This was something that I've wanted to do for a while, and I'm fully aware that it's been done before and may be a bit of a boring repeat for some of you, but I was reading joshw's "Just out of curiosity..." thread where kramer_vs_kramer says this:

and was wondering, what are the stories behind everyone's SC user names?

This is the first website that I used the name "Kajun Firefly". Before my online name was always ^rain^, then, after a massive argument in one of the many chat rooms I used to frequent back when I was a carefree teenage asshole (and not a stoned student asshole) I flicked through a dictionary where I found the word "Imago", it seemed like a pretty cool word so I chose that as my new handle, it's meaning back then was:

imago - noun, Entomology the final and fully developed adult stage of an insect.

then, strangely, I bought a new dictionary last year and it had an additional meaning attached to it:

2. Psychoanalysis an unconscious idealized mental image of someone, which influences a person's behaviour.

Strange that, "Imago" was, my imago.

***I can imagine this thread slowly dropping off the edge of the SC universe with no replies***

anyway, I registered on thespark.com's "SparkMatch" as "Clive_Van-der-Beetle", but forgot the password so had to create a new account, drawing nonsensical names out of my head, I came up with "Cajun_Doorslap". I kind of liked the name Cajun and slapped a K onto the front of it, just to be cool, so Kajun was my new online name.

When I was creating the account for this site, I was in the middle of a brief obsession with Marx brothers movies, and was watching "Duck Soup", where Groucho plays the leader of a small country, Rufus T. Firefly, I knicked the surname and voila, a star was born.

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Dad was flammable

Well, mine is simply my first name and last initial put together, or an alternate spelling of my full first name, minus the A: Joshwa. But that's not how I spell it. I spell mine with "ua" at the end, instead of the "wa".

I have a question for anyone. How do you pronounce Geoff?

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Let's see...

Back in '84, when I started haunting the chat machines on BITNET, I needed to think up a handle. Since I was growing a beard at the time, "Fuzzyman" was the first thing that came to mind.

I'm entirely too lazy to think of something else, so I've stuck with it.

Sorry it's not more exciting.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

When my father's father came to America from somewhere in Eastern Europe some 90 years ago, he anglcized his last name to Kaufman.

Like "Jeff".

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When I began using AIM, I wanted the handle "Journeyman Nate" but it was taken. So I took out the sylables.

Later in tribes, I found a cool warrior name: The old greek form of Jason(the guy with the argonauts), "Iason". Since then I've tried to switch all my handles to that. But for SC, I havn't gotten the email to my hacked-router accout to get my password. I don't mean to be whiney, but Brad, could do something about that?

I hate to tell you, but your handle still has syllables in it.

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"Oh, look, a joke! How original! Thank you, but if I wanted my emotions stimulated pleasurably, I'd get a whore." - Donald B. Jones III

He didn't say he took out all the syllables...

I hate to tell you, but your handle still has syllables in it.[/quote]
NO REALLY I didnt notice

no of course I meant to say- the sylables out of "Journeyman".

I had crabs for a brief period in the 80's and the nickname just stuck. I thought I could get away from it by smearing dog shit all over me so people would call me Dog Shit McGee but it didn't work. So now I'm just crabby.

Like I said in my very first post:
pita: pain in the ass

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“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)

Would there be any way of spelling my name with a G instead of J? I thought maybe Geosh but that would be "Jesh" wouldn't it?

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There's always the Italo-Polish spelling "Giusz".

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

lessee...way back when in the days of bbs'ing, I started off as "Roo" mainly a throwback to my nickname as a child. Was on irc for years as "Roo" till the majority of 5 year olds wanted that nickname and wound up battling parents for the right to my name on irc blah blah. So, I changed it "Jael" just sounded cool.
Then I found out Jael was a hebrew lady who had no morals and lured a king of an enemy army into her tent then drove a tent spike through his head in retaliation for raping her friend...and became famous when Deborah sang about her.

There's a lot more Jael's on the web now, so I'm around as jaello, jaelski, bronwen, blah blah. Luckily, I didn't have to worry about it here, no other Jael's are silly enough apparently.

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

Well, it all started when I was 6. I had a new purple bicycle with multicolored streamers on the handlebars. It was a bit too big for me but I was determined to ride it anyway. So one day I was walking the bike around the house and stumbled and my bike started to head down a hill. I was too light to hold it back but I refused to let go and the bike and I started rolling down the hill. I crashed into a tree and scraped my hand pretty badly. I still have a scar from that incident. The bike was barely scratched, however, and I went on to enjoy it for several years.

What was the question again?

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."