How did you come up with your Screen Name for the Ledge? - Page 2

bikerchic · #16 03-11-2006, 06:56 PM

I drive a truck

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Originally Posted by Sahara

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.

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

bikerchic · #17 03-11-2006, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by diamondsnake

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!

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

David · #18 03-11-2006, 07:02 PM

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

goldustsongbird · #19 03-11-2006, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

dude, your bn sn was hot!

mine is boring. my name and birthday.

You're right, that is sooo boring.

tynan88 · #20 03-11-2006, 07:28 PM

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

David · #21 03-11-2006, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by tynan88

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

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

Red · #22 03-11-2006, 08:18 PM

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

Phoenix · #23 03-11-2006, 08:44 PM

" I was born in the desert, .......so I know how it feels there....." (sorry, I know how much everyone HATES desert angel

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.........

Brwn_eyes0511 · #24 03-11-2006, 08:49 PM

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

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

golden braid · #25 03-11-2006, 08:52 PM

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."

Villavic · #26 03-11-2006, 10:29 PM

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

Red · #27 03-11-2006, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

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

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

ragandbone · #28 03-12-2006, 02:54 AM

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!

The Tower · #29 03-12-2006, 03:15 AM

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

Peestie · #30 03-12-2006, 07:14 AM

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.