This was something that I've wanted to do for a while, and I'm fully aware that it's been done before and may be a bit of a boring repeat for some of you, but I was reading joshw's "Just out of curiosity..." thread where kramer_vs_kramer says this:

and was wondering, what are the stories behind everyone's SC user names?

This is the first website that I used the name "Kajun Firefly". Before my online name was always ^rain^, then, after a massive argument in one of the many chat rooms I used to frequent back when I was a carefree teenage asshole (and not a stoned student asshole) I flicked through a dictionary where I found the word "Imago", it seemed like a pretty cool word so I chose that as my new handle, it's meaning back then was:

imago - noun, Entomology the final and fully developed adult stage of an insect.

then, strangely, I bought a new dictionary last year and it had an additional meaning attached to it:

2. Psychoanalysis an unconscious idealized mental image of someone, which influences a person's behaviour.

Strange that, "Imago" was, my imago.

***I can imagine this thread slowly dropping off the edge of the SC universe with no replies***

anyway, I registered on thespark.com's "SparkMatch" as "Clive_Van-der-Beetle", but forgot the password so had to create a new account, drawing nonsensical names out of my head, I came up with "Cajun_Doorslap". I kind of liked the name Cajun and slapped a K onto the front of it, just to be cool, so Kajun was my new online name.

When I was creating the account for this site, I was in the middle of a brief obsession with Marx brothers movies, and was watching "Duck Soup", where Groucho plays the leader of a small country, Rufus T. Firefly, I knicked the surname and voila, a star was born.

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Well, mine is simply my first name and last initial put together, or an alternate spelling of my full first name, minus the A: Joshwa. But that's not how I spell it. I spell mine with "ua" at the end, instead of the "wa".

I have a question for anyone. How do you pronounce Geoff?

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Let's see...

Back in '84, when I started haunting the chat machines on BITNET, I needed to think up a handle. Since I was growing a beard at the time, "Fuzzyman" was the first thing that came to mind.

I'm entirely too lazy to think of something else, so I've stuck with it.

Sorry it's not more exciting.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

When my father's father came to America from somewhere in Eastern Europe some 90 years ago, he anglcized his last name to Kaufman.

Like "Jeff".

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When I began using AIM, I wanted the handle "Journeyman Nate" but it was taken. So I took out the sylables.

Later in tribes, I found a cool warrior name: The old greek form of Jason(the guy with the argonauts), "Iason". Since then I've tried to switch all my handles to that. But for SC, I havn't gotten the email to my hacked-router accout to get my password. I don't mean to be whiney, but Brad, could do something about that?

I hate to tell you, but your handle still has syllables in it.

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"Oh, look, a joke! How original! Thank you, but if I wanted my emotions stimulated pleasurably, I'd get a whore." - Donald B. Jones III

He didn't say he took out all the syllables...

I hate to tell you, but your handle still has syllables in it.

no of course I meant to say- the sylables out of "Journeyman".

I had crabs for a brief period in the 80's and the nickname just stuck. I thought I could get away from it by smearing dog shit all over me so people would call me Dog Shit McGee but it didn't work. So now I'm just crabby.

Like I said in my very first post:
pita: pain in the ass

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“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)

Would there be any way of spelling my name with a G instead of J? I thought maybe Geosh but that would be "Jesh" wouldn't it?

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There's always the Italo-Polish spelling "Giusz".

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lessee...way back when in the days of bbs'ing, I started off as "Roo" mainly a throwback to my nickname as a child. Was on irc for years as "Roo" till the majority of 5 year olds wanted that nickname and wound up battling parents for the right to my name on irc blah blah. So, I changed it "Jael" just sounded cool.
Then I found out Jael was a hebrew lady who had no morals and lured a king of an enemy army into her tent then drove a tent spike through his head in retaliation for raping her friend...and became famous when Deborah sang about her.

There's a lot more Jael's on the web now, so I'm around as jaello, jaelski, bronwen, blah blah. Luckily, I didn't have to worry about it here, no other Jael's are silly enough apparently.

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

Well, it all started when I was 6. I had a new purple bicycle with multicolored streamers on the handlebars. It was a bit too big for me but I was determined to ride it anyway. So one day I was walking the bike around the house and stumbled and my bike started to head down a hill. I was too light to hold it back but I refused to let go and the bike and I started rolling down the hill. I crashed into a tree and scraped my hand pretty badly. I still have a scar from that incident. The bike was barely scratched, however, and I went on to enjoy it for several years.

What was the question again?

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

Here's my completely uninteresting nickname story...

A very uninteresting online nick origin story... by DexX 8-15-01

A friend told me about the RPG ShadowRun, circa 1988. ...and there are these guys called "deckers" - super-hackers who actually go inside the computer... Wooowww... very cool... This was on an RPG weekend at a friend's place, and we were also playing Car Wars... Come on James, we're about to start. Your driver needs a name... Urm... urm... MC Hammer! *laugh* No, that's stupid... urm... MC Decker! The name stuck, and later shortened itself to Decker, Dex, Dexx, DexX, and even MCDexX when necessary... At no time did I claim it was an interesting story.

That strip was made for the last time this topic came up, so if you use its date as a guide, you should be able to go back in General Discussion and find the original thread.

Incidentally, Nate, you took the VOWELS out of "Journeyman". Since all words are built from syllables, "Journeyman" with the syllables removed is the same as "dog" and "antidisestablishmentarianism" with the syllables removed - nothing at all. It's like rice with the grains removed or the ocean with the water removed.

Vowels: a, e, i, o, and u.

Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, b, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, and z.

All sorted now?

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My name being Barry, shortened to Baz, because it was. Baz is a bit one syllable, plain, simple, what you see is what you get kind of name, which is fine for others but not me. Then it was just a case of Godzilla into Bazilla making the link at the letter z and the number 6.

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I am not 16 going on not 17, I know that I'm naive.

Back in the day, I used to frequent a few BBSs, and went through a bit of a quakeworld phase, but I always just used my real name. And I'd see all these people with really po-faced names and they were like "You must call me Rorschach!". You know, like "look at my kewl nick d00d! I've been using it for 15 years!".

I could never bring myself to think of a name like that, and use it semi-seriously, so I figured I'd go to the opposite extreme, and use ridiculously over the top names.

My favourites were probably "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" because it tended to provoke occasional violent homophobic outbursts for no apparent reason and "Megaton B-Boy 2000" (yes- that was me!) just because it sounds kind of cool.

Although I am getting to like the Kramer name.

Bluebexq is actually Bluebex with a "q" accidently added when trying to press the "Tab" key.

Bluebex is an alternate spelling for Bluebec (surprise, surprise).

Back in the days of 1994, we used to play Scorched Earth, a wonderful freeware game on a 386. I used to play the blue tank, and so was known as Bluebec. James played the red tank, and was known as DaColonel. Quentin played the green tank and was known as frOGinsOck.

Yet another non interesting story.

Yeah... The name BlueBec is actually my invention - I had control of the keyboard at the time.

I found the original nickname thread. It is part of the venerable Colossal Geek thread, here.

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My handle is my name mispronounced and misspelled. It's not that I don't want you demented bread boffers knowing who I am (unless you're the type of person who would ask, in which case I'd invite you to stay away from me). It's that I don't want "Tobor will cornhole you" to be the first thing that comes up when a family member or prospective employer types my name into Google.

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What others say about boorite!

I like movies. (flicks)
I am male. (a guy)

You do the math.

I am flickguy (or the_flickguy when there is an impostor about) on pretty much every single thing I'm on... unless it's from my very early days of the net, where I unimaginatively used my name (Darren_Blake). I'm all better now, though.

quote:

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Vowels: a, e, i, o, and u.

Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, b, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, and z.

All sorted now?

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Zip is my nickname, so I was always "TheZipman" once I was introduced to the net. Eventually, that name started being used everywhere, so one day I decided to come up with a new name that no one else would ever use...and that just happened to be the same day that I first heard about a certain movie that gave me the inspiration for my current handle. That movie? You guessed it...Inspector Gadget! ;)

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If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have no luck at all. D'OH!

I was very tired last night. Please forgive my abuse of the english language.

That would have made a good DrP post though.

Depends on whether he meant all the syllables. "Jrnymn" has fewer syllables than "Journeyman".

my names short for 'my strip's are fucking fantastyic and if you dont agree you can fuck off and fuck youre fucking sister oh wait shes my lay well i supose you can fuck youre dog then yyou fucking motherfucking motherfucking fuckuing fucker'

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