Huh? Why’d ya do it?
Inigo Montoya is my hero IRL. Don’t laugh! It’s true. He’s got his issues but in spite of them, or maybe because of them, he’s a master at his chosen profession even to the exclusion of anything else.
But while I love his style I wonder if the world at large might be better served if I adopted a more accurate name. “Milford Cubicle” or “Brad” or “That guy in the corner.”
Not saying I plan on changing, just want to know why you did. 
I was tired of being identified as male. I have enough problems with that over the phone.
Huh. I had no idea you were The Sausage Creature.
I expect this’ll be happening a lot as more and more people post to this thread.
Why? Why not! Just look at me! 
Because I was tired of everyone thinking I was some guy named Dan.
Although I think sometimes I should have just stayed fisheroo.
Because as much as I like Wheel of Time, I just couldn’t stand being that geeky any more.
I promised Nevermore I’d change it from **Quoth the Raven ** if I subscribed. We agreed we were likely to get sick of people pointing it out 
I wanted a name that sounded more female. With the old one people seemed to assume I was a man. Plus, I just thought of the old one on the spot one day six years ago and it didn’t have any special meaning.
“Big black sausage to kill” was assumed to be a racial remark. So I was forced to abbreviate it.
I’d just like to say Inigo is my hero too. I haven’t changed my name. I probably should at least request that the underscores be removed.
Well, I used to be javaman (after Pithecanthropus), and then I got briefly banned by manhattan for politicking in GQ, along with several others. The banning was done with the understanding that we could come back, and when I did I decided to change my name. So now I am Spectre of Pithecanthropus, back from the banned.
I was Occam when this place was free. For some reason when I started coming in here again and subscribed I couldn’t take it because it was already being used (by me?) so on a whim I just used the one I have now from a Space Ghost’s Zorak poem. I was going to change it, but what the hell…who cares.
I was originally **ellykat ** but just got sick of it. I kept hearing that song “smelly cat” from friends every time I saw my name. So I changed it to Rez.
I then went through some divorce issues and since my husband was a former doper I changed my name again - no so much for anonimity but to at least make it a little harder to search on me. Turned out everything is OK with that now so I’m comfortable associating all names with me. Plus, searching my posts I haven’t posted anything that bad anyway. So now I am, once and for all, ShelliBean. Which is how many people know me in real life but I don’t sweat it because I made it a policy last time to not share anything I couldn’t face in (theoretical) court.
I changed as I felt my user name was boring, I originally chose before I realized how much I would be hanging out on the dope.
My name was decided by a small contest. It is an old New Jersey joke* that works well for me. Crotalus was the user that suggested it.
You may want to keep the underscores; I find my current username nearly is nearly impossible to find in a search.
Jim
Years ago, when the site was free, I was Blessedwolf. By the time I came back I had moved to the swamp, but since Blessedwolf is a translation of my Hebrew name, I wanted to keep part of it. And thus, Swampwolf was born.
I registered using my real name initally because I hadn’t really read the boards too much yet and was pretty much just reading the Comments section. The first poster I really recall was John W. Kennedy and figured that name was the style of these boards.
I have no idea what prompted me to go with the current one, but a drunken leprechaun works well enough for me.
The poster formerly known a really long time ago as Ryan Mahoney
I changed last week from bec because I was tired of the underscored lowercase thing I’d been doing for years. I’ve also been absolutely enamored with the name Kalypso since I named my Clan Lord (MMORPG) character that a year ago, so I’ve been using it wherever possible.
I thought a long time before I finally wrote the email to TubaDiva to ask for the change. I took it as seriously as I might have taken getting a tattoo.
**Elenia28 **was my handle for ages, and boring. I wanted something more ME.
To avoid a cyberstalker.
Actually, I guess I didn’t really change my username. My account lapsed. I went to sign up again, and, since I used the came credit card, I had to explain to someone here why I was using a different user name.
Anyway, I’d had a (brief) relationship with a woman, which did not go well. Subsequently, she engaged in behavior that can only be described as extremely inappropriate. That’s being polite. If I wanted to be accurate, rather than polite, and what the hell, I do, her behavior was batshit insane. She was then and is now a stalker. I literally had to change my phone number and move. She would definitely cyberstalk, so I’ve changed my username on every forum I frequent since that breakup, just in case she was aware of my old usernames, or could figure them out.
My original SDMB name was just an old username I was using at the time, it was just a series of letters with no meaning. “Hello Again” was the name of my horse so it just seemed a little more significant. I requested my name change late at night on Sept 10, 2001! :o As the “real” Hello Again passed away Feb 2005, its a nice memorial now.
