binx

I'm getting old. I needed something I could remember, that was easy to type, and short. So I used my own nickname. Anyone who knew me as a child probably would know who I am here.

starbright

I just grabbed the first words that popped into my head and stuck them together..hence its really dumb and I dislike it immensely but too lazy to change it. My D says "starbright? you came up with starbright?...what the???" and I said, "yeah, I know..."

aibarr

My screenname seems mystifyingly cryptic until I explain it, and then people are like, "Oh." My naming protocol is the least interesting thing about me.

Consolation

Lafalum, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that you were not actually "La Falume"! I still pronounce it that way in my head.

I'm named after Patrick O'Brian's Nutmeg of Consolation. Nutmeg was taken.

mousegray

This must be why I'm enjoying the "dressing young" thread so much!

Dad'o'2

I'm not very creative, and I figured it would introduce me.

I thought the apostrophes were clever, until I recently realized there should only be one of them...

My Sweet Babboo

With a nod to Charles Schultz, it's what I've always called DS#2

esobay

Dad'o'2 .. I thought you were making a "touchdown" sign Dad 2 College 0 sort of thing.... Sounds better than not counting apostrophies

I'm not saying my naming protocol.

intparent

Doesn't "eso" mean "big" in Finnish? Am I onto something here?

Lafalum84

Lafalum is fine, its the 84 I should have skipped. Would have made it a bit more cryptic. I know some people thought it had something to do with "laughing." The 84 gives it away, though.

Yes Rodney, Boolehigh or something similar would have worked as well. Or something involving Pards. Maybe OldPard.... (homage to OldFort)....

My personal favorite CC name: Funding Father

eggmom

DS was a high school senior and I was experiencing full-on "fouling the nest" syndrome. I lurked for a long time before posting. Obviously, I was subconsciously hoping to keep him in the nest.

Bullet

The use of call signs is pretty much a given in the AF fighter community, a moniker handed out by your fellow aviators. I've had mine since I was a Lt. flying F-111s, and 20+ years later most of the Senior Generals I work with everyday in the Pentagon call me by my callsign versus my real name. Using it here seemed pretty obvious.

You'll have to ask Pima how she got her nickname from me. Suffice it to say her name (P-I-M-A) stands for something. I'll let her explain it...

TheDad

Well, yes. But when I've used it, it's more in the line of, "I don't think that word means what you think it does." Probably just as well that I keep that screen name for a distinct identity with a specific theater of operations.

I've sometimes wondered if anyone here is someone that I read under another name elsewhere. It's one thing to have a double identity but another when your triple or quadruple up.

Best on-line community I was ever in, everyone with very few exceptions used True Names and those who didn't, their IRL identity wasn't a secret, they just used an occupational riff for their name.

Alas, GEnie is dead these many years now. !@#$%^&*! corporate dumbshts that took it over, didn't understand what to do with it, and then killed it off.

Shrinkrap

Psychiatrist.

jackief

another regretful name chooser, but I don't think I'll change unless someone IRL tells me they have seen me on here.