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Subject: login names (like pinkfreud)
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: hahna-ga
List Price: $2.84
Posted: 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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Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
Answered By: pinkfreud-ga on 17 Oct 2002 23:22 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
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 rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
thank you very much, everyone!  :-)  and thank you too pinkfreud for
playing along as well!  ;)

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Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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?
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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".
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
From: deadlychiapet-ga on 17 Oct 2002 21:51 PDT
 
What's more fearsome than a Deadly ChiaPet?
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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"!)
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
From: journalist-ga on 17 Oct 2002 22:40 PDT
 
I'm a freelance journalist.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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)
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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!
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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."
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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 ;)
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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:-)
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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? :)
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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 ...
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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)
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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!
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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).
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
From: filian-ga on 25 Oct 2002 08:39 PDT
 
Filian is a made up name from a fantasy name generator.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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).
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
From: bigolav543-ga on 04 Nov 2002 18:08 PST
 
I chose my name because I am big and my name is Olav.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
From: citson-ga on 10 Mar 2004 12:01 PST
 
My login name is my spiritual outlook spelled backward.
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
From: wise_guy_in_a_to-ga on 13 May 2004 22:59 PDT
 
Nothing funny but the name itself :)
Subject: Re: login names (like pinkfreud)
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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