How did you decide on your pseudonym here?

[Deja Q]

Although I'm directing this to one person here because I'm rather curious yet he/she'll never know, I thought it would be cool to hear everybody's stories! :D :evilgrin: :bounce:

I'm a fan of the cancelled FOX comedy-cartoon "Futurama" and who doesn't like the hypnotoad? :cry: Oops, that's the wrong "smilie"... :party:

Did you know that "smilie" is an anagram of "simile"?

[MrScorpio]

1. My Birthday is in ten days

Thus my reasoning is obvious

[Philostopher]

5. Me, too, Mr. Scorpio.

And mine comes from my long ethnic (married) surname, which starts with 'now' and is as far as most cold-callers get. I've used it several other places, too, so it seemed a good choice here.

[Name removed]

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[Droopy]

3. I picked mine because I'm sad a lot

That's about it. Why didn't you just send a DU mail to the person you aren thinking of?

[Deja Q]

7. Because I'm not a very creative person and couldn't think of it on my own?

The only thing even remotely creative I could conjure up is "corzi" - or Corporate Nazi. And that's hardly creative, it's just smooshing two words together...

I'll do that though! :D Probably after this thread dies down so he/she won't figure it out that I was the curious one... :evilgrin:

[seventhson]

4. I am the seventh son of

a man who was one of seven sons. I thought it was lucky.

He worked with the Europen antiNazi resistance in WWII helping in the smuggling of antiNazi writers and artists and activists out of Nazi occupied territory to freedom.


He schooled me on the Nazi Wall Street Ivy League connection when I was just a baby.

[neverforget]

10. Seventh Son was the name of my uncles B17 in ww2.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

43. 7th son of a 7th son?

Didn't Iron Maiden write a song about you?

[Lefty48197]

6. It's a funny story

I know a family completely full of right wing nuts. Their minds have all been warped by the rantings of their John Birchite father. His nickname is Lefty. I just thought it was too funny. The rest is a zip code.

[neverforget]

8. Mine was due to Selection 2000 because democracy was subverted.

Member since July 2001

[Maple]

9. I'm as Canadian as

Maple leaves.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Because of Christian, Jordan and Alexandra.

My great nephews and great niece, who will be 3 on 10/28. Great kids.

[Don_G]

12. Mine Is First Name And First Inital Of My Last Name

Or a close variant of it so I can remember them. I don't trust my Micro$haft OS to remember it for me nor do I give my Credit Card number out considering that XP is as "Holey" as Swiss Cheese.

[Redneck Socialist]

13. My conservative friends...

...(yes I have some) think I'm a socialist and my liberal friends think I'm a redneck. I like guns and big government!

[BattyDem]

14. Well ...

I'm a Dem (obviously) and I like bats (seriously!). I also liked the fact that "batty" can mean either "like a bat" or "crazy" ... and since all Dems seem to be going a little crazy over the state of our country, it felt like the right name for me.

[-..__...]

15. I was Dirty Sanchez...

until someone complained to the mods and I had to change it. I could live with that except
I had some 200+ posts lost to posterity. :(

[Deja Q]

17. I don't see what's wrong with that...

Of course, then I had read http://www.subgenius.com/updates/5-99news/X0027_the_dirty_sanchez_et.html and realized that somebody might think it's gross. Of course, I normally wouldn't have looked...

It's okay though, I was "Thermodynamic" and I gave up over 4000 posts. :D

[Philostopher]

32. Well, I'll be durned!

I thought your writing style sounded familiar! I've been around, largely lurking (other than the Lounge) forever -- your 'voice' sounded familiar, but I know a lot of people shed old IDs when 'DU2' started up. I didn't -- I use this ID a lot of places, so if somebody recognizes me from somewhere else it's cool -- but I'm glad to see you're still around!

[JohnKleeb]

57. Youre Thermodynamic

Wow I was wondering what happened to you. I remember you.

[youngred]

16. Well I'm 20

I'm a redhead and democratic socialist so there ya go

[THUNDER HANDS]

42. I'm actually a 6-foot giant rat

Who pulls a 3-foot giant rabbit out of a hat.

:)

[ant]

18. a n t...

First three letters of my name, one letter short of my real life nickname.....back away lest the bright light of my creativity blind you.

[sistersofmercy]

23. Sisters of Mercy, the band and a funny story from an Ethics class.

[Fuzz]

19. Nickname for 20+ years

Given to me by high school friends.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. It was a slip of the lip while I was out to dinner with a friend of

mine's children. Instead of saying,"Mrs Harper would be very grumpy", it came out," Mrs Grumpy would be very Harpy." Nice line to describe myself...and voila, a screen name was come by.

[LoZoccolo]

21. I'm Italian...

...well 25%, so I studied it in college for my language requirement, and I wanted something kind of aggressive that had to do with the DNC's unofficial mascot, so I chose "the hoof" in italian as my pseudonym.

[populistmom]

22. Because I am

I think the key to success in politics is defined by the defination of populism (a political strategy based on a calculated appeal to the interests or prejudices of ordinary people). I believe in the use of government for the gain of the society as a whole.
Oh, and I'm a mom.

Sarah

[arwalden]

24. It's Not A Pseudonym... It's Really My Name

-- Allen

[Interrobang]

25. This is my handle on Slashdot, where I was first.

Then I came here, and now I spend more time here than I do there. The Randroid count is substantially lower, and I hate arguing with Randroids, because they don't know anything other than Ad Hominem attacks. Sigh... Teejus, baby, tres, tres teejus.

An interrobang is a newfangled punctuation mark composed of an exclamation point superimposed on a question mark. It's also, collectively, the name for "?!" Since I find that I have "?!" moments quite often, it fits.

Later, I found out that the community college newspaper in my hometown is called the Interrobang, but I didn't know that until well after I'd picked this handle.

[5thGenDemocrat]

26. Mine is pretty self-explanatory

My mom, grandpa and grandma G, their parents and their (American) parents were all Dems.
John
So are two generations after me.

[zbdent]

27. used it before, elsewhere; thinking about it now, I guess that

I always thought myself a little less organized than Arthur, a little more likely to screw things up than Beeblebrox.

Which fits in with your graphic.

As he sips his third Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster . . .

[Redneck Socialist]

34. go easy on those things...

...they'll kill ya.

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. Mine's the name of a character from my favourite comic book.

Spider Jerusalem is the anti-hero of the comic Transmetropolitan, written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson. He's sort of like a 23rd century Hunter S. Thompson: a foul-mouthed, cynical, chain-smoking, drug-abusing journalist on a mission to take down the President. As to why I selected it, I feel a certain affinity for the character. I see some of myself there (and apparently I'm not the only one...a friend who read Transmet said to me "you're so Spider Jerusalem it isn't funny." I don't know that this is necessarily a good thing.)

That's Spider in my sig line.

[hussar]

29. You tell me

c'mon then

[_NorCal_D_]

63. Ok

www.m-w.com

Main Entry: hus·sar
Pronunciation: (")h&-'zär, -'sär
Function: noun
Etymology: Hungarian huszár hussar, (obsolete) highway robber, from Serbo-Croatian husar pirate, from Medieval Latin cursarius -- more at CORSAIR
Date: 1532
: a member of any of various European units orig. modeled on the Hungarian light cavalry of the 15th century

B-)

[jono]

30. It's my nickname

and it's short, too.

[TSIAS]

31. I'm not very creative

First initial, Taylor, followed by my last name. In retrospect, I should have done it in all lower case letters, like tsias. The way it is now, it reads like an acronym.

[Swede]

33. Because of my Swedish grama

[BlueJazz]

35. I've always refered to a lot of Conservatives

as being on the "Radical Right".

When I first signed up I started to call myself "RadicalDemocrat"
but chose "Radicalliberal" because it just sounded better.

[Cush]

36. nickname I picked up in HighSchool

my last name is Cushxxx, so some teachers just started to call me Cush, friends picked up on it....so I stuck with it

[IkeWarnedUs]

37. Because he did try to warn us (Eisenhower that is)

People think because he was a general in WWII he must be a hawk, but he actually had a pretty good respect and perspective on the value and dangers of conflict resolution.

A sample of what Ike (Eisenhower) said:

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." First Inaugural Address January 20. 1953

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." "The Chance for Peace" Address April 16. 1953

"The final battle against intolerance is to be fought--not in the chambers of any legislature--but in the hearts of men." Campaign Speech. Los Angeles. CA October 19. 1956

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it." TV Talk with Prime Minister Macmillan August 31. 1959

But his most direct warning came in his farewell addresss on January 17, 1961:

<snip>
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peace time, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United State corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
<snip>

Here is a link to the whole address if anyone is interested: http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/farewell.htm

-------------------------

The more I read of what Eisenhower said, the more I think of him as the Nostradomus of the 1950's. He truly did try to warn us.

[Bossy Monkey]

38. I'm the Vice President of the United States

Damn, you wheedled it out of me!

[earthman dave]

39. Hi, i'm dave, from earth

[The Lone Liberal]

40. It was after Butch Cavendish and his gang had ambushed a troop of Ranger

As the only survivor of that massacre I took the name of the LONE LIBERAL. Hi Yo Noam Chomsky. Who was that masked man? I don’t know, but he left this silver hanging chad.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

41. I'm a strong proponent of what my namesake believes in

--The fight against all odds to free oneself from any artificial stricture of any nature.

The fight for personal freedom is a lifelong struggle for us all. Let us fight the good fight and never give in to Number Two.

Thus my tagline:

[Darranar]

44. Are you talking about me?

Or am i just overly vain?

I made mine up.

[Deja Q]

55. But that would be telling!

If I told you if I was talking about you...

:evilgrin:

[Darranar]

56. You never said you wouldn't tell!

[trof]

45. tHE rETIRED oLD fART

and i made it all lower case so people wouldn't have to hit the shift key but many capitalize it anyway.
It's just trof.
period.

[Cat Atomic]

46. It's just... I... hmm. I don't know. I've used it for years.

That's about it. :p

[speckledgator]

47. I'm

from Florida...I have feckles...any questions?

[cosmicdot]

51. what's a feckle?

sorry ... had to ask
:eyes:

[kodi]

48. kodi is the name of my 10 year old kuvasz

she is brave, couragous and bold, just like wyatt earp, and a lot prettier too...and she is sleeping at my feet as i type.

[jumptheshadow]

49. My namesake Jump the Shadow

His daddy, Dayjur (pictured here), lost the Breeders' Cup Sprint when he jumped a shadow 40 yards from the finish line.

[scarlet_owl]

50. Scarlet is an owl at the Nature Center I volunteer at.

[newyawker99]

52. Well it is pretty simple.

Newyawker because that is where I live.
99 represents 1999, the year I bought my first computer.


:-)

[cosmicdot]

53. some wind ... some fun at the beach ... one Memorial Day weekend ...

Dorothy ... became Dot ... which morphed with the selling of Smart Drinks c.1992/3 ... <presto> ...

CosmicDot it's older than DU as am I

[Guaranteed]

54. Well, in the book One Flew Over

the Cuckoo's Nest, when McMurphy is first introduced to the rest of the guys at the institution, he comes in and asks, "Who's the bull goose loony around here?" I just thought it was really catchy, and it's my favorite book. Plus, I'm crazy as hell. :)

[JohnKleeb]

58. Its my real name and I am NOT

Alex Cutler contrary to the belief of some people lol imagine my reaction when I came home and a comrade in the Kucinich camp says JohnKleeb I am sure Kucinich thanks you, and I read it and its about Alex who I have talked to here at DU where his sn is wheresthemind. Alex is a great guy but we arent the same person lol I am a southerner and Virginian, and hes a Minnesotan, from the photograph I see of him and if you know what I look like you know we dont look much alike but I aint him but our goals and vision in this election are the same. Go DK and Alex :yourock:. I do wish I chose another name in retrospect but hey at least most people know me by name.

[MikeH]

59. First Name And Last Initial

Not very creative or imaginitive, but that is what it is.

Actually Michael is my legal middle name, and I am normally called Mike. My last name begins with H.

[Mr. Brown of MD]

60. I'm a dude in college

Simple enough.

-CollegeDude
Not one for complicated names

[JohnKleeb]

68. by that standard I should be highschooldude

but then people would think I am your little bro and lol I am sure you dont want people thinking that as do I dude.

[ikojo]

61. I love the Grateful Dead and one of

my favorite songs is Iko Iko...my middle name is Jo so there you go...ikojo was born....

Not very creative but there you are...

:shrug:

[Book Lover]

62. Another incredibly obvious nickname...

I've worked in publishing and book arts my whole life. I can scribe calligraphy, bind and repair books, copyedit and proofread, operate a Vandercook, sort type, make paper, use Quark and InDesign, manage trade book production, speak (somewhat) intelligently about incunabulae, and decipher medieval european handstyles. I'm currently studying Akkadian and Egyptian hieroglyphs.

[_NorCal_D_]

64. Mine is simple.

Nor Cal is for Northern California.
The D stands for Democrat.
:bounce:

[WWW]

65. www

Win Without War. I think that was one of the most profound statements made after 9/11 and just before the Iraq War. I guess I am very naive. I thought we could sit down with the world community (UN)after 9/11 and have a dialogue and then go out and try to right wrongs without violence. I thought we could get a bunch of countries on our side and then get more countries on our side and then some more and then start to settle things in the world thru discussion. Man, what a idiot I am....I am thinking of retiring www and using Whataidiotiam as my pseudonym.

[JitterbugPerfume]

66. the Tom Robbins Novel

JItterbugPerfume

Jasmine and beet pollen

uhhhhh...you had to be there

[undergroundpanther]

71. Name?

Underground Panther is
a shortened form of the whole name which is,Underground Panther in the sky..

It comes from a very spiritual ,profound dream I had when I was 4 years old. It was the kind of vision that shapes your life,years after the dream..I really feel it came from the spiritual realms and it has been an important guide in my life and my path.The dream was about a winged horned panther covered in rainbowed fur,that had multicolored lightning flickering across it like static and a flaming tail.A big panther in the Sky and a big panther on the Earth who shot me through with lightning.

(The actual dream is very complex ,beautiful and detailed and it's very emotional for me )

This magickal cat is some kind of archetype that cuts through cultures too.
I have researched as best as I can into the wild myths of these great panthers in so many cultures for years.I also consider the Underground Panther the image of diety I relate to most deeply.The other diety I relate to deeply is Sekhmet.

Diana Luciferi rides a winged horned panther.Diana Luciferi is a very interesting being.Also there is Simakurna(sp) who is a white or blue lioness godess dakini.She is beautiful.And alot like Sekhmet.There are images of the Godess Sekhmet that are winged and horned as well.
In Native American stories there are the water panthers and underground panthers,like mishepeshu or michou-pichoux who is a feline spirit of pure awesomeness that lives in lake superior,sometimes stories say he lives in a place with the other panthers where summer never ends under the Earth axcessed by a door on the side of a hill..that leads to a paradise when once entered it is better to stay there because yyou become like the panthers sensitized so the strife of human society hurts you..It fits my experinces.

[Uzybone]

67. Nickname since 7th grade

I use it everywhere.

[Rhiannon12866]

69. Rhiannon was my perfect cat

The real Rhiannon:loveya:

[Booberdawg]

70. After my faithful pooch Boober

Although I usually call him Boobie.

I've had him for 11 years now and he's still jus' a l'il baby!

Only smalll problem with my handle is that people assume I'm a male. Well, because Boober IS a male name. I didn't consider that when I chose the name.

My name on AOL was Mufasa, after my not-so-fearless kitty cat. They thought I was a male too. Oh well.

[sleepyhead]

72. I am NOT a morning person!

My eyes don't even open completely until 10 am or so, but DH likes to wake up at the crack of dawn and drag me out to go running. He calls me "sleepyhead" more than my real name, so I figured I might as well adopt it for my online identity!

[Rhiannon12866]

73. Welcome to DU, sleepyhead! I'm a sleepyhead too!

My eyes open even later than yours do. After more than 15 years working nights, my natural tendency has become ingrained. I am usually part of the late night crowd! Come join us!:hi: