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Where'd you get your user name?

I woke up today and thought it was the 23rd. Yes, I was excited about Mole Day. I was prepared to celebrate celebrate things like Avogadro and stoichiometry. Now all I have to be happy about is avocados and Elvis Stojko.

Today I enjoyed this post (scroll to the end), in which

yhlee lists reasons why she loves BtVS/AtS characters. One of them is, "Why I love Angelus: it may never occur to him that in all the ways he destroys people it shows how strong they really are." Go read and miss your shows. *sniff*

Lastly,

stultiloquentia and I recently discovered that we'd spoken online four years before under different names. That made me wish I hadn't changed my nickname things so much out of sheer boredom. The user name tkp is from the Kora Personality, which wouldn't fit on lj. Kora is another name for Persephone. I was having some twisted, uninteresting thoughts about the woman who spent half her time being queen of the dead and raped by the damned, and the other half frolicking in the flowers with Mama and nymphs. Anyway, I'm guessing this has been a topic of conversation before, so sorry if you've been over it before, but I've been wondering:

Where'd you get your user name?

Even if it seems obvious, I'd love to know. Also: why Joan?

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a2zmom.

kind of a double meaning user name. All moms are a2z people to a large extent. But, in my case, since my kids are named Aaron and Zachary, it works out even better.

Reason: Have a friend who used to tell me, "Shine on, you crazy diamond!" (from Pink Floyd's, uh, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond.")

Bonus: Totally unusual - can use it for almost all sites and emails.

Minus: Long-ass and difficult to spell and often shows up on LJ as "unknown user." Meh.

I always loved the Persephone myth, too.

My friend J came up with my name. I wanted to join LJ but wanted to come up with a cool name. She suggested southernbangel because I'm (a) born-and-bred Southern to the core and (b) I am a HUGE Bangel shipper. It fits me quite well and I still love, even over a year later.

Because it's all a lot of amphigourious, stultiloquential fiddle-faddle! It's from my favourite play, Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning, which I demand you read instantly. My name means "foolish words." I enjoy the fact that when people abbreviate it -- "Stulti, Bangel is so much better than Spuffy!" -- they're addressing me as "Fool." My other pseudonym was a trial run, toetipping into online discourse; this one's my keeper.

I like The Kora Personality. Eerie, but its syllables are very cool.

yhlee's list deserves to be a meme.

There's a Rosicrucian phrase that I love -- it says that everything we do in our lifetimes is is written on the impenetrable film of the akasha, or the soul. It's a creep out/comfort thing for me :-)

So lostakasha made sense for this lost soul who loves writing about Angel.

(But damn, I had no idea that akasha was the name of an Anne Rice vampyra. Blech. Not so much for the AR, you know? Again, I tell you, blech.)

Mine is not as interesting as everyone else's I'm afraid.

'Ignoramus' is the title of my favourite song by the - now defunct - Scottish band Baby Chaos.

Unsurprisingly 'ignoramus' seems to be a pretty popular screen name so I had to rethink what I was going to call myself. I love word-play so I came up with ignorAmouse. It's a wee bit quirky, a little tongue-in-cheek - which I like *G* - and I've gone by it since '97.

I went with "viola" because of Twelfth Night--I'm a huge Shakespeare geek--and "claire" because it's my middle name.
And I love the myth of Persephone. One of the best pieces of writing I ever did was based on that myth.

An old boyfriend told me I was kind of like Germaine Greer--tough and independent. The "pet" is short for Petrov, which is the name on the back of a hockey sweater I got in the Soviet Union. He was a star player back in the days of the Red Army.

I don't really like my user name because of the old boyfriend associations. One of these days I'll get around to changing it. *is lazy*

Uh... Mole Day? *confused* I mean I like Mole as much as the next person, but I prefer my Enchiladas with cheese. ;P

Where'd you get your user name?

Well, m- is my first initial, shep - are the first 4 letters of my last name and - nj is for the state I live in. *zzzzzzzzzzzzz*

I wanted "Quirkygrl", my favorite moniker and a nickname that I'm told suits me *shrug*, but someone was poaching my username! The nerve! So I stuck with the boring one that one else would ever want.

"Semby" is something like "Joan", as it often makes me go "and why did I pick that again?" because it really has no meaning or significance to my life in any form. I've occasionally tried to think up some sort of meaning "well, I have an S and an E and an M all at some point in my full name..." just in case someone ever asked ;) rather than outing myself as a weirdo who makes up strange names, but that would be a lie because it really was a random thing. Plus I get stumped at B.

I just wanted something short and easy to say/spell/remember that probably wouldn't get confused with anyone else's. And yet still I've had people mispell it...

"makd" are initials in my name. My first name - Mary - provides the "ma". My surname - which is hyphenated - begins with K-D, so, voila! "makd". It's been my cyber-name since 2003, and I'm quite pleased with it.

mine's pretty boring too... when I went to buy my first pc, they were going to load AOL on for me and I had only a few seconds to come up with a screenname... my first and middle name is Teresa Lynn so Terilyn was all I could come up with..... pathetic much? lol

joining in late....are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.....
naa, is too much, let me sum up.
bisi is one of the names of my youngest, it means something that's being added to, kind of 'here's more'. For hotmail I use bisi mama, which I might be called by somebody meaning to be polite - hang on, no I wouldn't, I'd be called 'eldest child's name' mama. Anyway, bisi because it's short, easy to spell, and impossible to mispronounce.
Bisi is one of those names a kid gets when their parents are running out of inspiration - oh well, here's another kid, it's all good -

I already told you where I got my name, but I just wanted to say that I really like your username, actually. Originally I thought "tkp" were your initals (first, middle, and last), but I like "the Kora personality." I'm glad that you explained you name to us. =)
Oh, and I really love mythology, folktales, and fairy tales, so yeah! =)

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