# Your handle: any hassles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 25, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309 "2003-06-25T16:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/41 "2003-06-26T04:40:00Z")
\*\* 1. 1. If you could have any handle you want, what would it be?\*\* Nah, around here and on G’Dope I’m **Ice Wolf** , elsewhere on the EzBoards I’m **Tanufalla Night** , and there’s also a stray **Sharnahoak** once and a while. The other two are because “Ice Wolf” is a common name, apparently, durn it! 🙂 \*\* 2) How many tries did it take for you to get one that stuck? \*\* Got it first try around here, back in '01. Which was really cool. I was nearly **Black Wolf** , actually, but I decided to change dens. \*\* 3) What (if anything) does your handle mean? Where does it originate?\*\* “Ice wolves” are kind of dimensional soul-energy warriors from a range of mountains called the Kyrosians. All comes from some mad ravings a friend and I started writing up back in '79. The same “universe” spawned my other nicks above – “Sharnahoak” is a wolf-souled Redeemer of Souls, while Tanufalla is a beach from the same world as the Kyrosians. Mercifully for the world, it remains largely unpublished. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/42 "2003-06-26T04:42:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > \*\* > > 1. If you could have any handle you want, what would it be? > 2. How many tries did it take for you to get one that stuck? > 3. What (if anything) does your handle mean? Where does it originate?\*\* 1. **Atreyu**. I rather like this one. 2. When I first registered on the SDMB, my username was **Shy Ghost**. After some time, I decided to switch to my current username, which I figured sounded less shy. I got both names on the first try here. Alas, someone else beat me to those names on AOL and on LJ. 3. The name originates from a character in the novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, the first half of which was turned into a reasonably decent movie in 1984. As far as I know, it was a name that was purely the invention of the author, and within the book, it had the meaning of “son of all”. Google turns up a little more than 17,000 hits for **Atreyu**. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/43 "2003-06-26T05:59:33Z")
You mean…you _mean_… **those are not your real names???** ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/44 "2003-06-26T07:41:59Z")
Mudshark was what I tried my first time. Actually, it was Mudshark2911, but the numbers were dropped about a month later. It’s from the Led Zeppelin/Vanilla Fudge groupie thing. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/45 "2003-06-26T08:12:01Z")
Waaaaay back in the eighties I was in a nice ironically-pretentious noise band (along the lines of Nurse With Wound, Negativland,) called _Electric Mud_. We got most of our airplay on college & community radio, although David Wisdom once gave us about a half-hour on _Nightlines_. (CBC! National! Woo! So what if it was after 3:00am and everyone who heard it was very likely to high to remember it the next day…?) Anyway, the first time we were on [G.X. Jupitter-Larsen’s](http://www.jupitter-larsen.com/) _Newsounds Gallery_, the host introduced me as “Larry Mudd”, and it just sort of stuck. (‘Larry’ is, more or less, my real given name, god help me.) I didn’t realize that ‘Larry Mudd’ was a [_Star Trek_ reference](http://216.232.71.251/~larry/miscpics/muddsangels.jpg) until much later. Go figure. (My father’s name is Harry, even.) ---
**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/46 "2003-06-26T11:12:30Z")
Never had trouble with my nick. Ever. As for where it originates, it was thought up by one of my school mates. Think ‘malcolm’ crossed with something else… ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/47 "2003-06-26T12:11:45Z")
**DeVena** , do you play EQ on the Seventh Hammer server? Your name sounds familiar. ---
**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/48 "2003-06-26T12:27:43Z")
**Zoe** , of course they are, we’re just playing with ya 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/49 "2003-06-26T15:21:56Z")
acrossthesea= Across The Sea, name of a weezer song, got it on my first try. I was tired of using my aim/email name, Utopiaseas (the similarity is honestly just a coincidence). Utopiaseas was derived on aol years ago. The intersection of Utopia Pkwy/Northern Blvd. in Fresh Meadows, NY was signifigant and I wanted to be UtopiaNorthern but that held too many letters. There was another street intersecting or near to Utopia called Oceania, and I loved that word so I wanted to be UtopiaOceania, still too many letters. Oceania led to Oceans but UtopiaOceans was taken, so I became UtopiaSeas. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/50 "2003-06-26T15:48:25Z")
I should’ve just gone with Marley, since that’s my name. It’s also my handle at other sites. I think if I’d asked for it at the time I registered, I’d have gotten it. I started posting again in April and asked **TubaDiva** if I could change it around then, but no go. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/51 "2003-06-26T15:50:42Z")
1. If anything, it would be either Evil Mastermind - which is the sig I have used in e-mails for the past 8 or so years, or Carmody The Mage - one of my favorite D&D characters and also my e-mail address. 2. One try, I think. That was a long time ago. 3. From The Muppet Show. Also, I use either Gorgon or Gorgon Heap on all other boards, Web sites, etc. etc. I vistit or have visited in the past, so I’m pretty easy to find. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/52 "2003-06-26T17:41:18Z")
This was my first choice. Wanted something that had “first name, last name” format, sounded sinister, and lent itself to an appropriate blurb in the “location” box. After a moment’s thought, this just popped into my head. “Dracul” instead of “Dracula”, because it has a stronger sound, and because I liked “Vlad the Devil” better than “Vlad the Son of the Devil”. Hey, it just occurred to me that the initials are “V.D.”! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/53 "2003-06-26T17:50:47Z")
My real name 🙂 first try , got it Declan ---
**Author:** ![SeGate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SeGate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeGate)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/54 "2003-06-26T17:53:18Z")
I’ve actually been thinking a lot about this lately. I generally hate to change screen names, but I use variations of this one all the time. I would love some obscure reference to one of my fave movies/books/songs. I actually tried to get a couple other names, but they were taken and I ended up with **SeGate**. It’s a form of my initials and maiden name. It is also genderless (as others have mentioned). I also get the occasional email directed to the SeaGate tech company. If I were to be so wishywashy as to change my name, I’d want it to be for something really great (or at least marginally interesting). Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/55 "2003-06-26T18:09:02Z")
I’ve used Avarie or some form thereof for a while … taken from a book. I never have any trouble registering it, and if I do, I just add the 537 (my initials spelled out on a phone pad) to it. And it rhymes with “Atari” - it’s not Avery spelled funny. I swear!! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309/56 "2003-06-26T18:09:03Z")
1)Biggirl 2) 1st try 3)It was the first thing to pop into my head. Every now and then I wish I’d given it more thought. I did change my name here once and everybody yelled at me so I changed it back. This is the only site where I use Biggirl. I’ve got other names at other places-- Harriet Tubman being one of my favorites. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-handle-any-hassles/184309.md?page=2)