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I have rotated through a great many names on this site. On other sites I generally go by VitriolicVixen, but the level of vitriol is so potent and distilled on this site that I feel I could never live up to the name. So I chose my superhero alter ego instead.

"Oh, you're in the shower? Well I'm dirty too..."

Ulterior Motive Girl strikes again.

I always thought people who posted anonymously were annoying.

Bibliophile, because I am one and because I delurked after about 3 years to comment on a book review. And yes, I use it other places as well.

In the 90's I used to perform and record demos, all hip hop, all mine. It was fun, an outlet for my creative juices. I'd listened to hip hop all through the eighties, along with every other genre of music - especially Prince and his numerous incarnations.

Alas, with no equivalent musicianship and no vocal skills, emceeing was my thing even though I fell into it accidentally. Three of us performed this fantastic rendition of Boys to Men's "Ooh, Ahh" (that was the title right?), for a no-talent talent show. Emboldened by the response, and being just fearless at that point, we entered a real talent show a couple of months later, this time opting to rap.

Good golly, we won.

And caught the eye of the dude that would become our manager. Together, we were called "Ordinary Gentlemen". Yes, that corny. Which probably explains why we didn't stay together for very long.

In the end, I was a solo act, and changed my Emcee name to Malik, da VirgoLoveChild. Hey, it was hip hop - I could be pretentious and still be taken seriously. I was inspired by Float On - the singers at one point in the song introduce themselves with a "My name is Larry and I'm Sagittarius", and I've always LOVED the feel of that section of the song. So, in true hip hop fashion, I sampled even my performing title: MalikVLC.

Mine's pretty easy. I was trying to come up with something infinitely clever..an in-joke movie reference that wouldn't be too hard to get (tried using Marion Ravenswood on another site...*crickets*)

Plus, I'm kind of a slut.

Well, mine is my name, obviously. I used to use "georgevna" on some other sites (this was before I met you!), which is my patronymic, as my father was Georg; he used to call me "Edita Georgevna" on occasion (although he was not Russian) and he had passed away shortly before. Somewhere along the line, I decided just to go with my own name; I generally am not as clever at creating pseudonyms as others here. On the rare occasion when Edith is taken, I am generally EdithF.

I've been using variations of seastar pisaster - either the full thing or s. pisaster or just pisaster - as my internet identity for years, ever since I came across the words in my biology notes and thought it sounded cool ("the seastar pisaster is a keystone predator..."). I changed it to dr. pisaster after I earned my PhD, initially temporarily, but I think I'm stuck with it now.

DeckOfficer!! Shouted by Han Solo. Yes, I AM that lame. And yes, I use it other places, but I got the vaccines so it's all good.

Lo and behold these many years ago, I was introduced to the fine new internet. It was told unto me, "Have ye not an e-mail account, thou shalt burn in the lake of fire for unto eternity." And the people did wail and the llamas did cry. And so onto the foretold holy land of Hotmail did I seek, and there before mine eyes wast there a box in which I should select mine name, which would be mine until the day the zombies rise up to devour the flesh, and the farming animals and the woodland creatures, large or small. And I didst select "Superman" and it was good.

Buy yay, though I had been a fan of the hero for lo those many years, it was not fated that Hotmail should gift me with this name! And the people did wail and the llamas did cry. So I was like, "Superasente" is a suitable moniker. And it was good.

And hence forth I was known across the land as Superasente, from hilltops of mine hotmail account, the the barren desserts of YouTube, to the shores of 'Sisco bay, where I became a goblin and died horribly at the end of an ax. The End.

My name was given to me by this lady that used to hang out at the store where I would cash my pay check. She didn’t speak very good English, anyway one night as we were coming out of the motel I gave her a couple of dollars so she could get some cigarettes, she comes back to me telling me about some Garfield shit they were selling in the gas station. And that her young son that lived back in Honduras loved the Garfield cartoon stuff, so she started calling me Pookie because of the teddy bear that Garfield had and because she said I was her teddy bear.

My nickname is not a reference to the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team as I'm from just outside Boston- and a rabid Sawx fan to boot. Ironically, I would end up moving there many years later after meeting my eventual wife in Boston while she was at school. And by a stroke of fate/destiny/cowinkiedink she's from Toronto. Who knew?

My name is both a reference to my real first name and a VERY obscure reference to an episode of the original series of "Star Trek", which is even more confounding because I'm not even a real fan of the show.

I remember setting up my old AOL account about 15 years ago now, and needing a nickname. I was brainstorming, but couldn't think of anything I liked. The TV was on in the corner and the "Star Trek" re-run in question was blaring away. The original spelling was "BlueJay01" but AOL would not accept it. So I altered the spelling from English to French with a quick switch of two letters, but everything in lowercase and actually spelled out the number one. Success. It's been that way ever since.

God this is dorky. In the manga/anime "Bleach" there are baddies called Espadas. I like cats (don't blame me, I'm from Seattle, home of lolcats). I saw a piece of fanart called "catspadas" with all of the Espadas as cats. Yeah.

I've always wanted to use this handle, but kept forgetting to do it. I go by my given name on TWoP, but I don't post there much any more.

Captain Tuttle is from my favorite episode of MASH. He was Hawkeye's imaginary friend who got a promotion when Hawk was drafted.

Anna Banana is what my chemistry teacher in h.s. used to call me (there was another Anne in class) and it's stuck. I use it everywhere.

I used to use my name, Melissa, until another Melissa started posting on Pajiba. I decided to change to avoid confusion (my own - I didn't want to think I was posting while blacked out or something).

Mel Biv Devoe is a nickname given to me in high school by a dear friend who is obviously way cooler than I am. He calls me "Mel Biv" for short.

Litely Salted is the only other website where I use that handle, and that's because it's a Pajiba sister site.

I almost never post, but when I do, I just use e. It's the first letter of my first name, and half the time when someone is trying to get my attention, they just yell out "Hey Yo E!", but not enunciated, instead just mashed together.

Angry Black Lady, I love your blog! I posted one of your links on fb a few days ago...the one about the SC Republican Women's party.

My name is a direct result of my being an idiot. While out a bar in college, some friends and I saw a scribble of a stick figure, along with the words "Mr creosote". Apparently it looked like me and was hilarious (thre may have been drinking involved) and the nickname stuck. It wasn't until at least a year later that someone explained the Monty Python connection. I've kept it because it's grown on me.

thanks Val! i shall remain vigilant and angry.

I only use Jerce on Pajiba.

I only regularly comment on one other site, where I use a very different name.

If I'm moved to leave a comment someplace else (which only happens occasionally) I'll usually use the handle "Elrond Hubble," a name which was actually inspired by a Pajiba thread a long time ago.

I'm thinking of retiring "Jerce" and replacing it with "Lefty Mothersbaugh." What y'all think?

P.S. The first of you who can place the reference will receive free oral sex from me as a prize. No cheating, now.

I'm not actually a nurse.

My name was a direct result of a Facebook profile picture of me dressed as a dead nurse for a haunted house and my best friend getting offended at a comment I made on one of his posts.

I don't remember what it was we were talking about, but he didn't like what I had to say and so he replied to my comment with "So says the girl dressed as a zombie nurse."

I don't know if he thought that would embarrass me, or if he thought people who dressed as zombies had no right to disagree with what he had to say, but I kind of liked ZombieNurse - and so I started using it here.

Plus, it's fun to say! Zzzzzombienurse.

figgy likes commas and I

Then I shortened it.

"Lefty Mothersbaugh." What y'all think?

P.S. The first of you who can place the reference will receive free oral sex from me as a prize. No cheating, now.

Posted by: Jerce at September 18, 2010 5:49 PM
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Does Mark Mothersbaugh play left-handed?

figgy likes commas and I

Then I shortened it.

Posted by: , at September 18, 2010 6:21 PM
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Oops, heart failure there.

"... I heart figgy."

Case...because my all-time favorite book is William Gibson's Neuromancer.

Because it's been my handle for as long as there's been interwebs. It's the one I started with, and the only one I've every used, except variations, such as Xtreme007.

I think I've said this before on another comment diversion, but it's my name (at least according to my Southern-born-and-bred mother), and it's nicely anonymous.

I've used it on other sites to comment, but not too much--sometimes it's already taken.

Lord Of Vaginal ...

Sorry. Its really something I have to demonstrate. Explaining it doesn't really do the name justice.

I've used badkittyuno for everything (AIM, email, forums, etc...) since 2000, when my family adopted a very bad kitty and named him uno. he passed away last year, but i just can't give up the name!

I ended up having to get three teeth from a dude removed from my forehead after a fist fight on my boat. After that, I pretty much got called that from then on. (Its also close to how the Hispanic guys would try to pronounce my last name anyway).

Oh, and NOW Lwa'e' has her own VERY well utilized FB acct

So that's what we're calling it now? A 'FB acct'?

Normally my nom de plume is "Dick Longish" or "Flash Johnson". I used to go by "Osamaismymomma" until they threatened to kick me off of Jdate.

But seriously, logar is close to my name, Logan. It was my nickname in college, after I didn't close my "n" for a composite photo, and they read it as "Logar".

For some inexplicable reason everyone always thinks that bj stands for something dirty...

BUT

bj is for Beijing, a place I had the pleasure of visiting earlier this year and I absolutely loved it...thus, bjlove

I bet you are talking about the Barleys in Asheville! It is a fantabulous pizza and beer joint.

Well, the name Oasis was already taken, as was The New Originals, so I found myself doing what I always do: something for the children. But I only do this for them if they're not entirely ugly. What would you do if you had to run a diner called Janitor's Almost Millepied-Free Camphor Shakes? I literally have to put a good face on a bad situation, and I just can't go through the same heartache as I did when There's a Demon Under You Plate and Pancakes by Brian the Unrelenting ended so badly. And I have big plans for the future: Sun Meat, Do You Believe Me? and Vlad The Sautee-r say 'positive, positive, positive' to me! I don't see what could go wrong!

...to 11.

I like this one. I've been wondering about a few of these names.

THRILLHO - In a Simpsons episode Milhouse gets a new video game and wants to sign his name under high scores as "THRILLHOUSE" but there's a character limit- which cuts it off at "THRILLHO"

oh hey this is easier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlRKIjc-mlU

Malechai was the name of my cat, about three cats ago. (I'm old, not a serial cat killer).

Malechai was that creepy red-headed kid from the 'Children of the Corn' and my ex and I used to chase the cat around the house yelling, "IT WANTS YOU TOO, MALECHAI!". She'd get all bushy-tailed and bitch us out: Meh-MEH-mehehemehMEH.

Sigh. I miss that cat.

The few times I've commented it's been with my actual name, but everywhere else I use calliope or calliope1975. She was a muse and that's my birth year. And henceforth, should I ever comment again, it'll be with calliope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfOKmr64k_I

Pretty sure I sat here staring blankly at the "Name" field unsure of what to put in here. And then Bruce McGill popped in there. Yeaaaaaah....

I bet you are talking about the Barleys in Asheville! It is a fantabulous pizza and beer joint.

Posted by: ERM at September 18, 2010 8:52 PM
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Yep.

Took my first name, then picked an animal that a girl once said I was like -- "a loyal dog".
Yeah, she and I never dated. I was a friend.

Well, I was Precious Lily White for a few posts, but got sick of typing it. So I became Vince Noir. Mighty Boosh. I was briefly into it, now not so much, but I still like the character and the name.

I generally just use my given name when commenting on various websites (yep, soraya the playa!) though on certain sites I get a bit wary because it's a fairly unusual name and internet security and all that so I go by my initials SAS.

Sometimes when I'm feeling dumb or bitchy and don't want to drag my name through the mud I go by the highly anonymous, indistinct Sarah (I also do this when ordering taxis or pizza as repeating soraya and explaining its origins to imbeciles over the phone gets tedious)

Take one part Fight Club, one part classic rock band, dipthong that ass and sprinkle the acerbic twist with catastrophic luftwaffe peel, and you've concocted a Jackseppelin.

although i think one has actually guessed correctly, the original rumination: jc,ks

go by other names on other websites all the time, but this is my second oldest ongoing handle. as such, it appears on several other sites. Kind of a mood thing. all of the other jacksomethings on this site aren't me.

B.F.D. is the abbreviation of the nickname my husband gave me not long after we met. My last name is Diesel, and he decided that B___ Diesel wasn't enough, and that I was B___ Freakin' Diesel, or B___ Fuckin' Diesel. So, in polite company, he started calling me B.F.D., and it stuck.

I only use B.F.D. here. Elsewhere I am biodiesel101.

@ Xtreme
It IS my FB acct! You should know, you and your wifey are charter members!

@ ','
Far from perfection, Big Daddy, but thanks. Don't worry. IF I actually do it, it won't mar any of my finer 'attributes'.

Lindsay with an "E": Word.

Posted by: Val Vadynia at September 18, 2010 11:59 PM

Aww, thanks. But it is LindsEy. With an E! ;-)

It's my name.

*crickets*

I got nothin'. It does, however, surprise me that, given the plethora of people who have my name (the frickin' 80s, man), that there is not another Jessica floating around somewhere.

On other sites I use some variation of a Latin phrase that means "I sing therefore I am."

It's my name.
I like my name.
I like it when it's spelled properly.
I like it when I greet old friends and they call out "Brit-nayyy!" It's kind of ridiculous, but I find it endearing most of the time.
I especially like it when guys say it.
Being of course, if they have a sexy voice.
I'm very proud of my name.
My name carries a reputation that I'm damn proud of.
I want my name to be synonymous with beauty, hilarity, intellience, and fun.
I just like me. Call me conceited if you wish, but I'm at a point in my life where I realize self-confidence is the beess knees and having it sets you apart from the crowd.

I commented a few times as Nick, which is my real name. When I started posting more regularly around here, I decided to insert my alter ego.

I use this name for pretty much everything on the internet.

It is my favorite Seinfeld character.

My husband calls me "Kiddo". That's all. Boooring.

When first assimilated by the internet I was a professional clockmaker.

Later I learned that "clocker" was urban slang for a streetlevel crackslinger, a line of work which I now realize would have been far more lucrative.

You'll probably be as surprised as I to learn that knowing how to design and build six variations of the grasshopper escapement is not currently considered to be a "useful" or "desirable" skill set.

I'm now enrolled in community college with a major in French Fries and a minor in Sheepherding...just trying to maximize my options...so I may change my nic at some point to better reflect my current position.
"Private Idaho"? "Frank Don't Givadam"? Hmmm....)

But probably not.

My favorite color is red, so much so at one point I dyed my hair red. Fiance's favorite color is black. He is also a cancer and moody as hell, i say his moods are black. I called him black, he started calling me red: henceforth
Blacksred

it's something i created on the spot; kind of like it; has nothing to do with anything except maybe that a splinter can annoy the fuck out of you and i've been known to do that to people (no caps seems to annoy some but i'm not making a statement of any sort, just type faster this way); i do use it on other sites but it originated here as this is the first place i ever posted a comment of any sort;

where's kballs? i'm curious to know the origin of that one

My first name is Emerson, which I hated as a kid. I always went by my middle name, Jason. Until I joined the NAVY. Then I was either called by my last name, or my first. But I began to prefer EJ, and as those who met me in the military were a whole new set of friends who never knew me as either of the other two, EJ stuck. Jason is just too generic, and recently Emerson has become a girl's name (wtf! btw).

Many other places know me as Gold_2. When I first found the Internet I frequented a website set up for Decipher's now defunct Star Wars Collectible Card Game, and my handle there was 'Tiree,' the pilot of Gold 2 )hence the later use of Gold_2). Also, I'm kind of a big dork.

Chris from DE actually called this one earlier this week. In this tiny little state there are only three counties. The most populous is the northern-most, and a canal bisects it. Anyone who lives north of the canal has a really shitty attitude about anyone who lives south of it. The bottom part of the state is always referred to as slower lower Delaware, and not just because of the pace of life here, I'm sure. So I stole it, because I liked it, and because it sounds kind of dirty. I don't use it anywhere else for some reason.

I'm Robert because that's my name. I can't use it on other sites because someone always beats me to it. While I have graciously bowed down from Robert at other sites when another Robert was brought on board as a regular contributor, I refuse to acquiesce here. Why? Because I'm a controlling little bitch when I want to be. Robert is comfortable here.

The worst part? Almost everyone who meets me says "you don't act like a Robert," to which I roll my eyes and stop myself from saying "bitch, please."

"As Mrs. Julien I have been called
a very bad name on the site which is specifically-female so it seems I was right there."

Princess?

because I am!

Oh now Big Daddy, You already told me that if I ever set foot in your state there would be trouble. And as far as people 'dying for it,' yeah, not so much.

My real last name starts with Scorz, but when I played sports it was too long for coaches to yell out on the field, so my track coach shortened it to Scorzi.

Hey Conrad, I look forward to seeing you again.

I have benign essential tremors, which makes my hands constantly shake, particularly when I'm trying to do something. A friend was once famously removed from my high school because her mother met me and thought her daughter had fallen in with crack addicts. For the record, I am not nor have I ever been addicted to crack. I just shake. Although, recently someone asked me if it was a Ricky Martin reference. So I might have to change that.

Where have all the old-timey Pajibans gone?

Facebook.

The 247 bit comes from my very first e-mail address, I tried to be Frank, hotmail insisted that I was the 247th Frank to register. I liked the 24/7 aspect of it, now I'm frank_247 pretty much everywhere I go.

The Lone Scotsman bit came along later, on a comment diversion like this about where you live.
I think I'm still the only Scot on here, so it stays until I'm proven wrong, and I get my own Pajibacon. (Not that I'm jealous of you guys all hang out and getting drunk/frisky/tattoos)

Well, I went by my lifelong nickname for quite a while here (Mo, short for Maureen). But other "Mo"s showed up. The alternate spelling arose during a rather mock-Katherine-Heigl-esque rant that earned my first ever EE spot (culminating in something to the effect of "it's pronounced 'meaux', bitches"). Seemed relatively unique, so I stuck with it. It's my one and only commenting moniker (modified as needed, such as "_meaux_" on CBC.ca, which has a 6-character minimum).

OH, speak of the devil! A Katherine Heigl trailer just appeared on my TV! *shudder*

Frank, if we ever make the trip to Scotland, rest assured that I'll bring the wife by for some fisky, drunken tattooing.

Oh now Big Daddy, You already told me that if I ever set foot in your state there would be trouble.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at September 19, 2010 3:00 PM
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That would just be from the standard muzzleloader-bearing border patrol. We're working on the fence around West By-God, not to keep the inmates in but to keep the furriner revenooer riffraff out. But I have since left instructions at the Brandeneer Gate that you are to be admitted post-haste should you ever show up. I left photos of you -- or at least parts of you -- so that you will be immediately identifiable. They said they never forget a ... um, what the photos show.

And go fuck yourself, Conrad.

Lucas is my name. I don't usually use it as an internet name, but Pajiba feels different. I'm typically POINGjam.

I work for an energy drink and very sad about it.

I play keyboard in a band called Cinder Bridge.

Not much of a story there, huh ...

I was looking for something to put on my license plate about 10 years ago and realized that when I greet friends, I would always say "Whas happenin?" in my best "brotha" voice. So I just shortened it for my plate and started using it as my handle.

I also use "chispacita" sometimes on other sites because my favorite latino cutie at my favorite Mexican restaurant called me that. It means sparkly!

My name is a combination of my last name and gargoyle (I have always had some strange fasination with mythological creatures, generally of the evil-looking variety). Also, back in high school (13+ years ago), we had to create a fantasy world and the Kargoyles were the "protectors" of said world.

My other handle is primarily rules27 because back in the day when I created my e-mail account, I had (and still have) an obsession with Weird Al and one website had a list of 27 rules on living your life (all based on Weird Al lyrics) and since the e-mail wouldn't allow 27rules as a name I created rules27.

And I may be filthy, I may be whoring, but I .... wait, what was that last thing?

The "swing" part comes innocently enough from two of my favorite things: playing baseball and the dance of the same name (and many things vintage related). "Dude" signifies my SoCal origin. Unfortunately, when combined it makes many people think that I am probably some creep trolling the message boards looking to wife swap or find other sordid business. So wrong! Besides, if I was seeking that I would just use my real name....Joe Francis.

My name begins with a B and I weave on a loom.

mswas: 42 is the most awesome of ages. 101010 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. Enjoy it while you can. 43 sucks.

For some strange reason I just entered my actual name the first time I commented. This is strange because everywhere else (even in real life in many circles) I go by PaulterA. A nickname bestowed on me by friends many years ago due to my infatuation with the band Pantera.

So, from now on when you see PaulterA; it's me, Paul. I know, I know. The confusion of such a moniker switch boggles the mind.

I chose a normal-seeming, although relatively rare and movie-related, girl's name so that people would automatically assume it was my actual name and never try to find out what my real name is. Thus, internet safety is assured.

HOW in heaven's name did I miss tis diversion?! Awesome.

Well, mine comes from how I was originally also Anastasia Beaverhausen, and then realized there was another one when I saw a comment one day and said, "Hey! I didn't write that!" And so, a wrestling match was had, and both Anastasia Beaverhausens wound up changing their names. lordhelmet bestowed mine upon me, which was at first Anna von Beaverplatz, but has evolved over time to many forms, including Anna von Beavershark, von Sharktopus, von Beaverdouche (usually when I'm in a jackassy mood), Beaverbeaver, and eventually just von Beav. It's in my FB profile nickname thinger, and on all of my 27 blogs I never write in. As a side hobby, I make jewelry, and should I ever actually decide to sell any of it, my business name will likely be Anna von Beads. My handle has become a part of me, I suppose, as much as has Peffy (a nickname acquired when a florist misspelled my actual life nickname on a card accompanying a funereal arrangement). I have many, many names. Which is a little weird, since I'm only one person. Although now I think about it, it's not really that weird; I'm kind of changeable and always the same, at the same time. Or maybe it's just that I'm weird.

BEAV OUT.

Curse you, Darth Corleone!!!!

My real name being Leonel, when I was a little kid my first D&D character was named "SirLeonel" and I pretty much went all around the multi-verse using that name. But then recently I started feeling that in a site comenting sense it didn't really represent my geeky-hipsterer-than-thou-snarktastic-indy-music-movie-loving persona. Also, SirLeonel didn't feel very imaginative. So while I decided to keep SirLeonel as a gamertag, for commenting on sites I started using Darth Darko. Thinking it was, like clever and original and all.

Then I came to Pajiba and read Darth Corleone's name and realized how much more clever and original his name was and I felt kind of like, "Wow! His his name's awesomeness just blew mine away!"

I still use Darth Darko of course. But whenever I use it here at Pajiba I get embarrassed because I feel a little bit like I lost the Smart Wars.

That comment sounded like all kinds of crazy-cat lady, huh? I do have other hobbies and interests. I promise!

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