I think this is the fourth or fifth time someone has started a thread asking for name origins, but I realize there’s no need to get stuffy. New people are joining all the time, with new names. There are even some rascals who change their
noms de guerre: in fact, there are several downright reprobates who register under a second one, and who should be immersed in fire and brimstone (if they aren’t already). But I do feel kind of silly going over the same thing again. Tell you what: I’ll ask Imaginos to post this somewhere permanently, perhaps just as a sticky, and newcomers can consult it (and add their own data) as they wish.
Oh yeah, my name: when I started posting at the BEA several years ago, I used the name “Steve”, which is a real nickname of mine. JustMeMike (who, I hope, will put his oar in here too) pointed out that there were several almost identical variations of “Steve” posting and it would behoove me to think up a more distinctive
persona, perhaps something alluding to Vienna, my residence (winter residence: in summer I retreat to the Carpathians or other outposts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). So putting the two together I came up with St Stephan, the cathedral of Vienna and one of its symbols.
So that’s the story behind my apocryphal sainthood. In some cases I have tried to live up to the name. Hence the frequent illusions to Catholic hierarchy and Latin quotations, like my motto
magnificat musculus meus mammae. "St Stephan" conveys an additional meaning by embodying the stutter that overcomes me when aroused, as when beholding the alluring and b-b-b-b-bbbuxom lasses who frequent this site: this phenomenon is seen, for example, in the name of my gallery, the
Megamammammmonastery (
q.v.)
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