# What was your first choice for a user name? **URL:** \ **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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/41 "2004-03-11T21:36:13Z")
I see I’m the baby of the group. And I was on a bit of a _Princess Bride_ kick the other day. That was after failing to come up with anything fun from _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_, which I can’t stop listening to lately, or just anything actually unique. Waffled over names, typing in a few, realizing I don’t like them, and erasing them for about 45 minutes before even attempting the :Submit: button for the first time. With Only Mostly Dead. If he’s all dead, there’s only one thing left to do…Go through his pockets and look for loose change. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/42 "2004-03-11T22:45:32Z")
Not too many Incredible String Band fans around anymore, I guess. koeeoaddi sailed right through. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/43 "2004-03-11T23:24:16Z")
^^^ my first choice. It’s always available. I like it because it’s unusual and it makes vanity searches a snap. 😉 If Patriot Act II passes and makes this username illegal, necessitating a change, you will forthwith know me as **Hoichi the Earless.** For the foreseeable future, though, I shall remain as I am. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/44 "2004-03-11T23:24:37Z")
Use the same nick everywhere, never had it taken once. Well, once, but that was signing up a second time at the same site—I pre-empted myself. 😃 (BTW, this is not my real name…I kinda wish it was though) ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/45 "2004-03-12T00:28:33Z")
I used to use the name Xena 2000, a few times I’ve had to be Xenatwothousand, once I found the hobbit name generator I discovered I was Lobelia Overhill of Nobottle and there’s been no stopping me since LOL ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/46 "2004-03-12T01:07:32Z")
First I tried **Sesquipedalian Slubberdegullion** , which I have as a Yahoo e-mail address (not really used anymore though). That one was taken by somebody who has never posted. I tried a bunch of others, but they were all already in use. Finally, I realized that somebody was trying to tell me something. **Already in Use** was, of course, not already in use. But now it is. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/47 "2004-03-12T01:20:30Z")
Been using this since 1999 when I got my netscape email addy. It’s the same name I use almost everywhere else (except AIM), and _that_ name is from my junior year of high school. People mostly don’t sign up as iampunha unless they’re me. Makes it easy to remember my SN. ---
**Author:** ![bombilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bombilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bombilla)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/48 "2004-03-12T01:33:41Z")
Usually for these things I use the name bombyx (meaning silkworm in Latin). But I decided to make a slight change while still keeping the basic rhythm of my tried and true name. With only minor modifications, I went from being a bug to being a source of light. Not bad. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/49 "2004-03-12T02:28:06Z")
This was my first choice. I’d actually been using it for some time over at the Motley Fool message board before I discovered this place. Despite all the Star Wars/Star Trek threads that come up when I do a vanity search, it refers to undersea fibre optics (my work at the time) rather than space travel. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/50 "2004-03-12T05:07:28Z")
My first choice was this one I’ve ben this name on e-mail and other subscribed sites since 1995. Before then, I went through such monickers as Snaykpuppi, OKC\_Dr\_Who, and Onionhead. (I still have some accounts with those names.) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/51 "2004-03-12T17:02:52Z")
**Whitey** –dear departed kitty. It was already taken, so I racked my brain, probably for weeks, and came up with nothing I liked much. One day, I saw something I just _had_ to post to and registered with one of the names I had been thinking of. (Strangely, not taken!) ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/52 "2004-03-12T22:45:47Z")
My first choice was **Phaedrus**. It was taken. My second choice, **Algernon** was available so I grabbed it. (I was actually **algernon** for about a month when I realized that not capitalizing a proper name seemed stupid, so I asked **TubaDiva** if she’d change it to an initial cap.) ---
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607/53 "2004-03-12T23:34:46Z")
I tried various forms of **Incubus** which is one of my e-mail addresses, but alas, it was not to be. A friend was using this as a character in a short story and I liked the sound of it. I didn’t know the biblical reference until later, but an angel who tempts people into sin as a test sounds like the ultimate persona to me. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-choice-for-a-user-name/233607.md?page=2)