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What names have you posted under? and why did you pick them?

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20:17 / 30.03.06

I was formerly named benfox, before changing it to Ender in an attempt to change my image a year or so ago.

Spyder Todd 2008

20:37 / 30.03.06

I always have "Spyder" in my name somehow. I figure it avoids confusion like that.

20:51 / 30.03.06

I started as Chesed. Lame khaos magick rEvolutionary affiliation without the darquenessss and stuff. I was just getting into magicky stuff, and then backed out when I realized I wasn't as into living it as I was into learning about it.

Then I was Chad, cause I might as well be me, right? Then for a month, I was in Battle Mode, but that was reactionary.

Now I'm Cassandra. For fun and more learning. And there's the whole Greek myth and comic book predictions angle.

21:02 / 30.03.06

Ender,

You'll be always be Benfox, here in my heart.

Is that so painful?

21:22 / 30.03.06

Like Steve, I have been constantly me. Except that I wasn't. Long ago, in a galaxy far far away, I was named after Egypt's first pyramid-building pharaoh and then I altered that in response to some nonsense Ganesh posted, one drunken night, to become ZoCher as a tribute to the legendary Cherilyn Sarkisian, much beloved of teh gays.

Then I moved to London and changed just about everything in my life on a Saturday in late 2002, at which point I became Xoc. This was tribute to Lady Xoc, wife of Shield Jaguar, Emperor of the Maya, who is commemorated in a large stone carving that you can see in the British Museum. The carving shows her undertaking the blood-letting ritual to ensure fertility of the crops for her people. She passes a knotted. thorny rope through her tongue. Shield Jaguar did the male equivalent and passed it through the head of his cock.

This artistic and explicitly sadomasochistic image was on display in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth twenty years ago as part of a touring exhibition - IIRC - and I bought a poster of it that has hung in my houses ever since. As bas-reliefs go, it's intricate and intriguing. She does look a bit like Barbra Streisand. Barbra Streisand guests at Torture Garden maybe. That was the fashion back then, I guess, in pre-Columbian times.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

22:54 / 30.03.06

I started out as "wildcat," derived from The Royal Tennebaums - it's Eli Cash's first book, a western that utterly tanks when published. When asked in an interview about it, Eli mutters, "Wildcat. Wild. Cat. Bwow." And then he gets up and walks out. I always really liked that scene.

Then (at some point), I added a Darling to Wildcat. I just rather like the word "darling."

Then Zatanna came out and I fell in love with Ibis the Invincible, but of course Ibis was taken, so "The Papers called me that, not I," Ibis's first line, stuck in my head. After that, variants on "Papers" - either plain flavoured, Papers at the bottom of a well, Papers lit-up supersuit (because of Mister Miracle), and now Papers Brannigan, which riffs on Alan Moore's Splash Brannigan Plastic-Man-homage character.

23:48 / 30.03.06

I've had various different fictionsuit titles. It'd be boring for everyone (myself included) to list them all so just to explain a recent iteration.
I like the Shrug meme I've had going recently and missed it when I changed to Eldritch Shrub so changed back. The latter part of my name Blucher Thirds is an anagram of my previous iteration. Blucher being both a type of boot and a Prussian General who fought in the Napoleonic War. Thirds relating to something too scruffy to be thought of as seconds. It was, as I say, just an anagram with no inherent meaning but the combination is pleasing and somehow has a level of personal resonance for me.

23:57 / 30.03.06

I thought it would be really cool to use the name of a comic book character who was really cool, cool eh?

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:31 / 31.03.06

I think I may have made a mistake.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

09:49 / 31.03.06

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Don't they always?

I've tend to alternate between solid old Evil Scientist and some variation on that theme. Weevil Client List was probably the furthest I've treked from that.

Previous incarnations include:

Evil Scientist wants FLESH!

They call me MR Evil Scientist

A Brand New Evil Scientist

Jawsus-son Starship

09:52 / 31.03.06

Started as Desperate Math, which is a line from a Stephen Malkmus song called Trrrouble, then moved onto Math says: Greek = Chic because my friend Slicker just brought it out of nowhere - the middle of the pub, he turns to me and says "I'm greek chic.", which I love.

09:54 / 31.03.06

hir - the initials of an alter-ego
H.I.R - because I was getting confused when people used genderless pronouns
Cash Jackson - because Matthew Fluxington gave me the name
William Sack - an in-joke that I have with myself, which is just as well because no-one else would find it the least bit funny.

10:03 / 31.03.06

Mr. Mistoffelees - A poem by TS Eliot

You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees!
The Original Conjuring Cat--
(There can be no doubt about that).
Please listen to me and don't scoff. All his
Inventions are off his own bat.
There's no such Cat in the metropolis;
He holds all the patent monopolies
For performing suprising illusions
And creating eccentric confusions.
At prestidigitation
And at legerdemain
He'll defy examination
And deceive you again.
The greatest magicians have something to learn
From Mr. Mistoffelees' Conjuring Turn.
Presto!
Away we go!
And we all say: OH!
Well I never!
Was there ever
A Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!

He is quiet and small, he is black
From his ears to the tip of his tail;
He can creep through the tiniest crack,
He can walk on the narrowest rail.
He can pick any card from a pack,
He is equally cunning with dice;
He is always deceiving you into believing
That he's only hunting for mice.
He can play any trick with a cork
Or a spoon and a bit of fish-paste;
If you look for a knife or a fork
And you think it is merely misplaced--
You have seen it one moment, and then it is gawn!
But you'll find it next week lying out on the lawn.

And we all say: OH!
Well I never!
Was there ever
A Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!

His manner is vague and aloof,
You would think there was nobody shyer--
But his voice has been heard on the roof
When he was curled up by the fire.
And he's sometimes been heard by the fire
When he was about on the roof--
(At least we all heard that somebody purred)
Which is incontestable proof
Of his singular magical powers:
And I have known the family to call
Him in from the garden for hours,
While he was asleep in the hall.
And not long ago this phenomenal Cat
Produced seven kittens right out of a hat!
And we all said: OH!
Well I never!
Did you ever
Know a Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!

Recently, I dabbled with the thought to try Misfitoffelees, but I´m too lazy to change my name.

11:09 / 31.03.06

Jub - my nickname IRL. Originally an acronym which stands for Junior Under Barman.

11:48 / 31.03.06

Mine's very clever. My name is Tom Coates and the name I use to post with is Tom Coates. Clever, huh? My login names are usually Orlando though - because of the place, the Woolf novel, a friend with a similar name that I always thought was cool, the gender indistinctness, the fact that it sounds like outlandish etc. etc. Major problem - Orlando Bloom's appearance. That gets me a lot of dumb questions now. Alt names: plasticbag / plasticbagUK

11:52 / 31.03.06

I started posting here as warhol superstar but changed to electric monk after maybe a month or two. I initially thought warhol superstar sounded vaguely hip in a throwback kind of way, and would be a good opportunity to proclaim a bit about my aesthetic sense. Turns out, those early posts were marked instead with a confident naivete and warholesque airheadedness that I desperately wanted to get away from after a short time. A reading of 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' gave me "electric monk", and I haven't looked back. Now I just dicker with the "monk" tag. Fits like a glove, it does.

12:00 / 31.03.06

We need more of these, I have no idea who people are anymore - I want more ID history.

12:07 / 31.03.06

I've always been Sax, except when I was Doctor Sax, which is the name of a rather good Jack Kerouac novel. Back in the last century when there was a cowgirl in the background and it was the Nexus I was Citizen Smith, which is still good.

12:21 / 31.03.06

My login names are usually Orlando though - because of the place, the Woolf novel, a friend with a similar name that I always thought was cool, the gender indistinctness, the fact that it sounds like outlandish etc. etc

You can try and pretend its not a homage to teh Grant masterwork, I for one don't believe you.

12:23 / 31.03.06

If this is a suitable place to ask others about past names can I ask Illmatic what that 'Bum Gravy' business was all about?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

12:29 / 31.03.06

I've been Tango-Mango online for a very long time, at least as far as message boards go, and I seem to have consolidated to using it for most areas now. Except I got bored with it on Barbelith, having never changed it until the last few months. So I became Tango-Whiskeymango as a further development of its origins as a play on the Can album Tago Mago, there being a track by them called "Tango Whiskeyman" on another record.

Then the discussion about all the gender-specific identities here got me thinking, the whiskey made me slur a tad, and I have a weakness for the dubious practice of putting parentheses around parts of words to give them multiple meanings. So I'm (Tan)Go-Wishkey (Wo)Mango for now, but I have a feeling it might shift a little into a new version sometime soon.

12:39 / 31.03.06

I changed my name to "Lucky Liquid" for awhile, as Ghadis actually dreamt that I'd done so (dream about other peoples log ons - sign of too much time on the board. I was going to put liquid/fluid based additions onto the end of the name each month but in the end I couldn't be bothered, and changed it back.

The phrase you're thinking about came around when refering to address to someone, I abbreviated the area to BG. When I asked what it meant, I shouted "BUM GRAVY!" rather than saying "Bethnal Green" as I should have done, if I didn't have the mind of a child.

Illmatic, of course, comes from the greatest hip hop album EVAH.

13:46 / 31.03.06

I second that motion, Illmatic.

My name is generally a variation on my IRL name, Matt:

mattvara
[ matvara: food ]

matthesis
[ mathesis: mental calculation ]

kaleidoscopic matt erial
[ a reference to a critical work on Samuel R. Delany ]

matt came upon you people
[ pun ]

the next one is going to be
matt riculated
because I graduate from school and enter Graduate school (hence the matriculation)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:49 / 31.03.06

William Sack- I was wondering where you'd got to!

I've always been something stoat-related- Moominstoat, Chairman Maominstoat, and now Stoats On A Plane. God knows how many times I've changed it, though.

Spyder Todd 2008

15:57 / 31.03.06

And I just changed my name today! I try to be creative and mix things up once every month or so, but this one has been in the back of my head for over a week, and I really couldn't wait to switch to it. I like it, which is good enough for me.

19:34 / 31.03.06

I'm grant. I try to be grant in as many places as possible, but sometimes I'm grantb, sometimes I'm grantimatter, and once or twice I've been grantisocial.

In the hoary days of BBSes, I always tried to have as long a name as possible, and was Grantzilla, King of Monsters for a while, and then The Flying Fists of Master Grant, which seems to stick in people's heads (it's how my blog got named by the guy who gave it to me as a present, years after I'd forgotten who I was then).

07:49 / 01.04.06

I started off as "Phyrephox", which I expropriated from a Neal Stephenson novel.
Then the browser turned up and made me look as though I'd named myself after it, which sucked, so for a while I was "Phyrephox: Before the browser".
I then realised this was even worse and inspired by one the first books I remember buying I became "The Phantastic Mr Phox".
Since then I've toyed with various Mr Phox based names with the current being a callback to my original name combined with a failed attempt to reference the road-runner cartoons.
The recent feminism threads have made me think about losing the "Mr" but I've no idea what to change it to.

*

08:09 / 01.04.06

Can I recommend against "Phantastic Phoxxxy"?

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

09:16 / 01.04.06

I refuse to release this information. That last thing I need is to have a link to all the stupid shit I've posted over the years I've been a member. Losing the barbequotes is a small price to pay.

A couple people know my past aliases but one is my brother and the other ambushed me with a PM requesting this information when I was drunk, no doubt mistaking me for someone else.

10:08 / 01.04.06

Id(entity): Damn, that was top of my list. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

10:29 / 01.04.06

Good for you, Phox. And please don´t choose The Phoxxor (Vulcan Insights), either.

11:59 / 01.04.06

Phoxx Phyre Phyve?

13:32 / 01.04.06

Phox Phorce Phive

21:03 / 01.04.06

Phor Phox Ache

21:15 / 01.04.06

Then Zatanna came out and I fell in love with Ibis the Invincible, but of course Ibis was taken

For the record, this is not the source of my suit name. Oh and sorry Papers. I prefer not to elaborate on why I chose "ibis" but rest assured no one would find it interesting anyway. My names are always a variation on ibis because I become overly attached to things.

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