# What was your first choice for a user name?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 11, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607 "2004-03-11T02:01:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/1 "2004-03-11T02:01:51Z")
When I first came here, I tried to register with the name a²+b²=c², the Pythagorean theorem. However, someone already registered with that name. (Guy probably never posted…grrrrr)
What name did you want when you came here, but couldn’t get for whatever reason?
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### Author:  [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/2 "2004-03-11T02:13:40Z")
**Blondie** , of course!
Hey, Blondie, are you out there? Wanna sell your user ID to me, you flaxen-haired b----h? Heh.
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/3 "2004-03-11T02:17:45Z")
My first choice was vanillanice.
Natch, it was available, who would want it?
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/4 "2004-03-11T02:57:55Z")
Mine was **Astroboy** … it was taken.
I now understand what the people who were trying to patent Formulas #1 to #408 went through!
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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/5 "2004-03-11T03:07:35Z")
j
really
it’s too short
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/6 "2004-03-11T03:32:30Z")
**Aesiron**.
It’s never taken.
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### Author:  [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/7 "2004-03-11T03:40:09Z")
Cecil. Someone got there first…
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### Author:  [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/8 "2004-03-11T03:51:59Z")
I’ll confess, I’ve been on this board under a couple of different names, I think, or maybe just one other (never banned, though, just forgot the password and stopped using the e-mail addresses).
TMR was the first (and I posted to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=12638), years before I started the thread in IMHO).
After that, S-Terry Dan (incredibly obscure video game reference). Hey, if you’re still around Bear\_Nenno, did that advice help?
Then that computer broke, and I spent two long netless years (between poverty and Air Force training). So now here I am, on my third choice of nicknames.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/9 "2004-03-11T04:30:06Z")
Since this is basically a poll, I’ll move it to **IMHO** for you.
**Cajun Man**
for the SDMB
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### Author:  [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/10 "2004-03-11T04:45:55Z")
The first time that I registered at any message board, I assumed that I would just use my first name and last initial, Alex P. However, I noticed that the board already had an **Alex** , an **alex** , an **Alex b** , and an **Alex T**. Consequently, I chose **ITR Champion** for that and all subsequent registrations, including this one.
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### Author:  [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/11 "2004-03-11T05:00:03Z")
I originally tried to be **Bear** , which is what my friends call me. (Short for Barry)
Then I tried to be **Papa Bear** which is what the grandkids call me.
Couldn’t do that either.
Just as well, as a certain class of people, (you know who you are) have pre-empted the name ‘Bear’ for their own nefarious purposes.
Then I tried **Pogo** , from the comic strip. Already taken.
Then I tried **Bewitched, Bothered, and Bemildewed** - the three bats from the Pogo strip. Wouldn’t work, too long I guess.
Then I decided to get really obscure and tried **Bumbazine** , from the comic strip _‘Bumbazine and Albert the Alligator’_, Walt Kelly’s first strip, which evolved into Pogo.
That one stuck.
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/12 "2004-03-11T05:09:03Z")
Back in the days of the local BBS’s, I went by Maverick. No, not from the Top Gun movie, but from the James Garner, Jodi Foster, Mel Gibson movie Maverick. It was fun for a while because I there were a whole bunch of people who that that was my real name. To my good friends and family, I was Joel, and to most of the people at the BBS get togethers, or the people I played Magic the Gathering with, I was Maverick. But after a while, I got tired of it and just went by my real name.
Monday of this week (3/8) I got tired of just using my boring old name, and tried to bring my old user name out of retirement, but TubaDiva informed me that somebody else is already using that name ☹
Oh well, I checked and it appears that nobody is using the name Tron, so I’m trying for that now \.
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/13 "2004-03-11T05:11:51Z")
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> It was fun for a while because I there were a whole bunch of people who that that was my real name
Should read
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> it was fun for a while because there were a whole bunch of people who thought that that was my real name
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### Author:  [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/14 "2004-03-11T05:23:29Z")
I origionally considered **con quesa** as a username. In fact, I use it on another board.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/15 "2004-03-11T05:32:18Z")
Before this place, when I wasted loads of time on Compuserve, I was **Lady X**.
I loved that name, but it tended to attract alot of **s/f?** and after about 3x that gets tedious. I am a hermaphroditic married norwegian gorilla, in case you are wondering.
When I signed on here, I was **ja1166** but that was so unimaginative it practically cured insomnia.
Somehow, through the Gods and Goddesses of the Web, I was inspired to instead of putting **Lady X** in as my name change, but at the very last second in a moment of pure clarity, where the rightness of the Universe proved itself to me , my current user name came to me.
And I haven’t stopped blathering since.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/16 "2004-03-11T05:43:51Z")
**Kat** was actually my first choice for username, and this is one of very few places where it was not already used (probably because I got in on the ground floor, so to speak).
I have been considering changing it, though.
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### Author:  [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/17 "2004-03-11T05:45:23Z")
**Urban Ranger**
It’s got a nice irony to it.
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### Author:  [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/18 "2004-03-11T06:23:24Z")
My original username was my real name, but I changed it due to anonymity concerns. Some things I post here I would like partially obscured from friends and family who read the board.
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### Author:  [@htns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/htns)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/19 "2004-03-11T07:01:12Z")
As a Dvorak fan, I wanted AOEU to be my username.
Sadly, it was taken, so I settled for HTNS.
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### Author:  [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/20 "2004-03-11T07:21:30Z")
I first registered way back in 1999 and posted probably twenty times or less. Then I went away for a couple of years - and when I came back I couldn’t remember my original username or under which of my myriad of seldom-used email addresses I had registered.
The second time around I couldn’t think of anything original and creative (I tried to come up with something along the lines of **Shirley Ujest** , **Satisfying Andy Licious** , et al) and all of my real-life nicknames were already taken, so I used the name/nickname of a character from a book I was reading at the time.
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