Why do you have the Y!A nickname that you do? Is there a story behind it, a religious meaning or just for fun?

Answer 1

It is descriptive of my point of view.

Answer 2

I was born in the Kingdom of Morocco, November 9, 1989. My father was a young man in East Germany and one of many to climb the Berliner Mauer, the Berlin Wall, while chats of "No more wars. No more walls. A united world" were song or said loudly as the wall crumbled down.
He was always very against the fake communism the USSR had, and knew that true communism was just a Utopian pipe dream high in the sky.

A few months later when he went to Morocco to take his family back home, the thing he said when he first saw me was 'she's going to be a child of the USSR, but a women in a new and better 'Pоссiйская Имперiя.'

When I was a toddler in Moscow, 1991, I was safely in my fathers home when all around us much was in turmoil, fear, confusion, and liberation.
On August 19, of that year we heard that Gennadi Yanayev, Valentin Pavlov, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Dmitriy Yazov, and others had acted to prevent the signing of the union treaty that the Russian SFSR was suppose to sign the next day.

The "Committee" put Gorbachev, under house arrest, reintroduced political censorship, and attempted to stop the perestroika. It seemed my fathers dream wouldn't come true.

For three days there was no news. Then on August 21, we heard that the coup had collapsed, the organizers were detained, Gorbachev returned as president of the Soviet Union, and my fathers hope was back. By December food was short and there was rationing in the Moscow area for the first time since World War II, times were very bleak.

However all around us the USSR republics were gaining independence. Times were changing, fast.
On December 25, the Soviet flag was lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, earlier that day Gorbachev resigned as president of the USSR, declaring the office extinct and ceding all the powers still vested in it to the president of Russia.

By December 31,1991, all official Soviet institutions had ceased operations as individual republics assumed the central government's role. The USSR had collapsed on herself.

My name is Bo- and I am a child of the USSR, now a women of the Russian Federation.

Answer 3

Email name derived from a name I had in high school which came from combining two Star Trek:TNG characters. The numbers are the date I made the account which was a month after the birth of my first son.

Nothing thrilling there Im afraid! LOL

Answer 4

I started out in the Politics section. No one there seemed to know any history, and I was always making historical references. Nothing like Bo's great story.

I think I'd go by Tanuki now, if I hadn't built up some wonderful contacts under the old name.

Answer 5

My name comes from the character Pangloss in Voltaire's Candide, which was a satirical character based on the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz coined the phrase "the best of all possible worlds" to answer the question "if God is omnibenevolent, omnipotent and omniscient, why is there suffering in the world?"
He stated since God is all these things and created the world, this world must be the best of all possible worlds.
Voltaire shows the absurdity in this statement through his eternal optimist Pangloss.

Answer 6

My actual nickname is appalachianamerican. When I was setting up my Yahoo! e-mail, I kept choosing names that were in use already, so I tried to think up something unique. It is a long name, but I'm a fast typist, and it sounds somewhat better than hickamerican or hillbillyamerican..... :-)

Answer 7

It's a name that I use on every board I go to. It doesn't have any significance... I was trying to think of something politically and religiously neutral and there were blue octagons painted on the bedroom wall. (I lived with an art major at the time.)

Answer 8

Well, my nom de plum is partially inspired by a rabid fundie who sent me a hatemail accusing me of being the "Incarnatrix of Evil" among other absurdities...

But tawaen is just a random mix of letters that I used years ago to set up an email account. I still use it as a user ID for most of my online activities.

Answer 9

Elena V is my name. The T makes me a VT - an exclusive club or intelligent, sexy women adopting the name "vile temptress" based on a fundie post. I added Candy Cane for the season. There could also be a mild sexual reference involved.

Answer 10

I chose behonest because I want people to know that I mean what I say and say what I mean (at the time I am writing it at least, thoughts and opinions can change later on as you grow in knowledge, wisdom, and understanding) and because I think too many people online are fake.

Answer 11

I've used Schwildcat for at least 10 yr on all sites.

I chose the Wildcat part because I like the big cats. but thats always taken so I started adding the first 3 letters of my last name to it.