My name comes from when I was at night camp during High School. We would sleep during the day and do everything else from about 5 pm to 5 am. One of the activities was Capture the Flag from about 1 to 4 am. One year it was really foggy and hard to see(no moonlight) so every time someone would run by they would be a shadow. So I figured that when I ran by the frontlines I must look like a shadow too. So there you go. Shadowrunner. 1981 was the year I was born so I just tacked that on. Shadowrunner81.
This is Xanga?! Aw sshiiittt. No wonder I couldn’t find the like button.
two of my favorite things…The Godfather movies and Green Bay Packers plus I am a godfather
I’ll give you one guess.
xX came from
X
anga and in between in my first name backward =]
its my name in RL
first? Hells yeah, I’m first.
I’m pretty sure I thought of my xanga name as I was waking up from a dream… but I can’t be sure.
I was aiming for a name that is gender neutral. A girly screenname and a decent looking profile picture will act as a magnet for some REALLY creepy people on this site or at the very least, unwanted attention. Oh and it will definitely increase the foot traffic on your blog.
Dee is my main nickname and Lynn is my middle name. The x’s have no significance whatsoever.
I swear you asked this shit already
“All we are is dust in the wind.”
I like the song “turn the page” and thought of turnthepaige as a good name for a personal blog. But turnthepaige was taken already (look) so I called it trunthepaige which is phonetically the same. I then found out that few can read phonetically on xanga
i was a backup singer in a local rock n roll band back in 1979 for a few months in southern california, but i had a couple solos, and “gold dust woman” from fleetwood mac was my favorite song to sing…. golddustwoman was already taken here, so i got golddustlady.
Mine means ‘traveller’ in Czech – travelling being my passion, and Czech being the language of the country to which I’m moving next week!
My first username was puella_sapiens216. “Puella sapiens” means “wise girl” in Latin (… yeah, I made it in high school when I was a total nerd) and 216 is a strange favourite number of mine.
I’m actually considering changing my username one last time to my first name – I doubt another “Marica” exists on Xanga lol
Wow after all these years turnthepaige shut her site down
Because when life gives you lemons… that’s life, kid.
Heart_leigh is an actual name of a girl I knew in grade school. I have always loved her name hence, the heart is for love and leigh is part of my name.
My name + a certain Greek philosopher blend together to make a natural-sounding tribute name… grade 11 history class.
It’s short for Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird….my favorite book
I was 14 and really liked the band Evanescence, especially their song ‘Taking Over Me.”
There is nothing clever about mine…my initial and daughter’s birthday. Tho’ every time I type 0908, I smile a bit.
Because I joined xanga with the intention of no one ever knowing I had a blog so I could write anything I wanted, including stuff that’s not even true hence “Is it real? No” So my username is actually a question. But it’s more like a diary now and I’m more honest on here than anywhere so that’s interesting
My parents picked it out for me.
It was inspired by a phrase Dave Barry used in one of his columns to describe a conversation between two women he was forced to listen to while waiting for the plane to take off.
Having been known as ‘mum’ to many over the years, and having been appreciated as being someone very ’special’ I decided upon using a quirky play on spelling as ’Special Friend’ along with ‘Special lady’ spelt ‘spshellady’
@trunthepaige - YOU SPELLED TURN WRONG LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
i thought of when someone calls you a cool cat, what could be better than that. what’s cooler than cool ? ICE COLD ! also i was in high school and i thought it was clever.
Do forgive me ladies and gents, but I am allowed only ONE comment here, so, here we go…
I chose my name because ‘CANUCK’ identifies my nationality, and ‘FASCIST’ identifies my chosen ideology.
Now, I must away.
I got it from a bottle of lotion. I’m not very original.
my initials and my last name… >_>
I had the handle “Such_were_you”, which is taken from 1 Corinthians 6:11, “and such were some of you.” That verse talks about what people were before Christ. I want to talk about what Christians are to be after Christ’s resurrection.
because i am both…
because “mediocrity” was taken
Mine is the Chinese zodiac for when I was born.
it’s my twiiter name
I’m an English songbird named Jenny.
It’s my nickname
Because I was stupid, I thought I would get famous through my blog so naturally I wanted my name attached to it.
Cause I have anxiety.
“butterflies” in the stomach and chest.
And they are MANIC!
Urban because I love the city.. I consider myself as a city girl.. Spring because I was born in the spring season.. Love because I love a lot of things and I like love…
It was crystal_air’s idea
It comes from a story I wrote long ago.
…
Is this a re-post?
A word learned by rote at school that remained in the memory..Also the one that finally worked after so many tries…
TP is one of my fav GC games, and it’s my favorite time of day as well, so I wanted to use twilight in my name, but I changed it a tad because of that gay movie with the vampires in it
People always forgot the “i” when saying my name. They would say “Jessca,” and I thought I would sound it out for the very dim. Since then i kept it cause I’m not creative enough to think of anything I would like.
I’m indecisive and wanted to write about all kinds of things, so I picked a name that was amorphous and as vague as the ideas I wanted to express.
My name Grannys_place is because I am a granny and this is my place.
Saint is the nickname my sisters (Lush and Floozy) gave me one night. Rum might have been involved. Vi stands for Village Idiot.
“The Burn Journal” by Brent Runyon is my favorite book. i made my account five years ago, and i wanted to use it to “burn” all of the negative feelings that i had.
My initials. LSP was already taken so I added a 1 to it.
because its my initials.. and I am an honest person with no idea what I would be called in a different life (well stupid fat cow might suite!)xx
It should be common knowledge, however, I chose dw817 many years ago. DW for my first and last name. 817 for my areacode phone number.
Because I am active on the internet every single day of the year, it’s nice to know it’s a unique name that has been widespread and there are a little over 12,000 sites that show up in a Google search with my artwork, writing, sites, questions, comments, and file uploads.
I’m not sure if that makes me famous or infamous, but either way, I’m well known for my unchanged alias and it makes me easy to find. *Grin*
Minju, some people are famous for their unique proclivities. Φ
somebody had to pick it, may as well have been me.
@trunthepaige - I keep trying to troll you and you keep running away. *sniff, sniff*
I’m an atheist and I enjoy confronting those religous. The screename is my battle banner.
(HappyLemming, a prior handle, was too cute and fluffy for people to take seriously. CelestialTeapots are like secular metiorites for some good ‘ol Christian smitin’)
We own a greenhouse and I sow seeds.
job + name = nursekimmie
In reality, I chose it because they said that my most demoralized state of pathetic being showed my true colors, and they weren’t going to back off.
I realized that I was going to have to step into the night.
I just wanted a name with 3 letters tbh. At the time, I was going to use pulse more and I needed more character space. Pulse by default allows 146 characters then it subtracts the number of letters on your username, so I have 143 characters to type with pulse which is a lot compared to the average xangan.
@dw817 - I’ve got my own page too Google likes to defame me though. You should always see what it highlights from me. It’s almost as bad as RT, which won’t let you express anything intelligent. Try to use a big word on their site. They’ll erase it. It has to be the most idiotic comment to get published. I think this is in their agenda to trap our dissidents. I merely think a good deal of American RT “contributors” have mental problems.
Excuse my prior “to be” mess up. That verb and I have never gotten along, and it’s even worse after the lobotomy.
It would be, “His being was his true colors.”
I read too much Far Side and it sucks.
@QxM - that’s a cool name though. I had a name like that because I used to speak in code to myself. It was ctbyx3308.
Have you tried using the chatboard?
I’ve had mine since I first got into the internet when AOL was big, some ten years ago maybe? I’ve never been a couch potato sat in front of the TV all night, but I was always click click clicking my mouse so I wanted to be “mousepotato”. That was already taken so I added my birth year to the end. I’ll never change it as long as I’m active in the blogisphere – makes it easy for friends to find me. Same with my avatar – I rarely change that either. (Except on Multiply recently where it’s now a cartoon of Mickey Mouse flipping the finger and the words “FUCK OFF. If Mickey can do it, so can we”. Sums up how I feel about that site about now.)
A band
@BlobOfGoo - I love this, lmao! Though “BlogOfGoo would have been cool too. That’s what my brain actually read when I first saw it.
@Colorsofthenight - Thanks. The name really doesn’t mean much, just one of the letters has my initial lol. And, which chatboard?
@mousepotato66 - Haha, you’re right, BlogOfGoo would work nicely, too! And I must say, I’ve always considered myself quite the mouse potato, too!
The glow of the embers flared at the end of my cigarette providing an eerie contrast with the deep black of night. Smoke casually floated up away from me in the opposite way that she was floating towards. I took a drag and looked up at her with still, stern eyes. “You’re late” I said with demand. I didn’t have anywhere to be or wasn’t coming from anywhere per se, but that is the thing with people, if you give them an inch they take a mile. I had to let her know that this isn’t a practice that I was going to indulge. “I… I have…. I… have… the… ” I held up my hand to stop her scared stammering. I could see she had the money through the not quite clear plastic bag.
My name was a nickname given to me by my brother as he said that I have a heart like David in the bible. The above section had zero to do with anything, and I don’t even smoke.
I lost a bet.
This is not the username I started with on this account (I have changed it three times, with credits)
(my_final_username) current one, well I think this will be my final username on Xanga.
My current name is my real first and middle name. Don’t bother trying to Google me though, other than Xanga I’m not really out there on the ‘net – though apparently a LOT of people have the same first and middle name, lol. The name I had before this one (changed it once with credits) was Tika4. Tika was the red-headed bar wench/warrior in the Dragonlance series and 4 is my favorite number. :)
Because it’s my name.
because I’m a human trapped in a bunnysuit.
This name was made back in high school. I think I wanted to be somehow unique haha it’s suppose to say “VietSexy”.
mine was a random string of words. but they were too long. so i cut down like 5 or 6 of those random words and these were the two last random words that were remaining.
I was an undergrad at UC Berkeley and I’m a Pacific Islander and that is how I came up with cal_islander. Go Bears!
..I’ll let you guess.
it started as a weird joke. I used to hang around in a specific AOL chat-board (remember AOL? Remember Chat-boards?) and the regular crew knew I was something of a practical joker. I used to make up weird new screen-names come in and play like I was new to all this just to see how people would react. Who would be helpful, who would be mean, who would say what… that sort of thing.
I came in as “JulieMillerFan” once cause I knew nobody would know who Julie Miller was…. Americana / Appalachian musician with a very strong emotional pathos to her lyrics. Anyway, I was able to carry on the JulieMillerFan persona for about a month before someone caught on. In that months time, I also signed up for Ebay for the first time (Jan 1999) and so for the nickname I used the “JulieMillerFan” persona just for fun. Little did I know what was about to happen next.
About 5 months later I had a car repair I couldn’t afford. At the time I was working 4 jobs just to make ends meet. I had been through an ugly divorce that left me penniless. In frustration and anger I cried out to God asking Him “what do I do now?????” I got a response back in my time of prayer —- “Try Ebay”. I am not making this up. I yelled in anger, in prayer, at God. He responded in the kindest, gentlest way with a direct two word message. I was entirely baffled by having gotten a response.
Well, I pulled out a box of old tapes that an Lesbian Goth Atheist manager from a local Used CD store had sold me for $5 (about 200 tapes… they were all Christian music and she didn’t want them in her store. We were friends, so she pawned them off on me. You can well imagine the sort of conversations we used to have…. ROFL. And yet she was a very good friend and willing to listen — as long as it wasn’t being shoved in her face.) and I started putting a few of them up on Ebay.
One tape sold for $150. The guy paid in cash. Those tapes covered my car repair…. and then some. All told, that box of tapes netted me about $1,000…. on a $5 investment. But the story doesn’t end there. 2 months later, as I had run out of tapes to sell this guy in Florida emails me. He tells me that God had directed him to “GIVE” his entire collection of music to me. Give. Free. Understanding that I would be placing it all on Ebay for resale. God told him, he obeyed. What followed was nothing short of a miracle. I got 7 HUGE Fed-Ex boxes in the mail…. I thought this guy was gonna send me junk — old Bill Gaither Southern Gospel stuff that just won’t sell, it turned out to be a very rare collection of early Christian music that was worth close to $10,000. (I am not making that up…)
In the space of a year I went from having 4 jobs and barely having enough time to sleep — to having 2 jobs, both of which I loved and adored and which fed on one another. (I worked for Best Buy setting up new stores all over the nation. When Best Buy would send me to a new town — I would hit every pawn shop, thrift store, or resale shop in a 20 mile radius of my hotel and ship everything I found back home to resell on Ebay.) And “JulieMillerFan” became the largest seller of Collectible Christian music on Ebay for the next 8 straight years. Over 45,000+ transactions by the time I ended it all. I actually walked into a random concert once and 2 people recognized me… and then when others heard who I was, 3 more people gathered around cause they had also bought things from me. It was weird.
JulieMillerFan became a persona I didn’t plan on. When I started on Xanga (way back in 2005) it just seemed natural to use the name that everyone already knew me by. It’s been that ever since.
Cuz I have weight issues and always wanted 2 b in the in crowd….my xanga name is actually very self-explainitory :/
I love reading responses to this every time you post it, Dan! Here’s mine:
It fit. I had a contest and out of all the names submitted, this was the one that fit with how I felt at the time, how I wanted my blog to feel and felt like a part of me.
my name is jim. for as long as i can remember, i have put the z at the end of my name to describe something that is mine (jimz pencil in elementary school, for example). the screen name was totally by accident. i just wanted something strange for my first page on 360. after about 20 tries, i tried tapeworms. taken. tapewormz was not. based on my style of writing, i had a writer one night tell me that he thought i would be great at this blogging stuff if i adopted a persona and wrote from that perspective. z seemed like a natural and i have been known online by that name for almost a decade. z is also the name of that little underdog ant voiced by woody allen in antz, which i find quite hilarious. i don’t refer to myself in third party anymore because i finally realized that it is kind of freaking weird. but the z lives on. it’s funny when i meet online friends in real life and they call me that.
and i always write in lower case because i am just too damn lazy to hit the shift key.
Mine’s two-fold. With my real name being William, well you can deduce the Will/Bill concatenation. However, and admittedly I am at times lacking in my blogging skills (in my defense, my job as a System Engineer means I’m sitting in front of a computer everyday – why do I want to go home and jump right back on this bane of a tool?), my Xanga name is also a query:
Will Bill Blog?
p.s. and the 1 eProp is only to be non-conformist.
@saintvi - Awwww…. here all this time you’ve told me to keep quiet about your nickname… guess the cats out of the bag now. Hee hee hee.
xanga shut down christianplainandsimple, so I made one real quick at work. “whitetigermetalhorse” came from a conversation I had this weekend about Chinese astrology and how everyone has an element attached to their sign and that element corresponds with one of the five signs that protect kyoto. I happen to be a metal horse and metal is associated with the White Tiger of the West. so…whitetigermetalhorse was as clever as I could be since my usual screen names have all been shut down.
@RingoBonzai - You need to get those 10,000 credits and change it back, lmao!!
I blog about my life. If we are lucky, our life span should be 30,000 days.
Because mkz was already taken by someone who had never used it
It’s a song by Angels & Airwaves. “Love Like Rockets” was always my favorite. And 4 22 is my birthday.
@mousepotato66 - ”You need to get those 10,000 credits and change it back, lmao!! ” – LOL. i totally forgot that i am in hiding here and am ringobonzai. i bet that anyone that actually cares is a bit confused. ok…ringobonzai. two of my favorite cats. and i hate cats. they do not taste like chicken. they taste like cat.
Mine is in memory of a late friend.
@JulieMillerFan - Wow, incredible history lesson in your name.
As I’ve mentioned a couple of times on my own site, once upon a time I wanted to be a columnist, like Mike Royko or Erma Bombeck, and I thought “The Janus Files” would be a great title for a column. That never worked out, so when I started my Xanga site, I decided to use that as the name for my site. “Janus” was my first choice for username, but it was already taken, so I tried “janusfiles.” It was available, and as the late Paul Harvey used to say, “And now you know . . . the REST of the story.”
@mrs_mkz - I’m targeting you because of your sexy pic. Are you the faithful type? How often do you need sex?
Ryan Ross’ twitter name is thisisryanross
Because O can be a very lonely letter
@RulerofMasons - lol that is SUCH an inappropriate question for @thetheologianscafe comment section!
My initials and a random 101 at the end. Simple and easy to remember
I should point out that I had this same name for over 7 years lol.
I wanted something original and I remembered an action figure I’d had for years. When I bought it from a second hand store it already had the ear missing. I liked it because it was blue and it still had the cloth cape. Snapped a pic and here I am.
Because I’m a mom and at the time, was adamantly against minivan ownership. I just had my third child and recently bought a minivan, though. Aside from it being a dorky looking vehicle, i kinda love it. I just don’t have enough credits to change my username and refuse to pay money to do so.
isn’t it obvious?
Half my life I believed myself to be a tie-dyed hippie. Then I cut my hair, took a bath and joined the Man. I still hug trees though.
sheer it’s just a pretty word that means almost transparent and rose my favorite flower, i thought it sounded good together
It’s the Greek word for mystery.
I don’t particularly remember, but I know it had something to do with my interest in science and faith- particularly geology… it’s been a long time, lol!
It literally just popped into my head.
Verses Of Sincerity came about for a username for xanga because I wanted it to be unique. It was going to be WordsOfTruth or something like that, but VersesOfSincerity sounded better. My site is all words I’ve written and they are sincere. (:
I honestly don’t remember. It was nearly 9 years ago :O
Originally I was named Momma2babies34. I came up with that because I had two children who were born in year of 2003 and 2004. But then I had another child, I changed it to the initial of our first names.
K-ayteeA-ngelM-ercyP-hoenixJ-oshua
In memory of my Catboat “Tyche” (photo is used as icon)
My mother was a schizophrenic and I was an only child. When I was a kid and she was at home (rather than in the hospital) she would occasionally try and do my laundry. On several occasions she became confused and put my underwear in the refrigerator after it came out of the dryer. Hence the name…Cold Skivvies.
I picked it when I was thirteen & first had a xanga. It was supposed to mean that my beauty was being wasted, but then a couple years later when alcohol became involved it my life it came to double-mean that I was a wasted beauty haha
I lived in Mt. Airy, NC at the time, I’m southern, and I’m a girl. I had no idea at the time I would end up way up in the Appalachia Mountains. LOL
I used to call my eldest my lil snoogy and his birthday is 4/20
my name is marsha lee bryant and I live n cave spring, georgia – mlbncsga – It’s helped me remember who I am and where I live for the last 8 years plus I get alot of traffic from people looking for major league baseball
I wanted to tell the truth. I was tired of hiding.
Its from Grey’s Anatomy…I can relate to Meredith from the 1st couple seasons and for the longest time I would say “seriously” to everything.
random words! haha! Though, I spelled Hiatus wrong before it was too late. when I get enough credits I am changing my username, with the correct spelling! haha
Because xXAznPoloBoi69Xx was already taken… DOH!
I picked my user name because I been by my friend Tims Side since day one when he went to Jail Back in october 2011 and now hes i Prison and I will be HisDownAzzChick threw out his sentencing.
I was originally hxckendra. Then I created ‘ohveryoung’ which is after a song by Cat Stevens, “Oh Very Young.” I’ve always felt like that song exemplifies the way I feel about life, so it was very fitting.
Then I changed my name to ‘clumsyandunaware’ because I felt like I had outgrown ‘ohveryoung’. It’s pretty self explanatory, I’m super clumsy and non very spatially aware. But I’m not so sure now, I should have kept it.
I’m not very original. -_-
I am 6’10″ tall so that says it all!
One of my former friends from high school called me an angel once, Ash is my nickname, and I was born in ’86, so I just combined all three. But I’m with @BenelliMan, I thought too you asked this question already.
my friend coulnd’t say blob correctly, and it was hilarious
many friends have teased me bc I can be Wildly wise out of the blue sky & they named it the Ology of Kris which turned into Krisology. Xanga already had a one so I tried different spellings till I used a zero for the first o & it took. & this is the true story of the Birth of Kris0logy.
@thisismybl0g - I think it’s Brilliant, it’s like Spot as a dog name, hardly anyone actually names their dog Spot.
I was trying to find something that was kind of unique to me. My son was born with a heart condition and ever since he was little he always called it his “broken heart” so thats how I got that part. My daughter has been doing ballet since she was 2 and well…I’m a mom. I’m not ashamed to say that it defines me. so there way have it….Brokenheartsballet_mom is born
I picked mine because I figured it was more like a journal for me and really all I’d be writing about were things that happened that day. And I’m no one important.
@Tallman - I used to be 6’10″ but I shrank cuz a my scoliosis.I’m about 6’8″ now…with shoes on.
@mousepotato66 -”You need to get those 10,000 credits and change it back, lmao!! ” I got 107 to donate…. how much you got?? hehehe
@Celestial_Teapot - I am so sorry you will need to do it in person one of these weeks
It’s what my daughter calls me!
It is who I secretly think I am.
I named it after a friend who to me was the constant light in my darkness, and i wanted to be just like him, being the face of starlight when all that surrounds is darkness.
kellsbells (who I am on wordpress) was taken. So, my husband assigned me to the name of kellsbella for this account. Perhaps I can take out the kellsbells here at xanga and reclaim my name!
Just out of curiosty, why did you choose the theologianscafe?
When I joined xanga, it was when I was in high school. I was kind of naive and innocent at the time, and everyone always told me I looked like I was innocent. So Face_Of_Innocence it was.
cause it was my actual name you numb skull!!!!
how is the old scratching post? harvest time - the beavers in the stream.
the salmon of knowledge was upon myself I’ve been gathering dust in a dirty corner, but i’m dangling my legs, so to speak.
At least someone noticed my attention whoring. Gods speed to you fine knight. I will enjoy your round table .. I ride ahead of them, making fourty days by now, but some of the faster regiments are making good speed. Lance alot has been lancing alot. and that of maid marion???
What has become of her? Hast though news .
You’ll be pleased to know i defeated a rather large hord of cattle before it appeared to me in a dream… a huge cross in the sky and some other letters X anga - as clear as day.
now would i kid you?
PBWY
My current name is my ‘Indian name’ given to me by my onery brother in laws. muzwah means pack horse or camp Chief.
I was 18 and I had no idea what I wanted.
I was 13 when I joined Xanga. LMFAO.
Because it just seemed so…..me. LOL
It’s a nickname given to me by my brothers.
It’s cool.
Mine was a nickname I had received back in high school and it’s sorda sticked ever since.
It’s something I made in middle school, it’s a code for the girl that I had the biggest crush ever on. People to this day have no idea
It’s something I made in middle school, it’s a code for the girl that I had the biggest crush ever on. People to this day have no idea
PINKGLITTER02!!! i love pink and i love glitter hee hee so why not I wanted something fun. hee hee
I was a Cirque du Soleil fan nut back (especially when I was 14) and I was strongly into one of their shows called La Nouba. In the show there are these group of characters referred to as Urbains (urbanites) and their contrasting parts as Cirques (circus people). Considering that the life of Cirque du Soleil performers almost seem drastically different compared to every day life, “urban” people I put myself in the category of the “urbanites.” So that’s how I got my name. Plus, I stuck with it for very long time since its gender neutral and I didn’t want to be seen as female or male until it felt necessary for me to reveal my (always and only) first name to others online.
Keystspf has been my screen name pretty much everywhere since about 2003 when I created it for AOL. Broken down, it is Keys To Set Prisoners Free. When I was about 17 years old, we had this Vacation Bible School at our church, and a pastor friend of mine pulled me aside and told me, “God is going to give you the keys to get out of the bondage you’re in, and to set other people free as well.” It has been an interesting ride since then. 17 years later, I’m still finding out what that’s about. One of these days, I’ll post my whole story on my blog.
I use this as a diary pretty much, and my husband is a soldier. ( :
My ID is something to do with the cute little action we all do at some point in our lives – many to tickle someone.
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It was a nickname given to me.
My name comes from when I was at night camp during High School. We would sleep during the day and do everything else from about 5 pm to 5 am. One of the activities was Capture the Flag from about 1 to 4 am. One year it was really foggy and hard to see(no moonlight) so every time someone would run by they would be a shadow. So I figured that when I ran by the frontlines I must look like a shadow too. So there you go. Shadowrunner. 1981 was the year I was born so I just tacked that on. Shadowrunner81.
This is Xanga?! Aw sshiiittt. No wonder I couldn’t find the like button.
two of my favorite things…The Godfather movies and Green Bay Packers plus I am a godfather
I’ll give you one guess.
xX came from
X
anga and in between in my first name backward =]
its my name in RL
first? Hells yeah, I’m first.
I’m pretty sure I thought of my xanga name as I was waking up from a dream… but I can’t be sure.
I was aiming for a name that is gender neutral. A girly screenname and a decent looking profile picture will act as a magnet for some REALLY creepy people on this site or at the very least, unwanted attention. Oh and it will definitely increase the foot traffic on your blog.
Dee is my main nickname and Lynn is my middle name. The x’s have no significance whatsoever.
I swear you asked this shit already
“All we are is dust in the wind.”
I like the song “turn the page” and thought of turnthepaige as a good name for a personal blog. But turnthepaige was taken already (look) so I called it trunthepaige which is phonetically the same. I then found out that few can read phonetically on xanga
i was a backup singer in a local rock n roll band back in 1979 for a few months in southern california, but i had a couple solos, and “gold dust woman” from fleetwood mac was my favorite song to sing…. golddustwoman was already taken here, so i got golddustlady.
Mine means ‘traveller’ in Czech – travelling being my passion, and Czech being the language of the country to which I’m moving next week!
My first username was puella_sapiens216. “Puella sapiens” means “wise girl” in Latin (… yeah, I made it in high school when I was a total nerd) and 216 is a strange favourite number of mine.
I’m actually considering changing my username one last time to my first name – I doubt another “Marica” exists on Xanga lol
Wow after all these years turnthepaige shut her site down
Because when life gives you lemons… that’s life, kid.
Heart_leigh is an actual name of a girl I knew in grade school. I have always loved her name hence, the heart is for love and leigh is part of my name.
My name + a certain Greek philosopher blend together to make a natural-sounding tribute name… grade 11 history class.
It’s short for Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird….my favorite book
I was 14 and really liked the band Evanescence, especially their song ‘Taking Over Me.”
There is nothing clever about mine…my initial and daughter’s birthday. Tho’ every time I type 0908, I smile a bit.
Because I joined xanga with the intention of no one ever knowing I had a blog so I could write anything I wanted, including stuff that’s not even true hence “Is it real? No” So my username is actually a question. But it’s more like a diary now and I’m more honest on here than anywhere so that’s interesting
My parents picked it out for me.
It was inspired by a phrase Dave Barry used in one of his columns to describe a conversation between two women he was forced to listen to while waiting for the plane to take off.
Having been known as ‘mum’ to many over the years, and having been appreciated as being someone very ’special’
I decided upon using a quirky play on spelling as ’Special Friend’ along with ‘Special lady’ spelt ‘spshellady’
@trunthepaige - YOU SPELLED TURN WRONG LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
@xdeelynnx - THEY ARE KISSES COS YOOS A HO
i thought of when someone calls you a cool cat, what could be better than that. what’s cooler than cool ? ICE COLD ! also i was in high school and i thought it was clever.
Do forgive me ladies and gents, but I am allowed only ONE comment here, so, here we go…
I chose my name because ‘CANUCK’ identifies my nationality, and ‘FASCIST’ identifies my chosen ideology.
Now, I must away.
I got it from a bottle of lotion. I’m not very original.
my initials and my last name… >_>
I had the handle “Such_were_you”, which is taken from 1 Corinthians 6:11, “and such were some of you.” That verse talks about what people were before Christ. I want to talk about what Christians are to be after Christ’s resurrection.
because i am both…
because “mediocrity” was taken
Mine is the Chinese zodiac for when I was born.
it’s my twiiter name
I’m an English songbird named Jenny.
It’s my nickname
Because I was stupid, I thought I would get famous through my blog so naturally I wanted my name attached to it.
Cause I have anxiety.
“butterflies” in the stomach and chest.
And they are MANIC!
Urban because I love the city.. I consider myself as a city girl..
Spring because I was born in the spring season..
Love because I love a lot of things and I like love…
It was crystal_air’s idea
It comes from a story I wrote long ago.
…
Is this a re-post?
A word learned by rote at school that remained in the memory..Also the one that finally worked after so many tries…
TP is one of my fav GC games, and it’s my favorite time of day as well, so I wanted to use twilight in my name, but I changed it a tad because of that gay movie with the vampires in it
People always forgot the “i” when saying my name. They would say “Jessca,” and I thought I would sound it out for the very dim. Since then i kept it cause I’m not creative enough to think of anything I would like.
I’m indecisive and wanted to write about all kinds of things, so I picked a name that was amorphous and as vague as the ideas I wanted to express.
My name Grannys_place is because I am a granny and this is my place.
Saint is the nickname my sisters (Lush and Floozy) gave me one night. Rum might have been involved. Vi stands for Village Idiot.
“The Burn Journal” by Brent Runyon is my favorite book. i made my account five years ago, and i wanted to use it to “burn” all of the negative feelings that i had.
My initials. LSP was already taken so I added a 1 to it.
because its my initials.. and I am an honest person with no idea what I would be called in a different life (well stupid fat cow might suite!)xx
It should be common knowledge, however, I chose dw817 many years ago. DW for my first and last name. 817 for my areacode phone number.
Because I am active on the internet every single day of the year, it’s nice to know it’s a unique name that has been widespread and there are a little over 12,000 sites that show up in a Google search with my artwork, writing, sites, questions, comments, and file uploads.
I’m not sure if that makes me famous or infamous, but either way, I’m well known for my unchanged alias and it makes me easy to find. *Grin*
Minju, some people are famous for their unique proclivities. Φ
somebody had to pick it, may as well have been me.
@trunthepaige - I keep trying to troll you and you keep running away. *sniff, sniff*
I’m an atheist and I enjoy confronting those religous. The screename is my battle banner.
(HappyLemming, a prior handle, was too cute and fluffy for people to take seriously. CelestialTeapots are like secular metiorites for some good ‘ol Christian smitin’)
We own a greenhouse and I sow seeds.
job + name = nursekimmie
In reality, I chose it because they said that my most demoralized state of pathetic being showed my true colors, and they weren’t going to back off.
I realized that I was going to have to step into the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqYMRcnLU0o
I realized a few things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpJSo7e2ZQ
I just wanted a name with 3 letters tbh. At the time, I was going to use pulse more and I needed more character space. Pulse by default allows 146 characters then it subtracts the number of letters on your username, so I have 143 characters to type with pulse which is a lot compared to the average xangan.
@dw817 - I’ve got my own page too
Google likes to defame me though. You should always see what it highlights from me. It’s almost as bad as RT, which won’t let you express anything intelligent. Try to use a big word on their site. They’ll erase it. It has to be the most idiotic comment to get published. I think this is in their agenda to trap our dissidents. I merely think a good deal of American RT “contributors” have mental problems.
Excuse my prior “to be” mess up. That verb and I have never gotten along, and it’s even worse after the lobotomy.
It would be, “His being was his true colors.”
I read too much Far Side and it sucks.
@QxM - that’s a cool name though. I had a name like that because I used to speak in code to myself. It was ctbyx3308.
Have you tried using the chatboard?
I’ve had mine since I first got into the internet when AOL was big, some ten years ago maybe? I’ve never been a couch potato sat in front of the TV all night, but I was always click click clicking my mouse so I wanted to be “mousepotato”. That was already taken so I added my birth year to the end. I’ll never change it as long as I’m active in the blogisphere – makes it easy for friends to find me. Same with my avatar – I rarely change that either. (Except on Multiply recently where it’s now a cartoon of Mickey Mouse flipping the finger and the words “FUCK OFF. If Mickey can do it, so can we”. Sums up how I feel about that site about now.)
A band
@BlobOfGoo - I love this, lmao! Though “BlogOfGoo would have been cool too.
That’s what my brain actually read when I first saw it. 
@Colorsofthenight - Thanks. The name really doesn’t mean much, just one of the letters has my initial lol. And, which chatboard?
@mousepotato66 - Haha, you’re right, BlogOfGoo would work nicely, too! And I must say, I’ve always considered myself quite the mouse potato, too!
The glow of the embers flared at the end of my cigarette providing an eerie contrast with the deep black of night. Smoke casually floated up away from me in the opposite way that she was floating towards. I took a drag and looked up at her with still, stern eyes. “You’re late” I said with demand. I didn’t have anywhere to be or wasn’t coming from anywhere per se, but that is the thing with people, if you give them an inch they take a mile. I had to let her know that this isn’t a practice that I was going to indulge. “I… I have…. I… have… the… ” I held up my hand to stop her scared stammering. I could see she had the money through the not quite clear plastic bag.
My name was a nickname given to me by my brother as he said that I have a heart like David in the bible. The above section had zero to do with anything, and I don’t even smoke.
I lost a bet.
This is not the username I started with on this account (I have changed it three times, with credits)
(my_final_username) current one, well I think this will be my final username on Xanga.
My current name is my real first and middle name. Don’t bother trying to Google me though, other than Xanga I’m not really out there on the ‘net – though apparently a LOT of people have the same first and middle name, lol. The name I had before this one (changed it once with credits) was Tika4. Tika was the red-headed bar wench/warrior in the Dragonlance series and 4 is my favorite number. :)
Because it’s my name.
because I’m a human trapped in a bunnysuit.
This name was made back in high school. I think I wanted to be somehow unique haha it’s suppose to say “VietSexy”.
mine was a random string of words. but they were too long. so i cut down like 5 or 6 of those random words and these were the two last random words that were remaining.
I was an undergrad at UC Berkeley and I’m a Pacific Islander and that is how I came up with cal_islander. Go Bears!
..I’ll let you guess.
it started as a weird joke. I used to hang around in a specific AOL chat-board (remember AOL? Remember Chat-boards?) and the regular crew knew I was something of a practical joker. I used to make up weird new screen-names come in and play like I was new to all this just to see how people would react. Who would be helpful, who would be mean, who would say what… that sort of thing.
I came in as “JulieMillerFan” once cause I knew nobody would know who Julie Miller was…. Americana / Appalachian musician with a very strong emotional pathos to her lyrics. Anyway, I was able to carry on the JulieMillerFan persona for about a month before someone caught on. In that months time, I also signed up for Ebay for the first time (Jan 1999) and so for the nickname I used the “JulieMillerFan” persona just for fun. Little did I know what was about to happen next.
About 5 months later I had a car repair I couldn’t afford. At the time I was working 4 jobs just to make ends meet. I had been through an ugly divorce that left me penniless. In frustration and anger I cried out to God asking Him “what do I do now?????” I got a response back in my time of prayer —- “Try Ebay”. I am not making this up. I yelled in anger, in prayer, at God. He responded in the kindest, gentlest way with a direct two word message. I was entirely baffled by having gotten a response.
Well, I pulled out a box of old tapes that an Lesbian Goth Atheist manager from a local Used CD store had sold me for $5 (about 200 tapes… they were all Christian music and she didn’t want them in her store. We were friends, so she pawned them off on me. You can well imagine the sort of conversations we used to have…. ROFL. And yet she was a very good friend and willing to listen — as long as it wasn’t being shoved in her face.) and I started putting a few of them up on Ebay.
One tape sold for $150. The guy paid in cash. Those tapes covered my car repair…. and then some. All told, that box of tapes netted me about $1,000…. on a $5 investment. But the story doesn’t end there. 2 months later, as I had run out of tapes to sell this guy in Florida emails me. He tells me that God had directed him to “GIVE” his entire collection of music to me. Give. Free. Understanding that I would be placing it all on Ebay for resale. God told him, he obeyed. What followed was nothing short of a miracle. I got 7 HUGE Fed-Ex boxes in the mail…. I thought this guy was gonna send me junk — old Bill Gaither Southern Gospel stuff that just won’t sell, it turned out to be a very rare collection of early Christian music that was worth close to $10,000. (I am not making that up…)
In the space of a year I went from having 4 jobs and barely having enough time to sleep — to having 2 jobs, both of which I loved and adored and which fed on one another. (I worked for Best Buy setting up new stores all over the nation. When Best Buy would send me to a new town — I would hit every pawn shop, thrift store, or resale shop in a 20 mile radius of my hotel and ship everything I found back home to resell on Ebay.) And “JulieMillerFan” became the largest seller of Collectible Christian music on Ebay for the next 8 straight years. Over 45,000+ transactions by the time I ended it all. I actually walked into a random concert once and 2 people recognized me… and then when others heard who I was, 3 more people gathered around cause they had also bought things from me. It was weird.
JulieMillerFan became a persona I didn’t plan on. When I started on Xanga (way back in 2005) it just seemed natural to use the name that everyone already knew me by. It’s been that ever since.
Cuz I have weight issues and always wanted 2 b in the in crowd….my xanga name is actually very self-explainitory :/
I love reading responses to this every time you post it, Dan! Here’s mine:
http://jerusalemhill.xanga.com/737771760/it-most-certainly-is-not-all-about-me/
I’m a pharmacy tech that likes to write. Yep.
It fit.
I had a contest and out of all the names submitted, this was the one that fit with how I felt at the time, how I wanted my blog to feel and felt like a part of me.
my name is jim. for as long as i can remember, i have put the z at the end of my name to describe something that is mine (jimz pencil in elementary school, for example). the screen name was totally by accident. i just wanted something strange for my first page on 360. after about 20 tries, i tried tapeworms. taken. tapewormz was not. based on my style of writing, i had a writer one night tell me that he thought i would be great at this blogging stuff if i adopted a persona and wrote from that perspective. z seemed like a natural and i have been known online by that name for almost a decade. z is also the name of that little underdog ant voiced by woody allen in antz, which i find quite hilarious. i don’t refer to myself in third party anymore because i finally realized that it is kind of freaking weird. but the z lives on. it’s funny when i meet online friends in real life and they call me that.
and i always write in lower case because i am just too damn lazy to hit the shift key.
@JulieMillerFan - that is one cool story.
Mine’s two-fold. With my real name being William, well you can deduce the Will/Bill concatenation.
However, and admittedly I am at times lacking in my blogging skills
(in my defense, my job as a System Engineer means I’m sitting in front of a computer everyday –
why do I want to go home and jump right back on this bane of a tool?),
my Xanga name is also a query:
Will Bill Blog?
p.s. and the 1 eProp is only to be non-conformist.
@saintvi - Awwww…. here all this time you’ve told me to keep quiet about your nickname… guess the cats out of the bag now. Hee hee hee.
xanga shut down christianplainandsimple, so I made one real quick at work. “whitetigermetalhorse” came from a conversation I had this weekend about Chinese astrology and how everyone has an element attached to their sign and that element corresponds with one of the five signs that protect kyoto. I happen to be a metal horse and metal is associated with the White Tiger of the West. so…whitetigermetalhorse was as clever as I could be since my usual screen names have all been shut down.
@RingoBonzai - You need to get those 10,000 credits and change it back, lmao!!
I blog about my life. If we are lucky, our life span should be 30,000 days.
Because mkz was already taken by someone who had never used it
It’s a song by Angels & Airwaves. “Love Like Rockets” was always my favorite. And 4 22 is my birthday.
@mousepotato66 - ”You need to get those 10,000 credits and change it back, lmao!!
” – LOL. i totally forgot that i am in hiding here and am ringobonzai. i bet that anyone that actually cares is a bit confused. ok…ringobonzai. two of my favorite cats. and i hate cats. they do not taste like chicken. they taste like cat.
Mine is in memory of a late friend.
@JulieMillerFan - Wow, incredible history lesson in your name.
As I’ve mentioned a couple of times on my own site, once upon a time I wanted to be a columnist, like Mike Royko or Erma Bombeck, and I thought “The Janus Files” would be a great title for a column. That never worked out, so when I started my Xanga site, I decided to use that as the name for my site. “Janus” was my first choice for username, but it was already taken, so I tried “janusfiles.” It was available, and as the late Paul Harvey used to say, “And now you know . . . the REST of the story.”
@mrs_mkz - I’m targeting you because of your sexy pic. Are you the faithful type? How often do you need sex?
Ryan Ross’ twitter name is thisisryanross
Because O can be a very lonely letter
@RulerofMasons - lol that is SUCH an inappropriate question for @thetheologianscafe comment section!
My initials and a random 101 at the end. Simple and easy to remember
I should point out that I had this same name for over 7 years lol.
I wanted something original and I remembered an action figure I’d had for years. When I bought it from a second hand store it already had the ear missing. I liked it because it was blue and it still had the cloth cape. Snapped a pic and here I am.
Because I’m a mom and at the time, was adamantly against minivan ownership. I just had my third child and recently bought a minivan, though. Aside from it being a dorky looking vehicle, i kinda love it. I just don’t have enough credits to change my username and refuse to pay money to do so.
isn’t it obvious?
Half my life I believed myself to be a tie-dyed hippie. Then I cut my hair, took a bath and joined the Man. I still hug trees though.
sheer it’s just a pretty word that means almost transparent and rose my favorite flower, i thought it sounded good together
It’s the Greek word for mystery.
I don’t particularly remember, but I know it had something to do with my interest in science and faith- particularly geology… it’s been a long time, lol!
It literally just popped into my head.
Verses Of Sincerity came about for a username for xanga because I wanted it to be unique. It was going to be WordsOfTruth or something like that, but VersesOfSincerity sounded better. My site is all words I’ve written and they are sincere. (:
I honestly don’t remember. It was nearly 9 years ago :O
Originally I was named Momma2babies34. I came up with that because I had two children who were born in year of 2003 and 2004. But then I had another child, I changed it to the initial of our first names.
K-ayteeA-ngelM-ercyP-hoenixJ-oshua
In memory of my Catboat “Tyche” (photo is used as icon)
My mother was a schizophrenic and I was an only child. When I was a kid and she was at home (rather than in the hospital) she would occasionally try and do my laundry. On several occasions she became confused and put my underwear in the refrigerator after it came out of the dryer. Hence the name…Cold Skivvies.
Because
“TheTheologiansCafe”
was already taken. But mostly because of THIS.
I picked it when I was thirteen & first had a xanga. It was supposed to mean that my beauty was being wasted, but then a couple years later when alcohol became involved it my life it came to double-mean that I was a wasted beauty haha
I lived in Mt. Airy, NC at the time, I’m southern, and I’m a girl. I had no idea at the time I would end up way up in the Appalachia Mountains. LOL
I used to call my eldest my lil snoogy and his birthday is 4/20
my name is marsha lee bryant and I live n cave spring, georgia – mlbncsga – It’s helped me remember who I am and where I live for the last 8 years
plus I get alot of traffic from people looking for major league baseball 
I wanted to tell the truth. I was tired of hiding.
@ShimmerBodyCream - How ’bout that… I’ve always wondered.
Its from Grey’s Anatomy…I can relate to Meredith from the 1st couple seasons and for the longest time I would say “seriously” to everything.
random words! haha! Though, I spelled Hiatus wrong before it was too late. when I get enough credits I am changing my username, with the correct spelling! haha
Because xXAznPoloBoi69Xx was already taken… DOH!
I picked my user name because I been by my friend Tims Side since day one when he went to Jail Back in october 2011 and now hes i Prison and I will be HisDownAzzChick threw out his sentencing.
I was originally hxckendra. Then I created ‘ohveryoung’ which is after a song by Cat Stevens, “Oh Very Young.” I’ve always felt like that song exemplifies the way I feel about life, so it was very fitting.
Then I changed my name to ‘clumsyandunaware’ because I felt like I had outgrown ‘ohveryoung’. It’s pretty self explanatory, I’m super clumsy and non very spatially aware. But I’m not so sure now, I should have kept it.
I’m not very original. -_-
I am 6’10″ tall so that says it all!
One of my former friends from high school called me an angel once, Ash is my nickname, and I was born in ’86, so I just combined all three. But I’m with @BenelliMan, I thought too you asked this question already.
my friend coulnd’t say blob correctly, and it was hilarious
@electrons_in_hatius_2009 - my mind reads it right…if that helps..
many friends have teased me bc I can be Wildly wise out of the blue sky & they named it the Ology of Kris which turned into Krisology. Xanga already had a one so I tried different spellings till I used a zero for the first o & it took. & this is the true story of the Birth of Kris0logy.
@thisismybl0g - I think it’s Brilliant, it’s like Spot as a dog name, hardly anyone actually names their dog Spot.
I was trying to find something that was kind of unique to me. My son was born with a heart condition and ever since he was little he always called it his “broken heart” so thats how I got that part. My daughter has been doing ballet since she was 2 and well…I’m a mom. I’m not ashamed to say that it defines me. so there way have it….Brokenheartsballet_mom is born
I picked mine because I figured it was more like a journal for me and really all I’d be writing about were things that happened that day. And I’m no one important.
@Tallman - I used to be 6’10″ but I shrank cuz a my scoliosis.I’m about 6’8″ now…with shoes on.
@MyPublicSite - lol
@mousepotato66 -”You need to get those 10,000 credits and change it back, lmao!!
” I got 107 to donate…. how much you got?? hehehe 
@Celestial_Teapot - I am so sorry you will need to do it in person one of these weeks
It’s what my daughter calls me!
It is who I secretly think I am.
I named it after a friend who to me was the constant light in my darkness, and i wanted to be just like him, being the face of starlight when all that surrounds is darkness.
kellsbells (who I am on wordpress) was taken. So, my husband assigned me to the name of kellsbella for this account. Perhaps I can take out the kellsbells here at xanga and reclaim my name!
Just out of curiosty, why did you choose the theologianscafe?
When I joined xanga, it was when I was in high school. I was kind of naive and innocent at the time, and everyone always told me I looked like I was innocent. So Face_Of_Innocence it was.
cause it was my actual name you numb skull!!!!
how is the old scratching post? harvest time - the beavers in the stream.
the salmon of knowledge was upon myself I’ve been gathering dust in a dirty corner, but i’m dangling my legs, so to speak.
At least someone noticed my attention whoring. Gods speed to you fine knight. I will enjoy your round table .. I ride ahead of them, making fourty days by now, but some of the faster regiments are making good speed. Lance alot has been lancing alot. and that of maid marion???
What has become of her? Hast though news .
You’ll be pleased to know i defeated a rather large hord of cattle before it appeared to me in a dream… a huge cross in the sky and some other letters X anga - as clear as day.
now would i kid you?
PBWY
My current name is my ‘Indian name’ given to me by my onery brother in laws. muzwah means pack horse or camp
Chief.
I was 18 and I had no idea what I wanted.
I was 13 when I joined Xanga. LMFAO.
Because it just seemed so…..me. LOL
It’s a nickname given to me by my brothers.
It’s cool.
Mine was a nickname I had received back in high school and it’s sorda sticked ever since.
It’s something I made in middle school, it’s a code for the girl that I had the biggest crush ever on. People to this day have no idea
It’s something I made in middle school, it’s a code for the girl that I had the biggest crush ever on. People to this day have no idea
PINKGLITTER02!!! i love pink and i love glitter hee hee so why not
I wanted something fun. hee hee
I was a Cirque du Soleil fan nut back (especially when I was 14) and I was strongly into one of their shows called La Nouba. In the show there are these group of characters referred to as Urbains (urbanites) and their contrasting parts as Cirques (circus people). Considering that the life of Cirque du Soleil performers almost seem drastically different compared to every day life, “urban” people I put myself in the category of the “urbanites.” So that’s how I got my name. Plus, I stuck with it for very long time since its gender neutral and I didn’t want to be seen as female or male until it felt necessary for me to reveal my (always and only) first name to others online.
Keystspf has been my screen name pretty much everywhere since about 2003 when I created it for AOL. Broken down, it is Keys To Set Prisoners Free. When I was about 17 years old, we had this Vacation Bible School at our church, and a pastor friend of mine pulled me aside and told me, “God is going to give you the keys to get out of the bondage you’re in, and to set other people free as well.” It has been an interesting ride since then. 17 years later, I’m still finding out what that’s about. One of these days, I’ll post my whole story on my blog.
I use this as a diary pretty much, and my husband is a soldier. ( :
My ID is something to do with the cute little action we all do at some point in our lives – many to tickle someone.