Thread: what does your username mean?

I'm up for another story. Limited options for the letter "z".

Originally Posted by zib

A good friend of mine who's now deceased, (RIP Spats) gave me that nickname in 11th grade. He gave everyone their nickname. Mine stuck. To this day my friends from Secaucus NJ still call me zib. It had many variants, and over the course of a gym period, it became zib....it's actually an acronym...but that's another story.

My username is a reference to my family lineage. My last name is O'Rourke. The O'Rourkes were kings, chieftains, lords, etc. of the ancient Kingdom of Breifne in Northwest Ireland.

The avatar is the O'Rourke crest, and if you click on my profile, you'll see a portrait of Brian óg na samhthach O Ruairc (Brian O'Rourke), who was the second to last King of West Breifne. He died in 1604.

Mine is the school (Colorado State) degree (veterinarian) and year of graduation. I was killing time one day on clinics, and decided to sign up for hotmail, figuring one of my classmates would have taken it. Turns out they didn't, and I've kept it because it's a sort of stealthy way of letting people know my occupation.

My avatar is a Celtic knot pattern of a biohazard symbol, which I picked because my ancestry is primarily Celtic, and because I'm a virologist.

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

I don't know

Nice job with the fjords.

Anarcho - anarchist
Phil - my name

A combination of my lifestyle and my name.

Originally Posted by boballman

Mine means I don't have much imagination!!?? My avatar is the first straight razor I made.

Bob

Have you seen your own work??? Lol. I am Phill......ThePhill! Actually kind of a joke that started one game night over at my brothers when my sister in law was handing out nicknames......kinda stuck.

Originally Posted by AnarchoPhil

Anarcho - anarchist
Phil - my name

Maybe I will change mine to "MinarchoFrank."

Mine is because my first name is Frankie. My friends in high school used to call me "Frankie Bones." I guess this stemmed form the popularity of the techno DJ of the same name. While I am a fan of electronic music (ambient, experimental, etc.), techno is not my thing so I know nothing about said DJ.

Mine is from the classic "Astronomy" by Blue Oyster Cult. The lead character in an on-going opera Sandy "cowbell" Pearlman took 25 years to complete.


The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman's face
His reasons tend to fly away

Like lesser birds on the four winds, yeah
Like silver scrapes in May
Now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away, then you're gone away

Ah, come Susie dear, let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you want to know where winds come from

Well, it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar, mm, yeah

Four winds at the four winds bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door left to take you in
The other one just mirrors it

Ooh, in hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Yes, the light that never, never warms
Yes, the light that never, never warms
Never warms, never warms

The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Susie dear
Would find themselves at four winds bar

It's the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me

Call me Desdinova, eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog, fixed and consequent

Astronomy - a star

Mine makes perfect sense when it appears on an archery forum, none at all elsewhere. Juggling multiple identities would just confuse me, so I'm stuck with it. Queequeg, my avatar, also follows me around.