How did you come up with your username ??

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:26 pm

Cofaidh wrote:
squidgirl wrote:is there perhaps another meaning of squid to which I'm happily oblivious?
In the US military "squid" is a term used by members of the other branches when referring to a member of the Navy.

And, at least in the late 70's, we used to refer to girls who dated Naval Academy middies as "squidbait."

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:11 pm

...an it don't take much to bait a squid!

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:46 am

i know a family whose surname is "six." anything is possible, especially with gonzo.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:07 am

mutepointe wrote:i know a family whose surname is "six." anything is possible, especially with gonzo.

"Six" is a patrician Dutch Huguenot name with some fair history around it. Here is a portrait of the very wealthy arts patron Jan Six, a friend of Rembrandt and painted by him:

Jan's father-in-law was also portrayed somewhere in Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp". Supposedly he wasn't the cadaver.

rh · Post by rh » Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:23 am

I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!!!

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:45 am

There can be unforseen difficulties with numeric names. For instance, Jan Six had an illegitimate son named Jan Fivenahalf. This son would have inherited all his father's estate but for the name.

This reminds me of the story of a man a long, long time ago, who one day suddenly wasn't full of sh!t.

But it was a long time ago ....

and it was only for one day .....

djm

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:10 pm

Caroluna because the Luna has been my favorite ever since I was a kid (picture Hermione Granger with a butterfly net

). They are such a beautiful shade of green....The name also has some hints of lunacy, which I thought was appropriate

I love my avatar. My son found the moth in our yard and took the picture. I like how the moth is a little old and beat up but still beautiful

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:06 pm

Well, the nice thing about the name Bingamon is that you are less likely to suffer identity theft since few people spell it correctly.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:29 pm

But have you ever been accused of bingamy?

djm

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:10 pm

Daniel_Bingamon wrote:Well, the nice thing about the name Bingamon is that you are less likely to suffer identity theft since few people spell it correctly.

Hmmm... then I should be entirely safe... but I don't think I'll hold my breath... we get the strangest spellings of our name, and quite often it is with an invitatin to accept a credit offer of some sort... sometimes I don't think they care who you really are as long as they can get you to pay interest.

The Sporting Pitchfork · Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:17 pm

I was whistling the tune in question when I signed up for this board, hence my username. I do have some odd pitchfork connections, though, as it turns out. My real name is Channing and whilst visiting a friend in China, we decided to work out what my name would be in Chinese characters. There were many possibilities to choose from and after sorting through a number of rather unsavory ones, my friend chose the characters ch? and níng (I think, I can't remember if I'm getting the tones right now...) which mean "pitchfork of tranquility." I've recently discovered that the first character when used in Cantonese (ch?a) has the slang meaning "trousers" so I suppose I could also be "trousers of tranquility" if I wanted...But I don't think that one suits me so well.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:06 pm

Caroluna wrote:The name also has some hints of lunacy, which I thought was appropriate

Hints of lunacy are always appropriate...I wish I had thought of it first. Then I could be izzaluna or lunaizz or maybe lunarina

Mine is an old one, from way back when IRC was popular. First it was Isabella, which was always taken, then shortened to Izzy, which was also always taken, and so an Italian friend of mine said I should be izzarina (I guess that sounds Italian). Since that one was never taken, except by me, it stuck. And now, as it seems, Izzy or Izz has stuck...no one ever calls me by my real name. It's a good thing I like being known as Izz.....Mr Izz isn't as fond of it, however

A-Musing · Post by **A-Musing** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:08 pm

Since taking up the whistle, it isn't A-Hunting I go...and it isn't A-Fishing I go... No. It's happily A-Musing.

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:45 pm

"Seis" was the name of my long-dead crappy "Irish band," consisting as it did of me (dedicated but at the time rather a lousy player, though better than the other members) and then three other young people who hadn't the slightest clue and wouldn't listen to the real thing. One was an amazing classical and jazz pianist, but just didn't get the Irish stuff. The other two members never even practiced anything. We sucked big time! But three of us were flute "players" of one sort or another, so that's where the "flutes" comes in. Thankfully, my username is all that remains of that band.

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:53 pm

Selective Mutism was something new to me. But I have done this two or three times as a child. Just pretend to have a sore throat, and get by with sign language for two or three days. The best bit is when you start to talk again, you throat is croaky from disuse, so no awkward questions were ever asked!
I'd love to do it again as an adult, but so much of my work takes place over the phone.

Wow, Selective Mutism. You should really post that in the "band names" thread!