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Nov. 21st, 2002 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetSince many of us seem to be meta-journaling here, writing entries discussing interests or people on friends' lists, I ask you this:
Tell me about your username. And/or, if it differs, the name you have put into the "title" line.
In some cases, it's pretty obvious; a few of you have simply chosen to go with your actual name or some version of it. But for others of you I'm simply baffled.
And for those of you who are using your real names -- feel free to talk about that, too. What has prompted your bold stand for identity in a world of pseudonyms?
Or something.
Meanwhile, I will write about "fest noz."
'Quislibet,' were it not for that pesky crack-induced "S," would mean "whoever" in Latin, with the sense of "whoever you wish." When I first signed up here, I had it in mind to be mysteriously anonymous and to write in Latin, as I had done in a paper journal years ago to practice my mad Latin Prose Composition skillz. After two months of not doing anything at all, I decided instead to keep a regular old livejournal and to start adding to my list the journals of friends I had been reading, thus announcing my presence.
So isn't that exciting?
Tell me about your username. And/or, if it differs, the name you have put into the "title" line.
In some cases, it's pretty obvious; a few of you have simply chosen to go with your actual name or some version of it. But for others of you I'm simply baffled.
And for those of you who are using your real names -- feel free to talk about that, too. What has prompted your bold stand for identity in a world of pseudonyms?
Or something.
Meanwhile, I will write about "fest noz."
'Quislibet,' were it not for that pesky crack-induced "S," would mean "whoever" in Latin, with the sense of "whoever you wish." When I first signed up here, I had it in mind to be mysteriously anonymous and to write in Latin, as I had done in a paper journal years ago to practice my mad Latin Prose Composition skillz. After two months of not doing anything at all, I decided instead to keep a regular old livejournal and to start adding to my list the journals of friends I had been reading, thus announcing my presence.
So isn't that exciting?
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Date: 2002-11-21 07:45 am (UTC);)
You first
Date: 2002-11-21 07:46 am (UTC)Re: You first
Date: 2002-11-21 07:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 07:46 am (UTC)Tamarisk= old egyptian word for the sacred sandalwood the priests used for the inner sarcophagi in the mummification ritual.
Why? Because I wanted a unique e-mail address and etc., and every version of my old one (baalat= meaning "lady or noblewoman" in sumerian or mesopotamian... I can't remember...) was taken.
Hope that answers your question! :)
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Date: 2002-11-21 07:51 am (UTC)After staying away from LJ for so long, I felt that when I did give in, I had to credit my previous stance of abstaining from LJ. Switching 'I' to 'Eye' was, uh, just for fun, but it could be about watching other folks LJs, if I was, like, deep or something.
-ia.
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Date: 2002-11-21 07:52 am (UTC)when asked about a username, i tried to pick something that worked for both of us. i had been playing the vampire RPG at the time, and she really liked rabbits. so the Vampire Rabbit of my childhood came up.
since there was an 8 character username limit, the second "n" was dropped (it's properly "bunnicula").
and it has lingered ever since.
i try to avoid using my real name in general, as that's a very quick "test" for people - if someone sends me an instant message / email / whatever, and calls me "bunicula" in the text repeatedly, it's likely not someone i know, even slightly.
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Date: 2002-11-21 07:59 am (UTC)I take it you know this journal (http://www.livejournal.com/users/beluosus/).
Mine is modeled after a precious fallen angel.
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Date: 2002-11-21 08:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 08:05 am (UTC)as years went by, I realized that there were a whole shitload of Xanadus out there on the internet. Around the same time, I was working at TIAC (funny how many nicknames have spawned from there), and Wyatt one day told me that I was being "zany" and from then on, he'd call me "zanyboy". I liked it, and adapted it into xanyboi.
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Date: 2002-11-21 08:09 am (UTC)(And even if I had, I would have thought of Coleridge and perhaps Olivia Newton John, but not Rush.)
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Date: 2002-11-21 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 10:20 am (UTC)Re: Once upon a time....
Date: 2002-11-21 09:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 08:23 am (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=ta_chuang&itemid=245679
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Date: 2002-11-21 08:43 am (UTC)in the end, you're still you.
and, besides, I felt like retiring c'ris.
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Date: 2002-11-21 10:18 am (UTC)For economy of typing, no doubt.
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Date: 2002-11-21 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 09:13 am (UTC)I assume it is the female version of Cayetano, which derives from the Roman name Caietanus, which meant "from Caieta". Caieta (now called Gaeta) was a town in ancient Italy, its name deriving either from Kaiadas, the name a Greek location where prisoners were executed, or else from Caieta, the name of the nurse of Aeneas.
phew!
Well, it's my great-great grandmother's name. And she was from Mexico.
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Date: 2002-11-21 10:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 09:23 am (UTC)Buster Lobulz is the name I was given by my Seattle Friends way back in January. I was complaining about "Chris" being too common and my friend Beth said "You're name is Buster, man!" and so it was. Lobulz came from playing pool with my Friend Tommy one night. He was drunk and said "You Busta Low Balls" since I'd gotten the low ballson the pool table thrice in a row.
This led to my other, rarely used nickname: Stella Highballz
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Date: 2002-11-21 10:17 am (UTC)At one point or other I noted in my head that possible connection concerning your e-mail address, although I didn't know if "Fenzle" was some preexisting name of yours that ended up in the game, or what...
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Date: 2002-11-21 09:40 am (UTC)I started using "Pariah" and "Pariah Paragon" as nicks on dialup BBSes in the early 90s. Around 95 or 96 I was moving away from my most common nick, "Orion Bain" (still visible in my email address) but "Pariah" was too common.
At the time I'd been watching the Gargoyles cartoon and they'd introduced a new character, "Coldstone". Then a line from Nick Cave's "Curse of Millhaven" got stuck in my head as "...off to the asylum like a cold stone pariah..."
The full name was too long to fit as a Quake nick so the first two words got abbreviated. Been using it as my primary online handle since then.
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Date: 2002-11-21 10:33 am (UTC)Muzzie
Date: 2002-11-21 11:20 am (UTC)My name is often pronounced as Muzz-in-sky.
My grandfather had a similar issue, and had his name shortened by his friends, and other family members to Muzzie. Why it skipped my father, and stuck on me, I'm not sure...but that's it...
Nice little family heirloom of a psudeonym
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Date: 2002-11-21 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-21 01:09 pm (UTC)I've been told that my journal actually caught
I've gone through a lot of handles in my day, and amberspyglass is actually a brand-new one for me. My usual handle these days is hapax or hapaxlegomena, which
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Date: 2002-11-24 08:28 pm (UTC)