I got mine eons ago. When my friends and I would get together I always took whatever conversation was going on and debated both sides of the argument. I would get worked up and argue passionately both sides, raising my voice, using physical actions to illustrate my points and using props so that people would understand. I would argue both sides against each other adding valid (and sometimes unproveable) points to both arguments. Then I would sit back and comedy would ensue. My friends all told me that I talked to much and that I acted like some crazy street preacher. Hence the name and it stuck.
Of course, I am a legally ordained minister as well by the Universal Life Church out of Modesto CA. So I guess it’s a two for one name. The being ordained thing is, if you knew me, actually one of the funniest things about me. Get a religious thread started and you’ll find out why. On second thought don’t do that…
Number 10 (damned if I can remember the title!!) came out in January!
Mine is also a book character (Jean M. Auel - Earth’s Children Series, The Mammoth Hunters, co-leader of the Mammoth Camp). The numbers represent my initials if you spell them out on a phone keypad.
Bill Quinn was the first governor of the state of Hawaii.
(I used to belong to a board that centered around Hawaiian politics, but the people on it started to creep me out.)
What I’m curious about is the relevence of “december” to december. (Also, what part of Jersey are you from? I’m going into that state in a couple of months.)
well, my name is actually Azazel spelled backwards (I always use Azazel, unless it’s already been taken…)
The name is from a movie, named “The Fallen” or something like that (it’s an angel, and i’ve looked it up, and Azazel is a fallen angel… with attitude as well)
erm…it’s a combination of my favourite colour (green) and what used to be my favourite TV show (Blackadder… during which Blackadder was referred to as Bladder).
For years though my handle was ‘nicuf’, which a friend of mine came up with. I stopped using it when I found out what ‘nicuf’ read backwards spelt
I used to live in Ecuador and Jenypher is the way local woulds spell my name, and the way they pronouced it. (Jen-E-Fair).
Its nostalgic, and kinda neat. When it is taken I add an 8 to it, in hour of the great movie…mmm, Andy Garcia.
Okay, sorry about all the mis-spellings in my last post. I am quitting smoking and have discovered that nicotine controlled my ability to both spell and walk.
The first message board I ever visited was a Rush fan board, where many of the more obvious screen names were already taken. So I needed to come up with something off the beaten path. I always liked the song Red Lenses off their 1984 Grace Under Pressure album, and part of that song contains the lines:
I liked the reference to looming disaster hanging over one’s head, as that was a common theme in both the world at large and closer to home.
So… tada! Mars Horizon was born.
When I found the SDMB back in 2000, I kept the name and have used it other places as well.
Mars
the bringer of posts
This is the third name I’ve cycled through since my BBS days back in the early 90’s. I started life online as Borg since at the time I was one of those obsessed Star Trek geeks (think of that kid from Galaxy Quest) and BBS forums sorta reminded me of the hive-mind of the Borg. I dropped that name after about a year because, not surprisingly, a lot of obsessed Star Trek geeks were all over the BBSs and the 'net and it was common enough to cause confusion. Plus my interest in ST had waned considerably by then anyway. My next non de plume was ** Augustus ** as in Caeser Augustus, chosen because my interest in ancient history and admiration for Augustus. At the time I started using it (93 or 94) it wasn’t very common at all. But by around 2000 or so the 'net had become popular enough that I was having trouble registering the damn thing to new boards etc… So it was time to search for a new one.
As to how I became known as the FunkySpaceCowboy, oddly this started as an IRL nickname before even thinking of using it online. At the last place that I worked there were two Josh’s (I was one of them) it was a small office and our cubes were right next to each other, plus we worked together on a lot of the same projects, it was confusing as hell. Neither of us had middle names we ever went by, nor were either of our last names easy to use in conversation. We also couldn’t stand being called by our initials. So all of the obvious solutions to our dilemma were unworkable. One day I simply declared that henceforth I would be known as Josh the Funky Space Cowboy. It stuck. Co-workers and even some customers starting calling me Funky Space Cowboy. I even got jinwicked to ship some of her artwork I purchased to my office under that name.
As to why I picked it… I had no particular reason. It just popped into my head and it sounded really weird so I ran with it. In retrospect it’s probably at least partially inspired by the Steve Miller song Joker but I wasn’t thinking of that song at the time I shouted it out to the office.
What’s really funny is that I aquired this nom de plume while still living in Anchorage, a good year before I even thought about moving to Houston. I have no connections to either cattle ranching or the space industry, both of which are common down here and would make for a more rational explanation of my nickname. I’m just weird.
