# How did you get your username? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452 "2003-11-04T23:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Brad\_Pittiful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Brad\_Pittiful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brad_Pittiful)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/21 "2003-11-05T03:14:25Z")
years ago when i had webtv i needed to use an email for certain sites i usually go to yahoo and get an email to use as i wont get spammed on my regular account…well i thought it up one day and liked it and kept it ever since ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/22 "2003-11-05T03:25:50Z")
Originally, I was _ssskuggiii_, an alteration on the Icelandic word for “shadow.” After posting here for a certain amount of time, a lot of changes occurred in my life all at once, and I requested my username be changed to _Mirrored Indigo Shadows_. There was still a shadow reference, but it also incorporated the affinity for the colour indigo. Mirrored I just threw on at the thought that it fit… I realized soon afterward this makes me sound like an excerpt from some bad angsty goth poetry. Oh well. If I were to change my username again (I don’t know if I should bother), I’d change it to _Nashiitashii_, which is my LiveJournal username. Might as well have everything match up for the first time in a few years… ---
**Author:** ![ShadiRoxan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/23 "2003-11-05T03:29:54Z")
At first I used to use my real name for everything, which is a common name in the Middle East since it’s the mother of Jesus. I used to get tons of messages from Arabic people whose english skills were often horrible or would just send me messages in Arabic. It annoyed me so much that I figured I should change my screen name. Everything I thought of was always taken up. I don’t like having numbers after my name either. Finally I decided that two of my cousins’ names were nice and I thought they sounded great together. Unfortunately I forgot to take into account that most people probably don’t know how to pronounce it correctly. Most people say it as ShAdy Rocks Ann. It’s actually Shaaah dee Roex ahn. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/24 "2003-11-05T04:18:33Z")
Uh, I think “cool” user names are kinda dorky. Except Qadgop, of course, which is REALLY cool. Or maybe I just couldn’t think of anything cool. Did Philip Jose Farmer, in his series of stories written by fictional authors, ever use Sybly as a pen name? ---
**Author:** ![Frankenbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frankenbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankenbear)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/25 "2003-11-05T04:34:59Z")
Mine is from three letters of my first name in the order they appear and repeated. ---
**Author:** ![Teegus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Teegus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teegus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/26 "2003-11-05T04:36:47Z")
Once upon a time, back when I was a wee little Teegling, I got my very first email address. It was a magical thing back in those days. Instant magic communication. Until my first Porn Spam anyways. Then it was a different kind of magic 😉 About 5 years ago, my first email account was Troubled Guy. When i went chatting on ICQ and IRC, this was my nickname. Eventually people started calling me T guy. Then it became T.G. Since TG was too short as a nick, I lengthened the syllables it TeeGee. After a while I got tired of spelling it that way, and viola! Inspiration strikes and Teegus is born! Been that way ever since. A vaguely unique username. Except someone else at Hotmail has taken it ☹ Any questions? This will be on the test. Class Dismissed. ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/27 "2003-11-05T05:06:39Z")
Ok, my name. Not much to tell. Back in High School, Jr year to be exact, I was sitting at the lunch table w/my friends. There was one particular friend who was getting on my nerves at the moment. Anyway, she kept annoying me until I finally turned to her and shouted, “LEAVE ME ALONE YOU EVIL WOMAN OF SCORN!” and so the name was born. I have no problems registering at places with it. I’ve also had it for seven years. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/28 "2003-11-05T05:12:02Z")
I don’t post much either. I suppose that’s self-evident. This user name is one I’ve had for a couple of years, since I first played EverQuest. I used to enjoy cold war spy fiction, and Idlewild was the name that was commonly used for what’s now JFK airport. I thought it was so pretty that I took it for the name of one of my EverQuest characters. It seemed to fit me rather nicely so I kept it. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/29 "2003-11-05T05:42:11Z")
I chose to be **EddyTeddyFreddy** in honor of [Eddy, Teddy and Freddy](http://community.webshots.com/photo/782975/784357), my three orange tiger boycats. I should point out, however, that I am neither orange, nor a tiger, nor a boy. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/30 "2003-11-05T06:10:28Z")
I went to film school. I am also a geek. This was one of my first handles online long, long ago. I considered using my very first ‘username’ - PaxtonRat. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/31 "2003-11-05T06:41:36Z")
I chose my name because it is in your best interest to Dread Me. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/32 "2003-11-05T06:48:48Z")
I dropped way too much acid in my younger days. Couldn’t get enough of the stuff. Mmmm, striknine shivers… I’ve been using this alias going on 12 years. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/33 "2003-11-05T07:10:33Z")
Torie is my real name, short for Victoria Zoe. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/34 "2003-11-05T07:20:33Z")
I took a friend to a Sanrio store, and I noticed that one of the characters did not seem happy, in fact in a lot of the products he was beating on the other Sanrio characters. He was black and had mean eyes. I liked that guy. Later I was trying to choose a username for another board, and I remembered that guy. I did a few internet searches and found out his name. That is how I came to be Badts Maru. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/35 "2003-11-05T07:22:58Z")
Um, _Badtz_, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/36 "2003-11-05T07:28:41Z")
[The story behind Flamsterette\_X.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105572&highlight=brief+explanation+handle) Oh, and I’ve had this name for more than 13 years. It’s a very unique name, and I’ve had no problems using it to register at online communities. Heck, I own the Google search results for “Flamsterette\_X” and “Flamsterette.” Not sure if that’s such a good thing in some cases, but there you have it. 😃 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/37 "2003-11-05T07:41:44Z")
I invented _my_ Ice Wolf (although there are tons of such frosty lupines out there on th’ Net). I created the character who was known as Ice Wolf, and the warrior crew who are Ice Wolves, in a piece of weird stuff I’ve written and dreamed about since 1979. I was surprised no one else had it, back in Jan '01. It went through with no probs. Glad I was able to have it for the G’Dope message board, too (after a slight panic). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/38 "2003-11-05T08:02:51Z")
Back when I signed up for my first e-mail account, I sat stumped in front of the computer as many variations of my name got bounced as “already taken”. I finally said forget the name stuff, I’ll go with: 1. My job (pilot) 2. What airplane I fly (C-141) at the time Thus pilot141 was born. I’ve flown several airplanes since then, but have kept the name. And even though **I** think the username means something special, it’s always open whenever I register somewhere…😉 ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/39 "2003-11-05T08:18:12Z")
Well, when I explain this I normally post a link to the C-141 since most people don’t know what in the world it is. I forgot, so [here](http://www.af.mil/photos/images/transports_c141_0001.jpg) is a picture of a C-141. It’s a large picture, so you’ll probably have to scroll up/down, but it does show the 141 fairly well. The reason I keep the username is because that airplane took me to every continent except Antarctica. It is almost completely retired from the Air Force, but it will always hold a special place in my heart. Go Starlifter!!! \ ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452/40 "2003-11-05T08:20:55Z")
My nickname at school was Gerome, as Gerard was too hard to pronounce. Do I win the prize for lamest story? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-your-username/211452.md?page=3)