What’s in a name?

[Eviehere]

Its is based on a work username from many decades ago. I saw based it is a typo.

Based on a typo...

Back in high school I was issued a chomebook where 25 of the 26 letter keys were functional.

"I" did not work.

Instead of fixing it, I was given a "Letter of Marquise" excusing me from ever having to use the letter "I."

 

[Duleigh]

I didn't want to make up a name myself, because I was afraid I would subconsciously be giving some sort of clue to my real identity. So I decided to turn on the radio and use whatever the first song they played was. And there you have it.

Emerson Lake & Palmer?

 

[Btq97]

Based on a typo...

Back in high school I was issued a chomebook where 25 of the 26 letter keys were functional.

"I" did not work.

Instead of fixing it, I was given a "Letter of Marquise" excusing me from ever having to use the letter "I."

The user name I was issued was for use on an IBM 3270 terminal. The keyboard was an apl keyboard each key having 4 or 5 different characters on it. You could have driven over it and would still have worked.

 

[Eviehere]

Emerson Lake & Palmer?

"Performing on a stool is a sight to make you drool. Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool."

 

[Duleigh]

"Performing on a stool is a sight to make you drool. Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool."

We would like it to be known
The exhibits that were shown
Were exclusively our own,
All our own. All our own.

I never noticed that ELP used Ralph Waldo Emerson as a lyrics writer

 

[Comshaw]

My username comes from a perverted form of a mariner's term "cumshaw" which originally meant a gift or gratuity. It got twisted by the Navy to mean things that were "liberated" from some other branch or department. My uncle (who had been in the Navy) used it when he brought things home from the local paper mill he worked for. When he did, he would always say they were a comshawed from the mill.

Comshaw

 

[Duleigh]

My username comes from a perverted form of a mariner's term "cumshaw" which originally meant a gift or gratuity. It got twisted by the Navy to mean things that were "liberated" from some other branch or department. My uncle (who had been in the Navy) used it when he brought things home from the local paper mill he worked for. When he did, he would always say they were a comshawed from the mill.

Comshaw

I just had to look this up. I live in a Navy town and hang out with a lot of sailors at the American Legion hall and the origins of the words used are entertaining to say the least. Here's the dictionary story on cumshaw:

British Navy personnel first picked up cumshaw in Chinese ports, during the First Opium War of 1839. Cumshaw is from a word that means "grateful thanks" in the dialect of Xiamen, a port in southeast China. Apparently, sailors heard it from the beggars who hung around the ports, and mistook it as the word for a handout. Since then, U.S. sailors have given cumshaw its own unique application, for something obtained through unofficial means (whether deviously or simply ingeniously).

 

[Cobaltofdark]

Um needed something completely different then my normal online presence so this whole journey started because of Cobalt kinda made since I use that name.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

My name is that of the MC in my first submission here.

 

[BronzePlaceWriter]

I used to go by a dozen different names. When I decided to get serious about writing erotic fiction I needed a single identity to merge my work together so that future commissioners would be able to gauge the quality and improvement over time. I thought for a while on what I wanted to call myself. Obviously, I didn't want it to relate to my SFW usernames because I also do fantasy and adventure writing and having that identity connected to this one would be potentially bad for future goals in that area.

Ultimately, I decided to present myself as I wanted to be seen. I am a writer, I have been a writer for most of my live. It's a core part of who I consider myself to be and how I express myself. I am also a good writer. Saying that is sometimes hard for me because I judge myself harshly, and because I have a hard time praising myself without feeling like I am being egotistic or bigging myself up.

So I wanted to involve that in my username. Obviously, the top three places in a race are gold, silver and bronze. I didn't want to be gold because I know that I am not the best. I am good, I can say that but I still have a long way to go before I consider myself worthy of even approaching that level. After that there is silver, but that still seemed somewhat arrogant to me. At the time I was only really getting started doing paid commissions and erotic work in a serious way. Who would trust some new guy who comes barrelling out of nowhere and claims to be the second best right away?

So i decided to go with bronze. Bronze is nice and solid. It's up there, but it's not the best and it's not the second best. It's a colour that is dependable, you get quality from it but it doesn't have a towering ego about what it does. I liked that aspect, it appealed to me. Represented what I wanted people to think of when they saw my username.

''That's BronzePlaceWriter. He does erotic fiction. It's pretty good stuff. Not perfect, mind you but he works to a good schedule, he delivers what you pay him for and he has a good attitude/relationship with his readers.''

That's what I wanted to aspire to.

Maybe I overthought it a bit xD

 

[MadeleineSinha]

Whenever I wrote a story at school Madeleine Sinha was the heroine, at the time I thought Madeleine was the most exotic name in the world and Sinha has some family connections. When I started writing for publication I didn't want to put myself out there and so Madeleine came along to my rescue.

 

[Bramblethorn]

So I wanted to involve that in my username. Obviously, the top three places in a race are gold, silver and bronze. I didn't want to be gold because I know that I am not the best. I am good, I can say that but I still have a long way to go before I consider myself worthy of even approaching that level. After that there is silver, but that still seemed somewhat arrogant to me. At the time I was only really getting started doing paid commissions and erotic work in a serious way. Who would trust some new guy who comes barrelling out of nowhere and claims to be the second best right away?

So i decided to go with bronze. Bronze is nice and solid. It's up there, but it's not the best and it's not the second best. It's a colour that is dependable, you get quality from it but it doesn't have a towering ego about what it does. I liked that aspect, it appealed to me. Represented what I wanted people to think of when they saw my username.

''That's BronzePlaceWriter. He does erotic fiction. It's pretty good stuff. Not perfect, mind you but he works to a good schedule, he delivers what you pay him for and he has a good attitude/relationship with his readers.''

That's what I wanted to aspire to.

Maybe I overthought it a bit xD

I heard an anecdote a while back about athletes. Don't know if it's true, but according to the story, somebody did a follow-up on Olympic medallists to see how they were doing years later. The gold medallists were struggling with the pressures of fame, and the silver medallists were struggling with the knowledge that they came so close to being first. But the bronze medallists were doing the best, because mostly they hadn't expected to win and were proud just to be in the running.

 

[LdyHoneybee]

Wonderful stories! Mine is just an old handle my dad gave me. One of my given names begins with B.