How did you chose your on-line name?

[Greylyn58]

I belong to several different on-line chat sites and on a couple of those groups someone has always asked the question:

How did you chose your on-line screen name?

Since joining here I've often wondered how each of you chose your name. So I thought I would ask. I find it interesting hearing the story behind the name.

I chose my name several years ago when the show Babylon 5 was popular. I joined a group that chatted about the show and I wanted a name that could be connected to one of my favorite characters, "Delenn"

Unfortunately this group already had a couple Delenn's with a number attached and I wanted to be different. So as she was a member of the Grey Council I decide to use Grey and add the Lyn part on...making "Greylyn"

Long explanation I know, but there you have it. So how did you decide on a name? I think this will make an interesting thread.

So step up and introduce yourself. :hi:

[NMDemDist2]

1. lol this is a classic "Lounge" topic

and to answer your question, mine is self explanatory

[katinmn]

3. Ditto. n/t

[nolabels]

83. Carbon paper is so "Sixties"

Did love the "Ditto" machines they had back then though.

[markbark]

2. Mine's easy...

High School nickname.

Rather boring actually... first name combined with the first four letters of my last name.


--MAB

on edit... typos "R" us :)

[Sporadicus]

20. Reminds Me of a Joke, Mark

Seems a fellow named Mark decided to take a short cut through a cemetery one night. When he was near the middle of the cemetery he heard a voice cry out, 'Mark!' He looked around, didn't see anyone, and continued walking. Once again he heard, 'Mark!', but couldn't see anyone. He quickened his pace and suddenly heard, 'Mark!', then began running in earnest. The voice called out repeatedly, 'Mark! Mark!' as he reached the stone wall surrounding the cemetery. He jumped up, got his arms on the top of the wall, and pulled himself all the way. He took one last look back...and that's when he saw...
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a dog right below him, barking, with a harelip! <rimshot>

[dave123williams]

4. Mine is my actual name....simple.

[sickinohio]

5. i joined DU right after the election was stolen here - so,

mine is obvious also

[Chico Man]

6. Wild Style

My sig is a quote from the movie..

And was used in "Professor Booty" by the Beastie Boys.

"Yo I don't hang out with those guys
Man I ain't got nuthin' to do with those dudes...
Wait-a-minute I saw your female with 'em too what's up with her
I've been hearin' that she been givin' that stuff out to all them graffiti guys
Yo shut the fuck up chico man
Could paint three of those murals for some of that action"

[julialnyc]

7. I'm julia from nyc

[clydefrand]

8. Not very creative on this end. Just my name and my

husband, Clyde. He never posts, but I don't miss a day of at least reading. In fact several times a day sometimes. That's what being retired and not too busy allows one to do.

:bounce:

[BigBearJohn]

9. Mine is named after my dog "BigBear"

(We both have something in common -- we eat too much!)

[Up2Late]

10. The name "JeffGannon" was already taken...

...but, mine should be obvious

[Straight Shooter]

11. I'm not a marksman. I just tell the truth as best I can.

And I hate it when Repubs refer to bush as a "straight shooter." x(

[Warren Stupidity]

12. I chose my name after the 2000 selection.

I decided that I was going to stop debating political theory on usenet and start focusing all my online posting to confront the massive brainwashing of the american population. Thus the name. Since the second selection I've more or less abandoned usenet, but kept the moniker.

[skids]

13. Mine is chosen because I careen through life.

Actually it's an old gaming handle for some car combat games. But that's why I stuck with it afterwards. It seemed to fit on a deeper level.

[KalicoKitty]

14. I chose mine because I knew

how much Ashcroft hated Calico cats.







:7

[ohkay]

29. Ashcroft hates cats??

[Greylyn58]

39. Ashecroft hates Calico Cats

That's weird. Never heard that. Please explain?

:)

[Straight Shooter]

41. Google it. Ashcroft thinks calicos are associated with the devil.

I know, I know, it's nutty as hell :eyes:

[ohkay]

45. Are you...kidding?

The former Attorney General of The United States thought CATS were the devil? That's a Monty Python skit.. right??

[BikeWriter]

82. I googled it... False...

This
has to be one of the most bizarre items we've had to tackle in recent memory.


http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/calico.htm

[SmokingJacket]

87. That wasn't a very convincing debunking, though...

So he denied it? He wouldn't publicly admit something so whacky. Democrats would start leaving stray cats on his doorstep.

I choose to believe it!

[Up2Late]

67. Cat's can sense EVIL

and EVIL people

[Silverhair]

91. I seriously doubt that he thinks they are demons.

He is Assembly of God, and they don't believe that cats are devils, or anything like that.

BTW - As I type this, my calico cat, Belle, is in my lap, head butting my arm, wanting me to pet her. I guess I better quit typing and get to more important matters.

[tblue37]

15. I am known for my outrageous, push-the-envelope

creativity. You can see it reflected in my clever screen name, "tblue37."

I devised it (are you taking notes?) by combining my first initial with my last name. Then, as an added little touch of beauty, I attached a number--not just any number, mind you, but one that I rather like the sound of.

Voila!

(Thank you, thank you! Shhhhhh--please, stop applauding. You're embarrassing me!)

[Tracer]

16. I chose it in a non-thinking moment!

I was brand new to the internet Ñ and suddenly was on a site that required registrations.

"Yikes! They want me to choose a name?" I was somehow so very nervous about typing in some kind of identification, that I just plain froze. But, glancing out the window, I saw my CAR in the driveway and thought "I'll just use that!".

I have a 1995 Mercury TRACER station wagon.

(Pretty good car, too, I must say).

[stevedeshazer]

17. My parents chose mine n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

75. this picture cracks me up. are they subconsciously rebelling from

the conxervative ban on sex--but doing it with obvious phallic symbols sticking out of their foreheads? ROFL i just don't get these people...

as for my SN, it's a character from one of my favorite movies, The Birdcage. it's one of the few movies i can watch over and over and still get such a kick from it. one of my favorite parts is the perin tablets. that was just gold.

[Dookus]

18. It was the name of my pet Python

that I had next to my computer many many years ago when I first signed up at AOL. I've used "dookus" ever since. Edit; and I dropped AOL many many years ago, too... but it was the first service I tried.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

19. I just figured this is what we are in for... turns out I was right. eom.

[Sporadicus]

21. I've Had Mine Since the Dawn of the Internet

when usenet and IRC were state-of-the-art. Some tempermental goon on a usenet group chided me over my 'sporadic posts,' and my username was born.

[Spazito]

22. From my daughter's cat's name

It was a choice between Spazz or Freak Show (her other cat) so I chose the more 'mainstream' name, lol.

[franmarz]

23. How I got my online name

By dividing my first and last name. I have trouble remembering these days with all the passwords and sign in names, one fits all for me.

[hootinholler]

24. Comes from Snuffy Smith cartoon.

My grandfather named his property Hootin Holler, I've used it for a long time.

-Hoot

[BrotherBuzz]

25. I watched way too much TV in the fifties...

"The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz" was the first TV broadcast program Saturday morning, right after the boring test pattern Indian retired for the night.

[Andy_Stephenson]

26. Well my first name is Andy...

and my last name is Stephenson

[ohkay]

27. My name is Karen

and I am often called K. My mom has a history of saying, Ohh..K?!?" with a mixture of amusement and dismay.

so.. ohkay!

[Greybnk48]

28. Mine is a combo

Grey and bnk because my husband Bill and I love and keep African Grey Parrots--we only have one Grey right now. 48 is our birth year.

It's kind of dumb but all I could think of at the time. What's funny is that my sister asked me why I called myself "Greybank". It never occurred to me that it would be read that way.

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Self-explanatory here, too...

...with the double meaning of "blue" because I am one very, very sad and blue Democrat here in red Alaska.

[Technowitch]

31. Because it's what I am

A 'technologically savvy Wiccan'.

I've been using this handle for years now.

[Igel]

49. I knew a witch, ok, Wiccan, years ago when I was in LA.

She worked at IPAC, an astronomer.

[leftofthedial]

32. I joined DU very very early on, I think within hours of being able to

but lurked for the first several months.

I had saved my login info on my PC, so I never had to login and as I said I never posted.

Then, about the time I decided I just had to start posting, I got a new laptop and the auto login stuff didn't happen. I couldn't even remember my handle! What a moran! I thnk it had something to do with my actual name, but what I thought it was didn't work.

So I had to make up a new login on the spot and I happened to be listening to The Replacements "Tim" CD at the time. "Left of the Dial" is a song on that record. Presto!

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[deadparrot]

34. I like Monty Python.

Pretty simple, really. :)

[firebee]

35. I'm a wildland firefighter that idolizes Ali... hence firebee

The bee part is also a chip off my first name, which is 'B'rian. I'm a firebee.

[malmapus]

36. Was my character in EverQuest lol

Kinda became a nickname as most my friends in RL play EQ too

[two gun sid]

37. Two Gun Sid Hatfield, Constable of Matewan, WV

My grandmother was kin to him somehow.

[The Magistrate]

70. That, Sir, Is A High Honor

A stirring and inspirational tale, that.

[realFedUp]

38. I was the original FedUp in CNN's chatroom in 1998

hence the real FedUp. I advocated
sending the skinheads to Syria ( a big
mistake), tagless clothing (Hanes now
makes), a wall around Jerusalem (someone
got a little carried away), used et al,
Bush Inc. and coined (I believe) Gingrinch
and his Elves first.

A big howdy to ex CNN chatpals!

[Piperay]

40. When I signed up for another political site

before I knew about the DU I wanted the name Piper but it was already taken, so I added the middle letters of my first name. When I came across DU I just used the same name as I had for the other site. Why I wanted Piper is from a saying 'you can dance but you have to pay the Piper' meaning one day the repukes will have to pay for all their evil 'dancing'.

[karlrschneider]

42. I just use the name my parents gave me. It seems to be the simplest way

for me. Karl Rolla Schneider. (The Rolla came from the town on Missouri where my dad went to college, and my first name while a common Germanic name also got some impetus because he spent a year at some graduate school in Karlsruhe in Germany)...I use it in all forums.
:eyes:

[KaliTracy]

43. i've been Kali on-line and on weblists for years.... I think when I

registered I couldn't take that name by itself so included my given, but I don't really remember -- had been on a couple of lists after the election and posted under my real name, and maybe I decided to combine the two... it's been a tough few months.

BUT -- Kali is the goddess of Destruction/Birth -- or in nicer terms Transformation and Change. There's a story there, too...

[Danmel]

44. For my kids

My son is Daniel and my daughter is Melanie

[Just Me]

46. No matter what's happening within or outside me,...I'm still "Just Me".n/t

[Sparkly]

47. Sparkly Fairy Princess

which started as a joke between my husband and me (with Judy Tenuta-ish lines like "I'm a Sparkly Fairy Princess, damnit" as well as "I'm a delicate frickin' flower" and "I'm a precious goddamn jewel if you don't mind" spoken with a certain New York accent). It kind of has to do with being a dancer and always trying to grow a spine -- I'm terribly unassertive in real life.

So on Bartcop I was already "SparklyFairyPrincess" and I just thought I'd shorten it here.

[Stinky The Clown]

52. Guess where mine came from ........

I'm da guy what keeps her in tiaras.

She broke her magic wand a few months ago and all hell broke loose till we got the wand guy in here to fix it. But the frog spell don't work so well. She blasted Chimpus Khan with it on election day and you see what happened.

The wand fixit guy, by the way ...... turns out he was a republican.

Ya can't trust no-frikkin-body no more.

By the way, the wand's been retired.

[musette_sf]

48. musette_sf

Gypsy Jazz.

http://www.musetteguitars.com/links.htm

[AngryAmish]

50. I'm a fan - click on link below

[Pushed To The Left]

77. An ECW fan!

Whatever happened to Roadkill? He and Danny Doring were a pretty good tag-team!

[Igel]

51. I like hedgehogs. My sign-in names here and there

are all 'hedgehog' in some language, different language each place. Surprising how often I find the name's taken.

"Igil" is German. /ig-/ is apparently cognate with the <edge> in 'hedgehog' (the /h/ a folk etymology--they're frequently in hedges--and the -hog is a folk etymology for the ending -oc in Old English).

[Bonobo]

53. Bonobos are the least well known ape.

They solve tensions and conflict through sexual behavior, unlike their cousines the better-known Chimpanzee (and humans) who solve it through mostly fighting.

Their tribes are led by a strong matriarch and I wish humans were more like them.

For more info:

http://songweaver.com/info/bonobos.html

http://www.blockbonobofoundation.org/blinks.htm

[Frumious B]

54. It's from "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll

I'm a big anglophile who pretty much grew up on English rock music and Doctor Who on PBS. I also majored in English lit in college.

[KaliTracy]

59. 'twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...

(English Lit. major too)
:hi:

[KaliTracy]

58. bonobos are cool -- n/t

[A Brand New World]

55. I chose this as my second DU name after the 2004 election. My first one

was VoyagerforKerry. "OhGodNotAgain" shows just how I felt when I heard that * had stolen his second election.

[Freddie Stubbs]

56. Childhood nickname

I was pretty fat when I was a kid. I was the only black kid in my town, so people though that I looked like Rerun from the show What's Happening. They called me Rerun, and the name stuck long after lost weight. The character Rerun's proper name was Freddie Stubbs.

[mvd]

57. Mine is simple

m is for my first name, Matt
v is for my middle name (won't say it, but it's Italian)
d is for my last name (won't say it, but it's French)

:hi:

[TOhioLiberal]

60. TOhioLiberal:

T=My city.
Ohio=My state (duh)
Liberal=What I am...:)

[KaliTracy]

61. home of the mudhens? n/t

[TOhioLiberal]

63. Yeppers...

...and Tony Packo's...

[KaliTracy]

65. *grin* that's where I'm from. I live in closer to Cincinnati now, just

a hop, skip, jump away from Warren County, Home of the Only Election Night Orange Alert Lockdown

[annabanana]

62. Got mine from my Daddy.....55 years ago.

[dddem]

64. pretty boring story

dd=my initials
dem=how I registered to vote.

Maybe I should change it to "really glad to be here with like-minded people considering I work with republicans and other people who don't give a shit about the crooks in the white house". whaddaya think?

[KaliTracy]

66. LOL I say go for it! That's me too! DU was like a breath of fresh air, &

boy, did I need to sit back and breathe deep after I found it!

[eridani]

68. I always use astronomical terms--

--in honor of an older mentor who did the same and was an amateur astronomer.

[OxQQme]

69. Oh excuuuuuse me

[F.Gordon]

71. Tribute to my bestest buddy

As is my avatar. He just recently turned 83 years young. Flash Gordon represents a turning point in his life. The avatar is from his sketchbook when he was 14 years old trying to get in this new school in NYC called the High School of Music and Arts.

A real Democrat. Politically savvy. My bestest buddy.

[Behind the Aegis]

72. Mythological reference

My user-name is the shield of Zeus, but it more often associated with Athena, of whom I am very fond. The Aegis also reflects back negative attacks.

[onager]

73. Simple...

An onager is a wild ass, or donkey, as in "Democrat."

The onager was also a catapult used by the Roman army. (It earned the name because when it was fired the back end kicked up into the air, like a donkey's hind legs.)

They were used to throw rocks and fireballs at the enemy, and I like to think of myself doing the same thing to Repubs and Fundie asshats.

[chicagojoe]

74. I'm from Chicago, and my name is Joe.

I often wonder about the names, too. Some are very interesting.

[Titooqanaawit]

76. Well.....

Titooqanaawit means "Live it" in Nez Perce. And I try to live their teachings.

[Klapaucius]

78. My logon name...

I happen to be a fan of Stanislaw Lem, a polish sci-fi writer.

He has a book called 'The Cyberiad' which I thought was funny as hell. The name is the name of one of the main characters in the book. The two main characters are trying to outdo each other, and generally getting into trouble doing it.

I used to use 'Sir Osis of Liver', didn't realize that it was from a Bugs Bunny cartoon ( round table knight ), until somebody pointed it out to me.

I occasionally use Propellerhead... I'm a nerd, should be wearing a propeller beanie, also I used to be a mechanic on a sub, and the rate device is a propeller.

K.

[orleans]

79. Never been there (new orleans)

always wanted to go
my first love moved there when we were kids.
never completely got over it.
i still carry him with me in my heart.

[BikeWriter]

80. I've been a biker and I'm a wannabe writer, ergo: BikeWriter.

[Petrushka]

81. My "real" name--Patricia--was already taken . . .

. . . and "Petrushka" is what my Babci called me when I was a child.

[Hissyspit]

84. Name of one of my cats who disappeared several years ago...

She hissed and spit all the time. Had her little hissyfits.

[Hardrada]

85. Norse Ancestry

And other Long Stories.

[CTyankee]

86. Even tho I was born in Texas

and left for good when I was 18 and went east to college, I now consider myself a Connecticut Yankee. Texans get all bent out of shape when one of their own (2nd generation at that)up and leave Texas. It gives me great pleasure to be emigre from that awful place. Oh, and I love to remind Texans that * was born in the city I call home, New Haven. They all think he was born in TX. Big lie (but what else is new).

[Silverhair]

88. My hair is silver on the sides, gone on top. NT

[lapislzi]

89. Character from a novel by Robert Heinlein

The embedded "Diaries of Lazarus Long" from Time Enough for Love are the closest thing I have to a bible.

I use this name everywhere. It has become my alter ego. Fitting, as the character is a twin.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

90. Joined DU after the election

when anyone who didn't believe that Chimpy had won was accused of being a nut or a conspiracy theorist. And since formal wear for conspiracy nuts is tin foil, I decided that tin foil should be "in" this year. Besides, it is much more fashionable than the frumpy outfits Pickles runs around in.