What does your screen name mean?

[Jalhan]

Does your screen name have a certain meaning or connotation for you?

Mine the name of one of my characters who I love the most and I have used it as my screen name on every site that I have joined and have no plans to change this habit anytime soon.
So do you have a similar story behind your name, or is it just something you came up with on the fly?

[Pompey Bum]

Pompey Bum is a pimp in Shakespeare's neglected tragicomedy Measure for Measure. I intended resonance with the word "pompous," after my writing style, and the expression "pompous as s," which is one of the less likable aspects of my personality (or is it?) Shakespeare himself was probably playing off the name "Pompey the Great" to suggest that the character had a big rear, presumably from sitting around on it all day.

[Clopin]

Clopin Trouillefou is the kind of truands in Victor Hugo's, Notre Dame de Paris.

Because we're both mean >:U

[YesNo]

I came up with mine on the fly trying to decide if I should use my real name or not. Yes or no?

When I decided not to use my real name, I couldn't think of anything. Creativity took a dive. My muse went to sleep, but sleep is good for her. She needs her rest. While she wasn't looking, I came up with "YesNo".

[Lokasenna]

A senna is a quasi-ritualised flinging of insults in medieval Scandinavian literature, and Loka is the genitive form of the name Loki - so 'Loki's Insults' is probably the easiest translation.

I'm neither Loki-like, nor particularly insulting (except on my good days), but it's just the title of my favourite Old Norse poem.

[Emil Miller]

I took my pseudonym from a German called Müller, a character in Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage who anglicized his name.
I did toy with other literary figures but decided that if I used Lolita people might get the wrong idea.

[SilentMute]

Pompey Bum is a pimp in Shakespeare's neglected tragicomedy Measure for Measure. I intended resonance with the word "pompous," after my writing style, and the expression "pompous as s," which is one of the less likable aspects of my personality (or is it?) Shakespeare himself was probably playing off the name "Pompey the Great" to suggest that the character had a big rear, presumably from sitting around on it all day.

Oh, yay! You did explain! I replied to my birthday thread before coming here, by the way. Now I do vaguely recall Pompey. I read all the Shakespeare plays, but now I don't remember any of them except Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus. Titus horrified me, and Coriolanus made an impression on me.

As for my name, I took it when I was determined to join forums but not talk to anybody. What the point is that? Good question. I wasn't thinking clearly. I had joined a forum, and the moderator had started cyberbullying me...and that traumatized me. So I decided to take a vow of silence, and I chose the redundant name SilentMute. I didn't hold to my vow, though. It is amazing how something so traumatic at the time can become something you barely remember later.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"Gilliatt" is the protagonist in Hugo's Toilers of the Sea
"Gurgle" is what I imagined to be his last utterance.

[abnormalalien]

Abnormalalien was a name I came up with back in the days where AOL was dial-up and Yahoo chat rooms were the popular thing to do online.I guess I was old enough to feel like a misfit (thus abnormal) and young enough to make up stories about being extraterrestrial (thus alien). Even better, I've always had a love for alliteration.

[papayahed]

I was using my middle name for a while but then I wanted something with pizzazz. My Uncle's screen name was bushelhead and I liked the sound of that so I added a tropical twist and modified the last part to be a part of my middle name still.

[Clopin]

Abnormalalien was a name I came up with back in the days where AOL was dial-up and Yahoo chat rooms were the popular thing to do online.I guess I was old enough to feel like a misfit (thus abnormal) and young enough to make up stories about being extraterrestrial (thus alien). Even better, I've always had a love for alliteration.

Yahoo chat rooms were my first forays into semi-anoymous online messaging as well! Fun times, I wish Facebook hadn't all but destroyed traditional message boards/social websites.

[bounty]

I asked this question a bunch of years ago and its fun to see it back! and papayahed too!

mine comes from one of my favorite books, mutiny on the bounty.

[papayahed]

I asked this question a bunch of years ago and its fun to see it back! and papayahed too!

mine comes from one of my favorite books, mutiny on the bounty.

Hi bounty!! what you been up to?

[bounty]

well interestingly enough, I had been in Michigan working at a college for the past four years...but am back home in NY now, with some time on my hands and thus the return to the forums here. am glad as can be on that account. it makes me smile to see the usernames and avatars that I remember from a few years ago...