AN User Names & Dead Cats

Sorry Nico! This seems like a great diary!!! ;)

But I really do like the white shoes. :p

So basicaly, been pretty steadily keeping the alias Zonis for 10 odd years, always comming back to it after a week if I ever try to change...

Though I've been gaming in Battlefield 1942 under Dr. Baron Von Evil Satan as of late.

When I got on this website though, I realized that I couldn't run "angelhalo" as my screename because everyone would automatically assume I was an Angels fan. So I just went with my first name.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that "Foolishgame22" is named for Byrnes ;)

When I tried "LouisG", it didn't take. Some punk had it.

So, I went with "LouisMG". I just really liked how I would always get those Publisher's Clearing House mailers that said, "Louis M Gray, you may already have won 10 million dollars!" Had a nice ring to it.

So, from then on, "louismg" has been my Web handle almost everywhere - including AthleticsNation.com.

i just searched for it...

http://www.athleticsnation.com/comments/2005/6/16/162523/940/19#19

I kinda like it. And since I came up with this name last season, I can honestly say that I and only I truly predicted the Ruthian season we are now experiencing from Mr. Crosby.

You're all welcome.

Mr. Excitement over here.

Good diary, Nico.

Czechoslovak political leader and philosopher, first president and chief founder of Czechoslovakia . He is revered by most Czechs and was internationally recognized as a great democratic leader.     Born in Moravia, Masaryk received (1876) his doctorate from the Univ. of Vienna and married an American, Charlotte Garrigue*.

*He took his wifes last name as his middle name

He was elected (1891) to the Austrian parliament and the Bohemian diet.  In 1893, he turned away from parliamentary activity to devote himself to the political education of his people. Disciples had gathered around him, and they launched (1900) the Czech Peoples party (later the Progressive party), based on Masaryk's ideas. Known as the Realist party, it emphasized the economic and social foundations of political power and strove for Czech equality, suffrage, and autonomy; the protection of minorities; and the unity of Czechs and Slovaks.

    In 1907, Masaryk was reelected to parliament. He did not openly advocate independence at this point, but favored the transformation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire into a federation of self-governing nationalities. He also called for an end to anti-Semitism and opposed (1908) Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia-Hercegovina.

    At the outbreak of World War I, Masaryk fled abroad and, with Eduard Beneš , formed the Czechoslovak national council, which in 1918 was recognized by the Allies as the de facto government of Czechoslovakia. Traveling widely during the war years, Masaryk raised funds in the United States for the Czech cause, and in Russia he organized (1917-18) the Czech Legion , an independent Czech army composed largely of former prisoners of war.

Upon the collapse of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, Masaryk became (1918) the first president of the Czechoslovak republic. He was reelected in 1920, 1927, and 1934.

He died in 1937 just before the Germans invaded in 1938-39.

So, my screen name is a nod to him and his legacy.

Back when I played Unreal, I picked Apricot as a screen name because I thought all the macho names like Killa and MurderMachine sounded so pathetic. (My favorite anti-tough-guy name I saw was PoopyHeadDoodyFace.)

Over time it has amused me that people often assumed I was a female because who else would pick such a fruity name. I don't mind the ambiguity and I figure lots of women deal with this all the time since the default sex is male, so I've stuck with it.
 

made it six years ago. use it for everything.

by the way melody, i "found" you on lj (actually you replied to by "OMGANISDOWN" post, but i claim that i "found" you) - and it's hella freaky that we have a friend in common.

world's small, folks.

.....and charge ya by the hour.

Ain't college life grand!

I became such a big fan of Wash after reading Moneyball. I found myself saying Pickin'Machine! all the time after ANY player made a dig. It just made me crack up. I picked this because I knew that AN was full of smart, fun people and have also read Moneyball so I figured they would get it.

I have to admit it was his skillz that made me a fan, not his BOYish good looks...

I chose my name to use first at the A's official site, and then found AN when browsing around one night, and kept it... yay!

I root for my team HARD.  I yell at the TV, heckle the opponents, hang on every pitch, wear my A's gear with pride, like to get drunk before A's game, travel to Anaheim to watch them whoop the Angels, I hate Giambi, hate the Red Sox, Yankees, Angels, Twins, Mariners, Rangers, even the Devil Rays, and hate with some serious passion that sorry excuse for a team across the bay.   I talk shit to stupid Angel fans, especially Yankee fans, and bleed green and gold.  You all may be ashamed of me sometimes, but I don't care

I'm crazierthanYOU!!!

Extra Action Marching Band

"Cut The Mullet" is possibly the most popular song (tossup between that and "Rock N Roll McDonald's") written by Wesley Willis, the now deceased homeless schizophrenic Chicago street artist who wrote some of the funniest songs that will ever be written (just ask Jello Biafra if you happen to run into him in the Bay area).  Died of leukemia in August 2003; if it wasn't 2 days before I started college, I would've made a pilgrimage to Chicago to pay my respects.  When I heard the news that fateful Saturday (via a post in a fantasy football league where the password was "Wesley" and several of the team names referred to his lyrics or a song title), I cried as though I'd lost a family member.  The memory of Wes engaging me in his trademark headbutt and at his March '03 concert in Buffalo was a good one, but it offered little consolation.  I put on the autographed Wesley Willis trucker hat I'd purchased at the concert, and I don't think it's left my head since.  It's revered as sacred by the longtime friends who "discovered" Wesley during sophomore year of high school, and it consistently arouses the interest of acquaintances unfamiliar with Wes.  I'd write more, but it's almost 5:30 AM here, so I'm going to call it quits for the night, but I hope that what I've already written will be sufficient to impress upon you the significance of what may have seemed to be just an amusing handle.  Just remember that the mullet is the reason why people hate you.

If I could do it over, I'd probably pick a more A's related name.  I've always been an A's fan since I was a kid, but when I started to really become obsessed with A's baseball and never miss a game was in 2000. My fav player was Zito.  He was the 1st jersey I ever bought too.  So if I could do it again, I'd go with the name ZitoIsNeato :)

If I had to pick a screen name to represent right now, I'd go with KotsayIsAStud because Kotsay is stud in everyway (I even named my fish Stud after Kotsay... I also named one Swishy for Swisher, but that fish has gone to fish heaven) or HotHarden because Harden is hot in everyway.        
 

And my first language is Spanish

i've been an a's fan since '79 and back then thought the elephant was cool. so, the first thing that came to my mind was stomper and-to be perfectly honest-i meant to put "bigelephantfan" but got distract and entered just "bigelephant".

so, the bottomline is i'm
a "big(screwed up)elephant".    

Unfortunately, a couple of people have thought I'm a guy misspelling "Papi"...  :P

When I knew this fellow we were both in the unseemly business of selling comics. During this time, I obtained the nickname Arak from this bad comic book character whose name sounds like mine:

Although, in my case, and for reasons beyond my recall, SOT stands for son of "Thumper", not Thunder. And once I created one blog identity, sheer ennui prevented me from creating another for any other site, no matter how arbitrary and innappropriate it seems.

The longer answer: over at dKos I started posting about a year and a half ago as "GreenSooner" (a name that reflects my party and my state).  Now I'm registered under that nom de keyboard at a variety of politically oriented blogs. When I recently registered here, it just seemed natural to add the A's other color to it.

(On an unrelated note: my brother is distinguished AN poster Nick, and I spent many days back in the eighties hanging out with him and Nico in the old, pre-Mt. Davis bleachers.  At any rate, both of them have infinitely more to add to this blog than I do. Keep up the great work!)

The first website I ever posted on was a crassly humorous movie review site. I just read at first, but when I finally wanted to post something, I came up with what I thought would be a quick throw away name. I took the "Mc" from my real last name and "food" which was part of my password at work. I thought it was kind of funny by making an almost generic reference even more generic. New posters were sometimes treated somewhat harshly on that site, and I thought it was an easy name to make fun of. So, if people gave me hard time, I would give them an easy target and see if they stooped to just taking potshots at my screen name. Also, I used to never eat at McDonalds, but since I've had kids...well, sometimes the power of the dark side is strong.

Ragnarok ("Doom of the Gods"), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end.

The wolf Skoll will finally devour the sun, and his brother Hati will eat the moon, plunging the earth [into] darkness. The stars will vanish from the sky. The cock Fjalar will crow to the giants and the golden cock Gullinkambi will crow to the gods. A third cock will raise the dead.

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After the destruction, a new and idyllic world will arise from the sea and will be filled with abundant supplies. Some of the gods will survive, others will be reborn. Wickedness and misery will no longer exist and gods and men will live happily together. The descendants of Lif and Lifthrasir will inhabit this earth.

More info here.

(Yes, it's giggling-one, not gigglin-gone...)

Been using it since college. I tend to giggle and laugh a lot. According to others I have a very nice sounding giggle. They know its me from the sound of my laugh. They called me all sorts of names involving giggling, so I just renamed myself "gigglingone"

"Popcorn James"

because thats what my snare drum sounds like when I get really poppin'

I came up with ZeroIndulgence for the first time for AIM for no real reason.  I wanted my screenname to start with the word Zero.  After a few attempts at other names that were taken (ZeroPrisoners, Zero... you get the picture), I came up with Indulgence, which is just a very sweet word.  Also, at the time, I was listening to a lot of music from the band Mindless Self Indulgence.  And thus, ZeroIndulgence was born.