Who would I be if I weren't JackofOz?
Well, user names I considered included:
- Abdullah Oblongata
- Agaponthus
- Agnes Day
- Alexander the Adequate
- All Intensive Porpoises
- Analysis Restaurant
- Arctic Heart
- Argus Panoptes
- Aringus ruber
- August Personage
- Aunty Diluvian
- Aussie Mandias, King of Things
- Awesome Welles
- Axolotl Fandango
- Barbed-wire Harp
- Belvedere St Croix
- The Black Rose of Samarkand
- Boy George Michael Jackson Five
- Breakfast with Beasts
- Brian d'Amage
- Brylcreemed Lothario
- The Butterfly of Death
- The Buttock List
- Bynque Rozbee
- Captain Absolute [1]
- Cecily of Sicily
- Century Deprivation
- Chronic Low-grade Fame
- City Bumpkin
- Clyde Hairworth
- The Colonel of Truth
- The Cornish Ogre [2]
- Crackrag
- Crimea River
- Cryptic Triptych
- Cubic Moon
- Cyril Norwich
- Dabbling Dilettante
- The Dark Knight of the Soul
- D-Day for Beelzebub
- Dead Rubber
- Delicious Sister
- Descending Ducks
- The Devil's Ghostwriter [3]
- Divinyl Countdown
- Dodgy Vindaloo
- Driftwood Dust [4]
- EC, the Extra Cholesterol
- Ecclesiastes Eccles
- Egg Wetter Gree
- Emma Chizzit
- Enoch the Roman
- Extraversion Olive Oil
- The Far Quennelles
- Fibia Tibula
- Fidel Gastro
- Fission Chips
- Flavia Lustt-Crumpette
- Fornex Obvolvulus
- The Fourth Wall
- Foxy Musk
- Frederic Arthur Chopinhauer
- Freeze Peach
- Fried Nocturne
- Fritz Thing
- Fruity Montague
- Gaspard du jour
- Gildencrantz Rosenstern
- Gliblip
- The Go-Man of the Yard
- Gopher Baroque
- The Grand Duke of Fastvakia
- Great-Aunt Bombazelle
- The Green-Breasted Belgian Monkey
- Grotius Gullett
- Glynn Flynn-Quinn
- Hard and Fast Rules, OK
- Hector Pascal
- Herbert von Carrion
- Hiding in the Wings
- Hugh the Human
- Human Being Deluxe
- I, Ron Curtain
- I Should Be Souvlaki
- Icarus Allsorts
- Icon Tacked
- Illegible Bachelor
- Incontinent Belletristic Missile (ICBM)
- Incunabulus Majesticus
- Infallible Guesser
- An Inveterate Lyre
- Invisible Chopped Liver
- Invisible Individualist
- Irrelevant Elephant
- Ivan the Cerebral
- Jacques Ooze
- Jakarta and Fugue
- Jangled Ganglia
- Jeff Leppard
- Jerve de Crougie
- Joan Miro of Arc
- The Junior Senator from the State of Mind
- Karma's Little Helper
- Ken Oath
- The Kidney Waltz
- The King of Dark Corners
- Knight in White Satin
- The Lascar from Madagascar
- Latrine Le Pen
- A Like-Minded Person
- Lime Diamond
- Liquid Lizard
- London Derriere
- The Lord of the Ring of the Nibelung
- Lubricious Doings
- Luciano Paparazzi
- Lyrical Miracle
- Magic College
- Magnificent Loser
- Man of Pluck and Dash
- Maria von Klapp-Trapp
- Maximilian of Montenegro
- The Mayor of Brainville
- The Meaty Horologist
- Melogrammaticus
- Menage Artois
- The Metro Gnome
- The Millionaire of Loose Change
- Minimum Chips
- The Minister for Eternal Affairs
- Minnie Ganderplast
- Mona of Salamanca
- My Own Worst Emily
- Les neiges d'antan
- Neil Bymouth
- Nessun Doormat
- Nice Different Unusual
- Nigel Actually
- Not Always But Invariably
- Notorious Bystander
- Octangular Quadragon
- Octopus Nostrils
- Oily Aioli
- Oliver Sudden
- The Ostrogothic Bothnian
- Pessimist Patty
- Phoebe of February
- Phyllis Stein
- Piggy Wiggle
- The Pinochle of Success
- Placebo Domingo
- Plummetting to Stardom
- The Prince of Two Nails
- Prince Porthos of the Pithy Epithets
- Psychic Sidekick
- Purple Pineapple
- The Quoll's Zloty
- Rat's Cracker
- A Real Eye-Opener
- Rebel Without a Clue
- Richard Cur de Lyon
- River of Silence
- Roadkill Pie
- Rosalie Wriothesley
- Rostislav Plopp
- Rudolph Oozequag
- Rufus Rusticus
- The Rune of Athens
- Saint Denzil the Delicate
- Saint Nun the Less
- Sassoon Pluckbust
- The Sauce of the Nihil
- A Scandal in the Wind
- Shirley Goodness and Mercy
- Shosple Colupis
- Simeon Graveley
- Sir Carnaby Faggott, 673rd Bt.
- Sisyphus the Narcissistic Ethicist-Aestheticist
- Sluglust Slutglut
- Sneek Peak
- Snot Gunner Hurture
- The Soul Provider
- Spaghetti Polonaise
- Spangled Drongo
- Spevnex
- Spud O'Hooligan
- Stand-up Chameleon
- Stravinsky, the Outrageous Owl
- Sun-ripened Henry
- A Superb Conceit
- Supposed Nonexistent Injustices
- Surely Temple
- Taras Bull-bar
- Tatiana Titterton
- Teenager in C major
- Tequila Mockingbird
- Threnody Balzac
- Thunder Dog
- Tintin Quarantino
- Tmu, the Sacred Cockroach
- Toad's Groat
- The Tomb of the Unknown Shoulder
- Toothless Totalitarian
- Toxic Sausage
- Trixie the Trickstrix
- The Truth About the Planets
- Ulysses of Uruguay
- Una tola bibi, ungawa
- Urgent Virgin
- Valkyrie Eleison
- Vallantyne Balentine
- Various Vegetables
- Vast Bastard
- Vernon Titbit
- Veronica Belmonte
- Ving Drimbleman
- Violet, Spider and Bruno
- The Viper's Blancmange
- Vivian Longmoon
- Voblik
- Volvox
- Voodoo Zulu from Uluru
- Vurnable Pastatute
- Wanderlust Mazurka
- Warren Piece
- Wizard Japes
- Zachary Thackeray
In the end, I opted for the first one that came to mind when asked to create a user name - JackofOz. But never fear, in my future reincarnations I will eventually assume all these user names, and I will keep adding new names from time to time. And yes, that indicates my belief that Wikipedia will be around for a very long time, so we may as well make it work as well as possible.
Oh, if anyone actually has one of the user names listed above (I could check, I suppose, but I'm too lazy), please let me know and I'll strike it out. That, by the way, is NOT an invitation to steal any of them, but I suppose I can't actually stop anyone; and if you do, you might do the right thing for once in your lives and give due acknowledgment.
Names for cats edit
- Agrippa Ajax Amazon Apollo Arcadia Ashanti Astrape Astrophel Attitude
- Balthazar Balzac Bashmet Benoit Biggles Bonaparte Bongo Bonsai Brahma Bruno
- Caliban Calisto Calypso Carissima Charbel Coco Columbine Cornelius Cosmo Crespel Crocus Cromwell Crumpet Crypto Cyrus
- Delphi Dexter Domino Dorcas
- Ebenezer Echo Edgar Elektra Elmo Enigma Erasmus Esperanza Estragon Eureka
- Fedora Fermentine[5] Figaro Fresco
- Garibaldi Gaston Giblet Gleckett Grudge
- Heartbeat Hesperus Humbug Hyperion
- Jackpot Jezebel Jubel Juniper
- Kaboodle Kafka Kismet Kropotkin
- Lacuna Lembit Leopold Leporello Limpet Lingo Loophole Lothar Ludo
- Magnolia Magnus Mahatma Mandelbrot Mandrake Marmalade Marzipan Mazeppa Medusa Melchior Melmoth Mephisto Merlin Miasma Mistral Montague Morpheus Mungo
- Narcissus Nemesis Nepenthe Nightshade Nimrod Nitro
- Oblomov Oedipus Ophelia Orlando Oscar
- Pandolfo Perchance Petrushka Phydeaux[6] Picasso Picot Pierrepoint Pilgrim Pimpernel Pistache Pompey Prospero Psyche Ptolemy Pushkin Pythagoras
- Quincy
- Rasmus Remus Robespierre Rondo Rothbart Rudolph Ruskin
- Sacco Scaramouche Scarpia Scherzo Scintilla Scipio Selene Shadow Shambles Shinto Shylock Sirocco Snippet Solitaire Spartacus Spectre Spider Spike Spinoza Spitfire Sprocket Svengali Syrinx
- Taboo Tartuffe Tatu Tiberius Titbit Tofu Trinket Trotsky Twilight Tycho
- Vanzetti Vasco Vespasian Vidal Voodoo Vortex VoVo
- Walter Whimsy Winkle
- Xanthippe Xenophon
- Zelda Zemfira Zephyr Zhivago Zulu
- Edward Garnett had a dog named Nietzsche
- ^ Apologies to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals
- ^ Apologies to Oscar Wilde, "The Selfish Giant", from The Happy Prince and Other Tales, 1888
- ^ Apologies to Robert Glancy, Terms & Conditions, 2014
- ^ Apologies to Nicholas Christopher, A Trip to the Stars, 2000, ch. 7 'The Hotel Canopus', p. 87
- ^ apologies to Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist, 2009, ch. 21, p. 312, where a character named "Fermenteen Adanock" appears
- ^ Apologies to Dominick Dunne, The Two Mrs Grenvilles, 1986