How did you choose your screen name?
 

I'll go first.

I wasn't always SmartAZ, I used to be Wallstar. I didn't think about it, it was the first word that came to mind. It seemed like something I had seen every day.

Then it occurred to me that I didn't know exactly where I had seen it. I started looking for it.

It took a few days, but I finally found it. I was in the men's room at work. The screen in the urinal had the brand name Allstar. But from a certain angle, the reflection of the overhead light looked like a W in front of it, making it WAllstar. I had named myself after a urinal screen!

Back in the heyday of the Fido BBS, SmartAZ was the name of the board run by the Arizona chapter of Mensa. I never liked the board but I admired the name, so I swiped it.

You in AZ SmartAZ? That would make three of us is so. Whoohooo, lookout youse Pilly folks, we're coming up from behind you.

my name's jim, and i carry the "big wood" hence: lumberjim

big wood, huh? i just figured you were a big oaf who just sort of lumbered every where he went.

yeah, that's more accurate.

I started out with a login that incorporated my real name.

This was fine when access to The Cellar was via dialup modem. Upon reflection I decided it wasn't such a hot idea in the days of Google. (I can still read stuff I posted on Usenet from 1993.) So my current name honors a character from Bloom County, one of my favorite comic strips of all time.

Hint: Kenneth Rexroth

RL nick

Uh ... I'm English and this is an American board ...

kagen was a name i got back in my wiccan days, then i started using it for online games such as quake TF and starsiege tribes. in tribes i joined the clan [4o4] which made my name Kagen [4o4]. and its stuck ever since.

I read a book.

Prize if you can guess which one.

Where do I collect my prize?

Willing to travel?

My name is melida... I like dinosaurs... hence melidasaur.

plthijinx - pilot hi-jinx
big, ya know i've got the plane(s) so you can collect your prize if you choose!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More lyrics, then 7 minutes of music, then

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

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

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

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

maybe someone should start a new picture thread too

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please, for the love of God, No. :mg:

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

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

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

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

aww, i kind of miss the pic association thread

I thought that was pretty big of me, seeing as how I started the thread.

I am wolf.

You can ask anybody.

I just am.

This topic seems to come up about once a year. Like I said last year , I switched to my real name to support my personal interest in protecting free non-anonymous speech.

Cyclefrance owes its origins to my French cycling trips (now there's a surprise!)

I discovered Cellar after searching the web for more info on the giant puppets I stumbled upon in Amiens this year, at the end of my annual cycling holiday in north France. I have been doing these since 1999, usually with my cousin's now ex-husband, Paul, and they started off as a result of wanting to find a way to get around the WW! battlefields so as to appreciate the terrain but also to be able to cover a reasonable distance. Walking was too slow, Car was too fast. Cycling hit the button.

Neither of us had ridden bikes since being teenagers so it was quite an eye-opener to learn how unfit we both were (my first practise ride of only five miles saw me nearly collapsing when I got off the bike back home - my son thought I was having a coronary, but it was just jelly legs, and weak lungs!). After a few weeks 25 mile sessions were do-able, and 40 miles ones by the time we went.

The first year was the Somme, but pre digital camera days (I have plenty of 35mm pictures and still toy with the idea of scanning and backfilling to create websites for these earlier sorties). We enjoyed our first holiday so much that in 2000 we went to Ypres and Paeschendaele, then 2001 was Arras and Vimy Ridge (for the first time). We were also in France on a cycling day trip on 9/11 that year. 2002 we did two short trips: first one to the two V2 rocket sites near St Omer and the second for a spot of sand-yachting near Boulogne.

2003 saw the first digital photo record and the first website on Geocities. After a few attempts at other IDs, Cyclefrance2003 was the one that was accepted and so the Cyclefrance tag was born. Seemed only fair to use it on Cellar in view of the association with the Amiens puppets.

:king:Ok, jeeze. Good job...nice going... :gift: Here you go.:gift::gift::gift:

Mary Jane is my favorite person to hang out with.........so its just Mary Jane+Me.....kinda stupid I know.......But dont be hatin.....:joint: :rasta: :blunt: :apimp: :rainfro:

I think I mentioned this in a previous thread.

"Glatt" is German for "smooth." In college, my nickname was "smooth" and to a lesser extent, "glatt." Both were a variation of my actual last name. The added joke being that I was far from smooth.

old nick from a band i was in. i lack the ability to not fool around on my guitar during breaks between practice. they had it made into a label and put it on my guitar case. it's a lame nickname, but a fine internet handle.

i also get called 'dekken'. i think it's a play off 'dokken', who was a band i was keen on in the 80s. also a lame nick, but a fine WoW name. :lol:

'derek' doesn't lend itself to snappy alterations. 'dekken,' however, will come in handy if GH ever decides to become a norwegian death metal act.

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
--Bob Dylan

I always thought barefoot serpents would have been cooler...

Original name was e unibus plurum a spoonerism of the Latin phrase e pluribus unum meaning *from many, one* found on US currency.

Bernadette by chance?

My handle is a half of my CB handle (half because back in the dim mists of time many BBSs didn't allow spaces in UserIDs) and a reflection of the fact that I can't spell to save my life. Mitheral from mithril. The misspelling also turns my ID into something that is the perfect length as it meets both the must be 8 characters and can't be more than 8 characters that seem to be common requirements.

Worse.

Bernadette is actually kind of cute as there are several good nicknames you can generate from it.

No so for poor Brianna.

Bertha?

Bari? Bebe? Belle? Brie? Comeon girl, give it up. You can trust us not to laugh...your among friends.

Mine doesn't really signify anything other than the fact I was born in November. I made it up without giving it much thought when I joined another board where I thought my usual moniker might not be appropriate.

Mine comes from the fact that I'm the area problem solver.

I fix cars, computers, applainces, domestic problems, minor injuries, etc.

I'm the guy everybody ends up calling when official channels run dry. If I can't fix it or answer it, I know someone who can.

I would have to at least guess that it starts with an "L"

Could it be Agnes?

One of my best friends was also Irish Catholic and he got stuck with Ambrose. He'd die if anybody ever called him that.

I'm kinda round, and sometimes flaky. I also have 24 digits of pi memorized, but someone had that nick already...

How did you choose your screen name
 

swiped mine from a radio show...."From Be-Bop to Hip Hop" was da title :D

And do they actually play jazz from time to time, or is that marketing verisimilitude?

When the inchinchinch was a tiny tadger I was reading him Dr Seuss's foot book. A lot.
His favorite part was "Feet feet feet. How many different feet you meet" I assume it was his favorite part because he usually laughed at the way I said feet feet feet. (like you might say beep beep beep if you were imitating an impatient, but not angry driver.)

After reading the book for the 75th time that night I felt compelled to post and had to come up with a log in name, being sleep deprived I forgot that it was feet feet feet and not footfootfoot. Now it is too late to change. Oh, I could change nicks, but my post count would return to zero and then there'd be no chance of me being regarded as the attention whore I so sorely want to be.

[hijack]Best all time Dr Seuss read to SonofV was Green Eggs and Ham. We (me, but him too) read that book to death. We read it to each other. We read alternating pages. We read it backward (the literal truth, still a fun read). We read it with made up verses. We read it in a plane we read it in a train, ok, getting carried away here... sorry. The second runner up, and a close second at that is Fox in Socks. SonofV can read much better now, and can read that tongue tangler much better than I can. He gets a kick out of my tripping tongue, laughs, then schools me. *sigh* First Dr Seuss, then the basketball court, then... One of these days I'm gonna have to break out the ol' Old Age and Treachery, just to preserve my final shred of dignity.

God, I love reading with that boy, especially Dr Seuss. And Calvin and Hobbes. Ahhhh.
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Every now and again I get to borrow my friend's children and read them their bedtime story.

Sometimes they are able to convince Aunt Teeva that since there are two girls, they deserve two stories.

Back when I did Macintosh programming, I was reading a Mac programming magazine. There was a fairly dry technical article with a list of references at the end. Buried in the references was "Go, Dog, Go" by P. D. Eastman.

I wish I'd had the opportunity to meet this guy so I could shake his hand and tell him how much that tickled my funny bone.

Diedre?
Teresa?
Shannon?
Colleen?
Joan of Arc?

Maude?

Agnes? Angie?


Come on Bri your killing me. :)

if we do get it can we have an autographed picture, Bri?

Claudine?

MOLLY