Explain your username to us

Decado

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Sep 16, 2013
88
Character from a David Gemmell book... it's been an online handle of mine for a long time.
 

chatterx

Member
Mar 13, 2014
95
Chatterx..... When I first started using the new fangled internet technology back in 1997 I was huge into chat rooms hence the chatter part. At the time I was in my late teens... cocky as hell.... and much more immature. I figured I could pretend to be anyone on the net so I chose the x part. It kinda just stuck with me over the years and is not hardly duped at all.
 

DonnyDrywall

Member
Nov 26, 2013
95
blazinlow89 said:
Funny, I figured your name was Donny, and you worked in drywall and drywall accessories. :wink:

I know, right? I use the same name on twitter and at least 7 drywall companys follow me on there. :rotfl:
 

{tpc}

Member
Jan 22, 2014
359
Mine has to do with an online game I was playing a the time and what I was watching on tv. I was watching the TPC golf championship on tv. The game I was playing at the time ranked anyone with a username with {} in it higher on a persons friends list than regular names which became alphabetical after that. I suck at character names or coming up with user names, thus {tpc} was born. It only made sense for my forum name for that game to be the same as my account name.

Like I said, I suck thinking up names, so I use this one in most places. Name is Tony, btw.
 

Porkins

Member
Dec 5, 2011
6,960
{tpc} said:
Mine has to do with an online game I was playing a the time and what I was watching on tv. I was watching the TPC golf championship on tv. The game I was playing at the time ranked anyone with a username with {} in it higher on a persons friends list than regular names which became alphabetical after that. I suck at character names or coming up with user names, thus {tpc} was born. It only made sense for my forum name for that game to be the same as my account name.

Like I said, I suck thinking up names, so I use this one in most places. Name is Tony, btw.

Welcome to the crew Tony.
 

Robbabob

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Dec 10, 2012
1,096
My shortened name from Robert is Robb, yes, with 2 b's. When I moved to WI, the friends I made started calling me Robbb b b b b b b bb, , , it eventually morphed into Robbabob. though I don't live there any longer, I keep it close at heart.
 

Fen65

Member
Apr 2, 2014
54
I'm FenwickHockey65 on every other site. Most people know me as Fen.

Apparently that's one character too long for here.
 
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billzie

Member
Aug 20, 2012
86
Athens, OH
Billzie: A nickname some in a group of friends called me "back in the day", better than some of the other things I've been called LOL. I've used this username on every hobby forum I've ever belonged to. But I always end my posts with Bill what I prefer to be called.
 

SaabScott

Member
Jul 11, 2013
81
Mine also falls under the category of "really easy to explain" ...

I've been into Saabs since 2004 and using this user name everywhere since. This is my 7th (pure coincidence that it is also a 9-7X :biggrin: ).
I've been the President of The Saab Club of Canada since 2005, super moderator over at Saab Central.
 

D3vious

Member
Dec 16, 2011
67
Mine was issued by a group of friends after a traffic stop, 99 in a 65 zone.
When I saw a rest area very close to where the officer pulled me over, I poured a big gulp into my lap.
I said to the cop "I tried to make it!!!"
He looked down, closed his ticket book, and said "you're having a shitty enough day"
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Junfan

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May 15, 2014
16
Junfan was Bruce Lee's given name. I have studied JKD, Kali, Escrima and Muay Thai in the Inosanto program since the late 90s on and off. Anymore, I do more BJJ than anything. I started using this name in MMOs starting with Ultima Online.
 

Rogue92

Member
Apr 19, 2014
83
Rogue comes from what I've been labeled in the past due to my political beliefs not jiving well with the majority of my classmates in high school and now in college. Instead of seeing it as an insult, I wear it as a badge now :wink:

The '92? Year I was born, since TV, other sites, and GMT won't let me use just plain "Rogue".
 

Capote

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Jul 14, 2014
24,227
Atlanta, GA
Nothing special, just my last name. Just used to hearing it instead of my first name, being in the Army and all
 
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combatspace

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Aug 6, 2014
37
It's been my username on various forums for years now. It started off as my Xbox live handle, and it just kinda stuck...8 years later.
 

skamphax0r

Member
Jul 21, 2014
19
Mine started out in a prodigy chatroom - and i just never changed it. skamp is a demon type thing in Elder scrolls oblivion. and hax0r is kiddie speak :tongue:
 

AManders6

Member
Jan 24, 2014
638
Simple enough: "A" first letter of my first name, "Manders" my last name, and "6" my favorite number
 
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ahhyeah

Member
Dec 20, 2014
15
A friend quoted a line from a movie once, "Ahhyeah, how do you like me now?" and so we started saying Ahhyeah all the time. I ended up adding it to my license plate and then my username for pretty much everything.
 
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Mooseman

Moderator
Dec 4, 2011
25,257
Ottawa, ON
Damn, I was sure I posted in here when I first joined. Better late than never.

Back when I first started in computers in the late 90's, I joined a profession specific email discussion group (basically, a forum that worked by using emails), I became friends with an Australian. Thinking that Canadians have moose in every back yard, he started calling me Mooseman. He even drew my avatar.

I should have called him Kangarooman but he already had a nickname.
 

DAlastDON

Member
Apr 6, 2014
5,550
Kentucky
My all time favorite song. Been using DAlastDON online since the 90's for damn near everything. Started useing it as a gamer tag for duke nukem, doom, quake, tribes, etc. Before game consoles connected to the internet and cell phones were carried around in bags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9tdnxSVII
 

Boricua SS

Member
Nov 20, 2011
3,080
Ohio
Ha.. I have,all of no limit cd's... great memories for sure.
 
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Ziggy

Member
Feb 8, 2015
207
I'm on several different vehicle specific, and interest specific forums, and got sick of trying to come up with a unique identifier (and trying to remember them all!) for each one. I wanted something easy to remember, and easy enough to find an avatar for. Besides, who doesn't love Ziggy?
 

Reprise

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Jul 22, 2015
2,724
Mine comes from another forum I used to frequent before this one - I used to play bass when I was younger, then went to focus on my day job for 20 years. 3 years ago, I picked up the instrument again - thus, 'Reprise'.

Being a bass player is the reason I've owned 3 Exploders and now an Envoy - you need a big vehicle to carry those big bass cabinets in :2thumbsup: We call the 8x10s 'refrigerators'

Our older readers may remember that Sinatra named his record company Reprise - and that was a reference from when he had his career restarted as well. Just a hobby with me, though.
 

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