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What's in a name? (Screen names and ancient history)

 
  

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Murray Hamhandler
20:03 / 03.05.04
(See above for more suit 'splanations...)

Grandma Caesar = grand mal seizure (I have a thing for quasi-homophones).
Tron In Morocco = the sequel to Tron as imagined by Hope & Crosby.

Both pretty half-retarded and fairly reflective of my attitude towards the 'Lith of late.
 
 
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20:39 / 03.05.04
Well, I started out wanting something that related to Invisibles, and was working around the iconography of Morrison's Barbelith (circles, spheres, etc.) and decided I didn't want to claim it directly, so stepped back a bit and went all euclidean.
I also have square head. Apparently.
Toyed with the possibility of doing a HueyLewis/Bret Easton Ellis homage with hip2b2, but coudn't work out how to superscript that last 2....
 
 
Char Aina
23:04 / 03.05.04
What's most amusing and interesting about this thread is that so many of the people who explained in detail ages ago about why they're using their current name have now changed their names (sometimes several times).

that and thoughts about my own name were what made me go digging, actually...
 
 
Rev. Orr
01:37 / 04.05.04
Yeah. I chose Orr, pretty much off the cuff without any deep pondering. Identifying upfront with a grinning, gormless, faux-naive man-child from Catch-22 seemed like a perverse form of honesty at the time. It stuck. Then there came a fashion for revolving suit-modding; adding or changing suffixes to reflect ones mood at the time which, due to my addiction to poor puns, tickled my fancy. Then I found a line from a Guardian review of the Lisa Maffia album, thought it worked on the end of my name and left it there for a while. Later, I realised that this was someting akin to wandering the streets of London wearing a wellington boot on my head, hoping for people to come up to me and ask why I was doing it. So I took it off. I have a beard now instead.
 
 
Baz Auckland
02:51 / 04.05.04
I was Barry Auckland for a long time, until someoe (Xoc?) referred to me as 'Baz'... I never knew Baz was short for Barry!

Being Baz lets me drop the association of where the name 'Barry Auckland' came from (as that online cult thing got old over 4 years ago), and I like the sound of 'Baz' much more than 'Barry"...
 
 
netbanshee
04:30 / 04.05.04
I've always used this identifier on the web and do some official biz behind it. It's a net thing and I always felt an affinity to the siren call of lore. I don't think I'll shed it for a long time.

Funny though, having been a part-timer here since post-nexus, I just read the Invisibles for the first time. Whole thing in like 24hrs time. Now I know more about why I'm here. Weird to do it the other way around...
 
 
Mazarine
05:10 / 04.05.04
I was Mazarine since the nexus, no idea how long ago that was at this point, and then, when we had the option, I started adding little endings to it. Mazarine the Bread and Butterfly, Mazarine Wants to Gnaw On You, blah blah blah. I guess Mazarine: Chock Full o' Moxie was just hte last one in the pile, because I wound up changing it to Sally Dammerung.

I was extremely cautious as Mazarine, as a poster and a moderator, tip toeing so to speak. After all, Mazarine is also a kind of butterfly, and in that suit I felt oddly crushable. Sally Dammerung is a fairly new thing that I'm getting closer to, though I must say, if it weren't for the fact that it says underneath Sally Dammerung "formerly Mazarine: Chock Full o'Moxie" I doubt I'd've had the balls to change it, for fear of losing my identity, so to speak.

I don't know what really pushed me over the edge to change it. Maybe it's because every time I came to Barbelith, I just kept thinking, "Mazarine, Margarine, Marzipan... blah."
 
 
Whisky Priestess
17:01 / 04.05.04
Sax: "Fuuuuuck... Whisky, you were Kitten Caboodle?! Didn't I used to horrendously flirt with you?"

Plus ca change ...

Plus it did get stolen after a while, so you may have been PMing sweet nothings to a mouth-breathing bearded gentleman unawares.
 
 
Sax
17:19 / 04.05.04
Double Fuuuuck! I thought you were a mouth-breathing bearded gentleman! Ribena Aaaargh!
 
  

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