What are the origins of your fluther name?

I just picked mine without any plan or anything.

My friends and I spend so much time on the river in the summer, and a couple of us in the winter icefishing, that we got nicknamed river rats. Since I am the only one that lives on the west bank I am the West River rat.

I chose Hungry Guy as my pseudonym a few years ago when I started writing erotic horror stories. I used it on several story publishing sites, and it has become my online persona on other sites as well.

I chose harple because I play the harp, and harple sounded cute, like a little harp playing jellyfish or something…. (People often think I’m called harpie, with an i, but that’s something quite different!)

No planning, but I wanted something that I wouldn’t ever have reason to regret making into my name, and sort of made me look more professional than any ordinary random name. I like my name being able to be pronounced. I also do not like numbers at the end of the name. @PhiNotPi fit all of these criteria to an acceptable degree.

Mine contains part of my first name and also reflects one of my loves in life.

Mine is my name it means born on Wednesday.

I’m unoriginal…

It is a part of my original email address. Which is based on my real name.

I needed a username, looked out the window, and this is what I saw. :)

I changed my username so I had a good think over it.
As most people know here, I am a milk freak. I love love love milk. And, I’m a chocaholic, and MilkyWay is the name of a chocolate bar.
I also consider myself as having an open mind, so I thought MilkyWay suited me best.

I was not very creative at all.

My real name is Aurora. Skylight is another way of saying Aurora (Borealis) and is not quite as common as I have found Aurora to be when I try to use it on a community website. I have been away for a year, but was coaxed back by a great person I know from another site. Glad I’m back. Thanks Hain_roo!

I don’t remember and that drives me crazy!

It has nothing to do with your multiple visits to China, @chyna?

It’s the name of a collie I used to have. Still haven’t forgotten her.

It’s an oldie and I’m lazy.

My name is Ash-Leigh, but Fluther wouldn’t let me use a hyphen in my username.
I’m so creative.

My name is Bill, and I’m a doctor.

I feel like a weirdo for having a first name that isn’t my real first name as my username. Basically, I really liked the name Mariah when I was 13 and I discovered AiROW.com. I figured it was ungooglable so no one would find me there under it. When AiROW shut down, a bunch of us migrated here. This was several years later, and I was no longer so into the name. But, I wanted my old AiROW buddies to recognize me, so it became my Fluther name too. Cool story, I know.

My legal name is Brian Nineteenfortysicks, which almost rhymes with my birth year. -p

Well paradox has several meanings and it being a fact that I’m interested in anything considered odd or unique <—- (one definition of paradox) such as the paranormal, electricity, ufo’s, etc. 25 is the number of my birthdate which I have used since users on other sites have used my initial name paradox.

It’s a pun on my name.

For years I made handmade mixed-media art cards for elderly, sick or homebound members of the church I belong to and several others. One day a woman at my church called me the Card Angel and then a few other people began to refer to me as such. I liked it since I felt I was bringing a little joy into other people’s lives with my art.

I still make cards but not nearly as many since my disabilities have gotten worse. It is my favorite thing to do. I wanted to make it my profession but life had other plans for me.

When I was on Answerbag, I went by Noidea831, which was my old AIM username. I made a friend on there (who is now and has been for over three years one of my best friends who I love deeply) and she told me I’m “a real bastard… A fiddle playing creole bastard!” She came up with it because I’m part creole and I was learning fiddle at the time. I promptly changed my name on Answerbag and it stuck when I migrated here.

Fun fact: The friend who gave me this name was actually a jelly very briefly and a lot of people from Answerbag remember watching our friendship begin and flourish.

It’s the town I live in. The Coloma/Lotus river valley in the Sierra Nevada foothills where gold was discovered in 1848 kicking off the California Goldrush.
Actually I live in Lotus and my real name is Laurie. Laurie in Lotus. lol

www.coloma.com

Dominic + X = DominicX

:)

I really like fairy tales. Of my favorites this ones sounds the most gender neutral. People would be even more confused about my gender if I was going by “Sweetheart Roland” or “The Robber Bridegroom”.

I’m Kate…and I’m pretty great.

Lingua… phile. Kinda self-explanatory.

Velocipede is an old term for bicycle, velo for short. I’ve been an avid cyclist for a long time. I used to love the almost meditative state when out on a ride of 60 or 70 miles. I rode my bike to enjoy riding my bike. Then I heard this story:

A Zen Teacher saw five of his students return from the market, riding their bicycles. When they had dismounted, the teacher asked the students,

“Why are you riding your bicycles?”

The first student replied, “The bicycle is carrying this sack of potatoes. I am glad that I do not have to carry them on my back!”

The teacher praised the student, saying, “You are a smart boy. When you grow old, you will not walk hunched over, as I do.”

The second student replied, “I love to watch the trees and fields pass by as I roll down the path.”

The teacher commended the student, “Your eyes are open and you see the world.”

The third student replied, “When I ride my bicycle, I am content to chant, nam myoho renge kyo.”

The teacher gave praise to the third student, “Your mind will roll with the ease of a newly trued wheel.”

The fourth student answered, “Riding my bicycle, I live in harmony with all beings.”

The teacher was pleased and said, “You are riding on the golden path of non-harming.”

The fifth student replied, “I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle.”

The teacher went and sat at the feet of the fifth student, and said, “I am your disciple.”

White noise is random, static noise with an the same avergae amplitude all over the spectrum.

That is a bit like me, I have an opinion on many things, that can be very different from topic to topic. I’m all over the place.

Mine is from a play by Shakespeare called Cymbeline. I just though I was all original by replacing the C with an S. I chose that back on AnswerBag though, and was too lazy to think up something new when I came here. I should have picked Chainsaw or Xena. But eh, really I’m fine with it.

Hah! Love everyones sharing! :-)

Mine’s just a lyric from a song I love.

King of my own domain (myself). Always end up unwanted by and unaffiliated with all, a pariah.

August is my birth month, and LAN are my initials. I am frequently mistakenly called augustian, though. :(

@augustlan lol, at least your l-i confusion doesn’t turn you into one of these!!!

@harple True! You’ve got it much worse, you harpie, you. :p

Goldie is one of my real life nicknames, and I found Fluther when I was kicked off of Askville, along with a group of others who came to be known as “The AV 16.”

That was so long ago, I wouldn’t mind dropping the AV16 part…

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away,

Like @Mariah mine is a name that is not my name. It does have a small connection to Wilma Flintstone, but that is a longer story.

I love to cook. Indian food is my absolute favorite and the spice cardamom, that is often used in Indian cooking is really delicious and smells wonderful. The squash was just a nifty photo that I took at the fair and kind of went along with my interest in cooking.

@GoldieAV16 – If you PM @augustlan she can change it for you. I dropped the “39” from my name a while back.

Aye, Auggie will change it; but only once, so make sure the change is what you really want. She can change it more than once, but other than the one chance you get, it has to be for a real valid reason.

I love & live for wildlife. Once, I had an English Sparrow as a pet she had special needs, and lived for 7yrs with our parakeets

I am of German heritage. and a bunch of other things ;) Spatzie is a term of endearment, and the nickname for these dear birds.

I love jazz (and jazz musicians) and the jasmine plant is one of my faves.

88 is double infinity sideways.

That’s all I wrote.

Mine is from the movie Excalibur. Towards the end, just before the final battle against his nephew-son Mordred, king Arthur pays a visit to his estranged wife Guenevere for some friendly chit-chat (they hadn’t seen each other in some twenty odd years, so they had a bit of catching up to do). During their wrinkler’s reunion he said to her “I was not meant to live a man’s life, but to be the stuff of Future Memory”.

Don’t give me any lurve, please. I’ve cut and pasted that answer six times now.

@FutureMemory Lol. I gave you lurve anyway. That movie kicks ass, it’s awesome that your username comes from it.

<shakes fist at Symbeline>

You are so evil!

Oh yeah well…WHOM DO YOU SERVE???

Saruman..?

Damn straight. TO WAAAAR!!

@FutureMemory, you accept the lurve you think you deserve.

Sorry, cheesy nerdy book reference you may or may not pick up on…

Sounds familiar.

Lurve love, right?

Yup!

I love nature, I love trees, and I love the Adirondack park.

I think @FutureMemory is using reverse psychology… It worked. :D

I should have known this would happen.

Because I am legally the Second (named after my mom) some friends started calling me “The Twoth” and it became Tooth. It was the 70s and we were really impressed with our own cleverness. I also got a frog tattooed on my boob in the 70s. Kinda splains the mindset.

@JilltheTooth , I got a ladybug tatooed on my hip in the early 80’s. looks like we were cool before it was cool.

@JilltheTooth Wow! Your name actually makes sense now. After all this time…

And you guys just thought I had funky dentition, huh…

Yep! I thought it was the fang you have. ;P

Fangs a lot!

Here ya go. The real reason for my username… XD

Hey, how’d you get a photo of my mom?!~

Luke @SpatzieLover I am your mom! Darth Vader voice…

My name is on my Birth Certificate and the police car was issued to me by my police department.

What else can I say?

In a reply on my question about the fluther community, Marinelife said that with a username like mine I would fit in well here (I wonder why? O.O ). The reason I picked “Bent” is twofold: It refers partly to my sexuality (not straight) and also to my disability (I have scoliosis; abnormal curvature of the spine).

@Bent: That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I too have scoliosis, but luckily a mild form.

Keep your homophones straight and your apostrophes in check here, and you can be as bent as you like in any other areas.

It’s a given that you already seem to be at home.

It’s because I’m underground like a wild potato.

I am a collector and user of rare expensive and hard to find vacuum tubes .i use them in my two channel stereo rig and my guitar amplifier.

A vacuum tube fetish…well, now I’ve heard everything. lol
—Welcome TubeGuru”. Kinda fun to run your name together..I think I shall call you ” Tubaru.” hahaha