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PunkerViolence 05.15.2006 05:24 PM

Punker violence - sometihing i thought of when i was bored and stoned.

Danny Himself 05.15.2006 05:33 PM

I am Danny, and I am of myself. Duh.

val-holla-ing 05.15.2006 05:44 PM

"val-holla" is a play on val-halla, the viking paradise. i added the "-ing" because i was bored.

SolidZach 05.15.2006 06:04 PM

Based on a comic character I created back when I was a freshman.

Glice 05.15.2006 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by val-holla-ing
"val-holla" is a play on val-halla, the viking paradise. i added the "-ing" because i was bored.


For the record, I happen to think yours is one of the better names on this board.


*Edit: Have you noticed how if you say 'for the record', it adds a certain gravitas to your statements? Like perhaps some poor, Godless nobody is looking at this board and saying, "I must right that down, the minutes of today's Sonic Youth messageboard must be presented to the president"

qprogeny79 05.15.2006 06:30 PM

this is slightly asinine, but . . .

q -- the 25th most used letter in the alphabet.

progeny -- sounded better than "child," "kid," "offspring," or the like.

79 -- two numbers i chose more or less at random.

basically the idea is that i am strange -- which is why it drives me mad when people say "aprogeny79" -- that one letter change defeats the whole purpose of the name, because a is one of the most used letters.

schizophrenicroom 05.15.2006 06:38 PM

mine is half "i pulled it out of my ass" and half i just like the sound of it.

Toilet & Bowels 05.15.2006 06:39 PM

aprogeny79 is an evil psycho.


my name was invented in my brain.

noumenal 05.15.2006 06:43 PM

 

umjammer atomsk 05.15.2006 07:02 PM

The title character of the playstation rythm game spin-off to parappa the rapper (Umjammer Lammy) and the name of the space pirate king (atomsk) from the anime ova series Fooly Cooly that was taken from the title of an american suspense novel written by Carmichael Smith in 1949.

Phlegmscope 05.15.2006 07:10 PM

I was browsing the dictionary to find some other word, and then saw the word "phlegm". At the time I had to come up with a username for another board I now post on. So I decided to choose it because it means a) "thick, sticky, stringy mucus secreted by the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, as during a cold or other respiratory infection" and b) "sluggishness of temperament".

"scope" is there for no real reason.

qprogeny79 05.15.2006 07:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
aprogeny79 is an evil psycho.


. . . and i'm coming across the pond to carry out my diabolical plans, and there's nothing you can do to stop me!!

 

!@#$%! 05.15.2006 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by umjammer atomsk
Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i can't believe no person here has ever read "20,000 leagues under the sea" nor heard of captain nemo.


Great read. A classic in every sense of the word. I figured out the finding nemo thing, too. It's cool what nemo means in latin though.


oh yes! that was very cool thing to find out. i hope i didn't sound like i didn't like appreciate that. makes perfect sense in the jules verne novel especially.

 

Savage Clone 05.15.2006 07:32 PM

Glice, I'm taking away rep points next time you use the word "gravitas" in my presence.

atari 2600 05.15.2006 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i can't believe no person here has ever read "20,000 leagues under the sea" nor heard of captain nemo.

but anyway...


Captain Nemo's submarine ride at Disneyland is my first memory.

asides: of course the book is by Jules Verne. (oops Glice posted) other asides: I also sell products to Pixar Animation Studios. They are owned by Steve Jobs by the way. Today, the Wheel of Fortune Art Department placed an order. I thought that was kinda cool.

My name...
I have no definitive idea about why I chose it. Atari as a company more-or-less sped up silicon evolution & the first PC was built with parts Jobs & Wozniak stole from Atari. Atari orginally is a term invented by oral tradition (not in the original rules) from the world's oldest board game, Go. I think I liked the idea that it was a name followed by a number. Many people online choose an id followed by a number either because all the slots are filled & they must add the number or to designate their year of birth. I like how "atari 2600" had both a name & number & helped to show people what age group I belonged to for naming myself after such an old (albeit pioneering for its time) videogame system.

youthoftomorrow 05.15.2006 07:34 PM

i think umjammer atomsk is one of the coolest usernames on the board.

i'd rep ya, but i have to spread some around.

Sheriff Rhys Chatham 05.15.2006 07:36 PM

I always thought Disney Land came after Disney World, I later discovered I was wrong after some TV.

I think every one knows where mine came from.

CHOUT 05.15.2006 07:48 PM

It's what I say when people get in my way...

umjammer atomsk 05.15.2006 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by youthoftomorrow
i think umjammer atomsk is one of the motherfucking coolest usernames on this whole fucking board! And not only is the name cool, you should meet this guy, talk about coolest person to ever live!

i'd rep ya and buy that antique victrola off of you but i have to spread some points around and sell some of my organs. Live on cool guy!


Well thanks, I was starting to tire of it but now i'm thinking it's pretty neat again.

HaydenAsche 05.15.2006 10:19 PM

My name.

marleypumpkin 05.15.2006 10:35 PM

My 2 cats, Marley & Pumpkin.

Inhuman 05.15.2006 10:36 PM

Pretty self explanitory; one of my favorite songs by SY.

smothered 05.15.2006 10:45 PM

"Smother" is a kickass song by Eric's Trip

soniknirve 05.16.2006 12:52 AM

soniknirve : something i came up with out of love for SY and Nirvana...

Flen flyys 05.16.2006 01:17 AM

Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys," from the first words of its opening line, "Flen, flyys, and freris," that is, "fleas, flies, and friars." The line that contains fuck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." The Latin words "Non sunt in coeli, quia," mean "they [the friars] are not in heaven, since." The code "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields "fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli." The whole thus reads in translation: "They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge]."

Florya 05.16.2006 02:01 AM

Florya is the main character in one of the best films, certainly THE best war film I have ever seen. 'Come and See' - absolutely fucking brilliant!

_slavo_ 05.16.2006 02:07 AM

it's my name
duh

A Thousand Threads 05.16.2006 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!
!@#$%! because !@#$%!



i always thought it would mean " I am solo !"

! = I

@ = a
# = m

$ = s
% = olo

! = !


well
you´re married

static-harmony 05.16.2006 02:42 AM

Mine came from life. Static periods and harmony periods there.

candymoan 05.16.2006 03:00 AM

candymoan was an old project - heavily influence by the mary chain..
i like the gender ambiguity and the general feel of it..

shentov 05.16.2006 03:03 AM

family name. i'm boring. when i came around the big blue i wanted to pick thurston but of course it was taken. ha ha.

porkmarras 05.16.2006 03:38 AM

Pork i got from an Andy Wharol movie.Marras is my surname

nicfit 05.16.2006 04:00 AM

guess!
oh,and my name is nicola,and my friends call me nic,so nicfit.i like the sound of it.straightforward,easy to remember,yuppie!

fishmonkey 05.16.2006 04:05 AM

this is a Fishmonkey
 

it came to me one night in a dream years and years ago, i was fishing with my friend and a fishmonkey jumped out of the river and sat beside me and told me everything was going to be ok as long as i believe in the fact that absolutely anything is possible and nothing is ever out of reach for a human being, i told him i do believe all this and he said "i know you do" i said "how do you know?" he said "look at the facts yr sitting beside a river talking to a monkey with the head of a fish"

and the rest they say is history

terminal pharmacy 05.16.2006 04:57 AM

jim orourke album name

toxic johnny 05.16.2006 05:26 AM

Johnny is my first name... I love the word 'Toxic' and have used it in the past as a title for one of my exhibitions.
Toxic Pyrogenic (1996) back screen projection installation... sound... video.

Also I was thrilled to recently discover that there is a porn star called Johnny Toxic!!

DemonBox 05.16.2006 07:05 AM

Demon Box is Motorpsycho's second album. And i liked the way it looked on the screen.

candymoan 05.16.2006 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by toxic johnny
Johnny is my first name... I love the word 'Toxic' and have used it in the past as a title for one of my exhibitions.
Toxic Pyrogenic (1996) back screen projection installation... sound... video.

Also I was thrilled to recently discover that there is a porn star called Johnny Toxic!!


johnny toxic has a lot of tattoos and claims to be gen x.. he shoots cars in the desert, and he thinks he is hunter thompson.. he moans about angst frequently, and nearly everyone in the industry is making fun of him..

i'm not making this up..

but, yeah.. i can understand the thrill of finding that out..

h8kurdt 05.16.2006 10:21 AM

Hilariously ironic

alyasa 05.16.2006 10:25 AM

Mohammad Alyasa bin Abdul Karim.
That's my full name.


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