How did you choose your handle?

[sophilos]

I wanted to use "Philos" -- a lover and a thinker, if you will.

So did somebody else on every network I've visited since 1995. Somebody else who was there first.

I played with faux-Greek suffixes (philosum) and prefixes. When somebody pointed out that "Adsophilos" sounded like a milk product, I thanked him kindly, bombed his e-mail and moved on.

Then I performed the dreaded Google on my current handle.

Sophilos (active about 590 - 570 BC) was an Attic potter and vase painter in the black-figure style. Sophilos is the oldest Attic vase painter so far to be known by his true name.

Thank you, Wikipedia. Much of his work was in wine bowls. The man knew how to party.

 

[Fantasy-Play]

I wanted to have a name that suited my character Host and also describe what sort of artwork I would be creating.

Fantasy Play, - Sexual roleplay is roleplay that has a strong erotic element. It may involve two or more people who act out roles in a sexual fantasy and may be a form of foreplay and be sexually arousing. Many people regard sexual roleplay as a means of overcoming sexual inhibitions. ...

Diddo a thank you to Web Definitions. Although I like to think that my Fantasy Play is/will be far more encompassing ... Haha!

FP

 

[C.A.B.]

Mine is pretty straightforward... it is B.A.C. backwards. I chose it to homage one of the founding father's of tickle torture illustration back in the 80s.

 

[Fantasy-Play]

Mine is pretty straightforward... it is B.A.C. backwards. I chose it to homage one of the founding father's of tickle torture illustration back in the 80s.

I'm trying to google that C.A.B. Please, do share...

 

[C.A.B.]

I'm trying to google that C.A.B. Please, do share...

Look no further than right here under your feet... http://www.ticklingforum.com/forumdisplay.php?188-BAC-s-Artwork-Archive

 

[Fantasy-Play]

Look no further than right here under your feet... http://www.ticklingforum.com/forumdisplay.php?188-BAC-s-Artwork-Archive

OH GLORY BE! Right when I thought I was starting to see all that was to be discovered -BOOM!- You drop this morsel!
Thank you again, Sir!
FP

 

[chicago]

A movie / character I liked.

 

[sophilos]

Casus deliberatus

I may or may not like an artist's style, but I admire anyone who creates something of value that is altogether and entirely their own. Since I cannot carry a tune nor even sustain a rhythm, since I cannot reproduce letters on a page with my hand, I write. I work hard at it.

I also like to poke into the odd corners of the language -- faux Latin, freely skewed associations, homonyms tete-a-tete with bared teeth, figures of speech, imagery, COLOR, deep purple prose, puns good and bad ... It sometimes make me sound like a wiseass. I will not apologize for that, because I am not trying to embarrass anybody.

The point is discovery. You find the damnedest things under the bleachers out past left field.

nemophilist (n.) a haunter of the woods; one who loves the forest and its beauty and solitude.
"Ask me anything"
Annie Hall, sig.

So I brush off the clippings, the bugs and the last drops of dew and ask, Was Captain Nemo then an exile? Was the Nautilus trimmed in oak, cherry and redwood?

 

[chicago]

I may or may not like an artist's style, but I admire anyone who creates something of value that is altogether and entirely their own. Since I cannot carry a tune nor even sustain a rhythm, since I cannot reproduce letters on a page with my hand, I write. I work hard at it.

I also like to poke into the odd corners of the language -- faux Latin, freely skewed associations, homonyms tete-a-tete with bared teeth, figures of speech, imagery, COLOR, deep purple prose, puns good and bad ... It sometimes make me sound like a wiseass. I will not apologize for that, because I am not trying to embarrass anybody.

The point is discovery. You find the damnedest things under the bleachers out past left field.



So I brush off the clippings, the bugs and the last drops of dew and ask, Was Captain Nemo then an exile? Was the Nautilus trimmed in oak, cherry and redwood?

No idea, but the USS Nautilus was made of some kinda wood called lignum vitae.

 

[suikoden]

One of my interests is martial arts and that was sparked in part by an old Japanese TV show called 'The Water Margin' which was based on a Chinese legend about Robin Hood style bandits fighting corrupt officials. I can still remember all the words from the opening monologue...

Anyway, The Japanese name for this legend is Suikoden and that seemed like as good a name as any. I later found out it's also an RPG and a lot of people think I took it from that.

 

[porcelaindoll2]

Someone said I looked like a porcelain doll once. I mean I am pretty super pale. I went with 2 because just porcelaindoll and porcelaindoll1 were taken and I wanted to be a porcelain doll too(2).

 

[sophilos]

Discovery

Fascinating. Lignum vitae was one of those things I'd always forget to research. The connection with the Nautilus is a bonus. Thank you!

If I were to go with a movie character, I'd take Rick Deckard (Bladerunner). But I'm probably more like Roy Batty.

 

[Cave In]

When I was joining the forum I couldn't think of a name and I had a band called Cave In playing in the background, so I went with that.

I actually don't like it but just like back then I've never been able to decide on another name haha

 

[milagros317]

The numerical part is my birthday, March 17th, and "milagros" means "miracles."

 

[theshire]

The Lord of the Rings movies were popular at the time, and I was (and still am) a massive fan, so my name just sort of...happened.

When I look back on it, "Sauron" would have been much cooler.

 

[Mitchell]

I hope this doesn't get me in trouble.. but,..

I believe that "Mitchell" was chosen for me by the mods when we converted from the insecure room to the password room. There was/is another Mitch on the forum, and I'm pretty sure someone, but I don't want to say who because I don't know, gave me this SN. I've been told I cant change it because I'm one of the top posters on the forum. Such is why Mimi graciously created the Ladderlad signature for me some years ago.

 

[LargerWorld2577]

I'm a Star Wars fan, which came out on May 25, 1977, and Obi-Wan telling Luke he's taken his first steps into a "larger world".

 

[desdemona]

A friend in high school gave me the nickname based on my initials DSM. Yes, she was reading Othello at the time

 

[kurchatovium]

Well to make a long story even longer 😛 :

In college my analytical chemistry professor use to joke around a lot. He said he joked around so much because analytical chemistry was the most boring subject in the history of college LOL. Anyway one of the jokes he always use to make was analyzing the amount of kurchatovium in frog legs or in your peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 😛 I just always like the jokes so I decided to use kurchatovium as my screen name. 🙂

 

[sophilos]

Hail, Kurchatovium! Yours is one of those handles I have long wondered wherefore.

One more question, then -- how did you come to sign up with the Defenders of the Cosmos?

 

[BrightEyes1082]

Brighteyes1082 comes from me really loving "Turn Around Bright Eyes" back in 2001, and my
birthday is 10/8/82.

The name I use on pretty much all other kink sites is WhoaMyNinja. That comes from this: http://youtu.be/-FV9MCUDTCk
(For some reason it won't embed the video.)

 

[sophilos]

BrightEyes, are you a fan of Jim Steinman, or is it just the one Bonnie Tyler song?

 

[BrightEyes1082]

The Bonnie Tyler song.

 

[sophilos]

Thoroughly Obscure and Savagely Funny

Everybody remembers Meat Loaf. Todd Rundgren remembers that he didn't really know what to think in his days on Bat Out of Hell. Sometimes he felt as though he was working on a serious, hard-core rock-and-roll project. At other times, he was not sure Jim Steinman, who produced the album and wrote most of it, was serious about anything. The rest is ...

Most of us who were listening to rock radio in those days probably remember that Meat Loaf's voice went south, with no surety that he would ever again speak normally, much less sing. Of course, the record company wanted a follow-on. Steinman told them he could take Meat's place.

The result was Bad for Good, a piece-by-piece re-casting of Bat Out of Hell. Cut for cut, the main difference between the albums was the cover art. Bad for Good also included an EP with an orchestral epic titled "The Storm". The other side held an attempt at a R&R anthem, not heard since those aspiring days.

Steinman went on to produce proven acts such as Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Barry Manilow (true!) and, believe it or not, Celine Dion. Barbra Streisand had a bona fide radio hit with Bad for Good's epic swipe at the niche left by "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", called "Left in the Dark".

Before all that, though, Steinman managed to slip in a nearly unique piece of teen-angst-run-absolutely-amok, the savagely funny and now thoroughly obscure "Love and Death and an American Guitar".

Good, I think, that it's not too obscure for YouTube --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q8f-XTeZ3I​

 

[TJDoom]

First half is what my friends call me and the second part is borrowed from Victor Von Doom a.k.a. Marvel's Dr. Doom, who was in turn homaged by pioneering underground rapper MF Doom. Said rapper adopted the mask & moniker while abandoning his former persona, declaring revenge on the world that failed him. He did so because his brother was struck by a car and killed while they were both in a group together. His mental health took a turn for the worse and he became temporarily homeless in Manhattan until he reemerged under the new name and broke down barriers of what his art form could be in the late 90s/2000s.

There's a personable element because I lost my 15 year old brother tragically and so I'm fond of the avenging side of the tale.

More positively, it also is found in my favorite Futurama quote: "Tonight at eleven: DOOOOOOOOOOOM!

I thought it would be comfortable, short and easy to recall for when I'm contributing stories. 🙂