Where did your screen name come from?????

[princessbelle]

HORRAY everyone!!!!!!!

This is soooooooooooo interesting!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

And i always thought your stage name was the name of your first pet and the last name was the street you were born on. So many of those things out there.

Mine, btw would have been Casper Petersburg...sounds kinda hootie. Maybe i should change my online name to that. lol

[dixie]

Originally Posted by princessbelle

HORRAY everyone!!!!!!!

This is soooooooooooo interesting!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

And i always thought your stage name was the name of your first pet and the last name was the street you were born on. So many of those things out there.

Mine, btw would have been Casper Petersburg...sounds kinda hootie. Maybe i should change my online name to that. lol

Oh, and my stage/stripper/porn star name: Pepe Price

[Random]

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..

[tapu]

Originally Posted by Random

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..

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....

[Greyson]

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 _________.

[princessbelle]

Originally Posted by Greyson

I have been using this as a screen aname 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 _________.

Greyson definately suits you perfectly. I remember you are the one that taught me years ago, to keep my same name as i went to each BFP site. I'm glad i did.

I'm not saying i don't think people should change their names as they evolve, move to different times in their lives, ect...just that it's nice to know who you once called yourself. And i agree with Greyson, it's nice to know who people were and who they are now. Linus does a great job keeping us up to date.

[starryeyes]

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

[betenoire]

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.

[BugsAndKisses]

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

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by dixielady

Oh, and my stage/stripper/porn star name: Pepe Price

We all have our price, Pepe.

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

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.

[sanee66]

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

[Tcountry]

Well T is my niickname, even my dad calls me it. It is shortened from my given name and also from "lefty" given when I started sports. My favorite coach shortened it to T and I have been T since.


The country part came from working summer camp at Easter Seals in 1999. Everyone knew me as T and when Fri night came around for our dance/karaoke I was the only one with country cd's... so named tcountry then, that got shortened to TC for the rest of the year. lol


Still fits well. I am good ole midwestern country at heart always.

[Massive]

A very good friend from way back when turned to me one night and said "Luvva, you're f*ckin' massive ..." (she's a good foot shorter than me and I'm 5'11'' barefoot) and Massive just stuck ...
Not that exciting really