So, what does your screen name mean?

madfifer9 · Post by **madfifer9** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:03 pm

Mad as in crazy mad. Fifer as in one who plays the fife. My screenname elsewhere is sometimes galatia9, after a comic book character, so I just stuck with the 9. Hence madfifer9.

Not mad as in angry. In fact, almost every pic of myself I've seen from a reenactment has me laughing while trying to play my fife. I should be laughingfifer9.

I love the screennames Bartleby and Phlebas. I like literary references.

madfifer9

dakotamouse · Post by **dakotamouse** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:18 pm

The husband calls me mouse and I live in Nordacota.

Ya you betcha*

* actually that's Minnesota speak but after the movie "Fargo" everyone thinks we talk that way.

jim_mc · Post by **jim_mc** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 11:13 pm

Hey, we did this just about a year ago:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... creen+name

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 11:22 pm

Mine means "a hawk that is black."

Or...an Indian chief who led a war against the US a long time ago. Or...a combat helicopter. Or...

Switchfoot · Post by **Switchfoot** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:23 am

Well, I wasn't very creative at the moment, so I asked my best friend what my screen name should be. She responded: "Switchfoot" (which would be her favorite band) and so my screen name became Switchfoot

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:38 am

I've used various screen names over time and would lose track of how to log in to things, let alone which password to use. The other thing is I try to remember who people are by name, as well as screen name. Some, I can remember; others, I keep forgetting. I use gaelic words for passwords as I heard there are password tester hackers whose software checks every word in the dictionary. May be an urban legend. (Now, that would be a good screen name.) I like this avatar option. I'll be messing with that.
Tony

michael_coleman · Post by **michael_coleman** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:05 am

Hey, Switchfoot is actually a halfway decent band

That aside, I believe my first post on this board clarified my name. But I will press on, I am not the resurrected fiddler player out of Sligo, but I am something like a great grandson, or a great grandnephew (yes, I just made up the word grandnephew). My name is actually Michael, but my last name is Burdett, so I just cut off the true last name and tag on my mothers maiden name and what comes out is a famous fiddle player who I am related to.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:08 am

"Some have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regularly
paved. My townsmen have all heard the tradition -- the oldest
people tell me that they heard it in their youth -- that anciently
the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon a hill here, which rose as
high into the heavens as the pond now sinks deep into the earth, and
they used much profanity, as the story goes, though this vice is one
of which the Indians were never guilty, and while they were thus
engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw,
named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named. It has been
conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down its
side and became the present shore. It is very certain, at any rate,
that once there was no pond here, and now there is one; and this
Indian fable does not in any respect conflict with the account of
that ancient settler whom I have mentioned, who remembers so well
when he first came here with his divining-rod, saw a thin vapor
rising from the sward, and the hazel pointed steadily downward, and
he concluded to dig a well here. As for the stones, many still
think that they are hardly to be accounted for by the action of the
waves on these hills; but I observe that the surrounding hills are
remarkably full of the same kind of stones, so that they have been
obliged to pile them up in walls on both sides of the railroad cut
nearest the pond; and, moreover, there are most stones where the
shore is most abrupt; so that, unfortunately, it is no longer a
mystery to me. I detect the paver. If the name was not derived
from that of some English locality -- Saffron Walden, for instance
-- one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond."
--Henry David Thoreau

Actually, in my case, it's a family name.

Caj · Post by **Caj** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:10 am

"Cajjy" is a comical deformation of my first name. As tiny kids, we had a weird stuffed animal that looked like a purple peanut-shaped dog that had eaten entirely too much vanilla pudding.

Here's a picture of three of them in a friendly game of Latvian poker:

My older brother used to make them talk in a high-pitched voice with a puddingesque speech impediment. I became "Cajjy", and my other brother Chopper became "Doppa."

Somewhere around high school this developed into the nickname "Caj," pron. "codge."

serpent · Post by **serpent** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 4:08 am

Snake or dragon, usually. The latter, "shao long", or "Laughing Dragon" was the name of my pottery in Woodstock, NY. In the context of C&F and the PSWB, it's a joke about snakes and Ireland. I make "Irish" whistles, but there are no snakes in Ireland. whoopee. hilarious, huh.

serpent

Hoed · Post by **Hoed** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 5:29 am

Don't know if anyone cares about my screenname, but there it goes:

My first name is Robin. A few months after I started dating my girlfriend, her grandmother just couldn't remember my name. So everytime she refered to me as "um.. what's his name?". After a while she began to remember my name by thinking of Robin Hood. Unfortunately I wasn't called Robin as you'd expect, but Hood.

Well my friends then made that Hoed, as you pronounce it in dutch. It actually means Hat. So it's kindof a silly nickname ... but proud of it

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Bagfed · Post by **Bagfed** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 7:13 am

Switchfoot wrote:Well, I wasn't very creative at the moment, so I asked my best friend what my screen name should be. She responded: "Switchfoot" (which would be her favorite band) and so my screen name became Switchfoot

I thought maybe you were a left handed or ambidextrious skate boarder!

Although, we used to call that Goofeyfoot.

An old Thrasher

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 7:25 am

Wombat? Hmmm, interesting question. There are theories of course.

Let's dispose of the most obvious theory first. My parents would have been very surprised had anyone referred to them as Mr and Mrs Wombat.

There are other theories. One theory, floated by StevieJ, is that I am called 'Wombat' because a wombat 'eats roots and leaves.' Despite the wide currency of this theory, I'd have to say that I find it deeply implausible. Well, it is isn't it?

tubafor · Post by **tubafor** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 8:04 am

It's been my nickname since college, since I was a tuba major... a play on a 2X4, and the question, "what's a Tuba for?..."

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 8:10 am

In college I met a Bengal tiger who used to be an Esso tiger. It was in a small zoo, and I was doing volunteer work there, staining panels for a passageway. The panels were leaned up against the tiger enclosure, and we were told in no uncertain terms NOT to touch the Cats if they came to the bars.

The one Cat casually drapped a dinner plate sized paw directly in front of my nose. No one was around (I checked carefully), and I stroked the paw. The Cat blew a raspberry at me (tiger greeting...somewhere between a horse's whicker and a human raspberry) and half-lidded its eyes as if it was considering going to sleep. We connected. I was in love. Ever since then he would pace the cage when I came in to the zoo, and we would greet each other, but I never had the chance to touch him again.

Since then I've become more enamored of the Siberians, and a supporter of tiger research and conservation. Please see www.5tigers.com for more information.

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So, what does your screen name mean?

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