First, a tip o’ the pants to Upham… Richard Head, but all my friends call me Dick… so do my enemys, but that’s different… heheheheh
My name is the first name of my SCA persona… in the SCA I am Tristan ap Llewellyn, aka The Flying Welshman. Go figure. It’s pretty tame, but I like it… the only other name I use is Hangman, 'cause at the age of 8 I once hung myself with a jumprope… it was interesting.
No…My name isn’t Richard. LOL But I have heard of one before… Poor kid.
My username is from Greek mythology - Tisiphone is one of the three Eumenides (or Erinyes), usually called the Furies.
She and her two sisters, Megaera and Alecto, had the responsibility of tracking down and punishing sinners. IIRC, Tisiphone is the Avenger, Alecto is the Relentless, and Megaera is the Madwoman.
[sub]and besides, I liked “Path of the Fury” by David Weber. Maybe I had that in mind . . . maybe I didn’t.[/sub]
Hmmmmmh. In reviewing my posts, I haven’t really been upholding my username. Wonder if I should take up residence in the Pit? Nnnah, frankly, without my sisters, those people SCARE me.
Tisiphone
I don’t think I’ve ever really explained it before so here goes:
I akin myself to the goddess Artemis. Always hunting, searching. I love the night, and the moon. I’m reclusive, yet open and honest. I strive to be always just, but I definitely believe in the survival of the fittest. However, I’m not a female, and I’m most definitely not an Apollo. So, in an effort to stay on the same plane as my favorite goddess, but yet to also separate myself with my masculinity, Simetra was born. I’ve used this SN just about everywhere.
Not that I think anyone really cared, but I thought I’d share, and I really don’t think myself a God. I think I just realized how egotistical my SN really is. It was never intended that way.
As an aside, this has inspired me to maybe start a thread for all the Gods and Goddesses.
In Ireland you’ll often see statues and hear tell of a magnificent hero of yore named ChuCullainn.
I always found his exploits fascinating and at a young age I dreamed I might perhaps emulate some of his exploits. Fate deemed otherwise.
Nonetheless I decided that at least out here in the anonymous ether of cyberspace I might find some way to fulfil that childhood dream of becoming in some way like him.
Most will think that his name was originally Setanta and indeed it was before he became ChuCullain. And there’s a story. Young Setanta was a fearsome,wild and wonderful proponent of one of the fastest and most brutal of sports (Hurling). Despite his tender years (5) he would often play a full team of men many years his senior and defeat them all. He had the power skill and grace of the sport like no-one had had before or since.
When he was still very young he said he was going to join the Red Branch Knights, the army of the king of Ulster Conor Mac Nessa. But he had to get into the boys army called the Macra first, so one day he set off on foot to Eamhain Macha, where the king lived. While he was on his way, he would hit the ball, run as it was landing and then he would hit again.
When he got there the Macra boys were playing a game of hurling so he joined in… He was the best so everybody turned on him. But he was able to fight them off. The King said to Setanta, “I am putting you into the Macra”. One day, Cullainn who was the king’s blacksmith, was holding a great feast, and Setanta was invited. The King was going but Setanta was playing hurling. He said he would follow him there. So when the game was over he went to the feast.
When he got there the Cullainn’s hound attacked him. Setanta hit the ball at the hound with his hurley and it went right down his throat and he was nearly dead. So he hit the hound’s head off the pillar. When the guests heard the noise they vame out to see what was happening. They were surprised to see Setanta had killed the hound. Culann said, " Who will mind my house?". So Setanta said, “I will guard your house”, so he was called CuCullainn which means the hound (cu) of Culann.
Its not many people that know however that Setanta was originally Damhna (after the powerful Ri Damhna). He became Setanta after the age of 3.Perhaps this confusion of personalities appeals to me also and is wherein I find much in the way of kinship.
Perhaps more info than you needed but you did ask.
TwistofFate… Its a wrestling move (also called a reverse neck breaker).
aside from my wrestling loyalties (shame! shame!) I am interested on how little decisions affect big situations, e.g. going looking for a bike repair guide and discovering Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
little twists of fate that make life more interesting.
First off, my name has nothing to do with Cecil’s comment about ignorance, cornflakes and General Mills. If I remembered the quote, it was after I hit the submit button. I don’t think that I did, as I don’t remember slapping my forehead.
I was originally planning to post one question, get a response and leave. The idea of hanging out here hadn’t crossed my mind (I know, we all start this way.) I needed a user name, I was stumped, and what finally entered my head was not inspiration, but rather was a high school memory of one friend asking another friend for a quote for a band flyer and the other friend replying with “All I can think of is cornflakes.”* After that, any creative juices that had been flowing dried up, and I was stuck with this name.
*Actually, he said fishsticks. It’s a lot funnier that way, of course.
For what it’s worth, the quote was used on the flyer.
Mine is reletively boring. It’s the name of a dragon in an entertaining fantasy novel entitled Dragoncharm. Nobody’s ever heard of that book though. First used it about a year ago and I’ve just kept it ever since.
I was bitten by one.
Small bird, but it can do some damage.
I was going to be Punk guy on a chat room ages ago, but he already existed.
Pnuk Guy was born.
The first board I joined was the Free Republic and took the name jesus just to mess with them. I knew they wouldn’t dare talk down to jesus.
When I registered here, it wouldn’t let me register as jesus so I just tacked on the last name of some guy that lived in the house momma and I rent and we still get mail for after 4 years.
My name comes from a nursery rhyme that my mother used to recite while she was working in the kitchen.
“Simple Simon met a Pieman going to the fair.
Says Simple Simon to the Pieman, let me taste your ware.”
(There’s more, but I won’t bore you with it.)
I suppose it’s just a happy childhood memory that I don’t mind being reminded of on a regular basis. 
scratch like the devil, not to be confused with oldscratch (though I have been at least once). 1300 appended because just plain “scratch” is already taken – presumably by a one-poster 'cause I’ve never seen this Doper.
Nothing really imaginative or exotic - just a bastardized version of my real name, it’s what everyone thinks they hear.
Maeglin is from The Silmarillion, of course.
And yeah, Jomo, I was thinking the same thing about iampunha. You know, Tristan da Cunha, iampunha…
But, dammit! You know, I liked ishmintingas!
Whoops, I didn’t know anybody liked ishmintingas. I was starting to think there weren’t any Lithuanians here. But I wanted to get back to my “real” pseudonym!
** hapa ** is a Hawaiian word for half-white (generally changed to half-Asian on the mainland). my moms is from Hawaii and this is the preferred term for my ethnic background.
“Poppa Large” is a classic hip-hop song by Kool Keith of the Ultramagnetic MC’s.
** XL ** just because hapaXL looks better than hapaLG.
Nott is a piece of my last name, and folks called me that for a long time. AskNott comes from a silly joke about my name and JFK’s most famous quote. I’ve been using this SN since long before Pres. Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. No connection.