ILX cosmology: the origins of your user name

God, I dunno. I wasn't there.

When I first came to ILX, I tried to post as "RJG" (my initials), but was stymied because there was already someone registered with that name. I think my first post was as "R. Gr33ne", but I settled on "R. J. Gr33ne" for the time being. Eventually, ILX was closed to unregistered users and I was forced to register. I registered as "R. J. Gr33ne" and used a rotation of screen names integrating my name (R0dney) into whatever phrase I thought was funny at the moment. Eventually, around the time of the sandbox era, I started using "The Reverend R0dney J. Gr33ne". By the time ILX2 came online, I had decided I no longer wanted to use my real name on this site anymore, and since I'd had that screen name for a while, I just shortened it to "The Reverend". About a month ago I created a separate images-off account as simply "rev".

It's the first letter of my last name and my full first name, but not necessarily in that order.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/roundup/flatland.jpg

His middle name is also Abbott!

No special origins, really. Totally random.

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Yo, that's crazy!

And he was married to a woman with my real name (Abb13).

I thought your name was actually Abbott!!

http://www.myspace.com/latebloomertheartist

i don't remember. all i know is that before i registered i lurked and there was already a jackson so i had to come upwith something different

Mine is my real first name. And ''Esq.'' because I'm an attorney.

about 15 years ago I was booking shows at a club. one of the guys who worked there was named st3v3 and when the phone rang a lot it got really confusing. we decided I would be called "sleeve" since it was close but different.

Hell if I know.

started w/ my real name than moved onto this bastardized google proofed thing

i am named after a british spacepop group who released two incredible 45s then lost their singer/songwriter fellow and went terrifically mediocre almost immediately. their original spirit lives on in my username

http://www.blogotheque.net/IMG/jpg/CLOR_-_electric_joy.jpg

The Descendents were my favorite band when I signed up for my first e-mail account circa 1996. I've used some form of milo ever since then.

i am named after a british spacepop group who released two incredible 45s then lost their singer/songwriter fellow and went terrifically mediocre almost immediately. their original spirit lives on in my username

You mean it's not founded in backwards JOSE?

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The singer in my band was called Steven, he posted as steve.n, my name is Emily, I post as emil.y. Blah. He was responsible for the most awesome 'songs my boss is singing' compendium, though.

hangon are you from C.E.?

Sleep soundly tonight, ILX - they're my initials.

Is your first name Zebulon?

Zsigmond

(His last name is Snoo)

No! But the a while ago my dad notified me that my name was almost Jebediah. Instead they named me after a wee little man in the Bible.

we've done this before, haven't we?

mine: not after the damned song, nor the cartoon character who inspired it. it's actually after a character (dr grimly-fiendish, with a hyphen) from a (rather wonderful) children's book called "the founding of evil hold school", written by the (rather twattish) nikolai tolstoy and published in 1968.

why did i choose it? i dunno; i think i'd been tidying the bookshelf the day i registered with ILX and must have come across it. actually, my original registered name was "grimlord", and i've no idea whence that came either.

You are so not a grimlord. In real life at least. (I'm sure you glower effectively, though.)

:D

er, i mean:

>(

or something. nah, fuck it, can't even glower properly. got the eyebrows for it, mind.

This is true.

the "g" stands for "great" and the "r" stands for "rock" since that is what i came to ILX to learn about.

the "8080" references the year 1980 which is when rock started to suck.

The singer in my band was called Steven, he posted as steve.n, my name is Emily, I post as emil.y. Blah. He was responsible for the most awesome 'songs my boss is singing' compendium, though.

-- emil.y, Friday, May 23, 2008 3:57 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

someone link me to this thread. i hope its as funny as i remember it

A thread for Steve n.'s list of songs that his boss sings

rebus4u:

http://www.impawards.com/tv/posters/felicity.jpg

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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1204/889302987_da160eb647.jpg

Sorry so big.

Probably pretty obvious but ENBB are my initials. Erica Nicole B (first initial of my last name) B. (first initial of my husband's).

J.Lu = my name according to the old J.Lo formula.

I'm latebloomer, so-called because I discovered this forum recently. I'm a 21 year old um, "music fan" from Greenville, South Carolina. I like stuff like Wire, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Pixies, and all that jazz (or rock, whatever.) I also love Hardcore, Punk, Speed/Death/Black Metal, etc. Electronic music appeals to me as well. All around a stereotypical dweebazoid. Thank you.

-- latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:10 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Yer welcome!

-- Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:57 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.nba.com/media/act_danny_granger.jpg

mine's an old printer's instruction used by proofreaders, picked on a whim for some grammar thread post.

we've done this before, haven't we?

Yeah, because I've told this one at least one other time: it's a variation on "Hardrock," a nickname my sister's boyfriend gave me when I was four or so. (He named my brother "Nails".)

this is my 4th ilx name. first one was my real name, but then i was looking for a job and thought i'd ungoogle myself. so i was "spittle" for a while (i do not know why, it was the word i typed in), until someone made the reasonable point that it was an unappetizing name. so then i was gypsy mothra, which was derived from a name i had used elsewhere. and then in the sandbox i changed it to tipsy, which tagged along to ilx2.

the good thing about this is since most people who aren't jaymc haven't kept track of me, i can revive threads i started under the old names and otm myself.

It's the return of Bin Laden, grab your armor
Smash pretty boy niggas, crush they karma
Eat bones with alligators, roll deep, with my entourage
My whole crew's fresh out the bars
Diggler, AKA the Cab Driver
Drop him off in the middle of fire
Dirty Island, drag bodies to the murderland
Knock niggas out hurtin' my hand

I was thinking about favorite ilx names other than BIG HOOS, and there is at least one other that is not coming to mind right now...but in the meantime, heave ho followups are definitely in contention, i'm thinking

god told me to name myself chaki

I've been trayce for much much longer than on ILX, this came with me from being on usenet since the late 90s. And yet oddly, I was never on AMA.

It's too long of a story to explain here.

I was nearly named Rosamond, so I think I got lucky.

So true!

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Tried to type 'pomentiful' and it came out wrong.

― pomenitul, Monday, February 1, 2021 2:20 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

I always read 'flopson' as an alternate version of 'failson'. Who knew there was a literary precedent.

i had zero awareness until right now that flops was samosa, mind blown

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, February 1, 2021 12:36 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same. the xls has been duly updated

I slammed the first two words that came into my head on first logging on to the university library computers when I was 19

― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, February 1, 2021 3:19 PM (eight minutes ago)

I always assumed it was a play on "pig latin"

I sometimes regret my boring username, though I've never liked any other moniker I've used elsewhere

― rob, maandag 1 februari 2021 21:31

in Things I was shockingly old when I learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin

wow I'm leaning a lot today on ilx. first about castration, now this

mine has no significance

I feel like I've said this on another thread but I didn't understand the display name / username dichotomy, I just thought for some reason it was ILX style to have a parenthetical comment as part of your name, so I intended to be called Guayaquil (not a place I have any connection to, I just like the name) but then ILXified it to Guayaquil (eephus!) and then quickly learned that I was signaling that I was actually eephus so that's what I am now. But that's why I never change Guayaquil to anything else.

The eephus! is the baseball pitch, not any other eephus.

Xps yep, learnt about it the meaning of dog latin later on

There must be two of these threads as I'm sure I already explained mine somewhere.

My name is G3rry.

I went through a bunch of mIRC and online gaming (mostly Counterstrike) aliases which were variations on Ger-something like Ger-iatric, Ger-ymander, Ger-anium and... Ger-onimo.

Problem was online Germans kept seeing it as me tagging myself as [Ger]-something and would then attempt to speak to me in German.

So I dropped the Ger- and the onimo stuck. I like it. Except when it's mistaken for (d)omino.

Then ilx found me.

Assumed "dog latin" was from the Kevin Coyne song.

mine has no significance

― Yelp for gyros (wins)

hmmm. ah, now I recall...

the acronym that puzzles me most is: wins

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, August 12, 2016

well I never, sir

― llandfillpollgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (wins), Friday, August 12, 2016

My name came to me in a vision in a bowl of ramen

you winsome you losesome

on a road trip with friends and we were joking about how a waiter might mispronounce one of their finnish surnames and it grew into an elaborate running joke about the supernatural manifestations of good vs evil in the forms of the joy goat and the pain goat

there was some rob base and dj ez rock involved as well

i had zero awareness until right now that flops was samosa, mind blown

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:36 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same

I just thought his dad was flop

id like to meet the paingoat

xp My name comes from mishearing an REM lyric, too.

Same

sup

Problem was online Germans kept seeing it as me tagging myself as [Ger]-something and would then attempt to speak to me in German. So I dropped the Ger- and the onimo stuck.

I had been spending too much time on the fringes of an online community with a disproportionate number of extremely earnest trotskyists, maoists etc and I thought claiming the mantle of the true left would be funny and provocative. it doesn’t translate at all and it wasn’t that funny in context either

The first time I had to create a username online circa 1995 I was listening to nothing but the Descendents and Buzzcocks. Pete Shelley lost out to Milo Aukerman as a reference. Future usernames were variations until 2004 or so.

assumed yr username was a reference to what elvis did vis-a-vis "the building"

xp

my initials

Literally just my first and last name minus vowels. It's so dumb.

I first coined this for my tumblr (2011-2014). I don't really like it but I don't want to change it either. Within ILX, I have lived previous lives as:

telepathy_rock!
Z_Ayres

Treblekicker is a Pavement reference. It's the name of the label of their first single and publishing company.

https://www.discogs.com/Pavement-Slay-Tracks-1933-1969/release/875338

I realise that alot of you already know this.

Assumed "dog latin" was from the Kevin Coyne song.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, February 1, 2021 4:05 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

same tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJCAYNTTEc

Sarahell's username origins are precisely as i presumed but i thought "onimo" was one of those display names that means "display name" in another language.

Forgot about that memory tapes track, i liked it too.

when I posted to the local Orlando BBS "Demanding Times" around 1995-1996, my original user name was Flipper, but I thought that was lame and wanted to change it. One day I was postin' in the chat and my brother and best friend were there too and they started making fun of the sloppy way I communicated, saying I sounded like a caveman. so I changed to Neanderthal.

obv I didn't start as that on ILX, but after the permanent stain on the BJO nick, and after I got ran off the board by max and grady when I was San Te, I later came back as Neanderthal, then used a few other nicks, then came back to this when I forgot the passwords to the others.

I assume the origin of my dn is apparent, we listened to John Strauss in my 4th grade music class. The teacher explained that "die flademaus" actually means "the bat" but I still thought it was a funny word and a couple of years later when we got our unlimited dial-up AOL it became my screen name.

lol yeah I like yours because I legit thought that was what it was called when I first heard someone say "Die Fledermaus"

Already said mine, my current screen name I'm sticking with because i like it, its from Kimmy Schmidt when Titus snidely calls Lillian "stoop crone".

Mine is a character in Trollope's Barsetshire series; I chose it more or less at random because I was posting on the Guardian books blog and wanted an identifiably female screen name. Eventually I started posting more on the Guardian music blog than the books blog, so when I came here it seemed reasonable to keep using the same name.

Your dn is my favorite because i thought it was in reference to the spiritualist/psychic community in western ny (and so did not identify it as a female dn)

“unperson” is a name I’ve used in several other contexts over the years; I just really like the word/concept. “but also fuck you” is something another ilxor typed at me one day and I immediately adopted it as a username.

cool

presumably an unperson was a person at some point before their personhood was removed, thus making them even less of a person than a nonentity

even cooler

hearing my name
is better
than seeing
my face

i thought it was in reference to the spiritualist/psychic community in western ny

I didn't even know about that community! Maybe I should change it.

Mine comes from the title of a book I was reading to my kids called That’s Not My Lion. Great book for the under 6s.

my name is a combination of my initials and a silly reference to the old commercial slogan “pork: the other white meat” which i used to find hilarious and baffling when i’d see it on tv as a kid. someone eventually pointed out to me that there was another ilxor who shared my initials and that my name seemed like a reference to him. i don’t remember thinking about this when i made up my ilx name and now i honestly feel a little awkward about it! but i’m also too used to my current name to really want to change it now.

There was a poster called "m the g" for a while, and I had to keep checking it wasn't one of my posts

I didn't even know about that community! Maybe I should change it.

No, don't! :(

in college i played hoops with this indian kid whose last name was mukkama1a. he wasn't particularly good, but he had this weird fall-away right-handed hook shot that was surprisingly effective. but he could never get it off against me, probably not least because i was eight inches taller. thus, i had mookieproofed the basket.

I love this so much <3 <3 <3

I didn't even know about that community! Maybe I should change it

I like crosswords

In my head I sometimes call you nag a ram thanks to this Google Easter egg when you search for anagram.

Did you mean: nag a ram