Question Username origins

[PennyBlack]

Obviously... [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black"]Pennyblack[/ame]

And no, I'm not a collector.

 

[Loru]

hey guys! he didnt give a year, after all, who needs to give the filthy phishers any more information

anonymity is a virtue

Age of any particular O-F user is not of my concern. That was just a spontaneous "follow on" on Wishbone's Ghengis-Khan joke.

 

[Grover]

but there are people out there that take this information and use it for all sorts of evil plans, like advertising... ever wonder how that junk mail finds you? ever wonder how you get that annoying flyer in the post every week? thats why

 

[Unstung]

An image would suffice:

 

[grid4dante]

mine's pretty basic... grid 4 was a fictional location I wrote for a story to mean the southeast or southwest hemisphere, and dante is for the character from Dante's Inferno.

However, since seeing Tron Legacy, grid has taken on a Tronish meaning.

 

[Linguofreak]

Mine comes from the large number of languages that I have attempted to learn (unfortunately, only with German did I get a teacher that was willing and able to speak enough of the language in the classroom for me to actually become anything near fluent).

 

[Pablo49]

My nickname is Pablo. It's basically my real name, even my girlfriend calls me Pablo. First place I signed up for online had Pablo taken, so I tacked on my lucky number. Hence Pablo49. On sites where Pablo49 is taken, I normally use Monxcleyr, which was just gibberish sometime typed while finding a name for my Orbiterradio show. Thrilling.

 

[communist]

im russian,wich for those who dont know is a former communist country,i suppose i was thinking of that fact

 

[Chub777]

Not really a long story.

I needed a username for a forum long ago. The "Chubb Security" company came up in my head. I removed one of the "b"s and just added "777".

 

[RichWall]

After my brother gave me much grief on using 'Hot Dog" as my original Username (always liked Gordon Cooper's personality), I decided to use my own name.

Besides one syllable per word names are the ones most remember.

 

[Hielor]

I was going to be playing WoW with my friends, and it had been decided in advance that I would be playing a frost mage, so I needed a nice frosty-sounding name. "Hielo" is Spanish for "ice," and to make it sound more like a name I added the R. So, the original intended pronunciation was something like "ee-ay-lore". Turns out that pretty much no one got the joke, and people just called me "high-lore", so that's what it ended up being.

I still use it because it's a pretty much globally unique name--if you see a "hielor" anywhere, odds are it's me, and the first couple pages of search results are pretty much all me.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

<grunt> <grunt> <groan>

If I could only reach my power bands.....


OK, somebody has to know the reference.

 

[diogom]

Is it related to the Space Ghost? A quick google search gave me that.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

That's it... I've been calling my car the Phantom Cruiser for nearly 30 years (I'm on the Mk IX version now).

 

[RichWall]

<grunt> <grunt> <groan>

If I could only reach my power bands.....


OK, somebody has to know the reference.

Nope..Unless I go back to my 1960s memories....Space Ghost's ship?

Or is this a reference to a prior Username?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ninja-ed!!

 

[Suzy]

Mine is just my name (or a diminutive of) - I suck at thinking up imaginative usernames!

 

[TG626]

TG626 is a composite, TG is used with a 3 digit number for Thai Airlines flights - I once was a virtual pilot for a virtual Thai Airline. the 626 part, which I used since those days, was chosen as it is Stitch's Experiment number in the animated movie Lilo & Stitch.

 

[Aeadar]

Aeadar(A-adar) was a character in a short story a friend and I were trying to develop many, many years ago. The story never went anywhere but somehow, my friend and I ended up using names from that story as...handles, if you will. I used it in several writings and a recording or two back when I did that sort of thing. Now it's my preferred online name, though I do sometimes find it already in use which strikes me as odd as it's a made-up name.


Great thread idea by the way!

 

[Eccentrus]

Eccentrus, as you probably guess, a latin name form of eccentric (well, kind of pull it out of my **** though)

 

[indonesianorbinaut]

originally i want to use "mridwan03" as my username but i'm searching another Indonesian so i decided to used "indonesianorbinaut" as my username