Why is your name here the way it is? What inspired your name, what does it mean? How about your title (unless you're just a junior member, member, or senior member), or your avatar? Dooooo tell!

Shrike-A pesky little bird that has a habit of dropping its prey onto barbed wire, leaving it there to die until it returns later. Plus it sounds cool.

Deus Ex Machina-Latin for (I believe) The ghost in the machine, which says on the cd case for the game Deus Ex (pronounced Dayss) says the one that will save us all, the god that will use mechanics to save the world. I thought that sounded fairly cool.

I think tht we did this sm 1.5 months ago, but here it is.

Main Entry: av·a·tar
Pronunciation: 'a-v&-"tär

Avatar is a word in sanskrit which I translate as

-----an incarnation of a God in a human form-----

akShayaH---- "enternal" in sanskrit



what I always wanted to be and maybe am:D

I think if you check back the question has been asked, and not that long ago.

I think the member that uses the picture of a cow as her avitar is the one who posed it.

Take care ;)

Okay, found it: Oxygen
And the thread was: Explain yourself (over in the Free Thoughts forum)

oh, woops. I thought I saw this before. Sorry everyone.

I've often wondered whether names - including very clever ones - weren't chosen to conceal identity, location, etc of subscriber. Which would be kinda absurd since this info is relatively easy to obtain if one were so inclined. A relatively new joiner, I would appreciate a Sciforum response. Muchos gracias.

My main reason for picking a Pseudonym, wasn't the Anonomity but because a normal name doesn't have the same hang.

Writers can write under pen-names, for what reason? Possibly the anonomity, a publisher might have got fed up with them sending drivel in scripts, so they conceal their name and call themselves something that get's peoples attention.

As for why I called myself Stryderunknown well, I would have just called myself plainly "stryder" but there are hundreds of them across the internet, and the "unknown" was just added to the end as I used it to fill in my first forms Surnames. simple really.

I have had many other handles though, one of which got me to read "Neuromancer", so you'll have to guess what I picked as a "pen name" at that time.

well, john, I was thinking of using a pen-name the first time I published a book. For me it puts a wreath of mystery around me, making my name cooler. I'm still wondering what my name'll be but Pollux V seems to be the frontrunner assuming that I ever do publish a book.

I probably misunderstand the underlying motivation(s) for writing and the need for "cool" aliases. To me, though, a pen-name denotes anonymity, the writer unwilling to be identified with his/her opinions. Certainly some best-selling authors have legitimate business reasons as does a woman writing on a male theme (and vice versa). But most writers enjoy the feedback - in my case, negative - and I prefer that my opinions be associated with me and not some clever pseudonym. Peace and goodwill.

I do not favor anonymity but I do dislike my last name. So I simply use my first name only whenever I can.

It is interesting that in the USA first names on official documents and credit cards and check books are common. But in the UK they tend to insist on titles, e.g. Mr, Mrs, Miss, etc, and then followed by initials and then a last name. Much too formal for my liking.

I suspect that if I ever get to publish any of the novels I've started then I'd stick with my real name.

I have been fortunate enough to be involved with computers since around 1976. In 1982 or 1983, the Internet was invented by Al Gore and I was in heaven. Back then, you traded your 300 baud modem for a 1200 baud and were on the sceamin' leading edge of technology.

At that time, psuedonyms were mainly used, as Stryder says, "because a normal name doesn't have the same hang." Goofyfish became my nick around 1981 from college friends, and I have used it ever since. Today, I seldom use my real name not because I am unwilling to be identified with my opinions, but because the Internet has become a true "freak show" and I am unwilling to take the risk that some bozo will hunt me down and kill me because I misspell "carburrator." :D

It would be great to have open dialog on a first name basis with many of you but, in truth, I have had the nick so long that it is the same as calling me... Rick.

Peace.

Much the same as goofyfish, my net name goes back a long ways. Though I was not on the internet much, I popularized the BBS and can remember the thrill of just getting a 1200-baud modem. I have had the net name for long enough that it is the equivalent of my first name.

But we do have some wacko's out there. While I do not think it necessary to hide under a rock, I think it a wise precaution not to add name as a clue for identity theft. Take name and number, willingness to try and get something for nothing and you wind up with a lot of grief for being you. No I am quite comfortable with my net name it has not changed. I have found that sciforums posts even come up when a search is done for the net name. I find it unusual that some net names can be searched for and nothing shows while others history can be found rather easily. That is not exactly being anonymous to be able to be found by simple search of the internet.
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Hmmm This is Hard.... Well.... Simply put....Its My First Name:p

My ID here is rooted in the nickname I aquired in college. My closest mates would call me Hesp or Esp. It's a fragment of my surname.
It was that or Delta-Vee amd I've not used that for years.

Tertiary Adjunct;

Of a unimatrix perhaps!:cool:

;) Congratulations came up because when i was piffi, I was very depressed (which was the reason I changed my name) and I thought maybe when I'm feeling happier I'll 'Congratulate' myself. I thought it was a positive name, and i like the effect of people saying 'Congratulations, Congratulations!'

Merlijn because it is my second name, and it is Dutch for Merlin. Which is really cool, don't you think?

Curious cat because I am curious, a cat-lover. I just hope I do not get killed.

(Rogier) Merlijn

and... it's Merlijn, not Merljin.

Well, congratulations, Merlijn!

Cats get killed, sure, but you'll have 8 lives remaining. Wish I could say the same for myself. Mind you, there are those who believe in reincarnation... but I ain't one of them. Cheers.

tygik..this is my nick and most of my college friends know it though
they might not use my nick to address me. I omitted the 'k' ..if you ask me why...i will have to say ..sorry, neither do i know why i threw the 'k' away. And for your information, 'tygik' has its own meaning in my mother tongue. I leave you all with it ,take your time to figure it out. I promise to reveal it to you all next time i log in to sciforums.

tygi=stingy...well i am not that 'stingy' anyway,i can't remember which event drove me into such a nick....did i??

Thank you, Fukushi, for simple answer to complicated question.

Personally, I choose not to use an alias, ostensibly because of courage of my convictions. I prefer to be identified by name, whether I'm right or wrong, partially right, partially wrong, or none of the above. Peace and goodwill.

John Como

has many names,....:p

As Fukushi says, God has many names but to a devoted atheist, such as myself, the naming of non-existent entities is similar to identifying fairytale character(s)... interesting but not very. Enjoy the day.

John C.

My HAIR OF COURSE.

The meaning of my name. It is told here.

Miss Chicken's homepage (http://www.geocities.com/threelegchicken/MC)

First a robot, then a hamster, now a cat who's called chicken.

Great Java code on that page, whatever makes the flower follow the cursor is nice.

Creativity, diversity, and originality hallmark a lot of the names of members.

I forgot, hence the edit, Welcome to sciforums, Miss Chicken!

Here it is:

In The Movie, "The Mothman Prophecies," 37 people are supposed to die in a spontaneous (and unsolved) bridge collapse. This 37th person had a dream before the collapse where she heard "Wake Up Number 37". However, this person is saved before the bridge collapse, and only 36 people die. And why would I put this as my name? Because I liked the movie? Or Something deeper? Because the number 37 represents to me the inpermanetness of life, "fate", "destiny", mystique, and unsolved cases. 37 is an anonymous number, a prime number, an odd number, an easily overlooked number. But it is the overlooked numbers that will do you in in the end.


XXXVII represents the randomness of life

Dunno why I pick this name. I'm really more like the goddess Athena, but just for once in my life I wanted to be pretty.
~Aprodite~
p.s. I don't even believe in the greek gods:rolleyes: oops

My first plan of reaction to this question was : Ushi was a girlfriend of me who hurted me a lot,....(wich is true in fact)
But serious now:
The intension for my using of an alias is just that I can express some more with it then 'it' just merely being a name, altough I tend to agree in the first place that a name is 'just' a name (that's maby because I don't want any trouble), what's in a name after all? And who's to blame?
But in a name is what you put into it,....and also what you get out of it. So there is more? Yes:
I for instance have grown up with a quite unique name,...with far reaching consequenses. For instance: it's originality putted me into the position of 'outsider' vérry early in life, wich is not always positive,...the black goat in the hurdle, the 'ugly duck' , alone on the world, ect ect,....especially when you have to grow up with this 'given' concequence and at the same time have to devellop a goop empahty and a good social awareness. It made me wonder in the first place why I was considered to be so unique? And to be so 'appart' from others? Did others consider themselves not to be unique as they certainly expressed in group-like conciousness towards me? Or did everybody project these feelings towards everybody? I certainly learned quickly that we where all quite unique in our manifestations and tought, (altough we do not genetically differ, each of us has just his own unique way of correlating to them: the genes; our fore-fathers and mothers, in wich also lie the reasons for our existance(ses) and motion(s) and the inheritance of (at least a part of it), our mentality('s), behaviour and many more things) But al this doen't mean we don't have to learn to agree and to co-exist with each other,... problems of these proportions do tend to emerge quite soon if we mingle together different and apparently paradoxic vieuws wich we project and reflect upon 'everything' all the time (so this means the 'others' as well, wich answered my retoric question) .
I have only disscovered/uncovered and revealed these mysteries after years of life,...the mere synergy of it all wich I experienced, the symbolic impact it implied to me, the revelations I got out of it all, has placed me now in a 'special' position in regarding all of human communications toughts and in this matter : nomenclature.
I use several aliases on the internet, Fukushi is just one of them,...it came into existance in the following manner: I was one day creating an e-mail account and I already used my other aliases for other accounts and the most usual names that I could come up with were already in use,.....since I don't favor names like "BLABLA nr.265487516", I started to think for an original name, or should I rather say: 'to feel',....I'll explain: I always (troughout my entire life) trusted my feelings and made decisions upon it,...So again I decided to reach for the mental 'alfa-state' to come up with something,...
btw: just recentely it came to my ears that the impressions we 'dig' trough, to reach an understanding of something, and the actual bits per second in wich it is proccesed (by means of 'human concious understanding') is verry different from eachother:
-11.000 bits/sec = bit rate of unconcious 'tought/feelings/refections upon the self ' and a merely :
-50 bits/sec= concious 'tought/ratio' bit rate

The goal of this explanation is to deliver an understanding of how I come up with most of my toughts and in this case the question relates to the creation of my alias (and I guess I'm not the only one who uses this proces in a more then 'normal' consious manner). So whatever issue or problem of math or sience of vision or feeling we have/get, that in comparasion with eachother you can better understand it if you rely and trust (not only, but more) in those 'premonishing' feelings. I have developed this understanding trough training, troughout all my life,...(because I was verry open/naïve in the beginning, and now less, but still,... I guess I became more selective)
There is a drawback however: the more feelings that you have, the more cluttered is your rational tought-proces, wich makes you in turn vunerable to instable tough proceses= order,...in wich you then have to derive chaos, in order to cope with the projections of the 'ratio' or 'status quo' or 'main stream' that all the others have, who also in turn have 'their' precious idear(s) of 'reality' (that's what persona say when they do not concur with this or that sientifically fact of though-proces or (sometimes rewritten) history wich 'makes up' reality, but again: in reality they are just co-existant, and they do not always exclude nor conclude eachother, the're merely on there turn a part of this spectrum what we reasamble as reality and the 'visible' spectrum of toughts).
So luckely I do not have to invent the fire all the time and therefore I somtimes eagerly use (or should I say: associate, wich in turn is a normal proces of the brain) some 'existing' nomenclature and ways of thinking, to cope with the ways of this world, with it's people their history and culture, wich leaded them to this time,...and I combined them to what for my 'feelings' sounded nice & coherent,....: so Fukushi , came intuïtively in existance as a matter of fact but that does not necceseraly mean that it's not coherent with me or the other facts of my life,...since I was searching for a name that was applicable to me (that also implies my real-name and my personality) and at the same time appealing.

My alias as Fukushi is Japanese, now why japanese? Because it happens to be that I'm fasinated with Japanese ways of thinking, especially : Do and Budo.
It exists out of tree parts, wich have on there turn many different meanings, but to concur to each of it separately:
-Fu- the first part, is the element AIR, it is usually depicted as a DEMI-cirkle with connected ends.
-Ku-the second part is the VOID, it's the existence without 'noumenon'. In Boudhistic terms also the 'invinsible' a concept with the same meaning as the : 'devine grace' or the 'virtue of god' : all existance eminates in this "cosmos" but when you try to conciously understand this, then you separate yourself from it's understanding/existance wich in turn, stands for itself, (the hand not being able to grap itself, but just being at itself). also note herefor that : air is not to be considered as 'empty' or 'void' and that it's quite different from eachother but they co-exist and are interconnected (like all things in life) and 'make up' my name/personality,...or in this case my alias.
-Shi- means : litarally: the WARRIOR, wich is kinda funny really, because my real firstname also means warrior, (now here's one of the things that I found out later, I did not know this conciously when I came up with Fukushi, it was within my sub-conciousness and not even in a constructed sense),
So that's why Fukushi is me and I am Fukushi,...

Fukushi...
Did you erase and repost this,
or post it elsewhere in the forum?
I swear I've read it before today.

Peace.

My name: ICARRYALOTOFBULLETS
Meaning: I carry a lot of bullets















People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf- George Orwell

any names on those bullets yet?

Asguard was a name i made up for a game of d&d once (no i didn't steal it from SG1)

My avatar IS from SG1. It is Thor and is an Asguard so i thought id use him

My name is Latin....

Aut - out, out of
Postius - Place, position

- Out of place.

Xev, the human-lizard hybrid from Lexx! Lexx is a sci-fi tv series about a group of misfits (a beautiful woman who was abandoned as a child, a cowardly former security guard who is captain, a robot head who is madly in love with Xev, and a 6000 year dead former hero, turned animated corpse used as an assassain) who steal a living ship (the Lexx) from a totalitarianesque theocracy and, well, they fly around the universe looking for sex, adventure, and a home.

http://www.soulxchange.com/Assets/images/bios/xev.gif

Xev... you soulless glutton. :D

No, I'm not soulless....I simply lost my soul. I put it on my dresser, I thought........now it is gone!

I think my cat must have somthing to do with it.

More Xev - http://lexx.by.ru/wall/wall_xev3.jpg

I have several hours of Lexx on video. The series where Squish the cluster lizard eats the giant brain at the end.

Anyway, my name: Adam. It'y my real name.
Meaning: Well, seems to eman "the first man" and all that in the Judeao-Christian mythologies, but the name itself is most likelt older than that, and I have no idea what older cultures would have said it means.

I use pine_net as a shortened form of a company that I own.

Pine Networks

Paul Robeson was a welsh socialist that was a true revelotuionary in the area of politics. As you get to know me more you will understand.

The only Paul Robeson I knew of was an American Black.

Did a Google. No Welch Paul Robeson ... But came up with
an Elizbeth Welch with whom he was associated.

So ... What are you talking about?

Take care :(

http://archive.8m.net/robeson.htm

Perhaps thats the one Chagur, and I think its Welsh as in Tom Jones, Welsh.

sorry about the confusion there, I consider him welsh...not because of his birthplace but because of his ties.

Does anyone know if Tyler means anything?

Tyler:

It comes from 'tiler' - back in the middle ages, you were often given the name of you occupation. Could be either a tailor or somone who installs tiles.

Wat Tighler (Taylor - Tighler) led the Peasant's Revolt in medieval England.

Interesting - you've mentioned that you are of Jewish descent in 'Politics'. 'Cohen' is a common Jewish name, so common that there was a project to find a certain gene specific to Jews of a very specific ancestry - it's hard to explain;

Checkiddout: http://www.mycweb.com/megillah/jul2000/jewish_genes.html

And of course, Tyler Durdan was the hero of 'Fight Club'. You're much cuter than Pitt, though.

Now, my real name is from the feminist and birth control rights advocate Margaret Sanger.

http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/sanger.html

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about/thisispp/sanger.html

Ah well we all have a bit of jewish blood in us. I'm half jew, half catholic. I cancel myself out so I have no religion!


:bugeye: not accepted in church........or cynogague (if that's how you spell it):bugeye:

Just kidding. I choose not to go.

Now all I have to do is wait for Yogamojo to come back, we have the same birthday!

My user name is self explainatory. My first name is Clint and I am a women.

Shrike,

Actually 'deus ex machina' means 'GOD from the machine' in Latin. I bought Deus EX and the pronunciation on the box wasn't correct (at least according to all the Latin sources I've browsed several times). The proper pronunciation is "day oos ayx mah keena." It comes from the Greek 'theos ek mekhanes,' which was a term derived from Greek theater. In the end of a Greek play, when a deity, such as Zeus or whoever, came in at the last minute to save the day, the actor representing the god was lowered onto the stage (in order to show the deity coming from on high). To do this, they had a basic machine that lowered the platform he was standing on. Thus this was called 'the god from the machine.' In literary and movie criticism, the term Deus Ex Machina has come to mean the miraculous solution of a story by unexpected means. Like when the hero, who has been trying to find a million dollars to pay off his friend's gambling debt throughout the story, suddenly has an uncle die and just leave him the money. It is often a negative criticism, because that type of ending means that the hero didn't have to accomplish anything.

just thought you might like to know...

Thanks a lot, spin. Normally I try not to base my knowledge on what I find on the inside of a cd case but I couldn't back up the results with a latin-english dictionary I had. (btw I changed my name, I was shrike)

deus ex machina is pronounced dejoes x maahina, the chi short and starting deep in the throat. Not like chinese or machine.

And it is one of the greatest games I ever played! The joint the AI and govern the world was THE best ending ever :)

When we studied Latin in primary school, we never pronounced deus "dehoes". It was "Day-Us" for us.

I didn't say dehoes, but dejoes.

Dey us... well, it depends on how you pronounce the "u". Not like in bus, but like in book, or like in douche.

Oh yes, a 'j' is pronounced different in English... so a 'y' is a better way to write it out. Sorry 'bout that.



I'm sure we're of topic. :)

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I could ask the same thing, I didn't quite make out that last part.

If you mean something I said, please quote it and ask a question about it.

But I can asure you that none of it is very interesting.

woooos isht!?!

"It comes from 'tiler' - back in the middle ages, you were often given the name of you occupation. Could be either a tailor or somone who installs tiles.

Wat Tighler (Taylor - Tighler) led the Peasant's Revolt in medieval England."

Hmmm, very interesting!


"Interesting - you've mentioned that you are of Jewish descent in 'Politics'. 'Cohen' is a common Jewish name, so common that there was a project to find a certain gene specific to Jews of a very specific ancestry - it's hard to explain;"

Actually, Cohen isn't my real last name. When my family came from Russia their last name (Mantischia I think was it. Most of my family that knows for sure is dead or senial) was 'too Jewish' and hard to pronounce, so it was changed to Cohen. Cohen was actually assigned to many Eastern European Jews solely because it was a simple to pronounce Jewish name.


"And of course, Tyler Durdan was the hero of 'Fight Club'. You're much cuter than Pitt, though."

Aww...... how sweet! And your much cuter than the feminist! Er. Or so I assume!

I'll restate my name for the sciforum newbies:

Pollux is a solar system. Pollux V is the fifth planet, so it is pronounced:

Paul-ux five.

There.

Joeman, you're a woman????:eek:
In that case, I truly apologize for playing such an evil trick on you. :(
I mean, men make fools of themselves all the time, so it would have made no difference. :D

Originally posted by Pollux V
Why is your name here the way it is? What inspired your name, what does it mean? How about your title (unless you're just a junior member, member, or senior member), or your avatar? Dooooo tell!

Shrike-A pesky little bird that has a habit of dropping its prey onto barbed wire, leaving it there to die until it returns later. Plus it sounds cool.

Deus Ex Machina-Latin for (I believe) The ghost in the machine, which says on the cd case for the game Deus Ex (pronounced Dayss) says the one that will save us all, the god that will use mechanics to save the world. I thought that sounded fairly cool.

HU-hybrid:

"Hybrid" is a breed-crossing result between humans and aliens.
"HU-hybrid" is a very specific kind of hybrids.

I can't tell you yet... :rolleyes:

Hey, cool thread, I thought I'd never get asked.

Well, I've been reading Isaac Asimov lately, and I've always marvelled at the way he can portray a robot being just as human as we are. Therefore, I came up with %BlueSoulRobot%, partially because there's a stereotype as robots with no humanity, all the "Yes Master" and "Asta Lavista baby" junk, so I liked the idea of a robot with soul and compassion, because when that happens, it will be a glorious day.

- The "Blue" is because I thought it would make it even more "soulful". I would have also gone with Indigo, or Alabaster, but Blue also has other meanings.
- The %'s are just because I thought they'd look cool, hehehe.

illusion is a nickname an ex of mine gave me..He said the whole time we were together I was still partly an illusion

the temporary bit came in when I wanted to make it my yahoo nick, but illusion was taken, so I added the temporary_, and here I am today :)

Ender's Game (the greatest book I read last summer!!)

Yay! Ender's Game! :D
I wonder if there's a Peter or a Valentine, or a Bean?

I just thought this forum needed one. ;)

Definitely! :D

Originally posted by Bebelina
Joeman, you're a woman????:eek:
In that case, I truly apologize for playing such an evil trick on you. :(
I mean, men make fools of themselves all the time, so it would have made no difference. :D



umm...that was a joke. My first real name is Joseph, and I am a man.

Originally posted by Joeman


umm...that was a joke. My first real name is Joseph, and I am a man.

Your avatar is misleading though :D

I hate to say this but my name is extraordinarily obvious.
I am a reality failure!

Come across a little saying on the 'net once "~Drugs are for people who can't handle reality; Reality is for people who can't handle drugs~"
I can't handle either...FAILURE!

Alternate identity- FiKTiSHuS/FiK.
Sex- I am female.
Age- In my 3rd decade of living here on planet Earth.
Status- Singular.
Occupation- Factory slave.
Likes- Cats/Owls.
Interests- Crop Circles/Aliens/UFOs/The Paranormal/Life/Death ~etc.
Hobbies- Like to paint/tag/manipulate avatars/graphics. I change av's as often as I change my underwear. -This could be seen as a warning!
Been 'online' since 1995.

Welkom to sciforums, we are always happy to receive new people!

Happy posting
-fukushi-

I was watching Discovery channel and there was a rattlesnake eating a rat and then I remembered the lab mice in school and the cages with the gerbiles near the lab mice and it all mixed up in my head so there was "blood" and "gerbile", but I'm not sure where I got the "sucking" part... :bugeye:

I'm not sure where I got the "sucking" part...:bugeye:

: Are you male or female? if it's the latter then don't worry, it's perfectely normal to have this instinct.:p

If it's the first however,.......:D

I'm a male...

Don't even think about it... :D

Freshman means 1st year college student.

My name is inspired by Thor, an Asgard from Stargate SG-1

Not Thor, the son of Odin, king of all the Norse gods?:(

My name started out as ShadowLegions, but it was too long and clunky, so it became Legion for a while (about a week) and then turned to Lesion, (a long thin gash in the flesh), since it was easier to say, and sounded cooler. the 42 comes from the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and was added when "Lesion" was already taken on hotmail, so I just made all of my screen names match my account's.:)

So the answer to this thread would be 42?

I was reading ancient mythology on one page and signing up at sciforums at the samr time. When I got to user id for sciforums, I was up to the part about the ferryman of the dead in the river styx.

Hans is my name. The MRC prefix comes from the Combat Flight Simulator world, its a squadron prefix. I've been using that handle in the flight sim community and I thought I'd keep it, so if any old friends passed by, they'd recognize me.

Hans

At school was in a play as an Inca Princess, i'm really girly and my full name is too long so my nick name was inka coz i "swanned about like an Ican Princess"

There you go!!

LIM YING PIO

My and a friend were board in chemistry class and we decided to make our own elements. His was Dookie mine was Grasshopper. Our chem teacher flirts with the girls especially one, we counted 15 times and quoted them...LOL, it was so funny we showed it to the girl and she got angry, but we're still friends, LOL. I just added zz's and an "a" to be a bit different. Plus it works out that I can jump pretty high and cut grass for a job :D

COOL

Our Living Language The usage of cool as a general positive epithet or interjection has been part and parcel of English slang since World War II, and has even been borrowed into other languages, such as French and German. Originally this sense is a development from a Black English usage meaning “excellent, superlative,” first recorded in written English in the early 1930s. Jazz musicians who used the term are responsible for its popularization during the 1940s. As a slang word expressing generally positive sentiment, it has stayed current (and cool) far longer than most such words. One of the main characteristics of slang is the continual renewal of its vocabulary and storehouse of expressions: in order for slang to stay slangy, it has to have a feeling of novelty. Slang expressions meaning the same thing as cool, like bully, capital, hot, groovy, hep, crazy, nervous, far-out, rad, and tubular have for the most part not had the staying power or continued universal appeal of cool. In general there is no intrinsic reason why one word stays alive and others get consigned to the scrapheap of linguistic history; slang terms are like fashion designs, constantly changing and never “in” for long. The jury is still out on how long newer expressions of approval such as def and phat will survive.


CALIDITTA

The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude. SKILL.

Counsler- At one point I wanted to be a counselor. Note: Yes I know its misspelled.

Coffee- I LOVE coffee(plain, black), not that mocha, capachino crap.

Clockwood= Cody-ody+Lockwood
Its my name tweaked a bit.

American= I am peeved about all tha anti-american sentiment and I wish to stop that.

yumyum well it was an old diablo handle.

well..because, the pumpkins in my world aren't orange, but, rather flesh-colored.

sidenote....i'm thinking of changing my user name...we'll see...afterall.. i do have to get over this Billy Corgan obsession of mine...:mad: :D

I've really liked the name Alexandria but it sounds a lot better, to me, if it's just Xandria (which means protector of Man) and my real first name is Monique so I just kind of put them together to form XANDRIQUE...
also because the nick Xandria was taken on Dalnet back in 2000, I had to be more creative.

Well, I knew Nebula was a song by Incubus, so I looked up the word. It had a cool meaning, so I took it! And later I found pictures of nebulae and found that they are very beautiful, so I thought if I named myself after one, I could be that beautiful too!

But, I'm not. I'll keep the name anyway though ;).

My handle was inspired by the notorious first ever 'hacker' Captain Crunch - aka John T Draper. The underscore makes a world of difference.

Certainly not ;);)

Well, I'm into anime.. and I derived Cruelangel from 'Zankoku na tenshi no thesis'.. Which translates into 'Cruel angel's thesis'.
It's the opening theme for Neon Genesis Evangellion, which is controversial, based on it's views on religion..
I also got the idea from 'Angel Sanctuary' where an angel is punished for loving God.. she is re-incarnated onto earth..
and is destined to suffer through-out all her lives, and die a painful death each time..

fir- droi -rich (pronounced fur- droy -rik)roughly translates in Ancient Celtic to "The Dark Druid" a character in Irish mythology.

Reformedtopunk is my screen name because punk rock music saved me from not only a REALLY lame time in my life but also my tastes changed radically from really bad hardcore/heavy metal music to a more melodic form of music, punk rock. i think it was a really good direction for me to take.

Originally posted by wet1
Creativity, diversity, and originality hallmark a lot of the names of members[/color]

That is truth, Ultimately!

When I first came to sciforums, I was known as Joeblow9313. Then someone came to sciforums calling himself joeblow. In order to avoid confusion I then changed my alias to Prosoothus.

Sooth means truth in Old English. Pro means "leaning towards" or "before". I then added "us" at the end to make it sound like an old Roman name.

Prosoothus would mean someone leaning towards the truth, or someone knowing the truth before others.

Tom

Wes Morris *shakes hand vigorously and gives cheezy needy business guy kind of smile* - darned glad to meet you.

Yay! Ender's Game!
I wonder if there's a Peter or a Valentine, or a Bean?

I would have loved to be Peter - out of the hundreds upon hundreds of books I've read in my life, his character is definitely the closest to mine. I'd like to think I'm about as smart, too.

I just don't like imitating - I don't find using a name of someone famous or brilliant to be that cool, infact, I'd hate the thought of trying to imitate anyone. Almost like I'd like to think that I might be recognized like that sooner rather than later and take something original so that other people can copy it, but not quite..

The reason I still use 'Distortion' is out of habit - it's a fairly long story as to 'why', and it goes back quite a few years - but basically it's a reference to my playing style of a game that I was world champion at, and to a lesser extent a reference to my personality.

And it sounds cool. :)

Other ones I've used are 'I'm Missing' 'Elysium' 'Sweeet' 'Wicked' 'Shivers' and a bunch of others.

I think nicknames are cool - and I don't think anonymity has anything to do with it. It's not as if using your real name for your user name has a serious impact on your anonymity - you might as well be Joe Schmoe. If you post a thousand posts, a specific location, and a picture on top of that, then it might make a difference.

Everyone enjoys having an 'alias' and being anomymous sometimes - what does your name mean?

I like poetry, so I came across with her name and I liked the poems of this admirable Argentinian. Thus my nickname.

I like the smoothness of the pronunciation of her name in English, its strenght in Spanish and, generally, because it sounds, I hope, honestly sweet :p but not silly.

A bit about her:
(http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/storni.html)

Alfonsina Storni's life serves as a reflection to the problems that may have faced any intellectual woman during the early to mid 20th century in a male dominated society. Storni introduced pertinent issues well before the Women's Liberation Movement even began to impact society.

Storni spoke on the behalf of many women by suggesting that relationships between men and women be intellectual and more balanced. She urged the government to grant women the vote and wrote articles and essays on women's rights.

And a little poem:

I am going to sleep, dear nurse, lay me
down
Put a lamp at my
head;
a constellation; whichever one you
like;
they're all good; lower the flame a little.

:)

-storni

Going back to the begining of the thread, Deus Ex Machina means God from machine. It was used in early theatre to solve all problems; there would be a situation that the main character could not get out of, and then like majik, a superior being or idea would be presented to clear up any misunderstandings and resolve any conflicts. The ex machina part came from a little machine they used to lower the god-like figure down to the stage.

My name is Qiothus II-
Qi-(pronounced key) is just because I think that the letter Q is underused and so often requires a U to follow in order to produce a kwa- sound. I chose to use it in it's ki form because it does not need a U after it. Plus, I find it humorous that I am using Q at all because it is one of the superfluous letters of the alphabet. (I love irony)

Othus- comes from greek names. Like Aeolus, Hephaestus, Morpheus, Percius, etc. And there is a 'th' in the middle of my real name. I also intend to name my firstborn son Qiothus (should I have a son)

II-There was no Qiothus I but, the majik number is 2. No matter how you look at it, 2 is a perfect number. So is 7, but 7 is also the greatest number, in that it is God's number. I am not fortunate enough to bare God's number, but I have no problem with that because I am not worthy of it.

Susanndrea is to be my real name. i hate my original name so i'm gonna change it. i thought about a name for years and finally found it. so yay for that.:)

i'm new btw, this my first post!!:p

Welcome to sciforums, susanndrea. Also Qiothus II, who I believe I have missed.

Thanks for the welcome.:)

ditto to the thanks.:cool:

spuriousmonkey:

spurious because i am not really a monkey. It might have some deeper reference to evolution (monkeys and we evolved from a commone ancestor, we didn't evolve from monkeys)

and monkey, because monkeys are funny...haha

i spent ten days trapped on a desert island and went crazy by the end. When the authorities found me all i could say was "nebuchadnezzaar" over and over again.
Now four years down the track i'm still recovering from the horrible nightmares.

I wish that was my story, it came to me in my head in actual fact, how original.:rolleyes:

I'm a Tall....Guy. Not the tallest but tall nonetheless.

The only thing I can add to the above discussions is, that I prefer handles that are fairly short and easy to spell. And I dislike pictures that are animated under the name. They disract my eyes when I'm trying to read the text.
My own handl APOLO is a deliberate misspelling of APOLLO (the greek god) Cause I thought that was fairly common, and some other poster might have it.
Cheers, M.J.










cheers. M.J.

Balder was the Norse god of beauty, purity, honesty, goodness, ect. He was perfectly nice, and as I was studying a bit of Norse mythology I decided to use his name. It's ironic. ;)

He also dies in order for Ragnarok to happen, and rises up from the dead after Ragnarok to rule over a new world without sin and evil. Sound familiar?

I originally registed as just plain Balder, but I screwed up my registration, and now I need to endure that pesky 1 on the end.

I was just trying to be funny:(

I know ..... sorry:(

i'll forgive you Lou

one monkey is funny, two monkeys are trouble

Norad-figure it out yourself-BIYATCH

Originally posted by norad
Norad-figure it out yourself-BIYATCH

because you are the mental father of NORAD (http://www.norad.mil/) ???

:) possibly-I can go quite mental if someone makes me angry enough!! I'll leave it to your own visualizations.

By the way, I like your hypothesis that monkey and man came from a common ancestor.

poor monkeys.. they took a wrong turn somewhere..



...or did we?

Originally posted by spuriousmonkey
one monkey is funny, two monkeys are trouble

that's your standard pearl of wisdom right there. sweet.

Hmm... Wesmorris. How did you get YOUR name? LOL!

pisces svenska and sweet as candy. i wasn't clever enough to name myself...a guy on a ski trip named me. haha

Oh, I thought you got it from that Ed episode when Shirley wanted swedish fish.

Actually, it's from a filter song. During my adolescent years, going to a "posh" school I took great pride in being white trash, so the lyric "They call me white trash" kinda stuck with me and became my theme song.

Hence, the name. Whyatt Thrash.

Originally posted by Pollux V
Deus Ex Machina-Latin for (I believe) The ghost in the machine, which says on the cd case for the game Deus Ex (pronounced Dayss) says the one that will save us all, the god that will use mechanics to save the world. I thought that sounded fairly cool.

I love that game.

Does Deus Ex simply translate to "ghost" or must it be used in the context of the entire saying to have meaning?

I meant to type "Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat" - you know, Milla Jovovich's character from The Fifth Element - but alas, I was educated in public schools and this is what I ended up with.

But every cloud has a silver lining. John Galt was the hero in Ayn Rand's most famous novel.

Who is John Galt?

Originally posted by The Marquis
Who is John Galt?

Who is John Guilt?

You'll have to read The Illuminatus! Trilogy to find out...

Sargentlard...well pretty obvious isn't it.

Sargent - well because it would sound cool...i am sorry i have no deep personal meaning behind my user id...:(

Lard - well pretty obvious i guess.

*jiggles around*

Bhudmaash comes from Urdu and Punjabi. It's a bad boy, in essence. It can be used in a "nice" way, normally a dad would call his little kid "Bhudmaash" .:D

one day, while playing an online game, i decided to get a cool name and doubtlesswonder just came to me...i donno why...probably because i'm absolutly wonderful...and doubtless...im not sure.

Cyberia

a play on the word Siberia which is a Russian snowey waste land (aka Winnepeg)

a view that the world of cyberspace is mostly an empty barren wasteland of empty minds and souls. There are however wonderful pockets of intelligence every once in a while (like here woot!)

I have a Gaelic ancestry on my mothers side. Druiaghtagh is Gaelic for Wizard. I think there are enough Merlins and Gandalfs around hence the need for me to try something a ltttle different.

I use Blue in forums because it's a nice colour. Here, some other guys got Blue so I'm Blue_UK.

In online gaming, I used to use 'Ketamine' - The last thing you need if you want to play well!

I changed it to 'Neurone', which is more respectable and implies good intellect and coordination perhaps?!

Originally posted by Pollux V
Deus Ex Machina-Latin for (I believe) The ghost in the machine, which says on the cd case for the game Deus Ex (pronounced Dayss) says the one that will save us all, the god that will use mechanics to save the world. I thought that sounded fairly cool.

Actually I thought that 'ghost in the machine' was a philosophical phrase referring to the 'soul/mind' in the seemingly mechanical body. Ghosts are illusive, as is the soul/mind which we cannot quite understand or come in contact with. And the body works in such a way that all of its parts working together remind us of a machine. Since machines are nothing like our souls/minds, we cannot immediately throw soul/mind into the regular body.

My eyes are dark, my hair is dark, I think it is what makes me beautiful. Many agree. Simple.

*When I was "WellCookedFetus"*

My name is a metaphor on the euphemism “She got a baby in the oven” (to say a women’s pregnant)… well actually this name goes back to the days I was played TFC and CS, I use to have vulgar names just to piss people off. I have been under the names of 8===D<-_, incubus69 and KentuckyFiredfetus, but when I started making IM account I found Kentuckyfiredfetus was already taken! So I settle for WellCookedFetus instead, on some forums I use the name Berserker because the other names would piss those people off too much, not like you good people. :D

I guess it just depends on the person. Like your favorite Beatle, for example.

hmm.. a certain lady gave me this name, Vultekai. It's from langauge called Octezia, and translated means something like Wolf boy. She gave me that name because I'm like a wolf and it does fit me perfectly :)

that makes me laugh you people have put thought into your name

Originally posted by Pollux V

Deus Ex Machina-Latin for (I believe) The ghost in the machine, which says on the cd case for the game Deus Ex (pronounced Dayss)
"DevsExMachina" means "God from Machine(s)" [EDIT] Now I see that several people have already written this.
By the by, Pollux, comrade, have you ever read about Pollux and Castor, the Discouri, the Greek twin semi-divine patron deities of ships and sailors, the Gemini? If not, you should!
Originally posted by Aut-postius
My name is Latin....
Aut - out, out of

I don't think "avt" means "out of." I believe it means "or; either, or".
Originally posted by Balder1
He also dies in order for Ragnarok to happen, and rises up from the dead after Ragnarok to rule over a new world without sin and evil.
Ummm, as I recall it, the profundity of Norse mythology lies in the fact that Ragnarok is the End of Times, during which the nemeses of Asguard, which, by the way, is the seat of Odin, defeat the noble gods, or the Aenir(?), after desperate and heroic struggle. Without the inevitable doom, the Norse gods don't really seem that valorous. I wasn't aware of any "new world without sin." That doesn't even sound compatible with the Viking mentality, comrade. if you have an article, essay, or link concerning this, I'd like to peruse it, please. :)
Originally posted by norad
By the way, I like your hypothesis that monkey and man came from a common ancestor.
What exactly do you mean by "his hypothesis"?:bugeye:
People have been saying what he wrote for years, and I'm relatively certain that our comrade spuriousmonkey didn't come up with it.
I'm sorry if I misunderstood you.


As to my own humble appellation . . .

re·doubt·a·ble (r-dout-bl)
adj.
1.Arousing fear or awe; formidable.
2.Worthy of respect or honor.

dictionary.com

Obvious, eh?
:rolleyes:

Well then, if i must divulge the origin of my name, i will tell you it all.........It all started one day way back when, i was searching the internet about aliens,bigfoot,MJ12,and all stuff of that sort(i had just got finished watching SCIFI's tuesdays declassifed) when i stumbled upon this site called Sciforums. Not knowing what a forum even was, this place intrigued me. Being in the spunky mood that i was in i decided to join the family. AT the time of the signup i was listening to a favorite album of mine.......this album was Phish......the song was.......Guyute.....ah, truly a great song....i decided to type it in as my user name, and the rest is history in the making. Well, that is how it came to be. Sorry for the overdramatic story(i love that stuff). :D

-Guyute

When I was young I used to play Rugby and we had a 20c insurance cost, and as my name is Robert (Bob), I was asked for my twobob Bob.(Twobob being Aussie slang for 20c)

already answered this but what's in a name anyway?
i wanted something unique then thought, no, i don't think it's necessary, it's just a name after all.
ok, there's that idea that names in numbers can be important and suggests a deeper level, or the label you choose for yourself actually supports the personality you emit.
oh, whatever.

Hyperband ~
Range of Frequencies from @ 301.2625 Mhz To @ 463.250 Mhz

Want to get a great tan just stick your face in that Waveguide :D

Originally posted by Marigny
already answered this but what's in a name anyway?

That only works for names that you don't choose for yourself.

4DHyperCubix

Why? Well, for one I spent a whole week on figuring out stuff about the 4th dimension on my own... I grown an interest in it now. Well, HyperCubix - really two meanings. One you may see is "Hyper Cube." That is n-dimension cube > 3. Also, Cubix - Like the Rubik's Cube.. that puzzle kicks ass.

Originally posted by cyberia
Cyberia

That's a name of a club in a movie I saw.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

I have seen several movies and shows with "Cyberia" in it from “T2” to “Serial Experiment: Lain” it not exactly original, now the “ElectricFetus” that’s a name for a club :D

Wraith,

Is this what you wanted because your link does not work:

Main Entry: wraith http://www.m-w.com/images/audio.gif (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?wraith01.wav=wraith)
Pronunciation: 'rAth
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural wraiths /'rAths also 'rA[th]z/
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1513
1 a : the exact likeness of a living person seen usually just before death as an apparition b : GHOST, SPECTER
2 : an insubstantial form or semblance : SHADOW
3 : a barely visible gaseous or vaporous column
- wraith·like /-"lIk/ adjective

Originally posted by Asguard
Asguard was a name i made up for a game of d&d once (no i didn't steal it from SG1)

My avatar IS from SG1. It is Thor and is an Asguard so i thought id use him

Looks more like Yoda to me!!!


Red Devil: A fan/supporter of The Red Devils; the nickname of Manchester United FC; the best soccer team in Britain and the richest club in Die WELT!! Not, as some in here believed, a Communist Anti Christ!!!:D

I too am rather fond of your team from the red half of Manchester. They're winners. I like winning.;)

derrived from metal gear solid's psycho mantis but all the IM had it already taken, plus i thought hey he's a cool fella that can throw chiars at you without touching them

I've got a nickname Martian because I always tell my friends I'm going to be the first person landing on the Mars. I truely wish so.

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I guess the origin of my name is easy to guess
added with a spelling error, but, I like it anyway....

Short and positive.

Obviously, I am not here to explain my name. I am simply here to bash the bandwagon, asslicking 'Red Devil" loving punks named Wraith and Red Devil. Yea, manure maybe rich, hell, they may even be said to be good. But guess what? It's all about Arsenal you dimwits! The gunners are the presently the best team-- undefeated in England and will win the fucking premiership. The only other team close is Chelsea. So you pathetic "we are the richest" team spewing bunch of reddened acne picking slugs of chips infested maggots, kiss my gooner ass!


Since I'm in a good mood however, I’ll indulge:

I'm sure most here have read the novel, The Fountainhead, by Rand. I personally think some parts insightful, but mostly a regurgitation of pathetic romantic subjectivity that is far too influenced by a worldview stemming from a childhood in the Soviet Union. Follow?

Anyway, the name is two parts.

thefountain + hed.

thefountain is mostly in recognition of assertions made by the character Wynand, that I found astute. HED is an acronym whose meaning is vulgar, derision and which you won't find out. As an exercise you could figure it out by looking at what Wynand says, but why would you waste that time? HED is presented in lower case for the impression of deliberate dishonesty in spelling.

'Ozymandias' from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem, Ozymandias:

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Hooray! :)

Because having to tell people my old Instant Message name was getting annoying, so I change it to this one which won’t get pro-lifers that over hear my conversation to run up and mace me in the face! If only “kentuckyfriedfetus” was not taken I would have kept that one for life! “Wellcookedfetus” was a lamer alternative.

“Neuromancer” is the book that started the sci-fi cyberpunk genera. I will usually feature avatars from cyberpunk movies, comics and anime.
NeuromancerUltra is a rocking IM name
http://www.guru3d.com/forum/images/smilies/rock.gif

After 6 months and 1200 posts, I might as well say.

Its my middle name, from my great grandmothers maiden name. Its normally a scottish surname.

aren't you guys using you real names?

Even in real life I respond not only those who call me by my real name. I have a nick myself, and sometimes I permit people call me that name.

Your name - and why!

bel are the last three letters of my real name and as for the Bells... well it's because I'm a ding-bat:D ... Ding being the sound made by bells... ermmm you get the drift...



:eek:

Overdose.. Do i need to explain it? ;)

I'm just proud to be Italian. Simple as that.

Those who can't pronounce my first name (usually profs, older ppl, ppl who can't pronounce nontraditional names) call me miss khan. Miss, because I deserve the respect. and Khan because its easy.

aah, so lemme guess:

Allyha,Alina, Alisha, Anisa, Amina, Amaani, Benazir, Faiza,Hina, Hafeesa, Haleema, Imaan, Miriam,Najma, Naseem, Nasreen, Nadia, Shazia, Shanaz, Sameera, Sumaira, Saamiya, Samar, Saira, Soroya, Ruksana, Rehana, Romana, Talhat, Tahira, Tasneem, Zaira, Zarina, Zohra, Zina, Zainub, Zainum????

gotta be one of those.... ;)

Allyha,Alina, Alisha, Anisa, Amina, Amaani, Benazir, Faiza,Hina, Hafeesa, Haleema, Imaan, Miriam,Najma, Naseem, Nasreen, Nadia, Shazia, Shanaz, Sameera, Sumaira, Saamiya, Samar, Saira, Soroya, Ruksana, Rehana, Romana, Talhat, Tahira, Tasneem, Zaira, Zarina, Zohra, Zina, Zainub, Zainum????

nope.. not even close

bugger:bugeye:

hmmm.....

you sure???

at least give me the first letter, I'll guess it from that.

ok wraith, fine I'll answer you, since this thread seems to have suddenly died & I just noticed. My name starts with ayn assuming you know the urdu alphabet. But you'll never guess it because I have met only one person outside my fam who's ever heard my name before. And the way I spell it, err my parents spell it, when translated into english makes me the only person in the world w/ exactly my name :) :) :) . Good luck guessing.

I travel through the cosmos.

Rate limit is a term used in Chemistry. I think I was doing Chemistry that evening heh.

Originally posted by miss khan
nope.. not even close

Bertha? Gertrude? Maude?

Galt, is that you?

Yes, it's me.

Is that you, Wraith?

Yes, it's me.

Is that you, Wraith?

Hei Galt,

are you called acid cowboy, because you are a cowboy that sells acid?

regards,
RealHuman

Could be a cowboy with bad stomach acid problem... oooh the heartburn :p



:eek:

I changed my user name to Acid Cowboy for several reasons.
I like acid house and country/country-rock music.
I love old westerns with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, etc.
It's the name of an online art gallery I am planning on opening.


I don't have stomach acid problems, but I am lactose intolerant.

Online art gallery? Open it soon, or else, .........
(whoops, what can I do anyway......)
Anyway, if some of you changed your names, why did Porf made a new one instead of erasing his DaveW?

"I am an Acid Cowboy... cows are a way of life for me."

"Do you drink a lot of milk?"

"Nope."

Online art gallery? Open it soon, or else, .........
(whoops, what can I do anyway......)

I already have a few pieces of "art", including some pretty good charcoal drawings (white charcoal/black paper) of Chris Cornell and Henry Rollins I did almost ten years ago.

I don't have a definite schedule, but I'm hoping for sooner rather than later. One thing I'm fretting over is whether I should try to sell any of my work. Making money is cool, but I might have a hard time parting with the fruits of my labor. I tend to be overly critical of my own work, so all the refining/re-doing means it takes me longer to complete a piece than it would many other people.

"Do you drink a lot of milk?"

I'm lactose intolerant, but Acid Soyboy sounded pretty dumb.

i choose my name 'cause i have been told that i am crazy hehehe

it's pretty easy.

otheadp
othead p
p othead
pothead

wraith was the 1st one to figure my name out
looks like 15ofthe19 got it too

others tho started calling me "oth" for short. that just cracks me up.. but whatever, i like it :)

why pothead? because when i just joined sciforums i used to be a chronic smoker of weed

but i quit... i hate weed more than anything now

but i quit... i hate weed more than anything now

you hate weed more than cancer?

you bastard.

Oh and... I'm pretty sure everyone gets the name. It's non-mysterious.

it's pretty easy.

otheadp
othead p
p othead
pothead

wraith was the 1st one to figure my name out
looks like 15ofthe19 got it too

others tho started calling me "oth" for short. that just cracks me up.. but whatever, i like it :)

why pothead? because when i just joined sciforums i used to be a chronic smoker of weed

but i quit... i hate weed more than anything now

much as I'd like to take the credit, it was actually kunax who figured it out first.

Scramble...

-To mix or throw together haphazardly.
-To gather together in a hurried or disorderly fashion.
-To cook (beaten eggs) until firm but with a soft consistency.
-Electronics. To distort or garble (a signal) so as to render it unintelligible without a special receiver.
-To cause (aircraft) to take off as fast as possible, as to intercept enemy aircraft.

...All of the above...

Meh, mines simple. I play video games and I'm a huge fan of the Japanese Meiji Restoration Period.

I usually try to find a way to incorporate something about me with my screen name into something cool. So for me, this is it! :cool: :D

Well some day i hope get a certificate of my psychoness :D

They took away my name and gave me a number.

Actually, the origins have passed into obscurity. Now I just like the number because it's something I can call my own.

*checks if the number is a PIN to something*

why the hell did they take your name away. was it something sexual :D

My name is rather simple.
In Hebrew, Samuel is Shmoo-elle, and all I've done- quite ingenious really- was shorten that down to Shmoo. I like the way it sounds.

Hypewaders are good equipment to wear when there is a possibility of deep and widespread bullshit. They are also handy when watching "news" on the major networks.

So on the off chance that anybody cares, that's what happens to be what I came up with as username when I first started wading in online fora.

Ah, Shmoo, welcome to sciforums, hopefully you'll enjoy your stay here.

This is just my name.

God Im so boring!!!

Homer Simpson's email address: chunkylover58@aol.com

I wanted to be grandiose, original and strange, "Xyzth" reflects the names of a saurian race in a juvenile fantasy novel I wrote years ago.

Homer Simpson's email address: chunkylover58@aol.com

that's awesome. loves me some homer.

i almost wish you'd have used the whole thing because it would have been funny, but my aversion to aol makes me happy you didn't.

for a while, I thought it would be awesome to name my first daughter "http://www.molly.com Morris". Hehe.

when it came to the part where the nurse asked me "what name are you giving her", I just couldn't do it. ;) hehe.

just molly. ;)

This is just my name.

God Im so boring!!!

hey me too. :)

Homer Simpson's email address: chunkylover58@aol.com
i was wondering why your name sound so fimiliar

Scaperzrule----> because they do!

LordAza is a simple nick to describe. What better to name oneself then from one of H.P. Lovecraft's finest works.
"For madness and the void's wild vengeneance are Nyarlathotep's only gifts to the presumptuous; and frantick thought the rider strove to turn his disgusting steed, that leering, titter Shantak coursed on impetuous and relentless,flapping its great slippery wingsin malignant joy, and headed for those unhallowed pits whither no dreams reach; that last amorphous blight of nether-most confusion where bubble and blasphemes at infinity's centre the mindless daemon-sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud."
-The dream quest of Unknown Kadath


Something about chaos and the way we all live i can relate to

Scaperzrule----> because they do!
who they hell are they...

When I first started posting online, I used my college mascot (Saluki) and the year I graduated. For the first few years, it wasn't to bad. Now it's like telling people I *almost* qualify for the senior citizen's platter.

I tried coming up with a clever Buffy reference, but the good ones are usually taken and the obscure ones just leave people confused.

"bitterchick" came out of a conversation with my boyfriend, who actually managed to reserve the domain name "bitterchick.com" for future development of my own website. So, bitterchick it is.

I am also a chick, and I tend to be bitter. :D

hahaha, I like that name. bitterchick!

I agree, all the Buffy references were swallowed up long ago. I have seen them all!

I use Silverback because a gorilla becomes a silverback by age and general tenacity, which seems to fit me more every day. That and we had an unending stream of monkey related hijinks at work the day I discovered this site.

Farscape fans

::blurbfly::

from jeff noon's 'nymphomation' - blurbflies are these flittering advert-squeaking artificial insects - blurbs (Bio-Logical-Ultra-Robotic-Broadcasting-Systems), spreading programmed sound-bites. evil genius type of thing, but irresistably cool little buggers. turns out they are not as purely mechanical as everyone thought, and could mate and mutate...
anyway, the book is exceptionally cool, and the name just stuck...

I'm an Italian guy....................

I got the nickname when I was in grad school because I am averse to getting dirty and have peculiar (apparently princess-like) habits. It's ironic considering that I'm a geologist and I routinely come home with mud in strange places.

i want to change my name to loose tea and start paying just so i can have this picture as my avatar: http://www.tea.co.uk/
that looks like hella fun. and she's hot.

newsflash:

we don't have avatars anymore.

Someday I got the feeling that I live in a dream, like everybody else. Thus I created that nickname and it stuck since I did not find a better one. I still believe it is fitting.
Also, some people make fun of my last name, since it is the same as that of a great german philosopher beginning with "H". That really gets on my nerves sometime. :D

Also, some people make fun of my last name, since it is the same as that of a great german philosopher beginning with "H".

Who? Hitler? :p

Beeep, that´s the wrong answer, I do suppose that not many people kept this name after WW2 :D . No, really, I would not describe Hitler as a philosopher, nobody would I think. No, truth to tell I am called Hegel. ;)

Name I use on here is the same one I use on Aol and several other forum's. It's a bit of Tolkien Elvish smooshed around. If I've translated it right, then "Oloranya" means "Dream Weaver". I originally came up with it when I was planning my personal/art website, "Olor"... although at the time I was calling it "Morna Olos" (Dark Dreams). In Elvish, 'olor' is commonly trnalsated 'dream' but has a more in depth meaning that I rally can't explain. And I don't have my copy of 'Unfinished Tales' handy to show you how Christopher Tolkien defnied it, so I won't bother.

But anyway, at the same time I was doing this, I was desperatly wanting a new screen name for Aol, because I had grown to hate my old one (Arwen86), thanks to my newfound hatred for PJ's depiction fo the character, and the fact that I had created that s/n in haste to get my account signed up. I played around a bit, and in keeping with the theme of the site I came up with Oloranya... a combination of 'olor' and 'anya' (weave).

So, techinically, it translates "Dream Weave", but Elvish is funny like that an d you can leave stuff out and still keep teh same meaning. Or so it would seem, from the four or five lessons I've gotten through in the course I downloaded.

Oh. That was along explanation, wasn't it?

My name means lotus.

I came up with my name about 2 years ago and ive stuck with it ever since.

"Mako" is short for Makoto, which is my middle name. It means "truth" in Japanese.

640 is a random number.

Jadedflower: My name is a flower in Portuguese and other langs too... and well, I was jaded.

Avatar: A little pic I found while with a friend... it's off a pointless little site called neopets, but the doll is so cute.

SmilingMadness: I am usually the smiley one in the lot. Which is not to say everything is always great, but I smile anyway. Madness, well because all around me is madness, and I'm smiling through it.

Avatar: That's my smile.

That's a pretty smile SM! My pseudonym is what it is because I deleted the activation number for my first name, bazilmonk. Doh! Bazilmonk was the name a friend who committed suicide came up with for his band that never was. Jinchilla is just a silly name I use when horseplaying with my dog Jin.

im leviticus after the chapter of the bible.
i hate it through and through. religion, relious people, the entire and structure. the fakery and total crap of all of it pisses me off (yes im flaming) leviticus is just a nice sounding name which suggests (if youve read it) order and rules, and control. i havent decided whether that is what i stand for, or whether that is what i hate......

i dont have an avatar to represent what my philosophy (its a bit methaphorical) is and what i believe in.

I liked the older one better. Anyway, this is the wrong thread don´t you think so?

...............

Deus Ex Machina= "God out [of] ____________." (if my five years of Latin don't fail me;)

I was known as "BMW-Guy" on my old forum, so I just kept it now.......

I once had the oppertunity to take a Performance Driving Clinic from BMW--I got to take a 330i up to 115+ mph (with an instructor in the passenger's seat of course)....... ;)

you once drove a bmer so that's your name?
oook

bmw's are the official car of my city, apparently. nice cars are common where i'm from but bmw in particular seems to be the only car anyone drives where i live now. i used to want to get one but then i'll just forget where i parked it, cause all the cars in the parking lot will be the same!

Sounds like one heck of a city.............

Where do you live anyways? Muinch, Germany? :confused:

And, please remember I'm a 16-year-old--Driving a BMW at over 100 mph where I live is no small deal.;)

oooh you're 16. i was thinking you were 30ish and all excited about driving this car one time.

it's in new york, not nyc. i'm from the island where mercedes is the standard.

Deus Ex Machina= "God out [of] ____________." (if my five years of Latin don't fail me;)

I was known as "BMW-Guy" on my old forum, so I just kept it now.......

I once had the oppertunity to take a Performance Driving Clinic from BMW--I got to take a 330i up to 115+ mph (with an instructor in the passenger's seat of course)....... ;)

Hey BMW guy, how the heck are you? I have one and I absolutely LOVE it. I know this has nothing to do w/ this tread but I thought I'd share that.

I am named after the feature of my Xiphi IV space time frigate. This feature allows for kinetic energy to be depleted rapidly in 9th dimensional space by catabolizing some of the outer trans-dimensional matter coating of the ship, this coating is call “Necquim” and to activate this emergency feature you say or think to the ship “Exploding_Necquim" followed by authorization code.

my nickname is just a play on words as i drink a lot of coffee and it's a friends first name.
simply stupid, about sums me up.

My sexy blue feet.....
Well, it's a long story.
The short version involved a video, this kinky mating ritual, blue dancing feet, alot of biology and penguins.
:-D

i use it instead of my name as my name is rather boring, and as i'm rather random, i felt it suited.

My name Neil + Dildo. If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? Well, that and I'm sometimes a dick in my posts. :p

- N

i am Logically Unsound because *ditto*

My name Neil + Dildo. If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? Well, that and I'm sometimes a dick in my posts. :p

- N

Shouldn't your name then be neil+dick = neick?

ive already said why im called me, but i just thought id say that i just broke 400 posts, which means in hte last 24 hours ive posted about 200 posts.
yay me.

or possibly neil + post; peil., or neost.

Maybe I should change my name into:

sponkey

or

spunkey

I suppose Drealker is not such a good name is it?

spanky!!! lol

nah, drealker aint so great.
how about drawler?

no...i like sponkey though

drawler is cool...

yeah man i am excellent, party time.

spurious is the best i think.

Shouldn't your name then be neil+dick = neick?

Nah, not as fun to say. Besides, while I may sometimes be a dick, I'm more friendly so a dildo is better. :p

BzZzZbbBzbBZzbzbzbzzzzzzbzbzbzzzzzBzzZzzz!!

- N

Seeee flemster?

Dunya refers to the world in Hindi, Turkish and in Arabic.
I consider myself as an cosmopolite. I oppose the idea of nationalism and anarchy. worldcitizen (http://www.worldcitizen.org/)

I wound up in the assistant principle's office one day, and she was trying to understand why I, a pretty smart kid, would be failing all my classes, espescially gym. She asked If I dressed out and I said no. Then she asked if I brought my clothes. I said yes. She then looked at me and said "you are an enigma". I graduate in 2007, hence Enigma'07.

I'm tina highs, hence mis t highs, misty eyes, nothing special is it.

I've been nicknamed misty since I was little, one of my friends picked up on it when the teacher called out miss t smith.

I much prefer my surname now, though I do get the odd joke or two.

I chose my name because it has some cultural cache for me, as well as vague 80's-band flavor. "This week at Riverscape - The Stray Cats, with special guest Tezcatlipoca's Hat!"

Whenever I get a litte bummed (which, given the state of our planet and the seemingly unstoppable procreation of morons, is quite often), I like to pretend the sun god of my ancestors has given me his hat, and thus my disposition becomes sunny and warm, bringing peace to earth, sight to the blind and talent to Paulie Shore.

Well, maybe not that last one. That'd take a REAL miracle.

Halcyon because when I was a teenager I had a pretty emotional dream in which a friend of mine called me "Halcyon," and it stuck over the years. Wouldn't have appeared in a dream if I hadn't already learned it and attached some meaningful significance to the word/idea, but whatever that significance was has been lost. Simple coincidence that Halcyon by Orbital became my favorite song a few years later.

Humani Nil A Me Alienum Puto = Latin for "Nothing Human is alien to me." It's philosophy lies in my head more as unsymbolized thought/ideas and I've never had the knack for explaining it; from my perspective at least.

Existenz. Heard they were making a movie by that name in 6 or 7th grade and I've used it on most stuff since. Finally saw the movie a few years later and it was a little weird.

I like the movie much.

seamaid? I am moved by the fairy tale of Andersen, and wish everyone can get what he or she wants. the fairy tales of Andersen is not for children, but for all people.
Just consider "she walks as on the kinfe-edge, losses her voice forever to persue her love."
Best wishes for the kind.

Welcome to SciForums, seamaid (I'll refrain from putting a capital S on your name, if that's the way you like it!)

Are you talking about the original Little Mermaid story? I fear that my knowledge of fairy tales is incomplete.

@ Dunya: strange to join only for the sake of inventing a name! I hope we'll hear from you again. :)

Thank you very much for you welcome.you are right, it is that fairy tale.

although most final of fairy tales are nice,like the sleeping beauty ,snow white and so on . this one is an exceptiion . maybe the cothurnus presents the goodness ,beauty, and love better.I can never forget the tale since the first time i read it .

are you satisfied with my explanation? :) hope to keep in touch with you .

in addition, the name of fairy tale was translated into daughter of the sea, a good tanslation, isn't it ?

Lori is my real name. 7 cause there was already a Lori, and 7 is god's number.

So I guess that means that I have absolutely no imagination or creativity, and that I love God and want to be associated with Him.

You know what I would love to know is what Porfiry means...