QotD: Also Known As
What's in a screen/user name? Tell us how you found yours.
Submitted by Bill.
I've claimed this screen/user name since my senior year of high school (circa 2000). I found mine when I decided I needed a personal email address of my own. (This was the Internet Dark Ages before Gmail, so I was using Juno.) I was just starting to rekindle my love of gryphons (via the Gryphon's Guild), so I decided I needed a short, easy-to-remember email handle along those lines. Of course, "gryphon" and "griffin" and even "gryphlet" were already taken, but when I punched in "grifflet", it was surprisingly available.
It's stuck with me ever since. Running a Google search on "grifflet" pulls up various fragments of myself on a number of websites (though, it appears fittingly that my blog here on Vox is king of the list).
Bonus feature: my secondary screen/user name has been musegryph, which is derived from my Gryphon's Guild avatar Muse Flurrith (also circa 2000). I don't remember exactly how I had the inspiration for the name "Muse", however, hilariously enough, it did have something to do with both Pokemon (Mew) and Magic: The Gathering (Whispers of the Muse).
(I see that BlueDelt has already tackled this question, but I'd love to hear how the rest of my neighbors answer this!)
Comments
its so cool you've got a nice short handle usable for so many things. it just, works.
somebody nudge the PANTS to do this one!!!