What's in a Name?

http://www.hipsterhandbook.com/

deck – a key word for most Hipsters, similar in meaning to the antiquated fresh. To be deck is to be up on the latest trends, cutting edge, and/or hip.
sentence: “That tassel we met at the gallery opening sure looked deck in her cowboy boots.”
" Have you checked out the new Jonathan Lethem book? It’s deck."

Mine is pretty boring.

The only exciting part is how my first name is pronounced when you say it. Unlike how it looks, I ask that if one is referring to me they pronounce it “Jerdin”. It is my mom’s maiden name, and while I don’t actually care whether someone calls me “Jordan” or “Jerdin”, I dislike causing dishonor to her family.

My last name is german and means hard worker. I use other usernames for anonymity, but I don’t mind people knowing about my “affiliation” with the Spurs.

I’ve had a number of different nicknames in my life. Scooter in elementary; Acorn in middle school; Dizzy in college, kalamazo in my early online days, Trip D (yeah, it’s funny isn’t it In the 666?) at work. But none of them stuck and all of them were rather compartmentalized. The group that knew me from that place at that time knew me as that name. And that was that.

So whenever I joined a website, I always had to think about what my username should be. I always wanted something unique and hated the idea of using a tilde or a bunch of numbers after something that someone else had already chosen. When I was just reading PtR but shortly before I joined, I actually sat down and brainstormed about what I should choose as my username whenever I needed to create one. I knew I wanted it to be a three-parter where the first two and the last two both tied together with a common term. I always thought that Jolly Roger was an odd name for a pirate flag. It doesn’t sound like something that’s associated with nefarious activities on the high seas. And Roger Wilco doesn’t sound like it should mean "Information received. Will comply" but it does. And when I thought about how they both use Roger, so I could put them both together, it seemed like a great way to have a handle that carried a lot of interesting correlations along with it.

Shortly afterward, I finally decided to stop trolling PtR and post my first fanpost. Thankfully, I knew just what to use.

Ha Ha – Hirschof – great character!

Mine is easy and based off the first player I really remember watching as a kid

First off, great idea for a discussion.

I always thought Hirschof was some literary reference that I just wasn’t cool enough to be in on. And I was right!

I have no such tale to tell. My real name is Quincy Scott. I am a much bigger jerk when I write things anonymously, so using my real name keeps me more grounded.

I have to say that I have never met anyone else named Quincy. I really hated this name as a kid. I was named for an uncle of mine, and I just thought it was really old fashioned and formal. I always went by my more “normal” middle name. But now I like it, it fits me.

Another aspect of the name is that it is, I think, more common among African Americans. The only famous Quincy’s I know of, I mean, still living, are Quincy Jones and Quincy Carter. I don’t know why this is, but I myself am not African American. One time I met up with this guy through craigslist to sell an iPod, and the first thing out of his mouth when we meet is, “Hey, you’re white.” I don’t think he meant it in a disrespectful way, but I do think it’s interesting how things like names can conjure up a set if assumptions like that.

Ok, just one question. I read the title of this thread and wondered if somebody had ROSE on the brain after last night’s game. Just curious…

My name is Stephen, and I’m a Spurs fan. Kept it simple.

One of the most renowned and powerful jedi masters in galactic history, was I, known for my legendary wisdom, who was, of the force and skills in lightsaber combat mastery. .

As a member of the jedi high council in the last centuries of the galactic republic and reigned as grand master of the jedi order before served, during and after the devastating clone wars I did. To that of grand master following the battle of geonosis I held the title of master of the order in addition. To the galaxy and the force in my centuries of service, grand master, a hand in the training of near to all the jedi in the order, had I, as obi-wan kenobi including such luminaries, ki-adi-mundi and oppo rancisis; all of which would come to serve on the jedi council along with me.

Though I was, arguably, of the order the most highly force-attuned member, I was flawless not. Partially due to his failure to recognize that supreme chancellor palpatine was actually responsible for the outbreak of the clone wars, was it, and was in fact the sith lord darth sidious, overthrown and the jedi order decimated, that the republic was. .

Today, in hiding on Dagobah watching my Spurs to pass the time until an annoying brat crashes their x-wing in my backyard, I am.

I’m lame. My username is my initials ad 1 is my lucky number.

BTW, Pop is on NBATV right now. His disdain for the media always makes me laugh.

I wanted some anonymity for posting and I am a female Spurs fan, hence Spurlady.

My real name is Charlie and when I tried to use it SB would not take the use. So I sat there for a while and remembering that I am 25% American Indian, I put them together and SB allowed me to proceed.

My username is pretty straight forward, as I happen to be one of the many Manu loving Spurs fans. We all know what a basketball god Manu can be, and then there’s that ancient Greek plot device, deus ex machina, “the god out of the machine.” He simply brings an otherworldly and unexpected element to the game when the team (the machine, or is Pop’s system the machine? Something like that) needs it most.

PTR was my first serious exploration of the blogosphere so I did not use my traditional user name (based on my actual name) and went with something Spurs related. Now its become my non-professional user name in any new accounts.

I’ll bite, though the answer is already obvious to anyone who knows me/glanced at my avatar and thought “Hey, it’s that thing from that really long movie andwhyisthereaManujersey?”

The moniker of “DrumsInTheDeep” combines possibly two of my favorite things in this word: my primary hobby, and Lord of the Rings. You all remember the scene in Fellowship of the Ring (No? Well, keep reading) where they’re in Moria (where?), and Gandalf is reading the Dwarven journal, full of destruction and dismay?

The ground shakes. Drums, Drums in the deep. We cannot get out.

I’m not sure i’d really want to do this. Rather had some Duff.

My first online community was based on a computer game: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, which is a WWII shooter. By the time I started playing it, I had recently watched HBO’s Band of Brothers about a WWII parachute company. One of the characters was Darrell C. Powers who’s nickname was Shifty. He was supposed to have great shooting skills and I liked being a sniper. I kept playing the game for a couple of years and kept using it for other sites.

My parents named me Lauri.

I will attempt to discover why when I see them tomorrow and let you know what they say.

Oooh fun! I’ve wondered where names like Hirschof and completely deck came from! Mine, which I use all over the interwebs, is a combo: my initials (I sign things p-squared) and at the time I created it, I had 2 cats…simple as that!

half my middle name half of my last name.

Okay, here’s mine before it gets buried in an avalanche of other comments.

Davis is a variation of my surname, and one that was given to me by my Filipino professor back in 4th year high school. I represented my class in a competition to write a Filipino poem called tanaga, and he said I had to have a “pen name” because most poets do. So he anointed me Davis and it stuck with some of my friends.

I use a different username in other blogs, but thought to use my pen name here since one of my first impressions of PtR is that there are a lot of good writers/commenters. The mediocre writer in me wanted to learn and keep up.

The silver and black is obviously Spurs-related, but I change the color to blue if I’m rooting for my alma mater. I initially wanted to go with blue here, but figured I might be associated with Duke so just went with the two most awesome team colors in the league.

no story behind my user name, my name is hesham kassem mourad, which became heshamkm online

I have no sly story behind my title. It’s just how I roll. So watch out. Not really. Just thought it was something more crafty than my own name Alina. Pronounced Aleena. Anyway, it just means “Balls 2 the wall” & i thought it was crafty being it is not the same meaning of ‘ball’ in spanish, english words can be so universal.

This is turning into one of my favorite threads of the season.

I have wondered about these name origins, but I think half the time I associate the name strongly with the avatar. Like everything completely deck writes, I hear Peter Sellers and his Dr. Strangelove voice saying it. Very effective. And when Artis Gilmore chimes in, I definitely picture the big man holding court on these matters. JRW’s avatar makes me think of The Exorcist, but I may be way off.

Anyway, today on DITD Watches ESPN So You Don’t Have To…
Tim Duncan should not be starting the All-Star Game.
That is all.

We getting a thread for the shenanigans tonight (OMG BIEBER), or is this it?

The first half, “Que,” is the first part of a given nickname. The “ness” is because I tend to nounize any word I deem appropriate to the situation with the “ness” suffix.

mine is an anagram of my name: anirontag = Artoni Ang. I think I used it in highschool to send flowers and gifts to this girl I liked. haha! Looking back, that sucked. Anyway, I could have also used tornagain, but that sounded too emo. so anirontag stayed. :D

Mine isn’t to complicated Chee-no…cousins used to call me that growing up cuz when i smiled i had lil chinese eyes. I put a 0 instead of a o because everytime i use o its taken and it gets annoying. _

So, 1994. The first time I used the Interwebs. I wanted to set up an e-mail account in one of the two-and-a-half free servers available. “David@”, I tried, but it was taken. “DavidM”. Taken. “DMenendez”? Taken too.

Hmm. “I’m going to use it to chat in English, so why not ‘LatinDavid’?” FUUUUU. Taken too.

And thus “Latin_D” was born. Or “LatinD”, is underscores aren’t allowed. I stuck with it even though I thought it was awfully unoriginal and the creation of a silly 14-year-old. I’m stubborn, and my e-mail was set, and… who cares? (Also used in IRC, Casiopea and Nendezda. Lots of cybersex requests with those.)