How Did You Choose Your Username?

[alhara]

i have also posted this on another thread but people seem to be reading this one so i will post it again, i'm increadably vain about the cleverness of my name so here it goes
stars
I always use this 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.(it is my full alter ego title alhara 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.

[Lily Adams]

What is your real name? (sorry i dont mean to be nosy) It cant be as bad as mine to pronounce! What origin is it?

No, no, that's quite alright. My first name is Genevieve, (pronounced john-vee-ev in French, or jen-eh-veev in English)) but most people go by my middle name, Aline, (pronounced ay-leen) because it's a bit easier. I'm named after Genevieve Strauss, (wife of the composer Richard Strauss, from what my dad has told me, but I have recently looked up Richard on Wikipedia and it doesn't say anything about a wife of his named "Genevieve") and Aline Renoir. (wife of the painter Pierre Auguste Renoir) From what I know Genevieve is French and Aline is Celtic.

The secret is out! :p

[Niamh]

A i know that name. Its such a nice name. its ashame people cant pronounce it though. Yeah i think Aline Is celtic. I think in the irish gaelige (CELTIC) Its spelt Aileen which is my sisters name. :)

[Lily Adams]

I always grew up thinking Aline was French, but now that I look it up, all the sites say it's either Celtic or English. It's also a variant of Helen, which I think is really neat because it makes me think of Helen of Troy. I started a war! :lol:

[Niamh]

I always grew up thinking Aline was French, but now that I look it up, all the sites say it's either Celtic or English. It's also a variant of Helen, which I think is really neat because it makes me think of Helen of Troy. I started a war! :lol:

Yup same name as Aileen! Shame on you for starting a war!!!! hehehe.:lol:

[Lily Adams]

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful and that beauty started a war. :p Kidding!

[Taliesin]

The Tale of Taliesin (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/taliesin.html)

Once there was a witch named Ceridwen, and she had two children. The one, her daughter, was as beautiful a child as you could ever hope to see; the other, her son Morfran, was so ugly, ill-favored and stupid that he sickened everyone who saw him.

Ceridwen was grieved that Morfran was so horrible, and resolved by her magic arts to make him into such a great bard that no-one would mind his ugliness. She began to cast a great spell. Many were the plants that she cast into her cauldron, many the incantations said over it. An old blind man named Morda was set to keep the fires burning beneath it, assisted by a young boy, Gwion.

The Cauldron of Wisdom and Inspiration must be kept boiling for a year and a day, and then the first three drops from it would impart ultimate knowledge to the one who drank them. But the rest of the liquid would be deadly poison.

Long labored Ceridwen, roaming far to find the rare and exotic herbs she required, and so it chanced that she fell asleep on the last day of the spell. The boy Gwion was stirring the brew when three drops flew out onto his thumb, and they were scalding hot, so that he thrust it into his mouth to stop the burning. Instantly, he had the wisdom and inspiration of ages, and the first thing that occurred to him was that Ceridwen would be very angry.

He ran away from the house of Ceridwen, but all too soon he heard the fury of her pursuit. Using his new magical powers, he turned himself into a hare. She turned into a greyhound *****, and gained ever more on him. He came to a river, and quick as thinking became a fish. She became an otter. He leapt from the water, and in the middle of his leap became a bird of the air. The witch Ceridwen became a hawk. In desperation, he looked down and saw a pile of wheat. He dived, landed, and as it scattered he turned into a single grain. Then she landed and became a hen, and pecked at the grain until she had swallowed Gwion.

Soon after, Ceridwen found herself with child, though she had lain with no man. When she realized that the baby was Gwion, she resolved to kill it, and Morfran wanted her to also, in revenge for his not becoming a bard. In due course, the babe was born, and Morfran would have slaughtered him on the spot, but the mother said no, because it was the most beautiful child ever seen. But she took him and, sewing him in a bag, set him adrift on the ocean.

Now there was at that time in Gwynedd, a lord named Gwyddno Garanhir, who had a son, Elphin, that was reckoned the most unlucky man alive. There was a weir on Gwyddno's land that had always had a huge catch of salmon in it on May Eve, so Gwyddno resolved to let Elphin have it to help turn his luck.

So it was that on May Eve, Elphin and two of his father's men went to the weir. Net after net he pulled, but there were no fish.

"Why, you've turned the luck of the weir," they growled.
"Just wait," said Elphin, "I haven't finished yet. There might still be something..."
There were no fish. But just as they were about to go, Elphin noticed something caught on a pole of the weir. He waded out and brought it back.
"More bad luck," grumbled the men.
"There may be a treasure inside," Elphin replied as he carefully slit open the greased leather bag he held.
To his very great astonishment, he saw the forehead of a baby, so white and beautiful that it seemed to shine.
"A radiant brow!" he exclaimed. (tal iesin in Welsh.)
"Yes, Taliesin, that will do well enough," said the baby.
Elphin was so surprised he nearly dropped it. The men muttered and made the sign against evil.

He put the child in front of him on the horse and they rode for home. While they rode, Elphin's thoughts were gloomy, as he realized they still had no salmon. But the babe in front of him spoke, saying

"Fair Elphin, cease your lament!
Swearing profits no-one.
It is not evil to hope
Nor does any man see what supports him,
Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo,
Nor does God break his promise.
No catch in Gwyddno's weir
Was ever as good as tonight's.

"Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks!
Such sorrow does not become you,
Although you consider yourself cheated
Excessive sorrow gains nothing,
Nor will doubting God's miracles.
Although I am small, I am skilful.
From the sea and the mountain,
From the river's depth
God gives His gifts to the blessed.

"Elphin of the generous spirit,
Cowardly is your purpose,
You must not grieve so heavily.
Better are good than evil omens.
though I am weak and small,
Spumed with Dylan's wave,
I shall be better for you
Than three hundred shares of salmon.

"Elphin of noble generosity,
Do not sorrow at your catch.
Though I am weak on the floor of my basket,
There are wonders on my tongue.
"While I am watching over you,
no great need will overcome you.
be mindful of the name of the Trinity
And none shall overcome you."

"How can this be, that you, a babe, can talk?" marveled Elphin.
Again Taliesin replied with a poem.

"Firstly I was formed in the shape of a handsome man,
in the hall of Ceridwen in order to be refined.
Although small and modest in my behavior,
I was great in her lofty sanctuary.

"While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me
and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words;
but I had to flee from the angry, terrible hag
whose outcry was terrifying.

"Since then I have fled in the shape of a crow,
since then I have fled as a speedy frog,
since then I have fled with rage in my chains,
- a roe-buck in a dense thicket.

"I have fled in the shape of a raven of prophetic speech,
in the shape of a satirizing fox,
in the shape of a sure swift,
in the shape of a squirrel vainly hiding.

"I have fled in the shape of a red deer,
in the shape of iron in a fierce fire,
in the shape of a sword sowing death and disaster,
in the shape of a bull, relentlessly struggling.

"I have fled in the shape of a bristly boar in a ravine,
in the shape of a grain of wheat.
I have been taken by the talons of a bird of prey
which increased until it took the size of a foal.

"Floating like a boat in its waters,
I was thrown into a dark bag,
and on an endless sea, I was set adrift.

"Just as I was suffocating, I had a happy omen,
and the master of the Heavens brought me to liberty."

By the time he finished, they had arrived at the court of Gwyddno.
Everyone crowded round to see how big the catch was. Elphin held up Taliesin for them all to see.
"What is that? Where is the catch?" asked Gwyddno.
"Here is the catch, father, see, I have caught a bard."
"Well, what use is that? Don't you have a good wife, who can bear you many strong sons of your own?"
"He will get more profit from me than the weir ever gave you," said Taliesin.
"Can you speak, and you so small?" asked Gwyddno.
"Indeed, I am better able to answer than you are to question me." claimed the baby.
Then Gwyddno asked him what else he had to say, and Taliesin replied with another poem. So Elphin rejoiced, that his luck had turned, and gave Taliesin to his wife to care for. She loved the baby very much, and time passed and he grew up.

The king of the land at that time was Maelgwn, a somewhat vain man who surrounded himself with toadies and fawning sycophants. The year that Taliesin turned thirteen, Elphin received a summons from the king, demanding his presence at the Christ Mass feast at midwinter. Elphin would much rather have stayed home with his wife and foster son, but as a dutiful subject (and a relative of the king besides) he went.

As they all sat around the high table, the other men vied with one another to see who could praise Maelgwn the most. Elphin was an honest man, and he couldn't honestly say that the king's bards were better or the queen a fairer woman, than those waiting at his home.
"What, so silent, Elphin? Can our loyal subject then find nothing to praise his king for?" said Maelgwn.
"Well, my lord," said Elphin, "I would say that though I am not a king, yet my wife is as fair and as virtuous as any woman in the kingdom - and my bard the best in Gwynedd."
"Insolence!" roared Maelgwn. "Throw him in our deepest dungeon! Let him be chained there until the falsity of his monstrous claim can be shown once and for all! And we think we know just how to do that..."

[Niamh]

Hehehe. Awell at least there are equivalents of your name out there in each language. You only find mine in celtic countries. Niamh in Ireland and Nia in wales and Scotland.

[Taliesin]

Taliesin was out skating. As he bent down to take the skates off, he glanced at a patch of ice, and fell into a trance, where he saw all that had befallen Elphin. When he woke, he rushed home to tell Elphin's wife.

Maelgwn had a son named Rhun, a lecher so revolting that to be seen with him would tarnish a woman's reputation beyond repair. This son he sent to Elphin's home, to seduce his wife and show the falsity of his claim. When Rhun came to the gate, he was welcomed, if not warmly, then civilly, by young Taliesin. He showed the prince into the hall, where sat a woman dressed in finery, with rings upon her fingers and a golden torque.

"How delicious!" thought Rhun. "I'll enjoy this, I can tell."

She made him welcome and they supped together. Rhun poured cup after cup of wine for her, and foolishly she drank it all. Soon she was giggly and silly, and she assented to his request to withdraw with him to some place more private. Rhun waited until she fell asleep in a drunken stupor, then tried to remove the ring from her plump hand. It would not come off, so quick as lightning he cut the finger off, ring and all.

Laughing, he rode back to his father's house. Maelgwn was delighted with his son's performance. He called for Elphin to be brought forth.
"Well, cousin, how say you now? The prince Rhun has had your wife with her willing cooperation. Do you persist in your stupid claim that she is so very fair and virtuous?"
Elphin paled, and feared for his wife, for he did not really believe that any woman, let alone she, would lie with Rhun by choice.
"How do you know this, my king?" he asked.
"My son's word is good enough for me - and should be for you, too."
"I'm sorry, my king, but even the money-lenders ask for solid proof where the prince Rhun is concerned."
The king growled, but the courtiers were, this once, murmuring in agreement with Elphin.
"Since that's not enough for you, see here is her finger. Do you deny that this is her ring?"
Elphin looked closely at the severed digit.
"Indeed, my lord, it is her ring, but I do deny that it's on her finger."
"How so, knave?" roared the enraged monarch.
"For three reasons, my king. First, my wife is a small woman, and this ring sits loosely on her thumb, but it's jammed so tightly on this finger that it won't come off. Second, ever since I've known her, my wife has trimmed her nails every Sabbath Eve, and this nail hasn't been trimmed this month, I'd say. Third, we keep servants for kneading bread dough - I certainly don't require my lady wife to do it. And yet you see under this nail and in the creases of the finger, traces of the rye dough this hand was lately kneading. I fear that the prince has despoiled some innocent kitchen wench, but whoever it was, it wasn't my wife."

The court cowered before Maelgwn's fury.
"You won't get away from it that easily!" Maelgwn declared. "If your bard is so great, let him come and compete with ours. Now take him away, before we get tired of him."
Hurriedly, the guards took Elphin back to the cell.

Taliesin was already seeing about provisions for the journey, while Elphin's wife looked after the poor nine-fingered maidservant. He arrived at the court two days later, and slipped through the gates. He made his way to the throne room and sat in the corner. When the king's bards filed in, he pouted his lips at them and played blerwm, blerwm on them, and the bards stood still and played blerwm, blerwm on their lips instead of praising Maelgwn. Maelgwn finally ordered a guard to strike Heinnin Fardd, his chief bard. This broke their trance enough that Heinnin Fardd could explain to Maelgwn that there was a devil in the form of a child who had cast a spell on them.

Then Maelgwn had Taliesin brought out, and questioned him.

"I have come to salvage Elphin's honor and his freedom. Taliesin am I, primary chief bard to Elphin.

"Primary chief poet
Am I to Elphin.
And my native country
Is the place of the Summer Stars.
"John the Divine
Called me Merlin,
But all future kings
Shall call me Taliesin.

"I was nine full months
In the womb of Ceridwen.
Before that I was Gwion,
But now I am Taliesin.

"I was with my king
In the heavens
When Lucifer fell
Into the deepest hell.

"I carried the banner
Before Alexander.
I know the names of the stars
From the North to the South.

"I was in Caer Bedion
Tetragrammaton.
I accompanied Heon
To the vale of Hebron.

"I was in the canon
When Absalom was slain.
I was in Llys Don
Before the birth of Gwydion.

"I was patriarch
To Elijah and Enoch.
I was there at the crucifixion
Of the merciful Mabon.

"I was the foreman
At the construction of Nimrod's Tower.
I was three times
In the prison of Arianrhod.

"I was in the ark
With Noah and Alpha
I witnessed the destruction
Of Sodom and Gomorrah.

"I was in Africa
Before the building of Rome.
I came here
To the remnant of Troy

"I was with the Lord
In the manger of the ***.
I upheld Moses
Through the water of Jordan.

"I was at the Cross
With Mary Magdalene.
I received the muse
From Ceridwen's cauldron.

"I was a harping bard
To Deon of Lochlin.
I have gone hungry
For the Righteous One.

"I was at the White Mount
in the court of Cynfelyn.
In stocks and in fetters
For a year and a day.

"I was in the larder
In the land of the Trinity.
And no-one knows whether my body
Is flesh or fish.

"I was instructor
To the whole universe.
I shall be until the judgement
On the face of the Earth.

"I have sat in the perilous seat
Above Caer Sidi.
I shall continue to revolve
Between the three elements.

"There is a marvel in the world
Which I cannot reveal."
"And all this makes you think you're better than my bards," sneered Maelgwn, "My bards, who have trained for twenty years."
"They are as nothing beside me," declared Taliesin.
"Well then, my lord," said Heinnin Fardd, so as not to be left entirely out of the proceedings, "certainly a contest will decide the matter."
"Why not? Me against all the king's bards. The contest - to compose a poem on the wind." Taliesin was serenely confident.
"Of course the king must judge," fawned Heinnin Fardd. "Who better?"
"And this contest will take place in twenty minutes," Maelgwn announced. (He was getting bored.)
"Twenty... my lord, I entreat you, I implore you, how can an epic be composed in -" Heinnin Fardd was desperate.
"Just do it, get on with it, I'm getting sick of this."

Heinnin Fardd and the king's bards huddled in the corner, consulting scrolls of rhymes and metaphors. Every so often, one let out a yelp of frustration. Taliesin lounged on the floor, laughing at their discomfiture.

When the time was up, the king's bards stood in a line before the throne and bowed.
"O greatest of kings, hear our song.

Blerwm, blerwm,
blerwm, blerwm,
blerwm, blerwm,
blerwm, blerwm."

"Knaves! Fools! Miserable swine! Was it for this that I paid you in gold and precious gems?" The court had never seen Maelgwn so angry. The bards groveled in the rushes. "Mighty king, it was not our fault! It's that demon child."

Taliesin, admittedly, was smirking in a most irritating fashion.
"So it's my turn?" he asked. He stood up straight and began. While he sang, a great wind arose and buffeted the castle, shaking it to its foundations. Maelgwn was afraid, and he called for Elphin to be brought out.

As soon as Elphin was brought out, Taliesin stopped the wind, and sang a new song that caused Elphin's chains to fall away from his ankles and wrists. Then he cried out to Elphin's wife to enter the hall, and she held her hands up so that everyone could see that she had ten fingers. Maelgwn was angrier than ever.

"You think you're so great. You're nothing! I bet my horses are better than yours, anyway."
Taliesin smiled and whispered to Elphin, "Take him up on it - I know how to make us win."
"I accept, my king."
"Then let there be a horse race."

Elphin led the other two home. On the appointed day, they returned, leading a lame old horse. Maelgwn rubbed his hands in glee.

The horses started - Taliesin riding old Dobbin. As each horse of the king's overtook him, he struck it on the rump with a holly twig, then let it fall. As the king's horses got further and further ahead, no-one could understand why Taliesin was still smiling. He slowed down and dropped his cap - again, no-one knew why.

Old Dobbin reached half-way, and Taliesin stopped him for a rest. The king's horses had long since passed them on the way back. Dobbin started back. As the king's horses passed the discarded holly twigs that Taliesin had struck them with, they stopped, reared up on their hind legs, and began to dance. The whole court was in fits of ill-concealed laughter, except Maelgwn and Rhun.

Taliesin and Dobbin wandered past them to the finish line. Maelgwn saw no alternative to letting them go. On the way home, Taliesin bid Elphin stop where he had dropped his cap. He had some men dig a hole at the spot, and they dug up a great chest full of treasure.

"Truly, Taliesin, never could I regret the day I pulled you out from the weir," said Elphin as they rode away.

FINIS

(It is said that afterwards, Taliesin went to the court of Arthur, where he was chief harper and adviser to the king.)

[Poetess]

I never realized this thread existed before! :P

It stands for the combination of Poe (the Poet) and 'ess' form of a female to get the female 'version' of both Poe and Poet!

[Stanislaw]

I never realized this thread existed before! :P

It stands for the combination of Poe (the Poet) and 'ess' form of a female to get the female 'version' of both Poe and Poet!

Cool, Poe was always a favourite of mine.

My name is from the greatest science fiction author the world has ever seen...one of the last great master of scifi. The eternal Stanislaw Lem.

[Niamh]

Hey Miss Adams i just thought, seeing as your name means Helen you should have the following as you Signature, its Kit Marlowe.

Is this The Face that Launched a thousand Ships.

What do you think? :)

[outrageous]

even though it doesn't fit me, i still like how this word sound.

[Lily Adams]

Oh yes, I like it, but I think I'm much too modest for that! I'd also have to get a Troy-themed avatar...

[beautiful_alma]

I dont know if this was already talked about or posted or not... if it was, im sorry ><

Post what your username means~ Ive been looking at a few posts, and some of the usernames ive seem are really unique and just wondered what they meant..

the alma in my username is soul in spanish~ and beautiful soul is used in a song i really like.. well that term is used in most all songs.... but still.. =)

[Jay]

Hello beautiful_alma, welcome :). This has been done before, go here (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=30990#post30990) and maybe you'll find some answers there.

[andave_ya]

Andave ya is Quenyan Elvish (from Lord of the Rings) for "long ago" not entirely original, maybe, but my heading-subtitle-thingy under my name is Latin for "praiser of times past" There you have in a nutshell what I like. Old times!

[Lily Adams]

Andave ya is Quenyan Elvish (from Lord of the Rings) for "long ago" not entirely original, maybe, but my heading-subtitle-thingy under my name is Latin for "praiser of times past" There you have in a nutshell what I like. Old times!

Me too! The past is my life bascially. It's nice to see someone else who has their head stuck in history.

[mtpspur]

I think I've answered this before somewhere but here goes. mtpspur stands for Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Spurgeon in honor of the London preacher 1834 to 1892 who had his sermons collected in 63 volumes from 1855 to 1917--for a total of 3561 of them. I'm in the process of reading them one day at a time since 1 January 1999 and am up to 2993 as of today. My byline Watcher by Night is the Zulu translation of Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain's nickname Macumazahn and is a series of books I'm greatly fond of.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Wow...everyone is so creative.

My user name is my horse's name.

His formal name is Classic Charm, though he's known around the barn as Tobasco. :D

[Neo_Sephiroth]

I chose my username on the basis of not causing any confrontation and/or controversy. My old username was based on a word in japanese that meant...Well, let's just say it wasn't so cool once it hit me. Plus, word was combined with a creature of legend and/or myth. The creature, with my knowledge at that time, I knew only to be in a video game.

But, alas, the creature seems to have roots and originated from many places. That's including religion, tribes, etc. So I thought it wasn't a good idea the use that username. So I decided to go with something more...Neutral.:D

Neo_Sephiroth!!!:D

"Neo" seems neutral enough and "Sephiroth" is a character from a well known video game series called "Final Fantasy" He's evil but...He's not real either.:D So it's all-good!:p

Neo_Sephiroth!!!:D

[muhsin]

Possibly, a topic with this thread's subject might have been posted in this Forum before. Sorry, I couldn't reach any. That's why I decide to do it, ok?
And here the question goes....

Some user names are simple, few are complex while others are confusing. With some names you immediately have an idea of where its comming from others simply throw you off balance and you begin to wonder "what's the philosophy behind that name".

And I think I have to begin with mine; Muhsin is simply a name, an rabian name, though am not an Arab. But I'm a Muslims, that's why. It means, in English, Doer of Good. What about yours?

[Lote-Tree]

Possibly, a topic with this thread's subject might have been posted in this Forum before. Sorry, I couldn't reach any. That's why I decide to do it, ok?
And here the question goes....

Some user names are simple, few are complex while others are confusing. With some names you immediately have an idea of where its comming from others simply throw you off balance and you begin to wonder "what's the philosophy behind that name".

And I think I have to begin with mine; Muhsin is simply a name, an rabian name, though am not an Arab. But I'm a Muslims, that's why. It means, in English, Doer of Good. What about yours?

Whats in a name?

Rose by any other name would smell just as sweet? :-)

[Stanislaw]

I took my username from the greatest science fiction author, Stanislaw Lem. I quite liked his short stories and assorted essays, but most of all I apreciated his sense of philosophy and his approach to life.

[Niamh]

My user name is Irish, given to me by my parents and means 'brightness and radiance'.

[muhsin]

Whats in a name?

Rose by any other name would smell just as sweet? :-)

Am afraid, but I don't think you understand my thread very well. Re-read it again dear.

[Lote-Tree]

Am afraid, but I don't think you understand my thread very well. Re-read it again dear.

No. I understood your thread well ;-)

My question - Does a name give a philosophy to the sweetness of a rose?

I was of course being thought provoking ;-)

So despair ye not... :-)

Regards,
Lote.

[muhsin]

No. I understood your thread well ;-)

My question - Does a name give a philosophy to the sweetness of a rose?

I was of course being thought provoking ;-)

So despair ye not... :-)

Regards,
Lote.

Is your name Rose? And so you are looking at the philosophy it could reveal?
Is this what you mean?

[Lote-Tree]

Is your name Rose? And so you are looking at the philosophy it could reveal?
Is this what you mean?

Your question was what is the philosophy behind your user-name.

What is the philosophy behind the name Rose?

[Niamh]

lote i get it...but i think you may have to explain it properly for Mushin, and the point behind your question as well.

[Madhuri]

My username -- Madhuri means sweetness, which also happens to be my real name. I don't think there is any philosophy in this name, it just happens to be a word with a meaning.

This was the first ever forum I joined and I had no idea how anonymity to a certain degree is important. It can also be that I was not creative enough to think of a cool username. :)

[Niamh]

This was the first ever forum I joined and I had no idea how anonymity to a certain degree is important. It can also be that I was not creative enough to think of a cool username. :)

this was my first forum as well maddie. And i also ended up with my real name! atleast i'm not alone!:D but if i could have an alias it would have to be Black Annis. (who my avatar is!)

[Countess]

Countess of Moldovia is my vampire name.

[Lote-Tree]

My username -- Madhuri means sweetness, which also happens to be my real name. I don't think there is any philosophy in this name, it just happens to be a word with a meaning.


And what does "Dixit" mean? :-)


Countess of Moldovia is my vampire name.

Mistress of the "Vlad the Impaler"? :-)

[Rinas_Jaded]

The philosophy behind my name Isn't very complex. Rina is a nickname that I pulled from my first name chRIstiNA. Then it says Jaded and Im sure everyone knows what jaded means which is basically boredom.

[Madhuri]

And what does "Dixit" mean? :-)

I know what you mean, Lote :nod: Madhuri Dixit is the name of a very famous Bollywood actress, but, I am not her :) I just happen to share the same first name. As for what Dixit means -- It actually represents the caste to which the person belongs to.

[Lote-Tree]

I know what you mean, Lote :nod: Madhuri Dixit is the name of a very famous Bollywood actress, but, I am not her :)


[deep sigh] what a shame ;-( - I thought I was speaking to the real thing!
Damn you cyberspace! - how you raise our hopes in one hand and crush them with the other!!!...but my Madhuri Dixit shall live in my dreams -doing the "wet-saree-song-and-dance" routines in the monsoon rain :-) - ahhhhhhhh the Power of the Imaginations. How benovolent of God to endow us with this magical of gifts!!!



I just happen to share the same first name. As for what Dixit means -- It actually represents the caste to which the person belongs to.

Ah I see. But you know that in English it has very rude and smutty connotations? :-)

[andave_ya]

andave_ya ~ I am absolutely in love with the Lord of the Rings, especially the Elven language. So, andave_ya means long ago, with my subtitle meaning praiser of times past. Combination of what I love; yesteryear and LOTR.

[Madhuri]

[deep sigh] what a shame ;-( - I thought I was speaking to the real thing!
Damn you cyberspace! - how you raise our hopes in one hand and crush them with the other!!!...

:lol:

Sorry to have crushed your hopes like that....Poor Lote :p :lol:


but my Madhuri Dixit shall live in my dreams -doing the "wet-saree-song-and-dance" routines in the monsoon rain :-) - ahhhhhhhh the Power of the Imaginations. How benovolent of God to endow us with this magical of gifts!!!

Ahem...Ahem...Be careful !! You might drown ;) I hear of very heavy monsoon rains for this year :p :p


Ah I see. But you know that in English it has very rude and smutty connotations? :-)

Ya I know. But, it doesnt mean so in Hindi.

[Lote-Tree]

:lol:
Sorry to have crushed your hopes like that....Poor Lote :p :lol:


No problema; De nada as they say in Spanish :-)

We dreams the dreams we can never fulfil and by desiring we fill our hearts with sorrow and Madhuri Dixit :-)



Ahem...Ahem...Be careful !! You might drown ;) I hear of very heavy monsoon rains for this year :p :p


Ahhh to drown with Madhuri in wet-saree-in-my-arms-singing-to-me-a-love duet? - wow!!! what a way to die!!! Death would indeed would lose it's sting! And it shall brag no more:-)



Ya I know. But, it doesnt mean so in Hindi.

I am glad to hear it :-)

[kilted exile]

Countess of Moldovia is my vampire name.

Was Dr. Doom from the Fantastic Four not from Moldovia?

EDIT
Ach no I think that was Monrovia. Ok as you were people.

[Shalot]

Good idea. Thanks Jay. Melancholy flower was something I ran across in a class about linguistics. It was a cute rhyme that went (Frere Jacques),

Life is butter, life is butter,
Melancholy flower, melancholy flower,
Life is but a melon, life is but a melon,
Cauliflower, cauliflower.

But String Dancer hits me better.


I don't know if Shea even comes around here anymore, but I always wondered what was up with the string dancer bit. It's good to know that it refers to your ability to play the harp. I saw "string dancer" and thought stripper...it must be this town that I am from. You're more likely to run into a stripper here than a harpist in any part of town. But how many people play harp, really? Still, you're more likely to run into a stripper than a fast food clerk. Maybe.

Is Shea a she or he? I've known both with that name.

(sorry, it's late and I am waiting for some files -- they're being extracted through a remote computer on a wireless connection --- it's taking years)

[motherhubbard]

Motherhubbard is part of my e-mail. I tried to make it out to be something about the old lady in the shoe. I had just found out that I was expecting my fourth child when I started my e-mail account. You know, she had so many children she didn’t know what to do. But I couldn’t get it to work out right so it’s old Mother Hubbard who went to the cupboard.

[Bookworm Cris]

My screen name came from the fact thay I always loved to read, and actually I read everything that comes in front of me (from bread packages to old newspapers... hehe).

I wanted to use my real name, Cristine, but there was already a Cris in this forum, so I chose BookwormCris, that combined my real name with my characteristic...

As for the avatar, I did it myself, to use in a blog (but it&#180;s not in the blog yet, I ended using it here and in other forums...), and it&#180;s a rat because in portuguese we call a bookworm a "rato de biblioteca" (library rat), and that&#180;s what it is...

BTW, there are some interesting stories behind the screen names, who could guess?...

[NickAdams]

Too obvious.

[Bookworm Cris]

Sorry for that...

(I didn&#180;t mean to be original)

[the silent x]

andave_ya ~ I am absolutely in love with the Lord of the Rings, especially the Elven language. So, andave_ya means long ago, with my subtitle meaning praiser of times past. Combination of what I love; yesteryear and LOTR.

LOTR was some of the best written/produced pieces i have experience, i only wish the same producers would have worked on eragon.

my screen name represents me. silent means that i like to be quiet, like an assassin creeping up behind you. there are also two sides to me, there is the side that wants to be let out and hang with everybody and confide in everyone, but the other side is dark and moody and keeps everything in, "x" stands for the unknown variable "x" in an algebraic equation, you never know which side of me you're talking to. silent also means that you can silence the mouth by cutting out the tongue or sealing it shut, but no one can silence the hand.

[Scheherazade]

Sorry for that...

(I didn&#180;t mean to be original)Cris,

I think Nick was refering to his own nickname when he said 'too obvious', not yours. :)

[NickAdams]

Scheherazade is right. My own screen name needs no explaning. Well, there might be some members who aren't familiar with Nick. Nick Adams is Hemingway's serial character.

(Originality is disguising your source)

[Bookworm Cris]

Sorry again.... :blush: and thanks, Scher and Nick, for being so kind.
Nick: I recognized Hemingway in your avatar, but, honestly, I didn´t know Nick Adams, the character...

[Scheherazade]

My own screen name needs no explaning. Well, there might be some members who aren't familiar with Nick. Nick Adams is Hemingway's serial character.Oh, and I thought you might be a fan of the actor Nick Adams!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams

:p

[kathycf]

The philosophy behind my user name is incredibly deep and meaningful. Kathy is a nickname for Kathleen....and of course Kathleen is my "real" name...toldja it was deep and meaningful!

[RaatKiRanii]

Raat Ki Ranii literally means "Queen of the Night" in Urdu. It's actually the name of a flower, the Cestrum Nocturnum or the night-blooming jasmine. I choose it because i find I’ve done my best work at night, sorta bloom at night myself. lol.

[andave_ya]

WOW! that is fantastic!

[Aunty-lion]

I've said this before on another thread, but mine is supposed to be self explanatory. I am both an aunty and a lion, 'roar'.
It is also a reference to a poem though...but I might retain a wee bit of mystery and not reveal that quite yet. Guesses are welcome.

[hyperinsomnia]

Hyperinsomniaparacondrioid. Was a Sum 41 fan back in the day.. (2 years ago) haha, sad.

[toni]

Toni is my real name, taken from Antonette, which came from Fergie Antonette. oh how very complex....

[Aiculík]

and how do you pronounce it? And why did you choose it? Sometimes the meaning can be guessed, but in most cases it can't. And it would be interesting to hear why you chose it.

Mine comes from my real name. Aicul is backward of Lucia and suffix -ík is used to express familiarity...

Ai is pronounced as I, c as in tzar, u as in foot, and ík as in eek. :) So that would be... Itzooleek (that looks ugly :sick: ).

I usually use it in forums, because I can be sure it will always be free... and that if it is already taken, it means that I already registered in the forum. :)

[hockeychick8792]

Well mine is simply in pronuciation.
Meaning wise I am a hockey fan and a girl so thats were I thought of "hockeychick".
8-7-92 is my birthday (and Sidney Crosby's B'day for those who care{well he was born in 1987 so were 5 years apart but I don't care}) so that is were I get 8792! TADA my explanation! Not as cool as yours but it works for me!
And I use this for everything! AIM name, lit-net, everything!!!!

[metal134]

metal as in heavy metal and 13 and 4 are M and D for one of my favorite bands, Megadeth.

[kiz_paws]

My nickname is Kiz, ergo the Username is a take on my Real Life nickname. Paws is the tag-on because of my absolute adoration of dogs (well, any animal, truth be known). ;)

To pronounce Kiz_paws, the i sounds like the i of hit. And for Paws, the vowel sound is much like the o sound of pot (like pots and pans). There you have it, good idea for a thread! :)

[andave_ya]

Andave_ya means long ago in Tolkien's Elvish (forgive me, that's the third time) and is pronounced "ann-dah-vey-yeh".

[Reccura]

Simon... I always like Simon in that story. Reccura (Himura, my surname) has always been me eversince Lain gave t to me. I was thinking of a Japanese name, and then she blurted that all of a sudden. Actually, Recca was the origin, and Himura, my favorite battousai in anime ever. (Kenshin Himura) She then popped the name "Reccura Himura"

[jade911]

my names jade and my birthday is the 9th of novemeber, 9/11, like the twin tower attacks

[Moira]

Moira it's just a name i love, i found it reading some greek mythology and it kind of stuck with me:).

[Lote-Tree]

Moira it's just a name i love, i found it reading some greek mythology and it kind of stuck with me:).

Which Greek Myth is that :-)

Can't recall.

[Moira]

Which Greek Myth is that :-)

Can't recall.

'In Greek mythology, the white-robed Moirae or Moerae (often called the Fates) were the personifications of destiny (Roman equivalent: Parcae or Fata; also equivalent to the Germanic Norns). They controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death (and beyond). Even the gods feared the Moirae. Zeus also was subject to their power, as the Pythian priestess at Delphi once admitted. The Greek word moira literally means 'a part or portion', and by extension one's portion in life or destiny.'

I copied this from wikipedia now but i encountered the name in several mythological stories:).

[ElissaDido]

ElissaDido is not my name... As you people may have known, Dido was the Queen of Carthage and it is said Elissa was her real name. I just took a fancy to Dido as she seemed tragic to me and I've got a sort of preference to tragedy. :)

[Moira]

ElissaDido is not my name... As you people may have known, Dido was the Queen of Carthage and it is said Elissa was her real name. I just took a fancy to Dido as she seemed tragic to me and I've got a sort of preference to tragedy. :)

Hi Elissa,

I've been to Tunis last week and visited Carthage, what a beautiful place indeed. The guid also told us the story of Dido.

[Domer121]

well, as you may have guessed Domer is in fact my nickname.. it comes from the fact that when I was a baby I had a "dome" head...it just stuck..

[ElissaDido]

@Moira: Someday, I want to visit that place as well. :)

[kandaurov]

Heh, mine is strange. I'm a Benfica (portuguese footbal/soccer club) supporter, and ukranian Sergey Kandaurov was a rather average player that played there for some years. For some reason that baffles me, I elected him as my favourite player, perhaps because no one else held him as a favourite, and lots of Benfica fans didn't even see any talent in him.

I kinda like the way it sounds, so for some years now it's my Internet alias :)

[Hyatt07]

Turin Turambar isn't my real name. It is a character out of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterpiece, The Silmarillion. I choose this name because Turin and myself have many similarities.

[AdoreroDio]

My title AdoreroDio is Spanish for I will worship God spelled miscorrestly- I accidentally typed AdoreroDio instead of AdoreroDios- Dio is a god- Dios is the God. As for how I got it I couldn't think of a good username and I love the sound of other languages such as Spanish so I went to Babel Fish Translator and typed in descriptions of me till I found one that sounded beautiful- this one. I sorta got the idea from my friend who uses the username Heiliger_Soldat or Holy soldier in German.

[Laporis]

Laporis??

Try Polaris ;)

[kenikki]

Mine's Kenikki which my best mate gave me. It is play on my real name 'Nikki ' and based on Kenickie from Grease as I'm such a cool bad girl. Then it just stuck and has grown on me. :p

[Bakiryu]

Seriously anyone who can tell me what my name me is a freacking genious.
It was just something that came off my head as i wrote a poem, I liked it and so i used it as my name in all my websites.

Then i wanted to see if it had any meaning, I used all major search engines dictionaries in different languages but nothing. zero. nada.

It's just somethong unique (and copyrighted) that no one else in the planet has. SO if i ever have a kid, guess what his name will be?

Lol.

[Lote-Tree]

Seriously anyone who can tell me what my name me is a freacking genious.


I can but it would be too rude to mention on a public forum :-)

Just kiddin ;-)



It was just something that came off my head as i wrote a poem, I liked it and so i used it as my name in all my websites.


We have the Power of Naming and we succumb to it...



It's just somethong unique (and copyrighted) that no one else in the planet has. SO if i ever have a kid, guess what his name will be?

Lol.

God save that unfortunate child from that fate :-)

[Hyacinth42]

I played a random mmorpg, and needed help with a character name, so I looked up wildflowers until I came to one I'd never heard of that sounded cool, and I have been using that randomly online ever since, there are like, 4 different nicknames I have randomly on the internet, I'm in the hyacinth mood right now, and I have taken to putting 42 (The answer to life the universe and everything) behind it just in case someone already has my name :P

[evyline]

it's taken from a short story from "the Dubliners"by James Joyce:Eveline and my name is Eva,so=EVY-LINE

[pinkmoon]

Well, mine has a story too,
actually it is a part of my e-mail address
when I was trying to find a nick name , I thought that "pinkmoon" will never come at anyone's mind, since I love moon and the pink, so :idea:
I decided that this will be my nick name forever,
but guess what!:(
few days ago, I looked for it in the google search, and found sooooo many
things that are called "pinkmoon", even a real moon:flare: so I felt disappointed.
But I like it anyway.:D

[Kain Legin]

'Kain' is a character in a semi-short story I'm writting now and finishing after exams are over, of course. 'Legin', my gf found it for me and it sounded so matching with 'Kain' so, yeah. Silly ideas come to sleepy heads!

[Bakiryu]

Now, I've found the mean of my screen name! at last! wanna know? *taunts* maybe i'll tell *t-hee* depends!

[asoldiersgirl]

The love of my life is a soldier.... Hence, asoldiersgirl....
Support our Troops!

[GrayFoxDown]

The name GrayFoxDown derives from those happy, sky-riding days in Vietnam...a "ticket to ride"--so to speak. To my utter disbelief, I'm only slightly gray myself...not very foxy...and only down by about 10 yards on the 50 yard line and getting ready to punt. Regards, ;)

[Nossa]

My nickname here is simply one of the TONS of nicknames which people call me in real life...they really come in handy when I join any forum...lol

[Annamariah]

Mine's Kenikki which my best mate gave me. It is play on my real name 'Nikki ' and based on Kenickie from Grease as I'm such a cool bad girl. Then it just stuck and has grown on me. :p
I was wondering if it had something to do with Kenickie... Seems that I was right :lol: (We just performed Grease at school, so I've been thinking about it quite a lot lately :D)

[Artemis Noir]

Artemis is my favourite Greek goddess. Unlike most of the female pantheon she is not one-dimensional in that she doesn't really fit into the beautiful/intelligent or maiden/matron/promiscuous dichotomies. Rather she is very complex, at once representing childbirth, the moon, hunting and virginity (though her virginity is actually debatable as it has been convincingly argued that she simply did not have a regular consort)

It was Artemis who transformed a hunter into a stag after he dared to gaze upon her while she was by a pool bathing nude, His hounds tore him apart...

"Noir" I just like the sound of, as many here will know, it means "Black" in French, and I have an interest in the darker side of human nature sometimes, so it fits. It is also half of the email handle used by one of my closest friends, so it is, in part, a homage to him ;)

[Mehrune Dagon]

Well my name comes from a video game. I kinda thought it would ahve been taken, but i guess not. Mehrune Dagon is a powerful leader of a dark force called the Deadra from the Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion.
I was gonna use my gamer tag from Xbox Live, but i didnt want to. Whatever, Whatever, i do what i want

[Video Drone]

My name originally came from the 1983 thriller Videodrome by David Cronenberg, one of my favorite movies of all time, except I made it Video Drone so that it would be a bit different and fit my StarCraft profiles as a Zerg player...

[BlueSkyGB]

Mine has a couple of meanings for me...the most obvious is to an old song that I love.:)

[kathycf]

Mine has a couple of meanings for me...the most obvious is to an old song that I love.:)

Must be the Allman Brothers, no? "You're my blue sky, you're my sunny day..." I like that song.

Unless you are an Irving Berlin fan? :lol: (well, it isn't funny to be an Irving Berlin fan...I like his stuff too.)

I posted earlier about my nickname, it is utterly mundane...because Kathy is actually my name. :)

[Video Drone]

Mine has a couple of meanings for me...the most obvious is to an old song that I love.:)Which song, though? The only Blue Sky that I know of is the one from the A-Ha band. :)

[stella]

my nickname is taken from "Great expectations" by dickens ;"Estella" but i removed the E so it starts with an s because my real name starts with an S.

[Idril]

Mine has a couple of meanings for me...the most obvious is to an old song that I love.:)

When I saw your name, I thought of Pink Floyd's Goodbye Blue Sky, it fits in an inverted sort of way.

[andave_ya]

old song? As in, Bing Crosby's Blue Skies? The movie that I haven't found that has Bing and Fred together?

[BlueSkyGB]

No, sorry....no one got it here, although...wink wink, Haven knows :blush:

Actually its from the Allman Brothers Band....studio version very good..
but fell in love with an old live version, that had Duane playing on it before he died. Wonderful guitar work.:D

PS....Kathy got it too!!

[kathycf]

No, sorry....no one got it here, although...wink wink, Haven knows :blush:

Actually its from the Allman Brothers Band....studio version very good..
but fell in love with an old live version, that had Duane playing on it before he died. Wonderful guitar work.:D

PS....Kathy got it too!!

Heh heh, I thought it was the Allman brothers. Based on what little I know of you, that song just seemed a natural. (I know Haven knows you better) :)

Are you sure you are not a closet Irving Berlin fan? "Blue skies smiling at me....nothing but blue skies do I see!" :p

[BlueSkyGB]

Heh heh, I thought it was the Allman brothers. Based on what little I know of you, that song just seemed a natural. (I know Haven knows you better) :)

Are you sure you are not a closet Irving Berlin fan? "Blue skies smiling at me....nothing but blue skies do I see!" :p

Well being an ex-music major in college, I have to say that I do appreciate Berlin, and the others people have mentioned here.....but its the blues that speak to my soul...:)

[Anza]

Anza is shoet for Esperanza: Spanish for hope. My other nickname is Hooseki Kajihana: Japanese for Jewel Fireblossom

[aabbcc]

Anastasie is one of my given names.

[verum]

Verum is latin for truth, and all i look for in the world. I thought it appropriate.

[tractatus]

From a text, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Wittgenstein.

[prema]

Prema is my yoganame. In sanskrit it means love.

[Granny5]

My name is Granny5 because I'm the granny of 5...it means I'm an old woman.

[SeeGee]

My nickname indicate my initials: SeeGee = CG

[Homyrrh]

'Tis an eternal whisper always heard unclearly...if at all.

[Selkie]

My Grandmother was Scottish and she used to tell me stories about the Selkie's. I love the ocean and I'm a bit shy so it seemed appropriate, and it's nice to be reminded of my Grandmother and her stories. I also just love the sound of the word as well.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/selkie.html

[Prole]

My nick is a reference to 1984 and my political beliefs, which I'll spare these forums!

[sprinks]

My friend saw the movie The Benchwarmers and the boy had the nickname Sammy Sprinkler and so since my friends often call me Sammy she made the natural progression of adding on the Sprinkler, which then became Sprinkla (its a bit more feminine and I'm a female so yeah) and then eventually it just became sprinks

But I have NOTHING in common with the character in that movie, I'm like the complete opposite really!

[lucidnightmares]

I can`t believe i just found this.
just a nightmare that the victim has control over, a nightmare that i willingly create i guess.

[asilef73]

asilef is my real named spelled backwards and 73 is the year i was born.

[Serieve]

Sadly, there's not much behind my name except that I made it up for a character, who is sadly not on paper, and may never be. She's a bit on the depressing side, and I was thinking of the word "grieve," because it suits her, and so I just added the "Ser" and got "Serieve."

I googled it once to see if anyone else had come up with it, and found that one person had gotten it by joining the title "Sir Reeve," which I though was a bit cooler than what I had done. I guess their intuition led them to spell it the same way, too. The other results were just websites in a foreign language, so... may it means something else. I don't know.

[Classrocker24]

classrocker24...had it forever and ever, and i kinda like it so im stickin to it...

lets see, the classrocker is because when i made it i was the only person in my small middle school class to like classic rock, and the 24 is my birthday, my lucky number, and my favorite number...i know, pretty lame, but there you have it...

[natasssha]

Natassha , But who knows it's meaning , I just named myself , hahaha lolllllllll

[Lulim]

Natasha – with only one 's' – means: born on Christmas …

My nickname, Lu Lim is a Star in the Constellation Virgo, commonly called "Delta Virgo", but in some places Lu Lim, which means something like Stag — not that I have anything in common with a stag, it just sounds so nice …

[natasssha]

Thanks a lottttttttttt Lulim to inform me abt this , your nick name is nice ,have a nice day

[Amundsen]

Amundsen. A lot of people thinks it is from name of vodka, but it's from name of explorer. (I hope that this sentence is correct)

[NotWoodhouse]

My name is Emma. Jane Austen has a book by the same name in which the main character is Emma Woodhouse. To prove what complete geeks that my friends and I are, we spent a whole day comparing each other to literary characters. I didn't wish to be compared to Emma Woodhouse; hence, NotWoodhouse

[prema]

:cold: Well Amundsen, you probably know that the explorer was Norwegian, and that his first name was Roald?

[Alias10]

Alias: False name....Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ~W.H. Auden

[Lulim]

Amundsen. A lot of people thinks it is from name of vodka, but it's from name of explorer. (I hope that this sentence is correct)
Weird thought to connect Amundsen with an alcoholic drink … of course, it is the explorer, that rival of the unfortunate Mr. Scott in the race to the Southpole!

[Amundsen]

:cold: Well Amundsen, you probably know that the explorer was Norwegian, and that his first name was Roald?

Yes I know this.

[Anza]

Anza is short for esperanza; in spanish it means "hope"

[kelby_lake]

Yes, having read a thread about the significance of real names, I decided to find out the significance of usernames. Why did you choose what you chose?

Me, I chose kelby_lake, because the first is my nickname and the latter is what I wanted to call my daughter when I was little (if i had one)

[Scheherazade]

A similar thread: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24808&highlight=nickname

[kelby_lake]

ah bien!

[metal134]

Heavy Metal. If you don't like heavy metal, then you suck. :)

No seriously, if you don't then you do. Just kidding. But you do.

[Tournesol]

I chose 'Tournesol' because it's French for 'sunflower'.

When I was in high school, an old beau used to call me 'sunflower', and by and by, it stuck. I used the French version, because it's more interesting.

[that old beau is now one of my best friends!]

[blazeofglory]

My real name is Haribol Acharya. I chose this for a simple reason that life is the blaze of glory. Indeed I want to blaze the path and that is why this title wooed me.

Indeed this title or surname mirror the man I am and this represents the present patterns of thoughts I live with.
In my opinion names should represent personalities and therefore names have the substances or the stuffs one is.

There is mismatch between names and the kind of acts one does in point of fact and this naming is a kind of correction of all that way.

That is why I chose the name I use to present.

[mickitaz]

Me.. I chose this name cause Micki is the name of my dog.
And Taz is the name of one of my cats.

thus Mickitaz. My "children".

[aeroport]

Uhh, my name is James Ian, and I thought it would be neato to stick'em 2gethr...

[Joreads]

This name was given to me really. As a child I would often here my mum say oh Jo reads, it became a nick name from there.

[mortalterror]

Why mortalterror? Sheer laziness, I guess. I couldn't think of anything original that I'd like to stick with so I went with an old user name I came up with years ago. I think I was under the influence of Hunter S. Thompson at the time, and the handle reflected my current world view.

[johann cruyff]

I usually try to keep the same username for all forums I take part in,since there are quite a few - it's easier for me to remember:)

However,the first time I chose johann cruyff,it was simply because he's my favourite football (not soccer!!!) player of all time,and a symbol of elegance and skill.So...yeah,some 5-6 years later,I still use the same username in all forums I visit.

[dramasnot6]

Uhh, my name is James Ian, and I thought it would be neato to stick'em 2gethr...

:lol:

[Reccura]

Lain gave them to me when I was... 11? Reccura ^^ from my favorite anime show xD

[Newsun]

Newsun - Stolen (kind of) from an album title. I like it, it's a reminder of new beginnings, new possiblities, new days. Good enough for me.

[aeroport]

And here I've been thinking it was because of a fondness for the work of Henry James! LOL

Don't be deceived! :D

[sprinks]

I've stated my reasons before in the other thread about usernames... And also told the story to anybody who asked... But I shall tell it again for the fun of it :p

Part 1... "Sprinks"

Well my name is Samantha and so some friends call me Sam or Sammy, and the movie The Benchwarmers has a character named Sammy Sprinkler, so one of my friends began calling me Sammy Sprinkler. Eventually it got shortened to Sprinkler... Then to Sprinkla... Then to Sprinks. So due to the sheer laziness of my friends I ended up being called Sprinks.

But then Part 2 of the story... "Sprinks the Fish"...

See at school we have water fountains, and when you use 2 or more at the same time the water pressure changes. So my friends decided it would be fun to keep messing with the water pressure whilst I was drinking and then according to them I was attempting to breathe the water, hence being called "Fish"... Then later changed to "Sprinks the Fish"

[Sir Bartholomew]

in woolf's Orlando and Between the Acts there's these characters Bartholomew. i like the name. i added a sir to make it sound better.

[blazeofglory]

Choosing a surname has a lot to do with what you identify yourself in fact. Your name was not chosen by you. Now you choose yours in order that it reflects your beliefs and faiths.

In fact many do not like their names for they were given by others.

[kasie]

Choosing a surname has a lot to do with what you identify yourself in fact. Your name was not chosen by you. Now you choose yours in order that it reflects your beliefs and faiths.

In fact many do not like their names for they were given by others.

You may have a point, Blaze - my (given)name is Kay, just that, nothing more. My mother decided before I was born that baby should have a name that couldn't be shortened - she looked at her family and realised that all her nine brothers and sisters had nice, ordinary names, but none were called by their names, all had shortened versions, James was Jim, Catherine was Kit, Margaret was Peg, and it came to her that the name she had in mind, Susan, would become at best Sue and at worst Susie, which she instantly disliked. So she informed my father they had to settle on something that couldn't be shortened, and they came up with Kay for a girl, Roy for a boy.

I don't actually dislike Kay (it doesn't take long to fill out forms!) except that it must have been a popular name at the time because there were five other girls with the name in my year at school. Then along came this dashing, bearded sea-farer who stole my time away, as the song has it, and he turned Kay into kasie in a moment of endearment - and kasie I have stayed ever since, in my mind at least. Also, like Johann Cruyff (and I did wonder about the footballing reference - he was indeed an elegant player) I keep the name in other forums in case I forget who I am supposed to be wherever I am viewing.

[TH3 HAT3D ON3'S]

My mans nickname is THE HATED ONE, I chose to do his because I love him and It means Hated by all, yet Loved by one- me

[Shannanigan]

Well, I did post this story in a past thread, but I can't seem to find it...and there's so many new people since I've left, what's the harm in telling it again?

I was in 9th grade, and my mother didn't get off work til 5 every afternoon, so school would let out at 3 and I'd just hang out with my friends Alex, Edgar, and Joe.

We made up a drug called "Schnooze." Totally fictional, we were totally not druggies, we were just bored and liked to mess with people. We'd ask other kids, all secretively, if they had any schnooze, and it was funny as hell to watch the kids try to make it seem like they knew what it was ("Naw, man, sorry, ain't got nothin on me.") lol

Anyway, my friend Edgar decided that if we were gonna be tryin to deal schnooze we should have "secret code names." He dubbed himself Schnedgar, Alex became Schnalex, Joe was Schnoe, and me, Shannon...well...he had trouble for a minute, stuttured, then yelled "Shannanigan!"

Nearly 8 years later, and the nickname still sticks. I even have it written in vinyl across the back glass of my car, lol, and a friend who makes keychains made one with that name on it for me :D

There's my story...again!

[Pensive]

Hey, welcome back, Shannanigan! Yeah, I remember your story. Where have you been all this time?

[schadenfreude]

Sadly, the origin of my username is not very imaginative. I was looking up the definitions to words i didn't know while joining a whole lot of forums and such, and I just happened to come across 'schadenfreude' as I found this site. So now I have a whole lot of strange names in random sites, such as 'palimpsest' and 'atheroschlerosis', only I cannot remember which sites I registered for.

[muhsin]

Its my name and I very much like it. And thus, I even vow to name my first born baby, inshaAllah, when I get one.

[Shannanigan]

Hey, welcome back, Shannanigan! Yeah, I remember your story. Where have you been all this time?

Hi Pensive! Good to see you're still around! I've been student teaching, and tutoring...and, oh yeah....taking courses. Way too busy for my own good, especially since my boyfriend and I have been building an apartment.

BUT...all that is done now :D Moved into the apartment, graduating soon, and applying for a teaching job. Woot! I'm back!

[_Shannon_]

Ummm..it's my name :D

[dancingowl]

my english nickname has the similar meaning with my chinese nickname
"跳舞的猫头鹰“

[Rakthor]

My nickname is a mutation of the name "Thogar" somehow. Thogar was a ficitonal Viking that my friend and I created. It's my username for just about everything these days.

[Tiny Dancer]

Wellllllllll
My nickname is a song by Elton John
Not that much of a fan of his stuff but Tiny Dancer is beautiful.. it makes me cry almost everytime. It is also featured on the movie Almost Famous (one of my favourites) I'm a great lover of music (from the sixties and seventies) and it basically rules my life. Every log in name i have (even my email) has something to do with music..
*sigh*
Haha you know i read this whole thread because you guys keep straying off topic and it is hilarious.
:D

[sofia82]

Sofia is a variation of Sophia, the goddess of wisdom, in Greek mythology. And 82 is my birthdate.

[Page Sniffer]

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven...

My nickname? Well, I love all books, always have. I especially love the way they are made, the texture of the bindings, and pages of a really well made book. I love the wise musk of old books, and the fresh scent of new ones. Peace to us all -- Carl :D

[jaywalker]

mine means what it says:-It's my country and I walk where I please.

[ampoule]

ampoule is French for lightbulb. :idea:

[Anatoliy]

my nickname is my real name :)

[Ethan Roy]

my nickname is my real name :)

as is mine:D

[jaywalker]

Anza is short for esperanza; in spanish it means "hope"


Anza-Does it mean 'to Wait' also ?

[addictedtobooks]

My nickname is very simple, altough it has no meaning.

[Argus]

Argus is Odysseus's dog.

[Mr. Vandemar]

Vandemar is a lean, mean, *** kicking machine from Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

[TurquoiseSunset]

It's based on my favourite colour - turquoise... and Sunset includes all the other colours I love as well. And together it just makes me think of a beautiful South African summer sunset - and that's how I chose my avatar :)

[sprinks]

It's based on my favourite colour - turquoise... and Sunset includes all the other colours I love as well. And together it just makes me think of a beautiful South African summer sunset - and that's how I chose my avatar :)

I like your username, and your avatar as well. Very beautiful and calm sounding/looking :)

[TurquoiseSunset]

Thanks!! :D That's what home looks like to me... Isn't it beautiful? :)

[Saladin]

I think most people knows what my nick "means".;)

[Guinivere]

My own name Jennifer derived from the celtic origin of Guinivere who was King Arthurs beloved according to legend.

[qimissung]

My username means 'snowbound' in Inuit. While this is the case, I chose the name for an e-mail account about five years ago, because I liked the name, and so, on the internet, I've been Qimissung ever since. I usually write it in lowercase, but either way is fine.

[Dinglingzi]

it's my real name ~

[scull]

1. A long oar used at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
2. One of a pair of short-handled oars used by a single rower.
3. A small light racing boat for one, two, or four rowers, each using a pair of sculls.

[BulletproofDork]

it's my real name ~

You're kidding! ;)

[mickitaz]

The name of two of my kids.. Micki is my Shetland Sheepdog.. and Taz is one of my housecats. I have two other cats.. Spaz, who is Taz's brother; and Serena. I needed a password one day and ran out of ways to jumble my husband's name.. and I came up with Mickitaz... it is my handle on all my im's and any other forums I am on ;)

[djy78usa]

my screen name is pretty boring... I just used my AOL screenname. Its my initials, followed by my old football number and then my country.

[firefangled]

I need to get out more! :lol:

There are so many threads I have never visited. This one is interesting to see the basis for all the avatar names.

Mine comes from the last stanza of Wallace Stevens's Of Mere Being.

The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird’s fire-fangled feathers dangle down.

[cipherdecoy]

I thought it would be interesting to know what made you choose your usernames, especially the quirky ones.

As for me, well it doesn't mean much, but it came to my head when I was trying to think of a blog address, and I just liked the way it sounded although it's starting to sound lame to me :goof:

[idiosynchrissy]

idiosyncrasy + chrissy = idiosynchrissy

[Janine]

hahaaha - I am real clever...it is my actual name! Good idea for a thread though, since I would like to know what some of the names mean, also.

[JBI]

Jonathan Ben-Israel

[eyemaker]

I love eyes! Especially when I'm making art works and drawings I really love taking-time doing the eyes..for me, beautiful eyes in a drawing makes it more catchy..:)

[wilbur lim]

My username is my genuine name.

[grace86]

Hehe I'm oh so very creative too it seems. Mine is my middle name and my birth year.

See I love my middle name and well, I've never really used it much so I decided I'd like to be referred to as Grace.

[InspireMe]

when i first joined this forum, my summer was simply lousy. i was unmotivated, lost, and looking for something new. so i was searching for inspiration through the observation of others and i created this username as a cry for help. and i'm not sure what it was, possibly through time a realization that it's my own fault my summer was so lame and i can only help myself in times like this, but i've been more motivated to do more things. as well as maintaining a positive attitude. phew, so much for a username, right? :D

[clumsy angelle]

I chose clumsy angelle as my screen name partly because I've always viewed myself as a clumsy, accident-prone girl. I then added angel since I haven't heard of such angels described as such. Hence, I decided to add 'le' to angel since angelle really is my second name. I've always preferred my first name but I think my second name in a way reflects my other self that I can share through this threads...

[Katia]

Well, mine's easy. It isn't my actual name, but a greek nickname for my first name. I really like it, and most people in my life, unless they're my family, don't really know it so I thought it'd be good to use it here :)

[mangueken]

mangue is from a Brazilian form of rock music, mangue beat. mangue is the mud where the crabs bury themselves. and Ken is my real name.

[mona amon]

Mona is my real name, and amon is an anagram of Mona, chosen specifically for a Harry Potter forum which I joined because the character Amon of the animated series 'Witch Hunter Robin' reminded me of a young Severus Snape, my favourite character from Harry Potter.

I tried to use just 'Mona' as a user name when I joined here but it was already taken or something, so I stuck to mona amon. :)

[Gobbo]

Comedic interlude in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'

His Father, Old Gobbo, was Lancelot's Father in another story.


The reason I picked this name? I have no idea, I don't care about any of that stuff.

[princesspoppi]

Poppi is my childhood nickname and I have always wanted to be a princess, so.........princesspoppi

[hera-on-earth]

Hera has always interested me... shrewd and cunning and beautiful too!! but since im quite different from her [or so i would like to believe:D], i decided to be the hera-on-earth... not one from Olympus!:brow:

[blazeofglory]

Surname? I am Acharya and it stands for many things in our cultures. Acharya means Guru, someone who has mastered the science of spirituality or one who has attained something spiritually uplifting is called Acharya.

[Expecting rain]

Mine is taken from Desolation Row by Bob Dylan:

All except for Cain and Abel
and the Hunchback of Notre Dame
everyone is either making love
or else expecting rain

[BlueSkyGB]

Mine is taken from Desolation Row by Bob Dylan:

All except for Cain and Abel
and the Hunchback of Notre Dame
everyone is either making love
or else expecting rain


Love it.....:D

I remember when I first saw your username and I thought Hmmmm, no way..

[Equality72521]

Equality72521 is from Anthem by Ayn Rand, it's the name of the main character while he is under complete control from the governing body

[librarius_qui]

Librarius is an imaginary word for both livreiro (Bookman, in Portuguese) & librarian (English word). I did not think about the English word, when I made this 'eke up ... Or, if I did, I though that I would always be Roman (even if Roman Portuguese, even if American Portuguese (i. e., Brasilian)) before being English ever, so, I meant a livreiro! "One certain bookman" ... It's my current (first & only) msn.

It's like ferrarius, in Latin. Only, ferrarius is a man who deals with ferrus, iron, and librarius, a man who deals with books.

Ferrarius, in Portuguese is ferreiro. Which I am, as well. A blacksmith of words. I used this 'eke, in a forum, in Portuguese before moving here ...

Maybe someday, I'll turn into using my own name, which is pleasant to me. This forum has to captivate me before I do that.


& Possibly vice-versa.


librarius
klicky

[maraki16]

maraki is familiar to those who are from greece. it derives from the name maria(well, i believe that almost everyone around the globe is familiar with this!), it is a diminutive with which my friends often call me.the number 16 comes from the date of my birth, the 16th of september.

[bree]

mine is my daughters name

[zolasdisciple]

im a huge zola fan and i study his novels and philosophy and hes my fav author so i thought id paid homage to the master.

[weltanschauung]

"he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow"

[billyjack]

the movie, naturally. in retrospect its a cheezy piece of student film dribble, but at one point in my life i thought billyjack was a sage

[browneyedbailey]

Equality72521 is from Anthem by Ayn Rand, it's the name of the main character while he is under complete control from the governing body

omg, i totaly loved that book. i finished it not too long ago.

my username is like a cross between my true eye color and my first name.
browneyed-bailey
it's also my email.

[Mr Hyde]

I have two personalities. ( One not so friendly.)

[Cellar Door]

according to tolkein, cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in the english language... and i agree; i like the way it sounds if you say it enough times without thinking about what it means...

[billyjack]

according to tolkein, cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in the english language... and i agree; i like the way it sounds if you say it enough times without thinking about what it means...

drew barrymore also refers to cellar door as the most beautiful english phrase in Donnie Darko

[papayahed]

the movie, naturally. in retrospect its a cheezy piece of student film dribble, but at one point in my life i thought billyjack was a sage

billyjack?

I thought it was from the Steve Miller song...

[glory]

Glory... It's self-explanatory:D

[Josef K]

Main character from The Trial (http://www.amazon.com/Trial-Franz-Kafka/dp/0805210407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224750683&sr=1-1) by Franz Kafka. Had an experience with the american judicial system that was quite similar to his.

[crystalmoonshin]

I'm supposed to be crystalmoonshine, the letters are my initials. Then again, there's a certain limit to the number of characetrs for one's username and I can't think of anything so I decided to just drop the e and voila, crystalmoonshin... <sob!>

[Emil Miller]

It's my name. Why would I use anything else ?

[librarius_qui]

It's my name. Why would I use anything else ?


So as to be (or try to be) anonymous! :idea:


:crash:

[Emil Miller]

So as to be (or try to be) anonymous! :idea:


:crash:

Why would I want to be annonymous on this web site? I have nothing to hide in my opinions concerning literature.
Where I have used a pseudonym is in my writing and that's because a number of the characters in my novel Pro Bono Publico are based on people I have known and who might not be too pleased in identifying themselves should they come into contact with the book.

[RG57]

The intials of my name and the year of my birth, nothing to complex in that one and the avatar represents my first name.

[Viola Hathaway]

'Viola' after the most divine of stringed instruments, that happy medium between a violin and a cello, which I happen to play. 'Hathaway' from the name of Shakespeare's wife. My username combines two of the most vital elements of my life: music and literature.

[librarius_qui]

Why would I want to be annonymous on this web site? I have nothing to hide in my opinions concerning literature.
Where I have used a pseudonym is in my writing and that's because a number of the characters in my novel Pro Bono Publico are based on people I have known and who might not be too pleased in identifying themselves should they come into contact with the book.

Because they'd be different from you? . . .



The intials of my name and the year of my birth, nothing to complex in that one and the avatar represents my first name.

It does feel like R2D2, though ... :D

[Behemoth]

The amazing talking cat from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

[oopsycandy]

Oopsy is from oopsy daisy a character from the childrens program In the night garden and Candy is what everyone I know calls me.

[subterranean]

I have two personalities. ( One not so friendly.)

I suppose Mr. Jekyll doesn't really like foruming.

[weltanschauung]

http://www.quizilla.com/user_images/C/chaotician/1125139889_esauron400.jpg

[Remarkable]

I'm an easily amazed person.I find things often remarkable and I fall in love with what is beautiful,has content,in short,is purely human and worldly(in the good sense of the words).

[LostPrincess13]

LOL! I remember quite a numbe rof people who asked me this question. Librarius is one of them.:D
Well, I've always fantasized about being a princess when I was a child. *blushes*
Lost because I feel I'm on a journey to self-discovery, but my path isn't all that clear yet.
And 13 because it's my favorite number.:D

[librarius_qui]

LOL! I remember quite a numbe rof people who asked me this question. Librarius is one of them.:D
Well, I've always fantasized about being a princess when I was a child. *blushes*
Lost because I feel I'm on a journey to self-discovery, but my path isn't all that clear yet.
And 13 because it's my favorite number.:D

I did--


Why girls always wish to be princesses? Boys don't like to be princes. We're more likely to wish to be dragons! kkKkk


L#

[LostPrincess13]

I did--


Why girls always wish to be princesses? Boys don't like to be princes. We're more likely to wish to be dragons! kkKkk


L#

I guess it makes us feel special...:blush:

[librarius_qui]

I guess it makes us feel special...:blush:

That's all right. Only, you're probably suffer much more thinking like this. You'll have to deal with frogs ...

And dragons.

[LostPrincess13]

That's all right. Only, you're probably suffer much more thinking like this. You'll have to deal with frogs ...

And dragons.


I don't like frogs...:(

Dragons I can live with.:D

[weltanschauung]

I don't like frogs...:(

Dragons I can live with.:D

not even the hypnotoad???
http://mandawevos.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/hypnotoad.gif


and just out of curiosity... dragons in chinese horoscope (http://www.usbridalguide.com/special/chinesehoroscopes/Dragon.htm)

[sprinks]

not even the hypnotoad???
http://mandawevos.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/hypnotoad.gif

I love hypnotoad :D
such preeetttty eyessss...

[librarius_qui]

I love hypnotoad :D
such preeetttty eyessss...

Now, will ye *kiss* him? :D

[The Comedian]

I named my persona after the deadest guy in Watchmen.

[seanlol]

mine is my name with lol at the end simply because i am lazy and unoriginal.

:)

[weltanschauung]

I named my persona after the deadest guy in Watchmen.

"i guess he finally reached the punchline, huh?"
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/facist_jockitch/cmx/comedian.jpg

[The Comedian]

"i guess he finally reached the punchline, huh?"
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/facist_jockitch/cmx/comedian.jpg

:) Yep. That's the joker I'm talkin' about.

[Blasarius '33]

Some of you have names I recognize, but most don't. How about sharing why you chose your board name and what it means, if you're inclined.

Mine is from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The otherwise unnamed protagonist is mockingly referred to as "young Blasarius yonder," by Judge Holden. He was born during the Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833.
The novel has two of my all-time favorite characters in it, Judge Holden and The Kid/Blasarius, so it's no surprise I picked one of them.

[Drkshadow03]

I started by sacrificing a goat to Cthulhu, watched the entrails slide out of the belly and sizzle in the hungry flames, while my girlfriend at the time chanted satanic verses in the background. I begged the Old Ones in an eldritch voice to tell me the greatest user name possible. The words took shape in the dirty red muck that had spilled onto the ground from the goat carcass. It spelled: SillyinPink672.

So then I just decided to go with my old user name from my AOL days, after all.

[mortalterror]

"It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies!"

When I was 18 my favorite movie was Apocalypse Now. I misheard some of the dialogue. Now, it seems like a really stupid name for a person as old as myself to have, but I'm kind of stuck with it on this site.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I started by sacrificing a goat to Cthulhu, watched the entrails slide out of the belly and sizzle in the hungry flames, while my girlfriend at the time chanted satanic verses in the background. I begged the Old Ones in an eldritch voice to tell me the greatest user name possible. The words took shape in the dirty red muck that had spilled onto the ground from the goat carcass. It spelled: SillyinPink672.

So then I just decided to go with my old user name from my AOL days, after all.

:smilielol5: Oh man, Darkshadow, that's the funniest thing I've read on LitNet in quite some time. Well done!

My name is Latin for something about change that needs to be made. I don't feel like looking up the term. Truth be told, I got it from a Mudvayne song; I don't know any Latin. I just thought it sounded cool. It should be "Mutatis-Mutandis," but when registering, I forgot the last 's'. It still pisses me off every time I see my misspelled username :flare:. I've actually considered making a new username several times.

If I could rename myself, I'd probably go with Spiritus_Mundi, or Drezin (a name I made up a while ago that I just like the sound of). But, we must put our dreams away.

[JuniperWoolf]

Juniper is my favorite word and Woolf was the name of the study hall that I hung out in at the time that I joined litnet.

[Dark Muse]

Usually whenever I join a forum or such online I just use the same name all the time, which is a sort of alternative name of mine, but every now and than I decide to try on something different.

This was one of those times. In choosing a name for myself I usually like to come up with something that is both at least somewhat relevant to the forum I am joining, as well as being unique and connecting to me personally.

So I used Muse both as the literary/creative influence, as well as because of my general interests in mythological subjects, and Dark is the best singular word to describe me.

It also does reflect that fact that in most of my own writing ventures, my inspirations typically to lean towards the dark side, thus my own personal muse is indeed a very dark muse. And the name has a certain gothic allure to it.

[mayneverhave]

mayneverhave was my AIM name from early high school. I pulled it from a line of E.E. Cummings, who was my favorite poet at the time, and now I can't remember what poem it was even from, nor do I even use AIM.

Truth be told, I really just wanted an AIM name without any stupid numbers in it, and though it sounds far too emo for me to be using now, 3 years and 700 posts later it's a bit too late to change.

[Jassy Melson]

My user name is an anagram of my real name. The letters are transposed in a pattern that's easy enough to figure out if you're so inclined.

[Lokasenna]

Whack my name into wikipedia, and you'll find it's the title of a famous poem from the Poetic Edda. Not only is a wonderful gem of poetry, but I thought the witty cut-and-thrust nature of the exchange it presents was suitable for an intellectual forum!

[kiki1982]

I am not so original, I'm afraid... Never been creative (that's why I read and do not write :D).

Kiki is an abbreviation of my name I use with foreigners because my original name is Germanic and impossible to pronounce in a nice way by most non-Germanic people. So I do not bother. I though of that name when I was still a small child of 3, I think. Obviously, I couldn't pronounce my own name either :lol:.

So, whenever I go on forums, I usually try the kiki-thing, but that one was already taken on this forum, so I added my birth year. It's a bit stupid, I know, but it's the only thing I could think of that I was sure of I would remember (because that's also a problem of mine).

[Seasider]

It reflects my location and brings back memories of many lovely childhood holidays. The South Coast of England where I live now is not my ideal seaside because it has shingle not sand. But it is maritime and that will do.

[togre]

Togre is handle I use pretty extensively on the internet. It is really an elision of T. Ogre.

I got this nickname year ago. I was visiting friends at college after having transferred to a different school. There were a handful of us playing Tekken (a fighting game). I was mostly a "button-masher" hitting controls at random and hoping for the best, until I found the character "True Ogre." He had one move where he flew backwards slowly while breathing out flames. It was a move I could control and my opponents couldn't counter and after using it three times in a match they would die. So I used it exclusively to the point of taking the fun out the game. They called me Ogre based off that.

When I returned to the school where I was enrolled I told the story and the nickname stuck. I am 6 ft. 3in., broad, uncomfortable around the humans and on occasion smell. I don't know why they would call me Ogre. The "T" stands for "the."

And that's a long story on something only I find truly interesting :)

[cyberbob]

I stole it from The Net starring Sandra Bullock cause it rolls off the tongue.

[Bustrofedon]

Who was Bustrófedon? Who was/is/will be Bustrófedon? Boustrophedon? Thinking about him is like thinking of the goose that laid the golden eggs, of a riddle with no answer, a spiral without end. He was Bustrófedon for all and all for Bustrófedon was he.

I don't know where the f*** he got that 7-plus-4-letter name from.

from Tres Tristes Tigres by G. Cabrera Infante

[Lokasenna]

I have just noticed a slightly horrific side-effect of picking the title of my favourite poem for a username. Whack it into Google, and my LitNet profile is the 18th hit.

Hmm, not too good... I'd rather people read the poem that looked at my drivel.

[KilgoreT]

Took mine from Kurt Vonnegut's oft-appearing side character, Kilgore Trout.

[Bustrofedon]

My user name is an anagram of my real name. The letters are transposed in a pattern that's easy enough to figure out if you're so inclined.

Sassy Meljon?? I didn't know that was you..Man, it's been a long time.

[stlukesguild]

The guild of Saint Luke was the medieval and Renaissance artist's guild. St. Luke had traditionally been chosen as the patron saint of artist due to a tale of his having painted a portrait of the Virgin and Child who came to him in a vision. This narrative was famously rendered by the painter, Rogier van der Weyden:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5094/5455766911_bf3540fc4a_z.jpg

As an artist fascinated with art history, the name seemed apt and I have used it on nearly any online site I participate on. I also admire the quality of the education and training... as well as the minimum standards of art that the guilds enforced for centuries as well as the fact that under the guilds a work of art was judged as art and not as a product of "self expression" by a specific individual. In other words, the "cult of personality" that leads collectors to shell out millions for works of art that are mediocre or even crap because of the signature is largely responsible for the fact that as Andre Malraux recognized, there were no medieval hacks, but we are inundated with them.

[the facade]

I started by sacrificing a goat to Cthulhu, watched the entrails slide out of the belly and sizzle in the hungry flames, while my girlfriend at the time chanted satanic verses in the background. I begged the Old Ones in an eldritch voice to tell me the greatest user name possible. The words took shape in the dirty red muck that had spilled onto the ground from the goat carcass. It spelled: SillyinPink672.

So then I just decided to go with my old user name from my AOL days, after all.

haha, good one.

mine is pretty self-evident - i put on a facade in real life much the same way i do on this forum. deep, i know.