Posting name...

[InweCiryatan]

I don't know if this has been done before, but here you can post the reason for your screen names and posting names. I've seen some really interesting ones (Zilverzmurfen) and would love to know the reason/joke behind it. So, who wants to go first?

[esskreemr]

Mine's a play on escrime.

[Zilverzmurfen]

Relevant link. (Sorry, didn't mean to sound harsh!)


Mine's just a silly spelling for "(The) Silver Smurf" in swedish.

It just popped up in my head years ago. I stuck with it since and am quite fond of it.

[Elendae]

Well, I needed a screen name for something, and in one of my Tolkien books, there's a list of elvish prefixes and suffixes, so...

elen= star
dae= shadow

[ThatReallyHurt]

I probably don't need to explain mine in too much detail...

[RebelFencer]

I used to fence for Ole Miss....hence "RebelFencer"...I should ask Craig about changing it to RaiderFencer for me since that would fit better now.

[mrbiggs]

Nickname during middle school. Because of the size of my head. I'm in the market for a new one, though.

[Peach]

Peach is a name that has nothing at all to do with me, but was chosen because it reminded me of something that reminded me of somethiing that reminded me of something that makes me smile on occasion.

[InweCiryatan]

Oops, forgot to post mine. I'm Inwe Ciryatan because that's my name translated into elvish. Last year I went through a Tolkien Phase (it's finally wearing off) and I used it for all of my screen names, so I used it for this to keep it simple. Plus I like the sound of it.

[Soldier]

Swordsman was my old standard screenname, until I was forced to stop fencing (maybe I'll take up the name again when I get back into fencing). Now, while I was a fencer, "swordsman" is a bit of an idealization. So, I felt perfectly justified going with "Soldier" even though I'm still a student (and if you want to get technical, will be a pilot even afterward).

My other posting names...well, you don't know them, I would never say that they're me, and I'd never explain them in any case. But I don't really use them on this forum, so you probably haven't seen them anyway.

[melihop]

mine is a sn i have had sence i was in like.. 4th grade.. i now switch between penguinisticness penguness melihop and melclarinet and IT.... the penguin ones beacuse.. i am obsessed.. melclarinet beacuse i wanted a band geekish name.. so.. i made one.. melihop.... my first name starts with me.. and my last name ends with hop.. and.. it.. beacuse... i liked the idea of beaing an inanimate object!

[strongbad94]

mine is a sn i have had sence i was in like.. 4th grade.. i now switch between penguinisticness penguness melihop and melclarinet and IT.... the penguin ones beacuse.. i am obsessed.. melclarinet beacuse i wanted a band geekish name.. so.. i made one.. melihop.... my first name starts with me.. and my last name ends with hop.. and.. it.. beacuse... i liked the idea of beaing an inanimate object!

.....yeahh


Nobody really cares about my name because they already know why I chose it.

[Maeve_Mari]

Nickname during middle school. Because of the size of my head. I'm in the market for a new one, though.

For a new head? or a new nickname?

[Maeve_Mari]

Maeve

Of the great female figures of Ireland, Maeve was probably the most splendid. Originally a goddess of the land's sovereignty and of its mystic center at Tara, she was demoted in myth, as the centuries went on and Irish culture changed under Christian influence, to a mere mortal queen.

But no mortal queen could have been like this one, this "intoxication" or "drunken woman" (variant meanings of her name), who ran faster than horses, slept with innumerable kings whom she then discarded, and wore live birds and animals across her shoulders and arms. If there ever was a woman named Maeve who reigned as queen of Ireland, it is probable that she was the namesake of the goddess; the goddess's legends may have attached themselves to a mortal bearer of her name.

Maeve is the central figure of the most important old Irish epic, the Tain Bo Cuillaigne, or Cattle Raid of Cooley.

The story begins with Maeve, ruler of the Connaught wilderness in the Irish west, lying abed with her current consort, King Aillil. They compare possessions, Aillil attempting to prove he owns more than she does. Point for point, Maeve matches him. Finally, Aillil mentions a magical bull-and wins the argument, for Maeve has no such animal.

But she knows of one, the magic bull of Cooley in northern Eire. And so Maeve gathers her armies to steal it. She rides into battle in an open car, with four chariots surrounding her, for she is glamorously attired and does not wish to muddy her robes. She is a fierce opponent, laying waste the armies of the land, for no man could look on Maeve without falling down in a paroxysm of desire.

The armies of Ulster, stricken with the curse of the goddess Macha, fall down in labor pains upon the arrival of Queen Maeve's army in their land. Only the hero Cuchulain resists, killing Locha, Maeve's handmaiden, as well as many male heroes of Connaught. Maeve tries to buy victory with her "willing thighs," stops the battle whenever she is menstruating, and otherwise shows herself to be an unusual warrior. After much bloodshed, she does indeed win her bull--but it and Aillil's bull fling themselves upon each other, tear each other to bits, and die in the bloodiest anticlimax in world literature.

Need I explain further?

~Mari

[mrbiggs]

For a new head? or a new nickname?

Nickname. My body grew, and my head didn't so much, so I'm about evened out now.

There's a Jethro Tull song that supposedly references Maeve.

[Go? Fencing?]

It all started with one of my teammates, Cody. He's kind of a weird kid (but aren't we all? ) and when we would do a cheer (Like one, two, three, GO LANCERS! Or GO FENCING!) before a meet he'd make this weird quizzical face and say "Go? Fencing?" Also, another of our cheers is "One, two, three, FOUR!" So that's where the text on my avatar comes from.

[latenight]

had to pick one years ago......it was late........and ummm night.........yeah so I have used it everywhere ever since

[InweCiryatan]

Maeve_Mari, you have my vote for the best screen name story!

[rmyounis]

Mine is quite boring...

R. M. Younis being my name, and all

[Zasha]

Zasha: a unisex name meaning 'people's defender'
but moreso because i was called it when i was younger due to a communication problem. i'm dyslexic, and had trouble learning to write my name. it's actually 'Sasha,' but i constantly flipped the s around.