Your handle and why you picked it.

[beyelzu]

Ok,

Lots of people here have interesting handles just thought we could all share why we use the handle we currently use and if its the only handle we use and, finally, where the handle is derived from


Ill go first


1. many moons ago I wanted to sign up to play command and conquer red alert online. I wanted something irreverent but not retardedly obvious. I picked beelzebub but decided to go with a shortened, quasi-phonetic spelling. Using this handle also had the happy side effect of giving me obvious passwords that wouldnt be obvious to others. I generally use something about the devil or paradise lost and switch some of the letters to numbers.


2. I use this handle or a derivative of it everywhere.


3.beyelzu from beelzebub from baal zubub. literally lord of the flies.

[Farren]

I often wondered if there was a connection. Because of role playing games in my youth and, of course, reading William Golding's brill novel it was the first association that came to mind when I first saw your nick on IIDB.

The fascinating story behind my nick is that my parents named me Farren :)

[beyelzu]

I often wondered if there was a connection. Because of role playing games in my youth and, of course, reading William Golding's brill novel it was the first association that came to mind when I first saw your nick on IIDB. see that's the beauty of the name beyelzu, I doubt that christian forums would allow a mr satan, but beyelzu has an account over there. It is kind of funny though, I sometimes forget about the origins of the name I use and sometimes people get upset about it. I game my email address (beyelzu@hotmail.com at the time) to a boss who stared at it for a second and then asked me where it came from. I tied to use the old, he's a character in paradise lost dodge but he still didnt like it.

The fascinating story behind my nick is that my parents named me Farren :)
fascinating. I have also considered changing my name to my irl name of grady, but I am just too used to beyelzu.

are you named after anyone, or did your parents pull the name out of a hat?

[trendkill]

http://www.rockdetector.com/assets/resized/img/covers/25243-0-300-0-300.jpg

[Farren]

are you named after anyone, or did your parents pull the name out of a hat?

Farren: Welsh (Gaelic I think), usually a last name. It means "Manly" or "Bull herd" and couldn't be further from the truth.

[livius drusus]

Call me an idiot, but I had no idea about the beelzebub connection. I did gather that Farren was actually named Farren, however. That snake is kickass, trendkill.

Here's (http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BzrT87G8YmwJ:www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/CLASS_366/Drusus.html+%22m.+livius+drusus%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a) a cached version of my favorite online biographical source about Marcus Livius Drusus (the younger). He was the last Roman to try and implement peaceful reform of the Republic. This included an attempt to give Italians - who had been treated like chattel for hundreds of years - full Roman citizenship. He was naturally assassinated for his trouble, and his last words are among the coolest ever of all time.

I have a profound affection for class traitors and enfranchisers.

[LadyShea]

Lady: Term of endearment in my house like honey or pumpkin. It came from The Princess Bride "I found three white horses, and there are three of us if we find the lady. Oh, hello, Lady"

Shea: My late Rottweiler, O'Shea (RIP buddy) was laying at my feet when I was coming up with a name for II. I thought it went nicely with Lady as a title. I had probably been reading a fantasy series at the time.

[SharonDee]

My parents named me Sharon. My middle name starts with a 'D', my last name ends with a 'D', and I thought I'd use the Sandra Dee connotation.

Plus, I had divorced another 'D' man before marrying the current 'D' man. I wanted a name that would stay with me no matter my marital status and because of the middle name 'D', SharonDee would always fit.

Voo walla. :woopdedo:

[Dingfod]

beyelzu can always say "The name's beyelzu, Bub."

Sharon DeeDeeDee! HeeHeeHee



1. My mom named me after the mailman. Young farm wives can be quite lonely at times.

2. My middle name is Lee, my dad's best friend's name.

3. Merged together they become warrenly, which is what a number of relatives still call me.

4. Plus, there are the Warren's in government and history, think Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Chief Justice Warren Burger, and President Warren G. Harding, which, if I were to emulate I would become more warrenly, a lofty goal, don't you think?

5. It's also a takeoff on "war in lee", meaning peace.

6. It's also a takeoff on manly, which is what I am, if manly means a flighty moron that drinks lightweight beers and pretty pink drinks.

[Cool Hand]

What my handle means and where it comes from should be obvious. Cool Hand Luke is one of my favorite movies. I didn't call myself Cool Hand Luke because I used this name on another message board that already had a well known Luke, and I didn't want to create any confusion concerning our identities.

I really identify with Cool Hand Luke's fierce independence, his distrust of authority, and his unwillingness and even inability to conform to the expectations others tried to impose upon him. I'm a maverick myself.

Also, I play poker and get a great kick out of bluffing and winning with nothing (see my sig, which is of course a famous quote from the movie and how Luke got his nickname). It's one of the coolest things in the world.

Cool Hand

[Lauri D]

It be my name. I got kinda tired of the christ-on-a-stick handle used elsewhere (which was entirely off-the-cuff at the moment that I first chose it anyway).

[viscousmemories]

I couldn't think of a more effective way to make people conflate vicious and viscous.

Okay really I was trying to come up with an AIM name once upon a time, and since every name I usually use was unavailable, I stuck two words together that aren't exactly peanut butter and chocolate. It was born of frustration, really. So it's a fitting label for me.

[Farren]

It be my name. I got kinda tired of the christ-on-a-stick handle used elsewhere (which was entirely off-the-cuff at the moment that I first chose it anyway).

To be honest Lauri, I'm glad you dropped it (here at least). Since I personally (in real life and now online) know some very cool Christans, the name made me flinch when I thought about the nice people it might be offending.

I'll freely admit that it also made me laugh the first time I saw it (you may recall me sharing the "What's this...? A shit way to spend Easter" joke many moons back when commenting on your nick).

Of course, many Christians feel if you can mock your friends, you can mock God in the same friendly manner (one of the Catholic priests of my childhood, an old Bulgarian who had endured serious persecution before fleeing Bulgaria, scandalised his flock regularly by telling jokes many considered blasphemous, but he considered in the spirit of love and laughter). But sometimes the subtext of messages is lost online.

Considering your compassionate and generally loving nature I always thought the possible affront caused to some very sincere and lovely people was a shame, especially since some might assume you were among those people who are eaten up by anger and hatred for Christians, rather than someone who simply decided not to be one but still shared many of their more admirable values..

[Blake]

Well, I strive to be a say-who-you-are kind of guy, so that's the name I go by, as in it's what my parents have always called me. Not one of my three legal names, mind you; go figure. I did evolve into it; the first board I posted on was II, and everyone had clever allusive names; so I did my best and called myself "Bill the Cat" (love that Bloom County!). I always signed my posts "Blake," but motherfuckers kept replying and addressing me as "Bill," which pissed me off fierce after a while. So Blake I re-became and stayed. :)

[Farren]

I couldn't think of a more effective way to make people conflate vicious and viscous.

Okay really I was trying to come up with an AIM name once upon a time, and since every name I usually use was unavailable, I stuck two words together that aren't exactly peanut butter and chocolate. It was born of frustration, really. So it's a fitting label for me.

After trying Fish, Fluffy, Farren, Farren1, Farren2 (and so on), BigPig, Faf, Stinkypoo, Brainfart, Brainfart1, Brainfart2, Brainfart3 (and so on) I finally settled on Brainfart806 for AIM and MSN (8/06 is my birthday). Its unbelievable how almost every imaginable nick is taken on AIM. I mean, dammit, I've never had a problem registering as Farren on bb's.

[Ymir's blood]

The day I signed up at FF had otherwise been spent looking at Norse Mythology sites online. That evening, for some reason I thought about checking out this forum and decided to register. It had been my intent only to lurk so something other than my usual names (Pitshade or Heretic Priest) was in order. I picked Ymir as the name and character had always fascinated me. That by itself was too short so I brain stormed for an addition and came up with Ymir's Blood. In the myths, when Ymir was slain, his blood became the waters of the world.

:frozen:

[livius drusus]

It was the smilies that sucked you in, wasn't it?

[WinAce]

I always wanted to see a cutrate 1950s sci-fi movie with an improbably named character like that. Plus, to brag for a moment, I was really good at a game called Urban Assault on the MSN Gaming Zone, so when it became clear few players could rival me, much less win consistently, I dumped "Allan_Glenn" and adopted this handle. With few exceptions, I've used it ever since.

Then I found out it's also a file compression utility (http://www.winace.com/). Oh well, can't win them all.

[Adam]

It's...er...my name.

My title, although a lot of people here already know this, is my original user name from II and, in fact, my usual name in online games, fora, etc. It originated when I first met a guy who's now a good friend (and my current roommate), and his first reaction was, "Who's this pompous bastard?" It cracked me up, so I changed my Starcraft handle to PompousBastard, and I've been using it online ever since.

[Ymir's blood]

It was the smilies that sucked you in, wasn't it?
The smilies and a need to make short supposedly humorous comments.

[Ymir's blood]

I dumped "Allan_Glenn"
Hopefully not with a 'Dear John' letter.

[Adora]

It was a character's name from a Korean videogame I thought was cool. In the end, it actually turned out more true in regards to how I act online than many other pseudonyms I've used.

[BigBlue2]

Way back in the late 20th Century, I signed up on the now defunct USA Today message boards on a whim and had to come up with something quickly. So, I used the nickname of the company I worked for at the time (IBM). The name "BigBlue" was taken, so I tacked the "2" on at the end. The name grew on me and I've used it on every message board since.

[Gawen]

For many moons I played RPG's. Mostly AD&D. Then I found the wonderful world of online RP through one of the guys that played AD&D with me. Gawen is a Welsh/Gaelic name (a version of Gawain) I took in the last RP room I played in, which was medieval oriented. And at the time I was into the SCA...so it fit. I've been using Gawen for about 3 years now.

[Dingfod]

Gawen, how do you pronounce it? Gah-win or Gay-win or Gow-in?

[Leesifer]

My real name is Lisa. Hubby is Bill.

We were going to get two cats and call them Leesifer and Billzibub but actually got adopted by a black moggie already called Magic.

I thought Leesifer was quite cool - so use it on all the message boards that I very rarely post on.

[beyelzu]

Call me an idiot, but I had no idea about the beelzebub connection. I did gather that Farren was actually named Farren, however. That snake is kickass, trendkill.

Here's (http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BzrT87G8YmwJ:www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/CLASS_366/Drusus.html+%22m.+livius+drusus%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a) a cached version of my favorite online biographical source about Marcus Livius Drusus (the younger). He was the last Roman to try and implement peaceful reform of the Republic. This included an attempt to give Italians - who had been treated like chattel for hundreds of years - full Roman citizenship. He was naturally assassinated for his trouble, and his last words are among the coolest ever of all time.

I have a profound affection for class traitors and enfranchisers.

I had wondered about that.

Drusus is a fairly major character in McCollough(sp?) historical fiction The First Man in Rome, the Grass Crown and Caesar.* I have read about half of the books in that series, I havent read Sulla or October Horse.

*actually a character in one of them I cant remember which

[livius drusus]

I love those books, bey. I even gave them top marks in the OP of this thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=408) (which is from before you registered, I believe).

[beyelzu]

I couldn't think of a more effective way to make people conflate vicious and viscous.

truly, you must never get tired of the constant misreadings :D

Okay really I was trying to come up with an AIM name once upon a time, and since every name I usually use was unavailable, I stuck two words together that aren't exactly peanut butter and chocolate. It was born of frustration, really. So it's a fitting label for me.
actually one of the cool things about beyelzu is that it is possible to actually just make the one l two ls and it will take even at AIM.

[beyelzu]

It's...er...my name.

My title, although a lot of people here already know this, is my original user name from II and, in fact, my usual name in online games, fora, etc. It originated when I first met a guy who's now a good friend (and my current roommate), and his first reaction was, "Who's this pompous bastard?" It cracked me up, so I changed my Starcraft handle to PompousBastard, and I've been using it online ever since.
plus, you have the Pompous Bastard, Spider Jerusalem, as your avatar, which is very cool


Are you a fan of transmet and warren ellis?


Have you read bad worl?

[beyelzu]

I love those books, bey. I even gave them top marks in the OP of this thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=408) (which is from before you registered, I believe).
I posted over there about the books, trying to keep my thread on topic.

[JoeP]

My handle is my name. At hh I used my full name, here, I thought I'd be one iota more anonymous (and this was before finding all posts on google :D). At ii I use my full name but I don't post there so it's kind of irrelevant.

[pescifish]

Like viscousmemories, my nickname was created because all the good "fish" ones were taken at AOL/AIM. I am called "Fish" as often as not IRL; it is my name. In trying to come up with a sufficiently unique fishy name on AOL/AIM, I decided to try pescado for my Mexican half. Not surprising, many of those were taken as well. I ended up thinking fish-fish, with the "pesky" part coming from the Spanish and fish from English.

Yes, that's pronounced "pesky", as in pesky fish. Not like Joe Pesci.

Oh, and, for those of you who do know my first name, you probably also know that I prefer not to use it online since I'd just as soon not give away the whole kit'n'kaboodle on the Internet.

[nvexio]

nvexio studios is the name i brand on all designs i make (nvexio.com). i use nvexio for my handle for practically everything, it's just something almost everyone who knows me can connect with me.

the name nvexio basically came to be with me sitting on my couch, verbally saying one-syllable sounds/words, and stringing them together until i found something that i really liked, the end result ofcourse was nvexio...

[Gawen]

I've always said Gah-win. But I've heard it spoken as Gwen with a bit of emphasis yet a pause on the gah part. Kinda like GAwin said fast.

[Skep]

I am "one who is not a creduloid". :)

[beyelzu]

I am "one who is not a creduloid". :)
you know for a split second I thought you were actually banned.

Then I thought, what the fuck could you do to get banned, then I realized that user titles are whatever you want them to be and I laughed at my own credulity.

[Skep]

I am "one who is not a creduloid". :)
you know for a split second I thought you were actually banned.

Then I thought, what the fuck could you do to get banned, then I realized that user titles are whatever you want them to be and I laughed at my own credulity.
At the Skeptical Community forums, my title is Banned Aide. :D

[Dingfod]

I am "one who is not a creduloid". :)
you know for a split second I thought you were actually banned.

Then I thought, what the fuck could you do to get banned, then I realized that user titles are whatever you want them to be and I laughed at my own credulity.Me too, but I didn't post about it because I didn't want to appear more stupid than I already appear.

[viscousmemories]

At the Skeptical Community forums, my title is Banned Aide. :D
And mine, befitting an unmoderated forum, is Moderator. :D

[Socratoad]

Now my name: Second part first. I was a ward of the Children's Aid Society and was raised on a farm were I was pretty much a slave. Not being allowed to have either friends or pets I befriends a small lumpy bumpy toad. That little toad was my only friend until I saved the life of a little lame chicken and hid him away and then had the grand sum of two, count em, TWO friends. So that accounts for toad being in my handle.

This whole damned miserly miserable xtian community was also very anti-intellectual, and so at the age of thirteen I ran away to the big city (Toronto)

One of the most awe-inspiring events in my life both then and now was the
discovery of a large new library. All those wonder and wisdom filled books inspired the opiate of my life ....... learning ...... always learning.

One of the first great teachers I found within the covers of those books was old Socrates himself, arguably to this very day perhaps the greatest philosopher to have walked this planet, and certainly the the most accomplished teacher. And that accounts for the first part of my handle.

PS: Off topic, but goes with my first discovery of libraries. One need not choose one's parents, teachers or caregivers for one's roll models. I chose mine from within the covers of books. Thus, although I feel empathy for those that have had lousy childhoods I have very little patience for those that tend to say, "look at me I'm a real fuck-up, and there (pointing) are the twenty three reason's why." Of course first and foremost among their reasons for explaining their miserable outcome stands their parents.

[Skep]

At the Skeptical Community forums, my title is Banned Aide. :D
And mine, befitting an unmoderated forum, is Moderator. :D
Yeah, that started a bit of a contest with everyone trying to out-superior everyone else. :D Of course, as Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler and Emperor of All Raccoondom, I won. :yup:

[viscousmemories]

At the Skeptical Community forums, my title is Banned Aide. :D
And mine, befitting an unmoderated forum, is Moderator. :D
Yeah, that started a bit of a contest with everyone trying to out-superior everyone else. :D Of course, as Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler and Emperor of All Raccoondom, I won. :yup:
Y'know, I am so profoundly impressed and pleased that you remember that it was I who started that trend that I will now defer to your greatness.

:bow:

[beyelzu]

Now my name: Second part first. I was a ward of the Children's Aid Society and was raised on a farm were I was pretty much a slave. Not being allowed to have either friends or pets I befriends a small lumpy bumpy toad. That little toad was my only friend until I saved the life of a little lame chicken and hid him away and then had the grand sum of two, count em, TWO friends. So that accounts for toad being in my handle.

This whole damned miserly miserable xtian community was also very anti-intellectual, and so at the age of thirteen I ran away to the big city (Toronto)

One of the most awe-inspiring events in my life both then and now was the
discovery of a large new library. All those wonder and wisdom filled books inspired the opiate of my life ....... learning ...... always learning.

One of the first great teachers I found within the covers of those books was old Socrates himself, arguably to this very day perhaps the greatest philosopher to have walked this planet, and certainly the the most accomplished teacher. And that accounts for the first part of my handle.

PS: Off topic, but goes with my first discovery of libraries. One need not choose one's parents, teachers or caregivers for one's roll models. I chose mine from within the covers of books. Thus, although I feel empathy for those that have had lousy childhoods I have very little patience for those that tend to say, "look at me I'm a real fuck-up, and there (pointing) are the twenty three reason's why." Of course first and foremost among their reasons for explaining their miserable outcome stands their parents.


seriously, your first friend was a toad?

That is incredibly fucking sad/endearing/cool, also the part about the library is great.

[Socratoad]

At the Skeptical Community forums, my title is Banned Aide. :D
And mine, befitting an unmoderated forum, is Moderator. :D
Yeah, that started a bit of a contest with everyone trying to out-superior everyone else. :D Of course, as Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler and Emperor of All Raccoondom, I won. :yup:

Is that something like the Ruler of all condom? :chin:

Now I get it, you are a pharmacist :yup:

[Adam]

plus, you have the Pompous Bastard, Spider Jerusalem, as your avatar, which is very cool

Are you a fan of transmet and warren ellis?

Very much so. Transmet is what I typically recommend to people who aren't familiar with serious comics.

Have you read bad worl?

Nope. What is it?

[livius drusus]

I smell a comic geek thread coming on. Take it to A&L, I say.

[godfry n. glad]

Mine is a simple declarative sentence when pronounced aloud.

godfry n. glad

[Socratoad]

[QUOTE


seriously, your first friend was a toad?

That is incredibly fucking sad/endearing/cool, also the part about the library is great.

Yes seriously, ofttimes truth is stranger than fiction. However I regret none of it.

[beyelzu]

plus, you have the Pompous Bastard, Spider Jerusalem, as your avatar, which is very cool

Are you a fan of transmet and warren ellis?

Very much so. Transmet is what I typically recommend to people who aren't familiar with serious comics.
me too, transmet is perhaps my favorite comic.

Have you read bad worl?

Nope. What is it?
i meant to write, Bad World, it is a three comic "story" by ellis. it is mostly just him bitching about how fucked up the world is. Bad World is a seriously good read.

[Shake]

As I have explained elsewhere (http://www.iidb.org), my last name actually rhymes with "elk" (as in the animal), but many years ago, kids took it to rhyme with "milk" and thus "milkshake". During my junior year in HS, this nickname got revived, and eventually I changed it from <last name>shake, to just Shake.

If you saw me on the street and called out, "Hey, Shake!" I'd probably turn around.

I have only recently learned of the much newer possible correlation which one could have drawn as inspiration for my title and I'm now using that in my avatar. I still haven't seen the show though, as it's on much too late for me now.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Mine should be simple to figure out. I'm a skeptic and "J" is the first letter of my first name. The avatar I picked up at catgirls.org which sadly no longer exists. I don't know what happened to it but "luckily" I archived my favorite art to CD before.....um to much info.; sorry. :wink:

[Brimshack]

Brimshack Gunnaheave was a D&D character I rolled up many years ago (A Wood Elf Fighter/Druid for those of you who speak Geeklic). How I came up withthe name at the time I don't know, but another character I played in that campaign was named "Hurl," so it was part of a definite trend. Brimshack wasn't a particularly successful character, but he was somewhat memorable, because I played with with an eyore like voice that drove all the other players mad. (In that success he was a smashing success.) The first serious message board I ever visited was rapture-ready, and I think that was just the mood I was in. After that, I decided to stick with variants on the character's name so as to lower the quantity of information I had to keep track of.

On a certain board with a Christian theme, so to speak, I used to go by Dookiemoot Powerfester. People would ask me if it was a Christian name, and I would assure them that there was dookie in the Bible.... I loved that name.

[seebs]

At the Skeptical Community forums, my title is Banned Aide. :D

I used to run a Citadel BBS where I gave everyone aide powers, and then I twitted someone. So she couldn't post, but she could make new forums and edit their descriptions.

[seebs]

Not much to say. It's a nickname. Derived from "Seebach", which is my last name. Been using it forever. Started using it because I was "seebacha", and my father, Arthur, was "seebach", at the same college - so we got a lot of mail mixups. Finally got them to give me "seebs", haven't changed since.

[Ymir's blood]

Started using it because I was "seebacha",
You don't tend to rip off people's arms when beaten at chess, do you? :wookie:

Laugh it up, furball!

[Nil Desperandum]

It means "Never Despair." in Latin. Attributed to Horace. Although I do not know who he was, I believe in what he said.

I was on a Latin kick for a while, using Ex Nihilo as my name for quite some time. I didn't realize it was entirely "Ex Nihilo, nihil fit." which means, "Out of nothing, nothing comes." Since I am ultimately indeterministic, I didn't see it fitting.

Add to that my constant anxiety problems (stomach hurts a lot, although I have curbed in considerably over the years. Years. As if I'm some old fogey. I'm only 22, sheesh!), and it became my mantra.

To never despair. Follow the road (the one less traveled by, of course. Thanks, Mr. Frost!). To never look back. To not mistake, but to grow. Learn. Love. Feel. Just to be that which I am. I may be bound by invisible forces holding together the energy that makes up who I am, but as far as I am concerned, I am the one to define my reality, and ultimately, I am more powerful and confident by never despairing, than I would be any other way.

Chris

[Shake]

Oh yeah, it's lisarea's fault (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=779&page=2) that I'm using this avatar now.

Maybe I'll switch it back to that one of Patrick Stewart saying, "I can still sense ... your dirty, dirty mind." I'd used that one here initially due to my being called out for pointing out the beauties in II's photo gallery thread as a dirty 'old'* man.

*well, I'm only 34, that's not that old

[Petra]

Ummm. I am a lunachick.

I'm nocturnal, I love the moon, I'm a lunatic, and I'm a chick.

The avatar is from one of the earliest films ever made: La Voyage dans la Lune (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~ntucs82/PEOPLE/b2506017/sf/44.html), directed by Georges Melies in 1903.

[wildernesse]

I don't really know where I thought up wildernesse, but I've been her since. . .um, well, since I lived in the dorms--so it's been about 5 years. I had to think up a new id for an email account, and that's what took--apparently, a derivative of my actual name was not appropriate for an email address. :doh:

So, I stuck with it when I signed up on IIDB, and I've just been wildernesse/wildy ever since. I love that my screen name has a nick name of its own.

[livius drusus]

I love that my screen name has a nick name of its own.

Me too! :yup:

[Lauri D]

I don't really know where I thought up wildernesse, but I've been her since. . .um, well, since I lived in the dorms--so it's been about 5 years. I had to think up a new id for an email account, and that's what took--apparently, a derivative of my actual name was not appropriate for an email address. :doh:

So, I stuck with it when I signed up on IIDB, and I've just been wildernesse/wildy ever since. I love that my screen name has a nick name of its own.
This brings up an interesting thought in my mind. See, when I signed up at IIDB I had really never used BB's before and was like "OMG, I have to think up a name? Aughhh!" I haven't the slightest idea where the christ-on-a-stick came bubbling up from, except for the fact that it was one of my favored exclamations at the time at opportune moments (such as, say, dropping an iron on one's foot). It really had nothing to do with religion per se and was/is not any sort of reference to anything, just a silly last-minute entry at a BB that I never imagined I would become deeply involved in over a matter of years.

But see now, I feel weird about changing it because it has its own nick (coas, COAS, etc.) and it is comfortable to me like something you don't really think about. And yet in line with what Farren said earlier in the thread, after a time, when it became apparent to me that some people might take offense even though none was intended, I started thinking that maybe I should.

I don't know, I'm just babbling mostly as I am wont to do.

[Socratoad]

Know whatcha mean Lauri, look what happened to chuck over at II.

[viscousmemories]

Know whatcha mean Lauri, look what happened to chuck over at II.
What happened to Chuck, toad? :P

[Lauri D]

D'oh, where's the smilie running and leaping to escape the firestorm billowing behind it?

:tiptoe:

;)

[Socratoad]

D'oh, where's the smilie running and leaping to escape the firestorm billowing behind it?

:tiptoe:

;)

I just love that little tiptoe smiley :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe:

[viscousmemories]

Tiptoe? Are you sure he isn't moonwalking?

:mj:

[Lauri D]

:roflmao:

well when posted multiple times like Toad did, it reminds me of a congo line. Also it makes me strangely happy.

:tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe: :tiptoe:

:giggle:

[Socratoad]

Definitely tiptoeing .... the little guy is'nt into little boy fetishes. :D

[Lauri D]

Oh shit! They are moon-walking!

I feel like I'm on shrooms after staring at that for five minutes.

[livius drusus]

Did somebody say :shrooms:?

[viscousmemories]

Billy Jean is not my lover...

he's just a kid who likes my Mickey Mouse sheets.

I just made that up. :D

[Lauri D]

Billy Jean is not my lover...

he's just a kid who likes my Mickey Mouse sheets.

I just made that up. :D
:roflmao:

:biglaugh:

/me wipes tears from eyes yet again

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! :roflmao:

Sorry. That was hilarious though.

[livius drusus]

:mj:

I slowed him down. He was just way too much of a spaz.

[Lauri D]

Oh, and re: mushrooms, is it normal for mushrooms to grow in almost perfect circular patterns on a lawn? :confused:

Also, Dennis Miller is an asshat. Neither here nor there, but thought it bore mentioning.

[Socratoad]

Billy Jean is not my lover...

he's just a kid who likes my Mickey Mouse sheets.

I just made that up. :D
:roflmao:

:biglaugh:

* Lauri D wipes tears from eyes yet again

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! :roflmao:

Sorry. That was hilarious though.

:woohoo: :biglaugh: :muahaha: :ptht: :roflmao: :bbed: :mememe:
Now cut it out ...... thats too damned hard on Toad at this late hour on the tundra ..... oh hell the polar bears just woke up :tiptoe:

[livius drusus]

Oh, and re: mushrooms, is it normal for mushrooms to grow in almost perfect circular patterns on a lawn? :confused:

Sure. They grow all kinds of ways. I've seen them form circles around the bases of tree trunks, although not a random circle in a lawn.

[Lauri D]

hehehehehehe...

oh! toad, check out my thread on http://www.owos.net/images/Cute%20Hawsbill%20turtle%20@%20Mixing%20Bowl,%20Bloody%20Bay.jpg

I bet you have a good turtle story or two :D

[Lauri D]

Oh, and re: mushrooms, is it normal for mushrooms to grow in almost perfect circular patterns on a lawn? :confused:

Sure. They grow all kinds of ways. I've seen them form circles around the bases of tree trunks, although not a random circle in a lawn.
Ah, ok. My office building has a large expansive open lawn on either side. After the recent rains here, I noticed a perfectly circular ring of big FAT mushrooms on the left (west) lawn that seemed to have sprung up literally overnight. It sort of tripped me out, it was so "neat".

[Socratoad]

Oh, and re: mushrooms, is it normal for mushrooms to grow in almost perfect circular patterns on a lawn? :confused:

Sure. They grow all kinds of ways. I've seen them form circles around the bases of tree trunks, although not a random circle in a lawn.
Ah, ok. My office building has a large expansive open lawn on either side. After the recent rains here, I noticed a perfectly circular ring of big FAT mushrooms on the left (west) lawn that seemed to have sprung up literally overnight. It sort of tripped me out, it was so "neat".

Sometime, perhaps as long as a hundred or more years ago there was a huge tree growing were that lawn is right now. The rushrooms are growing from the humus left from that tree. Sometimes it gives you an idea just how large some tees were before our white ancestors came along and cut em down.

And ya Lauri, Toad has turtle stories, but not for tonight My poor arthritic fingers cannot type for very long at this hour.

I have four turtles living with me right now.

[lpetrich]

Mine is from my real name: my first initial and my last name. I'd earlier used my last name alone as a username, but I eventually decided that I must distinguish myself from other possible Petriches. So I did so in the most compact fashion possible, and I made the "l" small for typographical consistency.

My avatar is a picture of a bullfrog sticking its head above some algae-covered water. I like it because the frog looks like it's taking a look around and grinning. I had found this avatar when I was collecting pictures of bullfrogs to have some image-editing fun with creationist Duane Gish: to paste his head onto a bullfrog body in honor of The Bullfrog Affair (http://members.aol.com/dwise1/cre_ev/bullfrog.html). I've also done the same with Jonathan Wells and a brine shrimp, and also with William Dembski and a beaver.

[Socratoad]

That beautiful turtle is a salt water turtle Lauri and sweet as they are they are an endangered variety and thus you or I shall never have one just like her for a pet :(

[Adam]

i meant to write, Bad World, it is a three comic "story" by ellis. it is mostly just him bitching about how fucked up the world is. Bad World is a seriously good read.

Thanks for the tip. In 3-4 weeks, I'll be reading my very own copy...w00t!

*hides form liv, hoping she won't notice me continuing the comic geek discussion over here*

[beyelzu]

i meant to write, Bad World, it is a three comic "story" by ellis. it is mostly just him bitching about how fucked up the world is. Bad World is a seriously good read.

Thanks for the tip. In 3-4 weeks, I'll be reading my very own copy...w00t!

*hides form liv, hoping she won't notice me continuing the comic geek discussion over here*
if you download dc++ you could then join the megacomics and zcult hubs which has people sharing countless comics. Hypothetically speaking someone named beyelzu might have just about everything ever written by Ellis on his harddrive.


Note, I actually quit buying comics for a long time until I started filesharing them. It is such a cool way to find new titles. Plus you can get shit like Ellis's run on hellblazer including the story Shoot that wasnt allowed to be printed by DC.




now to go partially on topic,


comic books offer a fuckload of interesting names for use as handles.

[livius drusus]

Man, bey... At least Adam had the decency to try and hide from me. :cryhome:

[Corona688]

My handle is fairly short, disctinctive, and easy to type. It is a combination of a random technical term and a random soundcard to form a handle completely without meaning(though some people see connotations of beer and nuclear submarines in it).

[HarryLime]

Mine comes from the name of the antihero Orson Welles plays in The Third Man. Great, pitch-black film noir, styish as shit. It's got an all zither score! I love that movie.

Will

[Dingfod]

^I thought I recognized the name.

[Socratoad]

Mine comes from the name of the antihero Orson Welles plays in The Third Man. Great, pitch-black film noir, styish as shit. It's got an all zither score! I love that movie.

Will

Ya, I recognized your handle right off the bat. I love the movie and especially the Third Man Theme. I'm always looking for zither music to download.

There aint that much :(

[Aurora Elegance]

I chose Aurora Elegance because I think aurorae are naturally beautiful (like me :) ) and that they symbolize a certain majesty and elegance. Hence the name Aurora Elegance.

[Sonnet]

I'm Sonnet because I'm a big Shakespeare geek. :princess:

[godfry n. glad]

I'm Sonnet because I'm a big Shakespeare geek. :princess:

No... Getout!

I played "Roman Captain" in Cymbeline. Outdoors. In city parks. In tights. That's how big a Shakespeare geek I am...or, more accurately, was.

godfry

[justaman]

:bump:

I thought there was another handle thread but this was the only one I could find. So get onto it, n00bs.

Mine's kinda boring. I started posting on CF and wanted to impress upon the theists that I was comfortable with being a nihilistic mortal. It was catchy enough that I brought it along when I Migrated to :ff:

NEXT.

[Carnivale Ed]

I went on a really long car trip with friends without a radio. To keep ourselves entertained, we started talking in accents. Thus, Eduardo Carnivale, ringmaster of the Mexico City circus, was born. It just got shortened over the years (Edward being my middle name). Carnivale Ed is now my unofficial alter ego for anything fun - I haven't hosted a party or BBQ in years. The invites always read, Carnivale Ed cordially invites you to ...

[Megatron]

Zero Angel was from an old D&D campaign, where we were experimenting with sci-fi elements in a world that I more or less threw together using elements from just about every comic book, fantasy novel, and sci-fi movie I'd ever seen (and liked).

Basically, an experiment was started in one country to create cybernetic humans using technology and magic in tandem. The subjects were also given titanium alloy wings (think Archangel from the X-Men), so despite the "official" term of Seraphin, they were mostly referred to as Angels.

A key researcher and developer of the Seraphin creation process (and a rather powerful wizard), Trevor Kazon, volunteered himself to be the prototype, believing (correctly) that the augmentations would not only enhance his power but his lifespan as well.

After many miscues and failures (and near-death experiences), he awoke. Hundreds, then thousands later would follow.

Anyway, back to the slightly more relevant point:
The equipment that etched and carved the wings and eyepiece implants gave each set a serial number. Kazon's, being the prototype, was 0000 - even though the term was never used in any official capacity, he was referred to colloquially as the "Zero Angel".

[Slokenin]

I chose slokenin because in the old Shetland language (Norn) it means "a satisfying drink". :mischief:

[Waluigi]

I like Waluigi. He's a fun character to play in the Mario Party Gamecube games.

[livius drusus]

I chose slokenin because in the old Shetland language (Norn) it means "a satisfying drink". :mischief:

He he... Good one. How is it pronounced? I read it as sloe-KEN-in, but maybe that's because I've read one too many Chekov plays. :giggle:

[beyelzu]

Zero Angel was from an old D&D campaign, where we were experimenting with sci-fi elements in a world that I more or less threw together using elements from just about every comic book, fantasy novel, and sci-fi movie I'd ever seen (and liked).

Basically, an experiment was started in one country to create cybernetic humans using technology and magic in tandem. The subjects were also given titanium alloy wings (think Archangel from the X-Men), so despite the "official" term of Seraphin, they were mostly referred to as Angels.

A key researcher and developer of the Seraphin creation process (and a rather powerful wizard), Trevor Kazon, volunteered himself to be the prototype, believing (correctly) that the augmentations would not only enhance his power but his lifespan as well.

After many miscues and failures (and near-death experiences), he awoke. Hundreds, then thousands later would follow.

Anyway, back to the slightly more relevant point:
The equipment that etched and carved the wings and eyepiece implants gave each set a serial number. Kazon's, being the prototype, was 0000 - even though the term was never used in any official capacity, he was referred to colloquially as the "Zero Angel".


are you still a fan of comics?

[livius drusus]

I sense a love connection. :quagmire:

[ManM]

My initials are MM, and I have no middle name. Many witty people have independently observed, "That's like M an' M!" So, when I picked my online handle, it was natural to pick M&M. Since '&' wasn't a legal character, I used ManM, which has been misunderstood as 'Man M' ever since.

And for the curious, the MM stands for "motor mouth", or so I've been told.

[livius drusus]

Even though I know it's M&M, I still tend to read it as Man M and have to actively correct myself. :blushes:

[Leesifer]

Me too! I always read your name as Man M, M and M. :giggle:

[curses]

. Since '&' wasn't a legal character, I used ManM, which has been misunderstood as 'Man M' ever since.

Crap, after reading this thread, I've realized just how many handles I've been mispronouncing.

Mine's boring. Most other messageboards, I'm invisikitty. It's a bit childish, and I wanted a new name. So I pulled the REM trick* and put my finger down on a piece of paper that was in front of me, and came up with the minus symbol.

*The urban legend for how the band REM got their name. Basically, they opened a dictionary to a page and picked their name that way. I don't know how much truth there is to this, and I can't be arsed to look it up.

[MooseIBe]

Moose is a chat nickname I've been using for years and years. I can't remember why :)

[MooseIBe]

my avatar changed! thanks Liv!!

[cappuccino]

oh wow, I always thought it was ManM not M an' M. I stand corrected then now.

I don't like my handle anymore. It's over five years old, I picked it because I liked the character Valentine which wrote as Demosthenes in Ender.

So I'm thinking perhaps to change it but I'm still looking for a good handle.

[viscousmemories]

I don't like my handle anymore.
I can relate.

[Danhalen]

Mine is the name I go by in my bands. Besides, who is more cliché in Rock'n'Roll than VanHalen (the original lineup)?

[Sweetie]

I picked my name because I found it ironic and there are ultimately several reasons why I picked it.

I seem sometimes abrasive, though I'm actually really sweet and sensitive. Abrasive and harsh are one side of me, and if you know me, I think it's fair to say that I'm not really abrasive or harsh persay. You'd have to ask others though. At the very least, I would argue that I'm not malicious.

Because people, and especially in one instance my cousin, used it against me in a patronizing tone. I found that it is a word that can be used patronizinginly ironic. Pissed me right off and it became my name. She is so much better than I, dontchaknow, because she at the time had spent four or five years at University, and knows so much more than I. I suppose y'all know how much I appreciate sentiments such as those.

Because it's a personal word, not an abstract cold word. A term of endearment, oftentimes. I want to endear myself I guess, or I want to be endeared.

I didn't like my name "Theresa" at CF, so I made a new one. Theresa was a bit of an accident, the only thing I could get to work at the time, basing itself on the idea of Mother Teresa, though I am not an adequate spokesperson for such a woman nor is it good that others put her and I together. She is way, way better than I, which is why I'm glad my original intent was not realized.

[Sock Puppet]

I picked my handle for one reason, and kept it for another. I initially planned to sign up with a different handle, but for various uninteresting reasons, never got around to it. In the meantime, I created the Sock Puppet account to mess around on the Arcade before I got down to posting in the forum. Then I realized how amusing (to me) it would be to post with Sock Puppet as a primary account, rather than a secondary one. Plus, I've been suckered into doing puppet shows for the kiddies on several occasions, mainly because I enjoy doing character voices.

But my after-the-fact justification for the name is that I genuinely believe that everyone who communicates online is using a "sockpuppet" of a sort -- i.e., everyone is using a voice that is in some way different than the one they use in face-to-face interactions. As such, I'm a genuine sockpuppet, an honest hypocrite, a truthful liar.

I've had many handles on various boards/chats/blog rings/etc., most often variations on Marlowe's Doctor Faustus character names. This is my first use of Sock Puppet.

[Miisa]

Erm...because its my name. Lame. :doh:

[Leesifer]

I like it that people use the same handles across various boards - I recognised Miisa on Moose's Europe forum from yet another forum.

(Does that sentence make sense?)

[livius drusus]

Mine is the name I go by in my bands.

When I first read it I thought it was DAN-eh-lehn. Sometime yesterday the lightning bolt struck and since then it makes me giggle every time I see it. Ah, the simple pleasures...

[Miss Shelby]

(the original lineup)?
Of course. Otherwise you'd be DanHagar. ;)

Michelle

[thewantingseed]

I picked my name simply because I really love the book; also because of the many ways it can be intrepreted. For instance, I am but a little seed who wants things. (To look at it from a strange point of view...) I have noticed a couple of other seeds floating around various forums, but this is the only forum that I am participating in under this name. In fact, this is really the only forum I am participating in at all.
Based on a question posed in my welcome thread, I think I may create a poll dealing with what I should be called. Once I get more settled into this place, of course.

[Leesifer]

That was odd! I got so used to seeing that avatar for MooseIBe, that I had to look twice! :D

[cappuccino]

lol, I had the same reaction, I saw the picture and didn't even bother to look at the handle till I read the post and went huh that doesn't sound like Moosie.

[thewantingseed]

Oops, I can change that to avoid confusion. I didn't know someone else had it before.

[Leesifer]

Don't worry about it, tws, we'll soon get used to it. :D

* Leesifer hopes thewantingseed doesn't mind being called tws.

[justaman]

I sense a love connection. :quagmire:
AAAHH Liv Quagmire!! That's completely awesome!! :yay:

[The Lone Ranger]

Well, mine's pretty obvious, I'm sure.

I loved watching reruns of "The Lone Ranger" as a kid, and thought he was just-about an ideal hero. He always tried to be helpful; he was kind, courteous, and respectful to others; and even when forced to fight, he always tried to avoid hurting or killing the bad guys.

Plus, everything I've ever read about Clayton Moore insists that he wasn't just playing a character, but that he really did value those traits, and consciously played the character that way. (Supposedly, he strenuously insisted that the character should always use proper English and faultless grammar, for instance, because in Moore's view, TLR was a role model, and should behave appropriately. Similarly, he supposedly got into trouble with sponsors because he refused to make commercials endorsing things like cigarettes.)

I certainly don't think of myself as any sort of role model, but I do think it's important to treat others with courtesy and respect, and I try to always do so. After all, I prefer to be treated courteously and respectfully, so I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't try to always treat others the same way.


Anyway, I always thought TLR was a truly admirable character as a kid, and I hope to be just like him when I grow up.

Cheers,

Michael


[P.S. And just for the record, he always said "Hi-yo Silver, away!" not "Hi-ho Silver". Not that I have a thing about that or anything.]

[Widget]

Well

I invent, design and then build, you got it,widgets, they are all called widgets till they are actually made then they get names.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Widget: You mean the things on Macs?

Mine is pretty self-explanatory. :joecool:

[Widget]

Widget: You mean the things on Macs?



Macs as in computers or Macs as in British rain gear?

[Danhalen]

(the original lineup)
Of course. Otherwise you'd be DanHagar. ;)

MichelleNo no no silly goose. I'd be Daniel Lee Roth (and I'd have to wear a cod piece).

[MonCapitan2002]

My handle is a Star Trek: The Next Generation reference.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Computers, silly.

[Megatron]

are you still a fan of comics?Not really, it's been nearly 10 years since I've actually read any. All the ones I used to be into seemed to really run out of material around 1994-1996.... especially the X-stuff.

I sense a love connection. :quagmire: :roflmao: giggity giggity giggity! :roflmao:

[wei yau]

I chose my new handle because it is my Chinese name and a better fit for my identity these days.

[Petra]

Lunachick was a riff on lunatic, and I've always been a bit of a moon girl, too. Used to have moon calendars an' everything. It was also a nick given to me by my work colleagues when I worked at a secondhand record store in London - back in my wilder days.

But I'm sick of lunachick now.


I chose pepperspray because I like the way it trips off the tongue so fast, and the internal alliteration totally rocks. I also like the way it has a flat top all the way across. cappuccino comes close to that, but he still has a dot above his eye.

p-p-p-p-p-pah! Yeah!

[Sock Puppet]

One squirt and you're south of the border! Mmmm ... Incapacitating ...
:homdrool:

Somebody had to do it.

[Crumb]

But I'm sick of lunachick now.
Yeah I am sick of lunachick too. I wish she would stop posting here! I mean w... oops! :caught:

[Petra]

:laugh:

[Essoterrorist]

The reason I picked this sobriquet stems from the fact that in highschool everyone kept calling me esoteric. I had a tendency to inadvertently alienate my peers by talking about stuff that no one around me seemed to know or care about. Thus, I was a terrorist, of sorts. So I put esoteric and terrorist together. Essoterrorist is also my screen name on AIM, but I'm hardly ever online.

[Dingfod]

I thought it had something to do with Exxon, but was afraid to ask. Esso is Exxon's old name.

In fact, you might want to consider modifying this into an avatar:

http://www.ikatun.com/institute/infinitelysmallthings/corporatecommands/uploads/id67/tiger_esso.gif

[Miisa]

Esso is Exxon's old name.

It is still Esso in Europe.

[viscousmemories]

Good name, Essoterrorist. I think it's cool when people have better explanations for their username than "All my standard names were taken when I finally got around to signing up on AIM, so I made a compound word out of two words that don't really go together", like me.

[Leesifer]

I thought it had something to do with Exxon, but was afraid to ask. Esso is Exxon's old name.

In fact, you might want to consider modifying this into an avatar:

http://www.ikatun.com/institute/infinitelysmallthings/corporatecommands/uploads/id67/tiger_esso.gif

I saw Tessa the Esso tiger a few years ago at, I think, Plymouth zoo. She was beautiful.

[cappuccino]

I picked cappuccino because I grew up having cappuccinos for breakfast. It's one of my favorite beverages. I like the way it rolls off my tongue plus it reflects my Italian heritage. It's just such a cute name.

I also like the way it has a flat top all the way across. cappuccino comes close to that, but he still has a dot above his eye.

I like having a dot above my eye, it stands out all by itself. :jd: