h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hehehe
You got that right...
I love Scrabble!
Galaxy Babe.....OK, you can gimme the full depth analysis if you like!

probably tomorrow - too late today... but do give me any other online names you've used in the meantime...

and what did I get right?

High-scoring scrabble name, hehehe.
I love scrabble...
Other names?

Seven of Nine
The ghost of Christmas Past
AquaMarina the Mermaid
*splish splash*

Good god - she's half of h2g2!

Of course, since I've met you, it could be considered I have an unfair advantage... but my memory is dire, and I wasn't in 'that' corner - so not that much...

Galaxy Babe, Seven of Nine, The ghost of Christmas Past, AquaMarina the Mermaid... ok - let's see... I'll stick to the obvious right off, and say that with 3 of 4 names being female, and the last being gender-neutral, this isn't likely to be a guy. It would also imply a fairly feminine kind of personality - and that'd be reinforced by the 'babe' and 'mermaid' - but 7 of 9 goes against that... it'll become clear later, perhaps.

Galaxy Babe - well that's either the chocolate, or the big thing with stars... or possibly both. The former implies extremely good taste in chox - Galaxy are my personal favourite by some way - and someone who thinks chocolate is important enough to warrant mentioning in their name. Which isn't terribly note-worthy: seems to me that 9 of 10 women love chocolate almost to an excess...

The starry option would imply perhaps someone keen on the stars and astronomy and that gubbins - or a sci-fi fan - the latter seems more likely: it's reinforced by seven of nine, which just *has* to be a star trek reference... It being 'galaxy' rather than 'star', 'space', or whatever *might* mean that the user had watched that stunning film "Galaxy Quest" before choosing this name. With the cute looking gal with the tentacles... {goes into a dream for a bit}

*ahem*

Babe either means a user who's about 12-20, and thinks she's sex on legs... or it means a user who's being ironic and perhaps slightly mocking of modern youth - and of indeterminate age. The latter impression is possibly more likely from the ghost name: which teenagers enjoy dickens? - but then the former could be reinforced by the 'mermaid' not 'merwoman', unless that's also ironic... so many uncertainties...

The other option would be someone in their 40's, having standard mid-life crisis problems, and desperately trying to convince themselves they're young at heart, and probably embarassing all their children, nephews, neices, by wearing too short skirts and dancing...

Nothing else to mention except that "Galaxy Babe" has definate superheroine overtones - so feel free to admit to your secret spandex addiction here - your secret's safe with me.


Moving on to "AquaMarina the Mermaid"... well, the name points to someone who enjoys swords and sorcery type books - or roleplaying, or films - or anything in that genre, really - where everyone seems to be Fred the Nobody, or whatever. Mermaids are fantasy creatures too, so there's a bit of support there.

Of course, you can't easily pass up on the freudian implications of mermaids: "no sex below the waist on the female partner". But I've never been convinced by the guy's accuracy - so I won't read terribly much into that. Besides, mermaids are lovely creatures, and I don't like 'em being deconstructed so distastefully.

Aqua and Marina obviously meaning water and aquariums - both water-associated names, so they're appropriate here. But you chuck them together, and get Aquamarine - which is a blue-turqoise colour if I recall correctly. Nice wordplay - the mark of a fun personality normally, and likely in this case too. Not someone who takes the world terribly seriously...

I always reckoned that colours give a pretty strong insight into someone's personality - anyone with "black" in their name is either a goth or some kind of depressive - and aquamarine is an interesting colour from that point of view: it's not one of the primary colours - which makes it a little harder to pin down what it might mean.

Blues tend to mean a deep personality - blue on it's own I'd expect to harbour the traditional "strong, silent" type, but being a pastel colour (again, quite feminine, pastels) - it's a bit more subtle than that. I might almost say murkier - yeah I'll go for "hidden depths", I think - first impressions of this user might be different to what the actual truth is.


Moving on, two names which are superficially easier to deal with: 7 of 9 - how can that be *anything* but a star trek reference. Ditto the ghost - that's blatantly dickens. Of course, the scifi and fantasy genres often tend to be linked - so it's little surprise there - dickens is perhaps more unusual - which possibly attests to someone with a broader range of interests than the typical scifi nut.

7 of 9 - or rather seven of nine, since it's spelt out longhand. Deary deary - that's not terribly efficient, is it now? That rather goes against the idea that this person is in any way borglike - and that image clashes horribly with the other names anyway, so that can't be it. It could be ironic - this person is perhaps so horrendously disorganized it's something to laugh about? I don't think so, but not sure.

as for the ghost - the bit that intrigues me is that it is the ghost of xmas *past* - that hints at age, in a sense - this is someone who feels that, in some sense, they belong to the past rather than the future - not necessarilly "I've had my time" - after all, a ghost is someone who refuses to lay down and die - but in some sense a not-of-this-millenium person. hmm.

I could meander on about ascenders and suchlike - but would that impress at all? Well - there *is*, in four names, only 3 descenders - that's not someone who's hugely rooted in reality, which goes with the scifi fantasy thing, and the disorganised thing too. All the names are reasonably long - this could be someone who's slightly taller or (*ahem*) has a slightly 'fuller' figure than the average - or perhaps just someone who intends to be noticed - a slightly brash exterior to hide the hidden superhero depths, hmm?

So put it all together, what do we get? Let's go for a lady, age about 35-40. Room she's in has nice pastel colours - and probably has a couple books or choc-bar wrappers scattered round the floor. Cheery, fun personality - the wordplay in AquaMarina, together with the variety and type of names makes that pretty clear. And what's she doing? -Probably planning a night out on the town...

You missed my age by almost 10 years
I'm 45.
Definately young at heart, and young people love me.
I don't feel mid-40's at all!
I had a night out last Friday & planning my next one for next week!
I *am* Galaxy Babe.
I saw that fantastic film Galaxy Quest, but I was Galaxy babe before I saw that film, it's been my username since as far back as I can remember.
Sci-fi nut, yes!
Love Star Trek, and the rest...
And I am an amateur astronomer


Reasons I invented the other characters:
There was this really cute fish {Hugo} messaging me on my centre & I couldn't understand him. {bubblish}
I created AquaMarina to talk to him! It was AquaMarina who learned bubblish, not me.
One of the programmes I watched as a child, "Stingray", the theme tune was "Marina, aqua Marina" sung by Troy Tempest...my hero.
I got the name for my mermaid from that memory.
Seven of Nine.
My life can be described as organized chaos.
I have a handicapped son, and while he is at his special school, I mind my grandson for my daughter so she can work.
My home is untidy, but clean.
In my head I can imagine living alone in a tidy house, but I'd be bored.
She was actually invented for the hallowe'en ball at Foxy Manor...I needed another persona to meet & greet newcomers, as greeting was filling up my message centre, and I couldn't afford to "lose" GB.
I never meant Seven to become a personality. It kinda took off & developed a life of its own.
Believe me, I try hard not to interract with my other personas.
I like to think of Seven as my drone, my worker...she meets & greets, with little time off...
GB is the character people flock to for comfort/advice...
Thewas intended to be a bit of fun at Christmas...but you're spot on there, I love that tale of The Christmas Carol. I also love Shakespeare, my love of old books is reflected in my library at home! I have every "Martian" and "Venus" book by Edgar Rice Burroughs {the Tarzan author}.
Oh, by the way, I wasn't in *that* corner either...
I was in the Fish's quiz team
There's meet photos on my page if you want your memory jogging; I remember your blue nail polish
Thanks a lot, Lucinda!
You really should start charging for this service!

oh yeah - I should remember you - you were certainly in enough of the pics I took myself...