Apologies if this has been done before, but this is a topic that always intrigues me:
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
2) Do you use it everywhere?
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
I always used to think mine was obvious, but there are, apparently, a number of folks out there who have never heard of Isaac Asimov. :eek:
I’ve been online in one form or another since '92, and I used to go by Crispy all the time (it’s a first name - last initial thing that just worked out that way). Unfortunately, as time wore on and the online world got more popular, more and more people started choosing Crispy for their own reasons, shutting me out from having that name on various sites I joined. And for some reason, the idea of being a “Crispy239” or any such variation abhors me - makes me feel cheap and dirty. Not that that isn’t an accurate depiction of me, but I digress…
So anyway, I went with Asimovian on a whim, and in the 7+ since years I’ve had it, I’ve never run across another.
What’s your story? Oh, and while we’re on the topic:
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
It’s the name of a magic sword from a D&D game my brother ran.
Do you use it everywhere?
nope.
If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
none interesting
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
mildly
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
neither, sadly
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
It’s pretty long, basically, chimera has a lot of meanings for me 1. It represents fantasy, dreams, illusions. 2. In biology, a human chimera is one who was formed from two or more seperate zygotes. I used to think that I had MPD, now I just consider myself multi-sided. 3. The particular spelling is based on a little-known manga by my favorite author. Kimera is a sexually-driven vamperic hermaphroditic space alien who holds the potential to destroy the human race. The name is writen as KIMERA but that seems like yelling to me, so I write it in lowercase.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
No
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
My internet name ‘Ava Goyle,’ and when other people have taken kimera, then I use ‘kimeradae’ (based on a species of fish) or ‘khimairadae.’
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
No.
**1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here? **
Well, my father’s last name is Steinhardt, as was his father’s before him and his father’s before him…
Zev is the name my parents gave me, naming me after a great-grandfather.
**2) Do you use it everywhere? **
Almost. I also have a secular name that I use at work. But everyone else knows me as Zev. If you ask my wife or kids what my name is, they’ll answer “Zev.”
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
The only time I’ve known people to get confused gender-wise is when they think of the Lexx character “Zev.”
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
So much for getting people to reply with quote. Anyway, this is less obtrusive 1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
It’s derived from my last name and others have used it as a nickname. It’s also an aviation term for the thing an airplane is tied down to. 2) Do you use it everywhere?
Yes, some other online places as an ID and have it registered as .net and .com domains 3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
I couldn’t get it as a yahoo ID so I use a contraction of my official SASS alias Morgan Randall 4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Probably 4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Yes, but I am remarkably easy to amuse.
**1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here? **
Amaranta is a character in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. I love the sound of the name.
**2) Do you use it everywhere? **
No, this is the only board I use it on.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
I usually go with “wombat”, but it’s very gender neutral, which would be confusing on such a big board, especially as a newbie. In fact, I’d say more people would think it belongs to a guy.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Not this one, as far as I know. Even if people don’t recognize the character, I think it sounds like a feminine name.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
N/A.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
I took my name sort of indirectly from The Superior Person’s Book of Words, which gives unusual or obscure words, their meanings, and examples of how to work them into conversation. One such word is “limaceous,” meaning slug-like, and the example given is something like “Keep your hands off me, you limaceous endomorph!”, which I found hilarious. However, I misremembered it as “licentious endomorph” (which actually works just as well in that context). Since physically I’m more of an ectomorph than an endomorph, I went with “Licentious Ectomorph.”
2) Do you use it everywhere?
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
I don’t belong to any other message boards. Why bother? I’m sure they’d only pale in comparison to this one. Therefore, I have no other aliases.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Technically speaking I suppose it’s gender-neutral, but I think it at least implies maleness.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Nope.
**1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here? **
When I was in school my group of friends really liked the name Frederick Ludenbaucher Ludy for short
**2) Do you use it everywhere? **
not really
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
not telling :dubious:
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
yup, seeing that it is based on a man’s name to begin with
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
unfortunetly no, I am pretty quick to say I’m a girl
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
It’s an out of print (in the US, anyway) Who album. 2) Do you use it everywhere?
No, just here. I’m not really happy with it though but everything else I thought of was taken. 3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
Graybeard 4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
I guess it could be. 4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Not yet it hasn’t. But one can hope.
**1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here? **
I wanted a unique name just for SDMB. I anticipated asking a lot of questions, and thought it’d be irreverent to call myself “Nature’s Call” That any anyone who answered my question would be answering nature’s call[sup][/sup], hardee har har!
[sup][/sup]being a euphemism for urinating
2) Do you use it everywhere?
Nope.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
My usual nom d’ecran is Biscuit, or Biscuit314 if the former’s taken (3.14 - the first three digits of pi).
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Yes.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Not really, although I do regret when I’m quoted here in the third person and the doper is forced to type him/her (or such like).
**1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here? **
Liberty is my father’s nickname for me. 3701 was my prisoner number from when I was arrested in a protest in Quebec. I’m such a rebel.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
Yeah, basically.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
Sometimes grrrlygirl, but that’s lame and it confuses people. For a while i was theSauceMaster (from the leader of the underground vegetarian movement in Delicatessen) but it apparently sounds dirty.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
I never thought so…
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
not yet…
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
I used to be in a band by this name. We decided to stop making music, but I still liked the name, so I kept it.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
Most places, yeah. Sometimes I’ll decide on something else.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
Sometimes I go for the more Depeche Mode-related and use the word “Devoted” in some way. The_Devoted or Devoted_93 or something like that. I don’t know why I chose those instead of my usual. Sometimes I just go by Interface, as well, since oftentimes when people refer to me that’s the only part they use.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
I’ve never really thought about it. I don’t think anyone has ever mistaken me for a woman based on my username. 4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Not particularly.
**1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here? **
My signature on usenet for many years was “electrical engineer, computer geek (er, programmer…) and no talent bum musician”. When I made a yahoo account I came up with engineer_comp_geek which was about as close to summing up my signature as I could get and still make it fit. When I signed up here I used the same name.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
Here and yahoo.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
I use the alias psychospamhater any time I have to sign up for something and give them an email address. It makes a great spam catcher account.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
There’s nothing gender specific about my username but most engineers and computer geeks are male so most folks probably assume (correctly) that I am.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
About 7 years ago I heard someone say it in a TV commercial, and I had a “band name!” moment. But the guy I formed a band with the following year didn’t want to use it (even though the name we wound up using was dumb), so I figured it might make a nifty online name instead. When I registered here I was pleasantly surprised that it was available.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
I use it wherever I can, but alas I am not the only clever person on the internet. If plain “Misnomer” is taken I use “Misnomer971” (I was born in September 1971), but I only post on two other message boards and I’m “Misnomer” at both of them – Misnomer971 is for dating sites, online photo albums, MySpace, etc.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
Yep.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Nope.
1) What’s the story behind the name you chose for yourself here?
It comes from an e.e. cummings poem I particularly like. “and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart/i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)”.
2) Do you use it everywhere?
Hmm, not really.
3) If not, what other interesting aliases do you use online?
I go by Little Miss on a diary/blog site I frequent. “Muasaum” is another one I use a lot, but the explanation for that one is pretty outdated.
4a) Is your username gender neutral/confusing?
A few people have referred to me as a guy on these boards, so I suppose it is.
4b) Has this ever caused you problems and/or entertainment?
Sort of. It’s hard for me to take some posts seriously if they get my gender wrong (or anyone’s gender wrong), even though I know it’s not the poster’s fault. It just makes me giggle.
Therefore, I have no other aliases.
If plain “Misnomer” is taken I use “Misnomer971” (I was born in September 1971), but I only post on two other message boards and I’m “Misnomer” at both of them – Misnomer971 is for dating sites, online photo albums, MySpace, etc.