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I had one SN I used for a long time that was based off a band & one of their songs & the SN I created from that sounded kewl to me. I used it for all the forums I went to. It was kinda inappropriate thou & I joined a minor forum/site & wanted to distance myself from that SN. I couldn't really think of anything thou so I used my offline nickname & added the 007 cuz I really liked the Goldeneye game for 64. I'm not a huge Bond fan thou. I joined some other sites/forums since including this one & I didn't wanna use my old SN anymore & still couldn't really think of an SN I really liked so I decided to just stick with this one since I was using it somewhere else.

Years ago I was here under the name of "Showman616", but then there was some glitch in the system, and (long story short), I ended up being reborn on WP as Naturalplastic, and have used that for the long time since.

"Showman" because I worked as a party deejay on weekends then.

Years before I was ever on the site I was a reading an article in the Smithsonian magazine about Baltic amber, and Puerto Rican amber. And about those thirty million year old bugs that they find encased in fossilized tree sap.

The article explained how amber is a polymer, and that it is "a kind of natural plastic, even thought that sounds like an oxymoron". And for some reason that phrase just turned me on: "natural plastic". It has a rhythm to it, its funny (because it is a seeming contradiction in terms), and it has many possible subtextual meanings having to do with being able to take on various forms, and etc.

I thought it would make a great name for a rock band, or R&B band, that does jazz-rock fusion ala Steely Dan.

Than I just never thought about it again for twenty years until … I needed to quickly think of a new name for myself on this site and it popped into my head.

My username is from the character April Ryan from the game Longest Journey

During my high school years, I was an anonymity; an outsider to my peers hence my username.

Mine was borrowed from Shadowrun. Black IC, IC stands for Intrusion Countermeasures. Menace is referring to Black IC being lethal to Deckers. I also like that one may see it as black ice or black icy and have even had people pronounce it blackic. I have only had a few instances where people have understood its meaning or at least only a few times wherein people have made inquiries and were correct in the 20+ years that I've used it.

Mine is because I have been a fan of post-punk & darkwave music since the mid-80s.

Quite simple. One of my favorite operas is Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nuernburg, which is probably Wagner’s most accessible work (no heavy philosophizing, no war between the gods, no teenagers having a clue on how to “get it on”.) It focused on life of the burghers (bourgeoisie) of ancient Nuremberg. One of the Sunday entertainments (after the Sunday (Lutheran) mass) was the meeting of the burghers (the majority of them being tradesmen) for a song contest, hence, meistersinger. Since my fist love was (and still is, to a lesser extent, nowadays) music (and I’m a better singer than I ever was a clarinetist (I’m no longer able to pick up the horn, no thanks to 1) the way carpal tunnel surgery screwed up my right wrist (and there was no way in hell I was going to let that surgeon screw up my left hand) and 2) after my dad died, over 30 years ago, I pretty much buried myself in my job, working in IT for a major library automation vendor, as I took no pleasure in anything (I still don’t, after all these years.). I still sing, but rarely, since I’m at that age there my voice is showing it’s age, and after all the misery I went through when the psychiatrist had me on antidepressants, i can now barely hear pitch, no thanks to tinnitus and increasing deafness (also due partly to working around pizza ovens when I delivered for Domino’s Pizza, Pizza Hut, and Papa John’s.)

Least watered down ancestry is Greek.
I have been to hell and back.

I agree, MountainGoat. I enjoy the talents of many people outside my own ethnic group. My favorite tennis player is a Spaniard (Rafael Nadal), even though I'm not Spanish.

My username was meant to be temporary due to having issues with my other account and ended up being stuck with this one. But I picked this one because of A League of Their Own, one of my old favorites.