Um…no. It was just meant as a polite compliment based upon her posts.
I worked part time for a Ace Hardware in high school and college. The one I worked at had a lumber yard and I worked out there loading customer’s trucks. Did some inside work too in the store helping customers find items they needed.
Some friends started calling me Ace. I took that and the store jingle to get my screen name.
“Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man”
Named after my dearly departed friend
I was eating a plate of spaghetti when I registered.
Good thing. T’would be sumepin’ to have a Doper named Ipecac.
I haven’t a clue.
Of course it helps! 
My internet “handle” had been Cat ^…^ for many years, but when I joined SD there were a lot of “Cat” people, including one who used a similar symbol: Kat =^…^=
So I decided it would be too confusing, and in the mental game-play of “if not Cat, then ____?” the blank got filled in in my mind with Dog. But I was not going to become Dog as my screen name, so instead I made the next “logical” leap and chose my sister’s dog’s name (I didn’t have my own dog), which at the time was Shayna.
My best friend came up with olivesmarch4th when I was a freshman in college and we were trying to register me for an AOL account.
‘‘Olives’’ originated in high school as our way of saying ‘‘I love you’’ and now most of my friends and family associate me with olives. Even though, ironically enough, olives are my least favorite food. Theoretical olives only, please!
March 4th is my birthday. We enjoyed the imagery of marching olives.
It’s silly, much like myself.
I’m Andy, I’m a girl, the simplicity of it was appealing at the time.
Shoot, why didn’t I choose a name with a backstory? I could’ve regaled you kind people with tales of my grandfather driving an ambulance between the trenches in WW1, and the inscription in the sketchbook given to him by a dying soldier…
Or made a fart joke.
At least your user name isn’t Oops! I Crapped My Pants!. 
I graduated high school in 1979, you young whippersnapper, you!
You’ve Gotta be Shitting Me was already taken… plus it didn’t give me the opportunity to use too many of those dots that have a fancy name when used properly.
I heard a joke:
Q: What do you call a mushroom with a 9-inch stem
A: A fungi to be with
having a name that starts with “ph” I thought “phungi” would be a funny way to spell it…
also, I tend to grow on you…
I’m an accountant who owns a lot of books. Plus it has three consecutive double letters and appeals to my love of unusual words.
A friend had referred to something I said on a post at a message board I hadn’t been frequenting. A newbie asked who I was and he replied, “She’s an Internet Legend.” I think of it as being something like an urban legend, in that I may or may not really exist. When I re-registered at that board to answer the question that had been brought up, I used this name. Then I used it here because I have really very little imagination and didn’t stop to think what it sounded like.
It’s a joke, son, a joke.
Because Ulf is a guy’s name.
Back in the day, I needed a three letter word that would be my initials for the old-school video games’ high scores lists. My actual initials are pretty lame. Then, I read some trivia about the movie 2001: A space Odessey. The computer was named “HAL” as an homage to IBM, but one letter up in the alphabet. I thought that was really cool, plus the “hal” is actually a nickname for my real name, also my favorite superhero of all time was Hal “Green Lantern” Jordan.
However, “Hal” is an incredibly common forums name, so I came up with the idea of adding “Super” before it instead of some lame number after it. If you see a “Superhal” or “Superduperhal” that’s probably me. I used to use “da_hal” as in “The Hal” but few boards would allow special characters in forum names.
I conquered Formosa in the name of the rightful Ming prince, and kicked those red hairy Dutch barbarians out of Fort Zeelandia.