elmwood is a tribute to Elmwood Avenue in my hometown, Buffalo, New York.
I thought about changing it to keybounce a while back, but decided it wasn’t worth the trouble.
Oooh. I can use one of my college application essays for this 
This feels good using it for something other than a piece of paper admissions officers will use to judge me and my merits. grr…
“I have lots of nicknames: “Baldy” – from shaving my head. “Punk” – what my brother calls me. “Gimpy” – from tripping and giving me a nasty gash down my shin. The one that has stuck with me the most, however, is the one with no real explanation – “Gopher”. I’ve never had the urge to dig in people’s gardens. I don’t have the slightest physical resemblance to a real gopher either, or at least I hope I don’t.
It all started when a friend said he saw a TV show with a cartoon gopher that looked just like me (imagine something like the gopher from Winnie the Pooh). The name died out after a while but two years later, during introductions in orchestra, my weird fact was that people used to call me Gopher. After the laughter died out, I wished I really was a gopher and could dig a tunnel to sink into the earth. I should’ve had said some something ho-hum that could live forever in obscurity. The damage was done though, and now I can’t get through a day without being called a rodent. Over time, I’ve grown quite fond of the name and it has become part of my identity. So, future college roommate, feel free to call me Gopher -just don’t call me by my given name. It drives me crazy, but that’s an entirely different story…”
So basically, it means people call me a gopher in real life and that I’m in your garden right now killing your plants so you better call the Gopher Exterminator right now, you barbaric pig.
Mine’s a ststement of my long-term goals in life. One of these days, I’m going to be the strange old woman down the street who all the neighborhood kids are afraid of. According to my brother, I’m well on my way, just needing another 25 years and a few more cats.
You sound exactly like a friend of mine… you don’t live in Canada by any chance? 
My name? Silent and Goldfish were both taken.
tlw = Tracey Lewis-Wick. I’m not a terribly creative person.
First name’s Norine, last initial W. This was the “email” name given me by my first service provider years ago, and I’ve stuck with it. Didn’t really occur to me that folks wouldn’t know if I was a man or a woman, since it could be read as “nori new”. Of course, I’ve become more attached to it since I discovered that “nori” is a Farsi word meaning “light”
Mine means a person who opposes the initiation of force or fraud.
My last name is Zimmerman, and years ago, when I worked at camp, one of the guys in the kitchen with me started calling me zimmdoggy dogg. It got shortened over time, thank God, and by the end of the summer, most people there didn’t know my last name. [It’s been years, and my friend Danny still calls me “Zimmy”]. But, it’s a decent handle for things, so I’ve kept it.
Now that’s ironic!
My name comes from the Greek Hero Meatros. He doesn’t get as much air time as Hercules, even though he’s vastly superior.
You can read about him here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=147733
Named after the regarded-as-Jesus poster on the Something Awful forums.
As I have explained in so many threads that my fingers are bleeding, I’ve been obsessively into Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals for 15 years now. 5 years ago, he did a musical with Jim Steinman called “Whistle Down The Wind” that included a song called “Annie Christmas.” My last name is Anne, and my B-day is December 25th.
Good thing for ALW that I am not a stalker.
I’m glad you posted it once more, Annie-Xmas, since I missed the other ones!
Astro: one of my favorite hobbies is amateur astronomy.
Boy: I’m male.
14: Apparently someone had already registered the names “Astroboy 0-13” on Battlenet when I tried to use it, so I ended up with 14… when I registered here at the SDMB, I used the same name for simplicity. Oddly enough, I don’t play on Battlenet much anymore… but I’m still here!
Washte means it is good in Sioux.
My first car was a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner, and I really loved that car, but the name “Roadrunner” was already taken by somebody else, who posted twice, back in 99, and hasn’t returned since. And that mean ol’ whatzhername won’t let me use it, or any variation of, so I chose the moniker of another old Mopar muscle car.
Named after Coach K University, a money-grubbing energy company, John Wayne, the director of A Rage in Harlem, but definately not the tax-cheating racist from Louisiana.
All right, I’ll admit it…it’s my last name. Boring as hell, I know. 
I have no clue.
Not even a self made name. It was given to me long ago by a young lady watching my dating behavior.
I was “escorting” a series of quasi-girlfriends and wouldn’t ever break up with the previous one, I’d just start out with the next. Kind of smarmy, really.
Anyways, I realized I had actually fallen for one and decided to change my ways. Not so easy to do, inertia being what it is. Well, a few non entertaining events occured, one of which being that one of the other quazis had fallen for me. Having, and being the target of, unrequited love, at the same time. Don’t try this at home.
So, my friend, who loves me completely (as I do her), saw my efforts to change, and approved. And she said: “You really don’t have a clue, do you? I’m gonna start calling you NoClueBoy.”
Well, the behavior changed, I settled down, but the name stuck. And now, it’s part of my online identity.
Was that TMI? 'Cause I have no clue.
P.S. Yes, we are still friends, and no, never romanticly involved.
Mine is easy, I’m handy.
Mine is my spelled out initials: J. L.
I was originally **Yapping Poodle[/b because I’m little and I have curly hair, but hindsight made me realize that I was setting myself up for a number of Annoying Little Dog jokes.