inBOIL

Mine is the name of a character from the book In Watermelon Sugar. It was one of the first novels I read that I could understand beyond the basic story, and inBOIL exhibited many of the flawed characteristics that I have when I'm at my worst.

What's the meaning behind your handle?

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

Fotzlid

Mine means absolutly nothing.
A few of us were stoned one day during a study period right after lunch in high school. We were making up new words and having a hell of a time doing it. This was one of the words I made up.
No idea why I still remember it.

Hain

I finally changed it to something universal. Sam Hain is the name, and ... something is my game...

I'll figure something out.

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uncle phil

i'm right-handed and it's easier for me to pick up on that side...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

mixedmedia

it was the name I used as a bookseller on eBay...I liked it, though, and it just kind of stuck with me

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

ObieX

Obie a nickname from an old name i used in other places, the X is a remnant of the old name.

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We Must Dissent.

Manic_Skafe

The first half is the result of experimenting with phenecyclidine and the other stuck from my days of being a teenage vandal.

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"Porn is a zoo of exotic animals that becomes boring upon ownership." -Nersesian

jewels

Nothing more than a nickname.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain

BadNick

1. stumble into titty board here
2. notice other sections of this forum are interesting and decide to register
3. puritanical/catholic parochial warped morality background immediately suggests "Bad" due to the initial attraction, plus real name "Nick"
4. nothing a few extra minutes in purgatory won't change to "angel"

Herk

My pops wanted to me Hezikiah Zachariah Herkamer Sherwood. My mom told him, "No way," and I ended up an Adam. This earned me the nicknames Herk and Hezi. Both of these have always been my handles. Also, TheHerk sometimes; like in WoW and Enemy Territory.

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-Blind faith runs into things!-

dlish

i was dlishsguy previously..means absolutely nothing. especially since i didnt intend on staying on TFP for longer than a day. but then i realised that TFP was deeper than that and decided to lurk for a while and finally stay.

ive been dlish for a while now.. Jazz chose it after i asked TFP for alternatives

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

ÐiGiRed

A guy I used to go out with called me Digital Redhead 'cause I was always online.. and when I started using the name on forums people would call me Digi Red for short..

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Don't drink and park, accidents in cars cause people.

Manuel Hong

when I first found TFP, it was mostly a pron site (or so it seemed at the time waaay back in the fark days v.1), so I wanted my name to make me appear to be male. I didn't want to be harassed as one of the only female members on a board of hungry, horny wolves. I pondered for a long time before I came up with it and it really tickled me!!!
soon though, the mods (mostly Halx at the time) kicked the bad boys out and the TFP we know and love began to take form. Then I went through some mixed feelings about keeping the name, but it has rather grown on me. I must assume that there are quite a few people that don't know me that still think I'm a guy on this board, which is fine. It may scatter some gender bias...
Great idea for a thread...I look forward to reading the rest of the posts!

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Believe nothing, even if I tell it to you, unless it meets with your own good common sense and experience. - Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)

MexicanOnABike

This name goes back over 10years for me. an inside joke from french class with my friends. I just decided to use it since it's totally unknown. (no, I am no mexican.)

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Leto

I'm a fan of Dune. I also like the character which is not central to the plot at first blush.

Eweser

I've raised sheep for ~15 years, it's a play on "user"name, and it's female. Now that I'm getting out of the sheep business though, I guess I need a new name....but I'm not very creative.

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"Whoever wrote this episode should die!"

alicat

Mine is also a play on words. Obvious I believe. It's my first name and I'm a cat person (and dog, bird, fish person really, I'm an equal opportunity pet lover ). Apparently I'm not that clever based on how many times it's taken already when I sign up on sites.

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'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun, The frumious Bandersnatch!'--Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

snowy

Mine is a reference to Hedwig, Harry Potter's owl. I didn't want a name actually involving the name Hedwig, as at the time the movies hadn't come out yet and my thought was that some people might mistake a reference to Hedwig the owl as a reference to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and that was totally not what I was going for.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jinn

Jinn from Djinn, an Islamic concept of "evil genies" who meddle in the affairs of humans. Also a summon in the early Final Fantasy II days, was either Ifrit or Jinn depending on the translation.

Kai from randomly mashing the keyboard when Jinn was taken on an MMORPG I played at the time. It just stuck. Turns out it's a word with a lot of meanings - my favorite being a 'type of throat singing used by indigenous peoples.'

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"I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel

Tully Mars

Tully Mars is a character in a couple of Jimmy Buffett's books. In "A Salty Piece of Land" Tully moves to the Yucatan having been a landlocked cowboy in the cold north. I've never been a cowboy but I have felt landlocked over the years. When I moved to the Yucatan the handle seemed fitting.

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I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo

Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

ratbastid

Cagney homage.

Willravel

Mine was already tattooed on my scalp when I was born, fulfilling the first of many prophesies.

spectre

Initially, I didn't think I'd be here for very long, and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Now, I think more people know me by this name here than the one I usually use online, but I've gotten used to it and like it.

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"Fuck these chains
No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

canuckguy

I'm a Canadian and also a dude...


use to be brian1975 but wanted something new.

RetroGunslinger

I was getting a new email because I hated with a passion what I had used all the way back when I was like 12 or 13, ultimamk, so I kept putting different names in and they were always taken. Then, I thought: what are my favorite things? I like westerns, and I like old shit, so... retro_gunslinger@yahoodotcom baby! Then, because I'm completely OCD, I used it for all of my online handles, unless it didn't fit (The Phantom on Joblo.com and SomeKindaNinja on XBox Live).

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It's a rare pleasure in this world to get your mind fucked. Usually it's just foreplay.

M.B. Keene

Starshine

My friend randomly just started calling me Starshine, and I like it, because I like star shapes.

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I fly like paper, get high like planes

lotsofmagnets

needed my 1st nick about 4 years ago and this just came to my head. it´s a reference to a simpsons episode where skinner dreams of using magnets to detain misbehaving children. the sub-nick of lom has already started to make appearances here i´ve noticed.

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

Leto

and I thought it was because you liked the Bolero...

Willravel

Daphnis et Chloe, actually. Fucking magnificent piece of music.

I don't say this often, but your screen name is way better than mine.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

roachboy

roachboy is a mistake.
i meant to reference kefra, the egyptian dungbeetle god who turns the ball of shit that is the world and makes time happen by doing it. i forgot kefra was a dungbeetle and substituted a cockroach for it.

dungbeetleboy doesn't scan.
cockroachboy is tedious

roachboy i remember.
everyone remembers it.
i imagine because folk think who they take me to be as the kind of guy who'd wake up early after a party and go through the ashtrays looking for wake-n-bake munitions.
but i don't wake up early.

it's a meme

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

cj2112

cj for my initials...2112 for... well if ya don't know, google it.

Punk.of.Ages

My brother was listening to Def Leppard when I made my handle.

I hate Def Leppard.

So, I made a handle in reference to them....

Irony?

P.S. What has seven arms and sucks?

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"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..." - Henry Steel Commager

"Punk rock music is great music played by really bad, drunk musicians." -Fat Mike

lotsofmagnets

an octopus minus a tentacle.

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

Shauk

I opted for a more "male" version of the name.

if you look closely at the year of the card, you'll see how long I've had the name.

ring

Frantic last effort at typing in something not already 'spoken' for.

Eh...the fact it has many shades and variant definitions mighta
had a little something to do with it also.

Martian

Dude, that is so bad. Hilarious, but bad.

Martian has a long and complicated history. It represents an evolution of online aliases that began over a decade ago. I use it now because it's reasonably unique and usually available, and also because I feel that it represents several aspects of my character quite well (chiefly my love of astronomy and cosmology and my oft-felt impression of being an outsider in the game of life).

Also, it lends itself to making a few different jokes. I like jokes.

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

Punk.of.Ages

Perhaps my favorite joke of all time.

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"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..." - Henry Steel Commager

"Punk rock music is great music played by really bad, drunk musicians." -Fat Mike

Willravel

Holy shit I just got that. Heh.

You're not an outsider here.

Daniel_

Beat me to it. Love Dune et seq.

For me - Daniel is my name (not usually Dan or Danny) and most places "Daniel" is gone, so I got into the habit of adding _ to make it allowable. Didn't even look to see if there was a plain Daniel here.

I started out on several fora (many) years ago as "Wowbagger" - I felt attuned to a guy who travels space randomly insulting people in alphabetical order - it interested the rude and the OCD parts of me; but I moved on after a while.

I was Lazarus for a while after I was the only person that came back to a forum after a prolonged and vicious flame-war, but that was only a joke.

I find that as "Daniel_" I tend not to slip into posting as an alter-ego, so I'm more myself and more honest when I'm flying my true colours.

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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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m0rpheus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_%28DC_Comics%29

I'm a fan. Unfortunately when The Matrix came out 80 billion people started using the name Morpheus, so I mixed it up a bit and started to use a zero instead of the O.

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"it never got weird enough for me." - Hunter S. Thompson