What's in a name?

[butfirst]

Well, when it comes to butfirst, not a lot actually. About the time that I'd decided to dip my toes in the LJ waters, I'd also come across this amusing bit of fluff on teh internets:

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Being stumped for an LJ username that would be the perfect embodiment my dazzling wit, sophistication and intelligence, I settled on the battle cry of the Chenbot for my '

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[curskineville]

Butwe wouldn't buthave you any other... butway? Man, I think I just hurt my funny bone.

You already know the meaning of my username, right? Erskineville. The Erskineville Curse. Curskineville. I swear, I went through every cool handle I had in me and all of them were taken, so, yeah, I'm stuck with this stupid thing.

[butfirst]

Butaww... ♥

I too tried several usernames that were all taken, but I think Curskineville's a good one. It sounds darkly dramatic, like a mist-shrouded village in an Arthur Conan Doyle mystery.

[butfirst]

You know, it wasn't until your guest spot on Halloween's Slave To The Rhythm last year that realised it was pronounced bee-air-z-bub and not bear-z-bub. D'oh!

[butfirst]

I'm totally going to sound like I have the stupids but I had no idea that paroxytone was even a real word. That's the kind of word that if you ever managed to complete in Scrabble, you could happily retire from ever playing again.

[mutleyjames]

My original wheezing laugh from my days as a heavy smoker landed me the nick that I used also as my avatar in the furry fandom.
The rest is pretty basic and self explanatoru.

And the fact that some dickhead from Melbourne took the livejournal name mutley and hasn't used it since 2004.

[butfirst]

It's funny, but I can't imagine you with a smoker's wheeze let alone smoking, despite the fact that when I first met you we both smoked. Kudos us for having stayed off them.

Hmm... perhaps Mutley's nacho's [sic] (his very last entry) were the reason for his demise? I'm not sure what the hell 'Guach' is, but I'm pretty sure it's got no damn business being on a plate of nachos.

[ishtasm]

After I had to delete my old LJ due to a run-in with a sociopathic former co-worker I was casting around for a new name. And at the time I was addicted to World of Warcraft and crazy in love with my rogue, Ishbel. And I also had my fat little dwarf priest, Wishbel (that is, she wished she could be Ishbel. Ho ho ho). Everything was ish-ish-ish and it was just one big ishtasm. So!

[butfirst]

Gawd, I'd forgotten about the creepy co-worker story. *shudder*

Istasm sounds like a total Fosse dance move, and that's a good thing:

Issssssshhhhh... TASM! *jazz hands*

[curskineville]

HAHA! Yes!