Youse GOTS to be kidding me!?!
I used to be a bigger fan of Monty Python than I am now. Not sure if I was aware that there was also a Spiny Norman.
I’ve periodically wished I had chosen Marvin Molar.
I was reading Icelandic sagas at the time, now I can’t remember which one, which opened, as so often, with someone stealing someone else’s sheep or something (which inevitably led to someone being burned inside their house with their whole family) and this guy was named Ulf. But reading on, I discovered that the father had two sons both named Ulf, and that was too much, I closed the book. However, I felt Ulf was too masculine so I changed it.
The avatar is our (my wife and I) first dog, a BC named PJ who thought it the height of hilarity to hunt me down after her dinner and belch in my face. The _the_wonder_mutt part came from Superboy’s dog, Krypto (that’s the short version, which will do for now).
This could go in the “Words you’ve read but never heard thread,” but I remember reading the archaic man’s name Aloysius somewhere, and assuming it was pronounced more or less as spelled: a-LOY-see-us.
Then later hearing about someone called “Alowishus.”
And only much later realizing Aloysius is how you spell Alowishus. 
As for my handle, I was a newsletter editor (and publisher) for the last 24 years of my career. As a copy editor, I think I have a good sense of where commas should go.
(You should all be grateful I don’t post a lot more “nitpick” posts here. Although, in fact, it’s the high level of writing and orthography that attracted me to the place, and has kept me here, practically around the clock, for 21+ years.)
We’ve been married for over 43 years now.
Once you’ve had a zymolosely polydactile tongue, you never go back.
For me, no particular story or reason. I just needed a username that would be short and easy to remember. So “Velocity” it was. I have never used the name for anything else online either.
The Odyssey was a favorite when I was in high school and I’ve traveled quite a lot, having lived in several different countries and half a dozen states, so the story continues to resonate for me. I chose the Latin form of Odysseus’ name because I once lived near several sites the Romans attributed to the Odyssey. My avatar pic is an image from Ulysses 31, an anime series that adapts the Odyssey in an outer space setting.
I went to a Doper gathering here in San Francisco a few years ago. We all had a marvelous time, chatting and eating & drinking a bit. We had name tags with our doper names and real names on them.
Talking a bit about the screen names I mentioned casually that mine was a palindrome. I guess I had always thought it was understood but several of my fellow dopers were surprised to discover this.
I thought: "Geez! What a terribly arrogant and selfish user name it must seem if one doesn’t recognize the palindrome!
Yes. That’s it. I am not utterly full of myself and more often than not I feel anything but love for myself. My user name is simply a clever palindrome I saw once as the title of a book on my friend’s shelf.
Mine is a latin pun, supposedly sent by Gen. Charles Napier to his superiors after capturing the city of Sindh against orders (actually, it was a suggestion after the fact by an English schoolgirl).
When signing up, I realized it was going to be unique, short, and easy to remember.
Huh, i always read it as ENIPIA, rather than ENIPLA !
Need new glasses !
No gnews is good gnews.
btw, mine’s my initials.
I admit that I always read your user name as “Man, get out!”, and probably will continue to do so
Me neither. I mean, mine doesn’t even make sense.
What’s funny is I googled how to spell it and found Aloysius and didn’t think anyone would know what to make of that. It looked like Alowishus was an alternate spelling (or at least some people wrote it like that) so I went with that one.
And it’s here where I wanted to post a clip of Daffy Duck saying Aloysius but I guess there still are some things you can’t find online (at least easily).
I always knew the spelling/pronunciation of that name, but that’s because I grew up Catholic, and went to a Catholic school, meaning that I was at Mass at least twice a week. And, every week, in Mass, during the prayers, the priest would mention our bishop, Aloysius, and one would see his name printed in pretty much everything put out by the parish and the diocese.
I’ve been phs3 in various forms for my entire life. I’m a III, and my first name (which, duh, begins with P) has a common short form. So at home, my dad was [short name] and I was [full name]. When we’d visit my grandparents, we’d shift: grandfather was (to the adults!) [short name], my dad was [full name], and I was “p3”.
At my first computer job, they gave me “PHS3” without asking, and I didn’t have a problem with it. That was at a university, and my dad already had PHIL, so it kinda made sense.
In the late 70s my sister did a year of art college, and one of their assignments was to design a personal logo. About that time I started using computers and emailand chose …phsiii as my logo/sig. It’s “artistic” in that it sort of rotates: the three dots on the “iii” echo the leading dots.
My sig also broke the Columbia Mailer on BITNET, which had in-stream commands–lines starting with a period. Yep, it wasn’t prepared for a period after that initial period, and when I started sending email outside our local system, I broke it. Easily and quickly fixed, but still makes me smile. And I’ve used it as a lesson for junior developers many times.
…phsiii
Both my mom and dad have art degrees. I’m been going through all their drawing and paintings. A lot of their stuff also revolved around advertising design.
Can I say that that is a VERY cool assignment. Wow, a personal logo. That’s something to think about.
The CBS Saturday morning Cartooniverse was something I watched.
Time came to use a screenname, that one sounded fun and was filled with good kid memories. I’m not an anime or cartoon nerd by any means. Just liked the name back in 1999 when I joined the SDMB…