[greenbean]

Thats my faaaaavorite devo song! Now its gonna be in my head all day!

Love x-ray spex too! bondage UP YOURS!

[sybarite]

I love that devo song.

[pollystyrene]

Pretty obvious, but Poly Styrene. I added the extra "l" to make it more like the first name, also in tribute to PJ Harvey.

[grrrlyouwant]

way back in 96, i started getting into the riotgrrl movement. not that i could actually get involved or start a band or even hear any of the ones that were around and defined the movement back then, because i lived in a small ag town in the middle of nowhere and everyone was the same and sucked, but i was way into the idea. so when i started going online, i called myself Grrrly, and i thought it was perfect for me. it sounds like "girly", all sweet and demure and kind of derisive, but that "grrr" let's you know there's something a little sharper and darker in there that just might bite you back if you fuck with it. in fact that's my tagline on myspace and many other forums i visit, "deceptively demure". and i use Grrrly as my username whenever it's available. i don't know why it wasn't when i started hanging out at bust, cause i've never seen a Grrrly on here, but at any rate, it told me i had to choose a new username when i tried picking that. so i thought about it a bit, and tankgirl is one of my favorite movies ever, and i love the devo song from the opening credits.

She sings from somewhere you can't see
she sits in the top of the greenest tree
she sends out an aroma of undefined lust
it drips on down in a mist from above

she's just a girl, she's just a girl
the girl you want

but i had to keep some part of the original Grrrly in there, so it's GrrrlYouWant.

[go_kayte]

Mine just means go me. All my usernames are something positive to kinda cheer myself on, like hoorayforkayte and kayte_yay. I'm a dork!!

[stargazer]

cool thread.

something i came up with because i like to daydream alot.

[culturehandy]

This is really neat-o to know where the BUSTies came up with their names.

[missladyj]

A friend of mine in college called me Lady J the female in the GI Joe cartoon series. I added miss to the lady j in honor of Lady Miss Kier of Dee Lite. I use the name when I perform as well.

[nickclick]

you're all so clever!

nick is for nicole, my name, and click is either for a camera, cuz i'm a photographer, or for a mouse click i guess. and it rhymes.

there's a camera for kids with the same name, and a seemingly cool performer from olympia.

[gumby_cc]

I'm gumby because for over 14 years I've used the same Gumby keychain for my keys. And I had a Pokey one but I lost it. I think my original name here was Pokey something but I kind of forget...I changed it two times before I got to Gumby. And CC are my initials.

Zoia is my boyfriend's mom's name. She's Russian. It's a really pretty name.

[mornington]

I have a slight obsession with a comedy programme on the bbc here (I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue for uk busties) and they play a game called Mornington Crescent on there - where you name various tube stations until you reach mornington crescent - it's the name of a road and a tube station just around the corner from where I go to uni. The game doesn't have much point, there aren't any rules, and it just ambles around... a bit like me sometimes. So I decided I liked the word.

[sybarite]

I give you wikipedia's definition of sybarite: 'a general term for describing one fond of pleasure and luxury'

I'm sure many people are fond of pleasure and luxury; I just thought I'd be upfront about it.

[laurenann]

uh, lauren is my real first name and ann is my real middle name booooring! i'm pretty new to bust with this user name, but i used to be on it 7 or 8 years ago with the username glittergrrl, which i just kinda made up.

[bunnyb]

I find it hard to call BUSTies by their real names; especially when their username is or is shortened to a first name (i.e. rose, mandi, tes...)

anyway, bunnyb is short for bunnyboyler - a play on bunnyboiler and my surname boyle - a nickname as I'm a little bit crazy but very sweet. The shortened version brings out the sweetness a lot more.

[zoya]

zoya is the main female character in Solzhenitsyn's "The Cancer Ward," which is where I get it from, plus I think it sounds cool and space-agey.

I've had this handle for so long that it almost seems weird when I meet a bustie and they call me by my real name!!

[starshine]

Starshine is the name of my favourite book when I was a kid. It's by Ellen Schwartz and about a rather awkward young girl who's kinda embarassed by her alterna-hippy parents. I always thought her life was really cool, and of course related to the awkwardness And then there's the song Good Morning Starshine which I love and which has recently been revived by Serena Ryder. I just love the lyrics, and its funny how much more they make sense the older I get....


"Good morning starshine, the earth says hello
you twinkle above us, we twinkle below
good morning starshine, you lead us along..."

[jkat]

lucizoe, aka katj.....

[whitelightning]

whitelightning...another name for moonshine! which is derived from my previous bust lounge name, which was opossum78 (i think it had the 78 on the end...). opossum is my nickname in "real life". opossum in overalls drinkin' moonshine...you get the idea.

a long, long, time ago in the bust lounge i was surferrosa (my fave pixies album).

[greenbean]

Oooo! Fun!

When I started here I went by Weinerdog, as in "Welcome to the Dollhouse". That got eaten by dingos, so then I decided to go by my bike gang name. See, when we first formed, my bike gang thought we should all have nicknames. They used to call me "String Bean", poking fun at my scrawny body, but then I bought a beautiful kelly-green vintage Schwinn, so the name got changed to "Green Bean".
I actually dont like green beans, if thats what y'all thought it was! More into spinach...

[lucizoe]

(jkat, I always giggle when I see your name...my name is actually Kat, and my husband's name starts with J...so I find it funny, anyway...carry on...)