PonyPotato

Mine means "Jupiter Pony" in Welsh (or, really, pony jupiter because of how they order words..).

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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

ktspktsp

I wasn't thinking.

Derwood

a nickname a girl gave me in 6th grade. as it turns out, she was the first girl i got to 2nd base eith

and the def leppard joke would be more accurate if you said 9 arms, but i digress

Punk.of.Ages

You are correct. I wiki'd it. I was under the impression Def Leppard had four members and, apparently, so was the person who originally told me the joke.

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"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..." - Henry Steel Commager

"Punk rock music is great music played by really bad, drunk musicians." -Fat Mike

monokrome

Simplest of color schemes is monochrome. I like keeping things simple, and I like replacing hard `c`s with hard `k`s.

So, monokrome it is!

Jadast

1st 2 initials of my first, middle, and last names.

blahblah454

Guess we are in the same boat.

I originally signed up for the porn, but then realized that I liked it here and now I stay. blahblah for just some random crap to fill in, and 454 for the huge engines that sound so nice.

Lindy

It's a diminutive of my last name. Like Pete for Petersen. My given name is Sophia, which I absolutely hate, and avoid using as much as possible. Lindy is also my Dad's nickname, (which leads to occasional confusion when I visit home) and I laid claim to Lindy early to keep one of my brothers from using it. It's been my nickname since I was a child. It's also pretty much gender neutral. I like it.
Lindy

dd3953

It's my email address, and the handle I've used for 98% of the website I've joined since 2000.

My first name starts with a D and so does my middle name. And if you dial the number "dyke" in your phone you will see the numbers 3953 (which is also part of one of my tattoos). So there you have it dd3953.

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[Technically, I'm not possible, I'm made of exceptions. ]

abaya

Think I've told this story before, but oh well.

Ktspktsp brought me back a beautiful abaya (a really nice, embroidered houserobe--NOT the abayas that women in Saudi Arabia wear from head to toe) from Lebanon, the first year that we were together... also the first of 2 years of our long-distance relationship. I lived in a basement apartment at the time and froze my ass off in the winter, so I wore the abaya almost all the time when I was at home, to keep warm and to feel a little bit closer to ktspktsp. I joined TFP during that winter, and was wearing it most of the time while posting.

Sometimes I wonder if people ever think that I'm a Muslim woman or something when they see my handle... to be honest, the thought never occurred to me at the time. I just loved my cozy abaya from my boyfriend. Anyway, it stuck.

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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran

Lucifer

When, like so many others, I stopped lurking on the titty board and starting posting in other parts of the forum, I used the handle Prince of Darkness, just cause I thought it was badass (which I am incredibly not) and a cool handle to have on what was essentially a porn forum. After the server died and was reborn, I tried to re-register Prince of Darkness, but for some reason, it wouldn't let me, so I nabbed the handle "Lucifer" instead, partly for it's connection to the first handle, but also cause it's a way cooler and way more badass handle.

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Job 30:29

1123, 6536, 5321

ratbastid

I didn't choose my handle.

It chose me.

Leto

thanks for the feedback... I drink from the water of life!

My original system login ID back in 1988 (for work) was my first two initials plus the first two letters of my surname, which turned out to be:
JEDi.

I've always liked that, but find it difficult to register this handle without adding several numbers. So, Leto kind of spoke to me. I guess I'm a geek.

StellaLuna

My favorite picture book, about a little baby bat who tries to be something she isn't.

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Screw tradition!

Grasshopper Green

My hair has been, at times, the bane of my existence. I like mythology. The name was inevitable.

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"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king"

Formerly Medusa

Speed_Gibson

I pulled from the same source that I use for all of of mine online handles (and a good portion of passwords) - the Golden Age of Radio. I chose the juvenile flyboy (not a bad series at all) over the western character name that I use on Opera and other places.

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Started talking to yourself I see.
Yes, it's the only way I can be certain of an intelligent conversation.

Black Adder

Strange Famous

named after a rapper.

Im very impressionable, if I had joined at a different time I might have been:

Indrid Cold
Mr Wednesday
The Gull Catcher
The Struggler
The Word King
Alyosha
The Half Blood Price
Fever Dreams
Imploding Lights
Things That Can Break
Champagne Chris Kanyon

etc etc

nowadays I think I'd just pick Adam

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

PayUp

If you don't "payup' I will repo your shit.

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Born to Lose.

Jenna

Honestly, I never thought I would get connected to this site so I used a name that I used when I was young, and thought it was cute to be called Jennaboo... then to make it even more stupid, I added the 4u. Real clever.

I should probably change it.

dlish

Jenaboo...

u've joined the long list of people who joined without the intention of staying.. welcome to the club!

if u do decide to change, dont do a drastic change..its always good to keep a part of what you were...

i have no problem with jenaboo

abaya - when i first saw ure handle i knew it was a lebanese thing..cos most people in the middle east call it by other names. we call it abaya in my household.. but i did think u were lebanese initially..at least i was close anyways.

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

Jenna

Yeah, I was thinking like Jenna or something simple, which is more like me. But oh well, it's not that big of a deal.

dlish

it isa big deal..if ure thinking about it..

try being dlishsguy.. in the end i settled for dlish

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

abaya

Ha! That's funny. I guess I thought it was called an abaya in other places, too (Iraq, Saudi, etc) but I could be wrong. That's just how American journalists tend to write about women's clothing in those countries, I noticed later on (wearing an abaya).

Anyway, yes, you were close... married to a Lebanese (and he doesn't have an abaya himself, actually!).

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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran

Charlatan

I chose my name because it best describes me...

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"My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars."
- Old Man Luedecke

dlish

just wait and see my yemen pics! should be up soon!

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

grumpyolddude

My standard reply: "ask the people who work with me."

Real story goes back several years ago, when my oldest son got interested in bowling, we used to put nicknames into the scorekeeper, rather than real names. My son was, and still is "Slimmy Hoffa." Craig was "Big Shirley" (an old sit-com reference). There was "Tdub", "Smoooooooth", "K-Mac", "Big Ern" (now "EAZEE"), and me, the "Grumpy Old Dude." Bowling scorekeepers display initials, so I was on the board as a bowling GOD.

These days, I'm a little bit mellower than I was, but I can still channel "Grumpy "when the situation calls for it!

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"Regret can be a harder pill to swallow than failure .With failure you at least know you gave it a chance..." David Howard

Plan9

It's everything I was and am now and probably will be.

Just crammed together into one word.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

speshul-k

Anything else I wanted was taken, so I randomly picked something unlikely.

CinnamonGirl

Except for my very first BBS handle, all my usernames have been songs, or references to songs. "Cinnamon Girl" (Neil Young) was a particular favorite of mine.

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"...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world."


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

SSJTWIZTA

same here.

mine is pure gibberish.

im almost 90% positive that i was stoned, and it meant something at the moment...if so, that memory is long gone.

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First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me And there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemoller

vancityboi

im from vancouver thus vancity and boi well i was 14-15 when i made that nick :P

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I reject your reality and substitute my own -MythBusters
Life is easier to measure by experience points -Watch The Guild

Tirian

Tirian is a character in the Narnia books, the last King of Narnia, who has to defend his kingdom against subversion and invasion. He is well-respected by the Narnians, and a skilled swordsman. He is descended from Prince Caspian, and the son of King Erlian. His closest friend is Jewel the Unicorn.

MoonDog

Ah, MoonDog is just a name I picked up when I played footbal in high school. It just kind of mutated from the name of a place close to where I lived.

levite

I belong to a bunch of religion/spirituality/magic/occult boards, all under the handle Levite, which I picked for the simple reason that it's a factual description. I have lineage from the Tribe of Levi (with occasional exceptions, the only one of the 12 Tribes of Israel that still tracks its descent), which is the priestly tribe. I actually found the conversations on this forum first, specifically the philosophy board, so it seemed appropriate.

On other boards/sites, I go by/have gone by: Taliesin, Llassar (I have a thing for Welsh legendry), SwordBoy (one of my hobbies is broadsword fighting), JokerSmokerToker12, DistantShip (as in, the one on the horizon, "Comfortably Numb"), TongueThing (it's a gift), BigHairyJew, and HornyOlJew (both self-explanatory)....

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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.

(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)

joseph

On other web sites, Joseph is usually taken. I use Fafafofo, which is a variation of Bababooey from the Howard Stern Show.

sapiens

I didn't think much about my choice. At the time, I was looking for a biological reference. On other sites I have been Mullersrachet (another biological reference).

radioguy

when i found this site, i was in radio...therefore, i was a radioguy...

khe1138

I chose mine because I'm a George Lucas fan, and one of my favorite movies is THX1138. So I just substituted my initials for THX.

The Faba

It's my name, with a 'The' in front.

Amaras

I've always been curious about how people choose their own nicknames,
passwords, etc...
Since I'm not going to ask you about your passwords (but if you insist on
telling me please PM it to me ), how did you choose your nickname?

Mine came about back in the mists of time when I was still drinking.
Grolsch is a Dutch beer which comes in a really neat bottle with a kind
of flip top lid.
See it here: Excellence in brewing since 1615......

Basically, I was trying to enter a nickname, and it kept coming up
"already taken" or whatever. Monkeyboy was one choice, as when I
used to run warehouses in my youth I was known for my fearlessness
when it came to climbing up racking (hey, I was drinking back then).

Cap'n Crunch was another. I got that one playing football. Named Captain
of the football team my senior year. I was a running back, and three
opposing players were carried off the field on stretchers that year
while trying to tackle me (again, I was drinking/using at the time, I'm not
proud of what happened).

So I chose Grolsch, thinking in my naivete that few others would know
what it is.

Your story?

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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
-Noam Chomsky
Love is a verb, not a noun.
-My Mom
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
-Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928