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Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:57 / 26.03.05

Pappuce, you should change your name to EXTREME DAVROS, that would rock.

unheimlich manoeuvre

14:36 / 26.03.05

well I started as unheimlich manoeuvre
then became unheimlich man?
then I was inchoate
which mod zero/cat's iao kept writing as inchocolate
then read "late victorian holocausts" and found out about the temple wage in india.
and here I am.

me me me me me

18:28 / 26.03.05

Because, um...oh god...uh....um wheeze Please don't put me wheeze on the spot like this....

*faint*

*thump*

23:05 / 26.03.05

well ive been Puck since i read as that character during my A-levels, but during one of my oh-so-funny name changes someone came in and registered as puck. So now im kinda stuck trying to think of things that are puck like.

This version is because i found out that Pac-man was origanlly called Puck-man but they changed it so kids didnt scrath off part of the P to make it into a F.

and yes i like it because it sounds like Fuck and i am that childish

00:58 / 27.03.05

I'd been Mazarine for a really long time, and I was tempted to hang onto that name, but one day I cracked, and decided that Mazarine was far too much sweetness and light, and that once upon a time I'd been a bitch, not a doormat (this is more in reference to my real life than Barbelith), and that I'd tiptoed around people long enough. While digging up some family history, I found out that we might actually be German, and not French as everyone had previously suspected. I came up with Sally Dammerung not out of any reference to the opera, but more in reference to the Norse mythology. (Of course, the opera essentially is the Norse mythology, sung loudly, but I didn't actually have Wagner in mind when I made it up). Sally Dammerung actually has three sisters that I came up with for a story I was working on, the four rockabilly sisters of the Apocalypse. (I kinda thought that Sally Twilight sounded like it would be the title of a 1950s death/torch song.) Sarah is my real first name, and Sally is a frequent nickname for Sarah. The word Dammerung got stuck in my head while I was looking up the lyrics to the song "Milk" by the band Pain, which was about being bullied in school. It just sort of came together after that.

This is probably one of those things I could've explained better if I weren't drunk.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:24 / 27.03.05

Stoatie was an imaginary World War One flying ace I and a friend came up with years ago while bored at work and talking bollocks, largely along the lines of "well, Stoatie was sitting in the officer's mess" and like that. Then I got bored with remembering everyone's names, so I decided to just call everyone Stoatie. After a while people starting calling ME Stoatie in response. And it kind of stuck.

01:28 / 27.03.05

That's a pretty ginchy explanation.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:37 / 27.03.05

Is ginchy good or bad?

01:49 / 27.03.05

Ginchy is as good as it gets.

01:59 / 27.03.05

In a Neil Gaiman kinda way.

02:04 / 27.03.05

Does Neil Gaiman surf?

03:18 / 27.03.05

In a Neil Gaiman kinda way.

I picked it up from Allred. But he may well have picked it up from Gaiman.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:26 / 27.03.05

Allred

I knew I'd heard/read it somewhere before. Sounds like a Madman word.

06:37 / 27.03.05

My current one is the name of the person who plays the transsexual in a nifty little Canadian film called Better Than Chocolate. The interesting note being that he is apparently not a transsexual, nor had he ever played one before that movie. Does a pretty good job with it, actually. The inspiration for the name comes from a scene in the movie where he gets up on stage in a lesbian bar to sing "I'm Not A Fucking Drag Queen".

14:46 / 27.03.05

It evolved from various other skeletal nicknames that I've had bestowed on me over the years, all due to one chemically-enhanced incident when I (allegedley) resembled Boney the talking skull from the kids' TV show Trapdoor.

02:10 / 28.03.05

1- my real name is Brendan.

2- i was running an RPG and, as usual, tormenting my hapless players. one day, one of the players was talking to my wife-at-the-time and they were talking about how royally fucked their characters were, and she asked "is BrenDOOM going to be running his game tonight?" because i was the scary GM-type person, see?

3- my wife-at-the-time said "that's not very nice, you should call him something nicer" and she responded, "like what? BrenDAISY?" and then they both said "BrenDIZZY!" and it stuck.

4- Brendizzy quickly became Dizzy.

5- we were playing a wrestling videogame a lot at the time, and i created a wrestler named Dizfactor, and then i started using that name for my Livejournal, and there you go.

21:15 / 28.03.05

out with funky niece some years back at sydney mardi gras - she is vanessa and we came up with bad sci-fi names for each other - she became 'vantantrix' and, for want of anything better, i was just 'jax'....

forward a couple years; i went to japan and picked up a cute astroboy pin, which i subsequently wore every day for three years til it broke, so was known as 'astro' or 'astroboy' by friends and foe alike..

astroboy is taken in all the free e-mails and the like, so astrojax seemed logical...

and after bill and ted, who can fail to have 'sixty nine' as their favourite number, too!!

22:23 / 28.03.05

My nom de barbe is a tribute to that fine early 80's band: XTC.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Senses Working Overtime...

And the typographical error is in tribute to Spike Milligna, that well-known spelling mistake.

Waltzing Ganainm

22:47 / 28.03.05

Gan ainm (no name) is found a lot in old Irish traditional tunes as a title. I picked it while I was flailing around for a suitable alias for livejournal, partly in memory of a tiny band I played in once upon a time in Texas, but mainly because most of the artwork I do ends up as 'Untitled (insert year)'. On the whole it seemed appropriate for a faceless entity posting vaguely coherent ramblings.

10:24 / 29.03.05

In the very early years of Barbelith there was a trend for changing your name every other day, or so it seemed. For a couple of days everyone had 'Bizu' in their name after Ken Campbell's show 'The Children of Bizu' and I changed mine to 'The Nth Bizu', which I then changed to 'Bizu (Nth)'. Eventually everyone else dropped the Bizu but mine stuck. Like a piece of ABC juicy fruit.

10:46 / 29.03.05

Alex is a friend of mine who was on sick pay at Arthur Anderson accountancy firm ( as was ) for eighteen months because he was 'too frightened to leave the house.' When the company psychologist came round to assess the situation ( he couldn't go and see them, because, y'know... ) he used to get into character by getting stoned, and apparently never had any problems with passing himself off as a genuine agoraphobe. The irony was that after about a year of this he actually did start to seem a bit tense in open spaces ( basically anywhere except the living room or a pub, ) but as far as I know he lives in New Zealand now, so presumably he's over it.

By any stretch of the imagination, he wasn't the most serious fraudster working at that place ( back in it's day it was connected with Enron and New Labour, ) but I dare say he was one of the purer ones, his vice being sloth as opposed to avarice, so using his name over the interweb is basically my own small tribute to his in many ways terrible scam.

11:40 / 29.03.05

My browser wouldn't let me type "sex".

18:24 / 29.03.05

I rather enjoyed the novel "American Gods" by the erstwhile maligned (around here anyway) Neil Gaiman. In particular I related to that Slavic god character: a mean, cantankerous son of a bitch who was really just waiting to become his more decent, dormant aspect who wouldn't kill you if he got the chance. That's actually the way I feel a lot of the time.

And I don't surf, either.

18:32 / 29.03.05

I've never been very good at thinking up names for this kind of thing; I always find myself dredging up old ones from my D&D days. So it was pure desperation that motivated me to reach out for the nearest name when I was signing up - on my desk, a copy of Under The Kapok Tree, an ethnography of the Beng people. Its quite important to them, apparently: kind of a living altar.

18:42 / 29.03.05

Desperation for me too - I was dying to post and just came up with this, quickly. It's stuck now.

19:12 / 29.03.05

My browser wouldn't let me type "sex"

B-but that must be like walking into a newsagent and not being able to buy 'mags...'

How on earth do you cope ?

19:46 / 29.03.05

1. astroboy is taken in all the free e-mails and the like, so astrojax seemed logical...

Wait wait wait -- you mean you weren't named after these?? I'm so disturbed now.

2. Kapok trees are very tall, and they give us the fluff that goes in seat cushions and life preservers.

3. "Ginchy" is real 1960s slang, as far as I know. I'm nearly positive it's used in the Gidget movies.

21:24 / 29.03.05

Well, that seems appropriate. I am also very tall, although fluff production isn't what it should be.

wembley can change in 28 days

05:12 / 30.03.05

wembley is a small, yellow, paranoid fraggle from Fraggle Rock. The handle was given to me by my bbs friends in like '95 (omg 10 years ago) and now that I've used it so long, I can't bear to stop. I don't use wembley as a handle anywhere else, though, and I'm tempted to change to happeningfish, but it's just such a big move, you know, like with today's economy and all and the kids have such nice friends in this neighborhood etc etc.

06:12 / 30.03.05

Like Kapok and Ariadne, my name was something I thought of as I was registering and came from gawping around the living room until I found a name I liked well enough to use ("Jane Eyre... no... oh look, LA Confidential"). Also, I gets enraged when someone takes a tupping liberty.

06:51 / 30.03.05

B-but that must be like walking into a newsagent and not being able to buy 'mags...'

How on earth do you cope ?

Oh, bit of imagination, some custard, pair of Marigolds. The old fashioned way.

Actually, I used to be called Doctor Sax, after the Kerouac novel, but dropped the "Doctor" after female Lithers kept asking me to examine them. It was just too embarrassing. In the early Nexus days I was called Citizen Smith, which I liked, but for some reason people - especially our American brethren - thought it was something to do with the Matrix, which annoyed me immensely.

Power to the people.

elpis eutropius

07:57 / 30.03.05

It should probably be serafina fi. When I was little I had a picturebook with a giraffe called Serafina and then there's the wonderful Serafina Pekkala in His Dark Materials trilogy.

Serafina/Seraphina was already taken in whatever I was registering for, so I decided to add the syllable from the middle of the word. It starts nice words like fiction, Finland, fish and fiddlesticks. Plus I like the shape of the Greek letter.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:05 / 30.03.05

Power to the people.

...By teaching them to WAKE UP and EXPAND TEIR MIND. Fight the machines!

elpis eutropius

08:13 / 30.03.05

I chose mine because it sounds so crude but is actually quite innocent. Next time you're in a pub, tell the person next to you to "Eat lekvar!" and see what happens.

lekvar, you won't be pleased with my impression then because to me this is a most benign word. I for some reason see it as a Scandinavian word and with my crippled Swedish interpret it like this: lek = children's play, var I read as far = father. So to me lekvar = PLAYDADDY. In a Lego kind of way.

18:34 / 30.03.05

Ages ago in the late nineties, when I was a CalArtian (which does explain an awful lot), there was a conversation about Jerry Cornelius stories, and I was saying something about how Catherine Cornelius seems to slowly intensify her attentions onto Jerry and Una as things go by, being much more random/spontaneous/free in her flirtings and flings and romances, earlier on. Called her a 'discursive, decrescent daytripper' without thinking much about it.
Somebody immediately responded with, "Which is exactly like you, except you're not."
Fast-forward some years, and when I needed a new e-mail immediately, because mine had been cancelled and I was in the midst of things, I just typed down 'decrescent daytripper' because it had been lingering in the back of my head for all that time.

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