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What's in a name?

 
  

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spidermonkey
11:11 / 30.06.03
Sure you've already done this topic before, but hey I'm new!

As a newbie I'm intrigued by everyone's name choices... so what made you choose your name for this forum?

Mine was thrust upon me by my darling brother who believes I look just like a spider monkey and soon persuaded everyone else to agree!
 
 
illmatic
11:16 / 30.06.03
Now you've said that you need to post a photo. And let Barbelith vote.

The bulk of the current variation on my name shoulod be obvious. Will try and figure out how to post images so I can illustrate the main bit of it.
 
 
Sax
11:17 / 30.06.03
I em celled Sax baceuse I em e hunk-e-hunk-e-burnin'-lova (I heva e conganital dafact whara I constently confusa tha lattars "e" and "a", in elphebaticel ordar).

Either that or I'm called Sax after Jack Kerouac's novel Doctor Sax.

Or I play the sax.
 
 
Warewullf
11:45 / 30.06.03
Am hairy, techy and liked X-Nation 2099.
 
 
ephemerat
12:15 / 30.06.03
Was originally 'ephemerat' as a play on the words ephemeral and rat but got somewhat bored of the forced affectation. Ick.

Switched to 'rat' as a simpler option for a little while but tired of that, too. Plus the name was beginning to be too accurate - especially with the Mafia game in which I was, predictably, a 'doity' one.

Now I use the name I've been called pretty much all my life (apart from my dad referring to me as a 'fucking dildo' of course - bless).

Ah yes, have also used 'The Game Cat' (long ago) when feeling smug and supercilious but the fic-suit is no longer listed.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
12:29 / 30.06.03
Sax - I always thought you called yourself after Sax Russell (also a Dr.) in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (which I still haven't finished). And now I know.

I have explained my name choice too many times and I've run out of new and interesting lies to tell. It's a ref to the idea of the whisky priest though (duh).
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
12:40 / 30.06.03
i was very stoned and feeling pretentious when i registered. i think "alas" got the reference, (iirc) i read of it in adorno's dialectic of enlightenment. unheimlich roughly translates from german as 'unhomely' or 'uncanny' and a heimlich manoeuvre is the procedure used on someone who has a blocked windpipe
 
 
Mourne Kransky
12:56 / 30.06.03
Xoc is the standard abbreviation used in Fungi Monthly magazine for myxomycete (a slime mold).
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
13:04 / 30.06.03
I sort of reckoned I'd get tired of a screen name, and I wanted something which expressed me-ness. Which is probably what names do.

And Slime Moulds are unbelievable cool. I love that thing they do where they just join up without pacemakers.
 
 
that
13:05 / 30.06.03
It's a really obscure reference to one of my favourite SF books. No one ever gets it. This pleases me greatly.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
13:07 / 30.06.03
My name is an anagram of Hit-Bunz, which is the name of my favourite patisserie in my home town.
 
 
pomegranate
13:13 / 30.06.03
much like an actual praying mantis, i will bite the head off of any male who fucks me (over).
 
 
Sax
13:22 / 30.06.03
I am possibly also named after Sax Rohmer.

Or Agaton Sax.

Whisky - not seen that reference before. But now that's who I'm named after as well.
 
 
Sax
13:24 / 30.06.03
off topic - Whisky, I've got a copy of The Years of Rice and Salt by KSR but it's an awfully long book with lots of small type and I am currently a Sax of very little patience - have you read this and is it worth having a pop?
 
 
Ethan Hawke
13:38 / 30.06.03
My screen name is Todd, just because I want to see the look of puzzlement on people's faces at barbemeets when I tell them my real name is Scott.
 
 
lolita nation
13:42 / 30.06.03
Mine is because I like young girls.
 
 
lolita nation
13:42 / 30.06.03
kidding!!
 
 
Ethan Hawke
14:10 / 30.06.03
It's really because she's actually part of a sting operation from the Westchester NY, police department, trying to lure barbe-perverts into compromising themselves by posing as jailbait.
 
 
diz
14:12 / 30.06.03
my real name is brendan, which mutated into brendizzy about 4-5 years ago or so, and from there into dizzy/diz/dizfactor. dizfactor then became my main online handle and has been for the most part ever since.
 
 
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14:38 / 30.06.03
I've reduced my name down over the years to the insignificant point you see before you now. I think it accurately and fairly reflects the level of reputation I have on Barbelith.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
15:52 / 30.06.03
Gypsy Lantern is my attempt to keep a consistent barbelith identity rather than changing it every five minutes like I did for awhile after I stopped posting under my real name.

It came into my head when I was re-registering and I liked it. It's also a less ... fraught magickal name than Ghost Doctor, which comes with all kinds of additional clauses (in the 'Tom-a-Bedlam' mode) which I'm not quite ready to take on yet. 'Gypsy Lantern' somehow quite accurately expresses my style and approach to magick, but I'm not sure if that would make any sense to anyone other than me.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
16:09 / 30.06.03
Qalyn is a cutesy respelling of my real name. I was carrying on a long-distance writing partnership with a college buddy where we would address mail to each other using outrageous and foreign-sounding honorifics, like Vice-Chancellor Aleksandr von Fincovicz and Chief Wolfcub Shieldcarrier. Shortly before I registered at Barbelith I sent a bulky package o fsketches with Sheik Qalyn al-Ranqun in the return address, and the package took six weeks to arrive and had been opened. That's right, I'd been spied on! Little ole me! So now I go around calling myself Qalyn al-Ranqun as a form of meek and totally obscure protest. It'll be really funny when they kick down my door.
 
 
grant
16:42 / 30.06.03
I bestow gifts, particularly financial aid.

Oh, and just so you know, unheimlich was also an important idea from Freud. If you do any lit crit in the realm of fantasy or the fantastic mode, the unheimlich pops up as something that's not-quite-right within a story.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
19:40 / 30.06.03
Anna de Logardiere looked after Olivia Newton John's children for four years. Being the biggest Grease fan in the entire universe I decided to adopt the name and keep it as my own. Notably Anna is also a Scientologist and has lived in Hollywood for the past twenty years.
 
 
sleazenation
19:58 / 30.06.03
i stole my name from a fucking glossy magazine, and they haven't even asked for it back yet.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
20:01 / 30.06.03
'DOT' OR POINT:

THE BENIGN MOLLUSC IS GENIUS.
YOUR PERSONAL WEBSITE EXPLOITS THE MEDIUM EFFORTLESSLY.
YOU ARE A TYPE OF GENIUS.

THANK YOU.
 
 
gingerbop
22:35 / 30.06.03
A couple friends called me gingerbop in a song they wrote in the middle of the night, probably drunk, but i cant really remember. Its also probably related to my being ginger and doing an awful lot of bopping. It remained in general usage for a month or so, but online, the legacy remains.
 
 
The Puck
22:43 / 30.06.03
..people hit me with sticks on ice

..i AM a merry wander of the night

..its a bit like punk

..its a bit like fuck
 
 
Baz Auckland
04:14 / 01.07.03
Because of Him:

...it was fun at the time...
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
04:24 / 01.07.03
Ack! Barry, the popup at your geocities site was for Home Surveillance: Made Easy!
 
 
Saint Keggers
04:30 / 01.07.03
Made Easy? How hard could it be to watch a house...they're big and dont move much.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:37 / 01.07.03
Everyone's bored of my explanation by now, so here it is fast...

Cute yet mental furry critter/World War One flying ace + famous Commie/Finnish troll. With beer, probably.
 
 
spidermonkey
11:27 / 01.07.03
Makes me wonder what you guys call each other at get-togethers...some introductions must be really long!
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
11:29 / 01.07.03
Initiates are called by no name, and must remain masked and ass-candled at all times during conclaves. I must have neglected to mention that...
 
 
ephemerat
11:59 / 01.07.03
Makes me wonder what you guys call each other at get-togethers...some introductions must be really long!

First-time Barbemeets can be, ahem, somewhat embarrassing if:

a) You have a vaguely absurd online name,
b) You don't know what anyone else looks like, and
c) The meet is being held at a busy public meeting place.

Sidling up to random strangers and asking them in a pained whisper if they are Kerouac's Magickal Underpants because, you see, you're Fafnir_23 can get you, shall we say, slightly funny looks in most public houses.
 
  

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