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

Just wondering.

Mine was sort of by default.
My first choice (Welsh rabbit) had already been taken.
I'd been reading a novel about Genghis Khan, so Welsh rabbit became Welsh Genghis.

This led to people assuming I was Welsh, so I changed it to Kuzushi.

That makes no sense whatsoever!

The explanation for my name is on my space, and is to do with piratical names derived from real names.

I didn't choose my name, my name chose me think I was drunk when I chose it actually

Something to do with Ray Parlour. Raymondo was already taken.

StrangelyStrange came about as I am surprisingly ordinary, so wanted a differant name. Strangely enough.....

I just liked the word "Malabarista" - Spanish for juggler, but literally means "bad waiter"!

I think I was reading a book on Sparta about the time I joined, the name sprung into my head, sounded decent, and stuck.

I've a secret vice.I'm a Georgette Heyer fan and my nickname is derived from the Georgette Heyer Regency slang list..

It was this one or Cytherean but that's for when I'm in disguise

My parents christened me "Ooh lookatimwiththatfishonisead" so I decided to go for something radically different and dadaist for my nickname.

Whenever I used to play postal role play games I was McKay - which originally came about because I needed a 5 character name in one game - as luck would have it McKay did very well in that game, and so it became my alter-ego.

When I came to log on to a newletter and tried to use McKay it was already taken, so I chose another name, but when I came to log on again I couldn't remember what that other name was, so I became McKay_The_Disorganised.

Well nowadays we can use spaces so I'm McKay The Disorganised.

Well, the first bit's on my driver's license... There's an explanation about the paper lady part on my space

Seems so long ago now!

I picked Mina from a book with the same name. Had I known it was going to follow me from the internet into real life I perhaps would have chosen more carefully.

'Your Royal Highness' for instance, would have been a good one to answer to in the office.

From henceforth you shall be known as HRH Mina!

Alchemilla - because I am a chemist by education
Digitalis - because I work with computer systems

But that got long and boring, so now I'm just Milla.

Well my body tells me I'm getting on a bit ,I look quite grey in the pic on my driving license and I've always thought of myself as a moonraker

It was on the tag pinned to my wing whilst I was sitting in a shop, waiting to be bought.

Read here how Gnomon chose his nickname: A37184439

Hic!!!!

Need I say more?

I was given mine by a friend who, after me running off for a third or fourth time to greet a male friend I hadn't seen in a while (we were out at a pub I hadn't been to in ages and people I knew just kept streaming in!) commented that I was like 'bloody Robin Hood, what with all your merry men running around'.

She started calling me Robin'ood all the time and I liked it so I kept it. Now a lot of people I've met more recently have been told Robyn's my name. I dont introduce myself as it, but there's no accounting for drinking buddies...

Oddly enough, I'm McKay at a different site, simply because my initials are MCK