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In the olden days when people wanted to waste time coming up with funny name memes, they actually came with with clever and surprising formulas that half the time produced crap, but were sometimes awesome. Not like you kids today, with your dopey CGI name generators that just use a randomizer. Here, via [livejournal.com profile] tsukechick, a meme that kicks it old-skool:

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet and current street name)
Chat Fourth (That sucks. I clearly exercised poor taste when naming my pet back in third grade. I knew that Hebrew school education would turn out badly.)

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your favorite candy:
Abraham Lindt (I’m tempted to change my name to this now.)

3. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME: (first initial of first name, first two or three letters of your last name)
A-Gru (Fly Guy? Didn’t the Fly Guys used to be the Goblins?)

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite animal, favorite color)
Cat Cobalt (Detective of the future!)

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Jacob Manhattan (Plausible.)

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name)
Gruhercha (Clearly I’m in the prequel trilogy.)

7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwards)
Bocaj Reshif (“Bojac” would be better. These aren’t the droids who love you, baby!)

8. PORN STAR NAME: (middle name, street you grew up on)
Jacob Debs (Eh. Not very porn starish.)

9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, the automobile you drive)
The Cobalt Citation (I don’t have a car now, but I had a Chevy Citation in college. And this makes for a very civic-minded sounding hero.)

Irish bumf

Mar. 17th, 2005 07:05 pm
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Without even thinking about it I put on a bright orange shirt this morning.

The Irish Name Generator (I refuse to call anything a quiz that does nothing more than ask for your name and sex) says my Irish name is “Kane Fitzgerald”. Kane seems to be an Anglicized form of Cathán, which is Irish for guerilla. Not my name at all. An Irish version of my first name ought to be something like the word for father (athair) with an honorific attached; I can’t find a common Irish name built along those lines.

When I was a kid (that’s right, it’s time for me to thump my cane and tell y’all how you disobey your elders and your LJ quizzes are just noise) we used to generate pseudo-names using amusing formulas. Like, fer instance, your porn star name was the name of your childhood pet followed by the name of the street where you grew up. [livejournal.com profile] bugsybanana and her siblings wound up inventing a whole backstory for their shared porn star, Willy Pacific. (I seem to recall that he was born de la Paz, but changed his name for showbiz.) There was something wonderful and surprising about those old formulations that you just can’t get out of a lame CGI doing a rough alphabet match. (Assuming it’s doing even that much work, and not just randomizing.)

Update: [livejournal.com profile] camwyn suggested “Patrick” (or “Padraig”), which means “nobly born”, but is derived from the Latin patricius, which is in turn derived from pater, which means father.

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