# What was your former username? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 31, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358 "2003-03-31T03:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/21 "2003-04-01T06:54:20Z")
Zenster. ---
**Author:** ![skaterboarder87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/22 "2003-04-01T07:00:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*Zenster. \*\* I recall seeing that username post somewhere before… ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/23 "2003-04-01T10:46:21Z")
Synnic ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/24 "2003-04-01T10:54:18Z")
[dark portentous voice] You people, with your ever-changing dance of false identities … you drift through this social whirl behind your brightly-coloured persona … but do you ever think, _who will I be when this masked ball ends?_ [/dark portentous voice] Steve “I’m just jealous because I have no imagination” Wright ---
**Author:** ![yola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/48db29/32.png) [@yola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yola)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/25 "2003-04-01T10:54:42Z")
nobody you know ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/26 "2003-04-01T10:58:05Z")
**Michæl Ellis** ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/27 "2003-04-01T11:05:01Z")
enolancooper ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/28 "2003-04-02T00:47:55Z")
**Concrete** **Serlin** and if you people believe that then you need to get some rest. Here I have always been Osip. On the old BBS boards I was **Icarus** ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/29 "2003-04-02T01:18:42Z")
On the SDMB, I’ve always been Smeghead. But way way back when I was still consigned to AOHell - and I’m talking like version 2.0, back in the late 80s, when you were limited to an 8 letter username - I was **slckbldr**. Short for “SlackBladder”. It’s a joke from the Black Adder TV series. People called me “Slacky”. I wonder what’s wrong with me? ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/30 "2003-04-02T01:24:43Z")
From September 1999 to January 2000, I was **puffington**. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/31 "2003-04-02T01:34:58Z")
_ssskuggiii_. It’s the Icelandic word for shadow, with a few accenting letters tossed on either end. I just changed because I had ended an important phase in my life and was moving on from it. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/32 "2003-04-02T02:38:54Z")
I was Denbo when I first registered here. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/34 "2003-04-02T06:04:10Z")
When I lurked (and maybe posted once or twice) on the AOL boards, I had the SN Remmorph. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/35 "2003-04-03T00:51:04Z")
…the former **beatle**. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/36 "2003-04-03T14:47:00Z")
On other boards I’ve used **Jaralda** , but most places I’ve switched that to Lsura. Just easier to be the same name all over the place. When I originally registered here, I signed up with Jaralda, but was never able to get that name to work (never received the password). I set up this one, and then about a year later I remembered that first one and had it deleted. As far as I remember, I never made any posts with that name. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/37 "2003-04-03T15:47:48Z")
Used to be **The Infraggable Krunk** – I love Dexter’s Laboratory! ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/38 "2003-04-03T20:01:22Z")
I was **Da Ace** for the first year-or-so I posted here. I changed my name mostly to make it easier to ego-surf, so that I could remember what topics I’d been replying to. But I still don’t post all that much, honestly… ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/39 "2003-04-03T20:28:33Z")
Ooh, this is great – I had especially wondered where **ssskuggiii** and **superbee** were! **G.B.H. Hornswoggler** , how do you do “ego surfing”? Don’t people shorten your name to something like **Horny**? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/40 "2003-04-03T21:11:08Z")
opus ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358/41 "2003-04-03T21:40:55Z")
I was originally “Fat Angel” which is the name of a fairly obscure Donovan song, apparently too obscure as many people seemed to be put off by the word ‘fat’ in a user name. I then changed it to “Me! Joe!!” for a little while, until I was unable to get at a computer for a while (long story) and my old login was apparently eradicated. Coincidentally enough, I was thinking of changing my user name again. I almost posted a thread soliciting suggestions for new names. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-former-username/165358.md?page=3)