primitives grunt back and forth about how they got their usernames

[BattleHymn]

This campfire is new, just getting off the ground.  Since it gives the primitives  a chance to talk about their favorite topic, "me", I'm sure it will grow vast.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018785903

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 10:24 AM
Nuclear Unicorn (16,357 posts)

Why did you choose your user name?

A poster recently inquired about my user name, which I was happy to post but after that moment I started became increasingly curious about the names of other posters.

So why did you choose your name?

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 10:29 AM
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (116,181 posts)
1. My dear Nuclear Unicorn!

Well, I live in California.........and my name IS Peggy. I wanted to have my name in my username.

So I combined them and voila!

Peggy the Pig swooped in on this one in under five minutes.

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 10:35 AM
Nuclear Unicorn (16,357 posts)
3. How coincidental that you used the expression, "and viola!"

The post that started it all --

The first time I met the man who would become my husband

I was in one of my usual haunts, a coffee house. We sort of spied each other and the opposites attracted. He had a military haircut and way of carrying himself because he was in the Army. I was wearing sandals and a sun dress and had braids in my hair. I chided him about being a soldier, he chided me about being a hippie chick.

He got up and went to the restroom. No sooner did he leave then some guy who had been sitting behind me leaned over and told me I should just stop hanging out with that guy, it would be better if I just hung out with him and his friends (by which he really meant just him). I told him thanks but no thanks. He insisted that "that guy" was bad news. I asked if he knew him and he didn't. Basically it was a "You know how those people are. You should stick with your own kind" sales pitch. Then he put his hand on my hip to try and coax me away --

-- and I proceeded to flip my shit right there in the middle of the coffee house.

Lover Boy came out of the bathroom to see me climbing into other guy's face and cussing him for all he was worth. I think I jabbed the other guy in the face with my finger a couple of times but to be honest I don't remember because I was so furious. Lover Boy stepped up behind me and obviously everyone else was watching so dude left.

Things quieted down, and by "things" I mean "me." When I was regaining my composure Lover Boy said, "For a hippie chick you sure got a lot of fight in you. You're like some sort of nuclear unicorn."

And voila!

Two bongs.

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 10:38 AM
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (116,181 posts)
4. Wow, what a great post and a great story!

I was going to ask you where your name came from!

This is great....you should see me grinning!

Thanks!

I majored in French in college...........and it still sneaks in now and then.

Quick- does anyone have a picture of Calpig with her mouth agape?  Rare as hen's teeth, I'm sure.

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 10:31 AM
Star Member femmocrat (20,082 posts)
2. In honor of the early feminists.

I did grad school work in women's history.

Ph.D in Sandwich Making and Housekeeping.

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 10:55 AM
Star Member pinboy3niner (43,986 posts)
5. Mine isn't so mysterious

It was my last radio callsign in Vietnam.

The one I had when I was hit by AK-47 fire and medevac'd.

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 11:36 AM
riderinthestorm (18,982 posts)
6. I was listening to the Doors' Riders On The Storm when I joined DU

so I riffed on that and created riderinthestorm because we were in the midst of the "storm" of the Bush presidency.

Plus I'm a pro in the horse business so the rider part fit as well...

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 11:47 AM
Star Member Wounded Bear (6,672 posts)
7. Well, it's kind of my totem animal...

I was in one of those new age men's groups where we sat in circles and told stories and pounded on drums and shit. Just to clarify, we always thought that the MRA stuff was crapola personified. In several years with the group, we seemed to not talk about women a lot. Funny how that works out.

For a time, I fancied myself as having learned something (silly me) and took the name Wise Coyote-since I was so 'wise' and shit and coyote is famously the joker of the animal kingdom.

But in the end, I found my self the Wounded Bear once again. It's a leg wound, BTW. Not physical, more metaphorical.

 

[Delmar]

Response to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)Sat Aug 1, 2015, 12:04 PM
Downwinder (10,937 posts)
9. What I am. By Act of Congress and the MIC.

Wrong.  You are a filthy, smelly primitive and that's why people like to keep you down wind of them.

[Karin]

I can't believe Calpig felt the need to explain her name!      It's like me explaining mine.  Dipshits.

[JakeStyle]

I can't believe Calpig felt the need to explain her name!      It's like me explaining mine.  Dipshits.

I had the same thought, the answer is that she isn't very bright.

[Carl]

NU is treading water,she is far too sane for the DUmp and when the day of reckoning comes the grave dancing thread will be miles long.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

This campfire is new, just getting off the ground.  Since it gives the primitives  a chance to talk about their favorite topic, "me", I'm sure it will grow vast.

Personally Identifiable Information

[BattleHymn]

Personally Identifiable Information

Yup, for all to see.   

[Ralph Wiggum]

I can't believe Calpig felt the need to explain her name!      It's like me explaining mine.  Dipshits.

Or Chris or Rob Johnson, amongst a few others as well.

[Aristotelian]

I can't believe Calpig felt the need to explain her name!      It's like me explaining mine.  Dipshits.

The difference is that you have an actual life and don't need the attention and adulation of DUmmies to make you happy.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Or Chris or Rob Johnson, amongst a few others as well.

Hey, I use my Christian name.

[98ZJUSMC]

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 10:55 AM
Star Member pinboy3niner (43,986 posts)
5. Mine isn't so mysterious

It was my last radio callsign in Vietnam.

The one I had when I was hit by AK-47 fire and medevac'd.

Not just hit and medevac'd, but HAD to be ........ AK-47.         Joe Shit the Ragman. humpin' the boonies, doesn't pack a call sign, either.

[98ZJUSMC]

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 11:47 AM
Star Member Wounded Bear (6,672 posts)
7. Well, it's kind of my totem animal...

I was in one of those new age men's groups where we sat in circles and told stories and pounded on drums and shit. Just to clarify, we always thought that the MRA stuff was crapola personified. In several years with the group, we seemed to not talk about women a lot. Funny how that works out.

For a time, I fancied myself as having learned something (silly me) and took the name Wise Coyote-since I was so 'wise' and shit and coyote is famously the joker of the animal kingdom.

But in the end, I found my self the Wounded Bear once again. It's a leg wound, BTW. Not physical, more metaphorical.

Fag.

[diesel driver]

I wonder how DUmmie moosepoop got his nickname?  Probably stepped in it...   

Mine, well, it says it all, it's what I do.   

[Big Dog]

Fag.

Yup. Pretend Indian, pretend man.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Yup. Pretend Indian, pretend man.

The Proglodyte penchant to want to be want they aren't and not be what they are tells me they want to assign the reason for their failures to things beyond their control to avoid taking personal responsibility for their shortcomings.

[miskie]

My username is tied to an NPC from an AD&D campaign dating about 25 years or so ago. Prior to using Miskie, I used another AD&D character name, Chronos - Back when the internet was a few colleges connected together via VAX machines, and messageboards were dialup BBSes local nerds operated from their bedrooms, it made sense.

Once the internet started to become publicly consumed, and browsers went from text based interfaces to the graphical point-and-click devices they are now, the number of people using Chronos as a handle mushroomed.

So I switched- sometime around 1996 or so.

I have also used other handles in the past - to keep my personas separated. Back in the days of USENET, I used to mole and troll liberals under the username NoSoup4U. And back in my Commodore64 days, I managed to circumvent !VMax! disk based copy protection on several 'single load' games (games that never refer back to the disk once they load up) - I wrote my own loader program in 6502 assembly for those games that would display my username as !DaveCopy! as the loader did its thing.

[obumazombie]

Hit by AK-47 fire.
By that he means stumbled into an ambush by a small AK-47 armed vietnamese boy who was too young to shoot him with it.
So when the boy dropped it and ran, he picked it up in his most usual incompetent firearm handling habit.
It went off, and the muzzle fire singed some of his body hair somewhere.
The John "Effin" Kerry school of purple hearts graduate.

[67 Rover]

at Aug 1, 2015, 10:38 AM
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (116,181 posts)

I majored in French in college.

Well I am sure that was useful for a fulfilling career in bagels or something. 

[Duke Nukum]

Well I am sure that was useful for a fulfilling career in bagels or something. 

Well, at least she can hang with Jodi Foster.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

My username is tied to an NPC from an AD&D campaign dating about 25 years or so ago. Prior to using Miskie, I used another AD&D character name, Chronos - Back when the internet was a few colleges connected together via VAX machines, and messageboards were dialup BBSes local nerds operated from their bedrooms, it made sense.

Once the internet started to become publicly consumed, and browsers went from text based interfaces to the graphical point-and-click devices they are now, the number of people using Chronos as a handle mushroomed.

So I switched- sometime around 1996 or so.

I have also used other handles in the past - to keep my personas separated. Back in the days of USENET, I used to mole and troll liberals under the username NoSoup4U. And back in my Commodore64 days, I managed to circumvent !VMax! disk based copy protection on several 'single load' games (games that never refer back to the disk once they load up) - I wrote my own loader program in 6502 assembly for those games that would display my username as !DaveCopy! as the loader did its thing.

Hm-m-m-m...

malthaussen (7,358 posts)

124. My first D&D character

...back in 1976. "Malthaussen" was intended to be derived from the name of political economist Thomas Malthus, but I misspelled it. Being a stubborn sort of so-and-so, I never changed it, even after discovering it was perilously close to the name of a KZ in Austria.

-- Mal

[delilahmused]

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 11:47 AM
Star Member Wounded Bear (6,672 posts)
7. Well, it's kind of my totem animal...

I was in one of those new age men's groups where we sat in circles and told stories and pounded on drums and shit. Just to clarify, we always thought that the MRA stuff was crapola personified. In several years with the group, we seemed to not talk about women a lot. Funny how that works out.

For a time, I fancied myself as having learned something (silly me) and took the name Wise Coyote-since I was so 'wise' and shit and coyote is famously the joker of the animal kingdom.

But in the end, I found my self the Wounded Bear once again. It's a leg wound, BTW. Not physical, more metaphorical.

Well that explains a lot! All DUmmies, even the uber-privileged white males, feel wounded in some way. The world being against them and all.

Cindie