ILX cosmology: the origins of your user name

God, I dunno. I wasn't there.

When I first came to ILX, I tried to post as "RJG" (my initials), but was stymied because there was already someone registered with that name. I think my first post was as "R. Gr33ne", but I settled on "R. J. Gr33ne" for the time being. Eventually, ILX was closed to unregistered users and I was forced to register. I registered as "R. J. Gr33ne" and used a rotation of screen names integrating my name (R0dney) into whatever phrase I thought was funny at the moment. Eventually, around the time of the sandbox era, I started using "The Reverend R0dney J. Gr33ne". By the time ILX2 came online, I had decided I no longer wanted to use my real name on this site anymore, and since I'd had that screen name for a while, I just shortened it to "The Reverend". About a month ago I created a separate images-off account as simply "rev".

It's the first letter of my last name and my full first name, but not necessarily in that order.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/roundup/flatland.jpg

His middle name is also Abbott!

No special origins, really. Totally random.

xpost

Yo, that's crazy!

And he was married to a woman with my real name (Abb13).

I thought your name was actually Abbott!!

http://www.myspace.com/latebloomertheartist

i don't remember. all i know is that before i registered i lurked and there was already a jackson so i had to come upwith something different

Mine is my real first name. And ''Esq.'' because I'm an attorney.

about 15 years ago I was booking shows at a club. one of the guys who worked there was named st3v3 and when the phone rang a lot it got really confusing. we decided I would be called "sleeve" since it was close but different.

Hell if I know.

started w/ my real name than moved onto this bastardized google proofed thing

i am named after a british spacepop group who released two incredible 45s then lost their singer/songwriter fellow and went terrifically mediocre almost immediately. their original spirit lives on in my username

http://www.blogotheque.net/IMG/jpg/CLOR_-_electric_joy.jpg

The Descendents were my favorite band when I signed up for my first e-mail account circa 1996. I've used some form of milo ever since then.

i am named after a british spacepop group who released two incredible 45s then lost their singer/songwriter fellow and went terrifically mediocre almost immediately. their original spirit lives on in my username

You mean it's not founded in backwards JOSE?

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The singer in my band was called Steven, he posted as steve.n, my name is Emily, I post as emil.y. Blah. He was responsible for the most awesome 'songs my boss is singing' compendium, though.

hangon are you from C.E.?

Sleep soundly tonight, ILX - they're my initials.

Is your first name Zebulon?

Zsigmond

(His last name is Snoo)

No! But the a while ago my dad notified me that my name was almost Jebediah. Instead they named me after a wee little man in the Bible.

we've done this before, haven't we?

mine: not after the damned song, nor the cartoon character who inspired it. it's actually after a character (dr grimly-fiendish, with a hyphen) from a (rather wonderful) children's book called "the founding of evil hold school", written by the (rather twattish) nikolai tolstoy and published in 1968.

why did i choose it? i dunno; i think i'd been tidying the bookshelf the day i registered with ILX and must have come across it. actually, my original registered name was "grimlord", and i've no idea whence that came either.

You are so not a grimlord. In real life at least. (I'm sure you glower effectively, though.)

:D

er, i mean:

>(

or something. nah, fuck it, can't even glower properly. got the eyebrows for it, mind.

This is true.

the "g" stands for "great" and the "r" stands for "rock" since that is what i came to ILX to learn about.

the "8080" references the year 1980 which is when rock started to suck.

The singer in my band was called Steven, he posted as steve.n, my name is Emily, I post as emil.y. Blah. He was responsible for the most awesome 'songs my boss is singing' compendium, though.

-- emil.y, Friday, May 23, 2008 3:57 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

someone link me to this thread. i hope its as funny as i remember it

A thread for Steve n.'s list of songs that his boss sings

rebus4u:

http://www.impawards.com/tv/posters/felicity.jpg

+

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1204/889302987_da160eb647.jpg

Sorry so big.

Probably pretty obvious but ENBB are my initials. Erica Nicole B (first initial of my last name) B. (first initial of my husband's).

J.Lu = my name according to the old J.Lo formula.

I'm latebloomer, so-called because I discovered this forum recently. I'm a 21 year old um, "music fan" from Greenville, South Carolina. I like stuff like Wire, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Pixies, and all that jazz (or rock, whatever.) I also love Hardcore, Punk, Speed/Death/Black Metal, etc. Electronic music appeals to me as well. All around a stereotypical dweebazoid. Thank you.

-- latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:10 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Yer welcome!

-- Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:57 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.nba.com/media/act_danny_granger.jpg

mine's an old printer's instruction used by proofreaders, picked on a whim for some grammar thread post.

we've done this before, haven't we?

Yeah, because I've told this one at least one other time: it's a variation on "Hardrock," a nickname my sister's boyfriend gave me when I was four or so. (He named my brother "Nails".)

this is my 4th ilx name. first one was my real name, but then i was looking for a job and thought i'd ungoogle myself. so i was "spittle" for a while (i do not know why, it was the word i typed in), until someone made the reasonable point that it was an unappetizing name. so then i was gypsy mothra, which was derived from a name i had used elsewhere. and then in the sandbox i changed it to tipsy, which tagged along to ilx2.

the good thing about this is since most people who aren't jaymc haven't kept track of me, i can revive threads i started under the old names and otm myself.

It's the return of Bin Laden, grab your armor
Smash pretty boy niggas, crush they karma
Eat bones with alligators, roll deep, with my entourage
My whole crew's fresh out the bars
Diggler, AKA the Cab Driver
Drop him off in the middle of fire
Dirty Island, drag bodies to the murderland
Knock niggas out hurtin' my hand

I was thinking about favorite ilx names other than BIG HOOS, and there is at least one other that is not coming to mind right now...but in the meantime, heave ho followups are definitely in contention, i'm thinking

god told me to name myself chaki

I've been trayce for much much longer than on ILX, this came with me from being on usenet since the late 90s. And yet oddly, I was never on AMA.

It's too long of a story to explain here.

I was nearly named Rosamond, so I think I got lucky.

joe shea

How did your online name come into being and when?

Oh, and

http://www.arkansas-real-estate.net/images/arkansas.gif

dibs on eureka springs

or maybe rector paragould

where sunny successor?

(on map)

Some random website in Russia that was a page full of Cyrillic except for "Elvis Telecom" at the bottom. Always meant to change it when we went to nuILX code, but well there you go...

Posting anonymously for ages, decided to register, couldn't think of a name, was listening to the Kinks.

Abbott, who was dangerously cool too begin with, cubed her coolness by being named after E. Abbott Abbott.

Anyway, I posted under my real name for a while, then decided that, what with my real name being so consummately googleable, I'd better switch. Casuistry is, among other things, the art of persuading something of something through slightly incorrect argument. It was also the name of a song off my band's first album. And it's fun to say.

Then someone went and made a movie about killing a cat.

Mine is a by-product of a hideously unsuccessful mission to get people in the real world to call me "Edwardo" as a nickname rather than "Ed" or "Eddie", both of which I consider inferior.

Well, Rob's my first name and M is the first letter of my surname. The 'v2' came about because I registered once upon a time and forgot my email login and password and couldn't be bothered to dig around so I registered again.

I combined my obsession with Stevie Nicks and Punk.

Mine is nothing to do with the cocktail, the character from Full Metal Jacket, the bizarre sexual practice, or balls made from compacted snow.

tremendous humanoid. there might have been an acronym at one point.

I think I originally registered as "lathanund", which is a pretty transparent jumble of my real name. Never posted, forgot both password and e-mail.
Rabies Angentleman is a dumb, bogus stage name I thought up for a short lived band a while back. It was between that and Wade Up. It's a case of repeated bad judgement, I use this sn a few other places, too.

Dibbs on Yellville.

I am legendary. Or, I resemble a small shelf.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/graphics/legendarystardustcowboy2.jpg

THE LEDGE

"he's so ledge"

I liked the way someone online announced their love for Timi Yuro.

http://www.art.org/exhibitions/archives/2004/images/music04_legendarystardustcowboy.jpg

ILX needs more pictures of the Ledge. period. straight up.

http://www.highlinefestival.com/images/artists/legendary_stardust_cowboy.jpg

ok I'm done

omg wow. Casuistry is my new word of the moment.

i am downloading legendary stardust cowboy greatest hits as we speak. soon i will know whether to thank or curse rabiesangentlemen.

My parents named me Tuomas. It's the Finnish variant of Thomas/Tomas. Sometimes I wish they would've given me some really old Finnish name instead of a Christian one. But I kinda like it how the Biblical Thomas doesn't believe Christ was resurrected until he sees the wounds in his arms. So he's like the OG sceptic. I've yet to see the wounds of any deities.

Ok. I could say The Legendary Stardust Cowboy is better than Bob Dylan, and that I will never listen to him again. But neither of those would be true. Anyway thx RnG, I think.

Haha, if you're into outsiderish Songs In The Key Of Z stuff you might like him. "I HATE CDs!"

Some pretty fun music.

Used this name since '94 or so, chose it from my last name, a lifetime of listening to american radio comedies, and Eddie Murphy reminding me of it in "Beverly Hills Cop II"

j-lo adaptation of my pseudonym.
i've been a greg for as long as i can remember. only my parents use my real name now. friends have gone years without realising my name isn't actually greg.

It's my initials! Plus jel actually sounds like a name. Started using this name way way back in the late '90's in an internet chat room! OMG!

friends have gone years without realising my name isn't actually greg.

!! I mean, I figured the surname may have been a created one but I had no idea that was the case, dude.

I guess that means I get to chalk up another one on the scoreboard \o/

Jean-Luc Godard is my hero

My parents had a premature baby boy a few years before I was born who only lived for a day or two. They named him Matthew, and when it came time to name me they couldn't agree on anything other than Matthew again. So, I have a dead older brother with the same name as me, hence Matt #2. True story!

(I just pasted this over from the other thread, worth repeating though)

i've been a greg for as long as i can remember. only my parents use my real name now. friends have gone years without realising my name isn't actually greg.

-- g-kit, Saturday, 24 May 2008 20:13 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

It's okay Calum, we support you.

Oh shit, I'm sorry if that counts as a meta-bitch, it wasn't meant to.

My parents named me Tuomas. It's the Finnish variant of Thomas/Tomas. Sometimes I wish they would've given me some really old Finnish name instead of a Christian one. But I kinda like it how the Biblical Thomas doesn't believe Christ was resurrected until he sees the wounds in his arms. So he's like the OG sceptic. I've yet to see the wounds of any deities.

If I remember correctly Thomas actually said:"Who's Jesus?"

:D

I used to post as Maria D until someone (I forget who) suggested I incorporate ^ into my name. My last name is the same as that freaky xtian band that dress sometimes as nurses.

Sometimes people call me the Karate Kid.

it's, uh... my name.

Stop being so damned literal.

it's an interesting story

Current = anagram of real name
The Vintner's Lipogram = uh I think I was committing wordplay while drinking wine?

I started out on ILX (as well as other Internet sites) using my real name, but then I got Google paranoia around the time I graduated from college and started looking for a job (because no employer in the world would hire me if they saw all the goofy childish nonsense I write on ILX), so I decided to use an alias.

Anyway, for those who don't know, Mr. Snrub is Mr. Burns in disguise in the monorail episode of The Simpsons. But the Mr. Snrub thing is getting old. Maybe I'll change my name sometime soon.

I picked the name for Greenspun ILX, because I had got fed up with my old name, and then started using it everywhere. The name appealed because I like vicars, and I especially like dirty vicars.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11571/11571-h/images/097.png

"Hey, check this out."

I had registered with ILX just before it changed and you couldn't change your screen name, then forgot my password and just decided on this thinking I could change it easily.
It's from a TV advert for Take a Break or Pick me Up where they have people dressed as the Village People singing a YMCA- type song but in small print at the bottom of the screen they have had to say "Not the real Village People" which I found amusing at the time.

Started posting w/real name, then phreaked my surname so it read "Norman Phay" for awhile, then went to unitelligable hax0r5p33k version of this "|\|0|2|\/|/-\|\| |*|-|/-\'/" for a little while longer. Hit on "Pashmina" because it was completely random & had no connection whatsoever to my real name. At the time there was this spoof chatroom thing that ran in the guardian that was funny maybe twice in it's 3-4year run of being featured weekly, and one of the fake contibutors to that was called "Pashmina" - I used it instead of the other alternative I had, "Apricot", because I'd just read the one funny instance, or something like that anyway. Yuo got to larf, inchar.

Tenuous joke dating from circa 2001 referencing university colleague. Maintained it for all of the, oh, three times I've 'DJed' and at opportune moments like when choosing a screen name minus inspiration gland

that was funny maybe twice in it's 3-4year run of being featured weekly

it was?

it was of the books " Jeff Lint " wrote in the fictional biography "Lint" written by Steve Aylett.

also according to google, It's a carpark in spain!

I once had a Hebrew school teacher who instigated a project to trace the origins of our last names. We couldn't come up with anything conclusive for mine, though I think we did find some town in Poland called "Gubin".

Best non-car-related item among list of brand names people in middle school thought of my real name as sounding/looking like (cf Nissan, Mitsubishi, etc.). One modern-day search engine thinks my name is a typo committed by someone looking for Mitsui brand data-storage products, so I may someday update things.

mitsui otm doesnt have the same ring to it

"Who is this Mitsui fellow and why is he always so OTM?"

[.], [nabisco]

just checking

originally derived from the character elmo oxygen from soderbergh's schizopolis, with the last part periodically revised when display names could be changed, though always keeping the same metrical scansion. when registering for nuILX i was locked into 'argonaut,' which suits me fine.

uh, couldn't say

I had a terrible cold.

The SUPERKIDS system of Karate was developed by Sensei Wally Slocki. It is a study in movement education. It involves an understanding of how certain body actions or movements are performed and of the results they can produce.

At a time when there is a general outcry against a lack of discipline, dishonesty, criminal activity and the general breakdown in etiquette, the Slocki-Ryu Karate System proposes to assist in addressing this situation by exposing students (as well as the public at large) to an Oriental tradition which propagates the opposite.

Slock on, slock off.

Two of the first ILXORs i met were SteveM and MattDC. I just thought this was the done thing. So I did it too.

"Met"?

"Hi. Mynameis SteveM. Whatis yrname?"

Well, er, yeah. I was meeting ilxors at FAPpy things for a good few months before I ever came to the site.

Zeno comes from italo svavo's book, not the philosopher, nor teh combination between zen and eno, though it could have been the origins of my nickname, which make it more perfect.

Mine came from here:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1970-11-08.aud.weiner.28609.sbeok.shnf

I've never seen the film.

My username is a childhood nickname my dad used to call me. I wanted it to be something else, but the system fucked up my registration email and my original name is in limbo right now.

My display name is a reference to George Cukor's 1939 film "The Women"

Was originally felcher in the pre-urbandictionary.com days because I was a teenager and thought it was funny. decided to change it but keep the "fel" for some kind of recognition, so then it went to Felonious Drunk. Got tired of that, kept the "fe". Fetchboy is the name of a play that a good friend of mine wrote that some friends and I made into a film and did one wreck of a live performance of.

My friend told me Whiney G should be my MC name in 11th grade. Ended up being a nickname that stuck around for over a decade.

Thought I did this at one point. One of my nicknames in high school was "Big E" (cause I'm a big guy named Erik - my friends weren't that original). In college, I met several other Big Es which made it less than useful as a nickname. About the same time, I first heard "Easy Snappin'" by Theophilus Beckford, and EZSnappin came into being.

Of course, then I started insisting people call me by my name so it lived on only in email and online.

My user name is my name. My display name is from Spicy True Stories, Investegators Lies, Slanders and Stocks by Sylvia and James E. Gibson.

Deric is my real-life first name. I think the rest of it came from a dream I had (as have several of my display names)? And it's funny because I have no hair! Do you get it?!? Ha, ha.

(My current display name was transcribed from an early-20th Century Kewpie comic strip, BTW.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIhhPPRq_0

It's the name of a piece by my favorite composer, Messiaen. "He derived the title from two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, which roughly translate into English as "love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death", and described the joy of Turangalîla as "superhuman, overflowing, dazzling and abandoned". :D

first four letters of my first name, middle initial : /

it's also meant to look a bit like something to write in a sound effect bubble for when batman punches someone

many drunken nights (and days) at mcgill university in montreal

This thread is like a veritable who's hoos of ILX

hoos explained "HOOS" to me IRL iirc

did he explain HOOS or BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

i do not r this c

do tell

It's the name of a piece by my favorite composer, Messiaen

Aw and here I was hoping it was because of Futurama =)

(nb I did know about the musical score too tho)

saw some idiot in World of Warcraft with the name Rockapads (a reference to the Roca Pads thing in The Chappelle Show), and apparently I still thought it was funny enough a few days later for it to be the first thing to pop into my head while creating a username for this site. have been meaning to make a new login for about 2 years, but i just never seem to get around to it.

I guess I should do the origin of Sick Mouthy; about 22 years ago, a primary school teacher swapped the first letters of everyone in the class's first and last names, and I became Sicholas Nouthall. Sick Mouthy evolved out of that and the habit I used to have, aged about 20, of typing absolutely disgustingly profane things in MSN chats with my mate Karim. And it's been a useful not-quite-anonymous forum 'handle' ever since.

Mine started out as LolStein from a Duras novel, then I couldn't remember my password, and ilx wouldn't send it to me. So now it's just my name.

I didn't really think of anything else while I was registering, so add a boring "a" to my name. Now I kind of like it forces you to pronounce my name closer to how it's supposed to be pronounced (in Spanish).

add=added
...kind of like it because it forces...
arghhhh, I hate typos.

My blog is Troubled Diva, hence t-diva. I actually kind of hate it.

i do actually like cats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg-iKP0zI9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n31UTrA_gHI

Mine came from this thread: which is the most blood diamonds pet in uniform. At the time it was tears-to-my-eyes hilarious. Now I'd just like to change it.

"He derived the title from two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, which roughly translate into English as "love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death", and described the joy of Turangalîla as "superhuman, overflowing, dazzling and abandoned". :D

Turanga Leela is also http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/bios/bioLeela.jpg

My favorite Beatle.

hehe :)

it was just the first word that came to mind when i had to rereg for nu-ilx

¯\(°_o)/¯

I had a stonerific moment with a music theory class in high school ("polyphony is the meaning of life, maaaan"), and it has been my default username ever since.

iatee = my first name, backwards

(it's hebrew...)

I like the balance between not completely abandoning my real life name + not being googleable

I was given this by the IT department at my last job and I like it better than any other permutation of my real name

unfortunately, gmail won't let me reg it!

thinking about going with something a little less googleable, but I'm sure there are hundreds of D. Yao's out there

• One prominent character from the book, Steve Shasta, is left entirely out of the movie, possibly because the movie winds up being a coming-of-age bromantic tragedy largely about Stacy, so there's no room for observations about a guy who's getting a great deal of sex himself. Shasta is a self-aggrandizing blowhard who spends a lot of time in the local media, talking about his sports successes in highly printable, colorful soundbites. He also tells everyone in school that he's celibate, because he's saving all his strength for wakeboarding. This makes him seem inaccessible and mysterious, and gets him a lot of blowjobs from a lot of girls, including Linda Barrett herself. The book includes a number of colorful Steve Shasta stories; he's about as big a character as Linda or Spicoli or The Rat.

^ Huh! I had no idea.

I'm still surprised that Bill Drummond hasn't sued me yet.

well now that you mention it

shakespeare innit

lol i always thought ilx's steve shasta was an actual wakeboarder. i blame this on an AIM chatz conversation from about 2yrs ago

my display name is poor hoos' enforced-by-management phone greeting at the hotel where he works

Wait, so Steve Shasta's not his real name, but he still invented wakeboarding, right?

I am quite literally some dude.

it's a reference to some film my friends and I thought was really great when we were 16. I used it for another message board I used to post on (board no longer exists) and ressurected it here because I hate thinking of usernames and don't like using my real name.

I want a new one.

• One prominent character from the book, Steve Shasta

^ Huh! I had no idea.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:44 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Neither did I! Awesome! I wonder what else we're going to learn on this thread - maybe HI DERE's other name was inspired by French champagne brand Dan Perrygnon?

"I am quite literally some dude."

Any relation to Any Major Dude?

my name was inspired by me creating my username as a one-off joke with the intention of changing it to my real name after my first post; I quickly discovered that we couldn't change our usernames so there you go

named after beautiful and sublime football mascot

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511tr-Z4VOL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

My name is of English and French origin. It means Gale of the long fields. My parents were really something else. Does anyone else have a meaning to there names?

From the Jerry Cornelius wikipedia entry: 'Shaky' Mo Collier, a companion on many adventures, and also supplier of many and varied drugs to almost everyone. He almost acts as Jerry's right hand man always there when needed, although somewhat unreliable in execution of tasks. (Created by M. John Harrison, rather than Moorcock.)

mispelled in tribute to that other famous "Shakey", Bernard Shakey (aka Neil Young)

"I am quite literally some dude."

Any relation to Any Major Dude?

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:16 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No, I am just some dude.

It's the short form of my first name and the first letter of my last name. I probably didn't need to post to explain that but there you go.

my display name is the funniest but truest line from a man is the bastard song.

my user name is a leningrad blues machine song title but i made it dumber for some reason.

Erica Nicole BB = my last names

ha - just saw that I'd already answered this last year - whoops.

does anyone call you nicole?

No, never. I sort of like Nicole though and pretty much always use my middle initial when I sign things etc.

e-nicky-beebee?

I like it. ;-)

mookie - have you answered the question at hand?

http://www.stevesilberman.com/celestial/rimbaud/rimbaud.jpg

obviously. And a loving description by LJ on a WDYLL thread in front of it.

Euler = lol math. It now startles me when I read something that refers to the real Euler, like "oh shit they're talking about me...wait, no, it's about the *real* Euler". I'm very tired of this name but I guess that's what changeable display names are for.

in college i played hoops with this indian kid whose last name was mukkama1a. he wasn't particularly good, but he had this weird fall-away right-handed hook shot that was surprisingly effective. but he could never get it off against me, probably not least because i was eight inches taller. thus, i had mookieproofed the basket.

kinda tired of it, but it is never taken when i register for things, so...

Ha - I like it even more knowing where it came from.

Originally allocated to me on trying out second life, being the one positive thing to come out of that wretched experience; subsequently given to the protagonist in my book, as yet incomplete; then adopted here, but not sure what the thinking was as I don't remember signing up to ILX at all. I have grown to like it very much, particularly for its googlability, and suspect that my protagonist will have to get himself a new handle before he becomes a household name. I'd adopt it in real life too, but my mum got my ipod engraved with my real name last christmas.

GALE!!!! You need to post here more often!

named after rocky balboa

username is a common mispronunciation of my last name. display name is a random Bible verse concerning the (alleged) shoddy workmanship of the walls of Jerusalem.

GALE!!!! You need to post here more often!

I was gonna say!

at first i thought that ENBB was an obscure myers-briggs personality type

Ha! FYI - ENBB is an ENFP.

In the late 90s I wanted to sign up for one of these fancy webmail email addresses. Every combination of everything was already taken, which amazed me at the time ("there can't be that many people using this Internet"). The prefix "fields of" came from a trend in 80s and 90s music to have "fields of" in the title of something. I have no idea where "salmon" came from. So literally it was the first thing I could think of that wasn't already taken.

mookieproof backstory = great!!

i finally found this on youtube, here's the lamont cranston band song that i'm named after...basically they were a local kinda sub-j.geils band from minneapolis that i think was even on a major for like a couple albums, but the local classic rock station i grew up with play they occaissionally and before i knew about "cool" local music they were the only mpls band besides like prince and stuff like that i knew about.

the youtube comments say they used to play this during fights at north stars games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-APQzV73YY

Ismael klata's name isnt really ismael klata?

Wtf

disappointments lurk everywhere in this life

mine is my first name and first syllable of my last name with punk rock connotations

*oops, that should be the first letter of my last name as it's pronounced

it's the name of the track which was playing as I signed up to ilx

It's the title of the memoirs of a bitter actress in a TV comedy sketch.

I am, as it turns out, a spoiled bologna sandwich.

my previous username was jim in glasgow, which i started using because i found the "x in y" username funny. i retained that name for a couple of years after having moved away from glasgow, someone pointed out it was inaccurate and i created this new one.

my original DN on ilx, circa 2006, was "jimnaseum" lol

i first signed up for ilx when i was 16 and working at a sketchy call centre part time after school. you didn’t have to use your real name on calls so my friend and i used to play this game where we’d write names for each other on scraps of paper and whenever you get a call you open the paper right before you introduce yourself. the goal was to write the silliest fake name possible to try to make each other laugh on call/to hold in your laughter. i still remember a lot of them (though most are too racist to reproduce here) one was ‘samosa gibreel’ which became my first ilx username, and also a bit of a nickname among pals.

a few years later while in college i posted “lol i buy weed off the guy who put out that record” under a post about an album out on a local diy punk label run by my then-drug dealer. a couple weeks later i got a furious message via ilxmail from said drug dealer (luckily he didn’t know it was me) so i ditched samosa gibreel. at the time i was reading Great Expectations in a 19th c novels class, in which there is a character named Flopson who appears briefly in one scene—going through old books at my moms house last year and found the book, i had written ‘lol flopson’ in the margin—and chose it because it sounds milquetoaste and british, which felt appropriate to ilx

mine was the product of about three seconds of thinking haha. had a blog in college called "flawless crowns," named after a raekwon song. i felt that was a little too pompous and full of self-regard, so when i started a tumblr i switched the title to my sillier current user name. i kind of thought it was funny to make a dad joke about a dad rock song, and while it's not funny, i still dig the name.

there is no good reason for this terrible username

I slammed the first two words that came into my head on first logging on to the university library computers when I was 19

Tried to type 'pomentiful' and it came out wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs5eZR34Ps

i was into this track when i created my username. i am still into it, especially the last part that begins at 16:35.

Always read "sarahell" as an Elvish take on "cereal" than "sara-hell" which is much cooler

I just chose something i wasn’t using anywhere else.

Was not aware of the less vulgar alternative. Good to know.

It’s the vulgar meaning I’ve always intended.

Mine comes from mishearing an REM lyric.

I slammed the first two words that came into my head on first logging on to the university library computers when I was 19

― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, February 1, 2021 3:19 PM (eight minutes ago)

I always assumed it was a play on "pig latin"

I sometimes regret my boring username, though I've never liked any other moniker I've used elsewhere

i had zero awareness until right now that flops was samosa, mind blown

Mine comes from mishearing an REM lyric.

― cajunsunday, maandag 1 februari 2021 21:31 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same

Can't fool me. I've read some Rimbaud.

every r.e.m. lyric is misheard by someone

everybody heards bum rhymes -- Mike Stype

So true!

xpost

Tried to type 'pomentiful' and it came out wrong.

― pomenitul, Monday, February 1, 2021 2:20 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

I always read 'flopson' as an alternate version of 'failson'. Who knew there was a literary precedent.

i had zero awareness until right now that flops was samosa, mind blown

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, February 1, 2021 12:36 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same. the xls has been duly updated

I slammed the first two words that came into my head on first logging on to the university library computers when I was 19

― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, February 1, 2021 3:19 PM (eight minutes ago)

I always assumed it was a play on "pig latin"

I sometimes regret my boring username, though I've never liked any other moniker I've used elsewhere

― rob, maandag 1 februari 2021 21:31

in Things I was shockingly old when I learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin

wow I'm leaning a lot today on ilx. first about castration, now this

mine has no significance

I feel like I've said this on another thread but I didn't understand the display name / username dichotomy, I just thought for some reason it was ILX style to have a parenthetical comment as part of your name, so I intended to be called Guayaquil (not a place I have any connection to, I just like the name) but then ILXified it to Guayaquil (eephus!) and then quickly learned that I was signaling that I was actually eephus so that's what I am now. But that's why I never change Guayaquil to anything else.

The eephus! is the baseball pitch, not any other eephus.

Xps yep, learnt about it the meaning of dog latin later on

There must be two of these threads as I'm sure I already explained mine somewhere.

My name is G3rry.

I went through a bunch of mIRC and online gaming (mostly Counterstrike) aliases which were variations on Ger-something like Ger-iatric, Ger-ymander, Ger-anium and... Ger-onimo.

Problem was online Germans kept seeing it as me tagging myself as [Ger]-something and would then attempt to speak to me in German.

So I dropped the Ger- and the onimo stuck. I like it. Except when it's mistaken for (d)omino.

Then ilx found me.

Assumed "dog latin" was from the Kevin Coyne song.

mine has no significance

― Yelp for gyros (wins)

hmmm. ah, now I recall...

the acronym that puzzles me most is: wins

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, August 12, 2016

well I never, sir

― llandfillpollgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (wins), Friday, August 12, 2016

My name came to me in a vision in a bowl of ramen

you winsome you losesome

on a road trip with friends and we were joking about how a waiter might mispronounce one of their finnish surnames and it grew into an elaborate running joke about the supernatural manifestations of good vs evil in the forms of the joy goat and the pain goat

there was some rob base and dj ez rock involved as well

i had zero awareness until right now that flops was samosa, mind blown

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:36 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same

I just thought his dad was flop

id like to meet the paingoat

xp My name comes from mishearing an REM lyric, too.

Same

sup

Problem was online Germans kept seeing it as me tagging myself as [Ger]-something and would then attempt to speak to me in German. So I dropped the Ger- and the onimo stuck.

I had been spending too much time on the fringes of an online community with a disproportionate number of extremely earnest trotskyists, maoists etc and I thought claiming the mantle of the true left would be funny and provocative. it doesn’t translate at all and it wasn’t that funny in context either

The first time I had to create a username online circa 1995 I was listening to nothing but the Descendents and Buzzcocks. Pete Shelley lost out to Milo Aukerman as a reference. Future usernames were variations until 2004 or so.

assumed yr username was a reference to what elvis did vis-a-vis "the building"

xp

my initials

Literally just my first and last name minus vowels. It's so dumb.

I first coined this for my tumblr (2011-2014). I don't really like it but I don't want to change it either. Within ILX, I have lived previous lives as:

telepathy_rock!
Z_Ayres

Treblekicker is a Pavement reference. It's the name of the label of their first single and publishing company.

https://www.discogs.com/Pavement-Slay-Tracks-1933-1969/release/875338

I realise that alot of you already know this.

Assumed "dog latin" was from the Kevin Coyne song.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, February 1, 2021 4:05 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

same tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJCAYNTTEc

Sarahell's username origins are precisely as i presumed but i thought "onimo" was one of those display names that means "display name" in another language.

Forgot about that memory tapes track, i liked it too.

when I posted to the local Orlando BBS "Demanding Times" around 1995-1996, my original user name was Flipper, but I thought that was lame and wanted to change it. One day I was postin' in the chat and my brother and best friend were there too and they started making fun of the sloppy way I communicated, saying I sounded like a caveman. so I changed to Neanderthal.

obv I didn't start as that on ILX, but after the permanent stain on the BJO nick, and after I got ran off the board by max and grady when I was San Te, I later came back as Neanderthal, then used a few other nicks, then came back to this when I forgot the passwords to the others.

I assume the origin of my dn is apparent, we listened to John Strauss in my 4th grade music class. The teacher explained that "die flademaus" actually means "the bat" but I still thought it was a funny word and a couple of years later when we got our unlimited dial-up AOL it became my screen name.

lol yeah I like yours because I legit thought that was what it was called when I first heard someone say "Die Fledermaus"

Already said mine, my current screen name I'm sticking with because i like it, its from Kimmy Schmidt when Titus snidely calls Lillian "stoop crone".

Mine is a character in Trollope's Barsetshire series; I chose it more or less at random because I was posting on the Guardian books blog and wanted an identifiably female screen name. Eventually I started posting more on the Guardian music blog than the books blog, so when I came here it seemed reasonable to keep using the same name.

Your dn is my favorite because i thought it was in reference to the spiritualist/psychic community in western ny (and so did not identify it as a female dn)

“unperson” is a name I’ve used in several other contexts over the years; I just really like the word/concept. “but also fuck you” is something another ilxor typed at me one day and I immediately adopted it as a username.

cool

presumably an unperson was a person at some point before their personhood was removed, thus making them even less of a person than a nonentity

even cooler

hearing my name
is better
than seeing
my face

i thought it was in reference to the spiritualist/psychic community in western ny

I didn't even know about that community! Maybe I should change it.

Mine comes from the title of a book I was reading to my kids called That’s Not My Lion. Great book for the under 6s.

my name is a combination of my initials and a silly reference to the old commercial slogan “pork: the other white meat” which i used to find hilarious and baffling when i’d see it on tv as a kid. someone eventually pointed out to me that there was another ilxor who shared my initials and that my name seemed like a reference to him. i don’t remember thinking about this when i made up my ilx name and now i honestly feel a little awkward about it! but i’m also too used to my current name to really want to change it now.

There was a poster called "m the g" for a while, and I had to keep checking it wasn't one of my posts

I didn't even know about that community! Maybe I should change it.

No, don't! :(

in college i played hoops with this indian kid whose last name was mukkama1a. he wasn't particularly good, but he had this weird fall-away right-handed hook shot that was surprisingly effective. but he could never get it off against me, probably not least because i was eight inches taller. thus, i had mookieproofed the basket.

I love this so much <3 <3 <3

I didn't even know about that community! Maybe I should change it

I like crosswords

In my head I sometimes call you nag a ram thanks to this Google Easter egg when you search for anagram.

Did you mean: nag a ram