Mine's in relation to a close encounter with a werewolf, while on a holiday in Perth...
Sorry about that, Dan. Those full moon's and all. ;D
My surname is Cooper, hence Coop, and bazinga is a saying from "The Big Bang Theory" which me and my partner thought was funny so we started saying it a lot around the time I joined.
Posted by: Grandma Bear, October 18th, 2012, 10:21pm; Reply: 12
Alex, where did you get the 212 part of your username??
Thanks Dan,
When I joined another site years ago, my name was taken and it suggested Alex_212 and I accepted it, I have since started a few accounts and usernames with it.
It really has no significance so the more I think about it the more I want to change it.
Any Suggestions ?
I was thinking "ALEXTHEGUYWITHTHEBURNTFACEONHISAVATAR" will it fit ?
Posted by: Alex_212, October 18th, 2012, 10:48pm; Reply: 20
EG Dena what is "Pale Yellow" it may be obvious to some though not to me !!!!!!
Oh inquisitive Alex :)
Pale:
The Pale was the part of Ireland that was directly under the control of the English government in the late Middle Ages....to this place in Ireland, I am drawn as if I lived there in a past life.
Also one of the definitions of pale is: an area or the limits within which one is privileged or protected. I'm a natural empath by nature and have always been a 'helper' or 'protector'
Yellow:
Pure, bright and sunny yellow is the easiest color to see. People who are blind to other colors can usually see yellow. Yellow is full of creative and intellectual energy. And "I" scream energy...I'm like the burning sun(too much energy at times...often shorting out my electrical appliances, cars, computers) I know crazy ;) but true. Just ask my husband!
Also I always carry a yellow stone in my pocket. There are numerous yellow gemstones on my computer, by my bed. It creates a sense of creativity and the ability to express myself(which sometimes well a lotta times I should just bottle my damn feelings up)...anyway if you want to spark creativity in your writing, get you a yellow stone like amber(my most favorite of stones), citrine, quartz, or topaz.
So ...you asked.... this is me --- PaLe YeLlOw
Posted by: jwent6688, October 19th, 2012, 6:51am; Reply: 29
JW ENTertainment. A disc jockey service I used to own as a side biz. Was good fun until Miley Cyrus hit the charts... I hung up my headphones for good.
James
Posted by: Eoin, October 19th, 2012, 6:53am; Reply: 30
Mine is very complex - my first name. 99% won't know how to pronounce it. Anglicised spelling, Owen.
Posted by: George Willson, October 19th, 2012, 7:04am; Reply: 31
My displayed name is just my name. My actual SS username (visible on the status bar if you hover over someone's displayed name) is Tubkas, which I've used on lots of sites, though I always change the display to George Willson. I came up with Tubkas in high school when I was trying to conceive of a character that would be the "me" in some stories I was writing. At the time, I played trombone in band, and I was at the top of my class not only at my school but in the district. An ancient version of the trombone is called a sackbut. Seriously. It's an egyptian thing. I flipped that around backwards (because turning words backwards to give them interesting meanings is what I do) and I got Tubkcas. Since that looked silly spelled that way, I dropped the 'c' to get Tubkas. I further moved the dropped 'c' to the character's first name which also played into my town's name. Therefore, my main character in Bluffs, CO became Cliff Tubkas. It's such a unique name, I was pretty well guaranteed that I'd get it every time I signed up for anything. There you go.
Posted by: Alex_212, October 19th, 2012, 7:10am; Reply: 32
Mine is very complex - my first name. 99% won't know how to pronounce it. Anglicised spelling, Owen.
Thanks Eoin, for some reason when you mentioned that, I pictured the movie "Leap Year"' great movie if you haven't seen it and I believe there was a Eoin in it.
Alex
Posted by: Reef Dreamer, October 19th, 2012, 7:27am; Reply: 33
Because when I smoke the wrong stuff I have some weird dreams. Well, actually it's...
That place looks stunning, Bill... Where is that? It reminds me of that blue cottage from Atonement.
Posted by: rc1107, October 19th, 2012, 7:52am; Reply: 35
Quoted from pia
My family gave me the name "Angry Bear".
Hmm. I thought it was a joke between you and Bert because of his story 'The Farm' and the angry bear in that script. :-)
All right, this might take a minute.
rc
Randall Cage was a character in a story that I scrapped when I was in my teens. I liked the name for some reason and used it as a pen name whenever I would write a romantic piece and submit it somewhere. (This was back when I only wrote gross stuff.)
Eventually, it turned into an alias for me during my first arrest. I happened to have lost my I.D. earlier that day, and when the cops asked me my name, (this was back before they ever had a record of Mark Lyons or my prints), I gave them Randall Cage as my name, told them that I was homeless from Texas, then I gave them my social security number backwards. Nothing ever came up in their system and they decided not to charge me and just dropped me off at the rescue mission, (where I would eventually volunteer at and still do for the past several years.)
RC always pops up somewhere usually whenever I look around. Especially when I was in my late teens.
-RC Pro-Am was my favorite Nintendo game growing up. -Royal Crown is my favorite soda. (It's also an old gas station. I found one of their shirts at a thrift shop and wear it religiously.) - Rainclowns was a band I was in for a couple years. (The name's now being revived with the new band I'm working with.) - And, of course, most importantly, Rick Carlisle is coach of the Dallas Mavericks!
The 1107 is my birthday. November 7th.
Posted by: Ledbetter (Guest), October 19th, 2012, 9:09am; Reply: 36
Jonathan Lebed was a teenager who made a small fortune between 1990 & 2000 by hyping penny stocks online that he owned.
He was prosecuted and was forced to forfeit a large part of his earnings as part of the deal.
I thought to myself, how F%ucking ironic!
A teenager smart enough to come up with sales pitches to make his product (penny stocks) profitable and the FEDS step in and take his money.
I was in the market at the time and was (along with a lot of people) very impressed by how he did it.
Now days, if you turn on the T.V., there is a show called MAD MONEY where that guy (Kramer) I think, does the exact same thing. Pumps his own stocks then short sells them and makes a fortune.
Lebed-
Ledbetter-
Got a text from him on one of the penny sites complementing me on my smart-A$$ choice of screen names.
I've kept it every sense.
Shawn.....><
Posted by: Electric Dreamer, October 19th, 2012, 9:35am; Reply: 37
-RC Pro-Am was my favorite Nintendo game growing up.
OMG! This! I practically wore out the cartridge. Had to keep blowing on the board to keep it going! ;D
Now I want to play! ;D
Regards, E.D.
Posted by: rc1107, October 19th, 2012, 9:48am; Reply: 38
Quoted from shawn (aka) ledbetter
Jonathan Lebed
And all this time I just thought you were a Pearl Jam fan.
Wow, Bret. Just looking at that cartridge puts me in nostalgia.
:-) Lol. And also, what you said reminds me of that T-shirt with the nintendo cartridge on it that says 'Blow Me' in Super Mario Bros. lettering. I loved that one.
Posted by: Electric Dreamer, October 19th, 2012, 9:54am; Reply: 39
Well, I suppose I should weigh in on this fine thread...
There's a bit of a story behind my moniker.
The movie, "Electric Dreams" was written and produced by a family friend...
It's a tech driven spin on Cyrano that delivers old style romance. And deals with computer integration into routine daily life... back in 1984! The movie was a little ahead of the curve in that respect. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/
There's many reasons why I'm terribly fond of this film. At the top of the list would be that our family dog was in the movie. There's a big dopey Airedale puppy that's a neighbor's dog. He barks at the sentient computer and pees on the floor. That was our beloved boy, Kramer! ;D
And I love the impish desktop avatar. Methinks it suits me. :P
Cheers, E.D.
Posted by: Grandma Bear, October 19th, 2012, 9:55am; Reply: 40
So you just create a new account and discard the old ??? Can the same email address be used ?
Go to your "member center" click on profile info or something like that then simply change your screen name.
I remember one year on Halloween, everyone changed their user names and avatars. It was funny because you had no idea who was who without doing a little checking. ;D
Pure, bright and sunny yellow is the easiest color to see. People who are blind to other colors can usually see yellow. Yellow is full of creative and intellectual energy. And "I" scream energy...I'm like the burning sun(too much energy at times...often shorting out my electrical appliances, cars, computers) I know crazy ;) but true. Just ask my husband!
I have a yellow car and my insurance company told me my insurance rate is lower than on other cars because yellow is the easiest color to see. Therefore, yellow cars are in fewer accidents. 8)
Posted by: Ledbetter (Guest), October 19th, 2012, 10:30am; Reply: 41
And all this time I just thought you were a Pearl Jam fan.
Makes sense you would think so...
Great song....GREAT BAND!!!
Huge...HUGE Pearl Jam fan... :D
Grunge in general stole my heart when Seattle started pouring it out...
It all started and ended to soon...
Shawn.....><
Posted by: Felipe, October 19th, 2012, 12:22pm; Reply: 42
Cinemachado... I'll ignore the cinema part and tell you my surname is Machado.
Posted by: Dreamscale (Guest), October 19th, 2012, 12:42pm; Reply: 43
FUCK Pearl Jam and all the other crap grunge that tried its best to kill my beloved metal!!! Metal will never die, it just had to "move" across the pond...which is a perfect lead in to my moniker...
I've always been big into music and especially music with an edge, like metal.
We're going back to the big 80's here, before computers were a household staple, and the internet was just a wet dream.
My sister was a bit of a wild child back in the day, and had the opportunity to spend 1 semester of college in Luxumbourg. She went to see a Slaughter concert there with friends, and met some crazy Deutschlander, who happened to be in a metal band. Knowing how much I loved all things metal, she get a promotional CD from this guy's band, named "Dreamscale".
She gave me the CD for Christmas that year, and I fell in love with it, because it was exactly the kind of music I loved and it was far off the beaten path, where I like to roam.
One of the songs was also called Dreamscale, and the song was about one's "dreamscale", which relates to how high or low something is on one's dream scale. I thought it was cool shit and still listen to this CD today, thinking back to those golden years.
I started using it as my login name for just about everything I do online.
So, there you have it - the dreamscale. Guess what ranks pretty consistently high on my dreamscale? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Posted by: Reef Dreamer, October 19th, 2012, 3:07pm; Reply: 44
There's many reasons why I'm terribly fond of this film. At the top of the list would be that our family dog was in the movie. There's a big dopey Airedale puppy that's a neighbor's dog. He barks at the sentient computer and pees on the floor. That was our beloved boy, Kramer! ;D
E.D.
The King of Terriers are one of my fave breeds, up there with Labs and St. Bernards. I'm sure I have Electric Dreams in my old VHS archive, will have to dig it out!
My username is from the Horror trilogy directed by New York filmaker Frank Hennellotter.
Posted by: Alex_212, October 19th, 2012, 6:56pm; Reply: 46
The King of Terriers are one of my fave breeds, up there with Labs and St. Bernards. I'm sure I have Electric Dreams in my old VHS archive, will have to dig it out!
My username is from the Horror trilogy directed by New York filmaker Frank Hennellotter.
I saw Basket Case in the theater.
Posted by: Busy Little Bee, November 10th, 2012, 11:22pm; Reply: 52
Part of a line from one of my favorite scenes.
BLB
Posted by: dogglebe (Guest), November 11th, 2012, 8:37am; Reply: 53
dogglebe was the user name that was assigned to me when I joined Prodigy, back in the mid 1980's. I just kept using it.
Phil
Posted by: wonkavite (Guest), November 11th, 2012, 12:35pm; Reply: 54
Prodigy? Geez, that's a blast from the past (actually didn't know the origin of that one!)
For me... Well, anyone who has read Willy Wonka and the Glass Elevator knows wonkavite... The illustrations in the Roald Dahl book are a fav of mine, too....
Posted by: alffy, November 11th, 2012, 4:12pm; Reply: 55
My username comes from my school days.
Being at junior school in the 80's and also being short I was tagged with the TV show character ALF. Later this became Alffy and stuck. Weirdly most peole that know me think my real name is Alfie, this includes the majority of my work colleagues and people I've known for years.
Posted by: Helio, November 14th, 2012, 10:33am; Reply: 56
I could be named of lot of diferents names but they dicided to call me Helio, that means Sun, so I dicided to like to be named Helio. Simple like that.
Posted by: ReneC, November 14th, 2012, 12:00pm; Reply: 57
My very first D&D character was a dwarf called Ener. He was tough as nails and brave to the point of stupidity, but awkward as a deer on ice in town unless he had a tankard of mead in front of him. His favourite pasttime was slaying goblins; the highlight of his adventuring years was when a goblin horde migrated out of the mountains and threatened a bunch of halfling villages. That and rescuing his elven buddy out of a pit trap, he never let the elf live that one down.
The "C" in my name comes from a long line of French militants who spread through Europe and across the ocean to North America. They're everywhere now, never in great numbers but ever-present. The surnames vary somewhat, evolved over time and influenced by different cultures. My "C" hails from the Claveau line who spread first to Switzerland before coming back west and settling in Canada.
I suppose one could argue that the dwarf's name is simply my name spelled backwards, I trick I did not need to learn from George but came up with all on my own. Or that Claveau is my last name, but my immediate family is not nearly as interesting as those other Claveaus from yesteryear.
Posted by: bert, November 14th, 2012, 12:42pm; Reply: 58
My very first D&D character was a dwarf called Ener. He was tough as nails and brave to the point of stupidity, but awkward as a deer on ice in town unless he had a tankard of mead in front of him. His favourite pasttime was slaying goblins; the highlight of his adventuring years was when a goblin horde migrated out of the mountains and threatened a bunch of halfling villages. That and rescuing his elven buddy out of a pit trap, he never let the elf live that one down.
The "C" in my name comes from a long line of French militants who spread through Europe and across the ocean to North America. They're everywhere now, never in great numbers but ever-present. The surnames vary somewhat, evolved over time and influenced by different cultures. My "C" hails from the Claveau line who spread first to Switzerland before coming back west and settling in Canada.
I suppose one could argue that the dwarf's name is simply my name spelled backwards, I trick I did not need to learn from George but came up with all on my own. Or that Claveau is my last name, but my immediate family is not nearly as interesting as those other Claveaus from yesteryear.
Um....yeah...and bert is short for Robert :)
My D&D character was a magic-user who over the course of his adventures had been turned into a vampire. Chaotic evil. He would have kicked your ass.
Posted by: Ledbetter (Guest), November 14th, 2012, 1:03pm; Reply: 59
Mine was a paladin whom, after I became a DM, turned into an anti-Paladin who ruled a realm in Ravenloft. I had the rest of the party 'rescue' him and bring him home. He was a psychological wreck, but that's a story for another day.
Phil
Posted by: bert, November 14th, 2012, 1:53pm; Reply: 62
Quoted from dogglebe
He was a psychological wreck...
Wasn't it always more fun when the character shared traits with the actual player?
Posted by: dogglebe (Guest), November 14th, 2012, 3:05pm; Reply: 63
I don't know. Why do you ask?
Phil
Posted by: rc1107, November 15th, 2012, 12:11am; Reply: 64
I probably sound like a nerd for asking this, but what's D&D?
And sorry I'm a little late to the conversation, but I was having sex.
Posted by: Ledbetter (Guest), November 15th, 2012, 9:13am; Reply: 65
And sorry I'm a little late to the conversation, but I was having sex.
Never....NEVER apoligize for putting the spurs to 'em brother.
D & D was a game popular back in the 80's before video games ruled.
Some played it....some lived it...
I did neither.
I was busy putting the spurs...
Shawn.....><
Posted by: Electric Dreamer, November 15th, 2012, 10:34am; Reply: 66
Quoted from Ledbetter
D & D was a game popular back in the 80's before video games ruled.
Some played it....some lived it...
And Tom Hanks starred in knock off TV movie about it before he got famous! ;D
Posted by: ReneC, November 15th, 2012, 11:27am; Reply: 67
D&D is the original tabletop role-playing game, the one that made it cool to be a geek. Until it was no longer cool to be a geek and playing it got your knickers yanked up over your head in gym class. Then Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and revitilized the franchise, making it cool to be a geek again. Until it was no longer cool to be a geek and it got your wife forbidding you to teach your children to play. Then The Big Bang Theory made it cool to be a geek again, and, well, it's back bitches!
But don't play version 4.0, it's just a tabletop video game. The ultimate experiece is version 3.5, stick with that and find a good DM and you'll die happy.
Posted by: steven8, November 16th, 2012, 12:13am; Reply: 68
Haven't play D&D since 1984, but I prefered Traveller.
My user name was my Lotus Notes password back in 2000 when I joined my first online forum ever for the game making system called Genesis3D. I was using my son Steve's name, and it was the 8th iteration.
Posted by: dogglebe (Guest), November 16th, 2012, 7:47pm; Reply: 69
And Tom Hanks starred in knock off TV movie about it before he got famous! ;D
Mazes and Monsters is loosely based on the true story Dallas Egbert, a college student who committed suicide after someone placed a curse on his D&D character. His mother did national speaking tours for years on the dangers of the game. She (and the movie) forgot to mention that Dallas was a full time college student at sixteen, he experimented with drugs, he had little friends and he was confused over his sexuality.
Phil
Posted by: stevie, November 16th, 2012, 9:11pm; Reply: 70
Posted by: Pale Yellow, November 16th, 2012, 10:47pm; Reply: 73
Typical Friday night :) haha
Posted by: leitskev, November 16th, 2012, 10:51pm; Reply: 74
Quoted Text
Typical Friday night haha
Yeah, Mark's the only one getting laid.
Posted by: Pale Yellow, November 16th, 2012, 11:00pm; Reply: 75
Lucky Mark *smile*
Posted by: rc1107, November 17th, 2012, 8:05am; Reply: 76
All right, :-). It's time to come clean. I was just trying to sound a little cooler than I really am. It actually has been a little while. Phil wasn't that far off.
Posted by: leitskev, November 17th, 2012, 9:39am; Reply: 77
Trying to make us feel batter.
Maybe writing is like boxing. They say never to get laid while you're training for a fight. Maybe one shouldn't get laid while writing a script.
Posted by: rc1107, November 17th, 2012, 10:38am; Reply: 78
Quoted from Kev
Maybe one shouldn't get laid while writing a script.
Screw the Academy, I would've been a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize-winning screenwriter by the time I was 26.
Posted by: leitskev, November 17th, 2012, 11:00am; Reply: 79
I was doing ok back then. But now my writing is catching up!
Posted by: Hugh Hoyland, November 17th, 2012, 7:37pm; Reply: 80
I'm late with this but...
Hugh Hoyland is a character from Robert A. Heinlein's sci-fi novel "Universe".
I like the name so use it kind of like an online identity.
Posted by: Electric Dreamer, November 18th, 2012, 10:10am; Reply: 81
Hugh Hoyland is a character from Robert A. Heinlein's sci-fi novel "Universe".
I like the name so use it kind of like an online identity.
So, what was it about that character that made you want to filk his moniker? ;D
Regards, E.D.
Posted by: Hugh Hoyland, November 18th, 2012, 9:43pm; Reply: 82
Thats a good question E.D.
I think it was his "rebelious" nature against the status quo that drew me in. He knew there was more to the world than what was being told and he searched for it...and eventually found it.
HGW
Posted by: Reggie, November 19th, 2012, 5:17pm; Reply: 83
I just got my username from my Dad. Reggie is just a short name for Reginald. Reginald is my father's name. So I guess my Dad named me that to.
Posted by: khamanna, November 20th, 2012, 1:45pm; Reply: 84
Ugh... I should have had HAMANA (no K and one N) for my user name. For the life of me I can't understand what made me write k in front of that H in the first place. the name in Russian spelled Хаманна. Now I don't know why my parents were generous with those N's. It's a made up name by the way. I should use all kinds of spellings. Hamana, Hamanna, Khamanna, Khamana - easier to evade enemy when it comes looking...
Posted by: ArtyDoubleYou, January 26th, 2013, 8:46am; Reply: 85
Was just looking through some older posts and came across this one. I had always wandered what peoples names meant too.
My name, ArtyDoubleYou, is how you say my initials R.T.W. It's just something I wrote once as a young buck and always liked it so use it where I can.
Posted by: sniper, January 27th, 2013, 6:37am; Reply: 86
Sniper. Because it sounds badass.
Posted by: AmbitionIsKey, January 27th, 2013, 7:27am; Reply: 87
AmbitionIsKey.
'Cause I feel ambition is key in anyone's journey in life.
Although lets just not all go craycray with ambition, 'cause we aren't Lady Macbeth.
Posted by: stevie, January 27th, 2013, 4:23pm; Reply: 88
Curt, I doubt many people on the boards are going to know what "craycray" is ;D ;D
I didn't! I thought you kids were talking about crayons! ;D
Posted by: irish eyes, January 29th, 2013, 12:35pm; Reply: 92
I knew what you were talking about... cuz I'm sooooo hip :D or I have a sore hip ... more likely the latter
Mark
Posted by: Oney.Mendoza, January 29th, 2013, 4:22pm; Reply: 93
Ha, craycray. I love hipster talk.
I know I'm late to the party but thought I'd join in since I've seen this thread bumped up on the portal lately.
Oney is a family name. It's pronouced O-knee, or Tony without the T. In school I used to get O-nay, O-lay a lot. LOL. Whatever. I'm the 3rd and am expected to pass the unfortunate name down but yeah, not happening.
Mendoza is my last name but one of my final wishes of my dying grandpa's is for either my brother or myself to change our last name to his, which is.... Maslarevic. Once he dies, the family name dies. I don't know about that, Oney Maslarevic.
But yeah, Oney Mendoza here. At least you know how to pronounce it now. :X
Posted by: Gaviano, January 30th, 2013, 9:05am; Reply: 94
my first name is Gavin. When i first met my girlfriend I pretended I was half Italian and told her that my real name was Gaviano, just for shits and giggles. She believed me (I think she was just trying to be nice) but I couldnt keep the charade up for more than 30 seconds lol
Posted by: Nomad, January 30th, 2013, 11:43am; Reply: 95
Well since this thread is back on top I might as well join in.
I was a field artillery surveyor in the Marines, which allowed me to roam around the desert in small groups, like a nomad.
Jordan
Posted by: Gary in Houston, January 30th, 2013, 12:03pm; Reply: 96
Yeah, I'm late as well, so might as well add my explanation, which not nearly as interesting as some others, like Jordan's.
Mine is a dual salute to the main character from Last of the Mohicans and the lead character from M*A*S*H. I also played some basketball and was a pretty good shooting guard, so it kind of all fit together.
Gary
Posted by: Colkurtz8, January 31st, 2013, 1:04am; Reply: 97
I am the 8th incarnation of a guy who done some questionable things in the wilderness during times of severe political upheaval or colonisation, depending on which version you believe.
A film was made about him which was loosely based on a book about him.
Let’s just say, it was a dark period in his life.
Posted by: stevie, January 31st, 2013, 2:08am; Reply: 98
For some reason I don't give myself exotic names on any net forums I hang out on.
On my AFL footy team one Saintsational, I'm stevie
On DM's Beatle Forum I am stevie. Always with a small 's' as I think it looks cooler... :P. There's great people on that site BTW, all Beatle freaks from the world, and most have awesome Beatley user names...except me, lol
I am Roo1249 on the Niners fan forum. All online games I usually have Roo as some sort of name.
Posted by: Alex_212, January 31st, 2013, 3:27am; Reply: 99
Hey Stevie,
I assume you're in Melbourne ????
Go the Dockers (top 4 this year). Coops will back me up here !!!!!
Regards Alex
Posted by: khamanna, January 31st, 2013, 3:38am; Reply: 100
I have no explanation to how I winded up with khamanna. Need to change it to something that will remind people of bunnies or fairies. Or pepsi. Or doughnuts. Or coffee with marshmallows. Or Oswald the octopus - I love that show ever since I started watching it with my child.
I'll think deeper and change my username.
Posted by: khamanna, January 31st, 2013, 3:41am; Reply: 101
Go the Dockers (top 4 this year). Coops will back me up here !!!!!
Regards Alex
Yo Alex! I live on the Gold Coast. I'm from Kyabram in Victoria originally but have lived in Qld for 31 years. My family is in Ky and Melbourne.
The mighty Saints will kick arse this year!
But right now I'm fully focused on...
WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US!!
NOBODY!
GO NINERS - BRING HOME NUMBER SIX!
Posted by: Kip, January 31st, 2013, 5:04pm; Reply: 104
I always turn up late for parties, and this is no exception.
When I started work many moons ago, my boss started to call me Kip. I asked him why and it turns out that his niece or nephew (not sure which) couldn't pronounce the name Christopher properly. They always used to say "kipper". And as my name is Christopher, Kip became my nickname, and has been for the last 20 years.