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paxetaurora is in honor of Bono and his "bastard Latin" stage name. pax=peace, et=and, aurora=light (dawn).

It was also my AIM name (still is), so...
 
This is the first username I have had since we first got the internet. It's because I love wolves and my last name starts with a Q. I use it everywhere, if it's taken I go with wolfQU2 or U2Q
 
I got mine from a book my grade 5 teacher read to the class, it was called Rowan of Rin. I'm a girl so I took away the rowan of and added another 'n' to the end of it. I think at the time I was hating my own name so much that I would wander around as anything but.

Cheers :D
 
Danospano was a stupid, last minute idea for my very first email address. I arrived at college and discovered, for the first time, the internet and email and all that stuff, so I needed a name that I would remember.

I chose "Danospano" because when I was a child my mother read me a storybook about a cocker spaniel named Daniel. As my name is Daniel as well, I could identify with the character (albeit a dog), and as any Daniel or Dan knows, my generic nickname was "Dano" (made popular by the television show, "Hawaii 5-0") so I took the title character of a children's book, "Daniel Spaniel" dropped the "iel's" and added the 'o's', thus Dano-Spano.

This is the only place I use that name, anymore. And yes, I've been asked if I had a crush on Jessie Spano from the "Saved By the Bell" television series. The answer is 'yes', but the infatuation had nothing to do with the decision. Sorry :)
 
Both Niamh and Saoirse are 2 irish names I really like. Niamh means bright, lustrous and it's also de name of a mythological character. She is Manannán mac Lir's daughter, lord of Tí na NÓg.
And Saoirse means freedom.
 
Mine is the eventual mutation of an original nick name I had way way back when I first got online [it's French for reindeer] and it's the name I now use everywhere. Most people know me by it, and I'm sure a lot of them think it's my real name.

I kinda like it better than my real name, so that's no great hardship. :wink:

Although I regularly get called Renee which is a bit annoying sometimes...
 
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Favorite album is War and I even though I heard Sunday Bloody Sunday and News Years Day before it was actually hearing Two hearts beat as one that made me a fan. So, even though I spelt it out it is youtwo/twohearts.

My license plate is U2Hearts. :)
 
elffriend said:
I am a big fan of Lord of the Rings so I chose mine as I am a friend of the elves.

Yes I know geek alert!!!

I'm a HUGE Lord of the Rings fan too! And of the actors in the movie. First I had a huge crush on Elijah Wood (Frodo) then I grew up so to speak and my attention turned to Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn/Strider) mmmmmm Viggo...lol

Sorry to kidnap the thread hehehe
 
nb - short for Newport Beach, where I live.

crusader - this is the "rebel" in me. I remember reading a news article where a school was under pressure to get rid of its nickname, the "Crusaders" because it was not PC. So I adopted it.
 
If you ever venture to Lake Pleasant - northwest of Phoenix - and see a black Ford Expedition parked on the north shore cranking U2 and see a couple of Chocolate Labs running around - then you will know.
 
Desert Dog said:
If you ever venture to Lake Pleasant - northwest of Phoenix - and see a black Ford Expedition parked on the north shore cranking U2 and see a couple of Chocolate Labs running around - then you will know.

awesome. that sounds a lot like my life.

except i do it at lake mohave in a green canoe, not an expedition. :wink:
 
i first started out with this name in the U2 chat here long before i ever registered on the forum.

i was trying to choose something that had u2 in it, but i wasn't feeling very creative that nite. i even thought of things like LEBA, but i thought that sounded too much like PLEBA :yikes: :laugh:

since it was a chat room i was entering i thought that perhaps i should choose something non gender specific (since i'm a girl and didn't want any creeps to bug me). so with that and lack of creativity, i chose ABEL.

Adam Bono Edge Larry

i'm still surprised when people ask me what my name means and have no clue :ohmy: i thought i was being the least creative.

i've gone through a couple of variations of it too, sometimes being called anything from BLEEBA to RAMBLE :laugh:
 
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