What's the Etymology of your PF Name?

[Moonbear]

Hrmm... so you like long haired dorks, do you?

*ponders*

*plots*

Hair length doesn't matter to me, as long as my guy doesn't have hair longer than mine (don't worry, you'd have to have it all the way down to your butt to accomplish that). It just has to suit the face it surrounds. Some guys look their best all clean-cut with short hair, and some are perfect for the long-haired look, and some are so adorably sexy with a little 5 o'clock shadow!

I'm sure you're not a dork, just a geek. Geeks are the new cool, at least according to me.

 

[Les Sleeth]

Hair length doesn't matter to me, as long as my guy doesn't have hair longer than mine (don't worry, you'd have to have it all the way down to your butt to accomplish that). It just has to suit the face it surrounds. Some guys look their best all clean-cut with short hair, and some are perfect for the long-haired look, and some are so adorably sexy with a little 5 o'clock shadow!

I'm sure you're not a dork, just a geek. Geeks are the new cool, at least according to me.

Could this be a love connection? :!)

 

[Les Sleeth]

Here's a member's name I just noticed: E=penisC^2

Dare we ask?

 

[Math Is Hard]

Here's a member's name I just noticed: E=penisC^2

Dare we ask?

reminds me of that limerick about the man named Frisk. You'll have to PM me if you want to know the rest

 

[cronxeh]

By The Powers of Necromancy and Forum CPR invested in me, I resurrect this thread!

cronxeh..

well actually I usually use cronx
cronx - cron tab daemon in unix + x window system.. cronx. I also used crony - croNY or cronz for consistancy.. so I had 3 bots - cronx, crony, and cronz. I know its nerdy but there you go.

 

[JamesU]

I only chose my name because I'm a sarchastic SOB

 

[Danger]

By The Powers of Necromancy and Forum CPR invested in me, I resurrect this thread!

cronxeh..

well actually I usually use cronx

Thanks. It's only taken about 2 hours out of my evening to read it, but it was worthwhile. I'm glad to see that I've been pronouncing your name properly, if only in my head.
There's no mystery to my name. I didn't realize that there was a fun side to this site until Brewnog corrupted me, so I registered with my normal name. Just about everybody in town knows me as Danny Danger, or Dr. Danger, or just Danger, and it's what I use for putting on pinball scoreboards or whatnot. If I'd known that comedic entries were allowed, I probably would have used my favourite pen name: Julian Stumpwart.

 

[mapper]

I use to make oil and gas field title mapping applications. You give the coordinates and other params and it would print it off to a plotter. The service name in windows the .exe ran under was mapper.exe. I also make maps for video games. Mostly with worldcraft/valve hammer editor. For counterstrike, hl etc.. My friend started calling me mapper and I've pretty much been that ever since. On most forums and email addy's.

Sometimes I am Digitalblast on forums though. Thats just a name i made up one night.

 

[brewnog]

I didn't realize that there was a fun side to this site until Brewnog corrupted me...

I'd like to think 'enlightened' would be a better word to use.

However, I'd be wrong.

 

[Danger]

I'd like to think 'enlightened' would be a better word to use.

However, I'd be wrong.

 

[infidel]

At the risk of getting back on topic...

Mine's pretty straightforward. I'm an atheist and I thought it was a cool name. Also at the time I picked it I was getting into Bob Dylan's "Infidels" album. I use it everywhere I post on the web now.

 

[Ouabache]

Uhh ohhhh two back on topic, anyone want to try for a hat trick?? http://www.deephousepage.com/smilies/spinning.gif

Mine is the French spelling of a river that flows by my alma mater.
(austin zitro, Macgyver and pattylou should spot this right away)

"Oh, the moonlight's fair tonight along the ..."

 

[bomba923]

I'd like my user name to: Scyllitol

(*my favorite organic chemical, its really
just 1,3,5/2,4,6-hexahydroxycyclohexane)
-----------------------------
Anyway, Bomba923 is just a friend's AIM screenname
Intently it translates to Russian; as you guessed,
it means: "BOMB!"
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Back in October 2004, I should
have signed up as Scyllitol

 

[EnumaElish]

(I found out there were some websites dedicated to me by people I did not know ), CLEAN websites, no kinky stuff

You mustn't have seen my shrine dedicated to ye Goddess of dirt and kinkiness.

[edit]I meant, Goddess of perfume and scothiness.[/edit]
*Goes back to read the rest of the thread.*

 

[EnumaElish]

I was kind of disappointed that the number 42 didn't explain his PF name. He's obviously a Lewis Carroll fan, but that still doesn't provide an answer.

Is his name for the King's Rule 42, "the oldest rule in the book", or Rule 42 of the Naval Code (as regards Snark hunting), or the amount of time it takes an underground gravity train to complete one of its trips (at least, according to Lewis Carroll).

Or does his name refer to when the Mad Hatter invited the March Hare to Tea for Two and Two for Tea, and then became annoyed when Alice showed up For Tea Too.

Isn't 42 the answer to "everything and the universe"?

 

[EnumaElish]

Mine rhymes with username.

I thought it was an oblique reference to Malcolm X. (Signifiers have multiple signifieds waiting to be deconstructed.)

 

[z-component]

Very cool thread!

When I first discovered PF, I wanted to use the nickname I traditionally used on the Internet, but, like Moonbear, I thought a change was necessary. My old nickname was prefixed with the letter "z," which always did (and probably still will) remain a part of all of my nicknames for some reason. So, after thinking of some physics terms, I thought of "z-component," the vector component of the z-axis for 3D space. I liked it because it was both original and appropriate for a physics forum.

However, ZapperZ calls me "the orthogonal component of x and y" instead... :P

 

[Townsend]

I thought of "z-component," the vector component of the z-axis for 3D space.

In that case I would have went with k hat...

 

[EnumaElish]

I came across the myth of Enuma Elish in a couple of books by Karen http://www.powells.com/authors/armstrong.html .

 

[EnumaElish]

That just proves Douglas Adams is as big a Lewis Carroll fan as the number 42.

Or it proves that ol' Doug thought it'd be pretty much all over when one hits 42 (as in, years old). (Over the hill.)

 

[EnumaElish]

oh, the etymology of my name has to do with my junkie-like calculator/spreadsheet-dependence. (I am getting much better at figuring by hand, though.)

Have you tried an abacus? More fun than a calc, more versatile than the digits.

 

[Gale]

my name is uninteresting, Gale is the last half of my first name, abigale. I like it cause its the part of my name that's spelled funny, and i hate the name 'abby' though that's what everyone calls me. 17 was the age i wished i was when i joined... 3 years ago... I'm actually really sick of being 17 now...

(18 in 9 days!)

 

[EnumaElish]

my name is uninteresting, Gale is the last half of my first name, abigale. I like it cause its the part of my name that's spelled funny, and i hate the name 'abby' though that's what everyone calls me. 17 was the age i wished i was when i joined... 3 years ago... I'm actually really sick of being 17 now...

(18 in 9 days!)

We will call you Gale17, never Abby. In 9 days, happy birthday, Gale17! Ready for life's responsibilities that come with 18 years of age?

 

[quantumdude]

Wow, someone revived this old thread. I don't think I ever answered, so here goes.

Well, in case you hadn't guessed, I'm just using my real name. PF was the first message board I've ever joined, so I didn't even know to pick a wacky handle. But I wasn't so brave at first, and so I spent the first 2 years or so at PF as simply "Tom". Then I got more comfortable here and asked Greg change my userid to my first + last name, just like Russ Watters, Fred Garvin and Space Tiger (wish my mom and dad had given me a name that cool ).

Actually, I wondered for a while if Fred Garvin is in fact that member's real name. When I first saw it I thought it was a subtle reference to an old Dan Aykroyd character from SNL. I watched him for a while to see if he was going to spam the site with porn. Happily, it didn't work out that way, and I'm thinking that the name thing was just a big coincidence.

For fun, try Googling "Fred Garvin Dan Aykroyd" and you'll probably see what I mean.

 

[EnumaElish]

"Space Tiger" is his real name? No freaking way![Backspace][Backspace][Backspace][Backspace] [Backspace][Backspace][Backspace][Backspace][Backspace][Backspace][Backspace][Backspace] [Backspace][Backspace]I mean, how nice!

Now I wouldn't be surprised a whole lot if his avatar turns out to be his actual photo!

 

[Gale]

We will call you Gale17, never Abby. In 9 days, happy birthday, Gale17! Ready for life's responsibilities that come with 18 years of age?

ugh, you know the only thing worse than the name abby, is when people capitalize it *shudder* but sides, only my real friends call me abby, not pfers. heh.

actually, i want to change my name after my birthday methinks... greg makes that stuff happen right? i'll pm him sometime. i don't want to be thought of as 17 when I'm FINALLY not!

 

[EnumaElish]

actually, i want to change my name after my birthday methinks... greg makes that stuff happen right? i'll pm him sometime. i don't want to be thought of as 17 when I'm FINALLY not!

Yeah, how about Gale18 with an option to add +1 with each October?

 

[Mk]

wow, many posts to this topic so fast!

my real name is skorpiano, but i use kerrie as an alias...

Uhm... me too.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Have you tried an abacus? More fun than a calc, more versatile than the digits.

ooh, I love abaci! I'd really like to try to make one - maybe carve it out of wood and use some semiprecious stones for the beads.
I was just at the King Tut exhibit and seeing all those beautifully-crafted treasures was inspiring. Even the very simple, functional things were such ornate works of art!

 

[EnumaElish]

ooh, I love abaci! I'd really like to try to make one - maybe carve it out of wood and use some semiprecious stones for the beads.

I thought of making one out of cloth hangers and beads (clothespins being the inferior alternative, although they'd work too). Sadly I never came across a cloth hanger having 10 rows.

 

[Evo]

(18 in 9 days!)

No way, the child of Evo will be 18 in 10 days. We're going to have to have a two day PF blow out!

(I was only 5 years old when she was born...really!)

 

[Math Is Hard]

No way, the child of Evo will be 18 in 10 days. We're going to have to have a two day PF blow out!

(I was only 5 years old when she was born...really!)

You married way too young, Evo! Must have been arranged.

 

[Evo]

You married way too young, Evo! Must have been arranged.

Yeah, old traditions die hard. Man, kids grow up way too fast.

 

[Hercule Poirot]

I was reading a series of crime novels by agatha christi at the time when I registred in PF

probably that was a hasty impulse for I am not quite the smart detective as my PF name suggests but for me I think that I share this trait with the main character in that we don't jump into "obvious" conclusions! (Yes, I like to reflect a lot and look at things from different angles and possiblities)

 

[arildno]

I was reading a series of crime novels by agatha christi at the time when I registred in PF

What a surprize!

If I were to choose like this, I haven't quite found out whether I would have ended up with Lord Wimsey (Whimsy?) or Miss Marple..