[jelloarm]

So once upon a time, back in the world of Elementary School, before the internet ever existed in my line of thinking, I was a bookish child of tender years and comparatively prodigious intelligence. My gym teachers, those bastions of childhood embarassments, settled upon me as the bright hope that would supply the cure for that terrible disease... Jelloarm.

Now, for those of you unfamiliar with the disease, jelloarm is a direct product of attempting the tripod. For those of you unfamiliar with childhood gymnastic practices, a tripod is the preliminary step to a headstand; your head and two hands are placed on the ground, and your knees are placed on your elbows, creating a small, inverted ball of a child. When the gymnast has jelloarm, the weight of their body causes their arms to shake, rather like jello. Hence, jelloarm.

Now this followed me throughout elementary school (including a scandal where I was accused of using grant money to purchase a new house; the allegations were eventually dropped), and when I moved to middle school, my gym teacher got elevated with me, leading to the nickname's cross-era tenacity. By the time high-school rolled around, the name had faded into antiquity... almost.

But then arrived the Intertubes.

When my family purchased AOL, I was a freshman in high school. My parents allowed me to create my own account, and when making my screenname, I settled upon that name of my childhood. Being unique enough that no one else had settled upon it, it became my handle for nearly all of my internet excursions.

[TheIllustratedMan]

Well, I read the first page, the last couple, and I notice that people are reaching back to the past, and I feel nostalgic, so you're going to get the timeline. Deal.
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// OK, I'll mark off the irrelevant parts for you, if you don't give a crap, skip down.

Back in the BBS days (and I'm not that old, just been using computers since I could see), I wanted something dark and scary (oooh), so I chose Scythe, being as that's the instrument of Death (it's later become at least one character name that I know of, and probably plenty of others). As the world moved on, I began dabbling in the pioneering days of 1337 (something that I now despise). My name became N8, then when that was being used too often, N8dunn. Later I wanted to go back to dark and scary (oooh) so I, like many before me, had a brainfart moment. I was trying to remember the name of a Marilyn Manson song, and misremembered the lyrics instead, and came up with FeelingOfDecay (the song is called Minute of Decay, the lyrics are "I feel the minute of decay"). That one hung on for awhile, until I decided that I had outgrown it (though it does still pop up every now and again). At that point I went back the N8dunn. It's compact, it's my name, and it doesn't have any numbers at the end. Works pretty well for me.

// End of nostalgia.
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So, a few months ago I decided to change my online persona. I became TheIllustratedMan in any new accounts for two reasons:

1) I love Ray Bradbury (look him up, he's great)
2) I fully plan to become an Illustrated Man, if I can ever align my schedule with my tattoo artist's.

So, long winded answer to a simple question, but I'm bored and, like I said, feeling nostalgic. So...

...yeah.

[EDIT]

Tack a third reason on there:
3) The Illustrated Man is, in his own way, a storyteller. I like to think that I am, in my own way, also a storyteller. Although I rarely get the chance these days. :-\

[natas]

Nighthawk wrote:

natas wrote: elite.fencer wrote: Natas, I always thought your name came because it's 'Satan' spelled backwards xDD Everyone does A likely story, Satan...

Its really an anagram for Santa

[Nighthawk]

natas wrote:

elite.fencer wrote: Natas, I always thought your name came because it's 'Satan' spelled backwards xDD Everyone does

A likely story, Satan...

[Fishjp]

Mine is pretty simple. I have been known as Fish both online and in RL for about 25 years. However in almost every website I go to "Fish" is already taken. So I added the jp (my initials) to keep me seperate from all the other Fish in the sea.

[natas]

elite.fencer wrote:

Natas, I always thought your name came because it's 'Satan' spelled backwards xDD

Everyone does

[Oriza]

I feel guilty about having not used the search button.

I fence. With swords. And I'm fairly good, too.

Natas, I always thought your name came because it's 'Satan' spelled backwards xDD

[tygr20]

Let's see... I've been tygr20 since the beginning of the internet, as my sad, .tk webpage with one update since Decemberish, says on the front page. By the beginning of the internet, I mean 1995(which was when I learned what an internet was, and that you don't have to remember the http:// part). I always liked Blake's "The Tyger" and started to use "Tyger" as my IRC name back when TalkCity was where the cool kids would hang out. Then, I realized one day someone else was using "Tyger" and got into a big fight over who had the name first, etc, etc. Long story short, I became Tyger20. Just liked the number. Tyger20 started being used up more and more everywhere I went, so I took a damn ax( ) and knocked out the e, and lower-cased the t. Thus, tygr20. Amen.

[avengedsamurai7]

Little Albatross wrote:

A couple of quotes... Mal: She is a mite unpredictable. Mood swings, of a sort. The Operative: It's worse than you know. Mal: It usually is. The Operative: That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Mal: The way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [He turns to Inara.] Mal: Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint. Mal: It ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flyin' is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say. River: I do. But I like to hear you say it. Mal: Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. And love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down… tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens… makes her a home. So, in short, I chose the name so every time I write it, I can imagine Nathan Fillion saying it. That, and I'm a huge browncoat and it's obscure enough that it's not too obvious but still sounds okay even if you don't know what it means.

Sssswwweeeeeeeeeetttttt..... a Firefly/Serenity fan.

"I aim to misbehave."

[Little Albatross]

A couple of quotes...

Mal: She is a mite unpredictable. Mood swings, of a sort.
The Operative: It's worse than you know.
Mal: It usually is.
The Operative: That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.
Mal: The way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it.
[He turns to Inara.]
Mal: Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.


Mal: It ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flyin' is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.
River: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Mal: Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. And love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down… tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens… makes her a home.

So, in short, I chose the name so every time I write it, I can imagine Nathan Fillion saying it. That, and I'm a huge browncoat and it's obscure enough that it's not too obvious but still sounds okay even if you don't know what it means.

[Clementine]

My boyfriend at the time (we've since broken up and have dated our separate ways) mentioned a movie he'd seen recently (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and that I reminded him of one of the main characters: Clementine. That's her in the picture that I use for my avatar as well (I wish my hair were that color .. siiigh!).

I didn't really agree with him in reference to the likeness and whatever, but the name stuck in my head after that. I like it -- especially the phonetics. Plus, my Mom buys the little guys (mini oranges!) in boxes to eat from the store all the time.

And just think of all the awesome rapper names you can make with it: CTine, ClemT, ClemmyT, C to the Ine. Ohhh, the possibilities are endless (especially when you're me and you have no life .. no life whatsoever). Haha.

[avengedsamurai7]

My username was a brainfart, essentially. I was thinking of a username for my project playlist(really cool music site, and its free! Sorry, useless plug.)Anyway, I was thinking of one, and my favorite band was (and still is!) Avenged Sevenfold . So, one of my other discreet interests at the time was Feudal Japan (the age of ninjas and samurai) so one brainfart later, and out pops avengedsamurai (the number is random, despite its implications.)

Lately, my Runescape account is named Boxman314 (My friend from class gave me the Boxman nick, and I really like pie.) I was thinking of changing my name to yourmom, because I use that for Halo (on my friend's Xbox), but if I can't change it, then I'll create a new account.

By the way, the yourmom username came to be in a funny way. I was with a couple of friends playing Halo 2. There were four of us, One was named Sir-Snipes-A-Lot, Chunky Mayonaise (forgive my spelling), and Yourmom (couldn't remember the fourth one), so whenever on of them would kill me, it would read "You killed Yourmom" or another one is " Yourmom committed suicide" or my favorite " Yourmom was assainated".

Need I say more?

[natas]

My name, not that anyone really cares, comes from a skater I used enjoy watch and had an opportunity to skate with, Natas Kaupas... This was about the time Final Fantasy came out on the NES... my first RPG. So I chose that as a name (though i think you could only have 4 letters as your name then not sure). That's the name I use everywhere now. except on my paychecks lol.

sidenote.. i noticed about a month later that it spells satan backwards, although it has nothing to do with anything... just pretty neat

[EnigmaFisk]

Im a comic geek...when marvel and dc did the amalgam universe they merged the riddler and the kingpin...that created Edward Fisk aka the Big Question...i felt the name should have been my username so i edited a little...I always loved the riddler..with the exception of one portrayal by an otherwise funny guy in a really bad batman movie

[rafigirl]

Strange I'm posting in here (as I only have a few posts), but I've been using this alias for a while.
It all started about four years ago, when I stole my sister's neopets account. We had a cat named Rafi at that time, hence 'rafigirl' (I R SO SMRT!). I lost my account, so I mosied over and hacked hers.
Even after Rafi died, I've still been using rafigirl for a while. It feels comfortable to me, it's hardly ever taken, and it's much easier than remembering 200000 passwords and account names!
If you search rafigirl on google, in fact, you'll probably get like 200 finds, all different accounts.