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I originally chose 'tanglelips' for two reasons. 1: b/c I, in 1999, listened often to the Dave Matthews Band, and they had a line in a song which i thought was very sexy: "tangled tongues and lips." 2: Additionally, a wonderful fairytale book I read as a little girl called -The Golden Key- had a protagonist named Tangle, whose long hair wasn't brushed regularly enough. Well I have very long golden hair just like she, and it can get plenty tangled when I don't brush it very regularly. I always identified with her name.

I am well aware that my name makes me sound a little slutty and juvenile, and I considered making a new name when I registered here, but I felt a little weird, as though I would be ditching one identity/past for another, and I didn't want to feel like i'd be perceived as sneaky. I wish I'd ditched the 'lips' now though, and just gone with Tangle. *laugh*

Alas.

I was being funny really. I do not think of myself as a stud. Been called one. Wondered if it meant you get a stable of...pleasure...so add my location and it is a little me and alot fantasy. My mother named me Cheri...which I do not go by. Always kind of enjoyed that book by Anias Nin tho....

An ex of mine who was Two-Spirit, once told me I was as fierce as a Cougar protecting her young. Henceforth, she nicknamed me Pumawoman & sometimes called me PumaJ. A few years later when I finally got online, I decided to use those nicknames as screen names.

Its my Ranger radio call sign at Burning Man. I might put in for a change. Havent decided yet.

My other screen name on a couple of online games is Kara Thrace, which is the character Starbuck's given name. Starbuck was the name of the airplane she flew so all the crew called her Starbuck. BFP Starbuck and I share the love for that TV series as well as for Katee Sackoff!

Since I can't drop Georgia from my name, ( I asked) maybe I will change it to Kara Thrace...but I feel like an Anya.

tawse

— n
1. a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher



Love a good tawse :)

It is the one I used on another LGBT site over 7yrs ago. I made it up because I love my lil girl and,...... im all butch, I dig da femmes ;)

I read a novel by Anais Nin called "Spy in the House of Love" and thus my screen name was born 007 for spy and Venus for love.

I believed that I never had trouble accepting myself as a woman. I always felt my sensibilities lay with women. However, there was a sort of disconnect when it came to identifying with society’s definition, as well as a sense of invisibility because I could never see myself reflected in other women. Then I found butch and that felt right. The masculine male thing was a bit of a struggle, because despite a real gender incongruence in my presentation in the eyes of others, I had never really felt like I was male. I looked it. At least there was always a good deal of gender confusion from the world in general regarding if I was male or female. But I never was confused. But I do find comfort in my masculinity, it fits like my old black t-shirt. But I am never comfortable with it. I hold it suspect and watch it like it was a cranky old dog prone to biting. In the spirit of this very tiresome way I have of looking at my masculinity I thought it would be great fun to give myself a feminine name this time around. Miss Tick is a very minor character in a couple of Terry Pratchett novels. I liked that it was a kind of oronym. So I decided to try it out.

I’m having such a hard time with it. When I see it beside my words I cringe. It’s beyond being uncomfortable with it. I pretty much hate it. But I’m going to keep it. At least until the fear and loathing of a too feminine name passes or it just gets too much to look at. I am pretty surprised at myself. I didn’t think it would be this hard. But it is. It's so hard that I sometimes feel detached from my own words once they are out there authored by this Miss Tick person. I wonder what that says about me. I think it needs a touch of masculine to make it more palatable. I keep telling myself that tick is kind of male. But really what the hell does that even mean? How can a word be male? I think I'm losing it. Maybe I should just give in and change it.

I'm detecting a pattern here :)

Maybe you should take typo as a second language. I have and things are much easier. I can even understand my own posts now. Haha

Let it be known, that henceforth, Anya/Georgia will now be known by the double-asterisk name:

*Anya*

Thanks to PrincessBelle for thinking out of the box (that I was unable to do) and thanks to tech guru Linus for the change!

Let's not forget Dapper, who started the whole thing!

PS: just call me,

Random is short for Randomnumbers

randomnumbers is a young cat in a book... He was named so because of the extremely changeable behavior that adolesent cats can have.

Random was my nickname in my twenties, because of my lighting train of though changes.... Lol.. Circular logic, linar logic... nope... Mine was A, B 7, %, Z... The result were the same as other people, just my process to get there was different....

I left the nickname behind and went back to my birth name when I left Atlanta... but used randomnumbers as my email.

I thought I left it behind... lol... I met and fell in love with a woman who hated my birthname... She called me Random....

Fast forward eight years later... we break up, I try to go back to my given name... (Hence the short lived Ms Cyn) but the problem is.. when I self talk, I name myself Random.. People call my Cyn or Cynthia, but I'm still Random..

Woo Hoo! congrats!

Intrigued by screen names
 

My S/N ~~~ Is simple.~~ I have been Intrigued by another and also Intriguing to someone.

I wonder what happens when people select a screen name with deep meaning to the one they love (this is not directed at you Intrigue) - And then they break up?!?

We have Linus to magically erase our tattoos - but what do other people do?

I try to go with my own identity. Breakups are bad enough without having to change my on line persona too.

A sagging screen name is never fabulous

in a name
 

YUM!!:lips:

Originally, when on the dash site, I used a name my older sister has used off and on (landsoftly)...it's a combination of our last name and softly. Then I switched to novelafemme...novela after my then favorite red wine minus an L. most recently I switched to CatalinaRose because I didn't like the sad/hurtful reminders that came along with novela. Catalina Rios is a feminist poet who wrote The Three Tongues, which is one of my all time favorite poems. Catalina is also a character in a novel I am reading for my Chicana Theories class.

Oo! That reminds me of a children's book about a cat. He's named Elemenopeo.

I think I'll use that if Tapu becomes too famous....

I have been using this as a screen name for about six years now. I signed up at the dash site under my original screen name, U2. I started coming onto the internet in 98/99. I started over at gag.com under the screen name U2.

I stayed there about a year. During this time I was so naieve. I finally realized I was being stalked by an unstable woman in cyberland and one day I just decided to change my name. (Besides most thought my U2 screen name was about the band, and it was not.)

The name Greyson came to my mind. This was before the young man who sings became an internet sensation and I guess now somewhat of a celebrity. A few years before him. I like my screen name so much, I had it changed to my middle name legally and have started to use it outside of the internet a few years back.

P.S. The subject of internet duplicity is up on another thread. I have always been troubled how some use multiple names on the internet. "Same game, different name." I like the way Linus handles it here. It is in the open, transparent and we all know that so and so is now _________.

my old screen name came from a job I had over 10 years ago. Me and a coworker used to refer to each other as Princess Pottymouth. We'd even draw pictures of each other wearing tiaras and saying horrible things. *shrug*

I picked betenoire as a way of stabbing at people who think I'm really mean and awful. It's more of a joke than a username. I think it's hysterical.

An ex always told me I had starry eyes, so that's why I picked it at the time.

I doubt mine is very fancy. My last name is Noble and I work in the optics field, so like a carrot I'm good for the eyes and I was born in 69. nobelcarrot69. That's me.

Mine is simple, I think bugs are just so darn cute I could kiss'em

We all have our price, Pepe.

:blink:

simple
 

a play on my first name and i was born in 66

It is the name I picked when I decided to transition, just something simple!

That's hot!

Just sayin...

Back in the 90's just chose this name because I like the rapper DMX and the Ruffryders. There is also motorcycle groups with the name. Have used it since and at other social networking sites.