What Does Your Username Mean?

[Placebo]

Mine, obviously, is in tribute to The Nation, my favourite liberal magazine of opinion.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I'm just a white woman

who never got over "Mandingo."

[Fovea]

2. It is short for my early SIG line.

Justice is the only realpolitik.

[GingerSnaps]

3. After Tuesday

I will have to pick another name.

[BattyDem]

38. How about ...

Bushneedstogotojail ;-)

[GingerSnaps]

40. I like it

We have another Bush that needs to go in Florida.

[CAcyclist]

98. that's what we can do with Bush/Cheney signs on Nov. 3

Draw Bars over the name.

[GingerSnaps]

125. How can I do that?

:shrug:

[donheld]

184. You can change it to

Bushisgoing, Byebyebushie, Goodridancebush etc. :bounce::bounce:

[freetobegay]

4. Does mine need an explanation?

[Placebo]

11. America is a place where you're free to be happy and joyful.

No explanation needed. :hi:

[GingerSnaps]

23. I wish

My ex-boyfriend would have taken your name seriously before I met him. It would have saved me from a broken heart.

Shout it to the sky honey and let everyone know that you are Free! :hug:

[Ron Green]

81. To tell you the truth, when I first saw your screen name I thought you

were a Navajo (for whom Begay is a common surname) whose nickname had to do with corn chips. I finally figured it out, though.

[blondeatlast]

140. Liberty and joy never need an explanation!

:evilgrin:

[huskerlaw]

5. Mine's pretty obvious

Husker = I'm from Nebraska, love the Huskers
Law = I'm a lawyer

;)

[Redleg]

192. I'm a Husker too!

Went to school at UN-L.

[kick-ass-bob]

6. I practice martial arts and my name is

George.
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[Worst Username Ever]

7. shylock is a character in shakespeare n/t

1579 is my roll number at my old fraternity

[Bobbie47]

8. First name

and age when I signed up at DU.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

9. "fertilizeonbush"

n/t

[louis-t]

29. Literal translation is:

"fertilize on shrub" n'est ce pas?

[fertilizeonarbusto]

33. actually

I'm a native Spanish speaker. The only thing I ever caught Molly Ivins being wrong about is that "arbusto" means both "shrub" and "bush."

[louis-t]

71. Ahaaaaaaaaa!

[snippy]

10. Snippy W Shrub.

[elepet]

12. mine has no meaning

It's just the first 3 letters of my first name and first 3 letters of the town where i live...easy to remember. I use it everywhere so I don't have to remember a whole bunch of more meaningful ones.

[Adams Wulff]

13. mine is a flyfishing reference

a type of fly that Lee Wulff pioneered for western rivers and streams.

[Amaya]

14. It means I didn't use my real name

but it's close to my real name.

[qnr]

48. Ah, I thought maybe they had named the Amaya web browser

after you or something.

[redqueen]

15. it's from Through the Looking Glass

I meant it to refer to the principle named after the queen, but mostly people just think of the character.

[lastliberalintexas]

130. And all this time

I thought it was in tribute to you being a female Red (Communist, that is)! :shrug:

[gmoney]

173. I thought it was from the Manchurian Candidate...

The Red Queen is the trigger for Laurence Harvey's character, clearly referring to his mother (the Communist Female Leader type)

[djeseru]

16. Ancient Egyptian.

Took it from the name of Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el Bahri...it's meaning I will keep to myself though... :P

[TlalocW]

17. The Aztec god of rain and water

Plus the first letter of my last name.

Spanish was one of my majors in college, and it's easier to type than Huitzilopochtli or Quetzalcoatl.

(The main war and sun god and the plumed serpent god respectively)

TlalocW

[kick-ass-bob]

21. I always wondered what the W was

but didn't care enough to ask!
:P

[Bridget Burke]

96. Typing Huitzilopochtli or Quetzalcoatl is easier than....

saying either one!

I like watching the blonde Miamicubanos on Telemundo or Univision whenever that big volcano near Mexico City acts up. They always have trouble with "Popocatepetl".

[TlalocW]

97. While it's every Americans right to dye their hair however they want

and fully realizing there are blonde Latin people, Latinas are hottest when they have dark hair so I'll disagree with you on the Miamicubanos. :)

TlalocW

[Placebo]

151. Very cool.

:thumbsup:

[Gothmog]

18. From Lord of the Rings

I just like the sound of the name.

[SarahB]

19. It's what my dad used to call me when I was little.

He was (and is) an extremely intelligent guy when it comes to politics and sort of lit that spark in me that gave me a life-long interest/concern for politics and how it comes into play with humanity in general, so that's that I guess.
My name really is Sarah though. :)

[Amaya]

25. Hey Sarah did you get my PM?

:)

[BattyDem]

20. When I came up with the name ...

it was simple:

"Batty" because I love bats. "Dem" should be obvious. ;-)

But I also liked it because it expressed the fact that the state of our country was driving this particular Dem a bit "batty" :-)

[flamingyouth]

22. 1923 silent film starring Colleen Moore

Not the KISS song. I am not young, nor do I flame people. :D

[artboy]

27. I Draw, paint, illustrate

Photoshop....any and every thing to do with art!

[da_chimperor]

43. Oops

wrong spot.

[blondeatlast]

142. Now I know who your previous avatar was... I couldn't remember her name! n

[flamingyouth]

144. A lot of people think she's Louise Brooks

(Whom I also like) but Colleen had the haircut first. :)

[judge_smales]

24. It's a charecter from the movie Caddy Shack

Somhow the idea of a pompus bafoon entertians me.

[Wat_Tyler]

26. I am the twenty-third reincarnation of Wat Tyler.

[skygazer]

28. Just what it says

I love to look at the stars and moon and it seemed apt, somehow. To gaze toward the heavens seems like an optimistic and far-reaching thing. Emcompassing the world. Kinda fit being a liberal Dem.

[russian33]

30. I'm Russian, and I'll eventually will be 33 yrs old...

this name is good for another 7 years

[obnoxiousdrunk]

31. Credit goes to

Ron Reagan. In 2000 he said "What is Bush's qualification to be President that he is not an obnoxious drunk anymore".

[meow2u3]

32. Fed to the neck

Fed up with this oppression the Bush regime calls "protecting America"; of injustices everywhere; etc., and so on, and so forth.....

[louis-t]

34. You guys are so deep..

mine's just a knickname two different people who had no connection to each other started calling me at the same time over 20 years ago. One still calls me that.

[JimmyJazz]

35. I took mine from the name of

Joe Strummer's first band. He took the name from the address of squats he was living in at the time. When Joe was homeless and hungry, he still managed to give money to the victims of Pinochet's coup in Chile. Therfore, it reminds me to work hard and to think of others.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

36. I got shitfaced drunk one night

And when I woke up, everyone I'd been with was calling me "Shortbus". Apparently I kept saying it over and over again. I do like the sound. It's getting old--that was seven years ago and I'm still called SB exclusively by certain people.

As far as I know it has nothing to do with the "differently abled". I did ride a short bus to high school from the rural area where I lived.

[cosmicone]

37. Mine is a real life nickname n/t

[curse10]

39. It's my name

Kirsten :-)

[MsAnthropy]

41. "No matter how cynical I become, it's never enough to keep up"

I really don't hate everyone, just everyone except liberals.

[Magrittes Pipe]

42. Mine means "Al Hedges -- just who the hell is he, anyway?"

[da_chimperor]

44. Mine is what I am, an expat for the forseeable future

And i'm not just AN expat, i'm THE expat! :silly:

[auburngrad82]

45. Mine means I graduated from Auburn University in 1982

damn. you made me give my age away.

[qnr]

46. It's an "OPSIG"

An operating signal. They are a concise way of passing detailed information to other communications personnel - as an added bonus, they are an "international language" since for the most part, the OPSIGS mean the same thing no matter what language you speak.

qnr is an aviation OPSIG, meaning "I am approaching my point of no return" --- basically, if I go any farther, I won't have enough fuel to return and will have to find a different landing site. I use it to describe my mental/emotional state.

I've been using since 1981 (from computer BBSs and GEnie through IRC and on the web) -- I'm an inveterate "nickname changer" so I used to tack <QNR> on all my nicks, like "Coastie <QNR>"

I used to have a list of thousands of guess as to what QNR meant (before I started explaining... stupid things, but funny (to me): Quite Nicely Rich, Quite Not Right, stuff like that.


Some other OPSIGS
http://www.zerobeat.net/qrp/zsiglist.html
http://groups.msn.com/CTOSeaDogs/34q34signals.msnw

[tilsammans]

47. My name means "together" . . .

. . . in Swedish.

Because we're all together in this!

:grouphug:

:kick:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

49. The President of Venezuela tells it like it is

[bearfan454]

58. He damn sure does CSTT.

He damn sure does.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

61. What up big guy?

Good to see ya!

:hi:

[dr.strangelove]

50. Boring - my initials and a random number

I like to keep things simple. I'm not creative with usernames.

[XNASA]

51. I once worked for the space program.

I still do, kind of.

[MissMarple]

52. Mine is a character created by Agatha Christy.

I've always liked the way she appears to understand human nature. Joan Hickson played her in the BBC movies and did an incomparable job. I have quit reading the books and now watch the movies. She died in 1998 at the age of 92.

This was written after she died.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/195895.stm


edit: to fix link

[MissMarple]

88. Apologies to Agatha Christie.

And many thanks to redqueen for the heads up.


:dunce:

[ulysses]

53. Dubliner's ponderous tome.

[LibLover]

54. I'm a liberal. I' m a lover.

[Kadie]

55. It has been my nickname since I was a little girl.

And no, I will not tell you my real name. I like to be mysterious. LOL

[bearfan454]

56. Born, live, and die a Chicago Bears fan.

My hero:

[Skittles]

66. I have big pictures of Soldier Field - old and new - on my wall

also a pewter Bears shot glass.

Ah, Sweetness - bless his heart.

[bearfan454]

110. He is my lifetime sports hero

for sure.

[Skittles]

126. I saw him way back when

practicing at - I think it was Lake Forest? Can't remember. Walter was sitting on the ground for the longest time talking to a little boy in a wheelchair. Ditka was pacing back and forth wating for him to rejoin the practice.

[Kay Autic]

57. deltaS = deltaQ/T

1 vote for curse10! I like that one!


note, won't recognize the delta character ?, oh well

[mark414]

59. hmm my name and my area code, reppin 414-ever

[stlchic]

60. Well, I'm just a chick in St. Louis

Don't quite remember why I left off the "k" in the name though...

[DrZeeLit]

62. The story, oh the story, of my name. You want the long story, or...

...the short version?

The long version, you say? Great!

Well, when I became single, I reverted to my maiden name, and since I was getting a court order on that one, I decided to change my name. I dropped my married name and also dropped my first name. I now use my middle name with maiden name. Confused yet? You ought to talk to my mother. She's had a hard time with it, too.

Okay, so Elizabeth is a long name, and I love it, but wasn't used to it. I knew that unless I stepped in to create a "nickname," I'd be called Liz or Beth or Betty or... well, you get the picture. One of my fellow teachers suggested Elle. And I sort of liked that.

So, one night I was in a bar and figured I'd give it a try. I met a great guy who asked me the "what's your name?" question. So I trotted out, "Elizabeth, but-you-can-call-me Elle." Then he said (and I love him for this).... "If you're using letters, why not ZEE?"

And it stuck. Everyone called me Zee. I really like it a lot. I'm even Grandma Zee now and it's great. Yeah, I know, I'm too young to be a grandma, but it's my husband's daughter's son. (Yeah, silly me, I got married again -- but I kept my name!)

Anyway... I'm an English professor. I used to teach online at AOL. I used DrLit for my screen name. I needed something new so I added the Zee.

Okay, that's the long story. I felt like telling a story. You know how English teachers are about writing and stories.

Kerry On.

[RebelYell]

63. Billy Idol fan n/t

[Skittles]

64. Skittles is a 26 pound solid black bundle of feline love

he lives with my ex-boyfriend - Skittles instantly became a farm cat when I moved there and most defintely wanted to stay when I left; I still see him from time to time.

Skittles was a 7 pound tarving stray with a leg so dislocated the bone was showing - Tombo and I split the high cost of the surgery (pin in his leg, cast for weeks).

I named him - yes, after the candy. When I first met Tombo he had a candy machine on his desk I would constantly fill up with Skittles.
:)

[ReadTomPaine]

134. Did you know that the Skittles candy is classified as a meat product?

No joke.

RTP

[Squatch]

65. sas "SQUATCH"

I'm a big hairy creature that is seen at night and enjoys seclusion

[sister moon]

67. It's the title of a Sting song

No meaning, really. I just like Sting.

[Squatch]

72. Sister Moon is actually from the Canticle of the Sun

written by St Francis of Assisi:

Most high, all powerful, all good Lord! All praise is yours, all glory, all honor, and all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy to pronounce your name.

Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. And he is beautiful and radiant in all his splendor! Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness.

Be praised, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens you have made them, precious and beautiful.

Be praised, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air, and clouds and storms, and all the weather, through which you give your creatures sustenance.

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

Be praised, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom you brighten the night. He is beautiful and cheerful, and powerful and strong.

Be praised, my Lord, through our sister Mother Earth, who feeds us and rules us, and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs.

Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial. Happy those who endure in peace, for by you, Most High, they will be crowned.

Be praised, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death, from whose embrace no living person can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Happy those she finds doing your most holy will. The second death can do no harm to them.

Praise and bless my Lord, and give thanks, and serve him with great humility.

[sister moon]

79. I learn something new here every time I visit!

:hi:

[Squatch]

80. He was a pretty special person...

And people like him are just what the world needs about now.

[juslikagrzly]

68. juslikagrzly

just like a grizzly---my explanation for how to spell my last name.

[DelawareValleyDem]

69. It means I'm not very creative

[Patiod]

104. Great name though

Weren't they trying to re-name the Delaware Valley recently? (like they tried to get people to say Jersey Cape instead of Jersey Shore?)

[nicolemrw]

70. nicolemrw

my name is nicole.

my middle initial is m.

my maiden name starts with r.

my married name starts with w.

i'm boring. :boring:

[smbolisnch]

73. Mine is the first 2 letters of all of my pet's names.....

Smudge, Boo, Linus, Snuffles and Chewy :silly:

[Kire]

74. first name spelled backwards, also, "Kerry" in Gaellic

or so I'm told

[Arkana]

75. Stole this username from one of my friends, actually...

At lunch I used to get ribbed because I was terrible at basketball, and my friend Lee used "Air Napkin Dude" to illustrate his point. It was literally a basketball-playing napkin.

He made it his AIM SN, and I made it my DU username.

[johnnie]

76. It's my name

My creative juices were really flowing that day.

[Socialist Dem]

77. My old one

ment "No to W (in)2004"

My new one is just a statement of fact. I'm not Barkley's owner, he's mine.

[Droopy]

78. Mine means

"Woe, despair, and agony on me."

[NewJeffCT]

82. long story besides the obvious

first off, my name is Jeff and I live in Connecticut.

But, I had always had an online name of JeffCT999 or JeffCT1966 or something like that. However, after a job change in 2001, I lost all the passwords related to that name (I used to auto-login). And, since I wanted people to hopefully remember who I was when I posted on various online boards, I came up with "NewJeffCT" and have used it since.

[Josh_Strength]

83. It means JOSH SMASH!!!!

Puny liberals.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

176. Hey Josh

a quote from your website:

"Josh is a Christian and enjoys Republican politics."

What's up with that? Specifically the last part, that is.

[miss_kitty]

84. It's Franch

for miss_kitty, a name by which I go on other sites. eez saxy, no?

But I am not the porn miss_kitty.

And I am not the miss_kitty with the gardening site either. Even though I am miss_kitty AND a gardener.

[Gardeaux08]

181. Mine is Franch, too!

My user name is an old family name that was dropped when they fled from France to Italy. I always felt pretty bad that they had to leave their name behind for the sake of safety. So I use it openly and have decided to petition the court to take back what should have been mine in the first place.

[Behind the Aegis]

85. Mine is misspelled!

Mine should have been "Behind the Aegis" but I wasn't watching my typing. Although, I have found that some do accept Ageis. Mine is the name of the shield created by Zeus and given to his favorite child, Athena, goddess of wisdom, justice, the arts, and warfare. Nothing can penetrate the Aegis! Not even lies! Thus, I stand "behind the Aegis" as protection from lies and deception and use it to protect others from attacks.

[Huckebein the Raven]

86. I think mine speaks for itself

[Nicole]

87. my name was taken

so I used a friend's name that I like.

[r_u_stuck2]

89. Living in repug hell N/W Florida

[atommom]

90. Mine isn't terribly deep. I'm a mom, and I am THIS pissed ...

:nuke:


Any questions? :)

[achtung_circus]

91. Well, when I initially registered I was listening to Achtung! Baby

and thinking the world, especially (from my Canadian peraspective) the US of A has become very like the latter days of the Roman Empire.

Bread and Circuses keep the proles under control.

I Couldn't fit Achtung Bread and Circuses into the space available, decided that for most people the world is more about a circus than it is about bread.

So.....

lookout, the world is crazy.

If you can follow that logic, you're either very creative or very drunk.

[flvegan]

92. Floridian that doesn't eat, wear or use products made from animals

[dancing kali]

93. The Hindu Goddess

I was two days into the aftermath of the breakup of a relationship, I was feeling particularly bloodthirsty and a friend turned me on to the Conservative Idiots list to cheer me up. When it came to the time to chose a username the image of Kali came to mind. Her dance is one of destruction and creation. I used to be a dancer, still teach occasionally. So Dancing Kali.

[St. Jarvitude]

94. Mark Messier is my favorite hockey player ever, and my name is Tom

It was actually my very first screenname EVAH on AOL and is my traditional forum username.

[smirkymonkey]

95. I'm a monkey, and I can't stop smirking.

Actually, it refers to the guy who is going to lose in 4 days.

[Placebo]

99. Heh, monkey.

[Bridget Burke]

100. Family background....

I was almost baptised "Bridget" (for my great-aunt) but my parents went with something more Lace Curtain. And there are Burkes in the family tree from the Anglo-Norman "De Burgos" who settled in East Galway. (It was not a peaceful settlement.)

[Lady Effingbroke]

101. My user name speaks for herself!

"She's a lady...she's effing broke...she's Lady Effingbroke!"

[lpbk2713]

102. I don't respond to these threads all the time at the risk of

being redundant, but here it is. I'm a retired telecomm tech and my user name refers to a test function (loopback) used in remote analysys of analog data circuits. Probably only a few here at DU have any idea what this is but it was what popped into my noggin when I had to come up with a screen name.

And BTW....... the asshole from Crawford will be history in four more days....... HOO-FUGGEN-RAY!!

[CAcyclist]

103. It means I hate cars (even though I am back to owning one)

and evaluate potential boyfriends based on their bicycling addiction. It also means I aggressively assert my rights on the road and anyone who tries to push me around gets a picture taken and write up in our Bicycle Incident Report page online.

[UrbScotty]

105. Mine's a statement to the world. (nt)

[Patiod]

106. I also answer to Patty O'Furniture nt

[getoffmytrain]

107. "Getoffmytrain"

Mine is from the movie Ghost where Patrick Swayze meets the other ghost on the subway and the dude freaks and yells "GET OFF MY TRAIN!!!" I always thought that line was hilarious... funny enough to make it my user name anyway. :-)

[Polly Glot]

108. First Post..

Man I love DU!!! Time to stop lurkin' and start postin'...

Mine is from the fact that I'm a female fluent speaker of Spanish, French, Dutch, plus some German. Oh yeah, and don't bother being impressed: polyglottism (sp?) and $5.00 will get you the proverbial cuppa coffee at Starbucks...

[Baldsicle]

109. I shave my head

<:yourock:>
and my ass, but somehow, shavedass just doesn't make it with my inner circle friends or close relatives.

[Downtown Hound]

111. I used to have a Basset Hound

that absolutely loved beer. Seriously, I don't know how he came across this love because I never fed it to him, but whenever I cracked one open he would sit there and whine like he had been in the desert for three weeks and this was ice cold water.

Anyway one night I gave him some local brew called Downtown Brown, and he drank it and started to howl in ecstasy. He often howled, but this was just so bizarre. I repeated the trick other times for various guests and he did the same thing thing every time. It got a lot of laughs. So in his honor (he passed away three years ago at the age of 13) I became Downtown Hound.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

182. I love Downtown Brown

Isn't that in Eureka or Arcata?

[Downtown Hound]

187. Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka

:)

[Aristus]

112. It is the Latinized version of 'Aristocles', which was Plato's

real name. Not comparing myself, you understand. ;-)

[AngryLizard]

113. My name is Elizabeth, "lizard" is a nickname from college

And "angry" because I'm really, really, really pissed off at Bush.

[Texasgal]

114. Texasgal meaning....

I am a gal from Texas!

Pretty boring compared to some of these!

[sysoprock]

115. SYSOPROCK: its a nerd / hip hop cross reference.

back in the day before the internet, we used to use BBS's and the people who ran them were called sysop's

theres a rapper named aesop rock.

i combined the two and came up with sysoprock.

ta-dah.

[Pump Man]

116. MY BUSINESS

VOTE---http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6092749

[Martin Eden]

117. novel by Jack London

... about a working class self-educated author.

My parents were leftists back in the 40's & 50's, and named me after the title character (my real first name is Martin).

[NightTrain]

118. Click this link for an explanation.

http://www.funky-stuff.com/jamesbrown/Disco/NightTrain.htm

[NamVetsWeeLass]

119. My name is a tribute to My Father... 1rst of the 7th, AIR CAV

In-country (to the best of my Knowledge...) 67. If you've ever seen the Movie "We Were Soldiers" that movie portrayed the man he served under. It also is a Tribute to John Kerry, who through his searching for POW MIA's gave me hope that my Dad would one day get the parade he deserved for fighting in the war that ultimately Stole his life... When you can't get passed the things you did In Nam, Life becomes a struggle... When the VA sends you home cause there is nothing wrong with you when you do realize you need help, you end up on the losing end of a .357 magnum. Dad's Birthday is Sunday, He would have been 60, I am an emotional wreck. Kerry has to win, so no one else has to go through this shit. No more flag draped coffins! FUCK BUSH!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

120. Scrub the Shrub, as in 'get rid of the Shrub' on Nov. 2nd!

[signmike]

121. username

My name is Mike -- and I confess; I am a Sign Painter.
= signmike

[hyphenate]

122. Not because of English

is the first thing I say! So many think it's a reference to grammar.

I worked for a good while in the Entertainment industry, and in shop talk, most notably in accounting, there is a division between labor on television or film--one is above the line, which includes directors, writers, actors, producers, and other such luminaries, and below the line includes everyone from the production assistants to the craft services guys.

In a production, if someone works more than one "job" (usually above the line people), like someone directing who also wrote the script, he/she is called a "hyphenate" as in writer-director-producer. A hyphenate can have anywhere from 2 on up titles and jobs, depending on how much he/she likes to be in control. So essentially, my title means I can't just do one thing at a time, I have to be doing lots of things.

[Dogmudgeon]

123. A club I started in 1980 when Reagan won election

"Bare-Knuckled Liberals of America, Inc."

It still exists on paper.

--bkl

[thebeaglehaslanded]

124. I've owned beagles for most of my life

and when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, I was sure that he said, "The beagle has landed" or at least he should have. :D

[Maiden England]

127. sometimes I spill stuff on myself

ergo, I'm sloppy. I'm here, so I guess that makes me a flaming liberal (AND PROUD!)

[Beaverhausen]

128. Anastasia Beaverhausen is the name Karen on "Will & Grace"

uses when she wants to be incognito!

[Thtwudbeme]

129. That would be me

nt

[ReadTomPaine]

131. Read Tom Paine

Start tonight.

Also drop by www.tompaine.com & www.thomaspaine.org

RTP

[The Great Deceiver]

132. It's a song by one of my favorite bands.

King Crimson.

[helnwhls]

133. Helen (helen) hell on wheels

Ain’t nobody else gonna know the way she feels
Helen (helen) hell on wheels
And they never gonna take her away

[OnionPatch]

135. Someone already had Petunia

(as in lonely, little....)
Onionpatch is in reference to the highly Republican area I where live.

[Chovexani]

136. Mine is a Romani word

I came across it while doing some research into the family tree...it's a word derived from Armenian that means "witch". It just jumped out and me and I thought it fit, because I am one.

FYI, it's pronounced "cho-vay-SHA-knee". Not even Mike Malloy could pronounce it, LOL. :)

[Kellanved]

137. nothing

It is not intended to convey any message whatsoever. Except maybe "Dork".

[lumberingbear]

138. A friend of mine calls me "Bear"..

and when your 6'5" and 265lb, you don't walk, you lumber.

[Pied Piper]

139. I'm a freelance flutist

... in my spare time.

[GreenPartyVoter]

141. Take a wild guess *l*

[Misunderestimator]

143. Mine, obviously, is in tribute to my least favorite person

[Placebo]

147. Obviously.

:P

[sleepyhead]

145. I am not a morning person

Obviously.

[Jack The Tab]

146. a Psychic TV album name

nt

[FuzzySlippers]

148. I wanted a name that would convey....

warmth and lovableness and would obscure what a cold, venomous harpy I really am.

[American Tragedy]

149. End of all Hope by Nightwish

If I could do it over again, I would probably change it. I just wanted to register as quickly as possible, and End of all Hope happened to be blasting on my headphones at that very moment, so...


Mandylion without a face
Deathwish without a prayer
End of hope
End of love
End of time
The rest is silence

It is the end of all hope
To lose the child, the faith
To end all the innocence
To be someone like me

[Kiteflyer]

150. When I drop my pants

in front of women, their usual response is to yell HUMDINGER!:thumbsup:

[blondeatlast]

152. At 43 I decided to let the drapes not match the carpet! nt

[put out]

157. Ha! blonde here too!

And, no, the my hair only matches my spirit. I became blonde when I moved into a new place, worked all day and all evening, and got acquainted with a bottle of wine and a drugstore box of "Be Blonde" (or something like that, it was on sale) I had had for a while. The results were not so good. My handy-dandy hair person fixed my boo-boo, and I've been blonde ever since. It is a little tough on the pocketbook sometimes.

But, my user name: I'm PISSED OFF and in my family "put out" is the polite way to say it. My candidate in 2000 got put out of his rightful place as my country's leader. I got put out of the process of a fair and honest election. I had to sit and watch as the shenanigans took place and live with the results.

I didn't consider the sexual connotations until after I registered.

[peacefreak]

153. I signed up here when * was getting us into that &^(*%ing war.

I realized I felt the same way about war as I did when I was 18 & protesting the Vietnam War. It's useless, senseless & doesn't solve a thing. So it's a wordplay on Visualize Whirrled Peas. Peasfreak
Ta-Da!

[Queen Jane]

154. it's a pixies song

[Dirty Hippie]

155. It was what I was thinking when I joined DU

right before the invastion of Iraq.

[the Princess]

156. It means hubby picked it out for me. LOL

My choice would have been:

I'm the Princess

or

Kitten with a Whip

What can I say - I love my husband. LOL

[Bride of Cthulhu]

158. I am

the bride of the great Cthulhu! I just wish the stars would hurry up be right so he would wake up:evilgrin:

[sendero]

159. deseo...

... is Spanish for "dreams" or "desires".

It is the name we gave to a place in the country that I had just acquired when I registered here.

Of course, my wife and I have subsequently named our place something else :)

[BoX o BooX]

160. I'm a bookseller.

And my first two initials are BX... hence, BoX o BooX.

[recoveringdittohed]

161. Mine refers to my return to the Democratic party

I started out as a Democrat when I started voting in 1971 but in 1976 I went over to the "dark side". After 28 years in Republand I untied the half of my brain which was tied behind my back (just to make it fair) and saw what a mess the current administration has made of almost everything. Fiscal responsibility in a government has always been important to me but I realized belatedly that tax cut and spend is more irresponsible than tax and spend could ever be.

[TOhioLiberal]

162. Well mine is this:

Trekker: trek fan...I love Star Trek.
Lass: I am of the female persuasion...

[vetwife]

163. Mine is = to my spouse and my work for veterans

[Champ]

164. Look at my signature Pick

[SoCalDem]

165. Mine means I have no imagination sometimes

:P

[Taverner]

166. Jerry Taverner, from the Phillip K Dick Book

A flawed hero if there ever was...

[deadparrot]

167. Monty Python's most famous sketch.

[Hello_Kitty]

168. Mine's my nickname for my female Sheltie dog.

[vixengrl]

169. I would be Vixen69--

but on most forums I can't be, because it's either taken or considered rude--which is partially why I like the handle. There's a "Bitch Test" on-line somewhere which includes the idea that you are a bitch if you have a name with either vixen or 69 or something else in it--but it started as a tribute. The reasons for the handle have grown. "Vixen" was what Methos called Amanda in Highlander. I like foxes. I'm a top-heavy redhead (very vixen-y). "69" was the number Bill and Ted were thinking of in their "Excellent Adventure". "69" also suggests the yin-yang symbol, and balance. "Vixen" is a Russ Meyers movie. "69" is, gasp, a sexual position...and on and on. But I use "vixengrl" (not capitalized) because it's close and the grl is kind of like riotgrl and it's feministy and stuff.

[Cats Against Frist]

170. Tribute to the Feline Dr. Mengele

Ever since my GOP evangelical freak-a-zoid neighbor told me that they were "grooming Frist" for the presidency, it's been my mission to keep an eye on him.

Plus, the very first time I heard the word "fatcat" was when I was reading an article in the UMWA union magazine about Columbia/HCA, about ten years or so ago.

[Andy_Stephenson]

171. The order of Republican

allegiance.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

172. I picked it because

some people stereotype those of us on the left as being "hippie-ish" or "weird" and I thought the name was sort of tongue-in-cheek, like giving the finger to the stereotype.

Plus I love moonbeams and starlight! LOL!

[Wapsie B]

174. Self-explanatory

Just a reminder to the world. It just popped into my head.

[boilerbabe]

175. Mine is for my occupation

I run a boiler for a paper mill...but wlll be running a cogeneration unit (to generate electricity) soon, but I don' t think I will change my name to Electrobabe just yet!!

and yes, the Nation is a killer mag, isn't it??

[qnr]

178. Used to work for Champion International in Bucksport, Maine n/t

[Nikepallas]

177. Combo of 2 greek Goddesses

Yes I was a little fool of myself at the time:silly:



Nike= the idea(only given human form for statues really.) of Victory or Victorious


Pallas= another name for Athena who was Goddess of Truth and Wisdom

[Gemini Cat]

179. Mine means dim son W is dumb.

And easily confounded when faced with a national emergency or anything that is not in black and white, like most things in life.

[Milspec]

180. Well Milspec

Refers to my profession. For the last XX number of years, I have worked in very highly regulated industry's. Human implants, Space, & defense microelectronics. Mil-Specs, used to be my bread & butter as dull as they are. Milspec refers to test methods & standards that devices need to comply with. Most of them (both FDA & Defense) have replaced Milspec with ISO (international Standards) But I've been using this name for a Loooog time & I can always remember it!

[Heidi]

183. Mine . . .

refers to the children's books by Johanna Spyri, and to where I live.

[donheld]

185. It's just my name cut off

Don Heldenbrand Cut to donheld

[Placebo]

188. Ooooh...

you've got a good, strong last name. :)

[vajraroshana]

186. It's from a scene in the movie "To Sir With Love"

when they all get on the bus to go to the museum, the bus destination says "BARKING 23"...the Barking is for that part of London.

It came about because at Clinton's first inauguration party Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant sang the song "To Sir With Love". They did it justice and that was a very happy time.

[flygal]

189. Use to be a steward-ass ~ Fly Me ~

[smitty]

190. what's in a name?

It's my late grandfather's nickname.

[VOX]

191. Means "reservation mutt" -- the common, mixed-breed of dog often found...

On Indian lands in California, Arizona and New Mexico. The dogs are very defensive of their territory, but are very friendly and are terrific animals.

I have an abiding interest in Indian art, and I collect Navajo weavings, Zuni fetishes, and Hopi katsinas.

Thus, the name. :)

[Redleg]

193. A "Redleg" is an artilleryman.

I served as an Army field artillery officer from 1987-1992. Cedat fortuna peritis.

[flaming bondage mask]

194. Mine is an introverted look at post-modern art deco

with matches.

[Larry Tyler]

195. I will never tell

Hmmm, I wonder how many can guess correctly.