eunoia (you-noy’-ah) - a rarely used term denoting a normal state of mind - Stedman’s Medical Dictionary
I thought the “rarely used” part was interestingly ambiguous. NOTE: a google search of “eunoia” will lead to some completely different but equally amusing derivations.
I’ve had a few. Starting way back in my BBS days… (God I sound like such a geek. = )
I have used the following; (First to last as the best I can remember.)
1.) Mordack = From one of the Kings Quest games.
2.) The Unknown = Used after I got kicked from the BBS’s when using Mordack. = )
3.) Hi Opal!
4.) Zane = A Translation of my middle name
4a.) Z-Man = A nick name for Zane. (Not much shorter…but it stuck.)
<Insert Internet Birth>
5.) Maximum Override = Dunno where this came from…something I made up and had never heard of before(At that time…). “Hackers” influence I think.
6.) Khaladar = This is name I made up for online gaming. It’s a cross between Tasadar and Khaladon from the StarCraft game.
<Insert 'Matrix" Craze>
7.) Doubleclick = Wanted a name that sounded “Matrix-like”. All the names in The Matrix had somehting to do with computers, (Cypher - DEcypher, Mouse - Duh!..etc…) so I got thinking…what is the most fundimental thing that needs to be done to get a PC to do what you want…a “doubleclick” of course…(Yeah yeah…I know…but “Power Button” would sound stupid. = ) History was made.
BTW: My wife goes by the name Trinity…also kinda fitting. =)
Ginger, I think you forgot to insert a few 
;)'s in there somewhere.
Oh by the way, O Canadian Sex Goddess… Got a pic?
The lack of smiley faces just shows you how very dry my wit is.
Ginger
Not to long ago there was a thread asking what your porn name would be if you combined your first pet’s name with the name of the street you lived on. My first pet was a dog named Pepper. The street I grew-up on was Mill Road, so Pepper Mill.
There’s also an apartment complex called Pepper Mill Village in Prince Georges County, MD just east of the nation’s capital.
Neidhart von Reuenthal was a 13th-century minstrel whose songs I liked a lot.
And I thought you were referring to Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart… Dang.
I’m a proud taxpayer in PG County, too!
Fuckin… frisbees and shit…
It means “one who wastes his resources.” A slacker.
Yeah, that’s what I am. A lazyass slacker. Woohoo!
-Wastrel
Who’s he, a professional wrestler?
I’m actually in Fairfax County.
Yup, sure was - a member of the Hart Foundation in the WWF with Bret “Hitman” Hart… 
The burns I have received from falling down while skating.
Hi, all. New poster. I’m Geobabe’s younger-older brother, and she got me interested in the board.
At first I thought I’d claim that Harald Bluetooth was an anagram, but the anagrams, while amusing, didn’t make sense as the source:
- Earth lab holdout
- That boulder halo
- Hot balled author :eek:
The name actually comes from the 10th century Viking King, Harald Bluetooth, who united warring Viking clans into an harmonious kingdom. The happy vikings then presumably were better able to rape and pillage the non-Viking world, since they weren’t spending so much time killing each other.
I heard the name in reference to wireless communication. There’s a new RF transmission standard that goes by the name Bluetooth. I came across it in my Computer Security work and thought it had some character.
It isn’t something that I chose. I used to be a Secret Agent for the British government. One day I decided to resign. On that day, I was kidnapped, and taken to a secret island by a mysterious organization that wants some information I have. People on The Island are not allowed the luxury of names; we are all assigned numbers.
I am not a number! I am a human being!
[sub]Spread the word. I live. Number 2 will not break me![/sub]
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Yeah, I’ve heard about that little porn name game. And I’d just like to ask…
What kind of parents name your first pet Scabby
When you live in a street named after Mr. Grubb
???
The first pet I had that I named myself was called Mr. Greedy, which didn’t appeal either.
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My nickname is my real life nickname in some quarters (Carol>Caz>Cazzle). How exciting and original is that?!
Mine is just my nickname, I was in High school (first day in a new school) I got there like 40 minutes early why I don’t know it just happened that way. Anyway I find my first classroom tell the teacher I’m a new student and all. He was an old guy who talked really fun (I think his dentures were constantly coming unglued, or that was what the joke about him was.
Anyway later on kids start pouring in the room right after the bell rang. Everyone takes their seats and the teacher says “class i want you to welcome our new student nicholas” although because he talked funny it came out NICKLZ. I was really branded with that nickname, when David P. saw me talking to a bunch of his friends across the street at lunch, so he walks up an said “hey it’s nicklz” After that it just stuck.
Mine came from lyrics to “Here Is No Why”, by the Smashing Pumpkins:
[sub]glitter burner by restless thoughs of being forgotten
and in your sad machines
you’ll forever be
desperate and displeased
with whoever you are
and you’re a star[/sub]
At the time when I registered, those lyrics had a lot of meaning to me… and the person who originally introuduced me to the Straight Dope was someone who I met in a pumpkins chat room. So there we go.
[sup]grrr… stupid board maintenance. can’t they maintain the board sometime when i’m asleep or at school, say, between 9am and 9pm EST? grr…[/sup]
Linear…Straight
Crack…Dope
My second choice was “Fred”.
[QUOTE
Qadgop the Mercotan slithered flatly around the after-bulge of the tranship. One claw dug into the meters-thick armor of pure neutronium, then another. Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactyl tongue crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. Slurp! Slurp! At each abrasive stroke the groove in the tranship’s plating deepened and Qadgop leered more fiercely. Fools! Did they think that the airlessness of absolute space, the heatlessness of absolute zero, the yieldlessness of absolute neutronium could stop QADGOP THE MERCOTAN? And the stowaway, that human wench Cynthia, cowering in
helpless terror just beyond this thin and fragile wall…
**[/QUOTE]
I am still shuddering…
Why “Broomstick”?
Simple - I’ve been accused of flying them.
Mind you, I picked that up 15 years before I even started working on the pilot’s license. As a teenager I was… a little abrassive.