Mine was Polkeseley. Polka silly. Awesome.
My username is one that I chose on another board. It was a “Quit Smoking Message Board”. Anyway I was trying to quit the nasty habit and chose Ashkicker because I thought I was going to kick some ash and get rid it. Unfortunately it also comes out like I’ll “Kick Your A$$”, which is not the true meaning on my name. Sigh. I guess I’m a failure. 
Remember when you first got online and signed up for all those free accounts, spam lists and newletters?
I didn’t want to have to remember lots of user names, so I needed something I thought would never be used already. I was then deep into genealogy and so I started using the name of my umpteenth grandmother - Mahala.
However, someplace before this, Mahala was already taken, and without giving a moment’s thought I was aahala.
Haven’t had any duplication problems since. I am sometimes referred to as a female, which I’m not.
My first name is Joey. My last: Sweredoski. I added the two together like a reckless child in chemistry class, and JoeSki was born. Catchy, no?
Yeah, I decided a few weeks ago to stop making the "m"s in my name distinct even on something I was going to hand in for a grade unless it was a semiformal thing.
Wow, it was three years ago… I registered for another board with this name after trying ‘gandalf’ and ‘bilbo’, and I think I might change to ‘Rincewind’ soon, a. to show my appreciation of Discworld ®*, and b. because ‘dwalin’ doesn’t really suit me. Too obscure, I’m not really a Tolkien fan, and it’s lowercase.
*-well, not really ®, but I felt like it.
I asked my gf what adjective best defines my self, my soul, my very beingness.
Needed a name so scrolled through my iPod to find something appropriate.
I have a guy friend who’s always telling me I’m not like the other girls - so (thinking Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus), that Girl from Mars was the right name for me. Plus the song rocks.
Mine came from two songs that make me groove, “Super Freak” by Rick James, and “Sex-o-matic Venus Freak” by Macy Gray. I picked this name up when I decided to change my boring other name from several chat rooms.
While I lurked, I despaired of ever coming up with a witty/catchy/original/memorable nick. After much thought (really…no, really), I found myself thumbing through my CDs, stumbled across one of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s and “Little Wing” I became.
It’s better than what I came up with using davmilasav’s suggestion: moorodiore. More odor?
I still mostly lurk, though.
At first, I was going to use Glotta: the tongue of fate, but it sounded awkward as a user name. Then I glanced over my bookshelf (positioned conveniently on my right side within an arm’s reach) and there was Robert Rankin’s Nostradamus ate my hamster yelling: “Pick me! Pick me!” I combined it with the name of my favourite careteker in charge in the master’s absence and there it was.
How and why did you decide on your username?
I have an interest in things mechanical. Fascinated with the antique wooden gears using pins or pegs for teeth. Like to see them in motion.
Hence . . . . . . . . . !
I lost my real name in a drinking contest and now I have to use this one.
Actually it comes from a varriation on my real name, and it sounds cool… and I’m an axe-weilding hethen from the North.
I become Colemnaley. Sounds like a variety of lettuce…
I have no idea why I picked my name. Mostly I just like the look of it.
I assumed cause you had no tail.
Corrvin (my real first name, also)
It’s my last name, and what I use for a lot of other things online. Well, that was exciting.
Mine is actually my character’s name on Guild Wars. I sort of registered on a whim, and that was the first name that popped into my head.
When I first came up with the name, I was trying to think of something fantasy-related and thought of Dervish. Not sure why. I also needed to pick a surname. I have Welsh ancestry and Jones went well with Dervish.
I may change my name when I offically register.
We need to make this thread an unexpiring sticky so that it doesn’t keep getting re-posted every couple of months.
When I came here I didn’t know what a messageboard was. I wanted to find out who played the guitar in Carly Simon’s “You’re so vain”. I needed to make up a name. hlanelee is my signon name everywhere. It is my name.
hlanelee is my name as decreed by my Grandfather. h for Howard, my Grandfather’s favorite brother in law, he was a cop that died when he caught a stray bullet fired during a disturbance at the Gatorbowl. lane after Hondo Lane in the popular John Wayne movie. lee, the family last name. My initials are hll, almost HELL, I like to tell people.
Well, I live in the mountains, and had a dog named Alpine at the time.
Alpine was taken, so I switched it around and became enipla.
Jet Jaguar is a giant, flying, Ultraman-like robot from the movie Godzilla vs. Megalon. I first picked the name for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 newsgroup because GvM was shown on MST3K, and JJ was spoofed in a memorable host segment, and nobody else was using the name at the time. It has been my standard online handle ever since - I’ve been using it going on 11 years now.