# Do you use your username anywhere else? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899 "2000-08-18T19:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/61 "2000-08-21T05:39:11Z")
I’ve used my username on Usenet a few times prior to coming here, but not much. Way back when, I’ve used haile esoteric and m. pythonite. What seems really weird to me now is when I use _brachyrhynchos_ in my everyday work. I might be preparing a talk and have to say the line “Death rates from West Nile virus were calculated by the CDC for the American Crow (_Corvus brachyrhynchos_) to be higher than 95%.” I have to stifle a giggle because I think of this place. See what a bad influence you all are? \<\\> :eek: ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/62 "2000-08-21T05:41:24Z")
Didn’t see you sneak in there, Bad Hat - welcome aboard! ---
**Author:** ![SF\_CA\_US](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SF\_CA\_US](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SF_CA_US)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/63 "2000-08-21T05:42:06Z")
I use my username on my return address labels. ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/64 "2000-08-21T14:23:33Z")
Yes. I use “Tymp” whenever possible. What’s great about my real name is that, when spoken, it sounds just like “Tymp”, provided one is pronouncing “Tymp” properly (tricky, huh?). I try to avoid using the proper spelling of my real name unless it’s absolutely necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/65 "2000-08-21T14:48:31Z")
I have been using “Hamadryad” as my handle/alias/nick/screen name since 1984. I have friends who call me “Hama” IRL. I am “Hamadryad” everywhere online, except for the places in which it has already been taken, in which I am “I Hamadryad” (or some variation thereon)…which is also a nice mini-Asimov tribute. Or so I like to think. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/66 "2000-08-21T15:40:15Z")
I have been using Maeglin for years, for just about everything. But when some asshole has already taken Maeglin (which doesn’t happen too often) I am usually Ramarren. But I’ve been NeoCount on Quake1, 2, and 3 for a few years now. MR ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/67 "2000-08-21T15:42:07Z")
I always figured you swiped the name from Thundercats. True? I didn’t know TC went all the way back to the early 80s…I thought it was more like an 85 thing. MR ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/68 "2000-08-30T03:32:52Z")
I liked my handle, which I also used for years on IRC before someone stole it from me, I bought the domain [hastur.com](http://hastur.com) ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/69 "2000-08-30T04:59:49Z")
I use my name mostly on line (for a lot of stuff). And sometimes it’s used as a nickname for me IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/70 "2000-08-30T16:10:17Z")
I’ve been “Glenn Five” for over a decade now, since I was a dj at my college radio station. It’s from my middle initial, which is V. Glenn Five was my on-air name at the station and later was my stage name during my brief stand-up career. Also, Glenn Five was my preferred handle during the golden age of the late, great Compuserve Comics Forum (I’m pretty sure **cmkeller** used to hang out there too), and more recently over at the Snopes Message Board. When I came here I just shortened it to **Five**. I dunno, just seemed more streamlined and economical. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/71 "2000-08-30T23:41:31Z")
_An Explanation_ The first time I used the name “slythe” over a modem was in 1982. I was a housekeeper for a couple that worked for Boeing in Seattle. On weekends they would have to bring home this modem that barely fit into a large suitcase, and hook it up to their phone. What Boing(and probably quite a few other large companies) didn’t know was that a good-sized portion of their computer system had been secretly partitioned off so that the employees could play games with the modem and communicate with each other. No-one dared use their own names, of course, and thus “slythe” was born. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/72 "2000-08-31T17:32:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer \* > \*\*DWANGO… that was the original method for running Deathmatches in Doom, wasn’t it? > > –Tim \*\* Yep! Well, you knew what it was, but not what it stood for… ok, instead of a Rhode Island sized cookie, you get 3 cubic yards of fudge. If you’re not home I’ll have it left on your front porch. **D** ial-up **W** ide **A** rea **N** etwork **G** aming **O** rganization _In slime space, no one can hear you scream._ ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/73 "2000-08-31T18:31:35Z")
Most places I go by Kei or .Kei. That’s just my name with both Rs taken out (Kerri.) It’s pronounced like the letter K, and EVERYONE calls me by that IRL. In the last year or so, I’ve been Gravity whenever I can. When I can’t (Thanks to those scientists naming that silly law after me 🙂 ) I go by Gravith. K. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/74 "2000-08-31T20:53:48Z")
I use psiekier here, on AOL, and a few other places only because it is one of the standard conventions for Unix usernames: your first initial followed by up to seven letters of your last name. Of course, what has proven to be problematic is the pronunciation of “psiekier.” I had one co-worker who thought it was a reference to the psychic police force in Babylon 5 (“Psi-corps?” I don’t watch that show). I also had a neice of a friend who uses AOL tell her uncle that she got an Instant Message from “pee-seeker” while she was logged on as him. It’s tough having a long Polish last name. * * * Pete Long time RGMWer and ardent AOLer ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/75 "2000-08-31T23:01:04Z")
> [@](#): > > I liked my handle, which I also used for years on IRC before someone stole it from me, I bought the domain [hastur.com](http://hastur.com) Isn’t Hastur “He Who Shall Not Be Named” or some such? Anyway, yeah I’m SoulFrost everywhere I go…here, AIM, the half-dozen or so other boards that I frequent. I find that helps when I send someone from one board to another. -David ---
**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/76 "2000-08-31T23:41:32Z")
> [@](#): > > I use this whereever I go, although sometimes Zyada is already taken (then I add TX to my alias) Reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaallllyyyy, Zyada? Take a gander at the last two letters of my username. Hmmmm… coincidence? Probly. I use this screen name everywhere. And everywhere is a lot. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/77 "2000-08-31T23:45:47Z")
I have used “The Peyote Coyote” for years as a sobriquet on the radio show “Ether Game” that WFIU-FM (103.7 in Bloomington, Indiana) airs every Tuesday night, 8-10 p.m. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/78 "2000-09-01T00:35:04Z")
I’ve been OpalCat for many many years. People even call me Opal offline. ---
**Author:** ![OESGal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecae2f/32.png) [@OESGal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OESGal)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/79 "2000-09-01T01:38:24Z")
Why yes, I use the same name for my hotmail account 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899/80 "2000-09-01T11:07:07Z")
I am the one and only, and I use it all over. Feel free to search the entire Net, and all you’ll find is references to me. _Except for where the Spanish(?) word ‘guanolad’ is used._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-username-anywhere-else/29899.md?page=5)