Explain Your DU Username!

[UrbScotty]

I haven’t seen any “Explain Your Username” threads in a while.

A couple years ago, I was watching a rerun of “Home Improvement.” As you may know, Tim Allen’s character – the main character – was a host of a fictitious show called “Tool Time,” along with Al Borland (played by Richard Karn, who now hosts “Family Feud”).

On one episode of “Tool Time,” they were auctioning off classic cars for charity. To bid, Tim encouraged interested buyers to call 1-800-Z-CARZ-4-U (as in “The Car’s For You”).

One day a little while later, I thought, “You know, the DNC could use a good phone number like 1-800-I-H8-Z-GOP” (“I hate the GOP”).

It stuck, and I wanted to use it for my username on political discussion boards. However, I wanted a creative username that people would understand. I came up with ih8thegop. It’s basically my generic username all over the internet.

Then I found DU a year ago this past August, and the rest is history! :-)

[Kamika]

1. mishmash of my real name and surname

Always used kamika when I've chatted

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. .

[Blade]

3. Well...

I did have the username "Sting," but, my brother messed that name up and I can no longer access it. (don't ask, long story) Sting was my third favorite wrestler behind Stone Cold Steve Austin and Goldberg.

Now that I lost the "Sting" sn, I needed a new name. :cry: So I thought about badass names. I thought about vampires. They always have badass names. So I chose the sn "Blade."

Very badass. :evilgrin:

[bluestateguy]

4. I have blue state values

I do live in Texas, but I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area and I went to college in Massachusetts.

There are Red state values and Blue state vlaues, and except for the gun issue, I identify totally with the Blue states.

[JohnLocke]

Simple.

I admire John Locke.

[flamingyouth]

5. 1923 book and film

Was very scandalous at the time. The film starred Colleen Moore, who is my favorite silent film actress.

[izzie]

12. Izzie just seems to be me.

:eyes:

[Droopy]

6. I chose mine because that's the way I feel a lot.

I have a long history of serious mental illness. I have to take drugs to stay stable. Unfortunately stable does not mean happy and energetic. The stuff dulls the intellect and makes me feel tired a lot of the time.

Not the most inspiring of user names but it fits and I think the feeling comes through in my posts a lot of the time.

[FarLeftRage]

7. I'm a far leftist

in my political beliefs and I rage against anything of the reich-wing/repuKKKe ilk...

[morningglory]

8. I planted some pretty "tie-dye" variety of morning glories the day

I registered.

[Mountainman]

9. I live in the mountains

[HawkerHurricane]

10. I like alliteration

and WW2 aircraft, especially '2nd best' ones.

[jmowreader]

26. So that explains...

why a sailor with a Surface Warfare pin is named after an airplane!

So how long until you're eligible for the Chief's List?

[HawkerHurricane]

27. I've been eligible of 6 years!

Make the board, get ignored.

Never again, retirement (20 years) in February.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

11. Mine..

780 is my area code.
My original name was just Seveneighty, but I got banned (I dont even know why) and came back with "Whoa" in my new name.

[JohnKleeb]

13. well it means godly glue

:D
I had an alias too and I lost it :(, bicentinalbaby remembers the first name I was using but I lost the last name.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

14. I love bad kitschy art

Kids with big dewy eyes, sad clowns, poker playing dogs and the like.
I also am fascinated with the weird subcultures that revolve around Elvis.

[whathappened]

15. mine go'es hand and hand

with the stealing of gore's office to jr. , i just said to myself on the day they decided , whathappened

[SiobhanClancy]

16. My cats are really typing this...

and their names are Clancy(Good Kitty)and Siobhan(Bad Kitty)

[JohnKleeb]

20. Is that the gaelic words for bad and good

:hi: Clancy I responded to you on the drinking thread. You forgot another Irish Slavic person like myself :D.

[SiobhanClancy]

Sorry,John!

I would never,ever do that on purpose:) Irish-Slavic people are very unique and precious to me.:toast:

[JohnKleeb]

23. Its ok

Its just that I had to bring up Rhiannon, she's a good friend of mine here. Its the best mix :D ever. Wonder where Rhi is though, she's been sick.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. Isn't it obvious?

[JohnKleeb]

18. Just as obvious as my name is

:D

[Padraig18]

19. Mine is my 1st name...

... plus my age when I first got Yahoo messenger.

[SheilaT]

21. First name plus middle initial.

I used to be dofus, which is my husband's nickname for me. I finally changed because I'm not sure anyone took me seriously under that name. I don't think many people notice me under this one, but what the heck.

[Cheswick2.0]

46. we just aren't yet used to this new name

I had no idea you were the same person.

[Jerseycoa]

22. Chopped off

Years ago, I was registering the user name Jerseycoast somewhere without realizing the form only took nine letters -- chop! Jerseycoa. So I kept it.

[45th Med]

24. My old unit......45th Medical Company. NT

nt

[Lizz612]

25. Alternate for my full name and my B-Day

Elizabeth and June 12, 1985
When I first made it 612 was my area code also.

[Wwagsthedog]

28. Doesn't he?

The movie made about as much sense as our current batch of idiots who "run" our government. Just for the record, I'm anti war but not anti self defence.

[theorist]

29. I'm a theoretica/quantum chemist.

It has a better ring to it than theoretician.
I'm also an aspiring political theorist. Too many important things, too little time!!

[theorist]

30. I'm a theoretical/quantum chemist.

It has a better ring to it than theoretician.
I'm also an aspiring political theorist. Too many important things, too little time!!

[WWW]

31. www

Win without War...probably the most profound statement I have ever encountered, we all want justice and equality and the end to hunger, suffering and war, but to do it at a discussion table where we all agree, all winning, all adults, all winning without war......wow what a sap I am....

[jmowreader]

32. I've got a split personality...

There's this one. I've used that name on everything for quite a while. Sometimes I even sign letters home "jmowreader."

My evil twin cousin the OldSoldier (you know, the little mean guy who's in the 700 Club) is so named because of something a general once said to me. I was in Berlin during the year leading up to German reunification. After the reunification was complete, I talked to our security officer, got his approval, then took my squad to Wuensdorf, which is where the Group of Soviet Forces Germany was headquartered. "See Real Soviets In Their Natural Environment!" Afterward, I wrote a little travelogue of this dirty, nasty place and turned it in to the unit newspaper for publication. The colonel went batshit:

"We can't print something like this in the Sentinel! People will start going there!"

"Uhh...sir...the first sentence in this story was 'Don't go to Wuensdorf, it sucks there.'" And the rest of the story explained what a shitty place it was. You couldn't buy gas for your car in Wuensdorf. You couldn't buy groceries in Wuensdorf, or go out to eat. You couldn't buy anything in Wuensdorf...well, almost; there was a hardware store in Wuensdorf that had a hell of a lot of fifteen-inch-long grade-eight bolts and a little bit of everything else in stock. And the Soviets were restricted to their base, so you couldn't even see any Soviets in their natural environment without field glasses. We searched that whole damn town, which only took about 45 minutes, and found not one Soviet. Wuensdorf seemed to be a bedroom community for Zossen, which was a thriving village.

Anyway...fast forward to December 23, when the general in charge of my major command came to town. He wanted to go to Wuensdorf but didn't have the time. Uhhh...General, we know of a soldier who went to Wuensdorf and wrote a travelogue. So they summoned Sergeant Mowreader to bring forth his travelogue and present it to the General. Just before he went back to Virginia, the general wrote me a note: "It takes an old soldier to understand the historical significance of Wuensdorf."

[Wickerman]

33. Crazy shrub n/t

[Johnyawl]

34. John is my name, yawl is the kind of boat I own

Well, I also own a sloop, but at the time I started online I thought I was going to sell the sloop. I didn't, nor am I going to for a while(long story). So I guess I could have called myself "SloopJohnH"

[ComerPerro]

58. I had just figured

It was John, y'all

[pansypoo53219]

35. my cat Pansy

who farts, hence pansypoo. who is my alter ego on the puter. my cats get subscriptions, CDs and coffee as well. Pansy just LOVES gevalia coffee.

[soothsayer]

36. soothsayer =

truth sayer

as I see it, anyway

[northofdenali]

37. It's where I live!

:P

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

39. It's where I wanna visit!

[northofdenali]

44. C'mon up, NSMA! It's only 29 below and

the Northern Lights are out! :hi:

[sleipnir]

38. That's what Google is for, google my name and see!!

I picked it because I wanted a Norse mythological name (best mythological theory, especially links up with my ExExtnlsim) but nothing as common as Loki or Thor. I wanted the joy of having the intelligencia notice my name and comment, because I'm an attention whore...

[Bertha Venation]

40. And now.... Bertha Venation!

My user name is taken from Harvey Fierstien's play "Torch Song Trilogy." It's the name of a drag queen. I started using it when the GLBT/friendly chorus I was with for seven years began listing the amount of its members' donations in each program. I thought that was ridiculous so I took a pseudonym: Bertha Venation. It was a joke for the benefit of our audience members, and became a topic of laughs at the lobby after-parties. No one in the chorus (save the treasurer) even knew who it was. (this paragraph c/p from a reply in the thread below)

When I joined DU, my handle was a source of consternation for at least one individual. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=16832#16933
(This was my reply) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=16832#17046

edit: for the curious, no, I'm not a drag queen. I'm a chapstick lesbian.

[proud patriot]

41. I am what I am What can I say

It stems from the movie "Rude Awakening" and
My mentor Abbie Hoffman :evilgrin:

[Spirochete]

42. Hometown - dominant hand.

[jpgray]

43. I'm boring beyond words? :-D (nt)

[aQuArius]

45. I am NOT an aquarius! LOL

Believe it or not, I am a Sagitarius. However, I love the song "Aquarius" from the musical HAIR. Now, the reason why I capitalize certain letters is my own secret......

[dobak]

47. dobak - korean martial arts uniform

My friend's mother-in-law came up with it one night

She had heard the term at a tae kwon do match (my friend is a 3rd degree black belt) and she immediately thought of me (my first name starts with D and my last name starts with BAK)

The name stuck

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

48. It's from an old joke

about how Canada got its name.

The Fathers of Confederation saw how well their neighbors to the south (that's you guys, in case you didn't know) had done with a three-letter acronym for a name. So, they decided to copy the idea for their own country. But what acronym to choose? Unable to agree on anything, they finally decided, in true Canadian fashion, to just pick three letters at random.

So they wrote all the letters of the alphabet on scraps of paper and tossed them into a hat, then hired a civil servant (this was before cutbacks) to pick three and read them off.

And so he did: "C, eh. N, eh. D, eh."

And thus CANADA was born.

[ComerPerro]

57. LOL

Thats great

[alwynsw]

49. middle name, first & last initials

[Zuni]

50. Zuni

It is the name of an Indian tribe from the Southwest. I always thought it had a nice ring to it.
I was reading a book about intertribal warfare among American Indians the day I registered.

[psychopomp]

51. A few factors

Much more than meets the eye. Crazy-fun. Quicksilver/Mercury. Secret knowlege. Hermes, protector of travellers and theives, trickster and guide over the river Styx. The next world is in the birthing process. Leaders with foresight can take us there. Hermes is the Greek Anubis. Dark and Light. Starts and ends with a "p". Judgement. Chance.

I am of the persuasion that we are at the start of a new chapter in human affairs. Exactly when this began is unclear, but selection 2000 and the subsequent 9.11 attacks and its reprocussions are sure signs that epochal weirdness is afoot.

[scarlet_owl]

52. scarlet is a screech owl at our nature center.

She's one of my many babies that I take care of there. She doesn't seem to like me very much, as she's always biting me.

[Leftist78]

53. I'm a leftist

and I was born in 78. Doesn't get more simple than that.

[banana republican]

54. Because they are yellow.....

[IronLionZion]

55. 429 is a great Mustang and 4-29 is my birthday

but actually I tried a few variations on the word Progressive and was automatically blocked immediately each time for no reason. I think it was a technical glitch in DU and I never got a reply from the admins so I used my last paid email address and just picked Independent429 because my Progressive names were all taken...by me!

oh well

[solinvictus]

56. Mine

The Unconquered Sun,from an underground cult of Mithras common to Roman soldiers from about the 1st century until the end.

[ComerPerro]

59. So, I eat dogs. Whats so wrong about that?

I have explained my SN countless times.

But, now I think it is easier to say that I eat dogs.

[AngryAmish]

60. Chickenz!