What's in your screen name?

I have always been curious to know how folks on here came up with their screen names. I know there was a thread about names, but that was 3 years ago and tons of members have joined since then.

Mine comes from the football team I adore, the Essendon Bombers, one of only two teams to have won 16 premierships in the AFL (Australian Footy League).

Come on, let's hear why you adopted your screen name.

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MentholMoose

My handle is a character from The Simpsons. I really liked the show back when I got Internet access (late 90s), so I used a character name that was cool but obscure enough (it's only in 2 or 3 episodes) that not a lot of people use it.

I've been using my avatar for about 10 years. It is a picture I took of my cat shortly after I got my first digital camera. The pic showed my cat's personality when around people (very mellow, if you couldn't tell). Sadly he disappeared several years ago.

ehnde

MentholMoose wrote: »

My handle is a character from The Simpsons. I really liked the show back when I got Internet access (late 90s), so I used a character name that was cool but obscure enough (it's only in 2 or 3 episodes) that not a lot of people use it.

I've been using my avatar for about 10 years. It is a picture I took of my cat shortly after I got my first digital camera. The pic showed my cat's personality when around people (very mellow, if you couldn't tell). Sadly he disappeared several years ago.

That's a shame you lost your cat. I like him. He clearly does not give a ****

Essendon

MentholMoose wrote: »

I've been using my avatar for about 10 years. It is a picture I took of my cat shortly after I got my first digital camera. The pic showed my cat's personality when around people (very mellow, if you couldn't tell). Sadly he disappeared several years ago.

This is the thing with cats, if I ever have a pet, it'll be a dog (maybe 2), not a cat. Dont cats have a reputation for going AWOL? And I think ehnde is right too...!!

Great posts everyone!!

alan2308

It was 1999 and I had just finished my time in the Marine Corps. AOL was the only ISP with a local phone number as I was out in the middle of nowhere, and every screen name I could think of was taken. So I just started adding random numbers to the end of my first name and went with the first one that came back as being available. I've been using it online ever since.

Devilsbane

Devilsbane was a world or warcraft character that I used.

Mike-Mike wrote: »

and about avatars like ehnde said...

I am more interested in that question. I've never seen anything that I believed to have fit other than one that was already being used by someone (either on this forum or another) and therfore didn't pick one.

MentholMoose

Essendon wrote: »

This is the thing with cats, if I ever have a pet, it'll be a dog (maybe 2), not a cat. Dont cats have a reputation for going AWOL? And I think ehnde is right too...!!

Well, I'd like to think my cat is living a good life and generally not giving a **** somewhere

, but my area has predators of outdoor pets, such as coyotes, bobcats, and foxes. I've lost other cats (some disappear, but one time I found the remains), and one of my neighbors actually saw a coyote grab their cat in broad daylight. My cat was territorial and a few months before he disappeared I saw him facing off against a young bobcat in my front yard (I scared it away before they could start fighting), so the bobcat might have come back, or a coyote could have got him. But you never know.

Cisco Inferno

YouTube - The Trammps - Disco Inferno

this is where i get my name from. I find it hilarious being only 21.

my avatar is a character from The IT Crowd. shows hilarious and british. i recommend it.

instant000

Cisco Inferno wrote: »

YouTube - The Trammps - Disco Inferno

this is where i get my name from. I find it hilarious being only 21.

my avatar is a character from The IT Crowd. shows hilarious and british. i recommend it.

I've seen the IT Crowd before, at a friend's place ...pretty sick show, even have that one gothic guy in the server room who seemed like a vampire. My favorite part of the show is the recording they play when people call in, "have you tried turning it off and on again?"

I got rid of my TV last summer ...waste of time, must truly be getting old, LOL.

I'm glad you said what your avatar was, I was thinking it was Richard Simmons all this time.

Armor149

I was in the Army and on tanks, so thats where the Armor comes from, the unit I was in was the 149th Armor Regiment.

instant000

Armor149 wrote: »

I was in the Army and on tanks, so thats where the Armor comes from, the unit I was in was the 149th Armor Regiment.

My last assigned unit was 2/34 armor battalion, 1st infantry division

"Big Red One, patch on my shoulder!"

Hooah!

Ahriakin

"What's in your screen name?"

a,h,r,i,k,n....ah, sometimes my wit even marvels me

I made it up, sounded nice enough at the time, CreeD (had it way before the band) is usually taken everywhere so I figured my own word was pretty unlikely to ever be unavailable.

jtoast

I ran a BBS long ago and the admin ID I used for bannings, etc was named "toaster" because if I used it, your account was toast.

When I left the world of BBS and moved to the WWW, I tried to take toaster with me but it was usually already taken when I would try to sign up for forums. I decided to change it up by adding my first initial and Jtoast was born.

kriscamaro68

Mine is my first name with the model and year of my favorite car.

nimrod.sixty9

kriscamaro68 wrote: »

Mine is my first name with the model and year of my favorite car.

Tell me you sported one at least once before. I have a 99 Z28 T56. Im a Camaro fanatic

MrRyte

MrRyte-
I chose that because my name is Howard WRIGHT. Even had it on the license plate of my car. http://www.cardomain.com/ride/225640/1995-infiniti-g
It was a hit with all the chicks-

....till my girl moved in and forced me to make some changes.

kriscamaro68

nimrod.sixty9 wrote: »

Tell me you sported one at least once before. I have a 99 Z28 T56. Im a Camaro fanatic

No I never had a 68' Camaro which sucked. I did however have a 68 Firebird, a 70 Camaro Z28, and a 67 Nova so I jumped around a 68 Camaro but never owned one. I have used the SN since I was 14 and it just stuck.

bertieb

Short for Bertie Bassett, the company mascot of Bassett's who make my favourite sweets - liquorice allsorts!

No idea why I chose it, though I seem to recall I was stuck for a name on MSN Grapevine chat in the 90's so it was probably the first thing that popped into my head at the time

nimrod.sixty9

kriscamaro68 wrote: »

No I never had a 68' Camaro which sucked. I did however have a 68 Firebird, a 70 Camaro Z28, and a 67 Nova so I jumped around a 68 Camaro but never owned one. I have used the SN since I was 14 and it just stuck.

Oh yes I love the first gen Birds too! Well pretty much any gen Fbody. An LS1 T56 combo has been my dream for quite some time, go get yours man!

tbgree00

My screen name is the user ID my college assigned to me. It's first two initials and then part of my last name and some numbers.

My avatar is one of my favorite pictures I have ever taken. It is from the Columbus Zoo. They have a few rays that come up to the glass on the tank. I have a video of one eating right against the glass that is pretty awesome too.

Panzer919

I love anime, mechs specifically, and I love massive weapon overkill, I used to go by heavyarmscustom but I got tired of writing it out so I was watching Zoids one day and this was one of the mechs

Liger Zero Panzer - so I coupled that with one of my favorite numbers 919 and there you have it.

galoryber

I get mine from my name actually. (Gary Lobermier)

I just pull two letters at a time Ga-Lo-ry-be... and I added the "r" since it seems better that way.

It works well with a lot of peoples names I find. Try it out!

Monkerz

Mine is my last name with "erz" added to the end. My screen name back in the "Counter Strike" days.

Xcluziv

I got this from a handle i have been using on different forums for awhile...

Xcluziv = Exclusive typically means not with other things or not including other things

Just like many of us on the forum we have to set ourselves apart from the rest Another reason I like the S/N.

Also, we are the L.O.A.D.B (Last of A Dying Breed) this is where the taglien in my avi comes from

Bokeh

Mine is from photography, which is another hobby of mine.

The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji (ボケ味), the "blur quality".

demonfurbie

back in the day i ... well... lets just say an acoustic coupler payphone and 386 laptop

it just kinda stuck

Cisco Inferno

instant000 wrote: »

I'm glad you said what your avatar was, I was thinking it was Richard Simmons all this time.

hhaha now thats hilarious

Firemarshalbill.com

My name comes from my other profession. I am a firefighter in addition to being in IT. The .com part of my name was an accident when I joined this site

SteveLord

My name comes from roughly 14 years ago, when Diablo for PC was in full swing. It was the first game I was starting to play online, and a fellow gamer on the net suggested the name for me. I've used it ever since.

The avatar is a popular symbol of the US Army Infantryman, which has been my only other profession beyond IT.

Deathgomper

When I was about 12 / 13 my friends and I were climbing trees in the rural backwoods of Michigan. My friends and I called each other "Choad Gomper" where choad sounding like toad meant sh*t and gomping refereed to eating. Yes, I grew up talking like this.

Later that night on a quest to access "Adult Files" on a BBS I was prompted to enter in a handle. I thought of a book title I had seen in a mall bookstore called "Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton and applied my current language. From that point on I was Deathgomper.

The avatar comes from my love of the steak, egg and cheese bagel meal from McDonald's.

Everyone

Mine I started using in the late 80's early 90's when I was a kid dialing into a few local BBSs. I thought it was funny because it said stuff like "Everyone has entered the room." and "Everyone says " when I went into the chat rooms. People were actually quite confused by it at the time. I've continued to use it off and on for various things over the years.