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.
Not too many Incredible String Band fans around anymore, I guess.
koeeoaddi sailed right through.
^^^ 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.
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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!)
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.)
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. 