Meaning behind your name or title?

[Nick Rubashov]

As a new guy here I don't know if this thread has been done before or not, but I'm interested in the story behind some of the names of titles that lit net posters come up with. Is it a reference to your favorite poem or novel? Is it just random? Does it hold any special meaning?

My name is simple enough. When registering I stopped right at the beginning where it asks to enter your user name. I wanted to choose something akin to one of my favorite novels; something which hopefully embodied how I would read and reply to the post on lit net. I chose Nick Rubashov. Short for Nicholas Rubashov, the main character in Arthur Koestler's novel about the Moscow show trials Darkness At Noon.

What's your story?

[Shakira]

Well my real name is Zakira & all my friends at college used to call me Shakira. So I decided to keep Shakira as my User Name. I have no relations what-so-ever with that singer Shakira though.

[Shannanigan]

:D

My real name is Shannon. Shannanigan is my nickname to all my friends and even aquaintances. I even have "Shannanigan" vinyled onto the back windsheild of my car. :p How I got that nickname is a funny story:

I used to hang out after school with three friends: Edgar, Alex, and Joe. This was back when I lived in California, during the 9th and 10th grades. Anyways, the guys and I made up a drug one day just to mess with people. We called it "schnooze." We would walk around asking random people, in a whispered and shady tone, "Hey, dude, you got any schnooze?" It was hilarious because people thought it was some new drug, and they'd get all nervous, but try to keep looking cool, and say "Naw, man, not with me..." or something like that. :lol:

Anyways, a week or two into it Edgar decided that if we were gonna keep dealing schooze we were gonna need code names. He named himself "Shnedgar," Alex became "Shnalex," Joe became "Schnoe," and well...he couldn't quite work his tongue around what my code name should sound like, until he finally yelled, "Shannanigan! Yeah, that's it! You're Shannanigan!"

heehee. It has stuck ever since.

[BibliophileTRJ]

My user name is one that needs no explanation...
Bibliophile (Book Lover) + TRJ (my initials)
I guess I'm just not very creative.

[alhara]

I´m new too, but I always use the name. It is a refrence to a star. In the constilation [I]canis major, as almost everyone knows, there is a star. Sirius the brigtest star we can see, but the star you don´t hear about is alhara also know as adhara and adara, meaning maidens it is the second brightests star in that constilation, hence the almost. I love my name, (alhara is not my real name it is my choosen name) and never get a chance to tell people about, surprisingly no one asks, and so I thank you for this post. Though I would love to use a book author or poem in my name I can´t because I fall passionately in love with every (decent) book I am reading, and when I finish it I am left emptied of said love. So I must look to the stars.

[Petrarch's Love]

I used to hang out after school with three friends: Edgar, Alex, and Joe. This was back when I lived in California, during the 9th and 10th grades. Anyways, the guys and I made up a drug one day just to mess with people. We called it "schnooze." We would walk around asking random people, in a whispered and shady tone, "Hey, dude, you got any schnooze?" It was hilarious because people thought it was some new drug, and they'd get all nervous, but try to keep looking cool, and say "Naw, man, not with me..." or something like that.

Anyways, a week or two into it Edgar decided that if we were gonna keep dealing schooze we were gonna need code names. He named himself "Shnedgar," Alex became "Shnalex," Joe became "Schnoe," and well...he couldn't quite work his tongue around what my code name should sound like, until he finally yelled, "Shannanigan! Yeah, that's it! You're Shannanigan!"

:lol: Shannanigan, that is an hilarious story. It would have been even funnier if you guys had gotten busted because the school administrators bought into "schnooze" being a real drug.
But seriously, I really could use some schnooze...know where I can score some? :p

[Petrarch's Love]

I chose my user name because it's a clue to my real name, (and because I basically live in the Renaissance, so Petrarch seems like the latest best-seller to me). :lol:

[Bastet]

Hello! Welcome to the forum Nick Rubashov :)

My real name is Sandra. The nick name Bastet is the name of a goddess worshipped in the ancient Egypt. She was the goddess of joy and protector of women, and thought to be the eye of the moon. She was also a feline goddness, represented by the image of a cat.

I just feel identified with everything she symbolizes, and that's why I chose that name :)

[rashikwa]

My real name is Rasha.. Rashikwa is my nick name my friends call me so..
I always use it on the net

[mtpspur]

mtpspur stands for Metropolitan tabernacle Pulpit Spurgeon--a series of 63 volumes of reprinted weekly sermons from 1861-1917 (1855-1860 were published as New Park Street Pulpit) as preached by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892). There are 3561 of them and my dream is to read them all one day at a time which should end roughly Sep 08. Finshed #2891 about 20 minutes ago. My username is supposed to remind me to stay humble and true in what I post and somewhat responsible for my actions which I why I'm not overly bothered by my soap opera stories (love me love my warts) but I doubt Spurgeon would approve my use of his name because his concerns were never egocentric like mine but devoted solely to glorifying the Lord Jeus Christ and winning souls--something I rarely seem to manage but I hang in there.

[TEND]

Well, I started using TEND when I was 14 I believe. The reason? Simple. I used to play football, I played a variety of positions and was constantly moving but on the roster I was always listed as a Tight End, so when pondering a name I just sort of shortened it. Oh, and capital letters are cool :thumbs_up .

[Shannanigan]

:lol: Shannanigan, that is an hilarious story. It would have been even funnier if you guys had gotten busted because the school administrators bought into "schnooze" being a real drug.
But seriously, I really could use some schnooze...know where I can score some? :p

lol, that would have been hilarious. Man, I haven't gotten any good schooze since back then, especially living on an island where really hardcore drugs like that are hard to get ahold of :p I can give you the guys' e-mails and we can find out if they've been keeping the business going without me though :lol:

[Petrarch's Love]

lol, that would have been hilarious. Man, I haven't gotten any good schooze since back then, especially living on an island where really hardcore drugs like that are hard to get ahold of I can give you the guys' e-mails and we can find out if they've been keeping the business going without me though

O.K. I'll be in L.A. in December. I'll expect you to hook me up so I can schmooze the schnooze scene there. :lol:

[Shannanigan]

O.K. I'll be in L.A. in December. I'll expect you to hook me up so I can schmooze the schnooze scene there. :lol:

lmao...hey! I'm gonna be there in December too! :D We can schmooze the schnooze scene together and get totally schonked! :p :lol:

[stlukesguild]

Petrarch's Love/L.....;
Yours should have been immediately obvious to anyone familiar with the Renaissance... or at least with a certain Renaissance poet:). I can't believe I didn't get it immediately. I'll assume that you have some idea of mine, but for the rest, I'll give a brief explanation. I am a visual artist: trained/educated as a painter. I also hold a great facination for the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The visual arts at that time were largely held to be not far removed from any other form of skilled labor. As such, they were largely regulated by the guilds (rather like the unions of the time). Saint Luke, had long been acknowledged as the patron saint of painters and other artists as the result of an appocryphal tale in which he was said to have painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ child (thus a portrait of the very face of God?). This theme shows up frequently in art, and most famously in this painting by Rogier van der Weyden:

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k255/Stlukesguild/stlukesmall.jpg

Many of the artist's guilds bore the name of "The Guild of St. Luke" or "St. Luke's Guild"... thus... well, you get the picture.

[Neovia]

Once I just read list of minor planets, and one of their name was Nevanlinna. It just sounded so pretty to me. I found out that it was named after some guy, but that it was also a name of a castle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyenskans
Well, Nevanlinna is Neovia in Latin.

And I have no idea why I chose it.

[aeroport]

Mine's pretty obvious; I dig the James, I'm afraid - even if I am alone! As for the other sub-name doohickey, I shall leave that to your imagination...

[CatherineH/L/E]

My name is a reference to the main charachter Catherine in my favorite book Wuthering Heights, one of the greatest books of all time. The H/L/E represents the charchters conflicts and the parallelisms within the novel. If you can't figure it out then read the book. It will change your life.