Where did you get your username from?

[Medusa]

I have a huge tattoo of Medusa on my shoulder.

[OldGit]

EDIT:  I have just realised that what I had posted here was total lunacy, because I had forgotten which forum I was posting in, and explained the wrong name.
Told you I was getting old.

[palebluedot]

Mine's pretty obvious I guess



The late great Carl Sagan wrote;

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."


Nuff said!

[Hidelight]

I have no idea why I picked this name...devine intervention maybe?

[xSilverPhinx]

Mine's pretty obvious I guess



The late great Carl Sagan wrote;

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."


Nuff said!

Awesome 

[MiiriChan]

Totally unoriginal, but mine came from attempting to make my youtube username MiriChan.  I like the Japanese honorific Chan and the name Miri is from the much loved character in Star Trek: The Original Series episode Miri.  Her name is Miri and she is the sweetest kid ever.  Also the girl who plays her is in True Grit afterwards.  But, like so many of my other names Miri was taken.  So I just added another 'i' to it and called myself MiiriChan.  Kind of boring actually.

[Awolf26]

My name is Adam and I like wolves. Awolf is always taken so I go with the date of my bday, the 26th of Feb.

[Munchkin Goddess]

Not that creative, so my user name is a shorten form of a nickname when I was 18 years old. The Omnipotent Munchkin Goddess. I'm technically a midget, so "Munchkin" just sticks.

I believe I posted that explanation on a different thread in this forum...

[Munchkin Goddess]

I have a huge tattoo of Medusa on my shoulder.

That's awesome!

[xSilverPhinx]

My name is Adam and I like wolves. Awolf is always taken so I go with the date of my bday, the 26th of Feb.

Cool name. I also really like wolves 

[Jephthah]

In the Old Testament, Jephthah makes a deal with God that he will slaughter whoever first comes out of his house to greet him when he returns from war - if only God will grant him victory. God agrees, and it becomes a horrible story of genocide, child abuse, subjugation of women, and murder.

"Jephthah" sums up the moral shortcomings of religion for me.

[Sweetdeath]

^

D:  D:  oh, loving God.

[Ragnar]

It is a shortened form of my old SN from MSN Groups, Ragnorok.

I ended up with that SN after all the others I tried were unavailable.

[Sweetdeath]

It sounds like a cool warlord! "All hail Ragnar"  xD

[Xjeepguy]

I have that Gwar CD lol.