How/Why Did You Choose Your Username?

[Florestan]

When I registered on GMG I was asked to choose a username, and back then (2007, maybe even earlier) I was a Schumann buff, impetuous and impulsive and reckless. Hence my username, which had nothing at all to do with Beethoven. Fast forward almost 20 years, I am not a Schumann buff anymore but I am still impetuous and impulsive and reckless sometimes, so I don't feel the need to change my username.

How about you, folks?

[Florestan]

My username is a Frenchization of a Latinization of my real name. Complicated? Not at all.

I am astonished that Danish has a native word for mountain...     

[prémont]

My username is a Frenchization of a Latinization of my real name. Complicated? Not at all. Correctly it should be 
prémont. I think I shall change the username to this.

[prémont]

I am astonished that Danish has a native word for mountain...     

Very funny, but we need to have a word for mountains abroad. 

[T. D.]

My initials.

[JBS]

My initials.

Same here.
Jeffrey
Bennet
Smith

[Jo498]

Short form of/nickname from my real first name plus the Koechel number of the Clarinet trio. Seemed a good mix between some connection to real name and music while keeping anonymity for search engines and the like.

[Florestan]

Very funny, but we need to have a word for mountains abroad. 

Yes of course. 

Seriously now, one of my favorite novels is Henrik Pontoppidan's Lucky Per. I read it in a Romanian translation and was spellbound, then I watched the movie and loved it. Not to mention HCA....

Jubel! (blame it on Google Translate...)

[Cato]

"Cato" came to mind mainly because of the two Roman Cato's.

Cato the Elder warned constantly of the rise of Carthage (supposedly he ended his every Senate speech with Delenda est Carthago! = Carthage must be destroyed), while great-grandson Cato the Younger was an opponent of the tyrant Julius Caesar.

However, there was a third Cato: Bruce Lee played The Green Hornet's aide and chauffeur in the T.V. show of the same name.

And, yes, there is a FOURTH Cato! 





Burt Kwouk played Cato, the butler and martial-arts sparring partner of Inspector Clouseau ( Peter Sellers) in the Pink Panther movies, in which Clouseau had hired Cato to attack him at random and in inventive ways, so that the detective could practice defending against a potential assassination! 


So, I think on the day that I joined GMG, I had been talking about Cato the Younger's suicide of protest against Julius Caesar to my students.

With all those dramatic and comedic associations, Cato seemed a fine choice!

At one time my "avatar" was a Roman portrait bust of Cato the Elder, and later of Cato the Younger.

[DavidW]

My name is David.  There are many Davids so I added the initial for my last name.  I think when I started I might have gone by mahlerfan... I don't recall now.  I go by haydnfan on TC, but I haven't posted there in might be a decade or so.

[Florestan]

Short form of/nickname from my real first name plus the Koechel number of the Clarinet trio.

Johann & Kegelstatt Trio, blimey --- I guessed your first name alright long time ago, yet never the second part until now.... 

[Florestan]

My name is David.

Blimey, I'd have never guessed... 

[VonStupp]

I have been using VonStupp, a poorly spelled homage to Lili Von Shtüpp (who always offered me plenty of schnitzengruben), since the 90's on GeoCities.

For some unknown reason, a fur-laden Offenbach has always accompanied VonStupp as my avatar. I have a stable of five or so online monikers used throughout the decades, but VonStupp is my oldest and most used.
VS

[Florestan]

I have been using VonStupp, a poorly spelled homage to Lili Von Shtüpp (who always offered me plenty of schnitzengruben), since the 90's on GeoCities.

For some unknown reason, a fur-laden Offenbach has always accompanied VonStupp as my avatar. I have a stable of five or so online monikers used throughout the decades, but VonStupp is my oldest and most used.
VS

I love Offenbach.

[Florestan]

My initials.

Thaddeus Dietriechstein. 

[Brian]

I have been using VonStupp, a poorly spelled homage to Lili Von Shtüpp (who always offered me plenty of schnitzengruben), since the 90's on GeoCities.

I'm glad that my assumption of where your name came from was correct because I definitely think of her song every time!

[T. D.]

Thaddeus Dietriechstein. 

I like to go anonymous on music boards. Often my fake names are completely irrelevant or involve "Geek" in some way, but this being a dignified setting I went with real initials. 

Being a jazz listener, my preferred TD musician is Tadd Dameron.

[Florestan]

I'm glad that my assumption of where your name came from was correct because I definitely think of her song every time!

Just the other day I was listening to my car radio the Romanian Classical Music station --- they were playing the Offenbach Can-Can --- when it was all over, the speaker said, I quote exactly, "That was the Offenbach Can-Can from La Vie Parisienne" --- which is bollocks, the Can-Can is actually from Orphée aux enfers --- the RCMS speakers are quite possibly the greatest ignoramuses in the world. 

[Cato]

I have been using VonStupp, a poorly spelled homage to Lili Von Shtüpp (who always offered me plenty of schnitzengruben), since the 90's on GeoCities.

For some unknown reason, a fur-laden Offenbach has always accompanied VonStupp as my avatar. I have a stable of five or so online monikers used throughout the decades, but VonStupp is my oldest and most used.
VS

To be very clear...


Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp (or Schtupp, or Schtüpp) from Blazing Saddles...

[Lisztianwagner]

For my username, I wanted to pay homage to two of my absolute favourite composers, Wagner and Liszt, merging them.