I was looking for something with the name Curwin on Google and came up with this page:
Windows of Opportunity
with the line:
That’s kind of cool - I was a private in the army, and I never thought of myself as a window, let alone a “Window of Opportunity”.
Does your name mean something else in a strange context?
Neptune is a planet.
A brand of washing machine.
Old code name for Windows XP.
A town in New Jersey.
A theatre in Nova Scotia.
Sailor Neptune is one of Sailor Moon’s buddies.
And of course, the ancient Roman god of the sea, with the trident, and the poking and the hurting, flaven.
Washte - “it is good” in Sioux 
Real name or username? My real last name is Gott, which means God in German. Ironic, since I am neither godlike, nor a believer in God. If there really is one, maybe this is just some kind of twisted God-joke. It would be bizarre for God to throw Gott into hell for not believing in himself. Or, since this Gott doesn’t believe in himself, perhaps you’re not really reading this posting, because I don’t really exist in the Cartesian sense.
It’s waaaay past my bedtime.
I’m just going to note upfront that yes, I’m very bored ATM
I haven’t googled my name before, and I was shocked at what’s out there. And disturbed. I didn’t bother going past the 20th page, and ignored the non-English sites, but I think there were approx 22 000 hits.
If you’re as bored as me… read on
We have :
A Goo library I must search those archives one day, and research myself.
100+ Goo Recipes :eek:
Gray Goo and Blue Goo and even Green Goo !
There’s a Dr Goo
CNN has done a report on Super-cool Goo
I’m obviously famous, because there are the Pages of Goo, GOO’s Manual, Goo cat furniture ?!? and Graphic Goo.
Somebody has it in for me and has developed Goo Gone :eek:
Ah-Goo disturbs me greatly.
If you like, you can dress Goo hehehe, please keep me modest Dopers
And for those for who dressing just isn’t enough, we have Goo-on-a-spoon Films
:eek:
Well, I started the search under the assumption all it would turn up was my website (which consists of one page saying “There is no page here. Fnord.” - I axed the original and didn’t want to leave it up), MRFH references and some message board posts. But NO. I run the search on google I get sites like “Fighting kitarak” and “Kitarak is really hard to beat.” While I won’t deny I’m a combat monster, it’s worrying that my prowess has spread so far. This bears further investigation…
It turns out that in march last year nintendo released a game for the N64 called “Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage.” In this game there is a goblin king called Kitarak. My name has been stolen! I’m outraged! I can use lots of exclamation marks!
Seeing as my use of the name predates Nintendo’s by about 5 years, I’m planning to sue for copyright violation and hopefully get loads of money.
Wait, what’s that? I stole the name from a (admittedly quite bad) book myself? Oh yeah. Umm… carry on as you were. ::sheepish look::
We can’t possible have that! Don’t worry Goo I’ll deal with them. Now where did I leave my ultimate weapon (just can’t leave New Kids On The Block CD’s lying around anymore)?
Um, a minister and a missionary:
Damn-- there used to be a page with a Christian Missionary named Larry Mudd with some funny pictures- Big Hair, Big Wife, Big Children, Big Suit, Big Red Cheeks. I shoulda archived that.
Real name - Steven Williams. Basically, ‘crowned one’ and ‘son of William’. Boooring. But I am in the Marines, apparently, and have a loooooot of homepages.
Username is an alternate spelling of a word I made up for a language I’m hammering out - it’s pronounced ‘low-DRAW-een’, and means ‘kid’, as in ‘that darned kid’ - sort of casual usage; it’s more slang than anything, and I never use it much outside of that context.
I used to be called ‘Redukter’, until our angelic Swiss-expat-moderator changed it for me. I had a certain song stuck in my head, titled ‘Redukt’, which is the German word for ‘remainder’ or ‘residue’, and thought it would be cool to name myself after that. It also means ‘remainders’ in Danish; I’m assuming the singular is identical to the German. Still, despite the cool meanings of my former nom de plume, I stopped liking it after ten minutes.
Real name means “Beloved Pagan”
Oh… real names. Mine means “Valley of the Victorious Clothiers.”
I googled “Astroboy” and found this!
Don’t mess with me!
My username is “lone wanderer” in Sindarin (one of Tolkien’s Elvish languages)
Is that a machine gun in your hip, or are you just happy to see me?
My screen name, which is a nickname from JROTC and a shortening of my last name, is a reasonably common last name in and of itself. And that’s about it.
My real first name, Erica, means “ever mighty.” Look upon me, mortals, and despair!
Aside from an under-construction www.sublight.com (not mine), Googling my name mostly brought up a bunch of Trek/Star Wars/Mecha/SF fanboy pages.
My real is Bryan Vela.
Bryan, or Brian, comes from the word Brawn meaning strong. I don’t remember if it’s gaelic or celtic.
Vela is Spanish for candle.
So I am Strong Candle.
[sub]I was even flirting with the idea of changing my name to Bryan Candle, but I regained my sanity 4 seconds later[/sub]
and mine means “Twin Manly Pagan”
My username was taken from the novel The Neverending Story. In that novel, the character Atreyu explains to someone that his name means “Son of All” in the language of his people.
Kinda cool.
oy.
First-borns.
Twin Manly, eh? This may have to replace bonga-toogie, ya know…