I’ve seen some wierd names around these boards, and I was just wondering why ya’ll chose the names you did and why. BTW, my name means I’m a fan of Jerry B. Jenkins, co-author of the Left Behind Series.
I just like to put my 2sense in.
peace
We’ve pretty much done this already, but mine basically means that I fall asleep in church too much.
What do you have against us Baptists preachin’ long?
Here you go jenkinsfan try this
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=19091
I was still lurking for the last thread, so I’ll play:
My name is not Vera, and I’m not a Gemini. It’s from a song title, the Revenge of Vera Gemini, from Agents of Fortune, by Blue Oyster Cult.
Topaz is my birthstone (I’m a Scorpio) and Antares (besides being a cool name) is a star in the constellation Scorpio also called scorpions heart which is supposed to be a good name for those who require strength of heart. I figure I needed something like that and I liked it so I stuck the two together and use them.
firespellweaver (my email name) came from me having always been interested in magic (both the David Copperfield kind and more recently the Pagan kind) and I have always been fascinated with fire. (which is weird since I am a water person…)
I also have several other user names but these are my more recent and favourite ones.
Mine is swedish for bring more chairs
My real name is Clararose, so I have always had a thing for roses, and a rose thorn because once on Valentines Day my boyfriend gave me roses and I gripped them a little too tightly…and well lets just say that I have been scarred for that incident (emoitnally and physicaly)
Mine is actually a nickname bestowed upon me by a freshman on my high school drumline…I’m only 5’1" and quite the lightweight, so it came as quite a shock to the entire line when I decided to play quad toms (tenors, whatever you want to call them) my senior year - they’re the ones that are about 3 feet wide and weigh about 30-35 lbs. One of the freshmen started laughing the first time I “hooked up,” and exclaimed “Hey, there goes the mighty Quadzilla!” Needless to say, the name has stuck.
Badd-ump-ump ching.
Zev = hebrew for wolf.
Steinhardt = my last name. 
(That also explains the name of my SDMB fanatasy baseball team name : Zev’s Wolves)
Zev Steinhardt
I’m taking Chinese. My teacher assigned us Chinese names. The usual translation of ‘John’ is ‘Yue Han.’
–John
From “The Hunting of the Snark” by Lewis Carroll:
"This also seems a fitting occasion to notice the other hard words in that poem. Humpty-Dumpty’s theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.
"For instance, take the two words ‘fuming’ and ‘furious’. Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards ‘fuming’, you will say ‘fuming-furious’; if they turn, even by a hair’s breadth, towards ‘furious’, you will say ‘furious-fuming’; but if you have that rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say ‘frumious’.
"Supposing that, when Pistol uttered the well-known words–
“Under which king, Bezonian? Speak or die!”
Justice Shallow had felt certain that it was either William or Richard, but had not been able to settle which, so that he could not possibly say either name before the other, can it be doubted that, rather than die, he would have gasped out ‘Rilchiam’!"
I’ve been a huge Andrew Lloyd Webber fan for about
10 years. His last show “Whistle Down the Wind”
had a song called “Annie Christmas.” My last
name is Anne, and my Birthday is December 25th.
ALW should be very glad I’m not a celebrity
stalker.
Named for my favorite Time Bandit. Well, not my favorite…Og is my favorite…Struuter is the more…what shall I say?..oh, yes, decisive. Yes, decisive.
Picked 'cause it is rarely taken (used to use nemo).
Unfortunately, somebody already snagged it in AIM. Pity. Use it everywhere else though.
Kyber/Cyber neticist.
Someone who likes tinkering with the steering. Thought it was appropriate as I wrap up my BSc in Comp. Sci and set my sights on a MA in Cog. Sci.
I’m the Baglady both here and at my Web site (www.travelite.com), where I teach people how to pack lightly for their travels. I review soft-sided luggage (“travel packs”) and my closet is full of bags, as my partner, Obfusciatrist, will attest. People ask me if “baglady is like a homeless person baglady?” until I explain it to them.
– Baglady
I just grabbed the first few letters of my first and last names; ( Christina Barfield) and squashed them together.
No big mysteries for me.
Chrisbar
I was attempting to identify my position in the convent but accidently got the vowel wrong…pay no attention to other posts from which you may infer I am of the masculine gender.
Seriously, nen is a Japanese term. It is most commonly used in Zen, Aikido, et cetera. It is best translated to “one-pointed-ness” pertaining to a state of mind or focus thereof. The capitalization of the term represents an allegorical aspiration.
Happy now?! I saved you all from doing your homework. That is, assuming anyone was remotely interested.
From William of Occam…also spelled Ockam or Ockham.
Founder of the Principle of Parsimony called ‘Occam’s Razor’:
“A simpler solution is most often the correct one”
Any Si-Fi fands out there might have read “Ender’s Game”. One of the main characters, ‘Mazor Rackham’, uses the above rule to succeed.