What does your BookTalk.org username mean?

[Chris OConnor]

Does your BookTalk.org username have any special meaning? Why did you pick it?

My username is simply my real name.

[Cattleman]

Well, since my current primary economic activity is raising beef cattle, I guess it is obvioous. Actually, i wanted a name that (1) was easy for me to remember, and (2) wasn't already taken. Cattleman was not my first choice, but was the first that cleared the second hurdle.

[LeeLee6184]

My first name is Leana; some call me Lee or LeeLee. The numbers are my birthday

[heledd]

I wanted something to reflect my Welsh roots. Heledd was a mythical welsh princess, and also we have the 'Song of Heledd' which is one of my favourite poems from the 7th Century, talking of the defeat of the Welsh by the invading Anglo Saxons. My favourite bit:
The Hall of Cyndylan is dark
To-night, without fire, without bed!
I’ll weep a while, afterwards I shall be silent.

The Hall of Cyndylan is dark
To-night, without fire, without candle!
Except God, who will give me patience?

[Rajesh]

My user name is my real name.

[oblivion]

My name comes from a poem by one of my favorite poets, John Clare, entitle "I am"

"I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am! and live with shadows tost" "Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life nor joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest – that I loved the best – Are strange – nay, rather stranger than the rest." "I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below – above the vaulted sky."

[Murasak Hideki]

My username is not my real name.
It is my pseudonym.
I chose Murasaki Hideki because I'm crazy about Japanese
and Murasaki means purple in Japanese and purple is my
favorite color. I don't know what Hideki means. One source says
it means 'excellent trees'. Another said 'splendid opportunity' and
another said it meant 'bright trees' So, I'm confused about that.

[Saffron]

The first reason I thought to use Saffron as my username is it is a favorite flavor of mine. There are several other that made me glad it was available - the sound of the work, I like the way it feels when I say it, the Donovan song Mellow Yellow (I'm just mad about Saffron, she's just mad about me) and I love the color too, a gorgeous red orange.

[crisnee]

It's pseudo French for born Chris, almost. Easy to remember, meaningful to me and sort of my real name.

-Chris

[shellilea]

First and middle name. =)