My name, bleurowz, is the name for my design/creative work. I love a blue rose, and so I took the words and put them together in a different way, and I’ve also created the below logo for myself.
But there’s more to this story. Sometime after a friend had asked me if I’d gotten the name from The Glass Menagerie -- I had to look it up, and this is what I found: “Jim calls Laura ‘Blue Roses,’ a mispronunciation of ‘pleurosis,’ the childhood disease that left Laura crippled. The name ‘Blue Roses’ turns Laura’s defect into an asset: her unusual qualities are seen as special rather than debilitating.”
I can’t make this stuff up.
My screen name is shytiger6. Shy because I am pretty introverted. Tiger because I was born in the year of the tiger. and six because that way I woule nto have to compete on sites to try to be the first one to use the name. Notice also that it is a total of nine characters. That is a hold over from before the internet, when peopel used IRC to chat, and your screenh name had to be nine characters fo less. I used to use the name damn_nice, which meant I was and exceptionally nice guy, but it was pointed out to me that the name coudl come off as I was conceited (it never occurred to me, but had to pointed out).
A few times online I may have used niceshytiger.
How about EyeOfTheTiger?
My first name and area code. Guess I should have tried to obscure my identity a bit more. Might do that at some point. I guess we get one chance to change our screen name on this site.
Someday, I might revert my screen name to what I used to use in my first discussion forum for Spiritual Humanism 2004-2006. I actually met another member in person years later. He was the officiant for my daughter's wedding, and surprised me by calling me by my screen name. He shared that he remembered me and my posts from that site, and showed me his Happy Humanist tattoo. Haha!
Literate Hiker
A voracious reader, I am a published writer and articulate speaker.
Since age 21, I have hiked over 200 miles/year.
I actually almost always use USMousie, which has a far better story. I am nuts about mice of course. Choosing my AOL screen name in the late 90s I of course had to include mouse; as I was living in Germany I wanted some form of Maus. However, Mouse is like Sweetheart in German (funny story I could tell on myself there) and so every imaginable form of Maus was taken. Waldmaus (forest mouse), Suessemaus (sweet mouse) you name it, another German AOL member had it! So back to English: Mouse, Mousie, etc all gone. However as I was in German AOL chat rooms, I wanted people to know where I was from, as a conversation starter.
On Match I went to French. Mouse is souris. I collect kids' books about mice and a little mouse was named souricette. I love souris because it is also the tu form of smile. Turns out souricette is the name of a small plane too!
It was for OKCupid that I chose LionMousePudding. Mouse, Mousie, etc, are always gone. I have always liked LionMouse because although I am sometimes shy like a mouse, I can roar like a lion if someone needs protection. Or people are getting hurt. Of course LionMouse and MouseLion were gone; then I came up with Pudding because my sister sometimes calls me Mouse Pudding. However when people ask it is easiest to say I am shy like a mouse, can roar like a lion, and am sweet as pudding.
My name is lar and in my early twenties I wanted to meet women. I bought a hardback book and a secondhand shiny suit. I then went on the street to stop young women and preach to them about Larism. Basically since god is the greatest pleasure, by pleasure we bring ourselves closer to god. The ones who laughed were asked out for a drink. Larism was born and often as not lar got laid and had a new friend. I still preach occasionally.......
Just an acknowledgment that I am SO out of sync with everyone else in my neck of the woods.