Your handle: any hassles?

  1. eunoia
  2. since the eighties, tagging, on NTN trivia (pre-internet for me), eunoia.com (don’t bother, site used as junk/personal page, sucks in every way), I’m sticking with this handle.
  3. Stedman’s Medical Dictionary (term not listed in more recent editions) “eunoia: a rarely used term denoting a normal state of mind” I thought the potential ambiguities in this definition were pretty amusing.

Since then eunoia has been used as both a name for an artificial language spoken by aliens in a science fiction series and an award-winning book of poetry by the same author (not me), and some kind of tech school in Mexico.
A recent Google search also curiously has a Montreal-based band (I’m from Montreal and spin records as eunoia but my band is called something else (O.K. maybe you could click on the guitar on my website.)) I have no idea who these musicians are. Fans, no doubt.
I’m eunoia pretty well everywhere else without trouble, except on sites where my account lapsed and I couldn’t recuperate the name, and LJ, where it was already taken. (Of course I still took eunoia666 out of spite, really don’t bother with this one, I don’t “get” LiveJournal at all, but grateful for any LJ-type content it keeps off this board.)
A powerful handle, fer sure. The only real problem I’ve had with it is here at SD, where it was often misspelled at first until I began to make more of an impression and Dopers learned to ignore me.

Actually, I originally thought I should call myself “Atomic Badger Racing,” but then I figured that would be silly.

  1. If you could have any handle you want, what would it be?

I think every right-thinking person would want to have “Shut the fuck up Donny”, but the last person who tried it here was banned in less than 24 hours.

  1. How many tries did it take for you to get one that stuck?

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  1. What (if anything) does your handle mean? Where does it originate?

a) It’s Spanish for “The Kabong”. b) If you’re not familiar with '60’s-era Hanna-Barbera cartoons, there’s no point in going on.

Well, I love me a good screen name.
Mercury or DiMercury is what I use most. It just means the element, and DiMercury used to be my AIM name and e-mail address, until it got hacked and someone used it to send porno to everyone.

My current screen name is the name of a fish from my freshman bio class. It sounds pretty.

If I could have anything, I would use fhqwhgads, from Homestar Runner. I would also like TaurusSES or TaurusSHO, but they’re taken and I don’t want to add numbers.

  1. Soup

It just shorter than mine. Also, I have always been of the impression that underscores replaced spaces in usernames. It is only afterwards that I realized that this was not necessary.

  1. Three.

Soup, Soupdujour, and Soup_du_jour, the one I settled on.

  1. It’s French for “Soup of the day.” I got it from a promo for the abortive ABC TV show, “It’s Like, You Know.” Don’t ask.

This is it. Well, this or mistressoftheuniverseworshipmenowandgivemestuff

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In my job, I am the secretary (oh adminstrative assistant THIS - I’m a secretary! :p) to about 150 people - when they ask me to do something, they say “(insert real name here) could you do this?” I say, “That’s Missy to you, and how much ya willin to pay?” :wink:

The only problem I had (if it could be called that), was due to my own stupidity and lack of observation. I didn’t realise it was possible to insert spaces into a user name, so that’s why mine’s the way it is. At one point, I was considering asking TubaDiva to change it for me, but I decided against it. People are used to my name the way it is, and I’ve now grown too attached to it to make even slight changes.

The other thing with my name is that people get strange ideas about its meaning. It’s not “the drunk dog”, “the rich dog”, nor does it have any of the variously more disgusting meanings I’ve heard folks guess at (especially when you include the word “member” which appears immediately under it :smiley: ). Nope, it’s just based on a short story about a stupid dawg with a lit explosive cartridge in its mouth.

  1. Special Agent Jazz

  2. 1 try

  3. I’m a huge X-Files fan and the first part is given. “Jazz” is a nickname that someone dubbed me and it stuck.

My screen name is utterly boring and uncreative, but I’ve been using it for so long that I’ve gotten kind of attached to it. If I ever did want to change it, I would probably use some variation on “Mirimë”, which is “Carol” translated into Quenya. ( see http://www.elvish.org/elm/names.html . Yes, I am a geek. )

Got my screen name on the first try. (It may be boring, but it’s unique.)

I think it’s pretty obvious how I came up with mine. (Although I have had people ask me if it means that I s_s_s_stutter.)

  1. Kyla
  2. 1 try, obviously.
  3. It’s my name. God, I am so original.

If I was signing up today, I’d probably use my LJ and email handle, postmoderngirl. I’ve considered changing it, but I always hate it when other people change their usernames and I don’t want to inflict that irritation on anyone.

What annoys me is that I once used postmoderngirl as an AOL handle, and now that’s gone into the ether, so when I tried to use it as an AIM handle, I couldn’t. It was taken. But BY ME! On a DEAD ACCOUNT! So on AIM I’m dayglowitch. It means nothing - I just typed in random combinations of words until one took.

1.) Ringo
2.) 1st try; same with my original name here, beatle
3.) I don’t really know - it really doesn’t have anything to do with the Beatles.

I haven’t really had any hassles, although when I posted a thread to announce my name change, it drew this from a poster in high earth orbit:

Heh.

And shortly thereafter, my briefly used sig line, “the former beatle” caused someone to start a thread that questioned whether I was truly Ringo Starr. I had truly not foreseen the possibility that someone would think that, but I understand it.

UncleBill - my name is Bill and I am an uncle. First Try.

I’ve had HotDoperWimmins say it skeeved them a bit when I tried to hit on them, that incest thing, ya know?

  1. Random

  2. Two tries for Brother Rat. I’ve changed a few times since then.

  3. Fern Forest is where I grew up.

If I could have any handle? Yeah, I don’t know how to answer that one. Now I’m going to go get all angsty wondering why I’m not cool enough to think up really fantabulous names.

One try, good thing too, I’d have been angsting much longer otherwise.

I sort of inherited the matriarch position in my family upon my beloved (and bossy!) grandmother’s passing. Siblings and cousins began snidely referring to me as Queen Tonya and doshgarnit, it just felt right. :wink:
It’s been my online handle, in one form or another, ever since.

I would have liked something clever such as czarcasm but I was unable to come up with one that wasn’t already taken.

I know i tried several times and it continued to come up as already taken. I finally gave up and settled on Ruby

It’s my favorite gemstone, my favorite color, and I just liked the name. Kinda lame but I likes it!:cool:

  1. I have always been satisfied with Quasimodem

  2. No hassles

  3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (updated to fit the internet)

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  1. hardygrrl
  2. Here, first try. On AIM/MSN, I had to add the time of my birth.
  3. Old nickname - one of the few that doesn’t have a embarassing story behind it. :cool:
  1. Alice in Wonderland
  2. Here 1st try. In many other places I’m Alice in Bunnyland or Alice in Pornoland (the last one is care of an ex of mine. No, I DON’T want to talk about it! :D)
  3. Long story - one of my names is Alice, I have a white rabbit, often times I find life very sureal. Etc, etc.

1). Eh, I’ve come to accept being Orange Skinner, thought it wasn’t my first choice. [Wayne’s World]It was like a new pair of underwear…at first it was constrictive…but then…it becomes…a part of you…I gotta go[/Wayne’s World].

2). Second shot. My first try was Scratched Cherry. An error came up saying someone already had the user name, even though no one does (unless they never replied to the e-mail notice after registering).

3). Meaning. Um, not really, other than I’m fond of the color orange. I liked the way it sounds, and the visual of taking sophisticated skinning equipment to an orange. Other than that, I’ve got nothing.

4). The only problem is that it’s unisex, as others have mentioned of their names. I think other users tend to think I’m a guy because I think it probably leans to the masculine side of the unisex spectrum, and I have a very guyish slant on sex, relationships, etc. But other than that, no troubles.

  1. It was always Duke.

  2. But I registered my name in July 1999, then for some reason didn’t come back until about August 2000. When I came back, I of course couldn’t remember my password, and I very nearly re-registered (I swear to the high heavens) as Fiona de Villiers. I figured if George Sand could have a male pen name, I could darn well have a female one. Fortunately, that never came about, because I would constantly be explaining myself in relevant threads and Dopefests. The proprietors of another board some people may know are probably glad too, but I haven’t ruled out joining some other board with that name, just as a gas.

  3. Duke is my last name, but just as crucially my accepted name in high school. I didn’t even bother to look if someone called out my first name. FTR, “Fiona de Villiers” is a pun on a South African cricketer’s name.