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

My name is to do with an advertisement for flavoured milk. A bunch of people dressed as cows pull into a petrol station and fill up their car. The chocolate milk cow then walks in to pay for the petrol. Obviously being cows local to the area, he starts chatting away to the girl behind the counter. When he returns one of the other cows (I think it is the coffee milk cow), asks "How's Tania Mate?" in a very annoying voice. The slogan then for the ad was 'The cows are loose'. My name is Tania. Enough said really.

Hhhmmmm, where to start...'Mazin' stems from my ability to ingest copious amounts of what ever was stuck in front of me....Quite amazin'.
The 'Mad Fiddler' part stems from the rigout I used to wear to Folk Festivals, and Morris Ales. Usually a Flower- and Badge-bedecked Panama, and a waistcoat laden with assorted badges. I had three waistcoats, one with general badges for day wear, so as not to upset the parents, another with folk-related badges, and the third with adult-only type badges. Maybe not mad, but certainly eccentric.....

Is that pronounced \webber-kwetzal\ or
\vayber-kvetzal\?

I'll leave mine as a puzzle. See if you can tell me what it means (or somewhere close to what it means, as it's really two puzzles. You probably won't get the second one, it's sort of an inside joke).

Thirteen Shadows

Anything to do with Thirteen Ghosts?

I always enjoy reading where everyone gets their usernames from

Mine was originally my CB radio handle... about 15 years ago. Why I resurrected it I couldn't tell you. But I can tell you how I got it. While trying to come up with a name I would be willing to go by on the air I wrote a list of possibilities. In the end I couldn't decide so I closed my eyes and randomly pointed to one and ended up with Little Mischief.

I can't remember what else was on the list except for one: Kelly Green Bug, for no other reason than I could have just used the initials KGB.

My sister had a high school teacher called Sydney Carter, she was a very Jackie Kennedy looking woman, only blonde (I am dating us, aren't I?). She spelled it Sidonie Carter, she was American and her name suggested A Tale of Two Cities, to me.
My son loves Lexx, but his names for his future daughters are Nyssa (from Doctor Who) and Veralidaine, from Tamora Pierce's series. He insists he won't have a son.
Oh no - a woman shrieking Andromeda at a child! Back in the 1960s, Susan Hampshire starred in a science fiction series 'A for Andromeda'. I was a child and don't remember it very well.

"Have Spanner Will Travel"

'Sidonie' would suggest to me this exactly: an evil sorceress who disposed of her half-sister <?> in a murky way. Only since I would pronounce it less like 'Sidney' and more like 'Sidonia', which would bring to mind 'Sidonia von Bork' of whom I know nowt except Burne-Jones did a painting of her. It struck me as quite a good name and I called one of my designs after it. No aspertions cast on the teacher, of course...
Actually I think I would prefer the names of the actresses from Lexx, rather than the character.
'Veralidaine' sounds a little too much like a medicine...
(worse than Andromeda- I overheard a school register being called, and on it was some poor lass (I presume) named 'Maple'...)

The woman along the road from us, had children named Velvet, Wendy, Tristine and Gregor McGregor. Wendy was a year or two older than me and had to walk me to school. Velvet was named after Liz Taylor's movie National Velvet, but now the names suggests a porn star!(She became a suburban housewife as far as I know.) Tristine as befits her name's meaning was a bit of a depressive.
Did you 'save' names for your future children? Apparently, both boys and girls 'save' names. Mine were all girls' names, and I have had only boys...sigh...

I hope you thought up names for your boys, eventually. (As opposed to trimming the girls' names... 'aha, young Clotildo' etc. (though that sounds less ridiculous than 'Nigella'.))
Velvet, Tristine... Wendy. Not exactly a matched triptych... all the Tristan-derivation names are good, I think, though. I could not call a child after something I often came across in real life.
I save names (about equal boy/girl at the moment) but not just for offspring, for me as well; in case I want another change. And I have tons of ludicrous names, which are compelling, so I attempt to make up fictional characters for all of them.
It would be ironic I suppose if I turned out not able to have children, and only had a legacy of sketches of 'Mortimer Swyler', 'Stanley Trootnose' and 'Mariadne Peghorse'.

Mycelium? Well, i'm an old school mushroom-head. [and my band's called 'Mycology' (the study of fungi)]

And a fungi to be with?

Mine is my nickname (Cat-Eyes) cause my eyes are really weird. Instead of my eyes being one colour with the black dot in the middle, I have what looks like a sunflower around it. "Yellow lashes of flame striking out from the black centre" and the the rest of the colour circle changes colour all the time. Every day, and sometimes during the day it changes through shades of blue, green and hazel.

So, because I have predominately yellow eyes, I have 'cat-eyes' hence the nickname. Also, I hate my real name (Christina), so Cat-eyes is good. Chris is also ok.

Cat-Eyes

my name is stolen by paramount, the entertainment co.

I used to be phelox without "i" and I had startrekmail.com e-mail with it. and now in Enterprise a charractor called Dr Phlox apears.

the thing is that pheloxi is nmae of an entity from the planet Chokoh, wich is in the M&M galaxy. I am researcher of "alien" worlds. Planet Earth is one of most interesting planets I have been visiting. My homeplanet is very peacefull and has absolute no invasion plans.*

I wrote this discription, before I ever knew of H2G2. I even made 15 yr old boy from the USA believe I was alien and he believed I was the true out there and I bodly go everywhere!

* "I love science fiction, fantasy and comedy."

because my feet are made of ham? nah... coz my second name is 'Feetham'. me and a friend used to try to find as many variations on it as we could, so we had legarm, kneehoof, calfthigh...then we got really specific and found that my name is actually....'Hamileal popliteal'

so thats meeee

ok - Ima guardian angel now, but thats not why i was the patron saint of kittens... im a patron saint because my really name Genevieve is the patron saint of Paris. Kittens becasue i loev cats and i used to be one and also its one of my pet names from my boy... the rest is from hootoo groups...

Mr. Flay is a character in the Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake, which you can find more about here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A741971

Flay is tall, thin, and wears black. I'm tall, thin (well, thin-ish) and have occasionally been spotted wearing black.

Cut and pasted from 'My Space'

The Nickname has been blatantly stolen from the MP character Mr SmokeTooMuch as played by Eric Idle in the Travel Agent sketch as performed in Live at the "Hollywood Bowl". I decided to steal the name as I never fail to be amused by the way he goes on and on ranting and raving never pausing for breath or letting anyone else get a word in edgeways and getting more and more worked up about anything and everything to do with the subject in question until eventually being carted off in straight jacket.
The Professor prefix just came from an initial feeling of intimidation from being named Researcher 204147. I do of course now appreciate the quality and importance of the work carried out by researchers but stuck with the Nickname anyhow.

It's also a reflection on the amount I used to smoke...

Well, you'd better cut down a little then.