What EVENT, SUBJECT or OBJECT INSPIRED your Yahoo!Answers PROFILE NAME, AND have people ever taken offense or?

There was a joke about adult diapers in a movie I saw and I laughed until I almost peed. Just the image that adult diapers conjures in my mind never fails to amuse me. My sense of humor never graduated third grade, I know. And yes, people always take offense, especially in avatar games. Nobody picks the diaper guy. I picked my avatar because it's snickering at my humorous answers.

It came from the nursery rhyme line "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie." A friend of mine, who's been known to occasionally indulge in herbal self-medication, suggested the name change to 4-20 Blackbird, as a reference to his favorite holiday. I had to admit it sounded cool, so I went with it. As far as I know, no one has taken offense to it. The pic is just a photo of a blackbird I pulled off Yahoo search.

Well, I was in the Marine Corps from 1990-1994 and the Marines are often called "Leathernecks" among other things such as Jarhead, Devil Dog, etc. The other part is pretty self explanatory but if anyone needs further clarification feel free to email me. Thank you! No one has ever really questioned me or given me grief on my name so I cant really contribute to that portion of the answer.

It's a name from the Arthurian Legends. I chose it because I wanted a nickname that had to do with mythology and I liked its sound.

My avatar kinda looks like me. Hair and eye colour, haircut, skin tone... It's the closest I could create!

So far, none. My lack of skills in working with certain software have prevented me from posting my real picture; my avatar does not look much like me--and it has no wrinkles to betray my age!

I love Brazil. I met my wife there, and--despite our struggles, we will celebrate our 42nd anniversary this year. Most of my Brazilian in-laws and friends live in the State of Espírito Santo, the inhabitants of which are called "capixabas." Since I identify with them so strongly, and because they speak to me and receive me as their own, I have adopted the State as the heart of my acculturation to my second country--Brazil.

My picture as my avatar....My Michelle-My name and Guns n' Roses...er goes the rose in pic...thought it was cool...I've been told it looks like I am eating the rose...LOL!!

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There are truly some haters out there....how are you going to give thumbs down on something that is neither an opinion or an option....the question is about your own personal avatar and Yahoo name. Not that I care about thumbs down.......just wondering what the f***!!

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Love the name below me...I think we all feel like Sisyphus at times......kinds fits life!! Good one!!

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I began life in Y!A as "promomows," for my lawn care co.

****'s pro-mo

I tired of it and was discussing a hippie themed name w/ a firefighter friend, and he says "how about 'Far Out, Man' " to which I replied "Right On!" "Whoa!" says he, "That's IT!!! Some of your stuff is sooo right on!" Partly because *I* liked it (oh for the MEREST of font choices.. just Italics!!!) and partly to honor my friend's suggestion it took.

Later, on a whim (and as a theme) I became "NEW Right on w/ lemon scent" whereby I marketed myself as a premuim multi-purpose cleaner and reasonable facsimile of whisket sour mix.

NEXT on the agenda i became "Mrs.Right On, " a formidable hillbilly woman who pursued and scorned "the shameless HUSSIES what was a-chasin' he ol man all over thid here P&S thang." WHAT an absolutely WONDERFUL time that was! There wasn't a woman IN P&S who didn't want me screaming those famed words "shameless HUSSY!" at them!

GAAAWD it was fun. Well those who can't STAND others having fun and laughing decided it was time to target me for suspension, and my content was constantly violated.

So, to prevent that, I quit the "chatting," and stopped asking ANY questions because they were deleted regardless of content. Thus arose "Right On gets a vio 4 every Q."

When it became evident that Y!A has zero concern that all high level users and P&S's top ten were ALL troll targets, i found the best remaining measure i could avail myself of, save for dumping my 200 contacts: This common, bland name, and a regular change thereof.. AT LEAST if the trolls want to mark me, they have to sort through all the Steves and googling my content is far more bothersome than the trolls care to invest their time in.

It was too hard to remember Nyarlathotep from Lovecraft's mythology. Then I used it in a short story and now it is my own...apparently it is a form of dragon. Only trolls are offended by dragons...

Habanera, the aria in the first act of the opera "Carmen" in which Carmen sings about how love can be painful, elusive, and dangerous...

No one has ever taken offense to it that I know of, but a few people thought it meant the pepper (habanero) and thought I was implying that I was "hot"

I used to work in cardiology at a hospital...Asystole is the technical name for a flat line rhythm of the heart (death). Some people have taken offense to it - thought I don't exactly know why - it's just a name...