What's the story behind your username?

[Cursive_Knives512]

I'm kinda new here, so I apologize in advance if there have already been numerous posts like this, but I was just wondering about some of the usernames on DU.

The first part of my username (Cursive_Knives) is from a line from a Bikini Kill song, "Bloody Ice Cream," which goes: "I've another good one for you/ We are turning cursive letters into knives." Basically just another take on "the pen is mightier than the sword." The 512, as in, 5 and a half, is my small dedication to Poe, a really great singer/songwriter/musician.
What's the story behind your u/n? :bounce:

[JohnKleeb]

1. I dare you to guess

;)

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

34. mines hard to guess too!

:bounce:

[JohnKleeb]

41. wink wink nudge

I only wish I had that Serbian name I used as joke.

[Exgeneral]

43. I'm sure the story is too twisted to mention in public

:evilgrin:

[JohnKleeb]

46. god's gracious gift glue :D

that what I am :D.

[arcane1]

2. pretty cool

and welcome to DU


my username is a mystery :D

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Grateful Dead song

It's on the Terrapin Station album if you want to listen.
I've gone by this name for years on the net.

[Exgeneral]

44. I always end up explaining it's a pun

on the part of a business plan that says "estimated profit"

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Bareknuckled Liberals of America

I started that group in 1980 when I was in college, and Ronaldus Magnus was running for Imperator. I mean, President.

I had about five followers. We'd analyze political rhetoric and figure out ways to defeat it or turn it back on the Right.

Well, it was a start.

--bkl

[Padraig18]

5. My 1st name and my age when I bought my own comp.

Padraig (Patrick), and I was 18 when I got a computer of my own.:)

[eyesroll]

6. Welcome to DU!

My username is my constant expression these days -- :eyes:

[ronnykmarshall]

7. My parents picked it.

[Bluzmann57]

8. First off welcome to DU

and as far as my username, nothing complicated, I just love Blues music, and am a blue collar worker, and REALLY love the Cubs, who wear blue. Actually, the first was the original, the others just sorta fell in there.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. created on a whim

it seemed funny at the time. i had no intention of sticking around, but now i'm saddled with it.

it's the joke that gets less funny each time you hear it

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. interesting question

lioness: i am a leo and lioness used to be my stage names as a gogo dancer

priyanka: first name

[Canuckistanian]

11. About mine

Kind of obvious. I got the idea for mine from your Great American, Patrick Buchanan.
Just after 9/11, he made some statement calling my country "Soviet Canuckistan", apparently some reference to our more <ahem> progressive nature.
Cheers!
:toast:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. My names

pushed together.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Mine is pretty obvious. No subtlety there *l*

[henslee]

14. Mine is homage to "Red" Henslee, a long forgotten 50's drag racer.....

[Donkeyboy75]

15. Not hard to guess,

except maybe the 75. I was born in '75.

[woofless]

16. 30 years ago I joined a traveling band

as the second roadie. Humpin' amps, a Hammond B-3 and Leslie, loading and unloading and driving gig to gig while the players got stoned. (Sleep was not an option.)It was a racially mixed group doing Earth, Wind and Fire type dance stuff and very good musically. The Mgr./sax player said one night, "Man, you just woofless" ,(worthless) and it just stuck. Anyone around Gainesville, FL remember "BlackLash"?

Woof

[Catch22Dem]

20. Luggin' that hammond around...

musta been a bitch. What part of the country was this?

[woofless]

38. Gainesville, FL

and all around FL. Went to Auburn once.

[achtung_circus]

17. Welcome

I was muddling through the sign up process. I was feeling that bread and circuses was coming to describe big parts of American society, with the emphasis on circus. Achtung is German for "attention" or "warning".
I tried Achtung Bread and Circuses, why not, eh. It was too many characters so I edited it to what I am now stuck with.

[montana_hazeleyes]

49. For a second-

I thought you were going to say it was already taken!

[Catch22Dem]

18. Greatest book ever

Catch-22. Not much more to it than that. I also have a Catch-22 quote in my sig.

[asjr]

19. Just my initials because

I can remember them.

[Shifty-Eyed Llama]

21. In the Simpsons, there was a shifty-eyed dog in one episode...

and I picked this name because a Shifty-Eyed Llama is even funnier. :shrug:

[Zookeeper]

72. Great name!

Welcome to DU, from a fellow Minnesotan! :hi:

[Fovea]

22. Hey, cool handle

My nick was actually given to me by my old poli sci comparitive systems prof who first called me an idealist -- the class maoist -- after a week or two of that, I responded by saying that all sustainable systems mirrored the state motto of Missouri, 'let the welfare of the people be the supreme law' and every thing else was a revolution waiting for a moment to happen.

I said 'social democracy is the only realpolitik', and that is what he called me on and off the rest of the semester.

[flamingyouth]

23. Mine is a book and silent film from 1923

No, it's not a reference to my age (read: "no longer a youth"), nor is it about my tendency to flame people here (which I'd like to think I don't do too much).

BTW, I love Bikini Kill. I saw them a whole bunch of times back in the early '90s. Welcome! :hi:

[Cursive_Knives512]

28. Bikini Kill!!

That's so awesome that you've seen them live! I'm too young to have had that experience :cry: I joined the "scene" too late I guess. But I am going to a Sleater-Kinney concert next month :bounce:

[flamingyouth]

77. Sleater-Kinney are awesome too

Yeah, I saw Bikini Kill lots of times both in Seattle and in Olympia. They use to play a lot with Beat Happening, whom I really loved.
:hi:

[kalian]

24. I actually made mine up....

and then found out that its an actual word.
Rather ironic definition BTW:

kalian:
an oriental pipe for smoking marijuana, tobacco, etc., consisting of one or more long flexible stems connected to a container of water or other liquid through which smoke is drawn and cooled
Also called: hubble-bubble, hookah, narghile, water pipe


:smoke:

[PsN2Wind]

25. Just picked what seemed

appropriate.

[utopian]

26. I'm a big Todd Rundgren fan

and an idealist to boot.

[Fovea]

92. "we've been waiting so long..."

That's all we need, Just One Victory.

[TheMightyFavog]

27. Mines a Styx reference

It's from Kilroy was Here. Jonathan Chance is the leader of a rebel faction that seeks to overthrow a Christian Fundamentalist government that has, amongst other things banned rock and roll.

[htuttle]

29. So, one day they ask me to fill out a 27B/6...

...and I decided wasn't going to do any more bloody paperwork.

[Blue-Jay]

30. It's my actual nickname, that was given to me by blues diva,

E.C. Scott. She's a wonderful singer who records on the Blind Pig label.

Anyhow... She and her band were playing here in town a few years ago. I get a call from the owner of the venue the day before. He tells me "EC's sax-player is in the hospital after an auto accident, and I told her that I know a guy that can sit in with your band and make you not miss your regular guy." I thank him and say that I'll be there.

So, I start playing the gig. Luckily, I was already familiar with a lot of her music because I owned several of her CDs. I finish playing a loud wild solo, and EC introduces me to the crowd but forgets my name. She only remembers that it begins with a "J", so she improvises.

"Give some love up for Springfield's own..ummm...J.. BLUUUUE JAY on the horn!"

Most of my musician-friends were there and it sort of stuck.

[name not needed]

31. story not needed

[BEZARK]

32. ca. 1900 prison slang

Roughly translates to "old fart."

[FarLeftRage]

33. My name fits me

well, because I am a far Leftist who would fly into a rage when I used to watch "the news" on tv or hear "the news" on the radio. I don't much rage these days, except when I am subjected to the reich-wing propaganda the corpoRATe media tries to pass off as "the news".

[RandomKoolzip]

35. I get my name from a Character from a Firesign Theatre album....

titled "In The Next World, You're On Your Own." FT are big heroes of mine.

[lpbk2713]

36. I'm a retired telecomm tech

My ID refers to a test function used in testing analog data circuits. It looks like an AOL user name but it isn't.

[watercolors]

37. Artiist, waterolors my medium

and my love, I have been teaching 28 yrs. It releases my spirit and keeps me balanced, but since the election of 2000 Du has been my place to help me keep my sanity and vent my anger. I so want ot be a free spirit again!!

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

39. Waverly Hills Hiker....good karma....pix & story....

...though I dont live there anymore....


Waverly Hills is this belt of hills south of Louisville, outriders of the Knobs....with great views over the surrounding countryside.









There is a golf course in these hills, and a lake, Waverly Lake, and two other lakes or ponds. Plenty of little hollows and ravines and ridgetops, cedar groves, old farmsites & wagon trails now gone back to forest, and an old abandoned sanitorium
http://whsmemorial.tripod.com/ that looks like a gothic castle.

I used to love hiking here when I lived in the area (within walking distance), so I used the name of the place in my handle to sort of honor it ...sort of as good mojo or karma, as the place always did have a sort of good vibe going during my many walks and hikes.

[gold_bug]

40. "The Gold Bug", Edgar Allan Poe.

I had just read it before making this screen name.

[Nostradammit]

42. I'm lousy at prognostication - n/t

[Streetdoc270]

45. Its what I do....

I'm a Paramedic....

[Xithras]

47. It's a deliberate misspelling of Zathras

The Bab5 fans should get it.

[DontBlameMe]

48. Character from...

Roger Zelazny's "Chronicles of Amber". Also, the nickname my buddy in the Navy gave me.

[neverborn]

50. Hrm.

A Faceless from Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time series. A Myrddraal.

It also fits my gothy nature O_O

[Blue_State_Elitist]

51. me

I am one of the few liberal democrats in Orange County,CA.

[LanternWaste]

52. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Simply a region from C.S. Lewis', "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe". A book that morally guided me through a pretty turbulent childhood.

And I've found out (as an added bonus) that there are a lot of people who aren't aware of that book and have attributed some of the most bizarre things to my sobriquet...

[Piperay]

53. Nothing to special

long ago on another political board I wanted the name Piper in reference to the saying "you can dance but you have to pay the piper", meaning the repugs will have to pay one day for their evildoings. The name Piper was already registered to someone else (who never posted by the way) so I just added two letters that are in the middle of my real name and came up with Piperay. When I registered here I was used to the name so I kept it. :-)

[Reality Not Tin Foil]

54. floor installer

Im new too.. but I am a floor installer. A woman too.

Florencedollar

[Miss Authoritiva]

55. Self-irony

"Miss Authoritiva" is the female version of "Cliff Claven." I talk about pretty much everything and I actually know pretty much nothing.

[Auntie Bush]

56. Anti Bush

Guess!

[RoadRunner]

57. RoadRunner, after my favorite bird!

I live on a desert in Southern New Mexico. Love to see roadrunners, always brings good luck! I'm bringing all you guys some now!

:hi: btw, Welcome to DU, Cursive_Knives512!

[Alpharetta]

58. Alpharetta Georgia has one liberal. One. Me.

[opiate69]

59. Double meaning...

Opiate= The name of Tool's first disc. + 69= well, you know.. (a favorite pasttime of mine..)

and/or

"Religion is the opiate of the masses".. pretty much describes how I view things + born in 1969..

[Endangered Specie]

60. Endangered Specie

Yeah, this thread has been done b4 but that is ok

my name, because I am one... how many heavy set, southern accented, white male liberal atheists (who does ocassionaly like NASCAR, Hockey and WWE) you think there are?

[SarahB]

61. Here's the story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=879209

[northofdenali]

62. Welcome to DU, CK - mine's simple

If you divide it into 3 words, it's where I live! :P

[mvd]

63. Welcome to DU!

My username is simple. M is the first letter of my first name. V is the first letter of my middle name. And D is the first letter of my last name. So when you say my username, you're indirectly saying my full name. :hi:

[Blueshift]

64. I'm an astronomy buff...

but I wanted the username "Redshift,"--which means that something is moving away from you (let's say a star moving away from Earth) and it's moving towards the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum--but couldn't get it cuz someone else has it. Blueshift means just the opposite. It means a celestial body is moving towards Earth, towards the blue end of the electromagnetic spectrum.

[MrSlayer]

65. As I am a Slayer fanatic and expert, it fits. Also known as SlayerGod.

[Bertha Venation]

66. I'm a descendant of D.W. Griffith.

JUST KIDDING! It's the name of a drag queen character from "Torch Song Trilogy."

Welcome to DU, Cursive. :hi:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

67. I fully completely came up with mine all by myself

without any help whatsoever from any foppish English Rock Stars. Nope.

[Kathleen04]

68. Kathleen is my middle name..I'm not very creative n/t

[Martin Eden]

69. I was named after the Jack London novel

My real first name is Martin. My parents were radicals back in the 40's & 50's, and the title character in the novel was a self-taught working class author (sort of an autobiography for Jack London).

[freeforall]

70. Two meanings...

A free-for-all is a brawl, which I thought the board might turn out to be (when I joined), but I also used it because it would be great to have a world that is free for all (of us).

[JeffersonStarship]

71. Let's see

Jefferson Starship was and still is my favorite band. I think you can guess where the name comes from, based on that. :)

[pagerbear]

73. My story is on my web site

I dare you guys to find it!

[NewHampster]

74. The State that Chooses Your Next President

We're way to the Right of Vermont.

[U of M Dem 07]

75. I go to the University of Michigan

...I'm a Democrat (obviously...) and I'll hopefully graduate in 2007. :)

[TOhioLiberal]

76. 1st of all...

Welcome! :hi:

When I signed up, it asked for a user name, I couldn't think of anything 'democratic' so I used what I use for practically everything on the internet. Email addy starts with it, its my pogo name with '_1701' after it. Oh Yeah, BTW--I'm a Trekker! BIIIIIIIIIIIG surprise there! :wow:

Trekkerlass

[ConcernedCanuk]

78. Consider who my neighbour is

.
.
.

I joined DU around the beginning of the Iraq Invasion, previous I had nicknamed myself Dcamper and decamper for chat rooms and forums because I like camping so much . .

BUT

Political forum . .

neighbour invading all over the place . .

I'm a Canuk (doh)

So I created this nic

Jus 4 y'all!

[trappedoldman]

79. me too.

I am new too... but I am an old man trapped in a young man's body:-)

[SilasSoule]

80. Silas Soule

<-----------Silas Soule

Captian Silas S. Soule, A truly forgotten hero in U.S. history that my DU name is in honor of. As a Masachusetts abolitionist working with the Underground railroad, he orchestrated several rescue and breakout attempts including that of one John Brown. HE later became a Union officer and was sent West during the last years of the Civil war to fight the Indian Wars. There was a massacre of a Cheyenne village of mostly women and children at Sand Creek Colorado on November 29th 1864 lead by a bloodthirsty Colonel named Chivington, Captain Soule was under his command. Soule directed his men to stand down, hold their ground and to "not" participate in the blood letting, while carnage was all around them. People were shocked at the savagry used the U.S. Army at Sand Creek and in the aftermath of the massacre body parts were put on public display in Denver. An investigation ensued and Captain Soule was in forefront of giving testimony that what Chivingtion did was outright murder. Before the inquest ended he was shot and killed by one of Chivington's men. He was 34 years old. Some historians credit this event at Sand Creek for the shift in Indian policy from complete annihaltion of a people to a "containment in reservations" doctrine and thus attribute Soule with potentially saving countless of Native American lives.

[Zookeeper]

93. Wow! Thanks for sharing that information...

We need all the true hero stories we can find. :thumbsup:

[LDS Jock]

81. religion, hobby, and location combo

lds is short of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormons), I play tons of sports so jock, and I'm in Texas.

[daveskilt]

99. for a second I thought the lsd part was your hobby

:)

[furrylitldevil]

82. The pic says it all

Guess which one of us is the furry little devil

[OneBlueSky]

83. first line of "My Rainbow Race" by Pete Seeger . . .

One blue sky above us,
One ocean lapping all our shores,
One Earth so green and round,
Who could ask for more?

[alfredo]

84. It's a nickname my wife gave me.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

85. Jimi Hendrix - "I Don't Live Today"

At one point in the midst of a psychadelic orgasm in this tune Jimi cries, "Ahhhhhh, There ain't no life nowhere!" which he utters in a strangely comforting way, like that's cool anyway and it doesn't really matter.

[Demonaut]

86. good post.................................................

nt

[Katha]

87. It's my, um, name

Well, a nickname -- my full first name is Katharine.

:P

[Champ]

88. Because I am the Champ!

;)

[Andy_Stephenson]

89. It is the ordering of freeper beliefs

God

Bush

n

Cheney

[Rhiannon12866]

90. Welcome to DU, as well! So glad to have you with us!

Thanks for introducing yourself to us. You will find this to be a real community. And you can also meet my perfect cat, Rhiannon...

[cryfordawn]

91. Welcome to DU

My user name is from an adult comic book by Joeseph Listner.

Pretty simple.

[bearfan454]

94. I'm from Chicago. Not only that, but

when I got my netscape email account I tried bearfan and 453 people ahead of me had that one. I used the same one for DU. It is kind of unique for DU. I am kind of a unique person for some things.

[woo me with science]

95. I lurked for a long time.

Watching online communities is like having an antfarm. :o)

[kmla]

96. kmla - an acronym for my response when I meet a

unthinking freeper (as if there are any other kind).

Kiss
My
Liberal
Ass.

= kmla.

Yeah...That's my story. I'm sticking with that one...

[daveskilt]

97. Since Im always talking out of my arse

and I thought daves sporran would be trickier since the double s gets confusing and I hate_little_underscores

[ACK]

98. From Bloom County

ACK /ak/ interj. 2. An exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. in "Ack pffft!"

or maybe ack/syn in networking talk.