Username: what's the origin of yours ?

Post by **Mr. Titanic** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:50 pm

As I was replying to Kilgore Trout's post in Pellegrino, I had an idea. Forgive me if a thread of this sort exists, but I'd like to know how everyone selected their username. Was it your favorite character in a book, the title, some interesting word you found in the dictionary? Now I see some of them out there are typical, but others are quite creative!

Post by **laurie** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:34 pm

Mine is my real name - I was too 'Net-naive at the time to think up anything creative.

Hunter B · Post by **Hunter B** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:54 pm

Mine's real as well, that way I wouldn't have people asking me what my real name was in PMs and such.

Melimall · Post by **Melimall** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:26 am

Mine is my real name in Quenya.. I went through a very LOTR-obsessed period.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:10 am

My real first name is Alfred.
I am a LMB fan, any LMB fan can understand my username.

For you, fortunate people who don't yet know LMB and thus have ahead of you the pleasure of reading her for the first time (when we, the already-hooked, are reduced to reread over and over and have to wait, as parched desert dwellers praying for the next rainfall, i.e. her next book to be published) in the world of Miles Vorkosigan, and more precisely on his planet of birth, Barrayar, the aristocratic, or rather, as they insist, "warrior" caste all have names beginning with Vor.

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:08 am

It has come up somewhere before, but I can't remember where...

vor-alfred! Now it makes sense! I was reading it (voral)(fred).

Mine is not my real name (what ever Greabo Girl might try and claim). It is a slightly obscure yiddish verb meaning 'to complain' or perhaps 'to bitch'. The reason I picked it was that when it came to a time to pick an online username it was in my subconscious becuase it has been a word I'd read that I didn't know (not a comon occurance). It is perhaps a slighty unfortunate choice.

It had turned up in a book called The Fifth Sacred Thing by the oddly named Starhawk. Not a bad book in a slighty bizzare way.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:52 am

Kvetch wrote: It is a slightly obscure yiddish verb meaning 'to complain' or perhaps 'to bitch'.

Kvetching is just what the thirsty guy is doing.

Ps:

Kvetch wrote: becuase .

Apparently, Kvetch has the same difficulty as his niece

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:25 am

MelimallÃ« wrote:Mine is my real name in Quenya.. I went through a very LOTR-obsessed period.

I found a Quenya-English dictionnary.
Lust for your loved ones?

The only way I was able to make sense is assume that you are of slavic origin and your given name is some variant of Dragoliub.
An alternative would be your last name is germanic and is Freundlieb or something like that.
Am I right?

Edit: I got it all wrong!
The HTML was not very legible, I thought I read mallÃ« when it was mailÃ« (I later found a more legible rtf version)
mallÃ« is "street, road", not lust.

Friendroad?
Lovestreet?

I really don't see what your real name is, now.

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:19 am

Kvetch wrote:

vor-alfred! Now it makes sense! I was reading it (voral)(fred).

Me too! I'll have to re-introduce Alfred to Bob, because I've been mentioning him with Kvetch's pronunciation.

mccormack44 is part of our email (and NOT how we spell McCormick!); like Laurie, I was too internet naive to pick a username.

Sue

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:41 am

mccormack44 wrote:Kvetch wrote:
vor-alfred! Now it makes sense! I was reading it (voral)(fred).
Me too! I'll have to re-introduce Alfred to Bob, because I've been mentioning him with Kvetch's pronunciation.
...
Sue

I was wondering why you once called me "Fred". Now it makes sense! (though it is a fact that some friends call me Fred, and never Al or Alf, but how could you have guessed that?)

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:00 am

Well, just about everybody on the internet knows how I chose mine

When I was pregnant with my oldest and went for my first ultrasound, we didn't know if it was a boy or a girl (obviously), and we insisted that they put the baby's file under Jeff's last name instead of mine, so at the top of the ultrasound pic, they wrote Toll baby. So I used that as my very first user name on parentsplace.com, and it stuck.

Kilgore Trout · Post by **Kilgore Trout** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:31 pm

Kilgore Trout

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:12 pm

Kilgore Trout wrote:Kilgore Trout

So, according to Wikipedia, you are also William Ashbless! I'm so glad to have finally met you. I've always considered your "Twelve Hours of the Night" as one of the greatest masterpieces of 19th Century English poetry!

Evaine · Post by **Evaine** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:35 pm

Nice one, voralfred

I came to this site via a Deryni discussion group - the series of books about a medieval alternate world where the Deryni are the magic users, by Katherine Kurtz. Long, long series, about 4 trilogies plus some extras.

Evaine was the witty, intelligent, beautiful daughter of one of the main characters (Camber of Culdi, who was later made a saint). She married the man of her dreams, had wonderful talented children, and was a powerful sorceress - what could be more like my real self?

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:10 pm

woke up one day with it in my head, been using it ever since.

violetblue · Post by **violetblue** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:57 pm

I was enamored with The Dark Tower at the time I registered at this site, and in the books, a rose was the center of the universe, a holy device. I really liked that imagery. Of course, with my pragmatic mind, I of course went straight to Roses are red, Violets are blue, and combined them. But I think Spenser's verse is prettier than the usual doggerel:

She bathed with roses red,
And violets blue
And all the sweetest flowers
That in the forest grew.

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:14 pm

voralfred wrote:Ps:
Kvetch wrote: becuase .
Apparently, Kvetch has the same difficulty as his niece

I'm ill, OK *mutter*

(j/k)

Post by **Darb** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:16 pm

I'm looking forward to hearing DairyPirate's story.

I keep getting this picture in my mind of someone who sneaks up on poor unsuspecting milk cows, and ... well, you know ... scores a free lunch.

Avast thar ! {wipes lips}

DairyPirate · Post by **DairyPirate** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:22 pm

Friends were calling me Dairy for some reason a few years ago, so I stuck Pirate on it and used it for creating accounts.

-Brandyn

Post by **gollum** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:26 pm

Mine came about because - yes it's obvious - I'm known to have read the occasional fantasy/SciFi novel

But it really stuck when a friend observed my mood/personality change when computer access was denied or (even weirder'er) abundant. Reckoned I was most Gollum like...'give it to me!...snarl'

-Greg

felonius · Post by **felonius** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:44 pm

Old nickname from high school.

Post by **wolfspirit** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:25 pm

I was called a wolf by quite a few people in my class (mostly because I would growl at whoever touched my high-caffiene tea before class, but also because the group of friends I had decided we were a pack and not a clique), and I had (still have somewhere, I think), a sign for "The Ether God," because I did all of the wiring of the network in our house.

Hence, wolfspirit. OR something like that.

Now, getting called Scott, has an entirely different story. And I blame tollbaby (and I think my memory is right in that it IS your fault

). Although it could be the other Steven, with him stealing my name before I was born and all.

Scott

nzilla · Post by **nzilla** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:22 pm

First initial plus -zilla as in "Godzilla."

Post by **clong** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:02 am

my user name is of course the distinctive sound made by the rare (and quite valuable, I might add) Nepalese "Chhepu the Protector" Gong. It's always been one of my favorite sounds.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:24 am

wolfspirit wrote:Now, getting called Scott, has an entirely different story. And I blame tollbaby (and I think my memory is right in that it IS your fault ). Although it could be the other Steven, with him stealing my name before I was born and all.

Scott

Awww, but I like you better as Scotty

*hug* and yes, I happily accept full responsibility for that