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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sidsanders

i have used certain names as test users sn/given name combo for unix/windows/mail systems. got to the point where i would sign into webex/livemeeting and other online conferences as sid and started using it on forums long ago.

sidsanders

Everyone wrote: »

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.

well done!

tribe_menx

translated my village head name to english

-DeXteR-

Mine comes from that cartoon i loved so much remember " DEXTER'S LABORATORY " used to love his character where he was a kid and doing stuffs even Einstein would be proud off !!

Mike-Mike

instant000 wrote: »

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

same here

CompuTron99

Mine is actually two things:

Computron the learning toy my mom gave me as kid.

Computron-Educational

And the only G1 Gestalt Transformer that I had all the parts to combine.

http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Computron_(G1)

Then add on the year I picked the name (1999).

Stiltz79

People gave me the nickname Stiltz because I am 6'9" tall and '79 is the year I was born.

Megadeth4168

Mine is a combination of my favorite band and the "randomly" assigned numbers that followed my first AOL account.... Oh, what was that? 15 years or more ago now....

sambuca69

I've always used the 'sambuca' handle (and variations of) since high school days. It's something my father likes to put in his coffee to this day, and it just kinda always stuck for me.

The 69 comes from, well.. 69 is the best number out there, and has nothing to do with my year of birth

thehourman

Mine, since it takes me about an hour to get to work because of the traffic, that's why I chose thehourman.

Do we have an option to change our name?

lochmoigh

loch moigh is a lake in Scotland. Figured no one would grab that for various accounts.

Essendon

thehourman wrote: »

Mine, since it takes me about an hour to get to work because of the traffic, that's why I chose thehourman.

Do we have an option to change our name?

We used to be able to do it ourselves before Johan migrated this website to vBulletin. Now you need to pm and send him a gift to get this done.

Raidersfan81

My mother helped me come up with my username when she gave me it at birth!

Essendon

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Paul Boz

My name is my name.

Bl8ckr0uter

Paul Boz wrote: »

My name is my name.

Same....

videguy

In a previous life many years ago I was a video dealer. When I signed up for AOL in the early 90's I could not get videoguy just videguy. I've been using it in forums ever since. It is always available and if I find it taken it has always meant I already have an account on the board.

mikedisd2

Everyone wrote: »

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.

So I assume "Your mum" was taken? I figured this would be the natural choice for this intention.