My SN is one I made up for an email writing club I belong to.
What I didn’t count on is that it seems to be a real word in Finnish (it shows up on an awful lot of Finnish sites if one does a Google search, anyway).
Unfortunately, I can’t speak Finnish and I can’t find an on-line dictionary that recognises the word, so I have no idea if I’ve christened myself something obscene.
Mine is from the book and movie “Eddie and the Cruisers” - The keyboard player is nicknamed “WordMan” for writing the lyrics to the songs Eddie writes.
While I play guitar, I have an old friend who was very much the Eddie type of guy and he gave me the nickname. I also get Verb, too…
WordMan
PS: Where the heck is Qadcop the Mercotan? - talk about someone whose name needs explaining…
Nuh-uh! You named it after the children’s show and you know it!
ummmm my name was given to me because i grew up around guns (military) and because he figured i was cute…oh well i really need a more interesting name
I took my name from the band of the late great Bob Wills. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
Well for those of you who don’t play pool (what’s wrong with you!? :D) my name refers to the act of breaking a rack and running out without ever letting your opponent shoot, hopefully making lots of money in the process and making the babes swoon and stuff and then having your opponent double the bet and you breaknrun again and make more money and :::wakes up::: huh? where am I? oh, yeah well, you get the idea.
It never occurred to me that my name might be mistaken for some criminal proclivity until after the fact, but I hope people would think check my profile and make the connection and realize I’m not that bad a guy, really.
Hello Again is the “show” name of my horse. her everday name is Holly and she is a Demon Bitch Mare From Hell. But only sometimes. 
Wanna see a picture? Of course you do!
Well, Rock Lobster is easy.
Song by the B-52’s
Verry tasty Dish 
(And yes, sometimes lurker who decided finally…to register & post. )
Kim
“Phoebe” was the name of a character in a book me and my roommate/best friend wrote when we were 18. It was an intentionally bad mock-up of a teenage horror novel, a la R.L. Stine’s pre-Goosebumps days. (It wasn’t until we went back and read it later that we realized it was even worse than we meant it to be.) Phoebe was the name of my character (my best friend’s character was named Ghent)
“Star” is because I like stars. Also, I really like the line from the Tori Amos song “The Waitress.”
“Too many stars, not enough sky”
I use “TooManyStars” as a username for various messenger services.
My name used to be Flow Ride until, one rainy day, I slipped and fell off the Turnip Truck (those turnips can be slippery). I hit my head on the asphalt, rendering me dyslexic.
Now Wolf the I under Dire name post.
RenMan = Renaissance Man
I have lots of interests, intellectual and otherwise. I know a lot about a few things, and a little about many many other things.
I used to call online self K-os, but my isp didn’t allow for hyphens in Email addresses, so I became K.os. The name means Chaos, as in Chaos Theory. A friend of mine lent me a book (Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick) which I found fascinating. Maybe it’s the fact I was reading Bob Wilson’s Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy, but my view of the world never was quite right after that. :rolleyes: That’s what you get when you tango with Teonanacatl and try to make sense of it all.
[sub]Disclaimer: Do NOT try to make sense of it all, since the Answer and the Question always cancel each other out, taking the whole Universe with them.;)[/sub]
Average White Boy
or
Anthony William B*****f
I was playing with my 3-year-old grandson, and he handed me a little plastic chimpanzee and said, “I’ll be Red Man, and you can be the monkey”. So I explained that it wasn’t a monkey, but it was an ape; that monkeys have butts and tails, but apes have just butts, no tails; that he was an ape, too. When his mom got home, he told her, “See? I have a butt, but no tail.”
Next day I found this message board and needed a name. There.
By the way, doggone H.A.Rey and his claim that that “He was a good little monkey, but he was always curious.” HE AIN’T A MONKEY!
-Sue, who has just “verbed” ‘doggone’
Because I am.
I used to travel a lot and met many strange and “wonderful” people. Like the HerbalLife guy in Cleveland who explained to me how the East and West Coasts had had their day, and now it was the age of the “North Coast” - Cleveland being its epicenter…
Or the guy in a Dallas bar extolling the virtues and vices of AA in wild diatribes, while swilling Scotch…
Or the (married) woman who demanded proof I was from her hometown, remembered my name, sleuthed which hotel I was staying in and phoned me there when she got home. (Me – where are you calling from?!! You’re not in the lobby are you??!!!)
If there’s one in a room…
I sympathize with you, Lightnin’
I have seen the film “Caro Diario” about 18,000,000 times Thre is this great scene where director/protagonist Nanni Moretti comes upon his hero Jennifer Beals strolling down a street in Rome and begins haranguing her about Flashdance. Her companion asks if he’s dangerous, and she says, “Nah, he’s just a little ‘off’.”
This progresses into an analaysis of the word “off” as Beals struggles to find an Italian equivelent. She finally settles on “quasi schemo”
The subtitles translate this as “almost dumb” but as I viewed the film more and more, I thought that the words “goofy” or “wacky” might be more fitting, based on Beals’ exegesis. In any case, it finally hit me–“Thre’s a word for people like me!”
I dropped the “quasi” out of lasiness on this board.
I have seen the film “Caro Diario” about 18,000,000 times Thre is this great scene where director/protagonist Nanni Moretti comes upon his hero Jennifer Beals strolling down a street in Rome and begins haranguing her about Flashdance. Her companion asks if he’s dangerous, and she says, “Nah, he’s just a little ‘off’.”
This progresses into an analaysis of the word “off” as Beals struggles to find an Italian equivelent. She finally settles on “quasi schemo”
The subtitles translate this as “almost dumb” but as I viewed the film more and more, I thought that the words “goofy” or “wacky” might be more fitting, based on Beals’ exegesis. In any case, it finally hit me–“Thre’s a word for people like me!”
I dropped the “quasi” out of laziness on this board.
tavalla, it means ‘in a way’, for example, tällä tavalla means ‘in this manner’. Tapa means ‘manner, way, custom, habit’ and -lla means ‘in’. When you add the suffix the -p- changes to -v-. So it’s a neat name, in a way.
Well, was trying to get an AOL IM name, when I found Rain315 was taken. So I went “hmm…rain…sun…ray of sun…ray has same sound as rain…Rayn!”
Who knows what types of Freudian things were running through my mind that day.
Nowadays I use rayniday because it flows nicely and sounds cool.
I used to be Da Ace, since A.C. were (and are) my initials, and humorous mispellings are funny.
Now I’m named after the illustrious Victorian inventor, bon vivant* and spymaster.