who's name do u most envy on ilx?

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which ones wd make u happier as a human goin about yr daily grind?

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 24 January 2003 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Menelaus Darcy, for instance. (can't believe i sed "daily grind" w/o some ironic disclaimer emoticon but that wd hav sukd more so...)

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 24 January 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I admire 'Tracer Hand' because I do think of it as a real name, which it probably isn't. 'Ned Raggett' is, I expect his real name, and it's one of those names that is probably shit at school but great thereafter. I'd take it.

My real name (which isn't EK!) is one I share with no one else in the world (which is why I don't use it) and it's alliterative and everything, but it's not so cool.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Donut Bitch OWNZ.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

'Ned Raggett' is, I expect his real name, and it's one of those names that is probably shit at school but great thereafter. I'd take it.

Aw, thanks. And indeed, it was crap at school at time. "Hur hur, Nerd Faggot."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i was just thinking Eyeball Kicks was a cool name

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I still think "Ned Raggett" sounds like a barnstormer's name.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

spectra/spectralyne.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Rockist Scientist.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i was just thinking Eyeball Kicks was a cool name

It's a random, spur-of-moment, phrase-from-poem name chosen just for something to use. But I like it when people reply to a message with just 'Eyeball', like "Eyeball is so not OTM", or whatever, as if I'm some old blues singer.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

blind willie eyeba;;

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

eyeball

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

the Hegemon

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Ramosi, that name has a certain something.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, ramosi has panache. i too like tracer hand, nabitsuh and sterling clover

― minna (minna), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Sundar, Siegbran
-- way suave, swell names*

*no envy, tho ;-)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer Hand and Eyeball Kicks both sound like Sonic Youth song titles which makes them fine by me.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 24 January 2003 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer Hand I used to associate with some sort of 60s drug vibe, so I imagined him to be this old wizened biker type. I don't quite know why.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 24 January 2003 04:26 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.automatedculture.com/sam_elliott/images/moviepix/mask06.jpg

Feel the vibe!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

haha Sam Elliott's name should be Yanc3y Strickler!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:10 (twenty-three years ago)

well although my name isn't as, um, buckin' as tracer's you gotta dig the hair:
http://www.thatgirltv.com/newpics/1966tvcover-sm.jpg

actually I want to change my name but i'm too lazy to think of something new.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom Passantino (wait is the last name with a m or n, well its still cool both ways)

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

eyeball is one of my fave names, and i also like electric sound of jim. that girl is pretty cool as a moniker too.

― donna (donna), Friday, 24 January 2003 05:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Rainy is the best name ever.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 24 January 2003 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Marcello Carlin has a fine name, although that may be because I hear faint echoes of my own in there.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

electric sound of jim

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Duckling Monster, dunno why, just like the sound of it and the images it conjures up in my mind.

― smee (smee), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

James Ball. *classic*

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

cough!

― Tadeusz Mikolaj Suchodolski, Motherfuckers! (llamasfur), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

And Madchen is a good one too.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

James Ball. *classic*

Lara, either:

a) you mean my choice of 'electric sound of jim' is a sound one
b) you're taking the piss
c) you are mad.

No sane person could envy my name, unless they're called Albert Fuckwit or something.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

*aghast*

Perhaps I've been on the platonic thread once too many times this morning?

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Rainy

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

yay for once i'm good at something!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry Lara.

Lara Byrne is a very nice name btw. But I don't envy you as such as I feel my gender tourism urges have now been satisfied.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

dog latin.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer: That's exactly how I thought you looked, except with more grey hair!

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

the pinefox
Tracer Hand
Sterling Clover
Ned Raggett

I think Gale Deslongchamps is a cool name too.

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I heart the names Menelaus Darcy, CJ_the_unruly and Madchen in Uniform.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom Passantino (wait is the last name with a m or n, well its still cool both ways)

Awww, thanks. Nearly makes up for being called Domino's Pizza during my formative years of education.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

buttery thighs wilson

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot the pinefox. I vote the pinefox!

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

gregkitten and g-kit works for me

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

so where are my wages?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

How can you pass over the poetry of the words "Anthony Miccio"? I have always enjoyed repeated them over and over to myself in some sort of psychotic mantra. Sometimes on the tube.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt DC. That email addy is fucking brilliant.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Rainy, obviously. Dastoor is a great word. Anna's is perfect.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

But my name references a really rockin' band???

Hmmm...
I like lots of names on here. I like the name nickalicious alot. But I think I most like the more simple names like suzy and kate, chris v. and dan perry. Guess I'm old-fashioned.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i wish i was called 'jel' in real life

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't read 'electric sound of jim' without reading the last word as 'jism'. Maybe that's just me.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i have just one word in response:

bzzzt

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I do like the pinefox, too. In early days of ILE reading, there was another name I admired, perhaps Menelaus Darcy -- I'll have to check.

Tracer Hand used to frighten me, especially when I was deprived of sleep and feeling especially suspicious. It reminds of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand or Judge Learned Hand -- oooh creepy.

My name was an accident. I am ashamed of it.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike Hanle y.

But not Mike Hanley.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

YES

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, yes, I gushed over Hanle y's name in my first email to Ned.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

One name to bring them all and in ILXOR bind them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Edna Welthorpe, Mrs

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 24 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

then where/why did she go?

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha ha!

Snowy / Lara / Tracer H / Felicity: thanks.

Felicity is a great name, even if fictional. Lara is a lovely name. I like quite a lot of ilx names, actually.

― the pinefox, Friday, 24 January 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

''ned raggett'' becuz its real

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

CJ - no-one else is Unruly.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

felicity is "rub." I can't even pronounce it, what with the Asian lisp and all.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but it makes us all think of Felicity Kendal!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"even if fictional" makes me laugh, coming from "the pinefox."

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

gygax!

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes whatever did happen to Edna. Did Jerry kill her?

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Stabbed her in her sleep. Not pretty.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

This is getting WAY too meta.

Tracer Hand definitely, because it's a Carson McCullers/Preacher Harry Powell vibe tho' I think his proper name is just as good. Rainy also, and Arthur.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Why thank you, Suzy! Actually, Tracer's real name is my absolute favorite--it sounds like a hot colonial-era dominatrix. And Rainy's full name is a close second.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I miss Ellie Planchet. I like everyone's names but that's just in comparison to mine. Special moniker or real-name shoutouts to N (I've come around to liking it better ickless), James Ball (it's good, I used to be in bands with some Ball brothers), the Amateurist (which sounds like a limited-release Hartley film), Teeny (I dunno, you seem like a magazine), Rainy-my-namesake, "dallasdeadgirl" (I still like this), Archel, and surely some I'm forgetting.

"Tracer Hand" always feels like some sort of optical illusion or magic trick or ghostly toy to me, maybe even a Doyle story ("The Tracer Hand") -- also if you put "the" in front of his real name he becomes a record, which is pretty cool in my book.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Tracer Hand probably has my favorite name. One one the few names that really makes me want to figure out where it comes from. I also like the names fields of salmon, Rainy, and Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo. Nicknames in quotes between first and last names = always classic.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I admire Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo cos she's been a regular for aaaages and anyone else would have just shortened it by now.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely "Amateurist," not "the Amateurist," nabisco? Very different. I like Amateurist but couldn't like the Amateurist.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Lynskey, coz I can pronounce it as Lyn Ski or Link See.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 24 January 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book 's a book, although there 's nothing in't

I've never quite known what this means, maybe that's why I remember it. Anyway you all are very sweet!

― Tracer "George Gordon" Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 January 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer Hand is also good, I imagine you looking like something out of a 1920's gangster film.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 24 January 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

that is what he looks like, jel!!

i would change my name to tracer hand in a second

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I want a new and better username

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I also like killian Murphy. Don't know if that's the real name, but I like it none the less.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Me too. But I'd lose my lovely spot on the charts!... Well, I guess I wouldn't if I used the same email... hmmm... Suggestions?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah... where are those charts? I keep forgetting to ask.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Just click on USERS below to see my place on the charts. I mean, that's why you want to know, right? ha ha

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Why didn't I notice that before? Wow... I made the top 50! I feel so... expressive.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

(I used to work with a $TA(EY H4ND and always found that funny.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks Nabisco. I never really meant it to be a 'name' - it was just an abbreviation that I had taken to signing at the end of emails and I thought it would be no big deal to use it here, what with my full name being in the email address. But then people started actually calling me N. and `i got used to it even if Pete thought it was arrogant.

I've noticed that people have started referring to you as N sometimes, which is confusing.

Nabisco is good as pretend names go. I'm not a big fan of non-name internet names generally. One or two word names that actually sound like names I quite like sometimes. All too often they come across as a bit embarrassingly internerd. I guess I'm a bit rockist when it comes to names.

I like Rainy McM4ster as a full name too. Well, not with the 4 so much. Lara is a lovely name. Isadora I've already said I like. Sterling Clover too.

Of the made up names, I like Tracer Hand a lot. It is a strong name. I understand it is actually a rodeo's name.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like the name Sarah McLusky. Yes, isn't it fabulous? So fake and yet so real sounding. So much mystery and character in one little name. *pondering...*

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like the name Tracer Hand, because I have a friend with the same surname and he is an artist and it sounds like he is being insulted.

Every name on ILX is better than mine, obviously.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Yours is great, Martin. It's like there's a party in your pants.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Mitch Lastnamewitheld is pretty grebt.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Rainy as well, Anna (I always wished my name was Anna), Alan Trewartha (that is a cool last name), Toraneko. Taken apart, I don't like the bits of the name "Jody Beth Rosen," but they sound neat together.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like the bits of the name "Jody Beth Rosen," but they sound neat together.

How do you think I feel? I have to live with it. Someone once told me I had the most Jewish name ever and started going around calling me Beth Israel.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha. It doesn't sound at all Jewish to me. Maybe the Rosen bit if I thought about it. It just sounds super-American.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Way-ull, holy smokes!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Killian Murphy? they're ten-a-penny in Dublin. I know two and of two more.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Has lots of character to me. Never been to Dublin.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

You'd love it! Lots of Killians...

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

The tourist board really ought to exploit that more.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh they do.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

but very few kilians, to the point that he probably hates this thread now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Shite. I AM A DEAD WOMAN. How long does it take to get from DCU to Donnybrook?

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Sarah McClusky too. Is that your real name? It always reminds me of the guy who wrote Make Way for Ducklings, even though his name is Robert McCloskey.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha, Sarah McLusky, I spelled your name wrong! Sorry!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah seems to forget occasionally, but it's not her real name. Or she only remembers to use a pseudonym about 1% of the time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, there's meant to be a T in there somewhere.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah McSlutsky?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't think it sounded Jewish, the Rosen bit I guess does. I think of Jody as a dark yellow name, Beth as a soft name, and Rosen as a pointy name, so the combination is interesting. In a good way though.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

She evokes a ..banana?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

>She evokes a ..banana?

Thanks, N. I managed to choke on a jaw-breaker when I saw that.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a friend whose name, if you google it, turns up lots of synagogues. Incidentally my real name is the most Jewish name imaginable (save for the middle name, which in itself isn't a very Jewish phenomenon), but I'm a bit too shy to post it here. It's not Shlomo Weinstock, though.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I think of "Jody" as very tomboyish and "Beth" as kinda girl-next-door.

Actually, I like that people have taken to addressing me as "Jody Beth" -- it's not really meant to go together as a first name, like "Mary Beth" or "Sue Ann" or something. It's just the nom de plume I use, and it's become the way I sign my name now. But usually people call me Jody.

The "JBR" nickname is GREAT. I love it.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Rachel Goldberg!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Amateurist = Jewy Bill Jew?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

hey thanks jody beth rosen! i'm not sure i ever really took to it myself tho, but it's a bit late now.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Morris Chatsworth Weisenthal

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Moshe Jeremy Ruggles III

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Chamique Holdsclaw!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, sorry, "Morris" was a really lame bid, there! I don't know what I was thinking.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Yehuda Bjorn Ben-Shoham

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Isaac Bob Singer?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Israel "Bubba" Cohen?

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 24 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

solly chaim schmutzenyankel

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 24 January 2003 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Totally envious of Sterling Clover. My name unfortunately isn't classy enough or blunt enough (like say, Lester Bangs) for my liking. Which is why if I ever "sell out" (whatever that will mean), I'm just gonna call myself Tony Mitch.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 24 January 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Felicity still makes me think of Felicity Kendal.

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

These names of school friends come with their own eruv:

Yapha N*ssbaum, Avram S¢hwartz, Shawna F!ngerhut, D4n Meshbesher.

Sterling's is another name I like.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I am envious of my own name.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 January 2003 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I like "toraneko" and "the pinefox".

― Genevieve, Saturday, 25 January 2003 02:51 (twenty-three years ago)

my own!

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Ewing is a very cool name, tho I still don't know how to pronounce it.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:33 (twenty-three years ago)

poo-ing.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:37 (twenty-three years ago)

my name sucks the big wang.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i wish someone had said lucy lurex. oh well. geeta's name i s pretty.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I'd thought of lucy lurex actually, it's very cool.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

*beams*

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, who am I kidding? I melt at the mere sight of Girolamo Savonarola's name.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought matos name was fake until I met him. jess is a pretty hot name for a chick.

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought Jess was a hot name for a man. Now I'll have to think about moaning it to a female and see if there's the same reaction.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I like lucy lurex (it makes me think of a shiny rubbery sex goddess) and toraneko as it makes me think of slinky black kitties.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i love it that lurex conjures up such images. its funny, tho too, cos in fact it is just shiny silver/gold thread.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 25 January 2003 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

wrong thread I know, but...

Amateurist is a name that appeals to this jurist
and N. signifies when I'm feeling the purist
when I next cross Delancey, I'll keep an eye peeled for Yancey
but I'll go for Nabisco when I'm not feeling fancy
If it's posted by Raggett, I might want to slag it
But I won't be caught dozin' on Jody Beth Rosen
Tadeusz, Esq. don't wallow in mire
And Matos is the most when the situation is dire
Nevertheless, when I ILx, to clock in a mindtwist
the name that won't hit snooze is the old Rockist Scientist
Many are the names that make a good thread
Not least of them Felicity, notably well-Red
All of that said, and apologies to Ned
As I'm out of my head, it's now time for bed.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 January 2003 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

nabitsuh's real name was amazing right up until I found out his second name isn't "Pitch".

Sterling Clover is good; if only if it sounds so nu-Ivy League.

Tracer Hand sounds like someone from TimeSplitters. Ever handled a sniper rifle Tracer?

But then I remembered you can shorten it to "Nits" so it was amazing again.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

HURRAH!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I won't be caught dozin' ON (!!!) Jody Beth Rosen.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Touche!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

piscesboy

not seen him here round often tho

― erik, Saturday, 25 January 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I like smee. It's cute, and it's a word I use loads.
Sarah McLusky reminds me or primary school supply teachers, or maybe just Grange Hill.

― Celeste (Celeste), Saturday, 25 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I once went by Poops Mcgee.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Saturday, 25 January 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I won't be caught dozin' ON (!!!) Jody Beth Rosen.

*meep*

that's Not what I meant!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 January 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I got bullied and called Mr Keating over on ILM so I am envious of all your names. I like Dastoor (in many senses), thought Wheeler was a good second name back in the old ILE days. The name Minna reminds me of Motherless Brooklyn.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 25 January 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Dirty Vicar is a very good name - if there aren't any other tarnished clergy out there for him to hang out with, then there should be.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a suprisingly dull name for a person named after a diamond mine. I'm always impressed when one of you remembers the "grim" stuff I did for about a month when I first got here - that's two years ago!

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

My name was borne from a (bad) joke, and now I must carry it like a heavy, heavy burden. I would really like to change it.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

My name was born from magic markers and a student council campaign poster. Then it took on a life of its own. I was never a big fan, but it's distinctive and therefore useful.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

What is someone posted as Joe The Storeman?

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

'if'

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I also suffer from having a reasonably generic jew-name, though I suspect it's not as exotic as Amateurist's. But I always thought that Jody Beth Rosen was a fantastic name, a wonderful marriage of form and substance.

Has no-one mentioned Martin Skidmore? Martin, I would assume that was a proper hard-man's name, unfortunately I have read many of your posts on here. You disappoint me ;)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

What? Mike Hodges couldn't have written a character harder than Martin Skidmore if he tried!

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

my name sucks the big wang.

For this reason I hate my last name. It's not even how it's pronounced in Mandarin, you damn deaf palefaces.

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

How can my name remotely sound hard? (And I strongly suspect Felicity is taking the piss too.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not taking the piss. Felicity's Mike Hodges reference is spot on too.

Skidmore could also be a kind of cautionary name, i.e. "Skid more, (x) less".

I'm not making much sense, am I?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 25 January 2003 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I am NOT making fun of you, Martin, although your modesty is becoming.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 26 January 2003 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)

it's not modesty, it's anger.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 January 2003 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, I'll believe you. I'm not sure how I could come over that way, though. I'm a short, middle-aged asthmatic who coos over the kitten pictures here, so I don't know how I can come over as a hard man.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

motherless brooklyn??
ronan (the name) reminds me of the word 'spry' (not ronan the person)

― minna (minna), Sunday, 26 January 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer Hand sounds like someone from TimeSplitters. Ever handled a sniper rifle Tracer?

Yes, totally, yes. I've always thought that too.

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 26 January 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.scc.losrios.cc.ca.us/~myerst/hands.jpg

― minna (minna), Sunday, 26 January 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

To be honest I don't envy anyone their name. I love mine too much. There is no way I'm giving up my surname when i get married.

― Celeste (Celeste), Sunday, 26 January 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

But you'll sign away all your worldly goods and personal freedom, right?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 26 January 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Motherless Brooklyn is a book, it's pretty good but I don't read anything except papers and mags normally so my standards aren't too high. One of the characters in it is called Frank Minna.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 26 January 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

and they drove a tracer, i think.

― ron (ron), Sunday, 26 January 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan, it's a damn fine book - plot a bit predictable and all, but the characterizations were priceless, and the dialogue amazing. A good investment, me thinks. (And it did win - hmmm - the National Book Critics Award? And was short-listed for several others.)

Have you read Letham's other works? I've "Gun, with Occasional Music" (one of my favorite titles) sitting in my to be read pile.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 26 January 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

We did Motherless Brooklyn as the second and last ILE book group read (search for 'Book Club'). I've read Gun too - I'm a bit mystified as to the amount of fuss about Lethem, to be honest.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I like She Crawled Across The Table bestest by Lethem. Would make an excellent indie film.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 27 January 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, Sarah McLusky is not my real name. I actually did put some thought into it at some point. It's totally easy to find my real name, but it's so boring and common. At least where I live, McLusky isn't too common.

What's this McSlutsky business? I don't mind McLusty though. Seems a bit sassy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

Revive!

I envy Cozen's name so much. I pronounce it the way you do "frozen", and it sounds like the name of a completely malevolent evil overlord intent on taking over the universe and bringing on the apocalypse. It would be a grebt name for a horror movie villain!

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 11 April 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't give him ideas! He will start by turning Scotland into a icy wasteland. *waits patiently for jokes*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

what sort of jokes?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah Raggett, wot u mean?

― smee (smee), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Should I just change my name to McSlutsky then?

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I like minna's name

― Mandee, Friday, 11 April 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

McSlutsky? How about McStereotype?

― smee (smee), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

?????????

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Shakey Mo Collier"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, that McStereotype sounded really bitchy for no apparent reason! Please return to ignoring me completely....

― smee (smee), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I didn't really get that.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Bad day surrounded by bitching females, complete circuit overload Humble apologies for my inane ranting - you should be used to it by now anyway.

― smee (smee), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

No offense taken.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I like all these names for various reasons:
Fields of Salmon – you gotta love that imagery.
your null fame – fey and cool without being shite.
Amateurist – cos it carries loads of connotations.
Kate the Saint – has a sweet ring to it
Julio Desouza – cos it sounds nails.
Sarah Starry – cos it’s kind of hippie which is all good with me (no offence if you is a hippie hater Sarah).
Minna - just like the name loads.
And I always find myself wondering what the ‘Q’ in Dave Q stands for.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"Quality".

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

That, or "quim". Your choice.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Slightly offtopic, I only just realised that Roger Adultery and Roger Fascist are two separate entities. Sorry, rogers.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Hehe, what about 'Quincy' - Dave, do you have a penchant for detective work on the side from a day job as a hard-nosed autopsy doctor?

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

The Q stands for 'Queen.' Seriously (it's printed on the sleeve of various Brazen Hussies releases).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dave Q" sounds like the Morning Zoo DJ from hell!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I guessed that! I just thought it would be Queen because they were kind of a glam band for a little while and Dave Q loves glam. I didn't read any sleeves or nuffink.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

(also I like that he writes it in lowercase because the tail/serif on the "q" looks like a foot stomping down)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Rah for Nicole's powers of deduction! I admit I had no idea myself until I saw it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

wow a discussion about my name upthread that i never saw before!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Rockist Scientist & Masonic Boom as names.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The only answer possible: CHAKI

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 11 April 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Once, a long time ago, someplace else, I went by Whirlpool McDouglas. I keep meaning to resurrect it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 April 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I honestly get a little kick every single time I see 'donut bitch' under a post.

I love Luna's name, it's gorgeous and makes me think of watching a full moon glowing on the horizon over the ocean and reflecting on the water.

There's something unwholesomely musical about the names Chaki and Momus, and for some reason I imagine their names could be used as verbs if hard pressed.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 11 April 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

or, better yet, adjectives

― oops (Oops), Friday, 11 April 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Quantick.

(And thanks Nicole.)

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

How is it I've never noticed this before now?

In no particular order:

Rainy - it sounds gentle and sweet and rainy days are my favorites;

Starry 'cos it calls to mind the sky when it's black outside and the stars are merrily twinkling away - makes me happy

Tracer Hand - reminds me of Calvin & Hobbes (which also reminds me of the C&H slash... oh how that hurt me in my heart) and Calvin's alter ego Tracer Bullet, so classic

I, too, get a kick out of donut bitch every time I see it

I like suzy - reminds me of one of my dearest friends

Yancey, cos it's just a cool name

nickalicious just sounds decadent and luscious in some way - sort of like melted dark chocolate and red wine

mookieproof just makes me laugh

(I'm sure there are more, but this is wot came to mind)

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

A favorite quote from upthread:

"I always thought that Jody Beth Rosen was a fantastic name, a wonderful marriage of form and substance." -Nordicskillz

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

nickalicious just sounds decadent and luscious in some way - sort of like melted dark chocolate and red wine

How appropriate, then, that the nickname originated from the mouth of a woman who had a glass of pinot noir in her hand, while I was at work at a restaurant where one of my responsibities was making desserts, many of which required me to melt dark chocolate!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

''Julio Desouza – cos it sounds nails.''?!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I wondered if he thought you sounded tough, hard. You do give that impression on board too. (In person, Julio is far more on the cute side, readers.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Am I a McStereotype of some sort? I wouldn't know what kind...? Or was that not even about me really? I'm confused.

Anyways, I like lots of names on ILX. I'm all lovey dovey and shit.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Ambrose! Ambrose! Ambrose!
Ambrose! Ambrose! Ambrose!
Ambrose! Ambrose! Ambrose!

― Erik, Friday, 11 April 2003 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still puzzling over the McStereotype thing myself.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I admire Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo cos she's been a regular for aaaages and anyone else would have just shortened it by now.

Esp. since I always have to type in the last four words myself.

I thought I was more of a semi-regular, myself.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i always picture the 'q' in dave q as like the st:tng character

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Sunday, 13 April 2003 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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