# What's the story behind your username? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492 "2001-04-27T03:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/1 "2001-04-27T03:13:55Z")
I’m always struck the creativity of other people’s usernames. I think names are fascinating in general, and especially names that people choose for themselves. So, what’s the story behind your username? As for mine, I just had an Irish folk song running through my head as I was registering. I couldn’t think of anything especially clever or witty at the time, so I just went with what I happened to be humming. ---
**Author:** ![Amedeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Amedeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amedeus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/2 "2001-04-27T03:26:56Z")
I just like the name. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/3 "2001-04-27T03:29:05Z")
I love Disneyland, therefore “dlgirl” was a natural choice for me. That is also one of my many e-mail addresses. Another one is MissETicket. ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/4 "2001-04-27T03:39:14Z")
I knew I was going to be one of the oldest, if not THE oldest member on the board, so instead of "Decrepit"or “NearlyDefunct” or some such I chose “ageless”. The 6 just means I’m in my sixties. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/5 "2001-04-27T03:39:54Z")
Kind of long… I am a huge professional wrestling fan and my favorite wrestler is this hot boy toy named Jeff Hardy-blond hair,green eyes,sensual mouth… 🙂 MEOW KITTY KITTY 🙂 One of my best friends Brian who knows of my fetish wrote me a song to the tune of Barbie Girl called Hardygirl. I changed the spelling of girl to grrl to reflect my former riot grrl status. And since my nickname now amongst my best friends,Diva,was taken… I am now hardygrrl…hear me roar 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/6 "2001-04-27T03:53:56Z")
At my college, when you fail out, you officially become **I** neligible **T** o **R** eturn. The students also call it **I** nvited **T** o **R** etire. Anyway, there’s a group of students who play a series of games in the middle of the night occasionally. The games involve making daggers from paper and duct tape and running around stabbing people. The joke is the if you participate, you will ITR because you won’t be able to stay awake for class, so it’s called ITR games. And I am the champion. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/7 "2001-04-27T03:57:56Z")
Fairy Princess Kitty It’s from a trip to Knott’s Berry Farm that I went on with my then closest friends and boyfriend. I am a cat, I always make kitty cat sounds, almost unconsciously… so my boyfriend at the time always called me his “Silly Kitty” Thus where the Kitty came from; the Fairy Princess part is because I got a circlet of flowers and a wand with flowers and ribbon. I said that I was a Princess, because of course I’ve always been my daddy’s Princess. Then the flowers made me think of fairies. So thus Fairy Princess Kitty was coined. Kitty _meow_ ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/8 "2001-04-27T03:59:38Z")
The band **Drowningman** recently released a CD, _Rock and Roll Killing Machine_. I really like that CD, and thought it would be a cool username. So on the next message board I registered at, I used it. I liked it so much that I changed my name to it here. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/9 "2001-04-27T04:02:41Z")
“Creaky” is a nickname for Clarissa. Sad, ain’t it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/10 "2001-04-27T04:11:18Z")
It’s my name. Real original, isn’t it? 🙂 Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![VenusGirlTrap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/58956e/32.png) [@VenusGirlTrap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusGirlTrap)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/11 "2001-04-27T04:15:44Z")
It’s a brand of clothing I really like, very uncreative. I might as well have been “Gap”. But also, it sounds pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/12 "2001-04-27T04:49:40Z")
I took the name of one of my old RPG characters. I used it for a bit in the chatroom at the Palladium website (where it’s common to use a character name), and it just stuck. ---
**Author:** ![bagdnissan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@bagdnissan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagdnissan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/13 "2001-04-27T04:58:15Z")
I am into custom cars and trucks for show. So I am getting my nissan truck air bagged pretty soon, so I can raise it up or set it on the ground if I wanted to. So I came up with bagdnissan. (bagged nissan) ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/14 "2001-04-27T05:04:35Z")
One of my favorite G&S characters, the “tough as a bone harridan” (to quote an old Opera of the Week discussion) from _The Mikado._ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/15 "2001-04-27T05:24:53Z")
The Mighty Tiki God was a character on MTV’s old beach house. He used to do the in between show stuff. I’ve used this name since '97. And I will continue to use it. I mean come on how original is it? ---
**Author:** ![Rally\_Vincent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@Rally\_Vincent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rally_Vincent)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/16 "2001-04-27T05:51:13Z")
I like anime. Rally Vincent is one of my favorite anime characters. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/17 "2001-04-27T05:51:53Z")
It’s my special ability. Photons just bounce right off me. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/18 "2001-04-27T06:20:33Z")
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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/19 "2001-04-27T08:29:17Z")
My name arose from my interest in Africa and all things African. There was **Jomo** Kenyatta, the great hero of Kenyan independence. And **mojo** , a word from the West African Fula language, referring to magic (I was into Magick at the time). I came up with it in as a senior in college over 20 years ago. I had written a weird little science-fiction story while seriously baked, and decided to submit it to my local food co-op newsletter for publication. When it came to the byline, a sudden lightning bolt of inspiration struck—you are **Jomo Mojo**! Coincidentally, the first two letters in my first name are Jo and the first two letters in my last name are Mo (that goes for both my dad’s last name and my mom’s maiden name—a doubly good reason!). Put 'em together and switched 'em around. Neat. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492/20 "2001-04-27T09:12:41Z")
While in elementary and secondary school I had a tendency to get very angry, black out, and snap back into consciousness surrounded by lots of people writhing in pain. This was always kind of surprising, since I was the smallest kid around. In grade 6 there were _kindergarten_ kids taller than me! Thanks to decades of hard work I now have this under control. I think. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-username/63492.md?page=2)