Where did your screen name come from?????

Gráinne · 10-03-2011, 06:01 PM

When I taught in China, one of my students was named Zhang Guihong. Gui means "precious" or "expensive", "dear", and Hong is "red" (you might have heard of hong bao, those red envelopes given at Chinese New Year). GuiHong, who went by the English name of Holly, always told me her name meant "precious ruby". She and I became close friends, having long talks on buses and rooftops, and I have used her name for most of my internets ever since.

I named my daughter Holly, in her honor

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princessbelle · 10-03-2011, 06:07 PM

HORRAY everyone!!!!!!!

This is soooooooooooo interesting!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

And i always thought your stage name was the name of your first pet and the last name was the street you were born on. So many of those things out there.

Mine, btw would have been Casper Petersburg...sounds kinda hootie. Maybe i should change my online name to that. lol

dixie · 10-03-2011, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by princessbelle

HORRAY everyone!!!!!!!

This is soooooooooooo interesting!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

And i always thought your stage name was the name of your first pet and the last name was the street you were born on. So many of those things out there.

Mine, btw would have been Casper Petersburg...sounds kinda hootie. Maybe i should change my online name to that. lol

Oh, and my stage/stripper/porn star name: Pepe Price

Random · 10-04-2011, 09:47 AM

Random is short for Randomnumbers

randomnumbers is a young cat in a book... He was named so because of the extremely changeable behavior that adolesent cats can have.

Random was my nickname in my twenties, because of my lighting train of though changes.... Lol.. Circular logic, linar logic... nope... Mine was A, B 7, %, Z... The result were the same as other people, just my process to get there was different....

I left the nickname behind and went back to my birth name when I left Atlanta... but used randomnumbers as my email.

I thought I left it behind... lol... I met and fell in love with a woman who hated my birthname... She called me Random....

Fast forward eight years later... we break up, I try to go back to my given name... (Hence the short lived Ms Cyn) but the problem is.. when I self talk, I name myself Random.. People call my Cyn or Cynthia, but I'm still Random..

tapu · 10-04-2011, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Random

Random is short for Randomnumbers

randomnumbers is a young cat in a book... He was named so because of the extremely changeable behavior that adolesent cats can have.

Random was my nickname in my twenties, because of my lighting train of though changes.... Lol.. Circular logic, linar logic... nope... Mine was A, B 7, %, Z... The result were the same as other people, just my process to get there was different....

I left the nickname behind and went back to my birth name when I left Atlanta... but used randomnumbers as my email.

I thought I left it behind... lol... I met and fell in love with a woman who hated my birthname... She called me Random....

Fast forward eight years later... we break up, I try to go back to my given name... (Hence the short lived Ms Cyn) but the problem is.. when I self talk, I name myself Random.. People call my Cyn or Cynthia, but I'm still Random..

Oo! That reminds me of a children's book about a cat. He's named Elemenopeo.

I think I'll use that if Tapu becomes too famous....

Greyson · 10-04-2011, 02:35 PM

I have been using this as a screen name for about six years now. I signed up at the dash site under my original screen name, U2. I started coming onto the internet in 98/99. I started over at gag.com under the screen name U2.

I stayed there about a year. During this time I was so naieve. I finally realized I was being stalked by an unstable woman in cyberland and one day I just decided to change my name. (Besides most thought my U2 screen name was about the band, and it was not.)

The name Greyson came to my mind. This was before the young man who sings became an internet sensation and I guess now somewhat of a celebrity. A few years before him. I like my screen name so much, I had it changed to my middle name legally and have started to use it outside of the internet a few years back.

P.S. The subject of internet duplicity is up on another thread. I have always been troubled how some use multiple names on the internet. "Same game, different name." I like the way Linus handles it here. It is in the open, transparent and we all know that so and so is now _________.

princessbelle · 10-04-2011, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Greyson

I have been using this as a screen aname for about six years now. I signed up at the dash site under my original screen name, U2. I started coming onto the internet in 98/99. I started over at gag.com under the screen name U2.

I stayed there about a year. During this time I was so naieve. I finally realized I was being stalked by an unstable woman in cyberland and one day I just decided to change my name. (Besides most thought my U2 screen name was about the band, and it was not.)

The name Greyson came to my mind. This was before the young man who sings became an internet sensation and I guess now somewhat of a celebrity. A few years before him. I like my screen name so much, I had it changed to my middle name legally and have started to use it outside of the internet a few years back.

P.S. The subject of internet duplicity is up on another thread. I have always been troubled how some use multiple names on the internet. "Same game, different name." I like the way Linus handles it here. It is in the open, transparent and we all know that so and so is now _________.

Greyson definately suits you perfectly. I remember you are the one that taught me years ago, to keep my same name as i went to each BFP site. I'm glad i did.

I'm not saying i don't think people should change their names as they evolve, move to different times in their lives, ect...just that it's nice to know who you once called yourself. And i agree with Greyson, it's nice to know who people were and who they are now. Linus does a great job keeping us up to date.

betenoire · 10-04-2011, 02:46 PM

my old screen name came from a job I had over 10 years ago. Me and a coworker used to refer to each other as Princess Pottymouth. We'd even draw pictures of each other wearing tiaras and saying horrible things. *shrug*

I picked betenoire as a way of stabbing at people who think I'm really mean and awful. It's more of a joke than a username. I think it's hysterical.

BugsAndKisses · 10-04-2011, 06:26 PM

Mine is simple, I think bugs are just so darn cute I could kiss'em

Gemme · 10-04-2011, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by dixielady

Oh, and my stage/stripper/porn star name: Pepe Price

We all have our price, Pepe.

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Originally Posted by Miss Tick

I believed that I never had trouble accepting myself as a woman. I always felt my sensibilities lay with women. However, there was a sort of disconnect when it came to identifying with society’s definition, as well as a sense of invisibility because I could never see myself reflected in other women. Then I found butch and that felt right. The masculine male thing was a bit of a struggle, because despite a real gender incongruence in my presentation in the eyes of others, I had never really felt like I was male. I looked it. At least there was always a good deal of gender confusion from the world in general regarding if I was male or female. But I never was confused. But I do find comfort in my masculinity, it fits like my old black t-shirt. But I am never comfortable with it. I hold it suspect and watch it like it was a cranky old dog prone to biting. In the spirit of this very tiresome way I have of looking at my masculinity I thought it would be great fun to give myself a feminine name this time around. Miss Tick is a very minor character in a couple of Terry Pratchett novels. I liked that it was a kind of oronym. So I decided to try it out.

I’m having such a hard time with it. When I see it beside my words I cringe. It’s beyond being uncomfortable with it. I pretty much hate it. But I’m going to keep it. At least until the fear and loathing of a too feminine name passes or it just gets too much to look at. I am pretty surprised at myself. I didn’t think it would be this hard. But it is. It's so hard that I sometimes feel detached from my own words once they are out there authored by this Miss Tick person. I wonder what that says about me. I think it needs a touch of masculine to make it more palatable. I keep telling myself that tick is kind of male. But really what the hell does that even mean? How can a word be male? I think I'm losing it. Maybe I should just give in and change it.

sanee66 · 10-04-2011, 11:29 PM

a play on my first name and i was born in 66

Tcountry · 10-05-2011, 12:06 AM

Well T is my niickname, even my dad calls me it. It is shortened from my given name and also from "lefty" given when I started sports. My favorite coach shortened it to T and I have been T since.

The country part came from working summer camp at Easter Seals in 1999. Everyone knew me as T and when Fri night came around for our dance/karaoke I was the only one with country cd's... so named tcountry then, that got shortened to TC for the rest of the year. lol

Still fits well. I am good ole midwestern country at heart always.

tapu · 10-03-2011, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by guihong

When I taught in China, one of my students was named Zhang Guihong. Gui means "precious" or "expensive", "dear", and Hong is "red" (you might have heard of hong bao, those red envelopes given at Chinese New Year). GuiHong, who went by the English name of Holly, always told me her name meant "precious ruby". She and I became close friends, having long talks on buses and rooftops, and I have used her name for most of my internets ever since.

I named my daughter Holly, in her honor

.

Oh, that's sweet! I always thought you were Chinese. (Hao a?)

girl_dee · 10-03-2011, 06:19 PM

I considered Boomchickafonzworth since that was my childhood pet turtle's name but thought nah.. just silly using a turtle's name, so I went with my Chihuaha's name Sassy_girl! Yes now that made sense.

EnderD_503 · 10-03-2011, 06:22 PM

Mine's just after characters in three of my favourite books.

On the dash site I was EnderDurden (Ender Wiggin from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Tyler Durden from Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club) When I came here I just expanded it to include D-503 who is the main character in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

Hack · 10-03-2011, 06:24 PM

Hack, as in hack writer. (Which I am)

As in political hack. (Which I also am)

As in Hack Wilson, who would have been the greatest baseball player who ever lived had he not drank himself to death.

Bella~Vita · 10-03-2011, 06:27 PM

My maternal grandmother couldn't pronounce my name she called me Katalina / hence Kat. I added the fl it's where I live now.

Sparkle · 10-03-2011, 06:43 PM

Once upon a time a terribly long time ago I was given my 'royal name' ~ by friends who were very dear to me - it was: HRH Lady Carey of Sparkle.

I hate to stand on ceremony ... so I often use just plain Sparkle, on the dash site I was LadyCSparkle.

I also have a penchant for things that sparkle.
And occasionally I have sparkly eyes.

girl_dee · 12-23-2017, 12:31 AM

i lack creativity! ............

PlatinumPearl · 01-16-2018, 10:23 AM

Anyone that knows me knows I absolutely love jewelry!! and at the time I was registering for this site I was wearing a silver ring with a pearl...Silver Pearl to me sounded like a Femme version of a Silver Fox which didn't resonate since I'm not quite there yet...lol. So, I used Platinum Pearl since the pearl I was wearing was grey and set in silver.

10-03-2011, 06:01 PM	#1
Gráinne Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Neither, nada, out of the box Preferred Pronoun?: My name always works Relationship Status: Happy whatever happens Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Little Rock Posts: 1,864 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,118 Thanked 7,386 Times in 1,457 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	When I taught in China, one of my students was named Zhang Guihong. Gui means "precious" or "expensive", "dear", and Hong is "red" (you might have heard of hong bao, those red envelopes given at Chinese New Year). GuiHong, who went by the English name of Holly, always told me her name meant "precious ruby". She and I became close friends, having long talks on buses and rooftops, and I have used her name for most of my internets ever since. I named my daughter Holly, in her honor . __________________ The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck

10-03-2011, 06:07 PM	#2
princessbelle Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: femme ones Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 6,100 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,380 Thanked 30,496 Times in 5,198 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	HORRAY everyone!!!!!!! This is soooooooooooo interesting!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!! And i always thought your stage name was the name of your first pet and the last name was the street you were born on. So many of those things out there. Mine, btw would have been Casper Petersburg...sounds kinda hootie. Maybe i should change my online name to that. lol __________________ ~ I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou

10-04-2011, 09:47 AM	#4
Random Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: back in the land of trees and snow Posts: 2,072 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8,017 Thanked 5,327 Times in 1,378 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	Random is short for Randomnumbers randomnumbers is a young cat in a book... He was named so because of the extremely changeable behavior that adolesent cats can have. Random was my nickname in my twenties, because of my lighting train of though changes.... Lol.. Circular logic, linar logic... nope... Mine was A, B 7, %, Z... The result were the same as other people, just my process to get there was different.... I left the nickname behind and went back to my birth name when I left Atlanta... but used randomnumbers as my email. I thought I left it behind... lol... I met and fell in love with a woman who hated my birthname... She called me Random.... Fast forward eight years later... we break up, I try to go back to my given name... (Hence the short lived Ms Cyn) but the problem is.. when I self talk, I name myself Random.. People call my Cyn or Cynthia, but I'm still Random.. __________________ ~Volunteer~ "It gets in your blood"

10-04-2011, 02:35 PM	#6
Greyson Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transmasculine/Non-Binary Preferred Pronoun?: Hy (Pronounced He) Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 6,589 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,132 Thanked 8,146 Times in 2,005 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	I have been using this as a screen name for about six years now. I signed up at the dash site under my original screen name, U2. I started coming onto the internet in 98/99. I started over at gag.com under the screen name U2. I stayed there about a year. During this time I was so naieve. I finally realized I was being stalked by an unstable woman in cyberland and one day I just decided to change my name. (Besides most thought my U2 screen name was about the band, and it was not.) The name Greyson came to my mind. This was before the young man who sings became an internet sensation and I guess now somewhat of a celebrity. A few years before him. I like my screen name so much, I had it changed to my middle name legally and have started to use it outside of the internet a few years back. P.S. The subject of internet duplicity is up on another thread. I have always been troubled how some use multiple names on the internet. "Same game, different name." I like the way Linus handles it here. It is in the open, transparent and we all know that so and so is now _________. __________________ Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. - Susan Gale

10-04-2011, 02:46 PM	#8
betenoire Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Satan in a Sunday Hat Preferred Pronoun?: Maow Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: The Chemical Valley Posts: 4,086 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,312 Thanked 8,739 Times in 2,566 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	my old screen name came from a job I had over 10 years ago. Me and a coworker used to refer to each other as Princess Pottymouth. We'd even draw pictures of each other wearing tiaras and saying horrible things. shrug I picked betenoire as a way of stabbing at people who think I'm really mean and awful. It's more of a joke than a username. I think it's hysterical. __________________ bête noire \bet-NWAHR\, noun: One that is particularly disliked or that is to be avoided.

10-04-2011, 06:26 PM	#9
BugsAndKisses Member How Do You Identify?: ladybug, lover of little things Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Settled Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: florida Posts: 341 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 278 Thanked 864 Times in 215 Posts Rep Power: 10789161	Mine is simple, I think bugs are just so darn cute I could kiss'em

10-04-2011, 11:29 PM	#11
sanee66 Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: ms Posts: 139 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 173 Thanked 306 Times in 95 Posts Rep Power: 3766495	simple a play on my first name and i was born in 66

10-05-2011, 12:06 AM	#12
Tcountry Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Country Boi Preferred Pronoun?: call it as u see it Relationship Status: Completely...complete ;) Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Either at the beach or in the pool Posts: 1,665 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,929 Thanked 4,287 Times in 1,181 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Well T is my niickname, even my dad calls me it. It is shortened from my given name and also from "lefty" given when I started sports. My favorite coach shortened it to T and I have been T since. The country part came from working summer camp at Easter Seals in 1999. Everyone knew me as T and when Fri night came around for our dance/karaoke I was the only one with country cd's... so named tcountry then, that got shortened to TC for the rest of the year. lol Still fits well. I am good ole midwestern country at heart always. __________________ "You don't Find life worth living; You MAKE IT that way"

10-03-2011, 06:19 PM	#14
girl_dee Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: dee Relationship Status: Hitched up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Livin’ the Dream Posts: 24,079 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,560 Thanked 54,829 Times in 13,908 Posts Rep Power: 21474874	I considered Boomchickafonzworth since that was my childhood pet turtle's name but thought nah.. just silly using a turtle's name, so I went with my Chihuaha's name Sassy_girl! Yes now that made sense.

10-03-2011, 06:22 PM	#15
EnderD_503 Member How Do You Identify?: Queer, trans guy, butch Preferred Pronoun?: Male pronouns Relationship Status: Relationship Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 1,329 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,090 Thanked 3,878 Times in 1,022 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Mine's just after characters in three of my favourite books. On the dash site I was EnderDurden (Ender Wiggin from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Tyler Durden from Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club) When I came here I just expanded it to include D-503 who is the main character in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

10-03-2011, 06:24 PM	#16
Hack Just a guy. How Do You Identify?: Just a guy Preferred Pronoun?: male Relationship Status: Sparkle's consort Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: MA Posts: 1,458 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 807 Thanked 3,775 Times in 958 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Hack, as in hack writer. (Which I am) As in political hack. (Which I also am) As in Hack Wilson, who would have been the greatest baseball player who ever lived had he not drank himself to death.

10-03-2011, 06:27 PM	#17
Bella~Vita Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: where salt is used for Margaritas not Snow Posts: 891 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,049 Thanked 1,322 Times in 443 Posts Rep Power: 7157596	My maternal grandmother couldn't pronounce my name she called me Katalina / hence Kat. I added the fl it's where I live now. __________________ ~ I believe that pleasing everyone is impossible..... but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake ~

10-03-2011, 06:43 PM	#18
Sparkle Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please Relationship Status: Loved Up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Western MA Posts: 2,183 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,001 Thanked 6,553 Times in 1,552 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Once upon a time a terribly long time ago I was given my 'royal name' ~ by friends who were very dear to me - it was: HRH Lady Carey of Sparkle. I hate to stand on ceremony ... so I often use just plain Sparkle, on the dash site I was LadyCSparkle. I also have a penchant for things that sparkle. And occasionally I have sparkly eyes. __________________ I am made of stars

12-23-2017, 12:31 AM	#19
girl_dee Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: dee Relationship Status: Hitched up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Livin’ the Dream Posts: 24,079 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,560 Thanked 54,829 Times in 13,908 Posts Rep Power: 21474874	i lack creativity! ............

01-16-2018, 10:23 AM	#20
PlatinumPearl Member How Do You Identify?: Femme, Human Preferred Pronoun?: She, Her Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Canada Posts: 1,150 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 966 Thanked 2,419 Times in 890 Posts Rep Power: 21474846	Anyone that knows me knows I absolutely love jewelry!! and at the time I was registering for this site I was wearing a silver ring with a pearl...Silver Pearl to me sounded like a Femme version of a Silver Fox which didn't resonate since I'm not quite there yet...lol. So, I used Platinum Pearl since the pearl I was wearing was grey and set in silver.