Your Screen Name -- How did you decide on it?

My husband has called me "Boobalack" for years. He claimed it was from an old country song about a tiny little bird. His brother said it was true, but I thought he was just backing up my husband. Lo and behold, several years ago, I finally found the song. It is spelled "Boobilak" and is by Tommy Collins. It is the silliest most hill-billy song I believe I've ever heard. To make matters worse, the little bird is a horny little boy bird, looking for a "femme." To give him credit, though, he's also building a nest and planning to settle down with his conquest. Can marriage and babies be far behind?

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I was actually gonna make my screen name: kulit.
But instead I made my name: ragulto101.

r = my 1st name
agulto = my last name
101 = just extra

I wanted BookDiva, but it was already in use. When I was young, I used to think if I ever had a company (or a book store!) I would name it Merry Mary's.

Well, we have books in virtually every room of our house.

The "downstairs" books are the ones that MrsHouseLibrary feels will give people a good sense of who we are. There's that token Joy of Cooking in the Kitchen. We never use it...

Upstairs, all of the books are sorted according to Dewey. A major section (n01 through n99) reside in a single room, but there might be multiple major sections in a single room.

Very few of the 'childrens literature' books have been cataloged. They're all together in one bookcase, and not in any particular order. That's my next project.

I am named after a figment of my horse's imagination. (I have a very spooky part-bred Arabian mare who refuses to walk through puddles because she believes they may be inhabited by sharks).

"over dose of books" - "skoobdo". (acronym) - but backwards

It was mistaken for "scooby doo" for a TV cartoon series.

(Too many books to read, but very little time for reading )

:- )

I have both read a few books and plan to read a few more...

I'm boring - first and middle names. But, there are no numbers, no underscores, and it's very easy to type when I log in.

I find R. Buckminster Fuller's architectural designs intriguing.

My name is derived from the roman numeral for 1000 (M), the currency of South Africa (the rand), and my favourite wankel rotary engine (twin-turbocharged Mazda 13B-REW). Meaning, of course, that I would pay a thousand rand for one of these engines. Simple.

Some people have pointed out that it also looks like a name, but that's sheer coincidence.

And the Mazda goes, "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm."

First name + year of birth (which does make me senior citizen several times over)

I'm a huge horse racing fan and Secretariat is my all time favorite.
If you like horse racing or horses at all I highly reccommend a biography on him: Secretariat.
~SG

MrAndrew, not sure if I believe you but if it's true taht is really and truly quite creative!!!

Mr. Andrew, I believe that you are a real Wankel.

Robert

Esta1923:

Congratulations on a long life, and thank you for making me feel like a kid. I'll be 69 next month. Le sigh.

Makes perfect sense to me!

I also suspect the the person above me added and "M" and a "." to his name.
I'm very curiois as to why.

Mr. Library, it was in order to make myself feel better.

Robert

I heartily endorse Mr.Durick's enhanced user name.

Mr.Durick, regarding your post #16, i shall take that as the compliment that it was obviously intended to be - implying that i am unique and innovative. And travel very rapidly in small circles. You sir, i also consider to be a prime Wankel.

LOL@#11.

My last name starts with W and my first name is Esther. I took the H out because on the site where I first used that name westher was already taken. Actually, that name was also already taken on LT, by someone with the same motivation for the name and a pretty similar taste in books.

Some great names (and explanations)

Mine is from mixing up my initials and adding a letter in order to get a name/word that makes me feel good:)

i bet you were tempted to go "clam".

>#21: doppleganger? identity theft? or... multiple personality?

My screen name simply reflects my desire to take over the world one day! ;)

I've actually been using theprezz or its variants as an online screen name for over 12 years (which is a fairly respectable length of time in Internet terms, though nothing compared to old-timers from BBS days.) When I was in high school I was so interested in politics that my friends jokingly started calling me Mr. President every time they saw me. One of those friends actually had the internet at home, and when our school library finally got a computer with a dial up connection he introduced me to the web and helped me get Hotmail and Geocities accounts (back when both those companies were still independent.) Since I was using Geocities to create what was essentially a political blog (though the term "blog" hadn't yet been coined) and my friend liked to call me Mr. President, "theprezz" was an obvious choice. (I went with the double z because theprez was already taken!)

My mother was French and we decided on this name for our sailboat when I was in high school (a lot less letters to paint than Mademoiselle). It has yet to be already claimed as a screen name.

My first girlfriend loved the movie LadyHawke, where Ruetger Howard plays a Black Knight named Navar. And The Crow was my Favorite movie at the time. It stuck and I have used it ever since.

#26 - Yeah - I love the movie-tie in book Ladyhawke by Joan D. Vinge! The movie wasn't bad either. Apart from the music. Oh, that music...

In the graphical chat world that I hang out in, a "rastahat" came out for sale, and I loved it because it actually fit decently on the frog head that I wear. (You can see a pic on my profile.) So, rastaphrog became one of my "backup" names when I can't get Piemur.

Cute profile pic. I've never before seen anyone who looks like you. ‹(^¿^)›

I read about 50 books a year (plus newspapers and magazines); hence, my screen name.

#29 I'd be surprised if you had unless you were wandering around in that world too. *G* Even there I think I'm the only person using the "Tarzan" body and frog head as my regular look.

I had two cats at the time I joined LT - hence four paws, twice. I really should be FourPawz1 these days, but hopefully this will change some day. (Sorry, Willie.)

Mine's from some very pretty fossil footprints called paleohelcura. I left the paleo off because I'm lazy and didn't want to type a lot. There's a nice example at the very bottom of this page: http://www.fossiliferous.co.uk/insectsjurassic.htm

That's a beautiful sinaeschnidia cancellosa, too!

I'm very sorry about your furry friend, Fourpaw2.

Thank you, Boobalack. It's been 2 years now and though I do miss Myrtle, she was quite old (17) and not well. Willie is 17 himself now, but he still runs around and plays the way a cat of 2 years does. I just wish he didn't hate other cats (and all other living things) the way he does because then I would add another cat to the household.
O.K. - 'nuff of that. On to someone else and the subject at hand.

I'm in the habit of choosing female names from Bruce Springsteen songs to name things around the house -- my iBook is Rosalita, my external hard drive is Kitty, my iPod is Wendy, my car is Leah. I always wanted to be in a Springsteen song, but he hasn't yet written his opus Julia, so I make do.

Mine is pretty obviously just my own name. This is partly because I am not very creative at making up names, but mainly because I happen to really, really like it.

My name backwards is annaxor and I live in a landscape of books. Hence, xorscape.

And cool rocks from Arizona, Helcura!

First, Esta...I'd love to meet you someday! My parents were born in the 1930's and neither one of them is computer savy. You must be one hip, cool person!
Second...my screenname...well, there's sunshine, moonshine, starshine...why not pieshine? Pie is just plain good and wonderful. What was the movie w/ John Travolta playing an angel? Didn't he like pie? I also like the little nursery rhyme about "Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair." You don't run into 'piemen' these days do you? Were there actually "piemen" at fairs long ago? Would we have to call them 'piepeople' today? Who knows!

It was called "Michael" and I do remember him scarfing down pie.

#11-what kind of car do you have that you would want to put that engine in?? Do you have an Mazda RX-7??

pieshine, Piepeople sound like they should be from outer space. I also liked the song Andie MacDowell sang about pies in the movie Michael.

Another ill-judged joke spirals out of control, maiming innocent people. Oh, the humanity!

>#41 NaListon: sorry, i was just kidding in #11. My username is pretty straightforward and boring, so i made up something more interesting. But yes, i guess an RX-7 would be the appropriate car to stick a rotary in. So to speak.

>#43 MrAndrew: lol well that sucks i was gonna say if you live in IL I could of hooked you up with one. And my username is pretty straight forward too. The 1st 2 letters of my first name and my last name :)

Growing up rural in Pennsylvania, we boys spent hours, days in the company of "runs." We dammed them and sent a flotilla of various craft made of leaves, wood (anything that would float) coursing over the falls we engineered. Back there, runs and "brooks" fed the larger "cricks". The term "creeks" was considered uppity. So when I developed my novel about a Pennsy boyhood, "Summers Run" seemed a natural title.

Ah, everyone has such clever names. Mine is rather boring. M. & I. are my first and middle initials. Hess is my last name. Simple, but it makes my LT account feel like it belongs to me.

#46: mihess "Mine is rather boring."

Hah! If there's a prize for boring, I claim it!

I concede, not that it's not a nice name. :)

But very boring.

49 > it could have been worse, it could have been jim smith...

Well, Jim Roberts is the name of the editor of the Cornell Alumni News which I discovered in my e-mail right after turning away from this thread. (Cue Twilight Zone.)

Robert

if your RL name was Wenzel Smergenfeldenfield, jimroberts would be a quite innovative and unusual username.

#44 - Your last name is ams6 ?

It's the nom-de-decks I use for the occasional DJ gig that gets thrown my way. Actually, I'm rather surprised it hadn't already been taken on this site.

Pieshine is great, I too derived my screen name from the movie 'Michael'. Michael (John Travolta) is sitting at the table spooning sugar into his bowl, saying something like "you just can't get enough sugar". I take that to mean people just can't get enough sweetness in their lives. I also like your screenname, because at times, I'll sing 'When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore'.

>53 suitable1:, I was thinking that too!

I am so glad someone started this topic. I am always wondering about user names! (MrAndrew had me puzzled for days--not. The real puzzle is that this "straightforward and boring" name conceals an often mischievous poster, LOL.)

My nieces and nephews call me Aunt Shell, and I am 4'10". So, I use littleshell410 when I need numbers and just littleshell otherwise.

***PortiaLong scans to see if MrAndrew has yet infiltrated this thread***...

I have a few internet names that mix an match depending on the type of site that I am on. It amuses me to maintain a sort of continuity.

PortiaLong is "name mash" of my usual internet nom-de-plume and my (second to last) dog's name (the whole of which was inspired by a bard and a beer and my favorite author) - it has the advantage of sounding, well, legitimate.

MrAndrew "got" the Shakespearian reference for the first (dog's) name; and, as per the comment I left for him ..."The last name of my nom de plume ... actually refers to a prominent Family Name found in a set of works by an author we share..."

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Our last dog (and our current dog, and all future dogs) was a mutt of uncertain heritage. She spent several days at our house, nameless, as we contemplated. Some portion of her heritage was obviously Rott-y, given her coloring. We decided that if anyone asked her breed she was a "Black-and-Tan" hound. Our favorite black-and-tan (beer) at the time was the Yuengling - which was a half-and-half Porter and Lager. I favored "lit'ry" names so the Porter part migrated to "Portia" (from the Merchant of Venice in case you missed it)...and so I have a first name.

I am pinkozcat all over the internet.

My first computer was called minerva and when I connectd to the internet I used that name which inevitably got shortened to minnie.

On the Starship Titanic help board we used to play a type of theatre games and I was the pink panther, hence the 'cat'. There is a song about Lily the Pink so I morphed into minnie the pink (cat).

To preserve my national status I added the oz bit and became 'pink oz cat'. I still sometimes sign my emails 'minnie the pink ozcat'.

I love the great stories; my user name belongs to the boring camp: my initials and year of birth.

I sometimes use LittleDoe, a nickname I only recently found out was used of me as a newborn, when I arrived on the first day of hunting season.

For a while I used WebsterHack, until I realized people thought I was an internet hacker, not a lexicographer who sometimes worked on inferior dictionaries simply for the filthy lucre. On one particularly bad one, I refused to have my real name listed as staff and used "Holly Martins" instead (movie reference!).

Mine is an elvish version of my real name, Bonnie & it was generated by one of those Tolkien related name generators online. I have recently added a last name-Starlighter which is the name of the apartment complex where i live.
The first website i joined was Tolkien'sRing which was formed before the Lord of the Rings movies came out & the original members were alumni of Barnes & Noble University online course on the LOTR. When they stopped offering the course many of us wished to continue to stay in touch online as well as to continue discussing our favorite author; we all came up w/Tolikienesque names during the course & have kept them ever since. 8^)

My name is Hanna, and my middle name is Rose. But because of a lot of reasons best not discussed here, my mother and I have decided to change my name. In doing so, we are combining my first and middle names, because 1/2 of the people I know call me "HannaRose" instead of just Hanna. So I put that as my LT screen name. Boy, I'm sure creative ;)

A friend used hwinker. I finally asked him if that was for hoodwinker. Yep, it was. He's just always loved that word. Same way I love salmagundi, I suppose. Because of him, I also use Signora Del Drago on one site, but that's the only place I'm not Boobalack. Oops! I lied. I'm Deanie's Mother on MySpace.

>57 PortiaLong: Heinlein?

Mine is from my address. CD is (are?) the initials of the small town I live in and Vicarage is the name of my house. It's tied accommodation so we'll have to move from here when my husband retires so I might have to change my name, but that's a few years in the future.

>63 Carnophile: - yup

One might surmise that I thought of myself as a smart young man. Actually I'm an older fellow (only in body) who is an avid flyfisherman. Sage is a manufacturer of top end fly rods and sageboy has been my handle on a flyfishing board that I have frequented for many many years.

>#65: ah HA!

>#66: beats "fishman".

Mine is a CRC-16 of my real name. Boring but nerdy.

>67 MrAndrew: - DOH!!! (*grin*)

Now you've found me out - I shall just have to ask Dora to set me down in a universe where I didn't go blabbing my secrets ... (That's ok - I always wanted to emigrate to Tellus Tertius anyway - now I have a good excuse.)

Mine kept appearing on documents in my home.

I have two ever-shedding dogs and prefer reading to vacuuming.

Just wait until you get dust gorillas. They're scary. At least bunnies are cute.