How did you come up with your Screen Name for the Ledge?
 

I thought it would be interesting to find out how you all picked your screen names for the Ledge. Of course mine is mainly my first name, but since there was already a David here, I decided on the Mn at the and because 1. the initial of my last name is M, Marx,and 2. Mn is the abbreviation for the state I'm proud to call home, Minnesota.:)

I used just WelshWitch for a lot of my screen names when I had WebTV. When I got a computer the screen name WW was already taken so I just added my initials on to the end to sort of personalize it. I use that screen name for just about everything except for MySpace.:shrug:

Interesting thread...

Mine comes from the name of a sort-of-inspired-by-Stevie-and-Lindsey short story that I wrote in March of last year, a few weeks before I joined the Ledge.

Cool. I like your story.:nod:

Thanks ... a few weeks after that though the movie 'Sahara' was released and I was super-angry for quite a while ... darn plaigiarism!! :laugh:

But I'm over it.

Damn, it's probably too late for a lawyer.:( :lol:

Well...
 

I just used my former main email name "estranged4life" (I still have it, but f**kin SPAM eats that acct on a daily basis) and thought I would use it here to annoy everyone with trying to determine what it's true meaning actually is.

The real meaning...Is that there is no meaning!!! I just wanted the word "estranged" as my email addy since the GNR song of the same name, has been one of my favorite songs of all time...But, of course, "estranged" taken. Deb decided to add the "4life" as a joke and my system accepted it...So.....

If I could have any screen names now, I think I would use either Brian_Trades (Which is my screen name at metalsludge.tv) or Hellboy

I've probably explained this before, but...

It's an inside joke between myself and friend/former manager of mine. I work as a veterinary receptionist and have off and on for the last five years. Apparently my telephone voice is much different than my regular speaking voice. According to my former manager, (and according to some other people as well, including some of the practice's clients I've spoken to) I sound like a phone sex operator. She informed me of this one day and insisted that I should take it up as a second job and go by the handle "Miss Vicky." To this day, whenever she calls me, she wants to know how much it is per minute.

So when I went to choose my screen name it was the first thing that came to mind. I also use it on all of the other boards that I've joined.
:o

The one I had at the BuckinghamNicks forum is/was downcomesthenight. I had that line from The Chain stuck in my head at the time, and I love the way Stevie sings it live: "down comes the nii-yiiiiiight". When I signed up here, I wanted a name that combined my love for both Stevie and Chris, so... goldustsongbird was born. GDW & Songbird represent to me, respectively, what each of them is all about - sort of like their signature songs. That's basically the one I use now when I join Mac related forums, or sign up for stuff.

Well, I joined The Ledge around the time SYW came out and I loved Illume (like a diamond snake in a black sky). Now, years later, I like Destiny Rules, which uses the same phrase, better. Go figure! Anyways, I really like my screen name, but it makes me sound kind of mean. Like I'm a snake in the grass! Something about snakes makes me sound like a jerk. But I still like my screen name. And, whenever Stevie says "Diamond Snake" in one of her songs, I get really happy! As if she is talking to me!

Mine is so boring. Jannie is my nickname and I would have just used that, but someone else has it, so I just added the "c" from my last name. B-o-r-i-n-g.:shrug:

Very boring here. Richard is my first name and the B is for "just to be"

Stupid, huh?

Because ThumpHerOilyHairPins was too long to submit! :laugh:

dude, your bn sn was hot!

mine is boring. my name and birthday.

It's an homage to one of my favourite movies, Nelly et Mr. Arnaud. I composed it with parts of the two leading actors' names: Michel Serrault and Emmanuelle Beart.

Romy

I drive a truck :rolleyes:


and I thought you were Brad and Angelina's little alien baby :shrug: :laugh:

You're just a snake with some bling, that's all :laugh:

I took my screen name from by birth name, & slightly adapted it.

You're right, that is sooo boring. ;)

Nearly 18 years ago a deviant creature was hatched and given the name Tynan.

This creature has been the inspiration for every name I have held since...I like my name and show it off whenever I can, although it does cause problems with some people thinking I'm a chick :laugh:

When I see your name, I automatically think of the English drama critic Kenneth Tynan. :thumbsup:

No surprise here - I'm a redhead, soooo Red it is!

" I was born in the desert, .......so I know how it feels there....." (sorry, I know how much everyone HATES desert angel:laugh: I just like that line.) When I left Phoenix Arizona to go and live in Australia for a few years Phoenix was all I could talk about, and people even started calling me that by name. Of course now that I am back here, All I can do is Talk about Australia!! Also, I have allways been inspired buy the Mythical bird that rises from the ashes and sings its beautiful song that gave my city it's namesake.. I find it a comforting and motivating symbol it helps remind me to "rise" in times of adversity.. I also LOVE that Stevie loves Phoenix as well, and calls it her place of inspiration and healing. That is also how I see the desert. It is hot,yes, but the sunsets are beautiful.........

I have brown eyes...and I like brown eyes the song...:wavey:

(0511... 5 members make up the chain...11 is my lucky number)

I wanted something Stevie-esque and I didn't want to be sister of the moon 52 or rhiannon 81. I wanted something that no one else really had. I sort of have golden colored hair and I had my hair in a braid at the time so golden braid seemed to fit for me. "Golden braid" seemed to flow more to me than "gold and braid."

8.3 Villavic 8.3
 

Does anybody remember the 8.3 character limit from old computers??

well my name is Carlos Villavicencio and I've been working with computers for 20 years, I guess.

I used to work with mainframes, they had a limit of 8 characters for naming files and programs. Even PCs with DOS had 8 character limit for file names and 3 characters for file types (like autoexec.bat) (8.3 format they called it)

Well I used to put my name in programs I created, but the field had 8 character limit so I couldn't write VILLAVICENCIO, I always wrote VILLAVIC

so everybody at work started to call me Carlos Villavic or just Villavic !

And that's the story

Hands down you have the most kick ass name. Ever.:cool:

Well, clearly it doesn't have anythign really to do with FM, it is just a name I have used for a while.

My ex and I formed a puppet company when we were busy creating a puppet production for a festival. The name refers to what were sort of junk collectors in England, who used to walk the streets with horse carts calling out for "rags and bones" which meant any old thing you didn't want any more. Then these things were re-used or sold. Our puppets were largely composed of materials we scavenged from junk yards, thrift stores, and neighborhood put-out days, so they were literally out of scraps. We found out later that there is another, older puppet company with that same name.

I kept using the name for email, and forums, because it fits my personality, even without the puppets. I like to dig through card catalogues (well, I did) browse the shelves of libraries, dig around the internet, and I eavsdrop a bit too. I think writers are sort of rag and bone collectors as well.

There, what a long answer! I hope I don't kill this thread - I seem to do that a lot!

"Don't take me to the tower................."

I had a Latin teacher before I dropped it a few years ago who was a real character. He would always give his pupils nicknames because he was a little eccentric.

Mine was Peestie because it combines the start of my first name and start of my sir name... sorta... I you just took the first few letters of my names it would be "Pest" if you took the first 2 or "Petsti" if you took the first 3 (Peter Stitt). Peestie just looked so much better written down and was how it was pronounced.

To start out with people called me it mockingly (they were jealous their nicknames weren't as cool ;) ) but I liked it so I didn't mind. Now it has stuck and for the last 6 or 7 years just about no-one calls me by real name. Even my other teachers call me Peestie now and even my parents on occasion.

...... I'm confused. :p

Breton Banquet is the name of my horse - he's an ex-racehorse hence the ridiculous name... his parents were called Brittany and Nosh, and a common method of naming them is to link it in with the parents names. So, 28 years ago, Breton Banquet was born, and more recently I figured it was a good name for me too :laugh:

When I joined my favourite two songs were Blue Lamp and Battle Of The Dragon, and since I couldnt figure out how to shorten Battle, so I went for Blue Lamp. I added "The" because there was already a bluelamp and also to sorta pay tribute to THE blue lamp Stevie had and wrote about. After a while I sorta looked at the name and laughed at it...Trust me to name myself after an inanimate object :laugh:

It all goes back to the time I forgot to zip up completely before going outside one January day...

No? Uh, would you believe it's from my given name? Chilton Wilbur Diaperthwaite.

Really, I just wanted a penguin-related name and I've always liked the cartoon.

Okee...
 

"the being known as wondergirl is speaking, I believe..." is a line from my favorite Monkees song, Randy Scouse Git. I wasn't an FM fan yet when I chose my screenname and email. I was trying to use something from my fave songs and thought wondergirl was pretty cool. Someone else was using wondergirl around the net, so I added the 9847 which is from another Monkees song P.O. Box 9847.

Wah-la.

Go ahead, LILY
VIOLET and blue
ALICE

What's in a name?
 

I may have answered this before as well as "Miss Vickey" said...
here is my story.

I love the moon!
I could stare at it for hours and hours out my window or from my deck...
I am always facinated by it ! and have been since I was a little girl-
Musically, I loved "Sisters of the Moon when it came out (I could relate of course) plus there is also a Sting tune called "Sister Moon" that I love :)
But since I also love "Storms" and the line of ~~always be a storm~~,
And since I believe that I have such a fractured personality/and intelligence...
Nothing about me is total (like a full moon), so,

I refer to myself as~~ eclipse~~
It is only part of the moon and appears when you don't expect it...like me

I also use it to identify myself as well on any other board or chat or whatever- so if you see a post from ~~eclipse~~ somewhere-It's me.

No their baby is going to be named Godzilla.:laugh:

Now that is clever! :)

I don't exactly remember...