What does your name mean?

But I couldn’t, so I’ll just wait for it to come up organically when we’re discussing Arrested Development sometime.

My username is pretty self-explanatory. It’s a standard username that I use for most things so I remember it on all of them. Nelson is very much a Scandinavian name. My family originally hails from Sweden.

What makes my story a little more interesting: when my mom married my dad in the early 80’s, she swore she would never name a son Willie Nelson. I was the 4th child, and I guess they figured they were running out of names. I got tagged with the name Willie Nelson (I typically go by Will, but a lot of people call me Willie; it’s always funny when people catch on that that’s my name). Then they had 4 more kids after me.

I always tell people that I am entitled to make fun of any name that I want to. Sharing a name with a famous person, I’ve been getting flak my entire life. Everybody thinks their pretty funny and original when they say, “Sing us a song, Willie!” What nobody seems to understand is that I’ve heard that no less than a billion times in my life.

I’ve been fencing since normal kids were playing T-ball. Turns out I got pretty good at it.

A few years ago, after getting addicted to one of numerous fantasy leagues, I decided to start a fantasy fencing league with various members of the NCAA fencing community. Last year was our inaugural season. I imagine no one will understand this, but if you want to see the results, here they are:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ao-iDZU-SHpZcE1zLUNaaGU2Z0tUQ21Qam02RGk0VUE&hl=en

And if you’re interested in my own personal athlete bio, you can have that too, cause I’m such a trusting fellow. Pretty horrendous picture though.

http://www.und.com/sports/c-fenc/mtt/seroff_andrew00.html

As to why I used it when I selected my sbnation name, I’m not entirely sure. The League was probably on my mind.

:)

and my birthday is on 2/13

hence wolf213

the 4 is my number I always use

The end all. Game over- Let’s celebrate. 59 is my favorite number.
It’s my license plate also.
A few years ago I was getting my oil changed and the mechanic asks me….“How the heck did they let you have that license plate?” I said “Huh? I guess no one else had it”. He said…..“do they even know what WACK OFF means?” After I picked myself offa the floor from laughing so hard- I said….“uh….it’s WALK OFF….you know….like the home run?”
He said – “I like WACK OFF better” and walked away.

but my former username is pretty self explanatory.

Magic Number = playoff chances, loosely

Anybody that can’t figure my username out hasn’t been paying attention to Rockies baseball long enough. Jeff’s rocket rise through the minors coincided with my head-long plunge into following every last detail of the Rockies organization. He was my first favorite prospect and he’s still my favorite player.

but yeah, Jabberwocky was picked because A) It’s pretty close to my real name and B) Lewis Carroll is awesome.

name here was Rox Fan in NY because I am. Real name is my real name, no story behind it. However, I don’t like it when I’m called Russell, unless you’re my really fine boss.

One day in class, one of my friends started calling me “Lieutenant” – he’s always been really weird, and that day he may well have been high or something. I thought he was just joking around, but he kept doing it day after day for some reason.

About a week later, I was signing up for a chatroom-type thing to talk to him, and needed a new online name (since my previous one I had come up with when I was 12 and was rather embarrassing). All variations of “Lt.” didn’t look good/were taken, so I had to get creative.

The Star Trek: TNG insignia for a lieutenant, two rank pips = oo. Add my initials and there you have it. oo_nrb.

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from my dad. It was my favorite out of “twirly” and “squirrely”.

I was a baseball player and basketball player until I hit high school, so obviously the bballrox is easy to decipher. The 4717 are a combo of my three favorite numbers; 4, 7, and 17.

I’m really fascinated with urban legends, myths, common misconceptions, etc., and debunking them (Snopes may well be my second favorite website of all time). One of the common misconceptions that I find the most intriguing, because it’s so false and so infuriating (to me, at least), is the idea that “there are no atheists in foxholes.” I think these people would probably beg to differ with that. (As James Morrow once said, “‘There are no atheists in foxholes’ isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.”) So I adopted this username as a reference to my interest in widely known (mis)information and how it propagates, as well as to try and debunk that particular bit of propaganda.

As to my real name, my first name was my maternal grandmother’s maiden last name (it’s a Middle English word that refers to someone who makes or lays tiles), and my last name is a word from a long-extinct dialect of Low German meaning “one who lives near a small forest.” So…yeah.

solely based on my addiction to the Rockies. (Think crack head.) The Rockies are my crack, so I went with it. As for my real name, I was named after a biblical king. My maternal grandfather, God rest his soul, never called me anything but “King”.

Fun stories here. Thanks to all for sharing!

But when I lived in Italy in 1993-4, my best friend there was an English guy who shared my first name, Mark. To differentiate us in conversation, our friends classified us in two ways:

1) the other Mark was known as “Perfect Mark” (I’m sure you appreciate the inference here).
2) the other Mark was a Jamaican/Chinese/Spanish mix, so, as you can imagine, he had very dark hair. I had the light brown/mousy look that’s so prevalent in my country, but relatively speaking I was blond. Italian for blond is “biondo” and the affectionate diminutive thereof = biondino.

The internet arrived in my university the year I got back from Italy, so when I needed an online moniker, it was an easy choice.

Lot of history behind this one:

As some of you know, this is also the name of my electronic music project. It originated from a status I had on MSN messenger ( ‘Matt Holliday’s Reign’) back in my freshman year in high school. Eventually became Hollidaysreign, then Hollidayrain. But there’s more; back when I was 9 years old, the first song I ever made used a GM midi synth patch called “FX 1 Rain.” Then after that, my first legit trance track (I was 13 or 14) was called ‘Raintrance.’ Then, there was this that pretty much ended the discussion of me ever having another name (just listen to the first lyric, if you don’t know it already).
Even though he was traded, I think of the name as more of a Rockies symbol and a symbol to my own history as a musician than anything else, so I stuck with the name.

Maria- is the spanish form of the hebrew Mary – which means “Sea of Bitterness”

Really fits me…don’t ya think?

My screen name suggests that if you cut me, I’ll bleed purple because of my devotion to the Rox.

My name in real life means worthy of love.

Third and short. That was for the Broncos page. I wanted to change it to DangDinger for this sight but I don’t know how to change it.

SD – San Diego
Cat- nickname which I really hate
09 the year I joined

my previous screenname was mauicat…..much more interesting story

I’m from Rhode Island and I love the Rockies.

Oh and I like alliteration.

because that is a year I’ll always remember & relieve when I watch FSN’s Rockies Special “21 Days” on DVD, I’ve been using it as my Livejournal Username and Twitter though now I’ve changed to a different name on twitter now (RockpileView), I’ll always keep using Rocktober 2007 elsewhere.

My previous username was Tulo Rox but another member signed up with a similar username and it was starting to get confusing with 2 members with similar usernames so I changed it to Rocktober 2007. As for my real name, it’s just a normal boring name, nothing intresting about it other then it being my nickname.

My two favorite Rockies players, even though I really do like most everyone on the team. Also because they played next to eachother on the diamond, had a good friendship off the field etc. etc. My usernames are usually in support of players I like, especially in sports forums. And I will never back down from my favorites, even if everyone doesn’t always share my opinion on them. ;) Good thread.

READ and LEARN about his username.

My name is Dave and I like the Rockies. Simple enough I guess.

My first name is pretty self-explanatory. It is a shrub (and no, I was not born on Christmas; Easter actually).

As for my last name, I think I’ve said it here before (since we have a PuRP with the same last name), Paulsen. It means son of Paul, and comes from Denmark. Slightly interestingly, my ancestors that came to the U.S. changed it from (I believe, sometimes I get it wrong) Poulsen.

Yep. My names are totally boring.

My last name is Kramer …. hence Kosmo

When I lived in Illinois, I had “KOSMO 99” plates, since there was no extra charge. Not the case in Iowa, and I’m too cheap to pay extra for them. In any case, my wife hates Seinfeld, so she would nix the custom plates.

So my four names perfectly represent my genetic heritage – 50% Italian, 25% Scottish, 25% English (actually the latter is diluted with a bit of Irish and a tiny smidge of Australian, but not so you’d notice).

I love middle names. Any children I have will definitely have at least two. They’re too much fun to ignore.

There’s a reason for it, but I’m not telling. The mystery will haunt you forever.

And for the record, since I didn’t mention this earlier, my real name means ‘Heavenly pleasure’ in Sanskrit.

And I look good in it too.

I kinda had the same idea, but also with the explination of avatars. Great minds think alike.

Penguins are awesome, and Shadow is a nice little adjective. Used it for almost everything online.
And then I saw the pic for my avatar which sealed the deal. Ninja penguins. Pure awesomeness.

My best scrabble word ever.
I was playing online, and had the upper lefthand corner. I initially put down “squall” (I had a blank), but before I clicked enter, I made an almost subconscious guess, and wrote in squalene. It turned out to actually be a word. I got both triple word score boxes and the extra fifty for using all my tiles. I bet you smart people can guess how many points it went for.

An evolution of my very first internet handle, TimberWolf365. I got the name TimberWolf from the PC game MechWarrior2. I next dipped into a Final Fantasy X phase where my handles all switched to AuronOverdrive09. The next stage, when updating, went back to mechWarrior 2, where I dropped the Timber, and added Marauder, which is another reference to that game. WolfMarauder stuck, and just never dropped. I use this title for all internet based accounts.

 I am not going to give you my whole life’s history; but for the last five years I’ve worked around lots of teens. I was the adult that was responsible for them. In the supervisory capacity I was in; I had to verbally slap people down for their improper use of the english language . " If you wish to invoke expletive and invective of intercourse around here; the word we use is Congress!" Hence I was tagged Oldfoagie.

My first name means healer and begins with J. When I first got my email account around the age of 10 I wanted something to do with the Rockies and jrockies has been it ever since (or some version of it jrockies2000 or jrockies1988).

My middle name is the same as a dog in a cartoon, and begins with F.

My initials are JFK