What does your "handle" mean?

[helderheid]

Oy, I may be showing my age (or not - I began e-chatting back when I was 10 years old) but I wonder what everyone's names (or handles) mean?

helderheid means clarity in Dutch. My name is Clarity.

[benburch]

1. Mine is my name.

Unoriginal, I know...

[helderheid]

25. Thanks for all you do - I haven't checked the sales on the Wiretap bumper

sticker in awhile - will do and will let you know how much we earned for White Rose Society and DU :)

[helderheid]

84. $3.55 each - can't wait to have enough to do the donation!

[proud patriot]

2. ahem

Abbie Hoffman gave me the idea .

[helderheid]

4. I love your sig line!

[proud patriot]

20. Thanks

:D

[havocmom]

3. Mine means Mother of All Mayhem already taken

;)

[Ned_Devine]

5. Mine is from one of the few feel good movies I can watch a million times

I can't say that about a lot of feel good movies for even one viewing

[roguevalley]

9. Rogue Valley is the gorgeous place in Oregon I grew up in.

[helderheid]

26. I lived in Ashland for a stint - know what you're talking about!

[Kire]

6. Mine is a language spoken by aborigines in the Malaysian Midlands

It's also my first name spelled backwards.

[hwmnbn]

7. If I told you.....

I'd have to kill ya.... O8)

[punpirate]

21. Uh, that's okay...

... we're good on that, he who must not be named. :)

[hwmnbn]

29. Nice try.....

But you're wrong, punpirate. You'll NEVER guess. :rofl:

[punpirate]

58. Admittedly, it's not high on my list of obsessions...

... to know, but I take it that "how well my nose blows now" isn't it, either. :P

[hwmnbn]

81. Damn!!!...

Now I gotta get another name. You happy now?!? :cry:

[RoyGBiv]

8. Red ...

Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.

Through a couple manifestations, it's an homage to the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship sunk by the French around the time I first entered the online world.

[FormerRepublican]

10. Mine means I've thrown off the yoke of oppression and thought control...

...and joined humanity. Ain't it wonderful?!!!

:party:

[helderheid]

11. hey you! You're my neighbor too, right?

[FormerRepublican]

19. I'm not sure if we're neighbors or not, but I certainly know more about...

...'Clarity' than I used to! ;)

[helderheid]

30. heheh - is your Senator named Hatch by chance?? :)

[FormerRepublican]

35. It is, unfortunately. But fortunately, we ARE neighbors! Howdy, neighbor

WRT Hatch - :puke:

[helderheid]

80. Howdy!! Hey, check out www.udpc.org :)

www.udpc.org

[FormerRepublican]

88. Hey, thanks for the link! I've been looking for some Dem resources...

...in Utah. The party is so beaten down here that we need all the help we can get!

[helderheid]

89. :)

http://www.udpc.org/claritybio.htm

[Talismom]

34. Yours is the name that gives the average DUer the most to smile about! n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. mine is short for...

VivaLaNonViolentSocialRevolutionBecauseItsFuckingTIME

but you can call me Viva. :)

[helderheid]

16. :)

[Bjornsdotter]

13. It's who I am

...I'm Björn's daughter.

Cheers

[MODemocrat]

14. I'm from Missouri, and yes, I'm a Democrat

Not too original for sure, but I'm proud of it. My real name is Marian: hi:

[Kadie]

15. Mine is my nickname

that I have had since I was a child.

:hi:

[freesqueeze]

17. I think it's more fun

to have others tell me what they think it means.....but...

mine was the result of a brainstorming session at North Texas State University to name a stray cat.

We were sitting in a circle in the artist's dorm.

Enough said.

[Greybnk48]

18. grey for african grey parrots

our only 2 grandchildren so far...sigh! Bnk my husband's and my initials and the year we were born. He never posts. I'm mostly a reader and have learned worlds of info in the past 14 months or so. Thanks to all of you!!

[Mythsaje]

22. Mine is related to my pen name

I fashion new myths and my pen name is Saje.

Sounds far too obvious that way, doesn't it? :)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

23. Mines From My Favorite Queensryche Album That I Listened To The Day Before

I signed up for the first time in years. Several songs reminded me of what's going on right now so when it was time to pick my handle that was what popped into my head :)

[Rowdyboy]

24. Mine comes from a "Designing Women " episode

Guest star Kim Zimmer and Charlene talk about being misbehaving children who "run and run and we don't fall down 'cause we're the rowdy girls". Well, my partner and I adopted "Rowdyboys" as our nickname....We run and we run and we don't all down...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

27. A meld of two literary heroes.

[Talismom]

28. My daughter, Talya, is facinated with DU and my facination with the

current political situation. We call her Tali for short and I'm Tali's mom!

[Mabus]

31. Mine comes from

Nostradamus. Mabus is the 3rd anti-christ.

CII, Q62
Mabus will soon die, then will come,
A horrible undoing of people and animals,
At once one will see vengeance,
One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

[helderheid]

36. 3 of the 5 letters are right!

[Mabus]

42. My favorite

Mabus = US MBA

Guess which is the only pResident to have an MBA?

[Rowdyboy]

46. Did you know that Ray Mabus is a former governor of Mississippi and

ex-ambassador to Saudi Arabia? I always wondred if he just might be the one....

[Mabus]

85. I remember him

or at least I remember running across his name a time or two.

As for Nostradamus, he gave a few other "clues" about Mabus, here's a sampling:

What does Nostradamus say about this third anti-Christ? First, Nostradamus tells us he will come from the Middle East.

Out of the country of Greater Arabia
Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed...
He will enter Europe wearing a blue turban.
He will be the terror of mankind.
Never more horror.

http://boisdarc.tamu-commerce.edu/www/w/willmc/nostra.htm

Say what you will about Nostradamus and his penchant for ambiguity, he seems to have known more about the 21st Century geo-political landscape than Bush.

edited to correct formatting.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

129. I thought maybe it came from

http://www.joelmabus.com/

[cal04]

32. my last name shortened, what the kids in school call me

and 04 is when I joined DU

[Giant Robot]

33. Reminiscing one day about my misspent youth

watching anime and the like. I always had a fondness for the live action Japanese show, Johnny Socko and His Giant Robot. The Giant Robot of the title just looked friggin cool to my young eyes. Now it looks kind of silly, but then it was magic. And I was looking to find a little more magic in my life. Waxing philosophic tonight. And I'll bet you never thought there would be much deep meaning behind a man in a rubber suit destroying toy tanks and buildings!

[catnhatnh]

37. My old CB handle....

...Truck driver for a scrap yard...I occasionally handled walk in (or drive in customers) and wore a slouch hat in the yard to keep the elements off me...So a guy came in with some scrap and asked for the guy in charge...someone told him to see the guy in the hat...When he asked me "Hey man-are you the cat in the hat?" And I said "Yeah, I guess I am...." As to the NH just New Hampshire...I like the names here with state designators....

[seabeyond]

38. mine is more spiritual

to see beyond the 3rd dimensional world of theatrics, games, illusions.....

sea is often how i experienced my journey, catching and riding a wave, only for another to come along

[Dead_Parrot]

39. A pythonesque reference to the Kakapo...

...an endagered NZ parrot that used to live in NZ's Fiordland, but is now restricted to a few islands (i.e. not dead, just pining for the fiords)...

[deadparrot]

74. nice username, btw!

:hi:

[lectrobyte]

40. I read Neuromancer one too many times.

[PsN2Wind]

41. I believe mine

to be self explanatory.

[Nutmegger]

43. Mine is obvious...

[catnhatnh]

50. He who trasplanted....

sustains....

[Gato Moteado]

44. "spotted" cat

;)

[Nite Owl]

45. Well some people

are really not morning people! I have to get up in the am but my best work is at night. Much as I have tried to change it's just the way it is.

[Adelante]

47. Mine is corny, I know

I used to have a different one, but when Wes Clark dropped out in 2004, I was truly brokenhearted and cried for days. Then, for some reason, Skinner offered a name change period where you lost your post count, but you could change your name. I was just about recovering and I decided while I would be supporting Kerry, everyone would have to know that, while Wes wasn't running for anything, it didn't mean I wasn't still a loyal Wes Clark Democrat.

That's my story :dunce:

[Betsy Ross]

48. Seamstress for the Revolution

Down with King George! Handling various textile and craft needs for political events.

[Warren DeMontague]

49. It means, "doesn't this belong in the lounge"?

Not to be pissy, or anything :)

[helderheid]

83. Your wish is the mods' commands!

[Warren DeMontague]

97. Sorry. I probably should change my handle to 'incurable smartass'

I can't help it.

Maybe I'm just bitter because the meaning of mine is so obvious.

[helderheid]

127. You bitter bitter DUer!

;)

[ninkasi]

51. Mine is for the Mesopotaniam goddess

of beer brewing, Ninkasi. My husband, my father, before he died, and both of my sons are beer drinkers, and I decided I may as well be their goddess.

[Punkingal]

52. Mine is what my hubby calls me...

Cause he's a Yankee and I'm a Southern Belle.

[Melissa G]

53. My name.. but G spelled ji is also a yogic honorific as in

swamiji. We used it around the yoga ashram for the more unpronounceable names...

[Coastie for Truth]

54. I did some opposition research on Swifties for the Truth

and got one of them to resign.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

70. Thank you !!

damn liars, all of them. :)

[clitzpah queen]

55. I got tired of hearing folks describe feisty women as Having Balls--

when we all know that's NOT the case. However, I did not make up the word, I saw it on a button from someone who visited California.
(Feel free to spread Clitzpah Consciousness wherever you go.....)

[Roland99]

56. Roland Deschain of Gilead, Son of Stephen, from the line of Eld.

From Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

[RagingInMiami]

57. I live in Miami and I joined DU shortly after the 2004 elections

So it's an accurate description of how I was feeling at the time.

[The Straight Story]

59. A David Lynch Movie and I also try to tell the straight story

as best I can when posting.

[Chovexani]

60. Chovexani means "witch"

It's a Romani word derived from Armenian.

[DemonGoddess]

61. Mine came from my oldest boy

diverting me from having a gawdawful temper tantrum when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant, and VERY hormonal...by kowtowing (we had just watched "The Last Emperor the day before and he asked what they were doing) and saying "all hail the Demon Goddess!". It started me giggling (much better than being a hormonal screaming mimi)...so I've had that handle ever since ;)

[XOKCowboy]

62. Self explanatory

Ex Oklahoma Cowboy. Grew up on a ranch in Oklahoma. Went off to become a hippy in the late 60s. Went back to my roots much more enlightened. Got fed up with the bullshit (both politically and of the fundy religious variety) and moved to Colorado.

[slackmaster]

63. Living Master of Slack

Also an expert on Time Control.

[cantstandbush]

64. Mine speaks for itself. n/t

[BlackVelvet04]

65. Mine was taken from the song....

I just liked it.

[mtnsnake]

66. Mine is just a combo of loving the mountains & being intrigued with snakes

Ever since I was a kid, I was fascinated by snakes and had them as pets sometimes.

My passion is the mountains, though, especially hiking in the Adirondacks in any season. It's truly God's country there.

Sometimes when I'm climbing a mountain and I'm huffing and puffing, I think of myself as a snake moving slowly up the trail....thus the handle, mtnsnake.

[sakabatou]

67. reverse edge sword

[Beware the Beast Man]

68. It's the name of my music project (and a social commentary)

It's from the first "Planet of the Apes" film.

[Deja Q]

69. I love my handle... it's useful, supportive, happy to help in hard times.

Wait, what were we talking about again?

[swag]

71. It's a synonym for "booty."

[Deja Q]

76. As in 'plundered riches' and not 'the body part we all have and shake'

:rofl:

[Hissyspit]

72. It is White House Secret Service code for:

"The Vice President Has Bagged Another One."

Seriously, Hissyspit was my cat. She would hiss and spit all the time having her little hissyfits. She disappeared a few years ago.

Funny, I had just posted this in another thread and then this thread shows up.

[In_The_Wind]

73. It means I gotta be me.

[Ouabache]

75. Mine is French for

something.

[mitchum]

77. Either Hollywood's original Mr Cool or deoderant

[LeftyMom]

78. I'm a liberal female who has reproduced

:D

[qnr]

79. It's a communications operating signal. "I am approaching my point of no

return"

[liberaltrucker]

82. Politics and occupation

In one neat package:hi:

[helderheid]

86. it works!

:hi:

[liberaltrucker]

87. Thanks-thought so myself

:hi:

[Shine]

90. Shine is my sacred circle name, used in ceremony and ritual.

:hi:

[auntAgonist]

91. auntAgonist is a play on words sort of..

my dad used to say that I purposely set out to antagonize people :shrug: I don't really. But this name came from that. It was an attempt I suppose to be cute.

aA

[proud2BlibKansan]

92. Self explanatory

[AlGore-08.com]

93. I think mine is self-explanatory

:kick: :patriot: :kick:

[Benfea]

94. Mine's elvish for "without spirit"

It was originally a name I made up for an elvish character in an MMORPG. I tried to come up with an elvish translation for "atheist," and "without spirit" was the closest I could come. Technically, it should be "Benfëa," but those silly umlauts are annoying when used in names for games, message boards, etc.

[Lorien]

98. Mine is elvish for "golden"

(I'm a natural blonde), it's also a place name in Tolkien's mythology where nature, art, storytelling and peace were celebrated-a place I wouldn't mind being....

[meow2u3]

95. There has to be a balance

I'm tired of the extremism on both the left and the right.

So, StopThePendulum means just that--stop the wild swinging of the political pendulum and restore some sanity and true compromise instead of the back-and-forth namecalling and low blows that often pass for poltical debate.

[TOhioLiberal]

96. Mine is:

A place name...

T is for Toledo. Home of the Toledo Mud Hens, Tony Packo's and Mike Malloy!
Ohio is kinda self explanatory...although I've seen enough Ohio bashing to make me wish I lived in Michigan...
Liberal is what I am!

[autorank]

99. Clarity hi! "autorank" is a phoneme for "Otto Rank"

This guy.


Vienna, 1920's.

I should have just used the real name. I have another one, "Michael Collins" which I use when I write stuff that is published elsewhere. I'm so lame, I didn't realize we had an astronaut with that name. I was thinking of the Irish Patriot.

This "handle" stuff gets overdone. I should have just used my real name from the start, Joe Montana.

But, what the heck...

[helderheid]

123. LOL! Yo Joe!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

100. Nice name!

Mine was given to me by a friend, years ago on another website...

[leftofthedial]

101. song by the Replacements

and you know the dial? I'm left of that.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

102. Off Topic. Actually it was a name I thought of before I logged on.

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[shanti]

103. it means PEACE

in sanskrit. also, my avatar is an african adinkra symbol, gye nyame, which means, "but for god".

[Fox Mulder]

104. "Fox" is my fav animal and "Mulder" means that I like playing with clay...

I'm a molder. :rofl: I also like to mold foxes out of clay. :silly:

In all seriousness, my screenname comes from my favorite character ever...Fox Mulder of the television show The X-Files. :)

[BikeWriter]

105. I've been using mine since I logged on the internet(s)...

I rode Harleys for years and I'm an aspiring writer.

[UncleSepp]

106. Uncle Joe, but it's a German nickname for Joseph

My birth name's Jen, and I have a wonderful nephew, so I started out here as AuntJen. I am planning on changing my name to Joseph, and decided to make that change here first :-) Thanks, DU.

[Kurovski]

107. Chicken rancher, or something like that.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

108. Came from a conversation with a friend.

My friend was telling me about a friend of his, a real yuppie-type, and how this guy was telling my friend how he fancies himself an anarchist.

Of course, my friend laughed at this and told the guy that he was a "coffee table book anarchist." Then I modified it and said, "Starbucks Anarchist," and so it stuck.

Also, it's a contradiction in terms, much like myself. :)

[REDKING]

109. Redking ..

Literal translation of my own name Ruairi (in english Rory).
Simple but I like it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

110. That I am a truly happy and content person.

:hi:

[Magrittes Pipe]

111. It means "who is Al Hedges?"

:shrug:

[SKKY]

112. I don't think it's possible to make mine any more obvious...

[Strong Atheist]

113. I will never tell...

... and you can't make me! Neener Neener!:silly:

[book lady]

114. Mine is pretty straight forward...

I work in an academic library

[Debbi801]

115. Mine is my name followed by my house number....

where I lived when we got our first computer. I wasn't very creative. :-)

[evirus]

116. Macross: Do You Remember Love?

in the movie's beginning(japanese animated) the famous singer lynn minmay sings a song named little white dragon, in it there one verse that says "evirus the slayer, slayer, slayer!" it was translated by and the verse was in english so they probably mistook evil's for evirus(japanese have a problem with the L sound) but at any case it stuck with me.... pretty good movie actualy. basicaly an alien space ship crashes, its rebuilt and luanched by the UN, after its luanch aliens invade to try and take back the ship...

[evirus]

122. vary good movie

[tyedyeto]

117. Guess???

:shrug:

[evirus]

118. in some IM

there was already some guy named tyedye, you didnt want to look like a noob by having numbers at the end of your name so you just added a "to" to the end

right?

[tyedyeto]

119. Actually, 10 or so years ago, it ended with too

Chatting online one day, I had said I was wearing tie dye, too. Somewhere along the way, one of the o's slipped away when I wasn't looking.

[Ohio Joe]

120. It's just my first name and

the state I currently live in.

[Lochloosa]

121. Lochloosa is a song by a local group Mofro.....

It tells of the destruction of my once beautiful Florida....




LOCHLOOSA
Lyrics: JJ Grey

Music: JJ Grey



Home sick but its alright

Lochloosa is on my mind

Shes on my mind



I swear its ten thousand degrees in the shade

Lord have mercy knows – how much I love it



Every mosquito every rattlesnake

Every cane break – everything



Every alligator every blackwater swamp

Every freshwater spring – everything



All we need is one more damn developer

Tearing her heart out



All we need is one more Mickey Mouse

Another golf course another country club

Another gated community



Lord I need her

Lord I need her

And shes slipping away



If my grandfather could see her now

He'd lay down and die



Cause every minute every second every hour

Every day – Lord she's slipping away



Home sick but it's alright

Lochloosa is on my mind

She's on my mind

[Kid OfThe Black Hole]

124. Kids Of The Black Hole

on the Adolescent's Blue Album

No sound is heard from unit two
When there was once so much to do
Was once a green mansion, but now it's a wasteland
Our days of wreckless fun are through

GO!

Kids in a fast lane living for today
No rules to abide by and no one to obey
Sex, drugs and fun is their only thought and care
Another swig of brew another overnight affair

House of the filthy, house not a home
House of destruction where the lurkers roamed
House that belonged to all the homeless kids
House of the filthy, house not a home
House of destruction where the lurkers roamed
House that belonged to all the homeless kids
Kids of the black hole

Messages and slogans are the primary decor
History's recorded in a clutter on the floor
Inhabitants that searched the grounds for roaches or spare change
Another night of chaos is so easy to arrange

House of the filthy, house not a home
House of destruction where the lurkers roamed
House that belonged to all the homeless kids
House of the filthy, house not a home
House of destruction where the lurkers roamed
House that belonged to all the homeless kids
Kids of the black hole

The nights of birthdays
The nights of fry
The nights of endless drinking
The nights of violence
The nights of noise
The nights that had to end for good, still not understood, by the girls and boys

Carefree in their actions as for morals they had none
When the girls were horny who would be the lucky ones?
Pushing all the limits to a point of no return
Trashed beyond belief to show the kids don't wanna learn

House of the filthy, house not a home
House of destruction where the lurkers roamed
House that belonged to all the homeless kids
House of the filthy, house not a home
House of destruction where the lurkers roamed
House that belonged to all the homeless kids
House of the filthy, house not a home
House of destruction where the lurkers roamed
House that belonged to all the homeless kids
House of the filthy, house not a home
House of destruction where the lurkers roamed
House that belonged to all the homeless kids
Kids of the black hole

[El Fuego]

125. I am in a freaking fiery rage about what is happening to our country

:grr: :grr:
:nuke: :nuke:

[wysi]

126. wysi is short for...

wysiwyg - what you see is what you get. wysiwyg was the nickname I acquired shortly after I moved to the UK ten years ago, shortened to wysi. It's the only nickname I've ever had, so I kept it. :-)

wysiwyg pretty much describes me to a T.

[Orsino]

128. I may be an idiot, but...

...I get love exactly right the second time around, by sheer luck.

And I rule!

[Taverner]

130. Jerry Taverner

Flow My Tears The Policeman Said

By Phillip K Dick

Read it. Be amazed.

[x-g.o.p.er]

131. Former Republican here

I hate what my old party has become, and it's been hijacked by the far right. It needs an enema.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

132. DUDE........

:smoke:

[Bombero1956]

133. nickname

given to me by my fellow workers. I've had others but this one I've had the longest. My other nickname is Raccoon.

[XemaSab]

134. XemaSab is short for Xema sabini

Latin name of the Sabine's Gull, a small, natty looking gull usually seen only at sea.