a drunken aussie on IRC once called me names for 30 minutes straight, never once repeating himself or using a real word. he ended the tirade with “fubbleskag muvversoink”
also, it’s pronounced like “bubbleskag” not “boobleskag” in case you’re ever saying it out loud (9 out of 10 people mispronounce it in my experience - not sure why)
My username is the name of a character I made up when I was in high school. She was a complete Mary Sue (sexy elf warrior who was like, brutal and stuff), but she was fun to write. And I liked her name.
I pronounce it “My-EER-uh,” in case anyone’s wondering.
Serenata = Serenade in Spanish.
67 is my lucky number.
Pretty straightforward.
A fools cap is what jesters wear (also called the Hat Of The Four Winds)
A very useful hat that has three points stuffed with straw, making a crude
pillow if needed, and the fourth point left open and used for a pocket.
And, fools cap is a kind of cheap paper
The word just amuses me.
More more! I love learning about where all these names come from 
Somebody get Freudian Slit and Shodan in here…
Hiss and peck 
I’ve posted it somewhere before, but the jist of it is that I wanted an actual name, i.e. a word that has only been used to identify people. So I made mine by taking my favorite prefix (I was into Latin at the time) and attaching a good-sounding second part.
Yet nothing about masturbation. Odd. :eek:
Not sure I put this out there before, but, as the only computer savvy one of my kind rattling around the police station and/or fire house, I normally got pulled from regualr duties to fix, repair or otherwise manage technology (i.e. if it plugs in, I dealt with it). From that point on, instead of being a holster or hose jockey, I rode the buttons of everything from laptops to livescan machines and 308’s part of my badge number that, incidentally won me a few hundred bucks in the pick 3 many years ago.
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To my (admittedly Latin-deficient) eyes, it translates as “child writer.” Is that what you were going for?
[SPOILER]
SNAKE!!! SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE!!! MOM!!!
/flees
I, ah, don’t like snakes. [/SPOILER]
“Mr. Excellent” was my old DJ name, back at my college radio station. As for why I picked it back then - no idea, really, except that I’d decided my schtick was going to be that I was an insane presidential candidate, and “Mr. Excellent for President” sounded like a neat idea for a show name.
I think I picked mine because I couldn’t think of anything better when signing up nine years ago.
When Swoosie Kurtz’s father (a distinguished person in his own right, I am sure) died, his obit appeared in the New York Times, and I was disappointed that they failed to use that headline.
Geez, all this time I thought you were quoting the Collateral line. When I looked it up I saw it was actually Yo homie.
As for me, I wanted a short handle that said a lot about who I am. Not being the creative type, I asked my wife. Since being a Dad is something I take very seriously, and I try very hard to be reliable and “just get the job done”, she suggested trupa, as a double meaning:
Knowing I could never come up with anything as brilliant, I snatched it up right away.
I’m betting dollars to donuts that **Shodan **just passed his black belt when the time came to chose his username.
As for Freudian Slit, well, I’m not touching that one with a 10-foot pole , although I love puns, and especially admire self-referencing recursive ones.
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