I wonder where the guy with the crazy name is at?? he has like ThEpE©cPoS... or something like that. Then he made a thread asking how to change the nick name....

I have to confess to some more.... I used fumble for awhile. I was brand new to communities, and message boards. I had a community called fumble.com. I grew out of that name and deleted the community. Also, too many women in our community thought fumble was a boy and had crushes on her.

Then, I needed to have someone to come in and shake our message boards up a little, get them moving, so ThunderThreads was born. She did her work and was retired, though I could call on her if I need to.

Then, I had to go to war to protect our community... I got a brand new fighting passport and called her Suntag. I won that war. She is on call.

And (where is that blushing emoticon...) I wanted to find out about what one of "those" chat rooms was like. You know.... Smallbare was born, went exploring, was shocked and saddened, and never went there again.

I think screen names are great! I wish I had time to wear all the ones I think of....

Ok, Bangkokboy.....I'll tell ya......but you might get bored.

My father was from the Alabama-Choushatta reservation in Livingston Texas. He disappeared into his bottle of Vodka shortly after I turned 3, so I never really knew him, but I've always been proud of that side of my heritage.
I had learned that most tribal names, had been changed by whiteman who couldn't be bothered with correct pronunciation. For example Cherokee is really pronounced Cha Ka Gee.....there are no 'r' sounds in the language.
I was at a Native American Arts & Crafts type show once where I spied a Choushatta man selling handmade pineneedle baskets. I ask him how the name of the tribe was pronounced, and he said "Choushatta". To which I replied, no I don't mean the whitemans way, I want to know the correct name. He got the biggest grin on his face , and told me "Koasati".

When I stumbled upon skin.org, and found I needed a nick, I didn't want to use my nick of "Wolf", coz I figured it was too common and had bad connotations to a lot of people. So I dedided to use Koasati.
I found out later that Koasati means "Lost Tribe\People" and thought how very fitting for me, since I'm usually lost in my own little world.

not a bit boring, Koasati. Very enlightening as well. I took a course in Cherokee history in college, i need to dig out all that course material and reread it.

Choushatta ~ Koasati

Sounds different to me. Must've been pretty mangled up back in the days. Good to see the real name got preserved though.

Thanks Treetog and Koasati for the neat stories. Original names seem to be a casualty when cultures collide. Like how did the British get Bangkok out of Kroong Tep?

LoidiBoid is a nic given to our family long before the age of computers! It's a "play" on our surmame "Loyd" which, if pronounced in a New York ("Nu Yoik") vernacular plus "iBoid" = the word Lady Bird. Hence the "LoidiBoids".

Unfortunately, Americans don't really get it as a Lady Bird is a "Lady Bug" in the US.

It's a British thing...

Well, you asked - sheesh!

LoidiBoid is a nic given to our family long before the age of computers! It's a "play" on our surmame "Loyd" which, if pronounced in a New York ("Nu Yoik") vernacular plus "iBoid" = the word Lady Bird. Hence the "LoidiBoids".

Unfortunately, Americans don't really get it as a Lady Bird is a "Lady Bug" in the US.

It's a British thing...

Well, you asked - sheesh!

Deja vu?

Makes perfect sense to me
Lloydiboy

You know you're getting old when you can remember a lot of these explanations from when they first came up...

Glen...."onomatopoeia"....means words that sound like what they refer to...eg 'bang'...

Jafo, yup, I am old, but my confort is that you are muuuuuch older then me....at least 4 loooong months. MOUHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Thanks koasati!
I like your nick too and I'm rather fond of your skinning work too;-)

Okay, LoidiBoid, I've gotta ask ... how would you pronounce "Loyd" if not the same as "Loid"? I mean, I get the Bird/Boid thing, but the rest throws me off!

And Jafo, I know what "onomatopoeia" means ... I just don't see how it applies to my name!

Glen Eric Reed - dah-dih-dih-dah sounds mildly symphonic and pleasing to the ear. Gimme a break, I'm sorry I made the onomatopoetic reference, and I'm trying to scoot away gracefully!

Ohhhh, okay ... that's more iambic than onomatopoetic. Hey, that's what you get for crossing swords with a guy who's got two degrees in English Lit

And thanks, by the way. I suddenly feel pretty good about my name today!

You're you're very very welcome welcome.

Um, that's not iambic - that would go 'dih-dah-dih-dah' etc.
Hey, I remembered. After all these years.
Sigh!
A poet I shall always be,
My past will never set me free...
Oh no,
Now all the words I'm going to write,
Will be iambic day and night.... >

Help!!!

mine is a gaming name from .. hmm.. 92? not computer gaming, either

the first time i used it online was in 94 when i went back to college and discovered the wonder that was ... ISCA.. hehe. the grand bulletin board/chat thing from the iowa student computer association. biggest of its time. just straight telnet.. no fancy stuff. it's now me on everything from aol to excite, yahoo, wherever.

wow, that brings back memories.. i even met a girlfriend on isca. yikes.. hehe

~ Mine is from a series of books I read a long time ago. Drangonlance. I was drawn to the character of Raistlin Majere. He was a very young and powerful mage who paid for his power with his health, soul and eventually his life.

Chris, please slide two cold ones to FL.

Mine is a name passed down through the ages, from grayhaze to grayhaze. There has always been a grayhaze for as long as man can remember, fighting injustice and upholding the skinning way.

I became the current grayhaze around 1995 after witnessing the fall of the previous grayhaze at the hands of our sworn enemy - Nameless One. Since that time I have been working to secretly restore the ancient art of skinning from the inside, manipulating the minds of others by convincing them that they are experiencing something new. Such is the life of a grayhaze.

Soon I shall pass the responsibility onto someone else, as I fear the Nameless One grows ever closer.

Looks as if I ain't the only tap dancer around here.