Names, Names, Names (Jehovah, trinity, spiritual, spirit)

[chiluvr1228]

I love Chihuahuas. Hence the name.

[graytabbie]

I have a gray tabby cat.

[GldnRule]

This was the best name ever on the board, as far as cracking me up...and the Mods never caught it. Hilarious!:
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[Zymer]

Originally Posted by GldnRule

This was the best name ever on the board, as far as cracking me up...and the Mods never caught it. Hilarious!:
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I dunno, 'Rich Cabeza' has been around for a while.

(Richard-Rich-Dick, 'cabeza' is Spanish for 'head'...)

[TRANSPONDER]

Originally Posted by sschulz

This may not be the place for it but reading all these post I am intriged by some of the screen names. Mine is pretty boring, just my first initial and my last name. But legoman, pcamps, Scarlet Wren, Lion painter, Finn_Jabar, and other unusual names paint a picture in my imagination, which probably is all wrong. Is Jazzymom really Jazzy or is her name Jasmine like my niece we call Jazzy. ahigherway I always read as ahighway, I just seem to leave out the er in the middle, don't know why. I know some screen names are very personal but for fun if you don't mind, where did you get you screen name?

I'm happy with your screen name because the credit goes with the content rather than a cracking screen name.

As for mine, I first signed on Atheist Network as Transponder because being a brit I was Across the Pond geddit? And that was when I drifted to "In pursuit of God" (the unreasonable in pursuit of the unbelievable) and Tentmaker, where I got banned a couple of times because the Pastor host (John) didn't like AN where I also posted. There I met an ag theist Seeker SA and we had some involved but cordial discussions.

I logged on here but used Arequipa instead of transponder because I used places I'd been to as passwords and so password became screen name. Arq for short or "Awk" as Gldrule used to call me . And Seeker SA, now deconverted, was rather pleased to find Arequipa was his old mate Trans.

Then while abroad earlier this year, there was a mix -up and I had to become Transponder again or get my ass banned.

Now read on.....

[TRANSPONDER]

Originally Posted by chiluvr1228

I love Chihuahuas. Hence the name.

That's a relief.

[The Last Amalekite 1Sam15]

1 Samuel 15:3

Jesus said

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, >~>~>infant and suckling<~<~<, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

[Unsettomati]

Literary reference. Extremely obscure literary reference.

In fact, I wanted a name I could use anywhere and be reasonably sure that no one else would have grabbed it. And I wanted it to be no more than 12 characters (a limit on some sites). So I picked a made-up proper noun, the name of a very minor character from a book relatively few people have ever read.

In a little-known and mediocre - yet fondly remembered - series of science fiction novels from the 1980s, Unsettomati is an unseen character, an astronomer, referred to only once and then in passing.

I like astronomy, and the name otherwise meets all my requirements.

[Cruithne]

My name is taken from the name of an asteroid, that like the earth takes about a year to orbit the sun. The name is a very early version of 'Britain', the Cruithne being one of the earliest tribes known to have inhabited the land.

[mordant]

Mordant is a musical ornamentation, the character of being of sharp critical wit, and a chemical fixative. Combined, they suggest how I try to assert myself online: a little different, witty and hopefully provoking ideas that stick. How much I succeed is another matter, but it helps to have a goal.