What's the meaning beind your board name?

[LogDog75]

Being on a board like the DU allows us anonymity by using an alias name. But each of us chose our board name for some reason and I think it would be interesting to learn the reason for your name.

My board name is LogDog75. The meaning behind this is simple. I served in the AF in the Medical Materiel career field which is part of medical logistics. The military term "dog" has a couple of different meanings but mainly it refers to someone who does the physical work of the career field. So, putting "Log" for logistics together with "Dog" we get LogDog. The 75 refers to the year I entered the AF.

How about you? What's the meaning of your board name?

[The Blue Flower]

1. Mine comes from a Henry vanDyke story

The blue flower is something very rare and unworldly.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Great idea! I often wonder how our handles came about.

Mine is not profound at all. I live in Lafayette, Colorado and I thought it would be easy to remember.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I think mine is self explanatory. It was picked in 2002 and my feeling has been correct.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. I have been volunteering on voter protection efforts for a long time

[EarthAbides]

4. EarthAbides

A book I read in high school that still haunts and assures me.

[Tyche]

70. One of my favorite books!

"Things are as they are, and I am part of them"

[Hekate]

89. Same here: Ish &Em, 2 random humans who founded a community, then a tribe, & became an origin myth...

I still remember that book after a lifetime

[Casandia]

97. I still have the paperback I bought in 1972

It remains one of the best books I ever read. I reread it during the Covid lockdown - so prescient

[SheltieLover]

5. I love Shelties

[Laffy Kat]

12. I love Shelties, too.

My parent's got a Sheltie when they were empty nesters. Megan was the sweetest dog ever. When my mom was dying Megan provided so much love, laughter, and joy. I will always have a soft spot for the breed.

[Glorfindel]

6. Glorfindel is a character from "Lord of the Rings"

They left him out of the movies, so I adopted his name as something to aspire to.

"Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength. "

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Mine is fairly simple. The first two parts of my ID indicates companies I worked for in the past, and the last 3

characters are the first 3 characters of my name. Easy.

Sometimes I wondered if I should change the ID to something else, but then, nope...I'm fine w/ it. After all, just how many IDs and passwords do we all have? Seems like hundreds of them by now, w/ every bank, every company, everyone wanting an unique ID and password when you sign up w/ them. Gets to be a little much.

[BoRaGard]

8. BoRaGard is the mantra

of the BoRaGarders.

[Dorothy V]

10. Here I'm just first name last initial, but Everywhere else I am Arkansaw!

I chose that spelling in case somebody from Kansas came along. Sorry, Kansans, but in Arkansas our pronunciation is actually protected by law.
When I first signed in here it told me Arkansaw was already taken. I am however thinking of changing Dorothy V to Arkansaw53 (year of birth). Or some such version.

[Ptah]

11. Ptah the God of Craftsmen & The Arts

Ptah the God of Craftsmen & The Arts

Ptah (/tɑː/ TAH;[2] Ancient Egyptian: ptḥ, reconstructed [piˈtaħ]; Ancient Greek: Φθά, romanized: Phthá; Coptic: ⲡⲧⲁϩ, romanized: Ptah; Phoenician: 𐤐𐤕𐤇, romanized: ptḥ is an ancient Egyptian deity, a creator god, and a patron deity of craftsmen and architects. In the triad of Memphis, he is the husband of Sekhmet and the father of Nefertem. He was also regarded as the father of the sage Imhotep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptah

[yardwork]

13. I had been out in the yard gardening the day I signed up.

I'd been lurking for about a year, and one spring afternoon decided to sign up. Yardwork seemed like a good name. To me it represents grassroots activism and volunteer efforts.

An unintended consequence is that a lot of DUers seem to assume I'm a man - a beer drinking, mower riding, football loving dude. Then they find out I'm a lesbian and the stereotypes fly.

This is actually kind of hilarious, as I'm a petite (well, used to be - I'm still short but am now wider!), not at all athletic, girly girl. I do like watching football with my sons, but I prefer wine or a vintage cocktail to beer, have never mowed a lawn (riding or not), and until COVID usually got dressed up for work, including heels and makeup. People who don't know me on DU often refer to me as "quiet and calm."

I kind of love my DU name and all the ways folks respond to it.

[iscooterliberally]

14. I don't know that mine has all the much meaning.

I was lurking here for a while. I decided to sign up when I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was on trial. I was commuting on a Harley since gas was up around $5 a gallon and there was almost no one on the roads. I put the two situations together and voila I had a handle on DU.

She takes no prisoners.

[Niagara]

21. That cat!

[ms liberty]

35. Back when we were all anticipating Fitzmas. Oh, the good old days...

[AllaN01Bear]

41. luv the puddy tat. born to ride.

[Think. Again.]

15. Just give mine some thought...

...and then give it some more thought.

[Diamond_Dog]

16. I love baseball, dogs, and David Bowie.

[Wounded Bear]

17. Was my spirit animal name when I was in a mens drumming/storytelling group...

back in the day.

Bears are cave animals, and I spend a lot of time in my "cave." Metaphorically, of course, but I am a natural loner. I can socialize, but seldom reach out to first contact.

The "Wounded" part is...well, aren't we all wounded in one way or another?

[Marthe48]

18. My name with a slight change

And my age when I signed up.
Easy to remember, even as time goes on

[displacedvermoter]

19. I was a displaced Vermont voter

Back home now, though

[Niagara]

20. My DU handle is derived from the 1953 movie Niagara and my current county

I'm relatively hoping for a handle change opportunity on DU in the next four years.

[Harker]

42. A raging torrent of emotion...

that even nature can't control! (From the movie trailer.)

[unweird]

57. My birth county!

A long time ago

[boonecreek]

22. A stream that originates in Boone County, IL

and winds it's way east through McHenry County eventually emptying into the Fox River.

[gay texan]

23. Self explanitory

[applegrove]

24. There were apple trees or orchards at the homes

of my parents and grandparents (on both sides) and beyond. My mom had a russet tree on her farm growing up and she used to sit in it and eat apples. She got me into russet apples. I never see them in stores and have not bitten into one in a generation. Anyhow, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[quaint]

25. I'm just an old quirky woman.

[Drum]

26. Drum: all my life I've enjoyed drumming, AND

…when I discovered DU 20 years ago I was frantically searching for real-time New Orleans news following Hurricane Katrina. I remembered that drums have been used historically to communicate over long distances, hence the user-name here. Drums are also used to mobilize folks and stir groups to action and celebration.

[badhair77]

27. I couldn't decide on a name for the longest time and just went with the bad hair day I was having

for about a month. I have a newer stylist since then so I now have glorious hair. I’m hoping we’ll have an opportunity to change names soon. Of course I still don’t know what to call myself. lol. I guess Indecision would apply.

[central scrutinizer]

28. Any more questions?

[Mike 03]

29. Fun. I'd love to learn the meaning behind some of the names.

So, I actually joined DU in 2003, despite my profile saying I joined in 2008. I think I had a name very close to what I have now, but with no space between the MIKE and the 03, or maybe a hyphen, or something. It was basically the same but with one small difference. (I've been a little scared to look at my very early posts here).

I remember at some point either worrying that I was spending too much time here and needed to stop, or I may have had some conflict or embarrassed myself badly enough that I sort of sabotaged my own account by creating a new password that was so random (I think I tried not to even watch my fingers make the new password) that I could never remember it--this was back in the days before Chrome or Windows would save and remember your password for you. I do remember that I was spending so much time here while trying to do some other things and at one point even programming into my computer to not allow me to come onto DU, but it was easy to circumvent and I usually found my way onto DU every day.

So I left, either for that reason or some kid of embarrassing spectacle.

I'm guessing it wasn't long before I came back to DU, tail between my legs, and tried to get my account back--but those first few years were gone. So I opened a new account, keeping the Mike and the 03 but doing something different---adding a space or maybe eliminating some kid of symbol (if symbols are/were allowed).

I really don't want to know for sure why I left, because it was probably something I'd still be embarrassed and ashamed about, but I was still proud of having joined DU fairly early on and didn't want to lose that aspect of being here, so I kept the 03 even though I was rejoining in 08.

The reason I joined is that I think I was beside myself over W. Bush and the political climate in this country. I would do anything to remember the exact logistics by which I found DU. I can't remember whether maybe someone on another chat or board recommended it, or whether it could have come up in a search?

But I was SO GRATEFUL to find DU, and I still am SO GRATEFUL for DU and everyone on it.

.

[sheshe2]

30. It's the way my young great nephew & great niece...

pronounced my name. They both kinda slurred it, the 2 is for also. I was known as sheshe...too.

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

31. Comes from the 'One Blue Dot in a Red State.' organization

Was OneBlueDotBama, when I moved after 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado, to the Charleston SC area, I changed it to OneBlueDotS-Carolina

[3catwoman3]

32. When I first needed a screen name, we had 3 cats. Those original 3...

…are no longer with us, and our numbers have since varied from a high of 5 to a low of 2. Rather than change it all the time, keeping it at 3catwoman3 seemed a good way to honor those 3 we had at the time.

We currently have 4.

[Srkdqltr]

33. Where i live and what i do.

[DBoon]

34. Lead singer for the LA punk band The Minutemen

Known for their progressive politics and experimental music

[johnp3907]

61. By far my favorite name on this board!

One time someone in the crowd during one of my band’s sets yelled “You sound like the Minutemen!” Not true, but I’ll take the compliment! 😀

[birdographer]

36. I photographed a lot of birds

back in an earlier chapter of my life. An egret photo ended up in a NatGeo coffee table book of photographs and in a book of pithy sayings, a mockingbird ended up in a textbook chapter about bird behavior, and a few others are scattered around. I loved it. So, a shortening of bird photographer. I imagine that was easy to guess...

[Harker]

37. I wrote a description of my first experience brewing shou pu'er cha, as a pastiche of Jonathan Harker's journal

for a friend, who called me Harker thereafter. His wife knew me for years before finding out it wasn't my given name.

[303squadron]

38. Homage to the "tip of the spear"

It’s the summer of 1940. The German army had just kicked the shit out of both the French and British armies and France had fallen. The Allies had no answer for the German blitzkreig and were totally outclassed by German armor.

Hitler was ready to invade England and if he had moved his panzer corps across the English Channel that country would have fallen to the Nazis.

There was just one problem: If you couldn’t control the air your troops would be defenseless on the beaches. So, the Germans needed to defeat the RAF, and in September of 1940 they came close to doing just that.

But the RAF held firm and saved England in her darkest hour. “Never has so much been owed by so many to so few.” ~ Winston Churchill

The “tip of the spear” was the most decorated RAF unit: 303 Squadron. This was a unit of Polish fighter pilots who fled Poland after it fell. The Polish Air Force in the 1930’s was one of the best trained air forces in the world with requirements of many more flight hours before a pilot could earn his wings than pilots in other air forces.

Initially defeated in the air over Poland with antiquated fighter planes, the 303 Squadron was given Hawker Hurricanes with the RAF. Polish pilots, knowing full well of the systematic killing of their brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers by the Nazis fearlessly pressed home their attacks on German planes, getting closer to them than their English counterparts.

303 Squardon shot down or damaged more German planes than any other RAF squadron.

I’m not related to any of those brave men. I am related to too many people who never made it out of Auschwitz……and I fucking hate Nazis and their Nazi thinking.

My name here is an homage to the tip of the spear!

[johnp3907]

39. I tried to use my first name, last initial, and birthday on some website about 20 years ago.

But that was already taken. So the site suggested sevearl things, one of which was JohnP3907. I've learned a lot more about ctber safety since then, and since 3907 has no meaning I've used it all over the place.

[AllaN01Bear]

40. self expanitory

@ one pint i was 299 lbs and now down to 190 lbs - 185 lbs dripping wet with the help of a diatician. still am i had a prior haandle on here but had to change it after the great du hack of 2016.

[mwmisses4289]

43. I miss a place I consider to be home.

[soldierant]

44. I served in the Marine Corps for ten years.

When I signed up for DU, I had recently been highly angered by a right-wing take on Aesop's grasshopper ans ant fable. "Marine ant" is not a thing, but "soldier ants exist. .

[Nittersing]

45. A children's book my grandfather brought back from Australia.

The Story of Nuttybub and Nittersing.

https://maygibbs.org/story/the-story-of-nuttybub-and-nittersing-their-strange-adventures/

My original DU name was Blaze... a sort of nod to my life as an HVAC tech. Then I found out it was also the name of a right wing rag and changed it as soon as I could!

[many a good man]

46. Tribute to my grandfather

He grew up dirt poor and ended every meal with the saying, "thank the Lord for that last bite. Many a good man would make a meal of it."

[Deuxcents]

47. I'm French on my father's side and my friends used to say..tell us how you really feel so..I give em my 2 cents worth ⚜️

[questionseverything]

48. My dad taught me don't believe everything you hear

Question everything

[catbyte]

49. I started using mine in the early days of Bitnet, about 35 years ago, lol.

I'm a cat person and was pricklier than I am now, especially on political forums, Catbite seemed a little too aggressive so I changed the I to a y and it seemed to fit because, well, computers. I've tried other names over the years but none seemed right, so here I am.

[Lars39]

50. I'm doing a Jack Benny, staying 39 forever.

Lars is a nickname. 🙂

[Skittles]

51. Skittles was a 25lb solid bundle of black feline fur

yes, he was named after the candy

Skittles passed on my fifth DU anniversary............

[claudette]

52. Mine is a

nickname that was given to me by a nun when I was in high school because she said I resembled the actress Claudette Colbert.

[Demobrat]

53. Hillary Clinton was called a Demobrat way back in the day.

Long before she ran for president. I don’t remember by whom. I took the name in her honor.

[Phoenix61]

54. The Phoenix symbolizes rebirth and renewal.

It’s the only tattoo I have. I was supposed to be on vacation with my husband but he bailed and I went without him. My vacation took me to Austin where I was with a friend who was the area coordinator for wild life rescue and she was looking for a wildlife rescue volunteer who worked in a tattoo shop. I’d always said I’d get a tattoo if I found one I liked and lo and behold I saw this amazing Phoenix. Well, my marriage was crashing and burning so… I got a Phoenix tattoo. I found DU when tdump first got elected. I figured we were all crashing and burning but we would rise from the ashes. Just like the Phoenix.

[CanonRay]

55. Mine come from Canon City where I retired to in 2002.

Plus my first name.

[Hekate]

90. And here I thought you were a UU minister (canon) because of the flaming chalice

[CanonRay]

98. No, but I am a UU!

[thinkingagain]

56. This is great a fun light hearted post

Often when you’re scrolling through the DU you think “wonder where did they come up with that?”

For me,
I’m kind of a thinker and so often I’ve been told especially by this one coworker “You're thinking again” or “you think too much.”
So I felt it was a good fit for the DU where you need to think a lot

[unweird]

58. A twist on UNWIRED

Worked in 2way radio and cellular telephony. UNWIRED was a natural handle but then the lightning struck and UNWEIRD made even more sense. In a weird sorta way.

[LuckyCharms]

59. My name is a tribute to my favorite cereal, Shredded Wheat.

[Rastapopoulos]

60. My original board name was too similar to real name

Now I am the evil genius and criminal mastermind in the old Tintin comics series.

[Squeaky41]

62. Nicker Call

"Squeaky" was given by sixth grade girl friend. Thereafter used by many for me.

Born in 1941 twelve days after Bernie Sanders.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

63. A twist on a Firesign Theater couple

Buzz and Bunny Crumbhunger were abducted by aliens and showed their home movies on a bad travelogue, ‘50s movies, Reebus Caneebus jumping into the aliens’ crater, Nino the Great Mindbender, the best damned nudist trailer park community ever, and Happy Harry Cox trying to make sense of it all. Have a blue moss (or maybe just a few monster bong hits) before everyone jumps in the hole together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_You_Know_Is_Wrong

[anciano]

64. anciano

is "old man" in Spanish

[skylucy]

65. I love sixties Rock and Roll...Especially The Beatles.

[Butterflylady]

66. I started collecting butterflies.....

In my house and on me after my oldest son died in 2009. I had read somewhere that butterflies 🦋 send your love to those in heaven.

I have butterflies all over my arms, hope nobody thinks I'm in a gang.

[Hekate]

96. 💕🦋

Yes

[Aristus]

67. Aristus is a Latinized form of the Greek name Aristocles.

Which was Plato’s real name. Not saying I’m on the level of Plato. But I liked the sound of it.

[IcyPeas]

68. I opened the door to my freezer....

☮️

[Jeebo]

69. I had several nicknames in high school that kind of evolved from my last name.

One of those is Jeebo. My last name starts with J. I almost put Jeebo on a personalized license plate. It was my third choice; I got my second choice.


-- Ron

[hay rick]

71. Mine was based on a dream that I had a night or two before I signed up.

I have forgotten most of the dream since, but I do remember that the dream involved a former supervisor who I respected and a rack of shirts, displayed as if for sale. In the dream, I believe the display was attributed to Hay Rick or Rick Hay. I went with Hay Rick.

[sestina]

72. I love poetry

and want to someday conquer perhaps the most challenging fixed verse form, the sestina.

The sestina poem is a fixed verse form consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a three-line envoi, using the same six end words in a specific, repeating pattern throughout the poem. It has a complicated and beautiful structure.

I thought it would be a nice board name for me at this time in my life.

[Wolf Frankula]

73. It's from the movie "The Chicken Chronicles"

There was a character I liked who called himself Frank Dracman, from Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman. Mine is from The Wolfman, Frankenstein and Dracula.

Wolf

[PufPuf23]

74. PufPuf is the name of the Pacific Giant Salamander

in the Karuk language, also a character in origin stories.

23 is a troll that has never caught bait ie. 23 skidoo and related.

[KitFox]

75. One time my husband and I were camping alone on some remote

BLM land near Dead Horse Point, Utah. Just before sunset, we took a walk out among some red rock formations, when a little kit fox stepped out in front of us. We stopped and he stood right by us. We kept on walking and it followed us for a while, then stopped, stared at us and then darted off into the brush. When night fell, the magic continued. The sky was ablaze with a million stars and off in the distance, there was a lightning storm in the Henry Mountains. The next morning, as we were packing up, our little kit fox appeared again. It is just one of the many precious and special memories I had with him in our life together.i lost him eight years ago and memories like this really do keep him close in my heart every day. I really enjoyed reading all the details of everyone’s chosen names. Such a great idea for a thread. Thank you! 😊🩷

[Hekate]

91. What a wonderful experience and memory to have

[Baron2024]

76. It Is A Family Surname

"Baron" is a family surname that I have used for years as a username or nickname on the internet in various places, including DU. 2024 is just the year I joined DU.

[MMBeilis]

77. An historical figure, a Russian Jew upon whon the novel "The Fixer" was based.

[underpants]

78. I needed a name and wanted something (hopefully) funny. National Lampoon Family Vacation

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[Hekate]

87. I remember you had a laundry line with one pair of underpants on it waving in the breeze...

You had it for the longest time

[RockRaven]

79. I had used a pic I took while backpacking of a corvid perched on a stone as an

avatar pic on a different forum/site around the time I made my DU account, and was just riffing on that.

It had nothing to do with this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_Rock_Mountain_Complex
or inverting that, but that is something I have since become mildly self-conscious about.

[Silver Gaia]

80. Um... I'm an earthy, earth-loving woman who loves green, growing things (Gaia)

and I have long, wavy, silver hair (Silver). That's it.

[Hekate]

92. Of course...

[OnDoutside]

81. I'm Irish living in Ireland and feel that I'm living

On d (the) Out Side looking in to something we in Ireland/Europe have little control over.

I felt that way when I joined DU in 2016, and boy has everything I thought could happen, happened and more !!!!

[Rincewind]

82. I am a Wizzard,

and yes, I spelled it correctly. I also like potatoes. Fans of Sir Pterry will know what I mean.

[Hekate]

93. I know exactly who you mean

Rincewind accidentally saves the world (and/or individuals) any number of times.

GNU Terry Pratchett

[Dulcinea]

83. Don Quixote.

Dulcinea was his ladylove, but she was a romantic ideal & an illusion.

[womanofthehills]

84. I loved the Japanese independent film "Women in the Dunes"

Besides being intrigued with this 1964 Japanese movie , I liked the way the words sounded. So, I’m up here on 40 acres on top of a hill in the high desert with tons of pine & juniper trees plus cactus in a beautiful house my boyfriend and I built with the help of a friend 25 yrs ago. My boyfriend was a contractor before he retired - now with bad neuropathy he has trouble balancing just to dig a hole.

When I signed up I meant to be women in the hills but spaced out and put woman of the hills.

“ The film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival[9] and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the same year (losing to Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow).[19] In 1965, Teshigahara was nominated for the Best Director Oscar (losing to Robert Wise for The Sound of Music). In 1967, the film won the Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association.”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in_the_Dunes

[Mad_Dem_X]

85. A play on the name Madame X

Plus, I am a very angry Dem most of the time.

[yellowdogintexas]

86. easy I am a Yellow Dog Democrat and I live in Texas.

At the time I picked it, I wanted to let folks know there was at least one Democrat in Texas

[Morbius]

88. Morbius.

Dr. Edward Morbius is a character from an unforgettable 50's science fiction movie.
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The guy on the left is Walter Pidgeon, who played Morbius in the movie. It's a very old picture, and by modern standards racist and sexist, but it still holds an appeal for me.

[Auggie]

94. Family dog

1964 rescue puppy from the shelter ... and my little brother

[Hekate]

95. Hekate is the other aspect of Demeter & Persephone, often unregarded in our focus on the mother-daughter drama

Goddesses come in threes — Maiden, Mother, Old One/Crone.

In early 2002 I finished my dissertation, which had much to do with the struggles of mothers and daughters from a mythological as well as psychological perspective. If I had done as my diss. advisor wanted, I’d be there still.

But two things argued against that, the foremost being that I have been political my whole adult life, and BushCheney outraged me. Led by women, people in my town were already taking to the streets — I had to very sternly tell myself that neither of those jerks would know or care if I failed to complete my graduate studies, but I would regret it. I promised myself that once it was done I would join the resistance. So I did.

The other piece was that I was ready to stop writing about Demeter & Persephone. I felt the bulk of my work as a mother was done, for better or worse. My son and daughter were grown and after 9-11 had already considered what they should do.

Regarding my passion for mythology I had already stepped into study of a non-Greek place and time: Sumer. But in honor of what I had already lived, I chose Hekate as a screen name.

She’s revealed herself to be multi-layered, more even than I gave thought to then. Someone here once addressed me as Lady of Decisions, and I realized he knew she was goddess not of crossroads, but of the place where 3 ways meet. She is beyond old, she is Eldest, being one of the original Titans, and not an Olympian. As such, she can travel in all realms, even though she plays a part in the Underworld. Christians of the Middle Ages demonized her as Queen of the Witches, and placed her in their Hell — but she never was.

In any case, I found others of like mind in my small city, was invited to work with the Vets for Peace, liaised with all the other peace groups, came to DU because a friend told me to come here, and generally was very busy for a number of years. Learned a lot at DU back then.

I’ve never found a short version. Perhaps I could delete all and simply say: I may not have been old in 2002, but I am now. But — I think I’ll leave it as is.

🌙

[KitFox]

99. I'm glad you shared the long version! I really enjoyed reading this.

My knowledge of mythology is cursory. You have piqued my interest, Hekate. 😊

[lucca18]

100. Lucca, Italy

I was visiting Florence Italy, and took a train ride to Pisa Italy.

On the way back on the train to Florence, we had about a thirty minute stopover at the enchanting town of Lucca.
We didn’t have much time, but there was a beautiful walking path that surrounds the town.
I want to go back and complete that walk!

So that is how I decided on my name, (the 18 was just a random number).

[Walleye]

101. My last name is Wall, I'm a photographer, and I have worked on a fishing boat as a deckhand in the summers. So my name

Is a fish. Combination of last name and profession.

[meow2u3]

102. Mine is the purrsona of my sassy Rainbow Bridge cat from decades ago

In the 1980s and 1990s, I had an orange and white sassy cat named Napoleon Bonaparte --he thought he WAS Napoleon Bonaparte -- who was the king of sass. His attitude spurred my mom to tell him "Meow to you too." He passed away in 1996 of FIP, which was fatal at the time.
I tried to sign up for Yahoo as meow2u2, but that was taken, so I signed up in 2000 as meow2u3.

[DinahMoeHum]

103. Dinah Moe Hum is a Frank Zappa character. . .

Back in the 2000s, I wanted to use "ZombyWoof", but someone else beat me to it.

[BarbaRosa]

104. In my younger days,

my beard was red. Apparently I bore a resemblance to Willie Nelson to the point of being "Willied" every now and then where people thought they were seeing Willie. It was kinda fun sometimes I would quietly sing On The Road Again.
So why not BarbaRosa.

[malthaussen]

105. It's a misspelling of "Malthusian."

I read Thomas Malthus around about 17 or 18, and decided his theories made a lot of sense, so I adopted his name (or thought I had) for my first D&D character. I've been using it ever since.

It does have an unfortunate correlation I only discovered later: it is also perilously close to Mauthausen, which was one of the lesser-known concentration camps of the Nazi regime. Fortunately or un, about as many people have heard of Mauthausen as have heard of Thomas Malthus.

-- Mal

[MIButterfly]

106. To be honest, every name I picked was already taken!

So I decided that since I live in Michigan and I like butterflies, it would be MIButterfly. Not terribly imaginative, but there it is.

[Topomi]

107. Speaking of Michigan

From tip of mitt area but higher elevation then most south of Bridge at Mackinaw

[Prof. P.E. Name]

108. Pen Name

aka P.E. NName on other sites.

[Boomerproud]

109. I was sick of my generation being dismissed by the older folks

and being blamed for everything by the younger.

[Different Drummer]

110. The Stone Ponys Song "Different Drum."

I am not a typical Southern MAGA type--and have no desire to be.