Where did you get you screen name?
Folks have some interesting, strange, and/or completely left field screen names. What is the story behind yours?
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My parents gave mine to me.
The United States government (or lack thereof) assigned it to me.
Well, I enjoy my name. As well as the activity associated with it.
It’s a nickname I’ve had for a long time :)
It was my original email address. I wanted a different spelling but it was taken.
It’s a funky variation of my name Vanessa.
My screen name is the same name thats on my Birth Certificate. thanks to my mom and dad. they did a good job.
Because I’m a very straight-forward kind of person.
Because I am the Chazziest and the Mazziest!
On another Q&A site I was called Mrs. Cleaver… but I decided I’d rather just be ME, so I changed it to JustPlainBarb .. which is my name.
I honestly have no idea.
The first part “Ame” I took because I use the name Amedor for game avatars and logins. No idea what inspired me to add Evil to the end.
This has been asked many times. :)
Our family has this tradition where before a celebration (birthday dinner, Christmas dinner), we would all hold hands and sing this silly Irish song (called “Jiggy-jig”). Something that my Dad loved to do, and my 6 year old niece and nephews loved, as well (though, when the nephews got to be teenagers, they cringed for a bit when we sang it :)) Anyhow, it’s just something silly that we did as a family.
My Mom passed away a little over three years old. So, Jmah, is short for “Jiggy-jig, Mah”. Now, when I sing the “jiggy-jig” song, I look up to her.
@john65pennington Your middle name is 65?
It’s common for people in the military to be called only by their last name, and not uncommon for that to be abbreviated much like William becomes Bill.
Yukiko was the name I took when I attended my Japanese immersion summer camp during high school. All the campers took Japanese names to add to the immersion experience. Yukiko means “snow child,” which I picked not because I like snow or anything, but because I’m about as white as it.
ParaPara is a kind of dance that’s popular in Japan right now. It’s ridiculously fun and learning the dances is something I do in my rare free time. Thus… my screen name.
missy because it’s short for Melissa. The b stands for several things about me. B-flat (I play the trumpet) or honeybee (What Melissa means in latin) Or quilting bee (I fancy myself a quilter and will occasionally attend a bee at the local club or guild or whatever it’s called.)
It’s a play on my real name.
It’s a nickname given to my son. I don’t call him it, but my mother does.
My Fluther name is from an inside joke a friend and I had from middle school. IBER stands for I Blow-up English Rooms. Yeah, don’t ask…
highshool, i was listening to a song
My husband’s name in Jon, I’m his blond. I just thought of it quickly to ask a question here, not thinking that I would fall in love with this place and stick around for as long as I have. My husband joined not long after me and came up with Blondesjon for himself.
@IBERnineD I may not know the joke, but I lurve it. :D
They assigned mine to me at Ellis Island.
Again, it is a pun on my actual name. I used to be Wald, and had a summer house on Cape Cod with decidely too many overnight guests. I called it Walled Inn.
The buddhist reincarnation cycle, which consists of the six paths of pain (pein rikudo = japanese for six paths of pain).
My darn parents. WHY they would name a helpless baby “Val123” is beyond me!
They wanted the world to know that they could count.
I was Siren on ubersite.com before it became full of degenerates and most of my screen names for various sites have been some form of that. I tried for “Siren” first and it was taken, then I tried “ubersiren.” It was available, but I soon learned that there was an uberbatman with whom I would often be confused.
@pdworkin: Are you aware that anonymous stalkers can find your domicile?
@pdworkin Well, not so good, since I was 1 of 3. I was the oldest!
Downtide was the nickname of one of my ancestors. He was a fisherman and lifeboatman.
Can you say that louder? I carrot hear it!
Peas, both of you, stop it.
If you request it, ma petite choux!
Tough beans and a cress on both your houses.
Why, I ought to squash you flat.
I like Rockets, and I like Octopi. “Rocket Octopus” doesn’t have the same flow, though.
I came from an Italian family (on my father’s side). My younger sister and I used to be called the Italian Princesses. We no longer speak due to some issues we had a few years ago but the name stuck with me. I use it for a lot of usernames/emails. And 12 and 17 are my two favorite numbers.
Zephyr is a character in the Harry Chapin rock opera “The ZInger”.
I play guitar, and I was 37 when I signed up for my first email account.
Mine is from my favorite Disney cartoon Kim Possible. Shego is a super villian and my favorite character.
My name is Vanessa and it was used as the the name for the genus of a butterfly, and chou means butterfly in Japanese, I’m not japanese just been interested since very young…I was born in 1990 and I created my e-mail acount when I was 15 :D
OK. In all honesty, I didn’t give two seconds thought to my screen name, because I originally came back here just to give condolences to a former wis.dmr, and didn’t expect to stay. My really real screen name is “Dutchess,” it has a long story behind it. It evolved out of my original “Dutch Cat” (Because I’m of Dutch origin and I like cats.) Then there was a massive battle on Wisdm between the nation of Yuchenation and the Power Rangers, and one of my favorite friends there knighted me “Dutchess” me during that battle. About a year later I got spell check, and realized, for the first time, it wasn’t even spelled right! Doy! Which led to a question of mine, “Has it ever taken you a year to get a joke?” Doy!
@gailcalled and @janbb That’s enough, ladies. Orange you done fighting? Peas, say that you are.
@jmah You guys are driving me bananas with this!
It’s my livejournal name. I chose it when I was 15 because I loved rock stars and the concept of riot grrls.
what am I, chopped almonds?
@pdworkin – sorry, I just caught the tail end of the pun fest and thought I’d jump in.
@Val123 You want to start all over again? Pe can!
It is what my co-workers call me because I wear a strand of pearls with everything.
One of Michael Palin’s characters from a Monty Python sketch, “The Piranha Brothers.”
Because I love to knit and I love frogs. And its usually never taken when I sign up for a new site.
There’s no story, I just like monocles.
The Robert A. Heinlein novel. I grok.
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