Damn, and here I thought you were a hockey fan. Oh well, you’re still cool by me.
Mine’s my middle name, and I like it fine. It’s not terribly original, but I think it’s easy to remember, and conveys gender. It works.
Dislike.
If I’d known I’d have it for so long, I would have gone beyond my usual tactic for throwaway usernames, which is pretty much the first thing I see when I look away from the screen. A toy gorilla. Yeah, great. :smack:
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Ever since the license plate thread, I always think Pitocyn! when I see your username. If that makes you feel any better about it.
You should change it to your Fantasy Teevee name, which is how I alwasy think of you.
Nope, don’t like it. I didn’t even think of mine, it was a random phrase my roommate thought of (he’s good at it). Like others have said about theirs, it doesn’t feel…hefty enough. It feels too flitty.
I tried to get Fake Cecil , but I’m sure that would have had the opposite problem. I’ll likely change it as soon as I can think of something better.
I’ve used Sampiro since my first time on the Internet (mid-90s) when I was a big fan of vampire novels (though for the record, I was never Goth). I actually chose it from one of the Straight Dope books (this column) but was using it for years before I heard of SDMB, and in fact I used at least 2 or 3 other usernames when I was lurking on SDMB (long before registration/pay-rules) before registering as Sampiro as a sort of natural homage.* If I joined today I’d probably go with Nimrod Wildfire or Buck Salacious or something else…" but I’ve no desire to change it.
*One was the name of one of the Yoknapatawpha Snopes clan- “Montgomery Ward Snopes” I think- and some Doper in those times [around 2000-2001] got p.o.d because they thought I was trying to pass myself off as someone affiliated with snopes.com
Other usernames I’ve gone by over the years (none here) have included Cool Papa J, Sidemeat Masterson, Big Daddy Mendelbaum and T. Oregano Chase, most chosen from random documents around me added to something ‘jazzy’.
I’ve been using this username (or some variation) since the mid-late 90s across various sites.
I always assumed you were “The Robot Devil” or at least the “Devil in the Details”.
There’s a Futurama episode where someone had scrawled 0101100101 on the wall in hydraulic fluid a la The Shining. Bender isn’t bothered by this until he sees the reflection in a mirror. Someone once woke me up and dragged me out of bed to see that.
I’ve also used 1100001001, but it’s not as aesthetically pleasing.
So I guess my guess wasn’t too far off. Is the 1100001001 anything specific or just an extra 111[sub]10[/sub]?
Dude, you didn’t know I was black? Actually, I talk about that here.
js, sorry about that.
Er. Well, other than that my username is not a pop-culture reference and for very large values of “n’t too far off”. I think I was trying to write a program for converting pi into whatever base (i.e., e) and used 666 to check the math and noticed it made interesting patterns.
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No complaints here. I use it all over the place, it’s easy to search, and I’m relatively happy with the look of it. Any other name I would use would be some lame pun or character from something I watch that I’d be sick of in a matter of weeks.
I like mine plenty fine. I’ve been using it since the early 90’s on IRC and other forums. It occured to me the other week that, if my nickname were its own person, it’d be able to start driving this year.
Only minor issue is that people often assume I’m female due to it. But I’ve been called worse.
I’m way too happy with my user name…
“Big Daddy Mendelbaum”! That is at least seven different kinds of awesome.
That would actually be one of my top choices if I did change it. Maybe I should poll the board on whether I should change my username…
Yep. Had it for six or seven years now and I use it everywhere.
I think I’m the only doper that’s gotten in trouble for having the name they do. Apparently, my intel bosses don’t like me having a name announcing that I’m a soldier and that I do Intel. I’m pretty sure I’d volunteer that information to (just about) anyone. It’s not like it’s classified.