Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic What’s the story behind your usernames?

Some people just use abbreviations of their names as usernames, but most people have a lot of names with some kind of anecdote or story behind it. Not especially unique, mostly, just something that means something to them personally. I’ve seen Elvish names, funky names and plain weird names. And I’m curious about every one. “Ultrawoman” seems straightforward but does she like the character that much, or is it something personal? How did our esteemed Editor-in-Chief become Doc Klein’s Labrat? What on earth is a Metro Rhodes? Why does Ann like to be called TOC (Table of Contents?!) Does bakasi mean something in German? I know that “wen” means maiden in Elvish but what is “Doranwen”?

So if anybody would like to explain their username, please go ahead! I’m sure a lot of us will love to know!

I’ll start. Just don’t laugh!

Lady Mirth is a derivation of my name, Hasini. “Hasaya” is the Singhalese archaic term for laughter, and “Hasayani” or “Hasini” (abbreviated) means “The Laughing One” (Female). Hence, Lady Mirth. The folk in my country lay a lot of stock in astronomy and so forth, and all our names are usually made of a long process involving star-charts, auspicious events, numerology and horoscopes of three generations. In my case, I’d say they hit bull’s eye! I live to laugh.

Okay. Now your turn!

(And yes, this is also the first in a series of shameless attempts to win my Kerth back!)

If I remember correctly, I just carried my name over from the Charmed boards. theblackshadow sounded Charmed-eque to me hah, and it made me think of Cole's shadow. So I just shortened it to Shadow when I got here. Although I'd be interested in digging up the old thread from the last time we asked everyone to see if this story is true LOL.

JD

Mine isn't all that original at all... LaraMoon is from a song title.

My absolute favorite band in the whole universe, Arena , has a song called "The Eyes of Lara Moon" on one of their albums.

I'm fairly certain none of you have ever heard the song and probably haven't the slightest idea who the band is (they're a British progressive rock group) - if you *do*, then by all means, PM me, I want to know who you are!

Anyway... that album came out not very long before I started writing fairy tales (in French) and I wanted a name that fit well with the genre, so I picked that. I kept it when I came here, because... you know... Lara... I don't think I really need to spell it out, do I?

Now, just for the laughs... If it hadn't been for that song, I would likely have been known as "The Masked Carrot" - that's my secret identity. *lol* It's a pun made from my real name + the mask, cause, you know... most superheros have one. hehehe!

Here's the thread on this one from way, way back - worth looking at as it has some interesting explanations:

Nicks thread I

[You'll also note in that thread that shameless attempts to up post counts are apparently traditional on this forum. ]

And GMTA, Hasini! I've been thinking about doing another thread on the subject for the past couple of weeks since, as you say, we have so many new nicks to wonder about these days. Thanks for bringing this one up again!

Keep them coming - I find this fascinating.

And, see, learning something already. For some reason, I'd always assumed that LaraMoon had an anime connection. Oh! Just realised that's probably because of Sailor Moon (that is anime, isn't it? It's not a genre that interests me, so not that up on it.). Duh! :rolleyes:

Anyway, this probably proves you should never assume...


LabRat

Assuming anybody really cares: Dandello has been my nom de web for almost forever. Dandello was the first victim of a transporter accident - the white cat in the original The Fly - all that was left of him was his meow.

My other nom de web is SHADO Librarian - which I am. I host and manage the SHADO Library & Archives

Ah, no, that's not a German word. At least not that I know of. No, bakasi is made from the first letters of my first names. Ba is Barbara.

Great thread!

I am just an adventurous sort of gal, that's to say I am not in for the money but for the adventure... I also wanted something to do with "Lois and Clark, the new adventures of Superman" .

Sometimes I wonder if this "In4Adventure" nick even makes sense. But I didn"t really have a lot of time to think about a nick and now I really like it!

Natascha

LOL <snort> You've got me? <g> Rhodes is my last name. I would love to live in Metropolis (and my muse does) therefore = MetroRhodes.

<sigh> It was my weak attempt at being creative.



-- DJ

Definitely fun reading the posts on this thread.

Sailor Moon is anime, yes. And that's as much as I know. Never watched it, not a big fan of the genre...

You know, it *is* possible that Lara Moon has an anime origin... I just might go and post a message on the band's message board and ask them. *lol*

Lara, where oh where, does this sig come from?!

It's not weak! I like it. Although it puts me in mind of a pert little red Formula One racing car. Now what, is the why of that?

Not much of a story to my nick...my brother gave me that nickname when I was about 14. I have no idea why, and in fact, he also has no idea why (I asked him a few years back). So as soon as I got my first e-mail address, I started using groobie (since any combination of Susan Young, syoung, etc. is always taken), and I've gotten used to picking it as my nick for any place on the web. When I wrote my fanfic, I wanted my real name attached to it (vanity? pride? arrogance? not sure!). I like having a gender-neutral nick, even though sometimes I end up with porn spam that I would NEVER be interested in!

It's a quote from one of my stories.

Reversal of Fortune

Cornelia is very simply my first name. I´m not so creative.... :rolleyes:

But it´s relly interesting and funny to read where your nicks come from! I have always been thinking of creating one, but I never get far. All I come up with is "Conn" because my younger sister always calls me that way.

Well, I wanted something to do with L&C and I'm not a creative person. At first, I used Lane_Kent, but I grew bore with that nick. So I changed it to LK, later to my initials and for some time I used my own name. Yes, I get bore easily. :rolleyes: I change my wallpaper and screensaver every week or day. :p I wanted another nick, and I was thinking of using my real nick, Deia. But one day I was seeing the Ultra Woman episode and decided to try it. I thought that nick would be already taken, but for my surprise it wasn't. So, I took it. I liked the nick so much that I stopped changing it. Ultra Woman is one of my favourite episodes. I'd like if Lois could keep the powers. And yes, I'd love if *I* could get super powers.

Andreia
Ultra Woman

Huh? Please explain, Haisini.


GMTA?? What’s that mean?


I think I always did understand yours, DJ, but maybe you explained it way back when we did that silly round robin.


I love classical music and I'm a classical pianist - thus Classicalla. My alternate nick that I sometimes use on the web is Meowoof. That comes from my love of both dogs and cats. It's also a character (well, sort of - it's a cat) in one of my fics.

You asked Hasini, but I'm grabbing any chance to get my Pulitzer back.

Andreia (in a shameless attempt to up her post counts and get her Pulitzer back)

Hasini's referring to the recent change in member status...es.

GMTA = Great Minds Think Alike.

LOL, Andreia - you nipped in while I was composing.

LabRat

Mine's explained in that older thread Lab linked to, so I won't bore you guys (and wear out my fingers) repeating it.

I did want to respond to this, though:

Oh. Huh. I always thought it had something to do with the ancient city of Rhodes (capital city of the Greek island of Rhodes , best known for the giant statue at its harbor, one of the Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World, known as the Colossus of Rhodes .

Keep forgetting it's actually your name, DJ. Silly me.

It's the "metro" that throws me off, since it does come from the Greek for... mother? Huh. You know, I always just associated it with "metropolis," a big city. I knew "polis" was the word for a city-state, but never really knew where the "metro" came from. Just looked it up. Turns out "metropolis" (metro polis) means "mother city," which refers to the capital city of the city-state.

Which I guess means that if you're in Paris, you can take your mother to work.

Learn something new every day, huh?

(And I see the rest was answered while I was writing this up, so... never mind.)

Paul

I'm pretty sure I mentioned this in another thread but when I checked the link that Labby provided I didn't see my story there. Maybe it was wiped out by that myterious crash that Wendy mentioned in the opening post.

It's really not much of a story. When I first discovered the archives it was before I had my own computer. I saw someone else with my name had written a couple of stories. So I didn't want there to be any confusion between him and I if/when I wrote something so I had to use something other than my own name.

My involvement with the message boards and subsequent fic writing came at about the same time as my first home computer. When setting up my email address I wanted something that people who knew me would remember, but not use my own name (which was being used for my, then, work account). So I picked my old college nick name of Tank. My friends have known me by this nick for many, many, (many) years so it would be easy for them to remember. So my email address became TankW1.

When I decided to dive into the fic writing pool it was natural to use Tank as my username. It would be different enough to not be confused with someone else, and I wouldn't have to worry about that other guy's stories being confused with mine.

Even though most of my friends now days don't actually use Tank any more, my best friend's dad still calls me Tank. I've also decided to not only use Tank Wilson as my nom de plume, but I have also exported the name into my musical works. You know, so I don't get confused with that other guy... the one from the beaches of California... the one who's written a 'few' multi-million selling smash hits in his day.

Tank (who finds it amusing that even though she knows my real name, Wendy refused to call me anything but Tank when we met a couple of years back)

P.S. A few years after college I found out that Tank had been my paternal grandfather's nick name