I almost chose Canbe, from the novel “The Phantom Tollbooth”.
The name ITR Champion is a reference to a game that some of my friends made up. There are at most 25 people who could understand what it means. However, when I tried to register that name with AOL, it was already taken, but not by anybody that I know.
I’ve thought about changing mine to Jeannie Eats Zucchini. It’s from the Far Side comic where there’s a courtroom. The lawyer calls a witness, “I now call Mr. Pumpkin-Eater’s sister, Jeannie Jeannie Eats-Zucchini.”
My name derives from the familiar formula for the area of a circle. Originally, I was going to be closer to the spirit of this formula by using the Greek ‘pi’, rather than ‘pie’. I was a mouse-click away from doing such, when :eek:, I noticed Pis ‘R’ Squared doesn’t read very well. All was well in the end, however, since I like baking and ‘pie’ can refer to that as well.
I toyed with the name Ella Wendy Owen for a while, but decided it would be too confusing (“it’s not my name; it’s my address!”). I’m still contemplating expanding my name in light of jti’s complaints about people not remembering three-character names.
Thought seriously about Bill Kill. One my friends in college gave me that nickname; my name’s Bill, and I’m such a pacifist that he thought it was funny to call me Bill Kill. It kind of stuck; my wife still calls me that occasionally. I just thought it might either give the wrong impression (it’s ironic! really!) or make me explain it too many times.
I was thinking about LewdMinx, which is my Quake2 handle and my AIM nick, but I was afraid I’d be taken less seriously in GD threads, to which I post alarmingly often…
You came pretty close to ignoring the posts of a West Side. a nickname I somehow managed to aquire in HS. Romeo Elvis was something a lady friend called me after…nah, I’m not going into that story.
However, I’m in an idenity crisis and am weighing whether or not I want to change my alias.
I’ve been thinking of changing to Davenport In A Storm, but I’ve grown comfortable with SterlingN.