What does your name mean, and why did you pick it?

I like to characterize SL as an Impromptu Improvised Work of Fiction. That is, we are all simultaneously creatiing novel with multitudinous plots.

I must be the least original of everyone.. Dana's my real first name, and the last name is very similar to my real last name.. what do I win?

Hemingway - "Hills Like White Elephants"

I'm pretty unimaginative too, Dana. "Har" is an old nickname, and "Fairweather" was merely the least annoying surname available when I joined.

My kids think I'm the antichrist, so it seemed fitting.

Jacinda was the name of one of my first crushes. Big time crush. I was a sophomore in high school and she was a freshman. We made out one time and then the next day she acted like it never happened. Still, fond memories and I always thought it was such a pretty name. God, I remember her lips had a metallic sort of tang to their taste an I wondered why, but not enough to stop snogging. I later found out it was the cologne. She sprayed it all over her face so it was on her lips as well. Hmmmm, she was beautiful; not the too bright though.

Jennings just had the alliteration thing with Jacinda so I went with that.

Dieing Ember would only be good if you were a Poe fan. Would make a cool Goth name tho.

Sorcha is the name of a character in an unfinished novel that's been on the back burner for, well, years now. She isn't me in disguise; in fact she's a supporting character in a fairly large cast. But she's flamboyant and wide open and I guess I was hoping some of that would rub off on me. (Sadly, it didn't - I'm as quiet and diffident in SL as I am in RL. Ah, well.)

Lovenkraft... well. It didn't suit the "me" I was trying to create at all - but how could I resist naming myself after good ol' H.P. Lovecraft? I need to find a Cthulhu avatar for next Halloween...

::November 2007 :: Okies... Finished shiny new computer... Now what? Ooh... *w-w-w-.-s-e-c-o-n-d-l-i-f-e-.-c-o-m*

Okay... Where do I sign up? ... Ah.. Pick avatar name... (^_^)

*Looks at surname list* ... Crud, I have to pick from this? (o.o) Okies.... "Runningbear" Meh... Too tribal... "Destiny" ... Oh, I can guess... (=_=) .... "Sideways" ... (O_o) Eh? That's not even a name. (>_< That's too silly, only a screwball would pick a name made of words... *trys to scan WHOLE list* .... Oh well... crud.... Where's that Sideways name again? I'll just make a gag out of it. (^_^) I'm sure I can get people to use a nickname or something. (=_=)

:: That took almost a whole hour :: (=_=)

Well I thought it would be nice to be born in June.
I was given a poor choice of surnames and this was shortist for typing.
Love
June Oh

Now, to answer the OP.

I'm not so fond of the name itself, and what makes that awful is that this is NOT my first SL personna. Almost everyone winds up with a name they later regret on the first try. I did this one intentionallly and with forethought, and STILL got something thick & lumpy! *slaps head*

One day my initial personna (I dislike the term "main" encountered 2 lucky chairs with unusually GOOD prizes - expensive stuff. Both of the chairs were on the letter "X", and another one nearby was on "Z". I thought: "The stinking scammers don't really want to give that away! They're just gaming for traffic & have progammed the chairs to only the most unlikely letters."

Being in a surly mood I vowed on the spot to make an Alt with an "X" name. That's right, this identity came about just to jump on lucky chairs and scam the scammers. Perhaps it was some sort of prescience, because at the time I was completely unaware of how VERY lucky he would be.

None of the available X surnames seemed to present a decent choice for cutesy "XX" initials, and furthermore I didn't want my monogram to look like a sleazy theatre marquee. The historical name of King Xerxes had just come to mind when I saw "Kingstop" in the CSI list. Thus Xerxes Kingstop came gridside. The initials "XK" remind me of an expensive sports car, but overall XK had very inglorious origins.

Created during a fit of ill temper to scam the scammers and bearing a name I didn't particularly care for, XK seemed doomed and would soon have been abandoned. In fact, I considered him already abandoned, then one day for no reason I rezzed him again. On that day immeasureable good luck descended upon me.

You see, XK is my only alt who wears glasses. Along my random exploration that day a stranger asked about my glasses. When I turned to engage the conversation I met the woman who quickly stole my heart and is now my precious SL mate.

Consequently, XK is now my ... errr.... "main" (choke) ... and nobody else seems to get rezzed very often at all.

Bec, you fill my soul. Every word you speak is a delight and every meeting takes my breath away.

Ahh, yes, I remember - and I laughed.

"Commander! I am NOT a merry man!!"

YUMMM AND DOUBLE YUMMMMM

somehow i thought the 69 was...well nevermind..but now i see you in a different light...grins

/me giggles

Wow, Raymond, it's amazing and wonderful that you are able to honor such a great man!
Im so impressed with everyone's stories..this is such an interesting read! I woke up to this thread, and it's almost like I dont want it to end! Everyone's names and stories are just so interesting, and some of you really put alot of thought into them. They have become like a tatoo, imprinted in SL. Have any of you become so comfortable with your SL names that sometimes you use them in RL?

I am a big Bowie fan so I chose one of his songs as name : ))

lovely story! im curious, what did you win in the lucky chair!!!!!

oh, that reminds me, i love that song, and i think its one of the only ones i dont have! thanks jean! lol

Only when I want to piss my wife off.

Provides me with the most important of the food groups - caffeine.

I've heard there are others...I'm not interested.

Actually, I do find myself thinking of myself as 'Nic' sometimes, rather than the RL nickname I've been using for nearly 20 years. Almost no one uses my real RL name aside from relatives and employers. It's especially bad when I'm doing email. I keep wanting to sign off as Nic.

I don't know how I'd respond, though, if someone else called me Nic in an RL context. Some guy called me by my RL name in SL (don't ask me why I was foolish enough to tell him) and it just felt icky wrong.

haha, very good

Just yesterday I answered the phone at work, "******* University, this is Wes— ummm — this is ******." The person on the other end laughed. "Are you sure?"

And I'm not spending too much time in world. The new viewer is all but unuseable for me.

Derbor was my throw away name to sign up to web sites or games that required an email address... when I first came to SL I was not planning on staying, I figured I would spend a couple of days, understand the hype and see how it would apply to my work... well, needless to say Derbor is not a throw away name anymore.. and now he gets as much email as my rl personal account.



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