Story behind your username

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  • More_Dakka
    More_Dakka Posts: 119 Member
    Mine name comes from a story-telling trope.

    Long story short: Any problem can be solved if you have enough firepower

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoreDakka
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    I've actually had a few people get the story behind my user name. Well at least the derivation of it anyway. My first college degree was in vocal performance and I love opera but it took me many years to get into Wagner's operas. Finally I did. At one point, I was fully immersed in, and my now favorite opera is, Tristan und Isolde. I was joining a new message forum for the first time, never really being on any message forum before. So I thought about a name. And one thread they were talking about the upcoming Metropolitan Opera season (a few yeas ago) which included performances of T&I. So I was thinking about T&I and it hit me. The final scene of T&I, the big aria from the entire opera. Tristan is dead, bodies everywhere on the stage. And Isolde slowly, quietly sings. The scene is called the Love Death, or Liebestod, and is one of the most spectacular in all of opera, and to come at the end of the evening, some 5 hours after startgin, is a remarkable feat for any soprano to manage. And I realized Liebestod, could be split into 3 English names or words: lee, bess, and toad. And with that leebesstoad was born. And has been used on multiple sites ever since. Even some of my friends now call me Lee. It's become almost an alter-ego. Lee says things that I might never say in real life. It really is a freeing experience to have an alter-ego.
  • Perplexities
    Perplexities Posts: 612 Member
    Don't ask.
  • londonboyben
    londonboyben Posts: 314 Member
    dont like mine and want to change it (can you?)
    dont know why i chose it, was the 1st thing that come into my head when signing up,

    like the name your mum gives you i'm stuck with it now i guess
  • kelsierose094
    kelsierose094 Posts: 232 Member
    This one time, Kelsey Grammer gave me a rose..

    Kidding, Kelsie is my first name and Rose is my middle. I was, however, named after Kelsey Grammer.. (thanks mum)
  • rosehippy77
    rosehippy77 Posts: 54 Member
    really boring...I was drinking a cup of rosehip tea at the time I signed up, the 77 is the year I was born.
  • Fairfatnforty
    Fairfatnforty Posts: 2
    My user name is based on a comment that my Dr made that made me realise how dangerous being fair skinned, overweight and over 40 is.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    dont like mine and want to change it (can you?)
    dont know why i chose it, was the 1st thing that come into my head when signing up,

    like the name your mum gives you i'm stuck with it now i guess

    Yes, you can change your user name once under settings. :smile:
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    My user name is based on a comment that my Dr made that made me realise how dangerous being fair skinned, overweight and over 40 is.

    What did your doctor say was the danger(s)?
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    This one time, Kelsey Grammer gave me a rose..

    Kidding, Kelsie is my first name and Rose is my middle. I was, however, named after Kelsey Grammer.. (thanks mum)

    Wow, is Cheers that old already?
  • AmyMgetsfit
    AmyMgetsfit Posts: 636 Member
    Once upon a time in a land far, far away(well not that far) a baby girl was born. Her parents named her Amy Marie. Now she is working hard to get fit.
  • lilyhel
    lilyhel Posts: 77
    First part of my name plus first part of my last name. Not very original, I know....
  • elkahallick
    elkahallick Posts: 1,138 Member
    Elkahallick pronounced alcoholic... It's ironic because I have been sober 9+ years
  • WeepingAngel81
    WeepingAngel81 Posts: 2,232 Member
    I'm a Doctor Who fan and any episode with the Weeping Angels are among my favorites.
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    All others were taken. I settled. I'm happy, however.
  • thatonegirlwiththestuff
    thatonegirlwiththestuff Posts: 1,171 Member
    Mine is cryptic. Not at all self-explanatory. And quite frankly, I just don't feel like getting into it. *sigh*
  • charliex2202
    charliex2202 Posts: 4,281 Member
    My name, a kiss and my birth date lol...I know not very original but handy if i get sudden amnesia or something! :happy:
  • Zerashen
    Zerashen Posts: 59 Member
    My ex liked to bestow random names on people, and I liked the name even after we split. (even though someone already used it on youtube, the jerk! (lol))

    That, plus the comic book Zera, inspired me to use mine.
  • PhearlessPhreaks
    PhearlessPhreaks Posts: 890 Member
    Last name + third note in a major scale... like do re mi
  • bf43005
    bf43005 Posts: 287
    bf used to be my initials (until I got married and changed my last name) and 43005 is the date my now husband & I started to date
  • mud7urtle
    mud7urtle Posts: 500
    mudturtle is the nickname my grandma gave me when I was a little kid
  • animalrane
    animalrane Posts: 109
    Animal= nickname im a drummer for 25 years, Muppets

    Rane = short for my real last name

    Also apart of my acting name I use for film... not famous yet..;)
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    My Nickname is an homage to Dan Grue. Saved my life in 1974. He was the original Road Dog.
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    Summer is the best time of year. I've always loved it the most. And there's a Y & T song "Summertime Girls".

    "Summertime girls
    (Oh baby, you make my whole world go around)
    Summertime girls
    (The way you lift me up)
    (I never come down, no, no)"
  • VictoriousLion
    VictoriousLion Posts: 140 Member
    My username is the meaning of my forename and surname.
  • pawnstarNate
    pawnstarNate Posts: 1,728 Member
    cause I "Party like a RockStar and F__k like a..........

    ok, maybe I don't party like a rock star anymore.....2nd part of that could be true though. However I do "Loan like a PawnStar!" because I own a Pawn Shop and my name is Nathan
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    I Baptized Jesus
  • ModernNerd
    ModernNerd Posts: 336 Member
    I'm an engineering student so about as nerdy as they come, but you probably wouldn't guess it. Trying to break the stereotype that engineering girls are frumpy and unsocial with minimal outside interests :drinker:
  • _errata_
    _errata_ Posts: 1,653 Member
    I'm an engineering student so about as nerdy as they come, but you probably wouldn't guess it. Trying to break the stereotype that engineering girls are frumpy and unsocial with minimal outside interests :drinker:

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  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I chose this name about 5 yrs ago, because I was tired of using the same 2-3 user names on every forum, email, etc, since the late 90s...seltzer is a nod to the ill fated yet delicious New York Seltzer I loved to drink as a kid in the 80s.

    The second part, mint, was chosen because seltzer was taken and I couldn't think of anything else, but liked the color mint green.

    Yeah - not very interesting :-D

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