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

Like most nicknames, I didn't choose mine, it was bestowed on me by a uni friend. My real name is Natasha, most people call me Tash, but she started calling me Tashalls. I kind of like it, and it stuck!

Re : RL names, just for the record I really really REALLY hate being called "Nat"...

for the random outburst!!!

Go about your business...

What about *Sat*?

Actually, that is more annoying, because it reminds me I unconsciously chose a username with the similar three starting letters as my own name!

I totally agree with you SaturNINE, I hate being called Nat. Once I was not assertive enough when starting work at my previous job, and said "Oh, anything will do", so Nat stuck, unfortunately. But the name is like fingernails down a blackboard to me!

I get *Greg* instead of *Craig* if not *Graig* (like that name exists!)

What's wrong with 'Nat'? Or 'Greg'?

Oh I don't know, The Goy with the Brun Hot...

Isn't that a Yank thing though? Thaey can't say "Graham" right either - "Gram" comes out instead...

I like the way Americans say Natali...

"Nadali"

Heehee.

I hear you. When I'm down there it's like another language some times. Heaven help me if I say Craig is Gaelic.

Well, a little (only a little) imagination...more RL, really. I'd done a google (or was it teoma? - http://www.teoma.com ) word search for curries, & the results included "the world's besdt curry houses" section of h2g2. And, I had, that past spring seen/heard some excellent fusion jazz, featuring an east indian guitarist acclaimed for his incorporation of traditional indian chord progressions, etc, into contemporary jazz. So, 'ya got yer jazz...ya got yer curry...'nuff said?'

Nyssa - been my handle since my Doctor Who obsession days

-bird - people have often called me Nannabird as a petname..

Oh, and Zerlanna is a b*stardization of Zerlina from Don Giovanni using my real name (Lanna).

Two ones I have wondered about. Very clever and interesting!

Well, I'm hardly better than that - name comes from my first two initials. It's actually one of my most common nicknames in real life since there are so many people named "Jon" or "John" (as some people insist on spelling it ) abound.

- JD

Both words in my name are completely American, so there's no doubts in anyone's minds about where I come from. It's my way of thumbing my nose at some of the racist fools I've encountered here. Also, both words are archaic slang, so they appeal to my historic interests.

A blatherskite is a loudmouthed braggart. I chose it to poke fun at myself, and perhaps to remind myself that the things that happen on this site aren't important in the grand scheme of my life... its a perspective check.

A mugwump is someone who "keeps his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." It used to be a derogatory term for a politician who couldn't make up his mind. It seems like a tautology for me, because I'm a rather decisive and opinionated person. It's meaning to me is to serve as a reminder to stay out of people's personal politics on this site.

You can check my up-and-coming (first and so far only) entry A882551 to find out what your Star Wars name would be. Bebel Matman is mine.
cl zoomer, what's zooming in this context anyway?

I'm not cl, but I know....zoom lense, he's a cameraman.

I HATE being called Nat!

(But then again it rarely happens when your name is Mick)

Bebel - the method for working out Star War names seems to work best with British/American names.... I ended up with Rayl Kriesk

Kristina is my RL first name, and the Flamenco Dancer is because that's my all-overwhelming hobby - and originally it was meant as a kind of warning, since I created this researcher ID to let off some steam when I was really upset and people could expect some flames and thunder <?> if I turned up (it's my second ID)