How did you decide on your DU username?

[Fox Mulder]

What does it mean?

I've been wondering this ever since I came to DU. I've seen some usernames that speak for themselves (like mine), and some that are way out in left field.

Please share with the rest of us on how you decided on your DU username and also tell us what it means.

Thanks.

:) :hi:

Edit: I can't spell at 7:20 am.

[MrScorpio]

1. I've had it for a long time... Before DU

From back in my bad old days

[Meatwad]

2. "Meatwad" is my favorite character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

I never laughed so hard at a cartoon character until I saw Meatwad on ATHF.

[MrScorpio]

7. You're a star, you know?

A bright, shining star, blazing high in the sky!

[Arkana]

35. Are you just doin' it for the shorties?

[wildhorses]

3. because it suits me

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. MrsGrumpy...one more time...

;) We were out to dinner with friends and their kids. We were joking around, and I goofed up and said,"If you do that, it'll make MrsGrumpy very Harper...." and a screen name was born. Sometimes they call me MrsHarpy, but that would be a bit much for a username. :hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

5. it's what my mama used to call me...

'cause i was born in '76 :)

[MrScorpio]

8. I've got other impressions

U know Y!

[bicentennial_baby]

12. heehee

you.... :blush:

hi papi!! :hi:

[In_The_Wind]

6. I was Freebird ...

But that always caused a bit of grief ...
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3115581#3124591
because no one understood until I gave it up ...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. It was based on a conversation with a friend.

He was relating a story about a yuppie-type friend of his who described himself as an anarchist. My friend, incredulous, told him he was a "coffee table-book anarchist."

Then I just blurted out "Starbucks Anarchist." My friend said "I like that," and so it stuck.

[Tallison]

10. It's my real name

and I kind of like it.

Anyone else here use theirs? :shrug:

[Az]

11. Been using it for a while now

First showed up during my debating days. Took it from a couple different sources. One reason was that I didn't like big long names. The beginning and end aspect had a certain appeal. And it was a derivation of a name I used in RPGs as well. There are a smattering of other reasons for it. But those are some key ones.

[ZombieNixon]

13. Here...

Long story. It involves a vocal impression I do, the Kerry campaign office in my home town, a pitcher of beer, my best friend from High School and Halloween.

Bit of background: in Futurama, Richard Nixon's head in a jar is president of Earth. His voice is done in an over-the-top version of the real Nixon's voice. If you haven't seen this, you should; it's hilarious. In any case, I can imitate that voice, people tell me, perfectly. So that's the vocal impression.

When I signed up for DU on September 26th last year, my friends and I had been discussing what we were going to wear for Halloween. My best friend told me to get a Nixon mask and go as Nixon's zombie. Later on, we changed this to the four of us going as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. As it happened, my plan A would come to fruition.

The story: With the election really heating up, I canceled Halloween and went to volunteer at the local Democratic Headquarters, which happened to be right downtown, among all the Halloween festvities. At about 9pm, there I was, putting together a Kerry-Edwards sign, when someone comes back and tells me that there are three people at the front door asking for me. I guessed, correctly as it happened, that my friends had come to bother me, like they often did. In good humor, I went outside, looked around, and saw nothing. Then, I head ungodly yelling noises, and my best friend, followed by two other buds, come around the corner, clearly drunk off their asses. My best friend dumps a full pitcher of beer on me.

Now, I'm pissed, my clothes are soaked and I smell like cheep beer. I can't go back to work in this state, so I punch him in the face. He punches me back. This knocks loos the small chip in my front tooth that had become dislodged when I got hit in the face with a microphone two weeks earlier. Now I have a small chip in my front tooth (don't worry, ladies, I'm still cute; it's not visible as all). No one else has a free set of clothes, save for my friends zombie costume (basically a suit that looks like charred flesh with organs poking out, quite real looking in a really freaky way). At this point, we're all laughing quite hard; I can't stay mad at those guys, ever. So, I tell the people in the office that I've been there for five hours (which I had) and that I was calling it a night. In a hurry to dry off, I put on the zombie costume, they slather white theater makeup on my face, and I walk around in a zombie costume doing my put-upon Nixon voice all night. I was now forever Zombie Nixon.

This actually happened, I shit you not!

[just a girl]

14. I was listening to Dubstar

I loved the song and at the time I registered it fit my mood.

[nickinSTL]

15. nothing too mysterious...

my name's Nick, and I live in St. Louis...

[qnr]

16. Been using it online since 1981 n/t

[Shell Beau]

17. It's part of my real name.

[Ivan Sputnik]

18. I feel like I've crash landed on an alien planet.

Or at least I'm not sure if I'm living in the same country anymore. Danger, danger!

Love the X Files, BTW.

[unsavedtrash]

19. bumper sticker I saw on bettybowers.com seemed to fit me.

[Midlodemocrat]

20. All the good ones were taken.

[mike_c]

21. long and agonizing deliberation....

xoxo
Mike C.

[Heidi]

22. The ghost of Johanna Spryi whispered it into my ear

while I was sleeping.

[johnnie]

23. I use my name when I can

I just wish I would have started with a capital J instead. I was thinking of asking if I could change that.

[Saphire]

24. well, it went like this....

[yewberry]

25. I don't remember for sure, but it may have involved losing a bet.

At least, that's all I can come up with to account for my username.

(I *think* I lost my original screenname in a massive system crash that kept me offline for a long time--but I may be remembering it wrong.)

[underpants]

26. It was either this or Moops

I went with underpants

[bertha katzenengel]

27. bertha katzenengel

1. I kept bertha from "bertha venation" and because I like it. It suits me perfectly as a psuedonym.

2. katzenengel = German, "cat's angel" - love the critters, try to do TNR in my neighborhood

:hi:

[BlackVelvet04]

28. The song......

I liked it a lot and needed a new nick.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. That's easy.....

I live in California.....

And my name really is Peggy!



:hi:

[HEAVYHEART]

30. I joined in November 2004

Right after fuckface was selected. I googled for Democratic message boards cause I needed other like minded people to vent to/discuss with. That's when I found DU and my heart was feeling very heavy at the time. Cheesy I know.. :-)

[RedCloud]

31. Sioux and Cheyenne did entail forts along the Bozeman Trail.

I selected this name to honor Leonard Peltier for enlightening me not to ever again use anthropology to dissect native Americans.

[Metta]

32. Par of my monk name. He who is steeped in loving kindness.

Thittametto.

[Rising Phoenix]

33. mine is pretty obvious

[khashka]

34. It's from a Kate Bush song

"Khashka from Bahgdad lives in sin with another man..."

It was appropriate and I liked it. So why not?

Khash.

[Xithras]

36. It's from a piece of Babylon 5 fanfic.

I used to be a huge Babylon 5 fan (still sort of am...it was the best SciFi show ever, but you can only watch the episodes so many times). Anyway, there was a piece of fanfic out on the Internet many years ago that introduced Zathrus' long lost cousin Xithras. Without going into all the back story about how that was possible, Xithras was the prank pulling, party loving, amorous antithesis of Zathrus.

I had just finished reading it when I signed up for DU, and my old Internet handle had already been taken by someone. I chose Xithras on a lark.

[Ally McLesbian]

37. A fan of Ally McBeal

As a lesbian interested in the show Ally McBeal (I know, it's a Fox show, but Calista Flockhart is a great leading lady nevertheless), my username was a natural. It made more sense once Ally started kissing other women. Too bad she never came out of the closet!

[toey]

38. toey was/is my first cat's name

When I moved, I gave her to my dad so she's not mine anymore. She is all black except her toes, which are white, hence toey.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

39. lioness was my go go name and i am a leo

priyanka is my real name


hence my DU username

[djeseru]

40. It's been in use since 1997...

...and I needed a username quickly - was reading about Deir el Bahri and the temples there...lo and behold: djeseru. I haven't used any other name online.

[BlueIris]

41. Blue Iris is the name of my favorite soap. My eyes are blue.

I'm "blue" about the current state of our nation, I vote Democrat and...the truth is, I'm really sorry I picked that name. Long story that I've been intending to tell the Lounge for a while, as a cautionary tale, but I haven't had time. Maybe later.

[Neil Lisst]

42. I created a new comic, whose main character I call ...

Neil Lisst. Why? Nihilist.

I chose to register the name and use it here so I could get name ID for the character. I like the name, so I enjoy using it.

While I am not literally a nihilist, I couldn't make a catchy name out "cynic."

It's a vehicle for one of my projects, and it's primarily a political tool.