…was trying to register for aol, and of course every name i could think of was taken. eventually i got frustrated and just typed in aaaaaarrgg and voila! it worked, and i use it for everything.
No explanation of this deep mystery will ever be forthcoming.
My name’s Raven, actually.
It was taken.
My eyes fell on my Livejournal, open in the other window.
God, I’m boring.
Taking SPOOFE’s idea, cross breeding it with the Virgins/big penis thread and you have:
Huge
And
Massively
Large
Erect
T[sub]? T? Dammit there has to be a synonym for penis that starts with a T. Oh well, it was worth a shot.[/sub]
It’s my username because I think it’s the best character in the best piece of writing ever produced.
(pssssst Hamlet…“tallywacker”)
An ex-girlfriend once told me that dealing with my mood swings due to my un-medicated and severe bi-polar disorder was like dunking her head in a deep frier. I liked the visual and have used it regularly ever since.
Many have criticized my font but it is just something my neice made for me and I am just a proud uncle…
I was unclevinny on the radio for years (90.1 KPFT in Houston) and then I actually became someone’s uncle so it’s stuck, it got shortened because it was taken “the other way”.
unclviny
I started here as somebody else, then saw all the great usernames. I know you’re not supposed to create a second account, but I’d already done so before I read that. (Mea Culpa)
Anyway, max points if you figure out who I was…
This name seemed suitably cool for the group.
I accepted giraffes as my Savior, I belong to them forever. So far, it hasn’t really panned out.
From “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” By Douglas Adams:
Janx is a term originally invented by Adams to refer to a particularly potent beverage:
Janx Spirit is one of the main components in the drink:
I’ll leave that * puzzling mystery * for you to figure out.
Seriously, I was touted with ‘hard to figure out’ by close friends, thus my nickname for many years has been simply, eNiGma.
Not too long ago, in conversations with some friends, we were joking about the name and a comment was made, “…a puzzle really…” and the word Rebus came up. I put the two together because I liked the way it sounded, and it struck me as both a little esoteric and humorous because of it’s borderline redundancy. (Do I get the longest sentence prize?)
smirk I can’t stay away from this one either; Hamlet, I believe the word you’re looking for would be Tool. 
Da_Bartender, you got it in one.
Algernon is the mouse in the novel Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. The story was made into the 1968 movie Charly starring Cliff Robertson as Charly Gordon.
Charly is a mentally retarded adult. His life changes dramatically when he undergoes an experimental operation to improve his intelligence.
Algernon the mouse had undergone the same procedure. They become “friends” when they are being tested for intelligence by navigating mazes (Algernon initially whoops Charly’s ass, which amazes him).
Charly eventually gets disgusted with his and Algernon’s ‘exhibit’ status and with the way he is spoken of as if he was not human before the operation. The last straw is hearing of Algernon’s erratic, unexplained behavior, which has been concealed from him. He then decides to release Algernon from his cage and together they escape to New York.
The vastly increased intelligence as a result of the experimental operation turns out to only be temporary. Both Charly and Algernon revert back to how they were prior to the operation.
It should be noted that I have sometimes been confused with a different Algernon. Namely Algernon Moncrieff in the play The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar Wilde.
I chose my own name for a similar reason :D.
Actually, when I registered for this site about 2 or 3 years ago, I was used to registering for work-related messageboards, where I used my name to keep things simple and professional. I registered here with the same theory.
Before that phase, I used to register everywhere as Emperor_Norton, my favorite historical figure. Now, I generally register places as Pielorinho, a diminutive Portuguesification of the Greyhawk God of the Sun in Dungeons and Dragons and the name of one of my favorite characters.
Yep. Dorkeriffic!
Daniel
Elvis Costello album. Using it seemed good because people change. I’m simply this year’s model of me. Might change it, though; it’s very awkward.
Nothing Earth-shattering or confusing here.
I confess to having plagarized it from a friend with a similar e-mail address. At the time, I was registering to answer someone’s aviation question so I figured it would lend me credence.
Part of a track title from one of my favourite groups - Crusoe Takes A Trip by Red Snapper.
Most photons just bounce right off me.
kidy nrvsidr. dp yjrtr. kidy loffomh! 
Simple - I’m very much a fan of cosmopolitans (the drink). The magazine, I’m not so fond of. (And Helen Gurley Brown looks like a bobble-head doll, but that’s a topic for an entirely different thread.).
Washte means “it is good” in Sioux