The etymology of your screen name?

How did you choose your screen name?

gkdmaths is a concatenation of my initials (gkd) and the discepline I suffer from way too often (math)

I think I got drunk and decided to play solitaire on pogo one night and accidentally added the "s" to the end, somehow it stuck.

whats up with your gibberish?

/gkd

I had an antagonistic way about me.

female = aunt
therefore auntAgonist.


:hi:
aA

really, I'm just me though.

your screen name. Its the perfect blend of "kind and gentle" coupled with "mary harris jones".

A good look for a great dem!

I didn't catch the pun in your screen name because I'm from the little corner of the country where we pronounce aunt as 'ahhnt,' not 'ant.'
:dunce:

My first name, and part of my last.

I still think you randomly picked letters from a toy taken from a captain crunch cereal box.

:o

that my mother may have done that to name me in the first place? B-)

wiring, and it would never start... I was forever asking people to jump my scooter,,, so

here I am.

Joe Lucas--"The Prince of Darkness". :rofl:

drink their beer at room temperature?













Lucas used to make refrigerators.

I had me an old BSA Shooting Star once (441 cc single cylinder); you could always count on the damn thing losing its electrics every, oh, 100 miles or so, usually by vibrating a wire loose somewhere. What a monstrosity...

:hi:

:hug: :loveya: :hug:


I hope you are doing fantabulously well :)


aA
kesha.

:loveya: Right backatcha, gf! How's the baby? And how's your daughter-in-law? :pals:

All is okay here. It's finally a bit cooler, and Ginger hasn't brought me any half-dead animals this week. (He's probably punishing me for something. :rofl: )

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

Well......I live in California......

And Peggy is my name!

I wanted to convey something of my self to everyone who spoke to me.......

And this is how I do it! I love my username, and will never change it...

I have become CaliforniaPeggy! :hug:

"look at how it emerges from the crysalis and becomes the beautiful California Peggy. Crikey!"


:)

Haruka is the name of a lesbian Sailor Moon character and the numbers are what Yahoo assigned to me.

Simple, esoteric and a little attitude. You are definately somebody I would date.

;)

that really wasn't the point. ;) I dig yer screen name.

rock on :thumbsup:

just keep on keepin' on.

:hi:

restinparrot

stunnedparrot

pininforthefjordsparrot



Or, if you inSist on being dead...

bleedindemisedparrot

passedonparrot

nomoreparrot

ceasedtobeparrot

expiredandgonetomeetitsmakerparrot

lateparrot

stiffparrot

bereftoflifeparrot

restsinpeaceparrot

pushinupthedaisiesparrot

rungdownthecurtainandjoinedthechoirinvisibleparrot

exparrot



Beautiful eyes plumage.

just an african swallow carying a cocconut.

you get to clean the red wine off my laptop keyboard.

:rofl:

That part and the "we're the knights of the round table, we dance where ever able" song make be laugh so damn hard!

Jester being the callsign of the training pilot on Top Gun.

and CS being my initials, hence

JesterCS

...

roy orbeson?

Which is called Everything's Zen.

At the time I joined DU I was on my third or fourth time of playing through Half-Life; in Half-Life you travel to a parallel dimension/alien world at the end of the game to fight the big bad bosses. The name of the world is Xen. At the time I joined I was in bad shape due to 9/11; I didn't buy the government line and all my friends did. So to me the world was an alien and topsy-turvy place, thus everything was Xen... or everythingsxen.

guess that would be X-ian wouldn't it ;)

...to a famous passage from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, in which Bodhisattva's ride flaming chariots into battle to take revenge upon an undeserving prince. I thought the reference had some relevance to the current political situation back in early 2002 when I joined DU. Now I think it's a bit pretentious, but I'm stuck with it. It's kind of embarrassing, actually.

What a wierd read, but insightful at the same time.

I must have missed the mike_c reference in it.

youre not stuck with it - notice how many posts I have (<1000)? This name wasnt my first screen name. ;)

No, wait-- it was the Hungarian Book of the Dead. Now I remember. Very rare-- only a few copies still in existence. Mine was discovered hidden in my great-uncle Vladimir's steamer trunk many years after his death. The circumstances were quite mysterious.

edit-- on the other hand, it might simply be a clever construction from my first and last names. Fooled you, eh? I am very devious.

Simple as that

www.pandora.com

yet? I just did tonight, and I dont even listen to music, but I liked it!

might be up your alley. (?)

:thumbsup:

This is so freaking cool!

She used to hiss and spit and throw hissyfits.

I live in Seattle, and I'm a girl. Okay, woman, but I don't take being called a girl as an insult, unless the person saying it means it as such.

So, SeattleGirl I am.

Perhaps I should change my name to YelmBoy.

That wouldnt be too hickish to still be considered liberal.

But there might be too much neonazi in it for my comfort, though. :eyes:

howdy neighbor :hi:

Way back when I was an obnoxious 18 year old (14 years ago) and thought I was incredibly clever, I wrote "conflict girl" on the cover of a notebook I was using as my journal. It means that everything within me is always in conflict and many of my beliefs contradict each other, and I can almost always see multiple sides of an issue. My husband started calling this crate where I keep all my old journals the "conflict girl archive" and the whole conflict girl thing just kind of stuck over the years.

My username is my way of saying, "I'm gay. I'm liberal. How 'bout you?".

It's been a good introduction to many GLBT people here and to straight allies, too. Sometimes I get PMs from people who used to live (or currently live) in the 94114 zip-code; it's a small world. :thumbsup:

My favorite guitarist and personal hero was Chris Stein. I had an argument on how to pronounce his last name with somebody ( who? I can't remember.) I looked up some names in the phone book and there were some steens, in there, but his name isn't the same as theirs and somehow, I ended up combining Jamie and Steen, not Stein and got Jamastiene, just because it was different. I was going to use Jamastein, but I wanted an e at the end, so it has been my nickname ever since. The rest is history.

inherit in the reality described by our physical laws is a source of morals, religous choice & career & interests & friends for me.

Scientist in training, implicit atheist. :bounce:

:P

I refer to neither - even the randomness is just an approximation of what I am really using.

Unfortunately, what I am using does not lend itself to being put in words.

Edit: Under the approximation, more like both, but if you want, more heaily leaning to the stochastic.

La heina is a spanish slang word that can be spelled various ways and can mean various things in different latin cultures. Usually, it's used like chica, or to mean young lady, hottie, or girl friend.

I took this spelling from Sublime's lyrics for "Santeria," but I think Cypress Hill also spelled it the same in theirs.

My first name is Chris. My last name is Au. My birthday is February 14th. Thus I am chrisau214. I'll expect lots of expensive gifts come February. I could really a use a nice 9 foot pool table. I would also like a 1958 Les Paul. But not just any 1958 Les Paul. I want the 1958 Les Paul that Jimmy Page got from Joe Walsh. A really large HDTV would also be appreciated. Of course with the television I will need various essential accessories such as a DVD Recorder (might as well make it a dual deck DVD/VHS player.) I'll need some good speakers. A new laptop would also be nice.

I'll let you debate among yourselves as to who gets to buy what. Thanks in advance.




Chris

My eighth grade science teacher insisted on calling me Mr. Gold for that entire school year.





Chris

Oh, god no. I just though maybe you were being a little subtle. :-)

Now all we need is your SSN and were rich!

:)

555-55-5555

Good luck with the identity theft. :toast:





Chris

Or we'll just steal your identity. What was your Social Security number again?

I can live with a little identity theft. Just don't use the identity theft to procure the gifts. That would be vaguely incestuous.





Chris

It's just one of the MANY names I call my dog Yugi. Here's not a very good picture of him.

I had gotten into New Wave somewhat my senior year in high school, but college put me over the edge. The university I attended (UNC-Chapel Hill) at the time was heavily New Wave and punk (and yes, it had preppy factions, which people like me avoided!). There were a lot of cool people in a cool town listening to very, very cool music. :) It was a great place to be in the 80s! :hi: :loveya:

:hug:

:hi: :* :loveya:

You already know my thing for Kim Wilde, but I also dig Joe Jackson, The Clash, Siouxsie and for my rough and tumble moods, the Weirdos or Ramones or X or Social Distortion, plus many many more. L.A. was alot of fun during the 80's.

My name comes from my nickname when I lived in Los Angeles and the year I was born.
Boo preppys!

:hi: In Chapel Hill, I saw Human Sexual Response, The B-52s, REM/English Beat, BowWowWow, The Clash, U2, David Bowie, Black Flag, and a few other concerts that I fail to remember right this second. I saw the Psychedelic Furs four times at Duke University. Saw Oingo Boingo at a street festival in Greensboro, Joan Jett/the Police in Charlotte, and the Dead Kennedys at a club in Charlotte.

If you had all day, I'd list all the groups I love, but suffice it to say that there wasn't very much alternative music from the late 70s/early 80s that I DIDN'T like. :loveya:

I've seen both X and the Weirdos live, and I met Henry Rollins once, but WOW! I'd have killed to go see Oingo Boingo. My friend that gave me the Martymar part of my name, she had seen Oingo Boingo about 40-50 times. Talk about devotion!!! I have seen the Grateful Dead about 30 times (my post New Wave phase '87-93)
Looking back on that era now, the music almost seems quaint. Remember the ruckus about the Sex Pistols? It seems so innocent now. There was precious little that I didn't like back then, I never got into Kajagoogoo or Scritty Politti, a little too pop for me. I was more into the Wall of Voodoo, Blasters, etc kind of rockabilly punk thing or the Clash/Specials Ska thing that I looooooove even today. My recent kick has been delving into the old time ska archives of Desmond Dekker and Toots and the Maytals. Great stuff!!!!
And yes I do have all day! :-)

:hi: Oingo Boingo was one of the coolest bands I've ever seen. :loveya: They played an annual street festival in Greensboro, and the country rednecks could not have cared less. They had six stages set up, and I gladly let the rednecks do their own thing. There were a few of us hanging out with Oingo Boingo, and I stayed there almost all day! :woohoo: At breaks, Danny and the boys would talk to us, and I have to say he's the NICEST celeb I've ever heard of! :* The rest of the band were great too. They knew they had a small but loyal fan base there. :patriot:

Forbidden Zone is one of my favorite movies---Danny Elfman as the Devil is fucking hilarious!!! :rofl:

:hi: When I get a stretch of time, I'll post more about shows!

I met Susan Tyrrell at a show in L.A. back in 96?. She was a sweetheart extraordinaire.
My favorite character was Squeezit. The princess was nice too. ;-) However Frenchie made me want to kick a hole in my TV, that was some baaaaaaddd acting.

I would love to hear about more of your shows, and I'll tell you about mine. But for now, I'm gonna go home and rock out to MDC and the Modern Lovers on my iTunes.

"Oh, John Wayne was a Nazi . . ."

"Some Guys try to pick up girls, and get called an asshole
That would never happen to Pablo Picasso,
He could walk down your street, girls could not resist his stare"
No one ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole"


Have a good weekend!

Had a GREAT time!!!

:evilgrin:

mikey_the_rat

:hi: :evilgrin: Chapel Hill does that to people....

"Krispos" is a character in a series by my favorite author, Harry Turtledove. Farmer boy rises to become emperor, etc.

It is also, apparently, the family name for a mausoleum in ancient Eregli, a city in the Zonguldak province of Turkey.

While it would be far cooler/geekier if I named myself after the mausoleum and only found out later it was a book character, events sadly turned out the other way. :-)

Since Turtledove has a doctorate in Byzantine history, I have to conclude that this is intentional in some way.

"42" is, quite simply, The Answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life%2C_the_Universe%2C_and_Everything

Im a researcher and I work with a bunch of similarly geeky engineers. One of my supervisors always asks "whats the answer" when he's looking for a progress report. I always answer "42!" and he seems to get it.

Nice to know there are other enlightened souls out there (but try to keep it a secret, would ya?) ;)

:thumbsup:

I guess it remaains the territory of tech geeks and people who hit "Randon Article" on Wikipedia enough times... :-)

:D

Not only is Fox Mulder my favorite tv show character, we also have similar interests, so I thought this screenname would fit me well.

It's just too obvious.

I remember seeing that on an episode at one time or another.

You can try it if you want. It may work. ;)

sorta like us democrats:P

Actually my name is John, but we had so many in the family that they all called me Johnnie. I spell it with the "ie" instead of a "y" because my one band in high school was "Johnnie and the Commodes" and that is how we spelled my name.

is a part of English language usage. :)

It is also a term in the entertainment industry to describe someone wearing more than one hat, so to speak. It's an "above the line" term, usually for someone who is acting as producer, director, writer or performer, in both TV and film. Any combination of those jobs would result in someone using a "hyphen" as part of their title: writer-director-producer.

and it kinda stuck.

They were called Airmen when they started out ... and I'm their mom. They're tickled pink that I chose this name for them. :loveya:

But my parents picked a more lace-curtain option.

"Burke" is also an old family name, apparently first brought to Ireland by the Anglo-Norman adventurer William FitzAldem de Burgh. But that was many centuries ago.

month

:banghead:

pretzel is a nickname that I've had for close to 40 years. there are people in my home town who didn't even know my real name for a long time. but i can't complain my oldest brother has been called Porky for a lot longer than I have.

If it was, my name would be MrsHottie (love you MrG)

I was out to dinner with a friend and her children. We were goofing around at the table and I slipped up and said,"If you do that MrsGrumpy will be very Harper..." and thus, a username was born. :hi:

(Lu)cy + E(mily) = Lumily.

...take your pick. More where that came from.

It's an acronym of my response to bitchy conservatives when they start ranting about "libruls".

kmla
=
Kiss
My
Liberal
Ass.

That's it. No mystery.

is because my membership predates the moran guy picture.

I grew up listening to them. When I saw Phil Anselmo, Pantera, wearing a British Steel t-shirt I knew I was not alone!! JP influenced so many bands like Slayer and Pantera. I love you Robert Halford!!!!!!!!!!

so one of my lil fantasies is to head a Judas Priest cover band, thus naming it Judas Priestess

tibbir = ribbit spelled backwards.

and all things related to stars or space. Plus supernvae are just plain cool.

:hi:

I've been on the chat side of the 'net since the late 80s and wanted a name which was gender neutral. But, those of whom I am fond, (Most people @ DU) know that I'm a girl.

Catbert is the evil director of human resources in the comic strip Dilbert. 8 and 36 are my two favorite numbers.

which, by the way, is a very exellent song. And R.E.M. is my favorite band. I was a bit obsessed with the song when I joined DU...

Here's the section of lyrics that it's from:

I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars
Hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras
Dreaming of maria callas
Whoever she is

That's as deep as it gets.

I had been volunteering for Kerry and for Move On during the weeks leading up to the election. On the day of the election, I was conducting exit polls at a precinct down here where one out of every 20 voters said they had voted for Bush. Two other ladies were with me and received the same results from that precinct.

I was expecting a landslide because exit polls throughout Florida were indicating Kerry was kicking Bush's ass.

Then suddenly that night, Bush was declared the winner of the state of Florida by 400,000 votes. This was four years after he barely beat Gore by 537 votes. This happened despite the fact that many of those who voted for Bush in 2000 voted for Kerry in 2004. Despite the fact that I have yet to meet anyone who voted for Gore in 2000, only to vote for Bush in 2004.

I immediately knew the election was stolen. I was so pissed off that night that I wanted to go destroy every car that I saw with a Bush bumper sticker. Two days later, I went online to check the results from the precinct where I had been conducting exit polls, discovering that Kerry received 73 percent of the votes as opposed to the 95 percent we had estimated through exit polls.

My anger turned to rage. And my rage lead me to DU. And when asked for a username, I wrote the first thing that came to my mind: RagingInMiami.

which is why I am a liberal :-)
Hence, grannylib.

"Estimated Prophet"
Words by John Perry Barlow; music by Bob Weir
("Estimated Prophet" composed and written by Bob Weir and John Perry Barlow. Reproduced by arrangement with Ice Nine Publishing Co., Inc. (ASCAP))
(Barlow has posted the lyrics to his songs.)


My time coming, any day, don't worry bout me, no
Been so long I felt this way, ain't in no hurry, no
Rainbows end down that highway where ocean breezes blow
My time coming, voices saying, they tell me where to go

Don't worry bout me, no no, don't worry bout me, no
And I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go.


California, preaching on the burning shore
California, I'll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine


My time coming, anyday, don't worry bout me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin' slow
Still I know I lead the way, they tell me where I go


Don't worry bout me, no no, don't worry bout me, no
And I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go


California, a prophet on the burning shore
California, I'll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine


You've all been asleep,
You would not believe me
Them voices telling me,
You will soon receive me
We're standing on the beach,
The sea will part before me
(Fire wheel burning in the air)
And you will follow me,
And we will ride to glory
(Way up the middle of the air)


And I'll call down thunder
And speak the same
And my word fills the sky with flame
And might and glory gonna be my name
And men gonna light my way


My time coming, anyday, don't worry bout me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin slow
My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no


Don't worry about me...

She starts every e-mail to me with a different name that somehow twists my name to her liking. Kristi has been morphed into many versions but she usually wanders back to Kixel. She was quite proud when she found out what an impact she has had!

Although, as I looked into it some more, it turns out that calling myself "7thGenDemocrat" would be more correct. My mom's family has been voting for Democrats since Andrew Jackson.
John
There are two generations of Democrats after me, too.

Didn't want to be indentified with a theme.

Here are some custom knives I forge out of railroad spikes and small concrete nails.

do you make diamond microtome knives?

Dont have the capability or knowledge for that kind of sharpening job...
Hard enough to sharpen these. In the last pic the small knives and spike are only a couple inches long.
forging a 2" yellow hot cut nail is tricky, it's easy to drop it in your lap!

"I am approaching my point of no return."

and then wear it.

:spray: :rofl:



:loveya:

:evilgrin:

:hi:

:loveya: 2!

Its where i live and what party I'm part of.

So I made my sn the French phrase for "the rabbit."

even without the aid of substances...:D

One of them.

Redstone

AND you have to know both Roth and Hagar.

...bad run of cards. That's when I realized it -- I'm a deuce magnet.

is one of the great pioneers of "slowcore" music, unfortunately they only put out a few records then dissolved.

and particularly the part where they cut up the body of the dead man and fed it to the guy who was looking for it as barbecue. Idgie says "it's hog killing time", which is all she ever says to George to let him know in code what they are going to do...hence, Idgiehkt. I chose it because at the time I had done something almost inadvertently that went all over the place and caused a HUGE ruckus in my life and a few other people's. I got quoted online and in a paper...it was just a mess and it flew all over the place, but I do think it had a positive affect; it hit the target.

Wilhelm Reich

no intention word-play on the Third Reich although this is, admittedly, convenient

I enjoy doing all types of crafts and needlwork. I am also a womana, sooooo......hence, CraftyGal. lol

I used it at first because if you take it apart.. "Neo" as the one and "Ma" as the matrix...

n/t

even I knew that, Mrs. sabini.

:hi:

Their mandate is pretty simple:

To foster a deeper understanding of and sympathy with man's relations -- the animals -- who cannot speak for themselves,

To inculcate the higher principles of humaneness upon which the unity and happiness of the world depend,

To emphasize the spiritual fundamentals that lead to world friendship

To promote the child's character through an understanding of universal kinship.

Brother Buzz the puppet, in story, on radio, and television, has been the spokesperson for the Foundation since 1927. I was introduced to him through the genius of Ralph Chessé.

In 1953 he was asked by the Latham Foundation for the Promotion of Humane Education, in Oakland, California, to create a marionette show called "The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz". This was the first children's television program to deal with animal life and environmental issues. I was a TV junky back in the fifties and became one of the first environmentalists - decades before they even coined the term!

I use on the internet, which is my replacement for binge drinking.

I is what I is.:grr: :grr: :nuke:

kama = child; 'aina = land

In present usage it refers to a Hawai'i resident as opposed to a malihini (visitor); many hotels, restaurants, attractions etc. offer "kama'aina discounts", really a sneaky way of playing our unofficial state sport, Soak the Tourists.

Sequel to the Monkey Wrench Gang.
Hayduke was taken when I registered.

you know why I know?

It could have been Doc Sarvis, though.

:hi: monkeywrencher!

/gkd

Doc Sarvis should be my alter ego,
But I couldn't keep track of two SN

I'm a "Reagan Democrat", back from the darkside

since one of the nicknames my GF gave me was "beans" (the other is "bear").

:)

I resisted signing up for months, because I wanted to think of
a screen name cool enough to hold its own at DU.

Finally, I just HAD to post here, so I signed up under my real name
as a temporary measure; I thought I would think up a cool UserHandle
any minute, and planned to start a new account when I did.

Seven thousand posts later, I am still waiting for that one good idea to hit me,
and still posting under my real name. :shrug:

Sincerely,
Richard Steele

dicksteele is more than intimidating.

It makes the ED commercials seem limp by comparison.

:rofl:

I was never a huge Dr. Fate fan in particular or anything-but I do have some re-issues, etc.

I just thought the name always sounded really cool.

I think some people think the striped skeleton might be "Dr. Fate"

about my local political situation at the time I joined DU. (And maybe being a little overdramatic, too.) :-)

:hippie: