck Taylor’s (Converse) that I wore to school everyday. One of my friends called called me “ConMan” & it stuck. Though many people today associate more with my last name - Connolly.
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
E A Poe
I might as well post a boring one. It is my last name. Ohhhh … exciting.
Pony was a personal call sign I used in the Air Force. I’m kind of a Mustang freak (except for the Ford Mustang II abortions) so the name stuck.
“…send lawyers, guns, and money…”
Warren Zevon