27-02-2026, 01:09 PM
Mine is split n "Shiraz" and "mn".
MN is simply a geographical indication of my home place (no, I am not from Minnesota, but kind of the same idea).
Shiraz is many things, but in my case it's the name of a nice fruity red wine.
The story behind it is somehow sad. About 20 years ago I just broke up with my GF and I started spending some time on TV/CD/TG... chats online. I was finally free to express myself a bit more, but sad because I was alone. Also, I was dead broke and the only thing I had in the house was a bottle of Shiraz. So I started drinking it while chatting or video-chatting with random people on the Internet, the alcohol-induced dizziness felt comforting. I think I was using some burner nickname at the time (something numerical) until someone asked me what my name was. In a "Mrs Doubtfire" moment, I looked around and decided to go with the only thing that was keeping me company at the time: Shiraz.
In the following years I learned that Shiraz is an actual name in several middle-eastern languages, and that it can be both masculine and feminine. It also means, in defferent places, things like "sweet" and "secret song". So, given the duality of the name, I decided that it was perfect for me and it just stuck ever since. It also has a "magical" sound to it, a bit like "Shazam!" but without a bad movie associated with it.
MN is simply a geographical indication of my home place (no, I am not from Minnesota, but kind of the same idea).
Shiraz is many things, but in my case it's the name of a nice fruity red wine.
The story behind it is somehow sad. About 20 years ago I just broke up with my GF and I started spending some time on TV/CD/TG... chats online. I was finally free to express myself a bit more, but sad because I was alone. Also, I was dead broke and the only thing I had in the house was a bottle of Shiraz. So I started drinking it while chatting or video-chatting with random people on the Internet, the alcohol-induced dizziness felt comforting. I think I was using some burner nickname at the time (something numerical) until someone asked me what my name was. In a "Mrs Doubtfire" moment, I looked around and decided to go with the only thing that was keeping me company at the time: Shiraz.
In the following years I learned that Shiraz is an actual name in several middle-eastern languages, and that it can be both masculine and feminine. It also means, in defferent places, things like "sweet" and "secret song". So, given the duality of the name, I decided that it was perfect for me and it just stuck ever since. It also has a "magical" sound to it, a bit like "Shazam!" but without a bad movie associated with it.