What does your handle mean/relate to?

[WillParkinson]

Mine is easy. It's my name. (Woo, original, hey?)

What about your name? Where did you come up with it?

[terrya]

1. My mom and dad came up on a variation of my handle. It's my name.

terrya: Terry (first name) a (first initial of my last name, Andrews)

Voila! terrya :-)

Terry

[lovedems]

2. Mine is easy to

I "lovedems" by dems/democrats I don't necessarily mean democratic politicians but my fellow democratic citizens.

[FarmerOak]

3. Protagonist of "Far From The Madding Crowd"

by Thomas Hardy.

[eyesroll]

4. My pretty constant facial expression for the last three years

(and a regular expression before that...I don't have a lot of patience for stupidity)

:eyes:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. I used to live on the "left coast" (in Oregon)

and I thought that "Lydia" went well with "Leftcoast."

It has nothing to do with my real name. :-)

[SOteric]

6. SOteric = S. O. Teric, = esoteric

And it gives people who really don't care for me the opportunity to call me 'Sot.'

[Sean138]

7. Sean 138

My handle is universal; I use it on whatever message board I go to. The '138' part comes from "We Are 138" by Misfits. It just stuck, and they seem to go together; Sean, 138. Of course, it's also because I can't seem to use Sean666.

While on the subject of message boards...is it just me, or is NEARLY EVERY FUCKING MESSAGE BOARD ONLINE cluttered with right-wingers?

The Black Spectre said it best: "The conservative wave that swept the nation..."

[Wickerman]

8. crazy shrub

n/t

[Champ]

9. --------------

Well when I registered for DU it took me awhile to come up with a username I would really like. I didn't want to come up with anything that I would have to put numbers or anything at the end of it. This was after the Broncos Champ Bailey2nd Rounder/Clinton Portis trade and I thought Champ was a pretty cool name. So I decided to choose that.

[mr_hat]

10. The first 5 letters of my name in typical email convention.

[smirkymonkey]

73. I thought it was Mr. Hat from South Park

you know, Mr. Garrison's alter-ego hand puppet.

[mr_hat]

74. No, that's the other mr_hat. Get a lot of his calls.

[mistertrickster]

11. I wanted the name of the fishing lure "mister twister" for a yahoo

account, but it was taken. So I morphed it into "mister trickster." I'm not really a trickster, heh.

[shimmergal]

12. Relates to a novel I've written and am trying to sell.

Lots of political content to it too, even though it's set in another world.

[ceile]

16. It's Irish for "dancer"

I'm not a dancer, but it's the name my husband gave to our rescue dog who had a broken hip. She walks a little funny and she'll never dance. He has an "odd" sense of humor.

[bearfan454]

13. Born, live, and die a Chicago Bear fan.

When I tried to get my email at netscape as bearfan they said it was taken. I tried bearfan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 454 was the first one available. I am bearfan454 and will be as long as I can.:hi:

True team devotion is as loyal as you can get. Just like being a Dem.

[rocktivity]

14. It's the name of my hard rock music web site

http://www.rocknation.tv

And DU did me the honor of placing my sig graphic on their official smiley list!

:headbang:
rocknation

[madmax]

15. I'm mad

and max is my dog. :)

[zbdent]

17. It's actually a complex mathematical puzzle which has

eluded solution for decades. Many teams of scientists have been poring over its mystery night and day.

[proud patriot]

18. I picked this user name in march of 2001

I had purchased a T-shirt which states
"American Patriots Don't Get Over The Theft
of the Presidency "

Also Abbie Hoffman had the right idea in claiming
patriotism .

The Movie "Rude Awakening" has a line in it
About loving ones country in reponse to being
questioned by the FBI "..No You got wrong Man
I love My County ... "

[AndyTiedye]

56. I DJ as AndyTiedye

[GOPisEvil]

19. What can I say? I only tell the truth.

:7

[livetohike]

20. Live to hike!

It's my passion out here on the West coast. If I was back on the East coast, my handle would probably be livetocanoe :-)

[Kazak]

21. I Looooooove Stereolab.

My name is a combination of the title of their first album, Peng!, and one of their songs, Ping Pong.

[RedCloud]

22. RedCloud

From all the blood spilled upwards by the cavalry.

[meow2u3]

23. My handle says just that

Because I'm fed to the neck (hence, fed2dneck) with Repukes committing crime after crime and going unpunished, whereas if a Democrat does 1/10 what a Repuke does, he or she is pilloried in the press.

[Rainbowreflect]

24. Rainbow Reflections was my business name

when I made my living selling tie-dyes & beaded jewelry.
I just shortened it a little.

[Bronco69]

25. I'll leave it up to

your imagination. :-)

[terrya]

55. I'll have to ponder this one. Hmmmmmm....

:-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. From this guy...

www.oddtodd.com

He's an unemployed guy who came up with his own Web site. He designed funny cartoons to watch about being unemployed, and asks for donations. I saw him featured on Good Morning America a couple years ago. He was doing really well until the IRS caught up with it! Now he has his own book out and everything.

He talks with this funny voice in the cartoon, drinks a lot of "coffay" and eats "fudge stripe cookays." He even has his own Cafe Press store now. I need to get one of those cool "coffay" shirts.

[felonious thunk]

36. Mep!

[Tom_Foolery]

27. It's the air name that I've wanted to use on the radio. n/t

[Insider]

28. worked for defense contractors

each of whom would kiss junior on the mouth (and giggle all the way home), if given the chance.

truth be told, i am nobody's 'insider', and never have been.

[GumboYaYa]

29. GumboYaYa is part of an old vodoo curse, "GrisGris GumboYaYa."

"GrisGris" means curse, "GumboYaYa" means everyone talking at once. DU seems like a great example of GumboYaYa to me, so I adopted that as my name.

The whole phrase "GrisGris GumboYaYa" was made famous in a Dr. John song of the same name.

[BigMcLargehuge]

41. and here I was thinking you were quoting a Swedish tourist at Mardi Gras

:)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. I think mine is self-explanatory. Right?

eom

[BigMcLargehuge]

31. Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode: Space Mutiny

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

32. One of my faves!

excellent!

[BigMcLargehuge]

35. I've seen that one so many times it's ridiculous

I screen it for friends like twice a month... AND I STILL LAUGH like an idiot even though I know every word of the damn episode...

music that means, means, means, nothing at all, all, all

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. You ever see the one with Raul Julia as "Fingal"?

That one pains me so much I cry laughing.

[BigMcLargehuge]

39. my second favorite one!

How bout a Pringle Fingal?

Best line :

"I didn't want to bungle or bauble the Fingal dopple"

Second best line:

"I seem to have died, is that a problem?"

[Book Lover]

43. Chunk Beefcake!

We watched Space Mutiny just last night for the millionth time and laughed like it was only the hundredth time, which was still a lot...

[BigMcLargehuge]

48. Thick McRunfast!!! Now I'll have to watch it tonight...

all this talk of Space Mutiny is making me nuts... LOL

Punk Speedchest
Thud Rockgroin
Gristly McThornbody
Smoke Manmuscle...

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Now I have to watch the DVD!!!!!!

[Book Lover]

49. "Does that mean you won't marry me?"

Tom - "I think we skipped a line!"

My pantyhose are itchy, itchy, itchy, itchy...

[BigMcLargehuge]

51. David Rider, let me introduce my daughter Lea Jansen....

"We're about the same age"

ROFLOL!!!

Other classics -

What about the little children and their toys?

You're getting a lump of coal.

I am a right jolly old elf... Mrs. Kringle and I have an understanding... It's basically over between us... Finally, Christmas comes to Santa...

There's a ferret cage by the wall, if you need it.

I'm gonna go let the Bellarians play under my robe.

They rocked us like a hurricane sir!

Sorry, loose valve here, what were you saying? (Rider opens the Methane valve before frying the limping engineer in the gas expulsion sump)

Why do you hate my groin so much?

You're knocking Tim, sounds like you need some premium gas!

The last eight times this happened the girl just wanted to escape.

Accursed mountebank!

Come on Metamucil, work your magic!

Quiet! Mitch Miller's on!

and of course -

Spider Skank! Spider Skank!

[Book Lover]

52. Sting, Debby Reynolds, and God

I'm sitting in something wet.

[BigMcLargehuge]

54. oh, they even stole the Enterprise's red alert thinggy...

(Rider and Lea putting on masks of two enforcers' they've just knocked out) These will make it so we can't see anything...

Servo: You know Mike, I can watch this stuff all day...
Mike: Oh and you will...

Ahhh, someone droppd a jar of Helmans in aisle 6...

Push on mighty Cushman!!!

Stupid Buddhist Monk, the Vietnam war has been over for hundreds of years!!!

[Book Lover]

53. whoops dupe

that'll happen....

[MallRat]

33. The name of my fantasy football team.

I started playing fantasy football about 8 years ago, and I needed a team name. At the time, I was living near the "The Mall at Chestnut Hill" in Newton, MA.

Desperate to somehow link my geographic location to something indigenous-- I didn't want to pull a 'Utah Jazz' :eyes:-- I came up with the Chestnut Hill Mall Rats.

After thinking about it, I remembered that the logo and all the signage for the mall had this little pretentious thing where they moved 'The' and 'Mall' together to read "TheMall." So, it became MallRats.

And I became MallRat. There you have it.

Since then, my fantasy sports empire has extended to baseball as well, where my beloved Cambridge Angry Tofu are currently the reigning champions of our league.

-MR

[Servo300]

34. relates to my profession

As a Respiratory Therapist.

The Servo 300 ventilator is the machine we use at our hospital to save the lives of children who can't breathe.

See:

http://www.ventworld.com/equipment/ProdBooth.asp?ProdId=140

[felonious thunk]

37. I dig jazz

[liberalitch]

40. I am a liberal....

and a pest

[Runcible Spoon]

42. just a pun...

and the name of my autobiography if i ever live a life worth immortalizing on dead trees....

[Book Lover]

44. Self-explanatory

I work in publishing and have been doing book arts ever since I got my first felt-tip calligraphy pen set in fourth grade. I usually use bookarts as a username, but that was already taken when I got here.

[underpants]

45. The oppression of the working classes at the hands of THE MAN

But I am sure that was obvious.

[Angelus]

46. Well, for those of you who don't know...

Angelus was the biggest, baddest, most evil of all the vampires on the tv show "Angel". He killed thousands of people, tortured thousands of people, and had a mean streak like you've never seen.

Angelus then turned into Angel when he got a soul and he became a do-gooder.

[LDS Jock]

70. which did you like best?

Good Angel or bad Angelus?

[Angelus]

81. Angel...

he's good. He's not evil. But I also like the badass side of Angelus. :shrug:

[LDS Jock]

109. Angel is hot

Hope he isn't too good to still take a bit on my neck. :D

[molly]

47. One of my cats

I was signing on to DU for the first time and there she was!

[Sapphocrat]

50. I think mine is self-explanatory...

...although I know not everyone in the world knows who Sappho was.

When I first used just "Sappho" way back in the 1980s (!), somebody who should have known better asked me -- in all seriousness -- why I had named myself after a Japanese beer. :eyes:

Right:


Wrong:

[Duncan Grant]

86. Hi Sapporocrat! ;-)

:D :hug: :loveya:

Long time no see! ;)

[RoyGBiv]

57. Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

Rainbow

Rainbow Warrior

Greenpeace ship

Boom

Glug glug glug...

[WillParkinson]

75. Ah...

A very earth friendly name, to be sure.

[dawg]

58. Two reasons:

1. Georgia fan

2. It's not the size of the dawg in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dawg.

[Teddy_Salad]

59. Teddy Salad...

The most brilliant agent the CIA ever had!

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/tedsalad.htm

[BigMcLargehuge]

62. you should have said

"gimme another meatball and I'll tell ya!"

WANNA GO WALKIES!

[Teddy_Salad]

72. LOL!

Of course!

YEAH.....TAKE ME WALKIES.

[flamingyouth]

60. It's a silent movie from 1923

It was Colleen Moore's first big hit after cutting her hair in the flapper style. It was a pretty scandalous book at the time - premarital sex, abortion, etc.

Sadly, the film is lost except for a few seconds. But since a previously "lost" Valentino film was recently discovered in the Netherlands, who knows?!?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

61. I was born into priviledge, decadence and yelling. Lots of yelling.

[KamaAina]

63. Kama'aina: local Hawai'i person, opposed to "malihini" (stranger)

When I took the DU plunge after 9/11, opihimoimoi was the only other very active Hawai'i poster, so I arrogated the name KamaAina to my then still fairly recently arrived self.

Those of you who have visited (or lived!) here will recall that everything from restaurants to hotels to tourist attractions gives a "kama'aina discount" to anyone with a Hawai'i ID -- a polite way of charging us the actual price while soaking the tourists!

[bratcatinok]

64. I have a calico cat

named Brat who lives in Ok with me.

[tigereye]

65. partly because I do tai- chi

Embrace tiger return to mountain is one of the moves in Yang short form and partly because I like tigereye marble.

[Duncan Grant]

77. ah-ha! (not bratca-tinok)

I've been wondering about that! :D :hi:

[Teddy_Salad]

88. Uh Oh! A calico cat?

Watch out for John Ashcroft! :scared:

[kodi]

66. my dog's named Kodi. i use each of my 6 critters' names on the net

wooof, woof.

if you come across aja, abba, dr j, luckie, or little bit over the web, that might could be me.

[LDS Jock]

67. my explaination

LDS is for latter day saint, or Mormon, as in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jock because I play lots of sports. TX for Texas where I live now. Nothing too special.

[librechik]

68. it's "Lee-Bray-chik"

after a famous Colorado commune I used to stay at back in the day, Libre,(lee-bray) the Spanish word for "free."

[2cents]

69. My overpriced opinion value

[woofless]

71. Woofless is a Southern bastardization of worthless.

Nick hung on me when I was a roadie for a R&B dance band out of Gainesville in the mid-70's. As in "Man, you woofless!" It's stuck for thirty years now.

Woof

edit:sp

[aljones]

76. Allison L. Jones

Not very original either!

smile ally

[Taverner]

78. Jerry Taverner, TV Peronality and

someone who mysteriously 'ceased to exist' while existing at the same time.

[benddem]

79. all the ones I wanted were taken

n/t

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

82. As in let's send this clown who was selected by the Supreme Court

back to TX where he should have been all along!

Can I get a halleluya?

[SammyWinstonJack]

80. Easy for me

State where I reside and my eye color! Not to complicated, am I!

[Duncan Grant]

83. Gayest zip code in America...

and I live here!

It was important to me to be 'out' at DU (and all the GLBTQ people 'get' it immediately, so it's been very easy to make friends here...). :hi:

[greatauntoftriplets]

84. I am the great aunt of triplets.

Christian, Jordan and Alexandra are 3 1/2 years old.

Yikes! They were not yet one year old when I started posting here.

[SammyWinstonJack]

95. How cool!

Those triplets deserve a :hug: What great names they have! Time does fly, doesn't it?

[Darranar]

85. Mine is a wierd name that just sounded right...

so I chose it.

[EstimatedProphet]

87. It's a Grateful Dead song

about a freak, basically. He's strung out and raving about God, and how he can see God has plans for him.
Personally, I always kinda identified with him, like maybe he's actually right and everyone around him are the delusional ones. Thus the name.

[NightTrain]

89. "Night Train" is a classic R&B instrumental.

The original "Night Train" was a movement from Duke Ellington's two-part 1947 single, "Happy-Go-Lucky Local."

In 1952, saxophonist Jimmy Forrest recorded "Night Train" as a slow, grinding R&B jam. (It reminds me of something around which a nightclub stripper might build her act.) Forrest's reading of "Night Train" spent eight weeks at #1 on the R&B charts.

A decade later, James Brown updated "Night Train" by speeding up the tempo and calling out the names of various U.S. cities at the beginning and end of the recording. The single reached #5 on the R&B charts and #35 on the pop charts in the spring of 1962.

Finally, for several years in the '90s, I used the Brown record as the opening theme of my college radio show, "The Soul Express." And who knows, someday I might just bring "Night Train" back as my theme song!

[flowomo]

90. FLOatingWOrldMObiles....

the name of my mobiles and windchime business

[Gildor Inglorion]

91. It's the name of an elf-lord from "The Fellowship of the Ring"

He and his people were leaving middle-earth as Frodo and Sam started their quest. That was Sam's first glimpse of elves. And I like the sound of it.

[northofdenali]

92. It's where I live. n/t

[TroubleMan]

93. My favorite song and ...

it's also a song that parallels my life, unfortunately.

[Hemprus]

94. Hemp R' Us

As in I love hemp! :smoke:

[Kat45]

96. I think mine's pretty obvious, and I hope to change it on

inauguration day in 2005. :-)

I got the idea from a bumper sticker given to me by someone whose friend made it. It had a W with a diagonal line through it, you know, sign-lingo for no (whatever is pictured on the sign), and next to it was written "Not My President."

[Rationality]

97. My handle was created in response to the conduct at the defunct...

Gator Standard's forum (before then, I called myself "OUTRAGED TURLINGTON PREACHA," you UF and Gainesville DUers might get that). It was an upstart college press in the University of Florida funded by the College Republicans, and the webmaster was such a total jackass that he, for a while, censored the words "liberal" and "Clinton." So I called myself "Rationality" and started refuting everything he said in his op-eds, since he was also part of the editorial board. The guy never answered me, and instead only one other poster there decided to engage me in an argument on the Pregnant Pig Amendment that eventually passed in 2002. The board shut down by January 2003, but I maintained the name as I jumped to the Florida Times Union boards, the Free Republic (now banned), then here.

[LynzM]

98. Mine's boring...

I shortened Lindsay to Lynz a long time ago for any friendly correspondance, and M's the first letter of my last name. If I had it to do over again, I'd be ClimberGirl :D

[Kenneth ken]

99. mine

Kenneth is the name on my birth certificate. It means "Handsome" (from the gaelic Canneach)

ken is the name I generally go by. It means "wisdom" or "range of knowledge.

So, it's me, and also "Handsome wisdom"

:hi:

[texas1928]

100. mine just means something to me

If you ever meet me, ask me and I will explain. If I explained it here you would think I was nuts.

[tibbir]

101. I love frogs (both the live types and collectibles).....

My name is actually 'ribbit' spelled backwards.

[x-g.o.p.er]

102. Mine is self-explanatory, I would think....

[Kathleen04]

103. Middle name

:)

[dudeness]

104. I chose mine from the cohen brothers movie

"the big lebowski"...in which jeff bridges playing a guy whom called himself the "dude"..he was a loser..smoked dope..drank white russians..and generally a cool guy with no hoper friends..I once was the same ..hence dudeness
.

[Wapsie B]

105. Mine should be self-explanatory.

I was wanting something original and this just popped into my head.

[WillParkinson]

111. Sorry...it's not original...

Bush took it first. :-)

[DoNotRefill]

106. Janean Garofalo...

made a speech in Kevin Smith's "Dogma" about faith and how it needs to be refilled periodically.

DoNotRefill=thanks, I'll pass.

[WillParkinson]

107. Cute...

Very cute! I like it.

[Dead_Parrot]

108. Python fan...

...Say no more!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

110. The explanation is in the sig line, for mine.

[jukes]

112. Jukes

"the fictitious name of an actually New York faminly, tracked through several generations for criminality, drug/alcohol abuse, & failure."




:cry:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

113. lioness: i am a leo and lioness was my go go dancing name

priyanka: my name

[benddem]

114. It was my nickname in Vietnam

My roommate and I were both Anne's. She was little and I the taller was big.

[Samurai_Writer]

115. My very first political local BBS...

That's "bulletin board system" for you youngsters. Before the internet, we had local dialup forums called BBSes. I joined one that had a political bent. Seeming that nearly everyone on there was conservative, I felt "RadFem" would give them a heart attack. I was right! *grins* I always say RadFem stands for radical feminist AND radiant female. I appended the FL for Florida when I moved here 2 years ago... thus... RadFemFL.

I have also been known on the net for years as Statuesque (because I'm tall!), and my modelling name is Bella Noche (because everyone says I look Italian/mediterranean).

[BritishHuman]

116. I am British and Human

Two qualities Brit Hume does not possess. :evilgrin: