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Post by IMForeman on Jan 21, 2009 6:34:54 GMT
I looked back through old threads and didn't see anything like this. So what made you choose your username?
Mine should be obvious enough, I guess, but there are several ones I'm curious about.
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Post by merrythemad on Jan 21, 2009 15:15:30 GMT
Mine's a sort of nickname acquired from another site, where I played a character called Meredith and the Merry sort of stuck, as for the mad, well, i think anybody interesting is a bit mad, don't you?
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 21, 2009 17:16:37 GMT
This has been related elsewhere but:
This is a story that begins long ago, in my first year of uni, and it is also the story of why I am not allowed to drink coffee.
It was a glorious Saturday afternoon, and I had decided, with my now room mates, to go adventuring off campus to... I think we went to the zoo? And to Wallmart... someone needed to buy a broom... this is not important.
What is important is that I had not slept for some days previous, and was running on a certain caffeinated beverage which I am now banned from consuming, and, apparently, I was hell to travel with, and keep jibbering on about randomness (and considering how annoying my uncaffeinated jibber rants can be, I'm frankly amazed that I wasn't abandoned on the bus)
Also necessary for understand this story is the fact that my wrist watch had given up the ghost some days earlier and, as a result, I was carrying around my venerable pink, mini-mouse alarm clock in my pocket. It was my very low-budget pocket watch.
AS we travelled on the bus, a stranger asked me the time, and as I pulled out said alarm clock. And their reaction was the one which I got all throughout first year... "is that an alarm clock??? In your pocket???"
And I, who was sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated (and somewhat of a stuttered at the best of times) proudly and memorably proclaimed: "No! It's, it's my Pocket in a Clocket! No, no, no... it's my Patch! My ClocketPatch!"
To which my room mates to be were like "what???" LOL "No more coffee for you."
And I was like... "Yeah, probably a good idea."
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Post by Stripes on Jan 21, 2009 18:22:13 GMT
My username is different from the name you see.
Ratherbetraveling - I saw an icon on Livejournal a long time ago, it said rather be travelling. It had a guy in a small boat in the middle of no where. I wish I had saved that icon. Anyway I was like yeah, I rather be traveling too, seeing I am addicted to traveling (no really, I am. I have shown signs of withdrawal syndrome). So I started to use the nick name.
Newton - I was joining neopets for the 4792793 time when I needed to think of an username. Ratherbetraveling wasn't working out for some reason. My cat who was dying at the time and was lying on my bed beside the computer. So I suddenly typed in WhyNewton. I ended up with Why_Newton. People would just call me Newton so that became my online nick name.
I gave away my pets on neopets but I wouldn't give away my pet named why_newton. I thought it was to weird for people to have pet that pretty much summed up my feelings for my dead cat. I told people online I wouldn't give that pet away and people still asked. >__<
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Post by jjpor on Jan 21, 2009 21:39:45 GMT
Well, I'd like to say I have some cleverly constructed network of false online personae, but actually it's not very exciting really. Basically, when I first got online, some years ago, I needed a username and being of a lazy sort of disposition, I just used my initials, all of them, and continued to use this ever afterwards whenever a pseudonym or, as it were, a nom de plume, was required. So, it's:
J as in my first name, which is my dad's middle name;
J as in my middle name, which is my dad's first name;
P as in my confirmation name, and if you don't know what one of those is, it's, well...a Catholic thing.
OR as in my last name which is Irish (see about Catholicism above).
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Post by Stripes on Jan 21, 2009 21:46:37 GMT
Well, I'd like to say I have some cleverly constructed network of false online personae, but actually it's not very exciting really. Basically, when I first got online, some years ago, I needed a username and being of a lazy sort of disposition, I just used my initials, all of them, and continued to use this ever afterwards whenever a pseudonym or, as it were, a nom de plume, was required. So, it's: J as in my first name, which is my dad's middle name; J as in my middle name, which is my dad's first name; P as in my confirmation name, and if you don't know what one of those is, it's, well...a Catholic thing. OR as in my last name which is Irish (see about Catholicism above). Peter? That is the only P name I can think of. |
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Post by jjpor on Jan 21, 2009 22:04:28 GMT
Peter? That is the only P name I can think of. Nope! ;D |
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 22, 2009 3:41:15 GMT
Paul, Patrick...? those are the only other Biblical ones I can think of.
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Post by primsong on Jan 22, 2009 5:11:41 GMT
Pius, perhaps?
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Post by merrythemad on Jan 22, 2009 15:39:14 GMT
Pascal? Philip?
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Post by jjpor on Jan 23, 2009 16:38:50 GMT
I wish I'd thought of that one, actually... ;D Clocket was right - Patrick...see above about Irishness and Catholicism.  |
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Post by primsong on Jan 24, 2009 23:05:55 GMT
Nothing can top Clocket's story, I think. Not tremendously interesting here - in essence, I was a clueless person who couldn't even send emails when my interest and attention was captured by someone showing me a fan forum for LOTR, which was (at the time) in production and the first film to shortly be released. I took the plunge into the online world to post, and in doing so was faced with something I'd never had to do before: a username? Like what, a CB handle or a nickname? I stared for a while then decided to try a Tolkien-provided feminine name - Rosie was taken but Primula was not. To my convoluted thinking Primula made sense because she drowned. I live in a very rainy place, lol... So Primula I became. However, Tolkien not having a large selection of female characters, I soon ran into the problem of "other primulas" causing confusion, so I began to adopt my fandom-oriented email name instead. So far I've never met another Primsong. It's been long enough now that when I meet other fans at events, I answer just fine to "prim". |
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Post by Stripes on Jan 30, 2009 1:59:56 GMT
Mine should be obvious enough, I guess, but there are several ones I'm curious about. I don't get your username to be honest.  |
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 30, 2009 2:48:51 GMT
Mine should be obvious enough, I guess, but there are several ones I'm curious about. I don't get your username to be honest. I.M. Foreman was the name of the junkyard that the TARDIS was stored (and where Susan got her surname, Foreman, that she went by in that one) in An Unearthly Child. It's probably not as well known as I thought it was. I believe it was only ever shown on screen, and then revisited in Attack of the Cybermen and misspelled as something else in Remembrance of the Daleks. |
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Post by Stripes on Jan 30, 2009 3:08:54 GMT
I don't get your username to be honest. I.M. Foreman was the name of the junkyard that the TARDIS was stored (and where Susan got her surname, Foreman, that she went by in that one) in An Unearthly Child. It's probably not as well known as I thought it was. I believe it was only ever shown on screen, and then revisited in Attack of the Cybermen and misspelled as something else in Remembrance of the Daleks. I guess if someone was a true Doctor Who fan ... or just hardcore, they would know. I know very little of Doctor Who. I have this feeling that I am not as big of a fan as other people are. |
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 30, 2009 3:13:15 GMT
In some cases that's known as "having a life."
Not that I would ever cast aspersions on Whovians other than myself. Ahem.
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Post by Stripes on Jan 30, 2009 3:32:54 GMT
In some cases that's known as "having a life." Not that I would ever cast aspersions on Whovians other than myself. Ahem. A life? I am working on getting one of those. I usually will love something and will know everything about it. I know more about Doctor Who than most. Though I just don't bother with Doctor Who, or much of what I am into now a days. I guess I am getting older. |
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Post by magnusgreel on Jan 30, 2009 10:51:45 GMT
I like that post, Newton. I'm not so good with the words tonight Newton, so I'll limit said words, but hi!
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Post by Stripes on Jan 30, 2009 17:30:26 GMT
I like that post, Newton. I'm not so good with the words tonight Newton, so I'll limit said words, but hi! Why hello. *waves* |
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Post by wanderlust on Feb 22, 2009 0:29:29 GMT
Well, I really really want to travel. There's always been something preventing me, but I've begun to make smaller trips (like other places in my state), so I'm consoling myself until I can afford to leave the country. Anyway, in a Doctor Who fic I'd been reading, the Doctor commented that he had wanderlust and I remember thinking that that was a good name for what I have - a wanderlust. So there you have it. On other boards I have many other names, and those all have different stories.  |
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