What made you decide your username?

[tipo33]

When I was younger I had a very big interest in cars, and my favourite was (still is) the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 and it's successors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Tipo_33
So when it came time to make an account on a forum, I don't remember which one now...  I chose tipo33.  It is short, simple, memorable enough and always available. 

Why did you pick your username?

[keymaster]

I wanted a generic username for browsing the forum. I didn't plan to stay.

[tjcaustin]

TJC - initials
Austin - favorite wrestler at the time

Story: I made tjcaustin completely by accident.  Back in 1998 when I made my yahoo email address, I wanted something that told the world I enjoyed wrestling and Stone Cold Steve Austin the best of all.  Well, obviously, most names directly tied to that were already taken and so yahoo spit tjcaustin at me as a possible second choice.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[tipo33]

I wanted a generic username for browsing the forum. I didn't plan to stay.

We have you now!

[The_Beast]

At the time I was really into Iron Maiden so for my first computer forum I signed up as The_Number_Of_The_Beast. However things changed and names were shorted if you were over xx characters so I shortened to The_Beast and thank god, that **** was annoying to type.

[i3oilermaker]

Proud Purdue grad - mascot is the Boilermaker.  Boilermaker is sometimes taken but i3oilermaker is all mine

[boost]

Boost is another term for psi as I'm into cars more then keyboards

[jcrouse]

I'll have to think about this one, can't remember at the moment.

[tsangan]

This is a Sangan my last name is Tsang, now all you gotta do is mash them together

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[jcrouse]

Boost is another term for psi as I'm into cars more then keyboards

Hence the avatar with the turbo on it's back 

[Michael]

This is a Sangan my last name is Tsang, now all you gotta do is mash them together

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[jwaz]

I'm bad at usernames, I have no excuse.

[CPTBadAss]

When I started to play StarCraft 2 kinda seriously, I wanted to have a fun name just to laugh at. All my friends had these serious nerd names and the pros all have names like Flash, Bomber, and Sniper.

One day I was pondering a change to my user name and was playing Crash Bandicoot: Return of Vortex. I was like...man, this game is so badass. And my name just struck me then.

So sup kids, I'm Captain BadAss

[Photekq]

Favourite artist at the time was Photek and thought it sounded cool. Photek was taken so for some reason I added a q and I've used it ever since.

[Krogenar]

It's an old username from when I was on JediMud.

[tjcaustin]

Boost is another term for psi as I'm into cars more then keyboards

Everyone loves turbo boost.

[ComradeSniper]

I really like Russian guns and a few years ago I had a particular interest in sniper rifles, so there you have it.

[noisyturtle]

Waaay back when WoW: The Burning Crusades came out there was a vanity pet introduced called Speedy who was a cute 'lil turtle. On occasion Speedy's idle animation would show him roaring/yawning making this unearthly sound of demons having an orgy. Welp, for some reason my game was bugged on one of the patch days and his sound effect's volume was really really loud and afterwards would drop the sound from the entire game thus forcing to deal with it, not use Speedy(a non-option really,) or restart the game. Thus noisyturtle, and pretty much just going with it till I die.

[keymaster]

I really like Russian guns and a few years ago I had a particular interest in sniper rifles, so there you have it.

Yugo stronk!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_M76

[Binge]

Hi, my name's Binge and I have a Binge problem.

[JPG]

Well I am really fond of these images extension. They have something special!

Jokes aside, these are my initials ...  so original 

[SmallFry]

Some chump called me SmallFry in 5th grade after I ran into him. I promptly called him Medium Shake, and the names stuck at least for a little while for him. Mine was stuck forever, first with Timescale, and now with everything I do.

[ComradeSniper]

I really like Russian guns and a few years ago I had a particular interest in sniper rifles, so there you have it.

Yugo stronk!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_M76

[keymaster]

tupac alive numbr one #1 in serbia ….**** the croatia ,..****k ashol turks no good i spit in the mouth eye of ur flag and contry. 2pac aliv and real strong wizard kill all the turk farm aminal with rap magic now we the serba rule .ape of the zoo presidant georg bush

[nubbinator]

Somehow I got the nickname nubbins in college.  In college, I broke a $4000-5000 camera lens at my job, prompting the term "nubbinated".  Nubbinator is just an extension of that.

My BF3 nick is AleahAkbeer, a name I came up with with a Persian friend.  We were trying to come up with a name for the only Muslim approved alcohols.

[esoomenona]

You probably won't believe me when I tell you this but: I took anonemoose and turned it backwards.

[funkymeeba]

Mine started out as a joke making fun of other things, and then the "the Funky Amoeba" suffix just ended up turning into this.

[rowdy]

At the time I was really into Iron Maiden so for my first computer forum I signed up as The_Number_Of_The_Beast. However things changed and names were shorted if you were over xx characters so I shortened to The_Beast and thank god, that **** was annoying to type.

Gonna call you Eddie from now on 

[CPTBadAss]

At the time I was really into Iron Maiden so for my first computer forum I signed up as The_Number_Of_The_Beast. However things changed and names were shorted if you were over xx characters so I shortened to The_Beast and thank god, that **** was annoying to type.

Gonna call you Eddie from now on 

I'm just gonna call out "SIX-SIX-SIX" and expect The_Beast to show up ^__^

[rowdy]

I'm just gonna call out "SIX-SIX-SIX" and expect Eddie to show up ^__^

FTFY.

[lazerpointer]

It's funny that tjcaustin is actually pronounced "TJC-Austin" -- I'm sure everyone thought of it like "TJ-Caustin" or was it just me?

As for my username, it's just what it is - I like lasers and think laser pointers are neat. Also this is my user name for most games I play.... I just wanted something unique.

Current avatar is a diagram of an eyeball with a laser burning into the back of it. Looks like fun!

Edit;
for those curious about my "former name" --- Flip is a trickster clown who always gives bad advice to the main character of the movie "Little Nemo" which is my favorite childhood movie (full length movie is on Youtube now, go watch it!)

[tjcaustin]

A lot of people think tj caustin.  Our resident troll and non-thinker/naysayer calls me caustin as if it were a way to denigrate me.

[Turbo Slaab]

A buddy of mine called my Saab a Slaab one day. So I just threw a Turbo in front of it.

[Sifo]

First two letters of my first name + first two letters of my last.

[Dianoda]

Di(e)ano(ther)da(y)

[khaangaaroo]

To explain to people how to say my first name, I tell them it's pronounced like the first syllable in "kangaroo."
If you guys can think of any other English words with a "kang" sound in it, let me know.

[eyesmiles]

Tiffany is my favorite member of SNSD. She has the cutest eye-smiles.

[esoomenona]

To explain to people how to say my first name, I tell them it's pronounced like the first syllable in "kangaroo."
If you guys can think of any other English words with a "kang" sound in it, let me know.

[tsangan]

Tiffany is my favorite member of SNSD. She has the cutest eye-smiles.

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AHHHH!!!!! fany fany tiffany!!!!

She has the best eye smiles :)

[JPG]

A lot of people think tj caustin.  Our resident troll and non-thinker/naysayer calls me caustin as if it were a way to denigrate me.

I think TJ Caustin sounds better, but if you don't like it, I'll try not to mentally pronounce it

[daerid]

Minor character from the Wheel of Time series. Picked it on a whim back in '99, and it stuck.

[Nunez]

Anything that has "Nu" in it can be my username, as a spin off from "Nunu" my nickname for over a decade... more than half my life

[Nunez]

Di(e)ano(ther)da(y)

ethery?

[baldgye]

When I needed a username 13yrs ago a bald man walked past the window and because I'm properly speical I misspelt guy, and thus...

[WhiteFireDragon]

WhiteFireDragon was my AIM screen name in middle school lol. But now that I'm a lot older, I want to change it to something less "immature", but for some reason I can't. I already use it for every online-related stuff, and just too attached by now :/

At the time I was really into Iron Maiden so for my first computer forum I signed up as The_Number_Of_The_Beast. However things changed and names were shorted if you were over xx characters so I shortened to The_Beast and thank god, that **** was annoying to type.

I use to listen to a lot of Iron Maiden back in the high school days too. But now, I've moved on to more symphonic metal genre.

[Bullveyr]

15 years or so ago I was playing AD&D with some friends, a lucky dice throw made my character a max. strength warrior, so I thought Buliwyf from "The 13th Warrior" was a fitting name for him. I knew it was spelled a bit weird but I didn't know how exactly and because back then you hadn't the Internet in your pocket he was spelled wrong.

Shortly after it became my Internet nick I use since then.

[foxer]

I'm a huge MarineKing fanboy. I stole it. Usual forum alias is Wadeo (Wade-Oh). Real name is Wade and just people called me Wadeo.

[Grim Fandango]

One of my favorite games of all time. Also like the way it sounds. Nothing else to it.

[Mandolin]

It was the first thing that came to my mind, nothing special about it.

[CPTBadAss]

I'm a huge MarineKing fanboy. I stole it. Usual forum alias is Wadeo (Wade-Oh). Real name is Wade and just people called me Wadeo.

I was wondering if you were an SC2 fan ^_^. MKP is so gosu

[BlueBär]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Bluebear
I really liked this guy as a child and "Blue" was often a part of my nicknames, also I like umlauts.

[jdcarpe]

Hmmm, I'll have to think about this one also...

[Acetrak]

I can't wait till jcrouse and jdcarpe reveals the mystery behind their name, gonna be mind blowing

[vivalarevolución]

In 2009, I tried to secede from the United States and called our country the People's Republic of Deer Lake Mesa (prdlm).  We were unsuccessful.

I'm considering switching to something else, because prdlm2009 doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Something related to Calvin and Hobbes.  Spiffman or something like that. Hopefull I won't violate any copyright laws.

[fohat.digs]

A favorite psychedelic rock song from the early 1970s: "Fohat Digs Holes in Space" from the album "Camembert Electrique" by Gong.

A bizarre and anachronistic choice, but I was going for something truly off the wall. I don't think that anyone has ever guessed it, but it was obscure even in its own time.

PS - I recognized the backwards anonymous Moose construction after staring at it for a few seconds.

[whiskerBox]

The box full of cat whiskers my GF has accumulated ROFL

[tipo33]

The box full of cat whiskers my GF has accumulated ROFL

umm...  What did she do witht the cats?

[fohat.digs]

The box full of cat whiskers my GF has accumulated ROFL

This one has got to take the cake!

[SmallFry]

The box full of cat whiskers my GF has accumulated ROFL

This one has got to take the cake!

A cake of whiskers? Ew.

[frenchie4111]

When I was much much younger my friend and I watched this show called Disney 4111 all the time, and for some reason we joked about "Frenchie4111". When it came time for him to choose a Runescape username he made it "Frenchie4111" as a joke. I eventually paid him 10 bucks and a pocket knife for the Runescape account, and I have been naming all my accounts Frenchie4111 ever since.

[The_Beast]

At the time I was really into Iron Maiden so for my first computer forum I signed up as The_Number_Of_The_Beast. However things changed and names were shorted if you were over xx characters so I shortened to The_Beast and thank god, that **** was annoying to type.

I use to listen to a lot of Iron Maiden back in the high school days too. But now, I've moved on to more symphonic metal genre.

I've moved on as well. I don't listen to metal nearly as much. I found Leppelin and mellowed out to RHCP, Weezer, Audioslave and then onto folk music. Now I listen to a lot folk on NPR/WPR and sometimes I'll listen to classical as well to calm down after a long day

[badcop]

name i use on car fourms because i didnt want to use my regular email/aim name.  it was the first thing that popped into my head.

i get pulled over multiple times a week because i drive a stupid flashy loud car.

[SpAmRaY]

mine is a topic that is usually not discussed but i've used it on fourms, emails accounts for a long time now.....

[clickclack]

It's funny that tjcaustin is actually pronounced "TJC-Austin" -- I'm sure everyone thought of it like "TJ-Caustin" or was it just me?...

Nope.

Tiffany is my favorite member of SNSD. She has the cutest eye-smiles…

Well I'll be...
See, I thought it had to do with your avatar. Because everytime I see it I indulge in a massive grin. It just looks so obnoxiously delicious! It's one of my favorite name/avatar combos around here.

The box full of cat whiskers my GF has accumulated ROFL

Now here this whole time I thought it was an rather extreme euphemism or double entendre. lulz
Never would have guess it was basically literal. Oddly the literal explanation is also disturbing.
=P

[Dubsgalore]

i used to get a lot of double kills in Halo 3...back in the day

so yeah...'Dubs' Galore

[metalliqaz]

Way, way back, when I was maybe 14, I couldn't type.  These were the days that I only used the family computer and passwords weren't necessary because I didn't have internet access.  When we got dial-up internet I began using 'qaz' for every password because it is easy to find on a keyboard.  I really could not type at all.  I also used it as a Quake handle:  -QaZ-

Around this time I was also really into Metallica.  (Black album!!)  When it came time to set up an email account, I just smooshed 'em together.  I've used it for all sorts of throw-away internet names ever since.  I've started to move away from it in recent years.  I prefer to just go by my name now.  In games I go by 'bachelor'

Pronounced Metalli-Kaz

[Tarzan]

I went to sign up for AIM back in 2000(?), and all of my first choices for IM handles were taken.  The bot prompted me to enter a couple of terms, I entered Tarzan and Telecommunications.  Telecomtrzn was the result. Still have that handle, no longer use AIM.   

I basically ring the changes on the IM handle for new user IDs, so Greystoke was a logical offshoot.

[mashby]

Back before the Internet was around, I played soccer and there were two Michaels on the team. Needless to say, it got confusing when someone would shout "Michael", so the other Michael suggested we smash our first letter and last names together. His name with Michael Williams, so he became "Milliams" and my name is Michael Ashby, so I become "mashby". I have no idea why we just didn't use our last names. 

Anyway, I thought this was super cool and used it for other things as well. Of course, once the Internet came around, I realized that it really wasn't all that clever and is now quite common in fact. Regardless, I still use "mashby" for just about everything online -- including WoW.

[whiteduck]

Mine is from Jr High days when I wanted to be a hacker.  Just a random alias. 

BTW my hacking career consisted of beating level 5 on trytohack LOL.

-wd

[hashbaz]

whiskerBox always wins these username threads.

In my mind the High Klaxon's name will always be pronounced "T.J. Caustin".

The short version of my username's story is that it's from the book of Isaiah.  Wikipedia has the details.  The entire phrase is maher-shalal-hash-baz which means something like "swift to the plunder".

The more involved version is that a roommate of mine in college used to joke that he would have four sons someday and name them Maher, Shalal, Hash, and Baz.  This stuck in my mind for some reason.  When it came time to make an account for Starcraft 2, I thought "hashbaz" had both a nice zergy sound to it and an appropriate meaning for the swarm.  I didn't end up liking it very much though and was considering changing it until I started posting a lot here under the same name.  After that it stuck.

[The_Ed]

My name is Ed. There is almost always an Ed in my usernames.

The_Ed
UndeletEd
UnredactEd
EdBlackOps
...

[ITzNybble]

I made mine by my Gmail address....If only I could change my name to ITzNybble....suits me more

[davkol]

Acronym for my real-life name. I used it for my second e-mail address—all other acronyms were either already taken, sounded stupid, or included diacritic. It has stuck with me since then, although I have a 1337 nickname (used almost exclusively in games) based on one song by Iron Savior.

[grizzlyclambert]

I have been grizzlyclambert ever since I got online in 1999. I've had a few other nicks (Antediluvian when I was really into Vampire: the Masquerade), but I've stuck with grizzly for a long time. It was my first gmail address back during the beta days.

Grizzly: I've always been a hairy person, and every girlfriend I've ever had inevitably called me a "teddy bear". And there was a guy in my middle school whose name was Charlie Lambert. I always thought that the way he signed his assignments was hilarious "C. Lambert" and took that variation of his name for my own.

[Melvang]

It has been my primary toons name in World of Warcraft for 6+ years now.  Undead Rogue with over 130 days of playing time

[Acetrak]

When I was in highschool I saw a graffiti that said "strk" and I thought it was was cool arrangement of letters and it became one of my online tags that stuck.

Overtime I didn't like that the name didn't have any vowels and people would call me sterk, stark, strik etc and it wasn't consistent. So I decided to add some vowels to make it a somewhat unique name.

S -> Ace
trk -> trak

[ApocalypseMaow]

Used to stare at the Apocalypse Now movie box a lot as a kid. I would see it everywhere I went, but never bother to watch it till I was much older.
Amazing movie and I just happen to be obsessed with cats. Oh and I saw this name on a news cast in The Simpsons, made me think it was even cooler... 

[foxer]

I'm a huge MarineKing fanboy. I stole it. Usual forum alias is Wadeo (Wade-Oh). Real name is Wade and just people called me Wadeo.

I was wondering if you were an SC2 fan ^_^. MKP is so gosu

Haha. Hugeeeee fan. I'm a Protoss player but always loved MKP. He's the bestestest.

[Glod]

I am glod and therefore glod is me

[iri]

i was always "iridium" everywhere, but everyone i know ended up calling me "iri".

[emptythecache]

it was supposed to a vaguely computer savvy joke, something something online anonymity (too many of my old usernames had my first name, Lucas, in them and it made me uncomfortable), also maybe a porn joke.

[iri]

I really like Russian guns

you WHAT

[Lastpilot]

I am a serious Armored Core and Ace Combat fan. 

[TreeSc2]

Something... is as big as a tree?

[ComradeSniper]

I really like Russian guns

you WHAT

Yup, I sure love my AK.

[Badwrench]

Got mine when I was in Jr. High.  Me and my friends all rode dirtbikes, but I was the only one willing to work on our old crappy bikes.  As a result, I broke a lot of bolts.  One of my buddies said "Good job Badwrench" and the name has stuck since.  I use it for everything, and all my friends still call me this. 

[HoffmanMyster]

One of my good friends had the same first name as me.  I don't remember all the details, but he decided that he would be The KundeNator and I would be The HoffmanMyster (based on our last names).  This was ~10 years ago.  I have used it for everything since then and have no problems registering this username so it stuck.

Also, apparently I'm the only one who knew it was TJC Austin.  But, I did think it was referring to Austin the city, so there's that.   

[Yslen]

Character from the book I'm writing. The advantage of a totally fictional name is its not in use anywhere.

[Blue_Moon]

I use a different username/password for security every time I register, so I've lost attachment to them. I was registering for Geekhack, looked around for inspiration, and saw the Lua icon down on my taskbar. It's blue, Lua means Moon, BAM! There it was.

[Trent]

Trent is the main character in Freelancer, an old Microsoft game from the early 2000s.  I first used the name in Freelancer multiplayer and other gaming circles.

I've kept using it since 

[Macsmasher]

I really like Russian guns

you WHAT

Yup, I sure love my AK.

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And I love my Sig P938 compact 9mm in my Milt Sparks inside the waistband holster. Single action auto, cocked and locked. Never leave the house without it.

Macsmasher = I despise Apple's proprietary business practices as well as the pompous attitude of many of the Mac fanboys.

[Input Nirvana]

I found GH in '09 while searching for info on buying a Kinesis Advantage that was split into 2 halves. Turns out there was no such thing. I lurked a little and realized I needed info to cut my Kinesis Advantage into 2 halves...so I needed to register to ask some questions. Why? Because I was searching for Input Nirvana.

Play the game: "Where in the world is Input Nirvana?"

Did you click the fake link? hahahahahaha

[TheProfosist]

Ive had mine since I had my first account on the net as far back as I can remeber. I do believe I smashed together some words that I thought were cool at the time. Can you figure out which ones those were?

[iAmAhab]

I am Ahab and I want you to know.

[CommunistWitchDr]

Friend called me a "communist witch doctor" as a joking insult. I liked the ring of it.

[Sai]

"Sai" is just Honorific for my race, Shan.

[Moosecraft]

I got it as a randomly selected name on xbox live

[Dgsbllx]

When I first made an account on Runescape I was trying to think of a username and a bottle of that was sitting next to me. Somehow bodged it from that 

[fohat.digs]

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When I first made an account on Runescape I was trying to think of a username and a bottle of that was sitting next to me. Somehow bodged it from that  :confused:

I might not have guessed that one right away.

[Macsmasher]

I should've given a little more background to Macsmasher. In 1996, I bought the game Quake. (The first night playing it, I called my best buddy and told him he had to drop everything and come over to see this. We've both been gamers ever since.)

I needed a player name when we started having LAN parties. At the time, the Mac fanboys looked down their noses at the Win guys. (Like the Prius drivers that enjoy the smell of their own farts in that South Park episode.) Photoshop was their flagship app. If I remember correctly, PC Magazine had an article comparing the fastest Mac against a dual CPU NT4 system with Photoshop benchmarks and the Win machine smashed the Mac six ways from Sunday in every benchmark. I thought it was so funny, I came up with the name Macsmasher and have been using it ever since.

[Thimplum]

Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

[lcs]

lcs == lucas without the vowels.

[lcs]

Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

Proof. Show us a document.

[SpAmRaY]

Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

A google image search of your name is very interesting.

[Rayne]

I have used the username Reign for as long as i can remember, for pretty much anything. I even have a tattoo on my left arm that says "-REIGN-". Unfortunately Reign was unavailable when i signed up here so i decided to choose a name that was pronounced the same but had a different spelling.

[Thimplum]

Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

Proof. Show us a document.

What is this? PayPal?

Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

A google image search of your name is very interesting.

HAHA! I had never done that before. If you couldn't tell before, I'm on sparkfun. The first 2 pages of google search are actually me.

[lcs]

The dog is cute

[oTurtlez]

Let's see. It started with a series of gamertag changes on Xbox Live. I sure as hell wasn't going to use either A: My first AIM name (egghead356) or B: My runescape name (hi1405), so my first gamertag was last spawn. My friend had just talked about spawns of something and I thought, "Hey! That's a great idea! I'll be the "Last Spawn"!". Needless to say I looked stupid as all hell, and a year or so later changed it to i_SpAwNx because ya know, capital and lowercase names were all the rage. That then changed to something which was and still is my favorite animal, the turtle. Thus, oO TurTLeZ Oo was born and dear lord was the pitiful. After realizing I didn't want to appear as a child to every person ever seeing the username, I changed it to a simple and more sophisticated yet still mildly childish, oTurtlez and that has stuck for the last 2 years for everything. Maybe some day down the road I'll have a cool name like jdcarpe and jcrouse where nobody will know what my name could mean.

[Thimplum]

Google Image search of my REAL(watevz, not thimplum) name actually brings up a bunch of legit pictures of me. That's scary.

[MKULTRA]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA

[SpAmRaY]

Google Image search of my REAL(watevz, not thimplum) name actually brings up a bunch of legit pictures of me. That's scary.

Make sure your signed out of google when doing that or you might get some false positives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA

^^^ wicked! 

[Thimplum]

Google Image search of my REAL(watevz, not thimplum) name actually brings up a bunch of legit pictures of me. That's scary.

Make sure your signed out of google when doing that or you might get some false positives.

I did.

My name is umm... unique, one could say.

[insilica]

Spend most of my time on a desk on a computer, so inSilica seemed to fit (not very original I know)

[SpAmRaY]

I've not posted an explanation here with my 'new' username, but I think it's obvious....

[Cafiend]

Love me some coffee and 5 hour NRG.. at work. I foam at the mouth and load trucks at 3x speed bonus.

Silly name but its better than the usual LGraves that I use.

It was my thiefs' name in GW2, that I played briefly cause of my damn brother! So I guess I just recycled it.

[BunnyLake]

I've not posted an explanation here with my 'new' username, but I think it's obvious....

you eat a lot of spam?

[Tym]

My names Tym and I'm imaginative.

[SpAmRaY]

I've not posted an explanation here with my 'new' username, but I think it's obvious....

you eat a lot of spam?

Spam and eggs FTW!

btw I'm in McDonald's drive through.

[divito]

My last name.

[whiskytango]

I got it from watching Generation Kill

NATO phonetic alhabet: "W" = whisky, "T" = tango

In military jargon, whiskytango is slang for white trash. I thought it was funny, and since I am from Alabama, appropriate.

[Sent]

Used to game a lot under the tag of "Sentinel".  I've since shortened it to just Sent as that's what most of my Steam, LoL, PS2, etc. buddies call me by.

Plus, it's short and simple.  I like keeping things simple.

[Photoelectric]

Due to my background, physics terms float on my mind periodically, so it was 'photoelectric effect' for another place, which seemed proper, and I continued it here.  But I don't generally get the same user name for many places--I tend to pick a random association word when I register.

[jonathanyu]

  I am lazy, so I use my name

[RabRhee]

When all you could enter was 3 letters on arcade machines, I would always put Rob, but it was a pain to do, especially as most reset to A each letter. So I have used RAB, an Irish / Scots version, since the 1980s, and it stuck even when they improved name entries.
The last part just varies now and then, the Rhee comes from some characters in the Shannara series. If my email gets too spam heavy (or thief heavy) I just think up another and swap accounts over.

I love Alfa Romeos, we just got a new one recently, so if I were to choose an Alfa related username it would have to be 'startyoubadlywiredbastard'. Probably too long.

[DamnDan]

For most of my online life i went by Ollus, Ollusvq, OllusC (made in pre-internet times of playing HoMM). Got tired of it, decided to use my name in my new nickname and that's how DamnDan was born (Friends at work call me Dan Dan all the time, dunno why). You can also find me on some forums registered as Tarma (METAL SLUUUUUUG!) Yeah...boring story:P

[CPTBadAss]

Metal Slug is my favorite game of all time

[elton5354]

My favourite singer.

[domoaligato]

[SpAmRaY]

^^ I have this on cassette tape!!

[SidusNare]

After a binge of Outlaw Star, Reboot, Star Trek, and Babylon 5 I chose the username starwindsurfer, intending to evoke the image of solar sailing and stelar exploration. Instead people though I was really good at wind surfing, as in the water sport, something I have never done.  So I found a Latin dictionary and came up with:

sidus : constellation, star.
no : (nare, navi) to swim, float, fly, sail.

So there you have it, I am SidusNare, the constellation swimmer, or the star floater.

[PadawanGeek]

Mine I guess is quite self explanatory for anyone who've watch Star Wars Ep I, which is just about everyone.....

[DamnDan]

Metal Slug is my favorite game of all time

\m/. ^^ Hell yeah!

[HoffmanMyster]

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^^ I have this on cassette tape!!

I have it on vinyl!   

[nubbinator]

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^^ I have this on cassette tape!!

I have it on vinyl!   

But do you have it on Edison cylinder? 

[oTurtlez]

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^^ I have this on cassette tape!!

I have it on vinyl!   

But do you have it on Edison cylinder? 

Cmon... Ancient clay pottery is the number one way of saving audio.

[HoffmanMyster]

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^^ I have this on cassette tape!!

I have it on vinyl!   

But do you have it on Edison cylinder?

No...    That'd be a really cool format though, in all seriousness.

[Narcix]

Narcix was my main back when i played wow.
I think it is somehow related to narcissus

[jameslr]

first name, middle initial, last initial. Pretty boring, but it's what I use for everything. Now go hack me

[HoffmanMyster]

first name, middle initial, last initial. Pretty boring, but it's what I use for everything. Now go hack me

I choose to pretend that your name is Jame and you are a photographer.

[microsoft windows]

I chose my username "Microsoft Windows" because Microsoft Windows is the best computer operating system on the planet.

[eth0s]

I chose my username "Microsoft Windows" because Microsoft Windows is the best computer operating system on the planet.

Sure it is.  Pure joy and bliss every day.

first name, middle initial, last initial. Pretty boring, but it's what I use for everything. Now go hack me

I choose to pretend that your name is Jame and you are a photographer.

jame needs to add a "d", then he can be a digital photographer too.

[HoffmanMyster]

first name, middle initial, last initial. Pretty boring, but it's what I use for everything. Now go hack me

I choose to pretend that your name is Jame and you are a photographer.

jame needs to add a "d", then he can be a digital photographer too.

Nah, he sticks to film.  He feels that the restrictions of film photography force him to put more effort into composing that perfect shot and in the end make him a better photographer.  He is still resilient to accept digital technology.  Jame is a technology rebel.

[demik]

i was on an avatar type chatroom called the palace.

at the time in the "urban" area akademiks clothing was starting to get popular.

i am unoriginal bastard and used akademiks as my name on the palace. friend thought it meant "aka demiks".

then it went from demiks to demik. and this was maybe 15 years ago or something like that.

played a ton of CS in HS and the name just stuck.

[rowdy]

i was on an avatar type chatroom called the palace.

at the time in the "urban" area akademiks clothing was starting to get popular.

i am unoriginal bastard and used akademiks as my name on the palace. friend thought it meant "aka demiks".

then it went from demiks to demik. and this was maybe 15 years ago or something like that.

played a ton of CS in HS and the name just stuck.

But this is all academic, right?

[demik]

si?

[pandather]

Live in a town of 2K...  It's our towns mascot...  I was 8...

[iri]

In military jargon, whiskytango is slang for white trash. I thought it was funny, and since I am from Alabama, appropriate.

iri likes this post

[SpAmRaY]

Live in a town of 2K...  It's our towns mascot...  I was 8...

Your town has it's own panther!! That is awesome.

[bueller]

I'll let you guys guess why I chose mine. Same goes for the avatar

[ninjadoc]

Back with there were bulletin boards you needed a "handle" for them. My son was into ninja turtles at the time and I'm a doctor so I combined the two. I use it everywhere and have for years.

[CPTBadAss]

The real question now is, are YOU into ninja turtles ninjadoc?

[SpAmRaY]

The real question now is, are YOU into ninja turtles ninjadoc?

I sleep with a ninja turtle blanket every night. No, I am not kidding. 

[bueller]

Back with there were bulletin boards you needed a "handle" for them. My son was into ninja turtles at the time and I'm a doctor so I combined the two. I use it everywhere and have for years.

Dang, I imagined you stealthily slipping into peoples houses and curing their ailments while they're unaware!

[HoffmanMyster]

Back with there were bulletin boards you needed a "handle" for them. My son was into ninja turtles at the time and I'm a doctor so I combined the two. I use it everywhere and have for years.

Dang, I imagined you stealthily slipping into peoples houses and curing their ailments while they're unaware!

Well he didn't say he doesn't do that...and after all, if he did (he does) would he really tell anyone? (he wouldn't)

[TheSoulhunter]

Couldn't think up a Nick when I registered to a forum for the first time, so I picked "Soulreaver" which was a game I played at that time, I thought it sounds cool (I was young...), but as this Nick was already taken I used "Soulhunter" (if taken -> "TheSoulhunter"). As I kept it for some time, and build up some "reputation" under that name, I had to keep it. Nowadays most of that reputation is gone, so I started to use a new Nick roughly 2 years ago... LordOctron. Octron was the brand name of some cheap CD-Rs I found in some bin some day, and I was like: Octron... sounds cool! Sounds like the name of some emperor villain in old scifi movies "Lord Octron the eperor of Planet Xorton 83". Later I decided to name my son (if I will have one) Octron Valerian (sounds cool, doesn't it? :3) and my GF is ok with that (in exchange for freedom regarding the name in case it will be a girl).

[TheSoulhunter]

Double Post

[HoffmanMyster]

Couldn't think up a Nick when I registered to a forum for the first time, so I picked "Soulreaver" which was a game I played at that time, I thought it sounds cool (I was young...), but as this Nick was already taken I used "Soulhunter" (if taken -> "TheSoulhunter"). As I kept it for some time, and build up some "reputation" under that name, I had to keep it. Nowadays most of that reputation is gone, so I started to use a new Nick roughly 2 years ago... LordOctron. Octron was the brand name of some cheap CD-Rs I found in some bin some day, and I was like: Octron... sounds cool! Sounds like the name of some emperor villain in old scifi movies "Lord Octron the eperor of Planet Xorton 83". Later I decided to name my son (if I will have one) Octron Valerian (sounds cool, doesn't it? :3) and my GF is ok with that (in exchange for freedom regarding the name in case it will be a girl).

All hail Lord Octron, ruler of cheap CD-Rs!  Interesting story about the name of your (future) son too, it sounds very menacing.   

[Belfong]

Arise, this thread..

I was reading the many faces of GH and was wondering if there were any thread made about why you choose your username and a quick search helped me find this tread. So if you are new here, such as I am (relatively speaking), I'd be interested to know how in the world did you come up with your creative user name?

Mine was pretty unimaginative. My friends and I wanted to play AD&D pen and paper RPG and we had to create a character and come up with a user name. At that time, I just finished David Edding's Belgariad series. In that book, the wizards are disciple of a god and all of them are given the prefix Bel such as Belgarath, Belgarion, etc. My first name is Fong, so I took up Belfong and it has stuck since then.

What about yours?
 

[nobee]

My nickname is "B". Last name sounds similar to (and commonly mispronounced) as "No". So...  No... Bee. Lol, not much to it. Just my last name and first initial pronounced backwards.

[paicrai]

Well, what happened was that I was abandoning an insanely stupid, embarrasing handle I'd used a lot, and won't say, so I started finding words that sounded like they rhymed, and I made them rhyme. paicrai was short and nice. I also have piecrie a few places, but turns out a lot of people use that, but at least I had a backup if one was taken 

[Frenir]

Mine is a mix between my real name, Frederik and the name of the wolf son of Loke, Fenrir from Norse Mythology.

[rowdy]

Mine is a mix between my real name, Frederik and the name of the wolf son of Loke, Fenrir from Norse Mythology.

Which kinda ties in with your avatar, which reminds me of those 80s RPG games that were so cool

[StylinGreymon]

I got mine from an episode of Digimon Adventures years ago.

[Frenir]

Mine is a mix between my real name, Frederik and the name of the wolf son of Loke, Fenrir from Norse Mythology.

Which kinda ties in with your avatar, which reminds me of those 80s RPG games that were so cool

Yeah, it has a great retro feel. If you're interested, it's made by pixel artist Richard Fhager.