User:JackofOz/Who would I be?

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
Brock Brimstone
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
The Cutrate Curate
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]
An Earworm of the Mind
EC, the Extra Cholesterol
Ecclesiastes Eccles
Egg Wetter Gree
Emma Chizzit
Enoch the Roman
Extroversion Olive Oil
Fairy Nuff
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
Jellico Jolimont
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
Midnight in the Morning
The Millionaire of Loose Change
Minimum Chips
The Minister for Eternal Affairs
Minnie Ganderplast
Mona of Salamanca
Mrs Asp
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
Pre-loved human, free for a good home
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's Sister Cecily, 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

Agrippa Ajax Amazon Apollo Arcadia Ashanti Astrape Astrophel Attitude
Balthazar Balzac Bashmet Benoit Biggles Bonaparte Bongo Bonsai Brahma Bruno
Caliban Calico Calisto Calypso Carissima Champollion Charbel Coco Columbine Cornelius Cosmo Crespel Crocus Cromwell Crumpet Crypto Cyrus
Delphi Dexter Domino Dorcas
Ebenezer Echo Edgar Elektra Elmo Enigma Ephemeron Erasmus Erebus Esperanza Estragon Eureka
Fedora Fermentine^[5] Figaro Fresco Friday
Garcia Garibaldi Gaston Giblet Gilgamesh Gleckett Grudge
Heartbeat Hesperus Hieronymus Hugo Humbug Hyperion
Jackpot Jezebel Jubel Juniper
Kaboodle Kafka Kefi Kismet Kropotkin
Lacuna Lembit Leopold Leporello Limpet Lingo Loophole Lothar Lucifer Ludo
Magnolia Magnus Mahatma Malvolio Mandelbrot Mandrake Marmalade Marzipan Mazeppa Medusa Melchior Melmoth Mephisto Merlin Miasma Mistral Moleskine Montague Morpheus Mungo
Narcissus Nemesis Nemo Nepenthe Nevermore Nightshade Nimrod Nitro Nonesuch Nostro
Oblomov Oedipus Ophelia Orlando Oscar Osiris
Pandolfo Pasha Perchance Petrushka Phydeaux^[6] Picasso Picot Pierrepoint Pilgrim Pimpernel Pistache Pompey Prospero Proximus Psyche Ptolemy Pushkin Pythagoras
Quincy Quintessa
Rasmus Remus Robespierre Rondo Rothbart Rudolph Ruskin
Sacco Sartorius Scandal Scaramouche Scarpia Scherzo Scintilla Scipio Scruples Selene Shadow Shambles Shenaniga Shingle Shinto Shylock Sirocco Smudge Snippet Solitaire Spartacus Spectre Spider Spike Spinoza Spitfire Sprocket Suleiman Svengali Syrinx
Taboo Tartuffe Tatu Thirteen Tiberius Titbit Tofu Trinket Trotsky Twilight Tycho
Vanzetti Vasco Venom Vespasian Vidal Voodoo Vortex VoVo
Walter Whatnot 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

[1] Apologies to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals

[2] Apologies to Oscar Wilde, "The Selfish Giant", from The Happy Prince and Other Tales, 1888

[3] Apologies to Robert Glancy, Terms & Conditions, 2014

[4] Apologies to Nicholas Christopher, A Trip to the Stars, 2000, ch. 7 'The Hotel Canopus', p. 87

[5] Apologies to Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist, 2009, ch. 21, p. 312, where a character named "Fermenteen Adanock" appears

[6] Apologies to Dominick Dunne, The Two Mrs Grenvilles, 1986

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