What's your screen name from?

[Southern Oracle]

I originally wanted just Oracle on the Wizards of the Coast chatsite, but Peter Adkison's screen name was Oracle. So I adopted Kajal the Southern Oracle, with the Southern Oracle part from The Neverending Story and Kajal from an old Milton Bradley card game. Plus, I live in the South (Tennessee). However, I got too many emails and AIM messages from guys in India. Apparently, Kajal is a popular girl's name over there. So I dropped Kajal.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Nickname given to me by my cousin - I was playing drums and he guitar.
The air coming from the vent holes in my double bass drums was actually causing the material in his bluejeans to flap around his legs. He turned around and made the comment, "Hey, thunder-foot, you want back off a bit?" ; it stuck.

 

[sckeener]

Eh, I'm not so bothered by the idea of (most) other posters knowing who I really am -- that's why I've kept the same couple of aliases for fifteen or so years. It's the spammers and similar sorts that keep me anonymous.

using an alias is different. It might as well be your name. On slashdot.org though you can go totally anonymous and post as Anonymous Coward. There are tons of ACs.

I can understand why people stay in the closet. I just wish people didn't have to...

 

[Radiating Gnome]

Mine comes from a workplace disappointment, and a friend with too much time on his hands.

At an old job I didn't get the director's position I had applied for; to try to keep me happy in my old job, my bosses told me that the new hire and I would be "peers" and offered me a new title (of course, no raise). The other guy's title was director of something, so when they asked me what I thought my new title should be, I said "director of something else". The VP, when it crossed her desk, decided I didn't deserve a director title, my bosses didn't stand up for me, and they came back to me with "online managing editor" as a potential title. Since my current title was "online editor", I was not impressed with jamming "managing" in there.

Anyway, I started bitching to my friends, and one of them found an anagram site and pointed out that there were some very cool anagrams of "managing editor".

For the first week, my favorite was "dominating rage". Once I cooled down a little, I decided that I liked another anagram better -- radiating gnome. I started refering to myself as the radiating gnome around the office.

When I quit that job but agreeded to come back to do some training classes as a consultant, I created "radiating gnome consulting" as one last way to pretend I was sticking it to them.

Anyway, it's been my handle ever since . . . . kinda sad, isn't it?

-rg

 

[Gilladian]

My "mundane name" is Gillian. When I was about 11 my dad coined the nickname Gilladian - sticking "lady" in the middle of Gillian, as a sort of "you're growing up" nickname. I thought it sounded cool and named a character (a dwarf fighter, actually!) that.

The character lived and lived and lived, and I came to really like the name. It's unique, and I've used it ever since.

 

[Theocrat]

Hi all -
When I first got into the online aspect of the game, I went by Keoland, since that is where I had based my campaign. Later I used Issak the Pale which should have been Issak of the Pale (since I'm not pale skinned). But alas The Pale is for the Theocracy of the Pale, the region in Greyhawk that is home to the Church of the One True Path of Pholtus.
After being Issak the Pale for about a year or so, Gary Holian (of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer) used Theocrat for my admin username. I liked it much better than ItP, and it fit with my concept of The Pale, Pholtus and the Church of the One True Path of Pholtus.
So in the end Theocrat and Theocrat Issak are what I use when someone has already hi-jacked the name.

Be Well.
Theocrat Issak

 

[Crysmalon]

voted for NPC

For an NPC I DMed, the spirit of an ancient trickster dragon in an Arcana Evolved game.

 

[loki44]

"Loki" (or "Low-key" as the case may be) is a real-life nickname that I've had since high school. I've also been tagged with Shoe, Bong and Sheeves at various times of my life. Loki just kind of stuck. The "44" appellation is totally random. Just plain old "Loki" is usually taken by the time I register on a website so at some point I just tacked the 44 on there for web purposes and use it on multiple sites.

 

[loki44]

Its a band name, and I like to fish a lot, I live about 3 miles from Lake Michigan.

Best live band EVER back in their heyday.

 

[JohnSnow]

I voted "Totally Different" because the origin didn't match any other category...

Jon Snow is a favorite character of mine from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. John is my real first name, so I deliberately misspelled it. It's the same nick I've always used on the WotC boards, but over on the Iron Heroes forums, as an homage to that system, I go by IronSnow.