how did you decide on your super-hero.. oops internet name?
 

just something I was thinking about today.. (too much time on my hands today :)) ) why people pick what names and to some extent their 'net' personalities..

In my case, cowhead
I live in Kansas
it's the title of one of my favorite songs
I think cows look funny (and they look at you funny)
and those nasty critters from Time Bandits always scared the crap out of me as a kid..

I dunno, just curious

Freshman year in college, we were discussing the deep philosophical point of the precice amount of fun represented by a barrel of monkeys. I attempted to add to the discussion through illustration, coming up with a character which has become my mascot (see my profile homepage).

The origin of my name is revealed here (our first thread on names; here is the second one).

oops.. heh sorry to be redundant..I didn't see that thread..

It's all good...it's been quite a while since we've discussed names.

Sun_Sparkz comes from my beliefs, hence my line - aren't we all? We are all just a spark from the sun. (BIG BANG)

also the nick sparkie is kinda cute as well ;)

God, I'm such a dork - all this time, I figured you worked with UNIX boxes (one line is called the Sun Spark). :blush:

Mine is a combination of the Beastie Boys and my college affiliation - Georgia Tech (Yellow Jackets - Bees (Clodfobble alert :-)).

I'm a woman. I like cats. I feel a strong affiliation towards the superheroine. Also lack of imagination on the day of registering.

This name is one of the first online handles I've had. I first used it on a local BBS several years ago. The wolf is my totem and my favorite animal and I've been a technology junkie for most of my life.

"glatt" is german for "smooth," and I am anything but.

The paintball team I'm a member of (since '89) is called Black Company, after the Glenn Cook books. We all took names from the characters that kinda fit our playing style. I got Silent.

Clodfobble McRubius IV was a notorious prank name among my high school friends. We got it printed in yearbooks, theatre programs, registered as a fake candidate for student council--anywhere we could think of. I've always had a fondness for it, it just rolls off the tongue.

Mine is my name. No imagination anymore in my old age.

I used to use handles, back in my halcyon BBS days, I used Keymaster (Master of Keys, as on keyboards...get it? well, *I* thought it was clever back in 1984) and never found another one, but I did run into an occasional Gatekeeper. I just wanted to be different than all the political figures, superheroes, sci-fi references, comic book characters and D&D references that were so popular in that age. Eventually, I got tired of it and went to my name...love me or hate me, here I am!

Brian

She is a supervillianess.

And yes, watching that cursor blink is quite a thing ... imagine having to watch it blink and decide who/what you were going to announce yourself as when you were calling a dialup board for the first time ... no peeking before registering.

I've been wolf ever since.

Mine comes from a couple of different places. I've been troubleshooting (problem solving) for a long time now. Computers, electronics, people, etc all fall under the blanket term of troubleshooting. In a pen and paper RPG we play it was also the secret ID that I (we played outselves turned in metahumans) used.

In time it morphed into an overarching concept about how I approach the problems around me.

In latin it's "facilator", a fixer, it's where we came up with the word facilitator.

I'm a Lumberjim and I'm OK

sing it with me now

there was a thrid name thread somewhere, i remember file not found asking me why i like lumber. mine was a reuse of my SWG id. damn thing wouldn't take any good ones, and then this grew on me. I'm considering changing my name legally to Lum Berjim. If I ever write that book, that'll be my pen name.

wolf I've seen you use blackhawk and glockwolf on other boards, I assume glockwolf is because wolf was taken but blackhawk?

Things happen in the magickal world ... SilverWolf has been my magickal name for a very, very long time. And, well, stuff happens ... you learn new lessons, have new experiences, learn "new medicines" as it's stated in the Native American Community. When that happens often your name changes. Mine did. And so now I'm actually Black Storm Hawk.

My biggest struggle is now over whether I change my vanity license plate on my car ...

I chose the name Radar when I was hacking in high school and everyone said I looked like Radar from M*A*S*H, and it followed me into my 20's. Strangers used to come up to me on the street and ask if I was Gary Burghoff. I finally cashed in on it by going to a surplus store and buying the exact hat and fatigues he wore in the show and the same wire framed glasses. I think I won about 10 costume contests that Halloween, some for big $$.

I also liked the name because it's a palindrome.

Ah but wolf backwards is flow, now that's cool.

Heh, and the origin of the name I use here is pretty obvious. :D

I've had several other net names:

rhoandterry - obvious again lol.
res87 - my art signature in high school composed of my initials and year of graduation.
ladysyc69 - Shortened version of the orginal with year of birth at the end.
DMode2000 - I think this was for my WebTV account when I first got online ever. Basically, Depeche Mode reference.
dmdevout - Heh.
LadyXavier (or MistressX) - alter ego, wannabe domina alias. ;)

Bahhhh

awwwwww

:grouphug: :thumb:

Like any good nickname I didn't pick it myself, it was bestowed (bestown?) upon me by my first college roommate. Freshman year I got my first real girlfriend (this was before geeks were cool so it took awhile) and I took to staying up WAY too late. I could often be found during any break between classes and such during the day sleeping with my clothes on, on top of the covers, in our dorm room.

Roomie kicked the bed as hard as possible one afternoon and said, "SLOTHBOY! Get up and let's get something to eat." "Slothboy?" I asked groggily, "Why did you call me that?"

"Because you are sloth-like and sedentary," He said.

It stuck.

Hey post # 2 (but who's counting)

Mine is a variation of my actual name (Jacqueline) given to me by some cute toady guy while I was down in Miami. I like it so - I used it!

Um, breaking news is my way of life. While I am not as much of a hardcore news junkie as the Bob Woodwards in this world, breaking (and sometimes making) the news has become my calling. I just enjoy it - a peer sold me on journalism back in college when he said that the business is a "front-row seat in life." It couldn't be more true.

I started wandering this way while I was at work at my old newspaper. Thought it was appropriate.

Handles in the past? wanger114 is my aim name (don't think anyone has called me by my first name since the 3rd grade); ImA10sPlyr; Loki0181; among some others. Great.

On a side note, my favorite new movie quote: "They say 60 percent of the time it works all the time!"

Mine is my name but I wish it were something a lot more mysterious--pretty pedestrian.

It seems like only yesterday that I was saying this :eek: , but I selected my name because I love blues music (mostly traditional and piano, but some electric). These days I'm almost 100% into Jazz, so I don't play my blues cds so often now.

Brianna is very pretty. Your parents were not intellectually crippled by childbirth, obviously. Some of the names I see passing across my desk are enough to give you fits. I mean serious "what were you thinking" kinds of names. (and I'm not just talking about Faux-African type names)

Faux-African, like L'emonjello and his twin brother O'rangjello? :biggrin:

Maybe it's Le'MonJello and O'RangeJello...dunno.

Pretty much anything starting with K' or L' ... or really stupid spellings of conventional names ... Ahleesheia, etc.

I once had a female patient named (no lie) Tequila. If only her last name had been "Shooters" woulda been perfect. We should get a book of names going...

My boss who went crazy and stopped showing up had such a notebook. I discussed it here somewhere, and as usual, despite searching for several unique names I'm pretty sure I used in the post, I can't find the darn thing.

Your boss went crazy and stopped showing up? How can I learn to do that? Are you working for the State? I worked the State Psych Hosp. here in Ohio. Every bipolar coming up or down I-75 would be suddenly gripped with mania right as they stopped at our town and I got to admit them. :D

I work for a small (73 bed) private not-for-profit emergency psychiatric hospital. I'm a mental health commitment officer and crisis intervention caseworker.

We seem to have an operational nut-magnet too.

I've got a cousin named Loquacious and boy did she ever grow into her name...

Why would your boss stop showing up? It seems he would stop leaving at night.

Nobody actually knows.

He just stopped showing up.

Really.

Hmmm, "Pretty Pedestrian" sounds like a good nickname.

It has layers.

like an onion or a...

cake.

i loved M*A*S*H, could you show us a picture Radar?, unless that was it... then forget i said that!:biggrinha

Well, here's a photo of me during those years with my younger brother. He's wearing my glasses and he's taller than I am so he is on his knees. I'm the one in the blue shirt.

Yeah clearly there is a problem with the attachments system following the crash.

But um only for me. (A reload fixed it)

For a minute there, I thought you were dogging Radar's pic.

By golly, you actually *do* bear a sort of resemblence to Gary Burghoff in his younger years, doncha?

Burghoff is an interesting character. He makes his living doing small-scale theater, mostly dinner theater, these days, and he travels the country in a big motor home with his dog, staying in local RV parks near where he is performing. He was in KC awhile back for a stint, and stayed in a park I am familiar with. From all accounts, he was a pretty nice guy.

Radar more recently.

(these were posted in his thread on his recent wedding. Any updates on your progress in getting a visa?)

Actually I've lost 35 lbs this year, (25 since the wedding) and I'm lifting weights everyday. I look much better than I did at the wedding. I should work out because when she gets here, I'll have to remind a few guys that she's my wife.

:D

I spoke to my immigration lawyer and he thinks she'll be ready to come to America by January or February which means I'll be there just in time to say, "Happy Anniversary!"

Not only for you. I also had to reload to get rid of a picture of the flood damage.

*smiles* When I was into playing roleplaying games, I used to have a few favourite character names. Most of my online friends know me as "Salo, my alter ego in Ultima Online. He was a scientist(alchemist( who was driven mainnly by his own cowardice and fear of death.His name came from a dubious art house film called Salo, 100 days of Sodom.....I have never seen the film, but as a horror buff I have heard much about it.

My other favourite character names were Seraph ( an insane playerkiller who spoke a kind of childlike nonsense) and Isaac Shaw ( a peasant miner who was generally diffident and hardworking :P )

Most of my characters were male, but there were one or two females. ...Syrifa ( a female version of Seraph) and Aesil ( a scout who liked to play tricks on people)

Thinking about it....I probably used to start new characters primarily because I like thinking up names :P

In the USMC my nickmane was " zippy the wounder doof , with his infinant knoladge of that wictch matters not " in other words I know alot of shit about shit that don't mater for shit .
I just shortened it . :3eye:

many people say i'm busy all the time,so i named myself No_TimE

but not too busy to tell us that you chose your name because you are too busy... the irony!

When I was first BBS'ing, back in the days when a 300 baud modem was considered good, I dialed into many BBS's. I had a hard time keeping track of passwords. Most of the time user names were real names.

The first BBS that wanted a handle was called Gearjammers. In order to help remember my handle I thought Gears=Sprockets=Spacely's Sprockets.

Once I came up with that handle, I used it everywhere.

The only attribute I believe I share with Mr. Spacely is a very loud voice. "JETSON!!!!!!!"

As I thought I posted a while ago, in the new incarnation of the Cellar I decided to use my real name as a test of the Consitution and personal statement that I stand behind what I say. If I ever became uncomfortable about saying something because the government might not like it, then that would indicate that my government has failed me in not assuring me of my rights.

BTW, I did search for the post where I discussed this but came up empty.

If any of you are familiar w/ cop movies, you'll reconize my name... def. one of the coolest movies of all time. I mean, does it get any better than a '68 charger and a '68 mustang racing through the streets of san fran in excess of 100 mph??? :eek: I think not.

Cool. It must be hard for the wife to be not near. And going to the gym/looking after yourself is a great way to work off the stress and pass the time. I remember going through immigration thing with my wife but, since she was Canadian, it was considerably easier. Hope all goes according to plan. We look forward to seeing Ms. Radar on the Cellar :)

I seem to remember it. :confused:

Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. My Mom and Dad smoked 'em, and sometimes I get the violent urge to spark one up. :greenface

steve mcqueen, ultimate badass.

ogres have layers. onions have layers. GET IT!?!?!?

a few years ago burghoff went on a rampage in a texaco station. not physical destruction or anything, but i guess he got to yelling pretty good. if i remember right he had forgotten his ID and wanted to write a check and the kid behind the counter wouldn't accept it. he went through the whole "you know who i am don't you?" and the kid just wouldn't go for it. even though there was a photo of burghoff on the counter because he was doing commercials for that chain of gas stations at the time. i thought it was pretty funny.