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Anyone ever give themselves a title? I generally call myself Padium, the One Who Is. Although more recently I am looking for a new self title.

Oh,and on a side note, that title was self descriptive, and I often feel like I just am.Is that a result of the social awkwardness of the AS?

As close as I've come is to have legally changed my English name to my Hebrew name. It fits.

Colonel Fang (member of the Fang Club)
Minky
Milstead
thousands of titles and names for myself and also for others.

I called myself The Spectacle. People used to call me that too but lately it's died down.
I guess I called myself that so that could stand out more. It was an alter ego of mine. The Spectacle didn't take crap and was not afraid to say whatever was on her mind. She also didn't believe in the law, or challenged it at times.
I'm no longer The Spectacle....got a court order.

oh, and my mother's odd title is "MISSION CONTROL." which she loves. i didn't make that one up, (another family memebr did) but it is a beauty.

I don't know if it's a title, but all my usernames are "pezar" or some variant except for a couple. It means "peace", at least to me, since I tend to twist words in my head so I take peace and make it more like "paz" (Spanish for peace) and add -ar which is a verb ending in Spanish. I use it probably because my parents fought all the time and I've always had to fight to get people to accept me, and I'm sick of fighting. So the opposite of war is peace.

Over my 14 years online, I've used "loquisimo" or some variant ("extremely crazy" in Spanish) and "moo" since my last name has the word "cow" in it. I've used a number of aliases on Usenet, which used to be a free P2P bulletin board system that is rarely used now (the best way to access it is Google Groups). A lot of those had to do with Stephen King novels because I admire him and his work-redrum, tommyknocker, Cujo, etc. I also used Marcos for a while after the Mexican rebel leader.

The last Google account I had, I used "American Insurgent". I've also used "running dog" after a saying that was common on the old Maoist Radio Peking, "Down with the capitalist lackeys and their running dogs!", that they sometimes would put on a loop tape and play for hours. My AS and its effects tend to tick people off, I'll say something odd and everybody will take it wrong and jump all over me and I'll have to change my handle. That's harder to do on web forums though.

Well obviously I use ghost, but that's not too weird.
In high school I called myself "The lingering dead thing that wasn't" I think that one qualifies. People would ask, "Wasn't lingering or wasn't dead?" I'd say "just wasn't."
And one of my messenger names, given to me by a former coworker, Jackalopeofdeath.

Padium for me is my initials p-a-d, plus letters to make it sound unique, plus i dont want to be thought of as a living feminine product...... then people started calling me pad anyways, and pad just stuck..... but the long form is there cuz im still attached to the padium thing, and not wanting to just be a pad.

A lot of Jews are doing that, or changing names that were altered in the old country or at Ellis Island due to persecution or the fear of it back to earlier, more openly Jewish names. A lot of Jews who immigrated to Palestine shed Germanic names for randomly picked Hebrew ones. "Netanyahu" ("sparrow", apparently) "Barak" or "Baruch" ("blessed") and "Ariel" (don't know the meaning of this one) were apparently popular choices. Henry Kissinger was born with a Polish (I think) Jew name that was impossible to pronounce, so he changed it.

In the soul era a lot of Black Americans adopted Islamic names or names that sounded African but really weren't. A few did a little research, and adopted real Swahili words as names. (Ironically, a lot of people in West Africa have English and French first names, due to the colonial legacy.) It was once common for members of the Nation of Islam, a Black cult, to adopt "X" as a last name, under the idea that their real last names had been stripped from them by slaveholders. (Actually, many tribes had no last names. In Ethiopia, it's common for children to take their father's first name as their last names. European name conventions are far from the only option.)

Usenet used to have a space for "Organization" in message headers, for when users were mainly at universities and research facilities, the name of their university would go there. Some Windows and Mac newsreaders back in the early days let the user fill that space as he saw fit. I liked to put "Spirits in the material world" in there, after the old song by The Police.

well, here it's Pakled; at work, it's the 'printer guy'...

For a while the girl i like called me 'Ski Pass Dude' cuz i have an old ski pass still on my coat. She has since started calling me Pad.

I also go around as Superman, but don't tell anyone, its a secret

I used to go around as Neuroman.

my username, Warsie also Star Wars Fan, same name really.

oh, my titles.

OG Balla Representin' Da Souf Sydeeee of Chi-City, HMFIC G Representin' Da South Side of Chi-Town, or simply "Representin' Da South Side" because I do live in the South Side of Chicago

And 31337 n***a. 'Cause I am

EDIT: people have called me "Macintosh", "Leefordson" and "Lee-Lee"

Last edited by Warsie on 15 Dec 2008, 2:16 am, edited 1 time in total.

1. the Nation of Islam is a "cult"? n***a please.
2. It was MORE then their last name. It was their original cultures, beliefs, etc..