How did you choose your username?

Hi everyone,

How did you choose your username here at CC?

I know some of you chose your names, while others chose something different. When I joined, I thought it was going to be a strictly-Madonna forum and so I combined my first name, "Mandy", in with one of Madonna's songs "Candy Perfume Girl."

I've been a fan of Lisa Lopes' music for several years and I love her album, Supernova, hence my name.

I'm using my real name.
















































Oh, OK. My real name is Alexander De Large.

Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) was an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968. Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when a director dissatisfied with the final product proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the move or even to acknowledge being the actual director.

Over the years the name and its purpose became more widely known. Some directors violated the embargo on discussing their use of the pseudonym. In 1998, the film An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn was released, in which a man named Alan Smithee (Eric Idle) wishes to disavow a film he has directed, but is unable to do so because the only pseudonym he is permitted to use is his own name. The film was directed by Arthur Hiller, who reported to the DGA that producer Joe Eszterhas had interfered with his creative control, and successfully removed his own name from the film, so "Alan Smithee" was credited instead. The film was a commercial and critical failure, grossing only $45,779 in the US with a budget of about $10 million, and the Rotten Tomatoes web site reports an aggregate critical rating of only 8% positive. But the harsh negative publicity that surrounded the film drew unwanted mainstream attention to the pseudonym. Following this, the DGA retired the name; for the film Supernova (2000) dissatisfied director Walter Hill was instead credited as "Thomas Lee."

^^Ahhh that's interesting! Had no idea.

When I joined this forum, I was mainly interested in the OLTL forum. My name comes form my favourite actor on the show - Trevor St. John - and how I will always support him.

^^I always wondered who he was. I don't watch the soaps but used to. OLTL was one of them but it was MANY years ago.

I thot this was the thread where I said this before, but it's a new one.

Shale Stone is a character in my first erotic writing (1984) in which I put my sexual exploits in the form of letters between Bert and Shale, lifelong buddies.

When I got on the internet, it became my screen name after realizing that every little comment with my real name ended up in search engines. I guess there would be a million geological sites come up before Shale did.

So, Shale gets to do all the naughty things without implicating ... that other guy.

Shale Stone. Wasn’t he on The Flintstones?

alan smithee wrote:Shale Stone. Wasn’t he on The Flintstones?

Yeah, the mild-mannered Bedrock superhero who comes out at night as RockHard.

Started out using "JB" because I didn't know anybody here, but got tired of seeing my user look so simplistic so I stretched it out to indicate my first name, keeping the last initial on display.

I started off here as 'Doyen,' but thought - being the admin - having such a 'character'-sounding user name seemed disingenuous. I figured using my own name would make me a little more real and relateable to others.

I used my SOC username.

mix of my real name and nickname

At the other forum I was in and just left, I was "Lisa M", which is my real name, first and initial of last. Coming here, I decided to be someone else, mainly so the trolls I had issue with over at NIN couldn't Google-search me and follow me here.

So I took my username from the title of a song I've always loved "Hyacinth Girl" from an 80's alternative band, Winter Hours. Funny thing happened, though, after taking this username: the band, which has long since broken up and the lead singer died in 2003, only put out 3 albums. Two of them are out of print, and I'd been looking for them for years. I came across the Facebook page of the guitarist, Michael Carlucci, and creative force behind Winter Hours, so on a longshot, I sent him a message asking if he knew of anywhere I could get a copy of one of the albums.

Michael actually replied and friended me on FB, and turned out to be a super nice guy, and even sent me a bunch of the old songs by email! Totally cool, so now I have some of their works on my Ipod and he said to remind him and he'll send more. LOL (Okey dokey, then!)

Even funnier, still, it turns out that the band that Michael is in now, "The Thousand Pities", happens to have two members in it from another now defunct college band, "The Vestrymen"--they were just getting going when I was graduating college and my best friend at the time was dating one of the members. I recently hooked back up with her on FB, so we all had a good trip down memory lane after Facebook-chatting about how the two bands have merged into one and "we knew them when"! She still keeps in touch with the Vestrymen guys on FB, too, and was totally surprised that I'd hooked up with Michael on FB. LOL

Here's the song I named my username after:

I use my own name it kind of makes me seem more of a person rather than a character.

Oh you still a character T!

Live in NY, I got style and my birthday is 7/09.

Happy Bir...oops, not yet.

Mine is from one of my favorite movies, the Canadian werewolf movie "Ginger Snaps"

I stole it from my AOL SN that I created in 7th grade. I liked fire. I liked ice. It seemed so unique at the time lol. The 918 was a carryover from my very first AOL SN.