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A poster recently inquired about my user name, which I was happy to post but after that moment I started became increasingly curious about the names of other posters.
So why did you choose your name?
CaliforniaPeggy
(151,694 posts)Well, I live in California.........and my name IS Peggy. I wanted to have my name in my username.
So I combined them and voila!
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)The post that started it all --
I was in one of my usual haunts, a coffee house. We sort of spied each other and the opposites attracted. He had a military haircut and way of carrying himself because he was in the Army. I was wearing sandals and a sun dress and had braids in my hair. I chided him about being a soldier, he chided me about being a hippie chick.
He got up and went to the restroom. No sooner did he leave then some guy who had been sitting behind me leaned over and told me I should just stop hanging out with that guy, it would be better if I just hung out with him and his friends (by which he really meant just him). I told him thanks but no thanks. He insisted that "that guy" was bad news. I asked if he knew him and he didn't. Basically it was a "You know how those people are. You should stick with your own kind" sales pitch. Then he put his hand on my hip to try and coax me away --
-- and I proceeded to flip my shit right there in the middle of the coffee house.
Lover Boy came out of the bathroom to see me climbing into other guy's face and cussing him for all he was worth. I think I jabbed the other guy in the face with my finger a couple of times but to be honest I don't remember because I was so furious. Lover Boy stepped up behind me and obviously everyone else was watching so dude left.
Things quieted down, and by "things" I mean "me." When I was regaining my composure Lover Boy said, "For a hippie chick you sure got a lot of fight in you. You're like some sort of nuclear unicorn."
And voila!
CaliforniaPeggy
(151,694 posts)I was going to ask you where your name came from!
This is great....you should see me grinning!
Thanks!
I majored in French in college...........and it still sneaks in now and then.
3catwoman3
(25,275 posts)...bastardized and ignorant forms of voila such as "Walla!" of "Wah-lah!" The first few times I saw these, it took me a while to figure what the person posting was trying to say. I have to fight the urge to correct them.
CaliforniaPeggy
(151,694 posts)irisblue
(33,939 posts)I'll clean up my act.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)i love it!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Sorry.
malthaussen
(17,617 posts)"Directly after tea I shall pop out upon the Hun like an enraged rabbit." (Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery at the Battle of the Bulge)
-- Mal
jonno99
(2,620 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I did grad school work in women's history.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It was my last radio callsign in Vietnam.
The one I had when I was hit by AK-47 fire and medevac'd.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Dude.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Mocking us as Purple Heart "bandaid" vets. I spent nearly 19 months in the hospital and was retired from the Army as a Captain for 50% physical combat disability. My jaw, shattered by AK fire, was rebuilt 3 times by both the Army and the Navy. First they used bone marrow from my hip, then one of my ribs, then bone pieces from my other hip.
And believe it or not, some of those wingers trashing me are vets. Supposedly my brothers, but so ideologically blind that they'll even trash a brother.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I can't imagine how it is affecting you all these years later. It has to be bad, real bad.
The reason I say this is I am suffering from old injuries as the result of a 25 years ago head-on collision. I "got by" for years until the old injuries caught up with me.
I worked with a guy that had his humerus bone shot clear in two in Vietnam. Of course that was a simple clean injury compared to yours. I was fortunate enough to escape the draft by being number 97 in a year they stopped at 95. I had passed my physical and all.
I think extreme opposition to the war confused many people. They directed and continue to direct their anger toward the wrong people.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I came through my experience the better for it, I think. Our injuries tend to be both phyical and emotional, psychological. But my PTSD had less to do with my own injury than with everything else in my war experience. Eventually I learned to deal with PTSD and to manage it. Usually pretty good, sometimes less good. But I'm still here. And as many on DU know, my humorous bone is still intact.
I'm sorry your old injuries are coming back to trouble you now. I hope you're getting care for that.
catbyte
(35,573 posts)but it suits me.
I've used it since around 1990.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It's meaningful, appropriate, and even uses wordplay. And everyone knows how I hate wordplay!
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)so I riffed on that and created riderinthestorm because we were in the midst of the "storm" of the Bush presidency.
Plus I'm a pro in the horse business so the rider part fit as well...
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,376 posts)I was in one of those new age men's groups where we sat in circles and told stories and pounded on drums and shit. Just to clarify, we always thought that the MRA stuff was crapola personified. In several years with the group, we seemed to not talk about women a lot. Funny how that works out.
For a time, I fancied myself as having learned something (silly me) and took the name Wise Coyote-since I was so 'wise' and shit and coyote is famously the joker of the animal kingdom.
But in the end, I found my self the Wounded Bear once again. It's a leg wound, BTW. Not physical, more metaphorical.
sarge43
(29,127 posts)Just seemed like a good idea.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Kingofalldems
(39,149 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)i've always had my little guy in my sig line and decided it should be my new name. my hair looks like him now, too.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Generic Brad
(14,374 posts)Between co-workers and family members I found I could no longer post on DU without being mercilessly harassed in real life. They found me because I originally selected a nickname that allowed them to figure out who I was. The DU bumper sticker on my old car also tipped them off on where to find me on line. So, I abandoned my DU account and rejoined under my current name.
So - no profound reason. I chose it so I could be free to participate here without being ridiculed for my thoughts by conservatives in my life who I could not avoid.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)hunter
(38,809 posts)I thought of capitalizing the "h" but that seemed too loud.
DFW
(56,268 posts)Namely, the one I fly into and out of (usually!) when I go back home.
Virgin America flies in and out of Love Field, which is much closer to the house and the office, but it is horribly inadequate compared to the capacity it has added on, and the lines for security (when departing) and taxis (when arriving) are horrendous.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)within the 510 area code, and my first name is Jamaal.
Initech
(101,471 posts)Sunday too. We lost some people over the week and we need to play sort of catch up. So if you could get here around 9:00, that'd be greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! K thanks!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Great name!
I picked mine as a snarky reference to W.
Initech
(101,471 posts)I... I could set the building on fire!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"Its not that Im lazy, its that I just dont care".
Peter Gibbons is my favorite folk hero!
Boomerproud
(8,326 posts)So that's the "Boomer" part-Proud because I got sick of all the abuse my generation took-especially after Reagan took over. I'm not very clever so that's what I came up with-Yawn.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)and my last initial at the time I signed up many eons ago.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,553 posts)...of discontent hopefully employing as much sarcasm as possible with a fair and balance degree of irony.
At your service.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)benld74
(9,979 posts)calikid
(616 posts)On yea, I'm a child of California, pretty simple.
irisblue
(33,939 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,689 posts)Many times in my life I have been "Willied" where someone would comment about it. Sometimes directly to me, other times I overhear it.
There was one time when we went to Albuquerque to a Melissa Etheridge concert at Popejoy Hall. While waiting for the show to begin we wandered around mezzanine, stopping at a kiosk to get a cocktail. The bartendress mentioned to me that someone had mentioned that Willie was in the crowd. Sure enough I then noticed he was somewhat dogging me.
It's kinda fun, sometimes when I overhear a "Willie" I'll quietly sing 'On the Road Again'.
And I like the movie Barbarosa. So the night I stopped lurking and joined up, with the help from some beer and smoke I though Why Not.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Paulie
(8,464 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)from my infancy
(Which some would say I never outgrew!)
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)about 1952
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)There aren't many of us.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)But I'm from Ohio.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Now there are arcane1's all over the place.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)... I used to start sentences with "Obviously," a lot (to the point where others used to imitate me because of it) and I'm a huge Monty Python fan.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Have you eaten an Anglican cathedral yet? Or made that jump across the English Channel?
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Well, no, not an Anglican cathedral as such...
Tunnelling to Java as we speak...
liberaltrucker
(9,135 posts)nt
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I bet most truckers are pretty right wing in their outlook.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)And I did exactly as this girl is doing!
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/31/opinion/greene-winky-dink-bill-gates/http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/31/opinion/greene-winky-dink-bill-gates/
"A strong case can be made -- and several authors, deep thinkers and historians over the years have made it -- that Winky Dink, more than any other single person (or single cartoon character, in Winky Dink's case), ushered in the era of interactivity.
In the early day of television, Americans sat transfixed as the first sets were delivered to homes. The brand-new experience was like having a constantly programmed movie screen in the family living room. The pleasure, the convenience-- all a person had to do was lean back and be entertained.
Or so it seemed.
But two men -- a pair of fledgling television producers whose names were Harry Prichett and Edwin Wyckoff -- had the foresight to realize that the screen did not necessarily have to be one-way."
Glorfindel
(9,896 posts)Winky Dink was a little star, if I recall correctly. My parents wouldn't order the screen cover for me (they thought it was silly), so I just pretended to draw on the screen.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)murielm99
(31,351 posts)It was great fun.
There was a TV show, too.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I had a different user name in the beginning, and since I occasionally use it to post where I'm otherwise not wanted, I won't reveal it here.
Aristus
(67,994 posts)Which was Plato's real name.
I thought I more or less made up the name, but a Google search a number of years ago reveals the existence of several Catholic saints named Aristus.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Aristus
(67,994 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,813 posts)I also like the children's book, "The Velveteen Rabbit." So it seemed like a good combination.
a la izquierda
(11,876 posts)I don't think they do it anymore, but I loved it when I was a kid. Now I think it's "Frozen" or something. Meh.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,813 posts)I have a velveteen rabbit, though. He's pretty rough looking, since he's >60 years old.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And now you know where my screen name is from.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 2, 2015, 01:27 AM - Edit history (1)
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)mackerel
(4,412 posts)reference in a post.
3catwoman3
(25,275 posts)...we only had 3 cats. We later had 4, and now we have 5, but I decided to stick with the original number to honor those we had at the time, none of whom are still with us.
Some of my friends whom I met at a real life gathering from that original message board call me Cat in person, which I rather like. My own name is Martha, which I have never particularly liked. I would have loved to be a Kathleen, so being Cat is as close as I will get and I'll take it.
What an entertaining thread.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)alittlelark
(18,909 posts)...and have made money with it over the years in radio etc.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)And a half century later, it still fits. It's my small way of keeping him near.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)nilesobek
(1,423 posts)Google has a whole image page and explanation. The weird thing is I had the name before I knew what it meant.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]
chknltl
(10,558 posts)Prior to coming to DU I learned about the nightmare that comes from using depleted uranium-aka D.U.-munitions. For a month or so after, I was telling everybody I could about this, warning them not to let their sons or daughters join the military. I got to where I was feeling like a real 'Chicken Little' for doing that. Then one day while researching D.U. munitions online I stumbled on a different DU, the Democratic Underground. So I removed the vowels from Chicken Little and condensed it to chknltl and yes, my first OP and a few after were about the horrors stemming from our government's use of Depleted Uranium.
I find it highly ironic that I am posting this as a response to someone called Nuclear Unicorn.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Seems like fate. Or something.
MADem
(135,425 posts)and I am a Democrat. So I was a bit MAD, from MA, and a Dem. Cram it all together, and here I am!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]
a la izquierda
(11,876 posts)and I am an expert on Latin America and fluent in Spanish, hence the name, to the left.
GusBob
(7,480 posts)Either all the pretty horses or the crossing. Not sure which one
It was a line of dialogue, he would have some passages of spanish dialogue, of which I know not very much
But I saw this line in the book and said hey! That's a DU handle! So I looked it up
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Glorfindel
(9,896 posts)"Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength." ― The Fellowship of the Ring, Many Meetings
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)malthaussen
(17,617 posts)... as the guy who survived the Fall of Gondolin, or someone else? Given that Glorfindel would have probably been a fairly common name for blond elves in the Third Age.
-- Mal
Glorfindel
(9,896 posts)In fact, I seem to remember reading that he was the same in some commentary long ago.
malthaussen
(17,617 posts)I did stop reading his notes after about the third book of them. I may like Tolkien, but I see no reason to buy mink blankets for Chris.
I like GG Kay, though. He helped out on the Silmarilion compilation and is a good fantasy author in his own right. But he writes for grownups -- nary an elf or dragon to be found in his books.
-- Mal
Glorfindel
(9,896 posts)I'm always on the lookout for excellent works of fantasy.
malthaussen
(17,617 posts)Personally, I don't care as much for the Fionavar Trilogy, which was his first foray into the genre, largely because I don't like the interpretation of the Arthurian legends he introduces in the second volume. The first volume is pretty good, though.
-- Mal
Callmecrazy
(3,066 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,906 posts)and my dad called me his Manhattan baby when I was a kid.
I condensed the letters for my vanity license plate--years ago--because I didn't
want to remember numbers any more--and combined it with my initials
(BB) to become mnhtnbb.
So, no it's not Manhattan (KS) basketball (so thought someone in Missouri when we lived there)
It's not Man hatin' babe, either.
sellitman
(11,662 posts)I've been in sales for 30 years plus. When the Internet was young I chose my moniker for the AOL Chat Rooms. I've kept it ever since.
- Kevin
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)because my last name is Baker.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)..who were professional musicians found other fields. I could still probably find another studio job but that would require moving...and I'm happy where I'm at.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I think that would be the most wonderful thing in the world. I'm too old and crippled up for that now. What instrument? If you don't mind me asking.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...work for CBS. (Studio musician)...then some bands after that.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)I've lived in Houston for 35 years and I'm staying.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)I have not found a record of what her name was; she was only referred to as the Heiress of Bickworth. Specifically, "John Bird married the Heiress of Bickworth." The sad fact is that in the 1450's, when she was married, a woman was identified only insofar as her worth to her husband. She had a daughter in 1458 and there is no further record of other children or of the Heiress. Given the times, she probably died in childbirth and would have been about 18 - 20 years old.
I chose it out of convenience. My genealogy research notebook was open to her page when I decided that, after years and years of lurking, I would sign up to DU. I continue to use it out of respect for all the unnamed women I've discovered in my research who's only identity is that of spouse.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,850 posts)And, because "City of New Orleans" and "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" were too long to be user names.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/steve-goodman-and-the-sur_b_123206.html
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Good story.
bullsnarfle
(254 posts)should have a 'Bring your pet goat to the game' day. The more goats, the better. That would be sure-fire way to break the curse.
Only half-joking here....
madinmaryland
(65,116 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)So I went with (a) supporting character(s).
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,747 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
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Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)be retired and his shirt hung from the ceiling in the Lounge for all time.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)sarge43
(29,127 posts)mucifer
(24,629 posts)kinda childish but, it's me.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Bloomberg ( registered Republican and candidate of the Republican Party) had a sizable contingent of supporters here back in 2005.
(Paid? Unpaid? Who knows.)
They regularly trashed the DEM nominee, Fernando Ferrer.... an honest and reasonably progressive veteran pol who had the misfortune of being 1. Puerto Rican and 2. from the Bronx ( the city's least fashionable and most untouchable borough from the POV of the Manhattan and Bklyn elite.)
One of them called Ferrer a "smarmy doofus". I asked the troll to define the term. Infuriated, he/she gave an example instead.
I was reborn.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I am enthusiastic......sometimes.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)that often corrected their girls with, "Lil Missy!"
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)...a play on "OG" Original Gangster but there is absolutely nothing gangster about me. But I've been a geek all my life and into sci-fi, and video games since the 70s and computers since the early 80s. And right before I needed an online name a friend had introduced me to Ice T's song Original Gangster and I thought it was funny to be the Original Geek (Although I know I was certainly not the original geek. But I was the first I saw use the name!)
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)malthaussen
(17,617 posts)...back in 1976. "Malthaussen" was intended to be derived from the name of political economist Thomas Malthus, but I misspelled it. Being a stubborn sort of so-and-so, I never changed it, even after discovering it was perilously close to the name of a KZ in Austria.
-- Mal
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)My complete, lifelong respect. Naming oneself for an esoteric champion of the pessimistic because of a D&D game in the 1970s? The finest thing of which I have ever heard.
malthaussen
(17,617 posts)... I first learned about Malthus from a reference to him in Bob Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which I read in 1968 at the age of 12. I read several books that year that laid some of the foundations of my character: my sig line is a paraphrase of a quote in Treblinka.
-- Mal
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)it was German for the malt house where they dried the barley for beer making.
malthaussen
(17,617 posts)Hence my avatar.
-- Mal
iscooterliberally
(3,001 posts)I was commuting about 75 to 80 miles a day to work and back. That whole Valerie Plame scandal really pissed me off, so I stuck the the two together, and there you have it.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)ProfessorGAC
(69,308 posts)I was teaching organic chemistry at a state school in Chicago. That was in the very early days of the web.
So, AOL was the most common ISP. The school gave everyone an email address (part of the deal) and everyone had the account name "Professor(initials here) @ AOL.com"
When i left there and adjuncted to a different school, and AOL was not all that i switched to a couple other email accounts, but i just carried the moniker over. (I didn't want to pay for AOL.)
When i came here, i was so used to using it, that i just kept it.
See; not that interesting.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Hear envy. I had one high school equivalent chemistry course. I found it to be really fascinating.
ProfessorGAC
(69,308 posts)I was big into mechanism and electrochemodynamics, but i also really dug surface and micellar chemistry too.
When i was at that school, i didn't teach advanced organic. It was mostly nursing and pharmacy majors. A lot of the nurses were already RN's pursuing BSN's at night. The pharma folks were mostly those who were commuters and it was more convenient to take a night course than to fight the traffic on the Kennedy for the early morning classes.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I always liked the song "When Irish eyes are smiling". One of my Irish grandmothers used to play it on the piano.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)We're usually known for blue eyes and freckles. When I was a kid, my grandmother from County Cork would tell me, "You've got the map of Ireland written all over your face."
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)My eye color changed when I got older. Apparently it happens to 10% to 15% of Caucasian people. I also have blond hair. I can't tan. I just turn really red. I don't have freckles though. My dad's side of the family was from Cork.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)See my post above about blue eyes and freckles.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)TexasTowelie
(116,129 posts)and I live in Texas.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)TexasTowelie
(116,129 posts)Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)struggle4progress
(119,702 posts)Canandaigua, New York
August 4, 1856
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Burma Jones
(11,760 posts)From John Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces"
Grantuspeace
(873 posts)steve2470
(37,461 posts)Probably one of the most boring usernames on DU
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)The year I was 51 and feeling very old for being a freshman college student.
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)I just now noticed this thread, after posting one of my own that relates to this.*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018799409
Babel-17 relates to communication, language, understanding, and the future. So I figured it would be a good user name for the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17
My current avatar is from a later edition of the book.
Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany in which the SapirWhorf Hypothesis (that language influences thought and perception) plays an important part. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966 (with Flowers for Algernon)[1] and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967.
*Prophetic: Videodrome, "Soon all of us will have special names"
O'Blivion was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon all of us will have special names, names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate.
And here we all are, visible to others on the LCD successor to the CRT, and mostly posting behind "special names", Babel-17 for example.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Videodrome
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)my parents named me that because I seemed more at home observing the virtual world.
ailsagirl
(23,650 posts)and I love (most anything) Scottish!
Facility Inspector
(615 posts)YabaDabaNoDinoNo
(460 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)It referred to my at the time occupation of making cigar box guitars.
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I never put that together but I like it.
roody
(10,849 posts)miniature poodle. He has been in my little cemetery for some years now. He was given to me by a family that did not want him, at age 3. I had adopted a small female corgi-sheltie mix the day before at the pound. The next day at work, a colleague said, "I found a small dog for you." That was Roody. I was his third and forever home. We three moved from Arkansas to California 18 years ago and lived happily ever after.
frogmarch
(12,217 posts)is what mine is based on.
we can do it
(12,729 posts)writer not writing
(41 posts)But what have I written this year? ZILCH! Hey, maybe I've a fear of success.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I was "blue," as in sad and a Democrat, in AK, which is Alaska where I live. Not very imaginative, but it works.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)"Kentauros" is the Greek root of the word "centaur."
I started using it early enough in the life of the Internet that none of the other lovers of centaurs could claim it. Elsewhere online, I've moved on to a different name, one that borrows still from classical centaurs, with one of their actual names (as found on this list.) And still, I don't have to put numbers after or before my name to use it
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)So it was either RAGNAR FARTSSON or GOLGO 13. It could have gone either way.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)"I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille."
That film is one of my very favorites, particularly as a gay man.