Author Topic: The inspiration behind your user name? (Read 8284 times)

mishca09 · « **on:** March 30, 2013, 04:07:06 PM »

I'm curious about what inspired you to choose your username?

xtopave · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2013, 04:37:12 PM »

I think I told this before. (Maybe it was the Noid?).
A long time ago (or was it another life?) I had to sell the stuff from my job and registered in a local Ebay-like site. I got attached to the name I guess.
Es (x) todo para vender. Meaning: It's all for sale.
Not very romantic, is it?

How about yours, mishca?

mishca09 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2013, 04:45:07 PM »

For some reason I always thought your username had something to do with science or chemistry.

I wasn't feeling really creative and I've always liked the name mishca and i added 09 because mishca was already taken and it was the year I got an invite to noid. Sorry if anyone thought mishca was my real name.

xtopave · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2013, 04:55:07 PM »

Quote from: mishca09 on March 30, 2013, 04:45:07 PM

For some reason I always thought your username had something to do with science or chemistry.

It was a lab I dismantled! So I did talk about this before.

smokester · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2013, 05:10:26 PM »

Way back I used to be smokeyb but cz85b once casually called me smokester in a thread, and I liked it so much, I bought the company.

dweez · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2013, 09:13:58 PM »

My real life nickname has been dweezil since summer of 1990 at church camp. One guy brought his own Pop-Tarts for breakfast and they had "Far Side"-like comics on the back (the one below). As my real name is Doug, it stuck. Over time, dweezil has naturally been shortened to dweez. I still respond to either.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2013, 12:22:36 AM »

I wish mine was more exciting than your's.
As you know (especially today on tinternet) names are normally hard to come by.
So i chose my Rugby club colours and my positional number (I played most of my career at number 2 HOOKER, but ruined my shoulder so i had to change position or quit

).

Hence GOLDSHIRT9 (the * was a typo and could be bothered to ask / change it

)

brickbatz · « **Reply #7 on:** March 31, 2013, 03:24:14 AM »

Copy/ paste from TDD...
~40 years of bricklaying. A brickbat is a piece or fragment of a standard building brick, a half brick. That username was taken.

xtopave · « **Reply #8 on:** March 31, 2013, 06:40:58 AM »

Quote from: brickbatz on March 31, 2013, 03:24:14 AM

A brickbat is a piece or fragment of a standard building brick, a half brick.

And the dictionary have also other meanings that add some spice to your name:

brick·bat
n.
1. A piece, especially of brick, used as a weapon or missile.
2. An unfavorable remark; a criticism.

Quote from: goldshirt*9 on March 31, 2013, 12:22:36 AM

I wish mine was more exciting than your's.

Something that has to do with the colors of your club is always exciting, imo.

ohcheap1 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 31, 2013, 09:41:59 AM »

Dont really think mine needs an explanation and I have never changed it since 1999. If there is a way around full price I will find it. For instance, posting decorating questions on forum that has NOTHING to do with decorating! Just hired the painter, by the way, $100 for 2 days. Estimates from established companies were between $550-$700!! This guy is out of work, no transport, but MAN does he know his stuff. I have to supply paint and tools but ultimately its 60% off retail so Im happy. And "yes" Ive seen his work. Thats how I found out about him. lol

mishca09 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 31, 2013, 09:49:29 AM »

That Is really cheap. What color option did you end up choosing ?

6pairsofshoes · « **Reply #11 on:** March 31, 2013, 04:35:04 PM »

It popped into my head when I registered for a forum back in late 2006. I can't explain it.

bubu · « **Reply #12 on:** April 02, 2013, 07:58:37 AM »

Hey mishca why did you change avatar and pictures?

mishca09 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 02, 2013, 09:24:45 AM »

For change, I miss the cat through but I didn't save the link to it. I'll probably change it again.

Autumn · « **Reply #14 on:** April 02, 2013, 10:10:25 AM »

The lady in your sig is scary. Also, could be a he...

mishca09 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 02, 2013, 10:16:27 AM »

Rupaul is fabulous and one of the fiercest drag queens ever known to man.

Autumn · « **Reply #16 on:** April 02, 2013, 10:16:56 AM »

Looks like Wendy Williams.

mishca09 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 02, 2013, 10:22:28 AM »

Ha! Wendy williams wishes.

Autumn · « **Reply #18 on:** April 02, 2013, 10:48:35 AM »

You're so silly.

Um I'm autumn because of my mom's old storytelling. I was the kiss to or of autumn. Fall personified. (Because of my halloween birthday)

tarascon · « **Reply #19 on:** April 05, 2013, 10:16:21 AM »

http://www.castles.francethisway.com/chateau-tarascon.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=tarascon+castle&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=2h&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=g_heUcabLKS3igK5woDQDg&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=537

bubu · « **Reply #20 on:** April 05, 2013, 10:37:52 AM »

I thought Alphonse Daudet and Tartarin of Tarascon inspired you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarin_of_Tarascon

tarascon · « **Reply #21 on:** April 05, 2013, 03:09:42 PM »

I know the book but not until fairly recently. How do you know the book?

I have an old black & white postcard on the wall behind my computer that inspired me. The postcard looks old--maybe from around the 1930's.

Beatrix · « **Reply #22 on:** April 06, 2013, 10:52:48 AM »

Kinda just thought it up. Maudibe said it suited me at the time, but I don't know what made me think of it.

bubu · « **Reply #23 on:** April 07, 2013, 12:00:25 PM »

Quote from: tarascon on April 05, 2013, 03:09:42 PM

I know the book but not until fairly recently. How do you know the book?
I have an old black & white postcard on the wall behind my computer that inspired me. The postcard looks old--maybe from around the 1930's.

Tartarin is a funny character, we read the book in elementary school and because I liked it, it is still in my mind. I will probably have to read it again but I am afraid it will not have the same taste

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 28, 2017, 12:08:50 PM »

Quote from: 6pairsofshoes on March 31, 2013, 04:35:04 PM

It popped into my head when I registered for a forum back in late 2006. I can't explain it.

this suddenly appeared on my twitter account ref your photo
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837 – 1899), was a beautiful 19th-century Italian aristocrat & courtesan.

6pairsofshoes · « **Reply #25 on:** October 28, 2017, 11:30:43 PM »

Yes. A friend mailed me a postcard of the photograph from the Museum of Modern Art long ago and I always found it intriguing. There's a host of interesting costume photos of Oldoni. Wikimedia commons has a smorgasbord of them. She was photogenic and apparently not without a sense of humor.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Countess_Virginia_di_Castiglione

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #26 on:** October 29, 2017, 12:12:55 AM »

am interesting person indeed