How did you choose your screen name?

[Happy Monkey]

Freshman year college discussion on the precise fun content of a barrel of monkeys led to an illustration, which became my logo, and then my screen name.

[Griff]

I'm from Grifftopia PA so... oh thats not right. Its the bulk of my last name and my meat world nickname.

[BigV]

I do love travel. I detest a long commute, however. What did you have in mind? I am in the upper left hand corner of the map. My travel today has been limited to one trip downtown, one trip to the neighborhood grocery store, and a couple of trips to the kitchen. I seem to be spiraling inward to the couch...watching the Pac-10 getting eaten alive. Reggie Bush is a machine!

[Trilby]

Brianna is my best Porno-Wiccan-Celtic-Cape-Wearing guess. My real name is way more fucked up, but no where near as porno-ish. My real name is what a First Generation French Canadian Catholic woman would name her second daughter. After bowing to the Irish. She had three girls...Kathleen, me, and Melissa. I lost the name-draw in a big, big way.

I shall never recover. I once thought of legally changing my name to Sandy. It's that bad.

PS--no, it's not Mary, Maureen, Miriam or Sibohhan.

[zippyt]

A shortned nick name from when i was in the Marines ,
The whole thing , Zippy the wounder doof , with his infinent knowlage of that witch matter not , one nite YEARS ago I had had a BIT to drink , Prodigy let me change my screen name , I tryed my real name and EVERY varation I could think of ,no good,
then I tryed zippy , nope , then zippyt , it took and wouldn't let me change it , and well it has hung around since then , hell I even answer to it , now HOW scary is that ?????

[Hobbs]

I started out life on the Cellar as Packey. Packey is/was my name I used when I was clowning. I didn't feel right using my clown name, so I re-packaged myself as Hobbs, named after my ultimate favorite cartoon strip character - Calvin and Hobbes. Unfortunately, after I registered it, I realized I left off the 'e' at the end of Hobbes. All well...

[Guyute]

Guyute was the ugly Pig,
Who walked on me and danced a jig,
That he had learned when he was 6,
Then stopped and did some other tricks;

More lyrics, then 7 minutes of music, then

I'm bouncing like a newborn elf,
I can't believe, inside myself,
Guyute glances in my eyes,
Then manages to hypnotize, me

As I sleep the sleep of Death,
He sucks from me my only breath,
That I had breathed since I was Ten,
I hope this happens once again! (then outro)

I am a major Phishhead; This character is the title name to an amazing song Phish played for years live, then recorded on an album. It's over 8 minutes long, and captivating.

[dar512]

My initials + a power of 2 - I'm a computer geek.

[lumberjim]

maybe someone should start a new picture thread too

[ashke]

I really liked how 'ashke' sounds (I have a thing for names that start with the letter 'a'). It was from Mercedes Lackey's Valdemaran books. And anyway, my teacher was using it so I was like, why not? (Btw, ashke means beloved )

[Bullitt]

Bullitt.. favorite movie.. Steve Mcqueen is my hero, I love 67 Mustangs and California, etc.

[Elspode]

This thread is around somewhere in a couple of earlier iterations, but I like it when it comes up every now and again so that new people can share, too.

Elspode comes from a couple of things. When I was in junior high, my buddies and I were semi-pro class clowns; sort of an adolescent version of an improv comedy clan, only less organized and without any planning whatsoever. Out of that group came the term "spode", which was applied pretty much the same as "dipshit", "doofus", etc. There is, in fact, a cartoon character which was created by one of our number to accompany the descriptive noun itself, but I don't think I have a rendering anywhere.

When I first hit the Internet, it was a lot easier to get nicks, and I used "Starship Trooper" (my Yahoo handle is still that, FWIW, because I was an early adopter there). After being online for awhile, it became impossible to get that handle, and besides, it was too long to type all the time, so tried to use "spode". Even *that* was frequently used, so I Spanishized it by adding "el", and there you have it.

The original source of "spode" was one of my junior high buddy's grandmother's china, which was an English variety manufactured by the Spode family.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

maybe someone should start a new picture thread too

Please, for the love of God, No.

[Tonchi]

It's my real name. Or, rather, it has been my nick for at least 10 years since I was in interpreter's school, so when we got a computer I began to use that as my online name too.

Tonchi is a Mexican word (not Spanish), either Aztec or Tarahumara but also found in Argentina and Bolivia. You use it to call to the cats outside, kinda like "Here kitty kitty" is used in the USA. It is applied to a cat without an owner - as opposed to a feral cat - and is what some South American countries call the jaguar-cats that live in the high mountains. The word is without gender. Tonchi is also a word in Japanese, in fact if that name is already in use at another forum you can bet it went to someone in that country where it's also the name of a scholarly journal. None of my Japanese acquaintances can tell me what the word means in their language.

Tonchi was a name used in the final episode of Quantum Leap, one of my all-time favorite programs, although how they stuck it on a Pennsylvania miner is beyond me. Maybe Bellisaurius heard it while he was in Australia, where it is the name of one of their more famous folksingers. But I did not know any of this until years after I got the name in school, because the teacher proclaimed that it definitely suited me to a T.

So now you know *everything* and aren't you sorry you asked lol :p

[Bullitt]

Originally Posted by Beestie

Please, for the love of God, No.

aww, i kind of miss the pic association thread