A nickname my first wife gave me when we played Sega together that I have clung to for various reasons.
I originally used my real name as my username. But I decided to change it for a little more anonymity. I picked Little Nemo pretty much at random because I happened to have been reading a collection of Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strips that week.
A nod to my (now-previous) career as a puzzle editor, and to my fondness for the Warner Bros. cartoons.
I work for a large gaggle of Engineers. They ask me to do stuff, as that is my job. When they say “Hey myrealname - would you do whatever stupid task they want done”, I say, “That’s Missy to you.”
What? I never said it was clever.
Phlosphr - came about because I was teaching a 300 level philosophy class over one summer, and my class and I were in a discussion over the Bacchae. We got off over several tangents and one student commented that Bacchae would make a great license plate or bumper sticker… At the end of the class several students of mine gave me a bumper sticker for my then Saab 95 that read PHLOSPHR. Specifically leaving out some letters to make people “think” and “question” about what it was they were reading, there for in it’s essence making them Phlilosophize. 
Mine is from picking a user name for emails and such years ago when I was in the textile business. Pima is a type of cotton, and we spun it into yarns for shirts and sheets. I’ve been using it for years and didn’t see any reason to get particularly creative. The less I have to remember the better. My ex- husband started calling me PIMA all the time. I thought it was cute, till I found out it stood for Pain In My Ass. :eek: 
I still like it, and feel free to call me Pima.
Zagloba is a character, somewhat reminscent of Falstaff, in three historical novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The Trilogy, written in the late 19th century, describe events in the second half of the 17th century.
My location, Soplicowo, is the fictional setting for Pan Tadeusz, the Polish national epic, written in 1834 by Adam Mickiewicz.
Both works were written to inspire patriotism and a sense of national identity in the Polish people during the period when Poland itself had been wiped off the map after being partitioned among Prussia, Austria and Russia in the late 18th century.
However, I myself have no Polish ancestry. I can’t entirely account for my interest in Polish literature and history. I did live in Krakow for six months, though.
I signed up because I was curious about lots of stuff in GQ. And we all know what curiosity killed. I thought it was reasonably witty and distinctive, but I don’t use it anywhere else, for obvious reasons - someone here once thought it was a reference to roadkill. And while I don’t like cats, I do swerve to avoid them when driving :).
Freddy the Pig was the title character in a series of storybooks by Walter R. Brooks, of which I was very fond as a child.
This li’l guy here.
I spent eight summers at a camp where my nickname was “Mosquito”. When I was a mere Counselor-In-Training, my CIT director called me Miss Mossie, because she was British and Mossie is Brit-speak for Mosquito. When picking user names, I usually pick MissMossie over Mosquito because it’s less likely to be taken. I’ve thought about switching it here though, but there’s another poster with a handle that’s derivation of Mosquito, so I probably won’t for fear of being confusing. Either that or I’m lazy.
The idea of a webcrawler posting personal information tickled my fancy. So, here I am.
I am rather fond of Congreve.
(I am not married.)
I had a few witty (well I thought so anyway) usernames ready before I signed up, but when it came down to it they were all taken. I gave up and just stared at the keyboard for 10 min before picking a string of letters that were reasonable as a real word.
In '98, a friend introduced me to the slang term attitudial, to mean a self-centered, bitchy person. I thought it was an ideal term to describe myself, so I began using it in capitalized form on other sites I frequented.
When I decided to join the Dope, I wanted to separate myself from the persona I’d built around my first username. At the same time, I felt too attached (that username was me, after all) to let it go completely. So I shortened the name and tacked on Bratti.
Some posters have inquired if my name is a play on Attila the Hun. Could be. He and I, we’re tight. 
I was still working for an architect full time during the summer of 2001 when
I joined. Since then, I’ve gone to college, graduated, and moved on to a career of my own. I’ve considered changing my handle to something more relevant to me.
I tend to use names from Tolkien wherever I want to be anonymous - preferably fairly obscure ones that still sound good to my ears.
Many years ago I was in a rock band called Mustango. When the band broke up the lead singer and I decided to perform as a duo. We tried on various names and eventually thought Velvet Jones sounded cool (and we were, at the time, completely unaware of Eddie Murphy’s character from SNL). We released an album under that name and then stopped performing together. So I decided it could be my username on another message board. When I joined here I used the same name.
“Corrado” is the name of the small town in Italy (a bit north of Rome) where my paternal grandfather hails from. Unlike the standard Ellis Island myth where an immigrant gets his name screwed up and changed to the name of whereever he was from, my grandfather’s last name actually was Corrado as well. Apparently half the people in the town have that last name, and no one’s sure whether they were named after the town or the town was named after them. The name itself is actually much more common in Italy as a first name - it’s equivalent to “Conrad”. As in “Corrado Prizzi” from Prizzi’s Honor, or “Corrado Soprano, Junior” from The Sopranos.
My grandfather’s name was Giovanni, which he Americanized to John. My father was born on June 24th, which was St. John the Baptist’s Day, and so he was named John as well. When I was born, I was named John as well to carry on the “tradition”, even though it was more coincidence than tradition.
Oh, and my username is my real name.
I was lurking here for a while, and the only reason I hadn’t joined was I couldn’t come up with a great name. One day I was sitting watching Shrek 2 with my kids and I had an AH-HA moment. When the king turns back into a frog it hit me, that’s how I feel. At any moment everyone is going to find out I’m not who I seem to be. I’m not that woman who has it all together, the breadwinner, taxi-driver, homework helper, first aid provider. I’m just a little girl pretending. That along with my love of frogs gives you…frog princess.