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Wino Tomba

I make toilets!

Join date: 23 Dec 2004

Posts: 65

12-30-2004 13:04

Im a Wino and I live in a homeless shelter with my cat Tomba whom I named after the playstation game I pawned for a bottle of Mad Dog 20-20

Barbii Electric

Saucey lil one

Join date: 3 May 2003

Posts: 41

12-30-2004 13:52

long story to mine........I got it from my birth certificate.....this way I can't forget how to spell it

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peanut Shark

Superstar DJ

Join date: 26 Dec 2004

Posts: 9

12-30-2004 14:01

"Peanut" as in the Snoopy cartoon strip

and "Shark" as in Sharkbait, aka Nemo from Find Nemo

Bri Koolhaas

Registered User

Join date: 21 Dec 2004

Posts: 48

12-30-2004 14:07

Heh..thats was eazy...My names Brian

& Koolhaas sounds German and starts with a K like mine

Simone Stern

I am John Galt

Join date: 3 Dec 2004

Posts: 295

12-30-2004 14:09

Simone... Sim One...

Stern, after Howard Stern (lots of years in talk radio, so I couldn't resist). Yeah, I know, how lacking in creativity.

reddish Tigereye

antisocial recluse

Join date: 12 Nov 2003

Posts: 151

reddish

12-30-2004 14:12

reddish is my beloved cat.

Kat Medici

Amused Beauty

Join date: 31 Dec 2003

Posts: 26

Kat with "K" but I would have preferrred a "C"

12-30-2004 14:23

Why after the historical figure, of course.

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/medici-c.html

Sadly Cat Medici with a “C” was not available at the time.

Madame Maracas

Not who you think I am...

Join date: 7 Jun 2004

Posts: 1,953

Tale of 3 avies, sorta

12-30-2004 14:27

Let's see...

At the time (this is not my first SL avie), my then SL b/f & I were considering getting into a certain industry, hence the first name, partially.

Also, and this probably will only make sense to about one person in SL, it was a play on a joke about a room in an apartment I know longer live in. Ok, that apartment had this very grand (well the whole place was pretty grand) oval room, originally intended to be a dining room, butler's buzzer in the floor and all. So, my roomie and I instead used it as a (as the gouche would say, TV room) Media Salon.

If you remember the Three Stooges movies, they often had a comic foil in Margaret Dumont, playing the part of the doyenne, in silk and satin, half-eye glasses and a high-society sneer.

Now, here's the really tricky part. Imagine Margaret Dumont saying Media Salon ... Meeedheia SayLohn ... get it? Ok ... it's Muh DOM Maracas ... not madame as in proprieitor of a cat house ... nope ... the grand lady of the house ... as in "MuhDOM will see you now" ... etc. Get it?

Maracas ... I'm 1/2 spanish, it has a nice cadence w/Madame, and ... yes a joke on big boobies. Why the heck not?

Who are my other (2) alts/avies? Hmmmmm.

Ok, one, I won't say but, she's got that EX's last name, is almost never used and has a bimbo first name. That was a waste of $10, if only I had realized what a waste of time HE was, but that's not for here.

The Primary, she's got my Thereian first name and a latin last name that sounded good.

I later found out (checked w/my Pops) it means (roughly) wrestler (as in WWF Smackdown, not Olympic) but not quite. She's the good girl.

Asandra Luchador - AhSondra LooCH A door - the "ch" is like in church, not a K sound.

Oh, and Asandra? Well that's the name of the heroine of a screenplay I wrote in 7th grade. CGI is catching up to the point where it might be filmable now, seriously.

Madame gets to have more fun. That's why she gets out more ... say it with me ... MuhDOM ... hehehehehehe

Is that ridiculous enough?

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Coyote Unsung

Aitakute, aenakute...

Join date: 27 Dec 2004

Posts: 1

12-30-2004 14:38

I chose the name Coyote because, well, I think it's cool. ^^ Being a furry influenced it, too, although it's not the species I normally go by.

I sat for a good twenty minutes at the account creation screen trying to choose a last name. Palmerstone? Lioncourt? Gullwing? While I like all of those names, I ultimately chose Unsung because it fits so well with the first name. Not only is there the romanticized image of a coyote howling at the moon, the combination conjures up all kinds of connotations in my mind: modesty, sorrow, missed chances, latent potential, unvoiced melody. I like it. ^_^

Traxx Hathor

Architect

Join date: 11 Oct 2004

Posts: 422

12-30-2004 14:38

Traxx was the name of my level 99 barbarian in Diablo II Lord of Destruction. Man that game was fun! ...until cheathackers wrecked it. : \

Guard of Traxx was my name in TSO and on the Stratics forums. Then some &$&*$*$$ picked Traxx as his forum name. Grrr. TSO was boring, but it was the first time I could build something in a game (other than Starcraft maps).

Traxx Hathor sounds barbaric enough for SL : D

Baron Grayson

Vote for Pedro.

Join date: 23 May 2004

Posts: 43

12-30-2004 21:06

Hmm. In There I was my real name but I wanted a bit more privacy here...

...so I was sitting around with my mates thinking of names when the beer started flowing and the suggestions went from normal to outrageous. I didn't want an outrageous name so we started fixating on my many personality traits. We got stuck on my ego and ran through royalty. Before we knew it Baron was thrown out and it stuck. Heh.

Grayson just sounded good.

Caridad Hope

Registered User

Join date: 17 Dec 2004

Posts: 5

12-30-2004 21:12

Caridad is spanish for Charity, my real life name... whoodathunkit. Charity Hope, how lovely.

Elgyfu Wishbringer

The Pootler

Join date: 27 Nov 2004

Posts: 659

12-30-2004 22:09

Well a lot of people ask about my name so...

Elgyfu is one of the spellings of the name of an Anglo-Saxon queen. It was probably pronounced El-Gee-Ver (clues from the other spelling alternatives).

I used it as my email address a few years ago and it has been with me throughout my
Internet life. I wanted a name that was pretty unique and memorable.

In SL people call me Elgy, Elg, Ellie and (for no apparent reason) Elfy.

But I answer to just about anything so that is ok!

Mercurious Monde

Professional Enthusiast

Join date: 9 Mar 2004

Posts: 57

12-30-2004 22:23

I picked my name because I psyhically or was it psychotically knew I would meet someone very important with the same first 3 letters !

But a year later I realized I had named one of my Betta Splendans Mercurious too ! She was an indigo blue marble with white lips

islandbliss Drago

Registered User

Join date: 25 Aug 2004

Posts: 5

islandbliss Drago

12-31-2004 13:05

i use to live on an island and iam blissfull for what iam and have..... *kisses her Master soflty*

Torley Linden

Enlightenment!

Join date: 15 Sep 2004

Posts: 16,530

12-31-2004 13:07

Great stories... keep 'em rolling... I have a good feeling this thread will continue to be revived and bounced in the future for reference.

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Issarlk Chatnoir

Cross L. apologist.

Join date: 3 Oct 2004

Posts: 424

12-31-2004 13:45

Issarlk is a name I had to find for a pen and paper RPG game I played once. It was "Dark Sun", the same thing as Dungeon and Dragon but in the desert. I played a Thrikreen, a sentiens mantis (playable race in this world). The name had to have Ks and Ss so I searched on the internet a bit and found the name of a greek city: Hissarlik it sounded good for a name, I changed it a bit into Issarlk.
When I got on the internet years laters and had to create my first login name that name came to my memory and I used it ever since.

I noticed way later that Hissarlik is the location of the city of Troy, whose destruction was caused by Eris. I wonder if it is a coincidence that I found this nickname (or that this nickname found me). Hail Eris.

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Inari Saito

Ever-Lasting Gobstopper

Join date: 3 Sep 2004

Posts: 50

12-31-2004 14:26

I had just been on vacation....went to Montreal and had visited the botanical gardens there. One of the themed gardens was Japanese, and the names of several Shinto gods were discussed in some text I read about the culture. The name Inari just stuck with me, and then when I picked my last name, I went with something that seemed to fit with it.

My alt, Noelle Galatea....Noelle is what my mom wanted to name me, and so I started using it as a handle when i played UruLive. When that went away, I came to SL and decided to stick with it. Galatea: the annoyingly humorous female android from Bicentennial Man...

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Nisa Stravinsky

Danger Mouse

Join date: 16 Sep 2004

Posts: 1,238

What's in a name?

12-31-2004 14:33

My name "Nisa" is A sin backwards. In all of the rpg games that I've played, I've always had an assassin class character. Traditionally the name would be " Nisa Seoulborn ". I use that name so much that my real life friends call me Nisa

Unfortunately SL didn't allow me to pick my last name which reflects my birth city. (duh -

)

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Antagonistic Protagonist

Zeta

Join date: 29 Jun 2003

Posts: 467

12-31-2004 14:34

I just typed random characters on the keyboard.

Francis Chung

This sentence no verb.

Join date: 22 Sep 2003

Posts: 918

12-31-2004 14:37

From: Antagonistic Protagonist

I just typed random characters on the keyboard.

The complete works of Shakespeare: A million monkeys, a million years.

"Antagonistic Protagonist": One monkey, Two minutes.

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Pandia Mackenzie

Purrrfect Tigress :P

Join date: 21 Aug 2004

Posts: 29

12-31-2004 14:44

Well i got my name from a greek goddess. There is not much that has survived of the history of Pandia as a Greek Goddess. Pandia: Her name meant "All Bright" and she was the Goddess of the Brightness, especially the Sun. She may have also been the Goddess of the Full Moon, as she was the mate of Zeus in his epithet of Zeus Pandion (the Full Moon God). I really love history especially Greek and Roman so it seemed to fit me

The last name Mackenzie i chose because i used to have a sim in tso name Mackenzie Morgan.

Nyx Divine

never say never!

Join date: 11 Dec 2004

Posts: 1,052

12-31-2004 14:45

Nyx is the Greek Goddess of night and I have had Nyx as a screen name on-line for 10 years now.......since Lambda Moo was the hot chat place lol. Divine? well it was on of my options for a last name.......but now I sound like I stripper lmao.

Nyx Divine

never say never!

Join date: 11 Dec 2004

Posts: 1,052

12-31-2004 14:48

Hey Pandia......nice to meet another fellow Greek Goddess.

Ken Virgo

Fighting GURU

Join date: 19 Jun 2004

Posts: 62

meee.....

12-31-2004 14:52

I was going to put my real first name but was to lazy to type it all out so i shortened it. And the last name is my astrological sign. Hence a legend was born! LOL

How did you pick your SL name?
Wino Tomba I make toilets! Join date: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 65	12-30-2004 13:04 Im a Wino and I live in a homeless shelter with my cat Tomba whom I named after the playstation game I pawned for a bottle of Mad Dog 20-20
Barbii Electric Saucey lil one Join date: 3 May 2003 Posts: 41	12-30-2004 13:52 long story to mine........I got it from my birth certificate.....this way I can't forget how to spell it _____________________ Some people are like Slinkies... Not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs Seductive Styles
peanut Shark Superstar DJ Join date: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 9	12-30-2004 14:01 "Peanut" as in the Snoopy cartoon strip and "Shark" as in Sharkbait, aka Nemo from Find Nemo
Bri Koolhaas Registered User Join date: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 48	12-30-2004 14:07 Heh..thats was eazy...My names Brian & Koolhaas sounds German and starts with a K like mine
Simone Stern I am John Galt Join date: 3 Dec 2004 Posts: 295	12-30-2004 14:09 Simone... Sim One... Stern, after Howard Stern (lots of years in talk radio, so I couldn't resist). Yeah, I know, how lacking in creativity.
reddish Tigereye antisocial recluse Join date: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 151	reddish 12-30-2004 14:12 reddish is my beloved cat.
Kat Medici Amused Beauty Join date: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 26	Kat with "K" but I would have preferrred a "C" 12-30-2004 14:23 Why after the historical figure, of course. http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/medici-c.html Sadly Cat Medici with a “C” was not available at the time.
Madame Maracas Not who you think I am... Join date: 7 Jun 2004 Posts: 1,953	Tale of 3 avies, sorta 12-30-2004 14:27 Let's see... At the time (this is not my first SL avie), my then SL b/f & I were considering getting into a certain industry, hence the first name, partially. Also, and this probably will only make sense to about one person in SL, it was a play on a joke about a room in an apartment I know longer live in. Ok, that apartment had this very grand (well the whole place was pretty grand) oval room, originally intended to be a dining room, butler's buzzer in the floor and all. So, my roomie and I instead used it as a (as the gouche would say, TV room) Media Salon. If you remember the Three Stooges movies, they often had a comic foil in Margaret Dumont, playing the part of the doyenne, in silk and satin, half-eye glasses and a high-society sneer. Now, here's the really tricky part. Imagine Margaret Dumont saying Media Salon ... Meeedheia SayLohn ... get it? Ok ... it's Muh DOM Maracas ... not madame as in proprieitor of a cat house ... nope ... the grand lady of the house ... as in "MuhDOM will see you now" ... etc. Get it? Maracas ... I'm 1/2 spanish, it has a nice cadence w/Madame, and ... yes a joke on big boobies. Why the heck not? Who are my other (2) alts/avies? Hmmmmm. Ok, one, I won't say but, she's got that EX's last name, is almost never used and has a bimbo first name. That was a waste of $10, if only I had realized what a waste of time HE was, but that's not for here. The Primary, she's got my Thereian first name and a latin last name that sounded good. I later found out (checked w/my Pops) it means (roughly) wrestler (as in WWF Smackdown, not Olympic) but not quite. She's the good girl. Asandra Luchador - AhSondra LooCH A door - the "ch" is like in church, not a K sound. Oh, and Asandra? Well that's the name of the heroine of a screenplay I wrote in 7th grade. CGI is catching up to the point where it might be filmable now, seriously. Madame gets to have more fun. That's why she gets out more ... say it with me ... MuhDOM ... hehehehehehe Is that ridiculous enough? _____________________ RadioRadio - http://radioradiosl.com M 6 Hobbes Abattoir T 7 Sezmra Svorag W 4 Brian Mason W 6 Moira Stern W 8 Nala Galatea Th 6 Chet Neurocam F 6 Vertigo Paris F 9 Madame Maracas S 5 Madame Maracas S 8 TriNala Su 6 Trinity Serpentine http://madamemaracas.wordpress.com - Madame Maracas Blaaagh Plurk - http://www.plurk.com/user/MadameMaracas
Coyote Unsung Aitakute, aenakute... Join date: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 1	12-30-2004 14:38 I chose the name Coyote because, well, I think it's cool. ^^ Being a furry influenced it, too, although it's not the species I normally go by. I sat for a good twenty minutes at the account creation screen trying to choose a last name. Palmerstone? Lioncourt? Gullwing? While I like all of those names, I ultimately chose Unsung because it fits so well with the first name. Not only is there the romanticized image of a coyote howling at the moon, the combination conjures up all kinds of connotations in my mind: modesty, sorrow, missed chances, latent potential, unvoiced melody. I like it. ^_^
Traxx Hathor Architect Join date: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 422	12-30-2004 14:38 Traxx was the name of my level 99 barbarian in Diablo II Lord of Destruction. Man that game was fun! ...until cheathackers wrecked it. : \ Guard of Traxx was my name in TSO and on the Stratics forums. Then some &$&$$$ picked Traxx as his forum name. Grrr. TSO was boring, but it was the first time I could build something in a game (other than Starcraft maps). Traxx Hathor sounds barbaric enough for SL : D
Baron Grayson Vote for Pedro. Join date: 23 May 2004 Posts: 43	12-30-2004 21:06 Hmm. In There I was my real name but I wanted a bit more privacy here... ...so I was sitting around with my mates thinking of names when the beer started flowing and the suggestions went from normal to outrageous. I didn't want an outrageous name so we started fixating on my many personality traits. We got stuck on my ego and ran through royalty. Before we knew it Baron was thrown out and it stuck. Heh. Grayson just sounded good.
Caridad Hope Registered User Join date: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 5	12-30-2004 21:12 Caridad is spanish for Charity, my real life name... whoodathunkit. Charity Hope, how lovely.
Elgyfu Wishbringer The Pootler Join date: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 659	12-30-2004 22:09 Well a lot of people ask about my name so... Elgyfu is one of the spellings of the name of an Anglo-Saxon queen. It was probably pronounced El-Gee-Ver (clues from the other spelling alternatives). I used it as my email address a few years ago and it has been with me throughout my Internet life. I wanted a name that was pretty unique and memorable. In SL people call me Elgy, Elg, Ellie and (for no apparent reason) Elfy. But I answer to just about anything so that is ok!
Mercurious Monde Professional Enthusiast Join date: 9 Mar 2004 Posts: 57	12-30-2004 22:23 I picked my name because I psyhically or was it psychotically knew I would meet someone very important with the same first 3 letters ! But a year later I realized I had named one of my Betta Splendans Mercurious too ! She was an indigo blue marble with white lips
islandbliss Drago Registered User Join date: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 5	islandbliss Drago 12-31-2004 13:05 i use to live on an island and iam blissfull for what iam and have..... kisses her Master soflty
Torley Linden Enlightenment! Join date: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 16,530	12-31-2004 13:07 Great stories... keep 'em rolling... I have a good feeling this thread will continue to be revived and bounced in the future for reference. _____________________
Issarlk Chatnoir Cross L. apologist. Join date: 3 Oct 2004 Posts: 424	12-31-2004 13:45 Issarlk is a name I had to find for a pen and paper RPG game I played once. It was "Dark Sun", the same thing as Dungeon and Dragon but in the desert. I played a Thrikreen, a sentiens mantis (playable race in this world). The name had to have Ks and Ss so I searched on the internet a bit and found the name of a greek city: Hissarlik it sounded good for a name, I changed it a bit into Issarlk. When I got on the internet years laters and had to create my first login name that name came to my memory and I used it ever since. I noticed way later that Hissarlik is the location of the city of Troy, whose destruction was caused by Eris. I wonder if it is a coincidence that I found this nickname (or that this nickname found me). Hail Eris. _____________________ Vincit omnia Chaos From: Flugelhorn McHenry Anyway, ignore me, just listen to the cow
Inari Saito Ever-Lasting Gobstopper Join date: 3 Sep 2004 Posts: 50	12-31-2004 14:26 I had just been on vacation....went to Montreal and had visited the botanical gardens there. One of the themed gardens was Japanese, and the names of several Shinto gods were discussed in some text I read about the culture. The name Inari just stuck with me, and then when I picked my last name, I went with something that seemed to fit with it. My alt, Noelle Galatea....Noelle is what my mom wanted to name me, and so I started using it as a handle when i played UruLive. When that went away, I came to SL and decided to stick with it. Galatea: the annoyingly humorous female android from Bicentennial Man... _____________________ ----- DomInari
Nisa Stravinsky Danger Mouse Join date: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 1,238	What's in a name? 12-31-2004 14:33 My name "Nisa" is A sin backwards. In all of the rpg games that I've played, I've always had an assassin class character. Traditionally the name would be " Nisa Seoulborn ". I use that name so much that my real life friends call me Nisa Unfortunately SL didn't allow me to pick my last name which reflects my birth city. (duh -) _____________________ "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Will you leave me breathless?" "I'm beginning to think the human psyche enjoys victimizing itself. " - Sezmra Svarog "Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be -- and that we're ordinary." - Anne Bancroft (2003)
Antagonistic Protagonist Zeta Join date: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 467	12-31-2004 14:34 I just typed random characters on the keyboard.
Francis Chung This sentence no verb. Join date: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 918	12-31-2004 14:37 From: Antagonistic Protagonist I just typed random characters on the keyboard. The complete works of Shakespeare: A million monkeys, a million years. "Antagonistic Protagonist": One monkey, Two minutes. _____________________ -- ~If you lived here, you would be home by now~
Pandia Mackenzie Purrrfect Tigress :P Join date: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 29	12-31-2004 14:44 Well i got my name from a greek goddess. There is not much that has survived of the history of Pandia as a Greek Goddess. Pandia: Her name meant "All Bright" and she was the Goddess of the Brightness, especially the Sun. She may have also been the Goddess of the Full Moon, as she was the mate of Zeus in his epithet of Zeus Pandion (the Full Moon God). I really love history especially Greek and Roman so it seemed to fit me The last name Mackenzie i chose because i used to have a sim in tso name Mackenzie Morgan.
Nyx Divine never say never! Join date: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 1,052	12-31-2004 14:45 Nyx is the Greek Goddess of night and I have had Nyx as a screen name on-line for 10 years now.......since Lambda Moo was the hot chat place lol. Divine? well it was on of my options for a last name.......but now I sound like I stripper lmao.
Nyx Divine never say never! Join date: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 1,052	12-31-2004 14:48 Hey Pandia......nice to meet another fellow Greek Goddess.
Ken Virgo Fighting GURU Join date: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 62	meee..... 12-31-2004 14:52 I was going to put my real first name but was to lazy to type it all out so i shortened it. And the last name is my astrological sign. Hence a legend was born! LOL

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