How did you come by your alias?

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HARDWARE

Tuesday, July 8, 2003 1:26 AM

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Originally posted by Lerxst:
Saw it in an album liner note and just thought it was a cool name.

Lerxst is the nickname of Alex Lifeson, guitarist for Rush.

And my nick is an old pre-internet nickname for me. As someone who gets along better with the hardware than the people.

Doesn't matter what sort of hardware, anything will do. Cars, computers, guns, houses, if you can take it apart I have always been able to fix it and put it back together.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

VAMPBUNNY

Tuesday, July 8, 2003 3:23 AM

I have been reading a series of books by Susan Sizemore. Can't remember the series name but it is about Vampires and in the third or fourth book. They refere to someone that a Vampire takes as a Companion as a Bunny. Among Vampires that is a slur. A not nice thing to say. You don't say it front of the humans. Like a Boy toy or Girl toy depending on the bunny.

Since ailias are getting harder to come by and I wanted something new any way. I thought I would give this a shot and so Vampbunny was born.

Keep Flying. See you in the world

MANIACNUMBERONE

Tuesday, July 8, 2003 7:38 AM

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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
Weird Story,

I somehow got tagged as Biff while I was in the army.

Later on I was playing in a over 30 hockey tournament ( I was 26 at the time ) the roster was being passed around, and my father told me to use a fake name. I wrote Biff... then couldn't come up with a good last name. So Gino Biffaroni.

It was cool until I assisted on the first goal and the announcer goes " assited by number seventeen GGGinoooo BBBifffffffaroni "

Everyone in the building including my own team looked around and went " WHO "

Ever since, I'm Gino B.

" If wishes were Horses, then we'd all be eatting Steak "

...so, is it said "biff" like just plain old biff, or "beef"?

DRAKON

Tuesday, July 8, 2003 7:38 AM

I just have a thing for dragons. It works as a metaphor for how I feel about the rest of the world, sometimes useful, mostly confusing, dangerous and alien. Also way too volitile for my tastes. But Dragon was taken, and so I mispelt it.

Then I found out, afterwards, that Drakon is both Greek and Russian for the flying lizzards of yore. As well as the name of a 5th century BC Archon of Athens, one of the first guys to write down the laws of Athens.

While he gets a bad rap, because most of his punishments were death, he did bring about two important changes. The first is the concept of "involuntary manslaughter" which was punishable by banishment, rather than death. And second, he severely limited the power of the judges to decree whatever they wanted, giving less wealthy folks a fighting chance in the event of a legal dispute with a richer person.

"My kind of stupid"

PANIC

Tuesday, July 8, 2003 8:09 AM

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Oh, I LOVE the Guide. Actually, I'm reading So Long and Thanks For All The Fish right now. Did you see the TV series?

Nope I missed the series and the radio show. I did however read all the books in the trilogy.

STRAYCAT

Tuesday, July 8, 2003 8:26 AM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
This is the ONLY place I use this alias! (I normally post to MGH neurowebforum. You'd NEVER guess who I am there! ) Anyway, Firefly reminded me of CJ Cheryh's "Downbelow Station" series bc if their common gritty realism and political crosscurrents. The most intriguing character to me is Signy Mallory so I stole the name.

Wish I'd read this message before my last post (on the Heinlein thread, where I mentioned Downbelow in a Firefly context. Glad I'm not the first to spot that link. Wouldn't you love to see Gina Torres play Bet Yeager?

Anyways - I have two main internet nicks - one is also a Downbelow-based nick (but not here)

Straycat comes from a swing band the Stray Cats - probably best known for the 'Stray Cat Strut' - have danced to that song more times than I can remember, with more people than I can remember - hence the name.

Stray

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Also, I can kill you with my brain.

KOFFEE

Wednesday, July 9, 2003 10:42 AM

My maiden name is Kaufman. Back in junior high, my first name (Tracie) is quite common, so my best friend started calling me "Koffee" as a take off of Kaufman as to differentiate me from all the other Tracy's we knew.

It used to be just a thing between her and I, but with the whole internet thing now, I decided it would be a good alias to share with the rest of the world.

Actually, I just had the knickname put on the bowling ball I just got. I can't wait till league starts back up.
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“It's a real burn, being right so often.”

JAVIDRHO

Wednesday, July 9, 2003 11:57 AM

I want to know how the new guy, AnusBob, came up with his name. Now, that's got to be a story worth telling

He writes like he is, perhaps, Asian, and new to the English language. Perhaps it is a translational issue, (dong ma?) If so, someone should be nice and explain it to him. Either that, or he just has a good (and weird) sense or humor (I can appreciate that!)

JAVIDRHO

Wednesday, July 9, 2003 12:17 PM

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Originally posted by Koffee:
My maiden name is Kaufman. Back in junior high, my first name (Tracie) is quite common, so my best friend started calling me "Koffee" as a take off of Kaufman as to differentiate me from all the other Tracy's we knew.

KOFFEE was the first name I noticed when I started reading this site way back when. I used to have the alias CUPAJOE and JAVAJOE, because used to drink a LOT of coffee (I'm originally from Seattle, the home of Starbucks) and my first name is Joe, which is another term for that potent brown nectar. When I moved to California, my favorite coffee house was called Koffee Haus, so that's why your name caught my attention.
Now I'm on the East coast and I get to work at 6am, so I'm back on the stuff again just to stay awake. My wife says it makes me jumpy and irritable

so maybe I'll hold off for now...

CULTTVGIRL

Wednesday, July 9, 2003 1:38 PM

Hi! I'm CultTVGirl and I'm a newbie here!

I came up with the alias CultTVGirl just over a year ago, when I started my own website dedicated to cult tv shows (CultTVKingdom). I now use this alias on several forums and have my own web-log using this name (CultTVGirl's Kingdom)!

Come visit me at: http://culttvgirl.blogspot.com

Book: “A duel?”
Wash: “With swords?”
Simon: “The Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword?”
Zoe: “I think he knows which end to hold.”

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