Internet Names

[Cataclysm]

Lexikon is a type of italisn typewriter that was the first to use a golf ball. A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language. Lexikon is German for lexicon, but I just realized that.

And now my pseudonym is Lexie Kahn.

[malendras]

A few years back, a friend of mine asked me to think up a new handle for him to use on some forum. I had just re-watched the LOTR movies, so I came up with something vaguely elvish-sounding, and malendras was the result. It means nothing, has no relation to Quenya or Sindarin, it just sounded kinda elvish. He ended up using it on that one site, posted like 5 times, and then completely abandoned it. 6 months later I'm thinking up a new screenname for myself and I realize he hasn't used the SN anywhere since I gave it to him. So I stole it back and now it's mine.

[TheL]

Horror Story Ex started calling me by my first initial at some point.  After a while, i decided I liked it as an online handle: something recognizable by people who knew me, that still kept me from giving too much away to total strangers.

[nickiknack]

My nickname is Nicki(real first name Nicole), and I have no clue how I came up with the rest of it.

[Sigmaleph]

Sigma is the first letter of my name in Greek. "The Aleph" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.

I used to go by Current, but I changed it. (Some would tell you it was because I was tired of people thinking "Current is currently here" is clever wordplay)

[Witchyjoshy]

Mine is a portmanteau of my first name and last name.

And I love how "ski" is so common in Polish last names, so that none of you will ever be able to guess what my last name actually is, unless I tell you

[largeham]

Take a guess where mine is from. I chose it because I couldn't think of anything else, I'm lazy and had recently seen the Brian Blessed GPS video.

[rageaholic]

Several years back on another message board, I had used the name Homer (from the Simpsons).  After a few negative ranty threads, the forum smartass commented on it.  He joked that I should look into rageaholic anonymous.  Five years later, I signed up on another message board and was desperate for another handle.  Well since I was in a ranty mood and do have a tendancy to rant a lot, I picked this handle and have been using it for several years now. 

[ironbite]

Ironbite's my beast wars fanfic character.

Ironbite-so.....thus I became me.

[Deus ex Populo]

It's Latin, meaning "god out of the people" or something of that nature. It was originally a straightforward mashing-together of the phrases deus ex machina and vox populi, with no regard for how the phrase would actually be put together. I eventually got around to correcting it to be at least slightly less wrong, and that's been the form ever since.

[VirtualStranger]

I've always been a loner, so "stranger" sums up the majority of my personal interactions with other people. Even on the internet, I tend to just lurk a lot instead of actually posting.

[Normandy]

Mine is just a nickname that a friend came up with as a wordplay on my last name. (Shouldn't be too hard to guess what that is.  )

[Art Vandelay]

Ever seen Seinfeld?

[Captain Jack Harkness]

My current username has a very simple origin.

When I was a little kid (and even into my late teens/early adulthood by one of my dad's now deceased friends), I had the nickname "B Man."  My first name starts with a B.

I used to not really like it, but I don't mind it anymore.

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

Got tired of people assuming I'm a guy whenever I used a gender-neutral username online, and wanted something that identified me as female. It was originally "Mrs. Antichrist", which came from a joke about me wanting to marry the Antichrist (can't remember the exact context), but I eventually decided that it was a dumb handle, so I change it to its current form (French for "Ms. Antichrist"; evidently, the Antichrist and I got divorced).