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Mine's boring. Just my God given name. I Figured St. Alia of the Knife would get a little cumbersome after a while so I just went "come as you are" as it were. Posts: 601 | Registered: Sep 2002
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It could mean Kin of Henry A Vanderbilt ANONymous. It may be the ancient Norse God of Beef & Potatoes. It could be the alphabetized coding for the number 1181221141514, which is the number you'd have to dial to talk to Tiago de la Vega of Bolivia.
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Okay, in light of the fact that nobody can spell my name correctly , it has become knowledge to me that any mystery surrounding it is irrelevant. Here's the truth:
My name is Shon. It is pronounced like Shawn. And I'll be damned if there isn't a human on planet Earth who can pronounce it when they read it or doesn't have a comment about its "uniqueness." People, it's one of the most common names in the English speaking culture, and it happens to have the largest variety of spellings. So I sit around for extended periods of time and create obscure names that have absolutely no meaning. I should put together a catalog of made up crap. It would be impressive to nerdy types.
One evening in 9th grade, my family and I were watching the Zeferelli version of Hamlet (with Mel Gibson and Helena Bonham Carter). I was just sort of watching, like “yeah, it’s Shakespeare, it’s cool, it’s the funniest tragedy around” (my friend swears that Hamlet is a comedy that just happens to include a lot of death, and I almost completely agree). But when Ophelia’s mad scene came around, I just found it chilling and sad. And I cried at her death. So then my brothers started laughing at me and told me I was crazier than Ophelia (They always seem to say I’m crazier than some really weird character from something or other; I believe that before this incident I was “crazier than Ann” from a rather strange book called Hexwood). Anyway, I somehow my friends found out (I probably told them, but I don’t really remember), and some of them started calling me Lindsay Ophelia. So when my family finally got an internet connection the next year, Ophelia was the obvious pseudonym for me to choose whenever I put my name on anything in the web. And until relatively recently, that has been the only name, besides my own, that I have ever posted anything anywhere as.
I didn't "get burned by some guy" or "just like the way it sounded," as people have asked.
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Ophelia, some of the characters in William Sander's short story Undiscovered" agree with you about Hamlet.
That's not a link to the story itself, by the way--just the bibliography page on Sander's website.
Oh, and as I've said in previous iterations of this thread, Noemon is ancient Greek name. Means "Thoughtful". Noemon is also a minor character in The Odyssey, but that isn't why I chose it.
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It comes from the name of a video game character I used to like, quite some time ago. He was called artanis ; but the name was often already taken in my chats and forums ; so I switched two letters, and kept it this way since then. what an interesting story, huh ?
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Saint Godric was a cool guy. Frederick Buechner won a pulitzer prize for his historical novel Godric that I read. Everything snowballed from there...
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My real name is Allyson. I lived in Japan for quite a while. "Allyson" is pronounced "ari-san" in Japanese. "San" is the Japanese honorific, like Mr./Mrs./Miss. My Japanese friends, and co-workers who thought I was especially cute, started calling me "ari-chan." "Chan" is the Japanese affectionate diminutive. I kind of like it, so I use it as my screen name.
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I'd finally managed to get myself to read Sandman. Del(erium) just happened to be the character I liked the most. I tend to be odd quite often, I just thought that in at least some ways, I was pretty similar to her.
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Well, I put this off as long as I could I suppose.
As is often guessed, the Feyd part is from DUNE, the same as several other people who have posted in this thread.
While the Baron part is as well, it's not really meant to be. Way back in HS, everyone in our German class was required to pick a name to go by. My friends and I all picked German titles of nobility (Baron, Herrscher, koenig, and so on). So that has stuck with me for... wow, nearly a decade.
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He thought he was creative by stealing it from the dedication page of Ender's Game. You're so unoriginal. Look at Locke and Alai. And guys like Papa Moose? He just got his from the back of Shadow Puppets. Posts: 2523 | Registered: May 2000
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It's odd how quickly an image, possibly totally unwarranted, can come along with someones username. As I told Khavanon before, everytime I see that name, I think Saint Louis Blues Defensemen with a penchant for scoring via the power play (Alexander Khavanov plays for Saint Louis), its just an odd image, that I'm unable to shake, I wonder if anyone else gets bizarre images like that based on nicks (or content for that matter).
As for me, gray wolf is a nick someone gave for me based on how quickly I'd gone prematurely gray in the past few years, and I think it probably has a little something to do with my personality (I changed the spelling and the spacing too). I posted on this site in mid-2001 as Tom Hagen, but couldn't track down my old pass word for that user name (famous character played by Robert Duvall in The Godfather, and The Godfather Part II).
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My screen name comes from the summer that I signed on to hatrack...it was my Clive Staples summer and I was deeply moved, touched, influenced and otherwise effected by the Chronicles of Narnia. I was 21 and it was the first time I had read them, can you believe it?! I proceeded to read everything else by C.S. Lewis and loved it all.
PS Quiara is probably the coolest name I have ever heard in my LIFE! You're lucky to have those weird parents.
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I just realized I killed the other name thread. Oops.
Here's a copypaste version of my oh-so-interesting story:
I was a regular at Lycos Games before it disappeared. I had many many names there. This was my favorite of the names, so I have carried it over into many things: my website, emails, sns, Hatrack, PWeb.... Luckily its something that is not ever taken (I was so mad when I realized my main handle at Lycos - DragonEyz - was taken by many in other places).
Basically, I love fire. I love replacing my i's with y's, I love Merlin, I love magic, and I love the Welsh. Put it all together, you get me.
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My kids were watching Peter Pan in the other room just as one of the lost boys (I think) says "Its a Wendybird!" and voila I became Wendybird.
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I went to another forum long before and they said Maethoriell meant Warrior lady but now I doubt it..now It's just a cool Elven-like name that I answer to when I'm on the net..I love hte act of medieval fightin and any kind of hystorical heros but not now..it's too gruesome..hehe..It also comes in handy when I need a pseudonym for myself in stories..
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Mine's just a boring old psuedonym from college. I used it for screen-writing, producing plays, and graphic art. My sister came up with Sasha Slaine, and we were working on the same project, thus I chose Erik. I was really into Moorcock at the time, and it kind of has that flavor.
I just wanted to bump this, because it shouldn't be consigned to the doldrums.
And I would like to here more interesting stories than mine.
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WheatPuppet is derived from a previous name, BreadPuppet, which is based off of a theatrical group that I really enjoy called Bread and Puppet. The only reason I migrated to WheatPuppet is because I forgot the password to one of my BreadPuppet accounts, and deciding I'd cut my losses, decided I changed my username universally.
I'm also known as "Wheats" in certain places. I try to get it as a login name for Unix/Linux machines in the spirit of *nix typing laziness (e.g. "copy" reduced to "cp") and WheatPuppet takes a lot longer to type.
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Ayn Rand worte one of my favorite books, Anthem. Equality 7-2521 is the protagonist. I highly recommend it.
"It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone."
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Mine is a relativly new, and sparsely used nickname. My name is Amanda and freshman year of college one of my good friends started calling me Amander. Then I made the mistake of telling him about a license plate border thingy I saw that said "Amanda Demanda" and the name Damander was born. It became a term of endearment with him and two other friends, and I was kinda missing them when I made my screen name....
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My friends wrote a Star Wars parody with all the characters based on people from school. My name is Randy and my character was Ran-Solo. I have used solo for many things since then and ransolo as well.
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Mine comes from the comic book Zot! by Scott McCloud. Zot! sort of personifies the innate hope, friendliness, and unselfishness I wish I had, so I use it a lot on the 'net. (Zot!'s friends call him Zotto!)
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Ryuko- Long, boring, and pointless story. But I'll tell it!!!
I was long known as Dragon Girl, because of my wacko AOL ID, which I chose when I was 13 and in love with Dragons... Dork. Anyway, not too long later, I got interested in anime, and by proxy Japanese. So I decided to make my name all Japanese-y.
I took Ryuu, which I knew meant Dragon, Misspelled it to Ryu, and added -ko, which I assumed meant girl, being as it was the suffix that meant a girl's name. (Ko actually means child...) The real Japanese would be Ryuu no onna no ko...
Long story short, the Japanese like to shorten stuff, so I might have even been right. But I found out Ryuko meant style, and I guess I just kept it. (such a dork)
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Zotto! - The song is Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd. You should listen to it sometime. Best. Song. Ever.
"Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back A flight of fancy on a windswept field Standing alone, my senses reeled A fatal attraction holding me fast, How can I escape this irresistible grasp? Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I. ..."
BTW, you don't have hope, friendliness and unselfishness? Dude, you sure had me fooled! Posts: 1111 | Registered: May 2003
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PSI Teleport- an attack used by Ness in the old SNES RPG, EarthBound.
Paula- Ness' best friend (possibly love interest....?)
Twoson- Where Paula comes from, also a bad spelling of where I am currently living.
Not very exciting. By the way, my real name is Maureen. Also not very exciting, plus no one can spell it. (But I like it.)
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Actually not from the move Harvey. Just like it turns out Wheat puppet isn't a vegan fan of the band Meat Puppets.
I got a halloween card once that said"Here's pooka the cat with eyes of green to wish you happy halloween". Later I named a cat pooka. Then when I'd been on Hatrack for a while as "badhousewife" there was a race for member name 5000 and "pooka" just sort of raced to the fore of my consciousness. I've had a lot of nicknames IRL but I didn't want to use something someone would actually recognize me by.
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Mine's just a rickety old WWI airplane known for being tricky on take offs and landings, but maneuverale once in flight. It's rotary engine made it tilt hard to the right, but a pilot could slew it hard to the left to make it fly relatively straight down the middle. Sums up my political stance most times.
It was also Snoopy's plane. Posts: 2848 | Registered: Feb 2003
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