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login names (like pinkfreud)
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: hahna-ga List Price: $2.84 |
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17 Oct 2002 21:36 PDT
Expires: 16 Nov 2002 20:36 PST Question ID: 80023 |
hey there~ anybody care to write about why they chose the names they did? (although i wont push for it, i am curious about 'pinkfreud' -- what an interesting name) please also comment to add, if you dont mind. i would love to hear a few stories. thanks much in advance banchan (i looooove food!) |
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Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
Answered By: pinkfreud-ga on 17 Oct 2002 23:22 PDT Rated: |
When I first signed up on GA, in June, I was a user/commenter. Google Answers was not accepting applications for researchers at that time. My real name is one of the least funny names imaginable (think "Jane Smith," only less interesting than that,) so obviously I couldn't use my real name as a handle. No panache there. Here's a brief history of the screen name "pinkfreud": Many years ago, I worked in a government office as an aptitude testing specialist. Some of my co-workers called me "Doc Freud." Since I am a person of the female persuasion, that seemed like too masculine a nickname for Google Answers. I am a big fan of puns (especially when they are full groan,) so I decided upon pinkfreud as a screen name. A play on words. 'Pink' is for girls, as every baby knows. 'Freud' sounds a lot like 'Floyd', especially if you are Elmer Fudd. Pink Floyd is... well, if you don't know Pink Floyd, you probably have been living in a cave for the last thirty years. A cave with no audio capabilities. There was one other screen name that I considered using for Google Answers. I thought of this one when I noticed that all of us get the suffix -ga tacked onto our names. I almost went with this name, but finally I decided that it was too long to type every time I logged in: hard-hearted-hannah-the-vamp-of-savannah-ga There are a million stories in GA City. This has been one of them. The other 999,999 stories will be found in the "Comments" section, and I bet some are more interesting than mine. Thanks for asking! If this is not the correct answer, please request clarification, and I will research this subject further... ;-) ~Pink |
hahna-ga
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thank you very much, everyone! :-) and thank you too pinkfreud for playing along as well! ;) |
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From: jeffyen-ga on 17 Oct 2002 21:42 PDT |
Well, my login name is my real name because I find it too confusing to have multiple personalities on the Net! What does hahna mean? |
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From: arcadesdude-ga on 17 Oct 2002 21:47 PDT |
Mine is a compound "word" from the name of a video game character and the obligatory "dude". |
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From: denco-ga on 17 Oct 2002 21:48 PDT |
My login name (denco) comes from spending over 20 years in DENver COlorado; it is a longtime handle of mine. |
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From: deadlychiapet-ga on 17 Oct 2002 21:51 PDT |
What's more fearsome than a Deadly ChiaPet? |
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From: justaskscott-ga on 17 Oct 2002 22:02 PDT |
My sister suggested years ago that I start a service much like Google Answers, because I knew a lot of random trivia (and could help her with her homework!). She thought the service should be called "Just Ask Scott". I didn't follow up on my sister's suggestion, but I always thought the name was amusing. (Perhaps Google could adopt the slogan "Just Ask Google"!) |
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From: journalist-ga on 17 Oct 2002 22:40 PDT |
I'm a freelance journalist. |
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From: grimace-ga on 17 Oct 2002 22:54 PDT |
I have nothing whatsoever to do with McDonalds. I chose this name originally, many years ago, because I thought it would be a good name to play poker with. It stuck, somehow. |
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From: missy-ga on 17 Oct 2002 23:30 PDT |
Hi there! My user name is actually a Real Life nickname. My best friend calls me "Missy" the way other people call dear ones "sweetie"...it stuck, and now I'm called that as often as I'm called by my real name. --Missy (Mundanely known as Maggie) |
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From: rainbow-ga on 18 Oct 2002 00:11 PDT |
My best friend in high school used to call me "rainbow" because I was always so cheerful. But like I said, that was in high school! ;) Anyway the name just stuck. |
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From: larre-ga on 18 Oct 2002 00:23 PDT |
Sadly, my login name has no special significance -- other than Oops. Excited about the opportunity, I rushed through the registration sequence. I mistyped, and consequently misspelled my everyday nickname. My fingers might never forgive me -- they still rebel each time I sign an answer. I'm wasting perfectly good memory cells to store the correct misspelling, to boot. It has, however, become the daily memory-tickler that whispers cynically: proofread it again, Sam! |
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From: tar_heel_v-ga on 18 Oct 2002 05:28 PDT |
As a lifetime resident of the great state of North Carolina and a fan of the Univeristy of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, my name takes the school nickname and the first letter of my first name. |
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From: umiat-ga on 18 Oct 2002 07:40 PDT |
If anyone from Alaska reads GA, they will recognize my login as no more than a little airstrip on the north slope of Alaska, where I worked as a wildlife assistant studying moose......now almost 25 years ago! One of the most beautiful places in the world...and I am filled with vivid memories everytime I get to type in my "name." |
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From: luciaphile-ga on 18 Oct 2002 07:45 PDT |
Mine comes from the Mapp and Lucia novels of E.F. Benson. Lucia is one of the characters, outrageous and controlling and funny (and well, you have to read the books to get it). In one of the books, a group of characters watch her progress climbing up the social ladder and christen themselves the Luciaphils=admirers of Lucia. |
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From: authorshelper-ga on 18 Oct 2002 09:08 PDT |
Around the time I applied to be a researcher a local writer's first book was published. I had helped him with research and proofreading, and so was pretty jazzed...I guess I thought "authorshelper" defined me at the time. And re: the -ga suffix, the first couple of times I looked at the GA site (I am not a bimbo, but this sure makes it sound like I am!) I looked at the first few names on the list and wondered at the coincidence that everyone was from Georgia (pretty bad, isn't it, but they say confession is good for the soul ;) |
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From: statestraveller-ga on 18 Oct 2002 11:09 PDT |
I came here from England in 1997 to travel cross-country, never having used e-mail before. The library assistant in Tampa, FL plopped me down in front of a computer and introduced me to hotmail. 'Worldtraveler' was taken, as was 'Statestraveler', and I wasn't going to be 'Statestraveler24' for anything. I think the English spelling of 'traveller' helped to secure the original name:-) |
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From: carnegie-ga on 18 Oct 2002 11:15 PDT |
Dear Hahna, Eager to add my first-ever comment, I registered and had to think quickly of a nickname. Research made me think of libraries (I'm old enough to remember when research was done in libraries), so I looked for a name connected with them. What sprang to mind was the name of Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), born in Dunfermline, Scotland, who spent half his life making money building the iron and steel industry in the USA and the other half giving that wealth away to endow over 2500 libraries and many music halls (including New York's Carnegie Hall, of course). See: http://www.carnegie.org/sub/about/biography.html This all sounds a bit pompous now, but it wasn't meant that way ... Carnegie |
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From: ericynot-ga on 18 Oct 2002 14:30 PDT |
The story goes that my father wanted to name me "Bjorn" (little did they know the name would later be rescued from obscurity by a tennis player). My mother, not being of the Norse persuasion, objected vigorously. So Dad said, "OK,how about Eric?"; Mom, exhausted from the effort of whelping me, said "Why not?", and the rest is... the rest. It also works well with my personal motto, "I'll try anything." For proof, check the scars, x-rays, and boxed collection of teeth. Hey Pink, watcha gonna do with that $2.13? :) |
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From: byrd-ga on 18 Oct 2002 15:13 PDT |
Mine's one I end up using lots of places simply because it's often (though not always) available, and I don't like having to remember a whole list of different user ids. "Byrd's" a family name from back in the genealogy, and since I'm a pilot (single-engine), the allusion also seems to fit ... |
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From: crabcakes-ga on 18 Oct 2002 15:30 PDT |
Way back in high school, a friend used to call me Susie Cream Cheese. (One of my fellow researchers - pinkfreud, to be precise - told me Susie Cream Cheese came from a Frank Zappa song.)The name sort of stuck back then. Many years later, after living in a landlocked state, and missing terribly the Chesapeake crabs from back East, I came up with Susie Crabcakes, and truncated it to crabcakes. It works well online, because it is almost always available as a screen name! Susie is one of my most used nicknames. (I never listened to Frank Zappa) |
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From: araminty-ga on 18 Oct 2002 16:41 PDT |
Mine is a bit convoluted, but here goes... Araminty Potter is the maiden name of Araminty Brown, mother of Velvet Brown, aka National Velvet. I am a Harry Potter fan as well as a National Velvet fan, so Araminty seemed an obvious choice for a GA login. Or something. A. |
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From: hahna-ga on 18 Oct 2002 20:03 PDT |
araminty, do you know the story about araminta ditch? Hee! hee! hee! hee! hee! hee! |
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From: ravuri-ga on 20 Oct 2002 14:57 PDT |
Uri is my name (it's Hebrew), and Rav is the Hebrew word for rabbi (which I am). |
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From: tehuti-ga on 24 Oct 2002 19:28 PDT |
Tehuti aka Djehuty (or Thoth if you insist on following the Greeks) is the Ancient Egyptian deity of knowledge and wisdom, which seems appropriate. Oh, he alternates between being an ibis-headed man and a baboon as well, which appeals in some warped way. This is a handle I use in many different contexts on the Internet. Since I'm terminally obsessed, I tend to pick other Ancient Egyptian names when his is not available. |
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From: nellie_bly-ga on 24 Oct 2002 20:09 PDT |
Hi- My name is that of the the great investigative journalist Nellie Bly, chosen because I've been involved in research/evaluation all my life and am currently a freelance journalist with a few investigative series in her clip file. Plus, my grandmother was named Nell, plus there's the great Chad Mitchell Trio rendition of Nellie hanging on the bell -- a sort of folk version of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." My other online moniker is Dann McGrew, but the reason for that is a tale fit for Robert Service to tell. |
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From: madsky101-ga on 24 Oct 2002 20:52 PDT |
Greetings! I am the proud parent of 2 wonderful children, Madison and Skyler. I wanted incorporate their names in my login so I took the first three names of each child, put them togeter, and created madsky101. |
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From: filian-ga on 25 Oct 2002 08:39 PDT |
Filian is a made up name from a fantasy name generator. |
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From: dannidin-ga on 25 Oct 2002 08:46 PDT |
dannidin is the hero of a series of Hebrew children's books I used to read as a kid, called (the Hebrew equivalent of) "dannidin the invisible", about a kid named Danny who uses an invisibility potion to do various good (and mischievous) deeds. My name is Dan, and nowadays in Israel Dannidin is a common playful nickname for Dan, which I get called every once in a while. |
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From: easterangel-ga on 25 Oct 2002 18:26 PDT |
My daughter joined our church pageant in an angel costume last Easter. So I used the name Easterangel since I dedicate to her all my work here in GA. |
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From: izzard-ga on 27 Oct 2002 15:32 PST |
At least some people here should know of Eddie Izzard. Well, he's a hero of mine and wickedly funny to boot. I like being compared to him, so I have always used his surname wherever I am online. |
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From: feilong-ga on 29 Oct 2002 01:26 PST |
Feilong is a a pseudonym for Bruce Lee. Feilong is a martial arts expert in Street Fighter. It has always been my handle since I started using an Internet identity. I admire Bruce Lee a lot and I like being compared to him. Bruce is the real thing, a genuine fighter -- just like me in real life. |
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From: techtor-ga on 29 Oct 2002 02:33 PST |
I got Techtor from what they call each member of "Winspector", a Japanese live-action superhero show. It gives a clue on my love for technologically-based heroes and some tech stuff (including war technology). |
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From: digsalot-ga on 31 Oct 2002 14:05 PST |
digsalot - retired archaeologist. I had thought about the past tense as in '"dug"alot' but that reminded me too much of an overused cow's udder. |
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From: bigolav543-ga on 04 Nov 2002 18:08 PST |
I chose my name because I am big and my name is Olav. |
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From: apteryx-ga on 25 Nov 2002 23:52 PST |
If you knew my real name, you would see that it has some characteristics in common with the word "apteryx." Also, an apteryx is an odd bird, and I can identify with that idea too. And finally, "apteryx" is a playful way that my husband and I sometimes pronounce "asterisk," and "asterisk" is our audible symbol during conversation of something one of us wants to come back to--a marker for a saved comment so as not to interrupt while the other is speaking, and also not to forget to come back to it. |
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From: sleepers-ga on 24 Jul 2003 19:02 PDT |
Sleepers is my own word for my type of hero. =) It follows my own ideology, and my own philosophy in life. The world has many heroes - the charismatic leaders of men who stand out above all others. We see these people and admire them for their talents, their generosity, and their ideology. Many of us aspire to be like-minded, and drive ourselves to work harder to be just like them. But the world has many more heroes than those we see on TV and in fortune magazine. There are those who live quiet, honest lives. They live humbly, and honestly, doing what they must to make a living and provide for themselves. They help others and are overly generous with what little they have. Their only ambition - to be prepared for the time that will call them to action, when men's lives and hearts need comfort and strong leadership. Underestimated, often overlooked, neither ambitions nor prideful. Generous, passionate, and spirited. They're my sleepers. |
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From: cynthia-ga on 01 Jan 2004 09:09 PST |
This is probably the first time in my life I don't have an interesting story to tell. My login is my name. In real life I go by Cyndy, or Smooth. I won't bother with the story of why I have two "y's" in Cyndy, or how I got the nickname Smooth, because I want to leave a bit of mystery... Suffice it to say I use my proper name because I thought Cynthia sounded a bit more professional. |
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From: citson-ga on 10 Mar 2004 12:01 PST |
My login name is my spiritual outlook spelled backward. |
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From: nucifra-ga on 13 May 2004 22:53 PDT |
There's a whole bunch of words ending in "ga" listed here: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=345980 |
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From: wise_guy_in_a_to-ga on 13 May 2004 22:59 PDT |
Nothing funny but the name itself :) |
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From: pinkfreud-ga on 14 May 2004 16:39 PDT |
wise_guy_in_a_to-ga, I love your screen name! Very cute. |
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