Friday Fun! - Where did you get your Alias?

I traded 3 magic beans to a lawn gnome for this name and a new outlook on life.This message has been edited by Chronos, 02-17-2006 08:13 PM

Well mine is kind of complex, well a bit
years ago when i first started on the internet i used to chat on irc or internet relay chat - fun uptil IM became the cool thing, anyway i started on many irc networks, but ended up on a network ran by mtv, at that point i went through the wow i need a cool moniker faze, i used demonlord for a bit, till i realized it was unexciding, on the mtv network i came up with a name.
i have a stuffed goat at home that a reletive gave me, i used thegoat for a short while, but ended up combining demon with goat - so i am the demongoat (evil baahhh) as an alt name i got by DGas for the reverend part i really am one its also sort of tongue-in-cheek to use it since i would be kicked out of any church based on my preaches

The Tiger part is because I am a season ticket holder of the Leicester Tigers rugby team.The Mangy part is because I suffer from Ulcerative Colitis (a chronic gastro-intestinal condition) and Bronchiectasis (a chronic lung condition¹) which has recently developed into Emphysema. One of the effects of my poor health is that I look kind of - well you get the picture ¹ Despite never having smoked - I always knew the Universe hated me!

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I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then

Look left

Also look left (my right )Joe Zawinul is the amazing, innovative and soulful keyboard player from Weather Report and Zawinul Syndicate.Some confusion came about when I entered the EVC chatroom, and I was mistaken for the real Joe Zawinul .
My Dad however looks so similar to Joe Zawinul that he has been mistaken for him in real life.This message has been edited by Zawinul, 02-18-2006 07:28 PM

Just one of a few names I use on internet boards, based on character names I made up for short stories I used to write in high school."Crash Frog" was originally an anthropormorphic amphibian superhero who would survive any impact, at any speed. Had a little crash helmet and everything.I've been on the internet long enough to understand that handles that have numbers in them are hella lame, so using words that people don't generally associate with names is an old habit of mine. I've been known as "tangent", "pangolin", and once, "dysentary".Sorry that the story is so boring.

In college, I was eating dinner at a restaurant with some friends. I had already eaten that day, so I only ordered a side dish of mashed potatoes. They asked why I was only eating mashed potatoes. I replied that I was on a special diet suggested to me by my doctor, "Doctor Potato"At this point, we joked for some time about how the only thing Doctor Potato ever said in response to any malady was "Eat more potato!" Soon after, I began using this as my nickname anywhere I could.

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"In Heaven, everything is fine."
The Lady in the Radiator
Eraserhead
One Movie a Day/Week/Whenever

Heck, I just assumed that anyone wandering in here wasn't looking for an exciting narrative. At least you went a step beyond just idiotically typing your given name when asked for an alias.Okay, okay. I apologize too. I didn't know there were standards.

Simply the common name of my favorite all-time bird: Pharomachrus mocinno. On IIDB I go by Morpho, my all time favorite butterfly Morpho peleides

it's a totally emo, contrived pen name i've been using for about 5 years now. as such brenna is almost as familiar to me as my real first name and i have considered changing it since i like brenna better. but i'd forget who i was.

I came across the evc forum website one day when I was off work due to a burn injury from rubber membrane. When asked for an alias the word sidelined seemed rather apt so I chose it. A silly reason I suppose but one name is as good as another I reckon.

Many years ago I helped in a study of mouse intelligence.Mice were placed in a maze and had to find their way through to the food. It soon became obvious that different mice showed different patterns learning the maze.Type A mice would just wander around, often trying the same passageway forever, never finding the reward.Type B mice would try each passageway, never trying a dead end twice until they found their way to the food.Type C mice just sat and seemed to be thinking. Then they would set out and without an error go straight to the goal.This study proved conclusively why so many of the great inventions and advancements throughout history have been made by A Non-A-Mouse.Jar, on the other hand, is Just A Rat.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Years ago there was a bit on SNL in which Sting was the guest celebrity and one of the comedians kept calling him things like "Stingosaurus", "Stinglehoffer", "Baron Von Sting", and "Stinginator".Somebody in my circle of friends started calling me "Schrafinator" and when I set up my very first Yahoo! account, I didn't know what I was doing and chose that as my username on a lark, not knowing what a pain it would be to change it.So, it stuck.

in a cage?

Once heard a friend singing a funny song (at least he tought it was), and this was the last line.It kinda stuck with me.

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"The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell." - St. Augustine