Sleuth Home - Message Boards - The Gumshoe Lounge

May-26-2005 05:26
(sticky post)

Some of us have interesting reasons to pick a detective name. What is yours?

jstkdn which some people don't realize right away stands for JuST KiDding! It is something I tend to say a lot in real life after a lot of sentences. A good friend of mine in the US had jstkdn as a license plate of her car, so I wasn't that inventive myself.

My previous other agent was PM, which stands for Project/Program Manager, my profession in real life.

My only detective that I currently play with is freelancermountaineer. Only because Freelancer was taken. Sidney Bristow in the Alias series uses two call signs freelancer and mountaineer.

Apr-3-2006 13:29

Mine is just a combination of a favorite name of mine (Talia) mixed with Anna and Periwinkle is my favorite color... sooo... yeah.

My detective's name has nothing to do with my RL name, I just thought "Talianna" sounded like a cool name along with, like I said before, my fave color, periwinkle. So, my name was just my creative brain rollin'

:D

Apr-4-2006 19:56

my name came from the new red hot chili peppers song,dani california. being their biggest fan, i felt it my duty to take on that name. Plus it totatally fits the picture, non?

Apr-6-2006 01:21

mine comes from an old-ish episode of 'The Simpsons', in which the word 'felafel' was deemed too foreign for the Springfield snack-wagon market. But actually, I really hate this name, lol. meh...buyers remorse and stuff.

Apr-6-2006 18:13

I got it from a book I really enjoy called; "Tricker's Choice." I thought the name was pretty and I couldn't really think of anything else...

:D

Apr-7-2006 09:57

Tigers are my favorite animal and kat and wildcat were al ready used. So El Tigre it is.

Apr-9-2006 15:25

Well for the name I'm on now it's because I think Nancy Drew and Sherlock Homes are the best fictional detectives everand for GreenDayGirl and greendaygirl 60 through 66 well I love GreenDay, Billy Joe Armstrong is soooo hot.

Apr-9-2006 15:37

I love nineteenth and early twentieth century names (I don't understand why everyone must name their kids Ade-in or MaDiSuN when there are so many wonderful, more truly unique remnants of centuries past undeservingly collecting dust). I first encountered Emmeline when reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and have used it as a pen name for various satire articles I've written, usually from an extremely draconian and puritanical point of view so for irony's sake I usually pair it with Burroughs (a la William). In this case however Bogart is of course a small tribute to Mister Humphrey, my favoritest movie man ever along with Clark Gable. Cliche but with oh such good reason.

Apr-12-2006 14:30

Well, I wanted something that sounded very feminine for a first name, because I didn't think this woman would be feminine, so the name Pansy just popped into my head, and Jackson seemed to fit well with it. For my other detective Alejandra Holmes, I just love all names that would be abbreviated 'Alex', and I'm currently working on a story, the main character’s first name is Alejandra, and I love reading the Sherlock Holmes stories, so, Alejandra Holmes was born.

Apr-14-2006 12:36

I combined the names of the famous abolitionist-secessionist Horace Greeley and the natural rights philosopher John Locke. Thus, Horace Locke.

Apr-15-2006 13:37

I choose ThinkLove because it just sounded intuiging and mysterious, and it popped in my head, because I was just looking at that band's site. I thought it sounded cool. Also I love hearts [♥] and that went well with the name too!! Hence, Detective Think.Love♥

Goodbye for now,