Where did you username come from?

[Boozad]

I've always wondered where a lot of usernames came from, some are pretty easy to figure out I think but others not so much. I don't know if anybody else would be interested but I'd certainly like to know where our members' usernames came from and how they were thought up.

Mine dates back to the mid to late 90s, an old mate of mine used to call me 'big buzzard' in a terrible Jamaican accent so it always came across as 'Cha biiiig boozad'. When I first started posting on forums years ago I couldn't think of a decent name to use so just chose Boozad, it's followed me around the internet over many different forums ever since and has often been mistaken for meaning I have an alcohol problem.

 

[whs]

Mine is simple - it is just my initials. I use it on all forums sometimes appended with 37 (my birthyear) because WHS was already taken.

 

[paulpicks21]

Mine was from the first part of my first ever email address.

My full name is Paul Pickering. My mates used to call me Picks and I was 21 years old at the time.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

My father was a consummate salesman and listening to him answer his calls "Linnemeyerhere" has always stuck with me and something I've adopted in my life !

 

[ThrashZone]

Mine comes from an album from DRI "Dirt Rotten Imbeciles" called ThrashZone

Oops why ?
My other handle is top secrete
Beside it was the less docile one,
Not sure how John would of taken the band Suicidal Tendencies or Death Threat :roflmao:
I like the bands and album art so it seemed as good as anything

 

[Butters]

Butters from South Park. Now I kind of wish I'd picked a different username; Butters isn't usually what I go by on the internet.

 

[Boozad]

An Admin will be able to change your username for you if you ask then nicely.

 

[Boozad]

My father was a consummate salesman and listening to him answer his calls "Linnemeyerhere" has always stuck with me and something I've adopted in my life !

Yours was one of the ones that got me thinking about this thread Alan.

 

[Butters]

An Admin will be able to change your username for you if you ask then nicely.

Well that's good to know, thanks.

 

[fireberd]

Mine originated back in the "Qlink" days (which is now AOL). I had a TTC Corp "Fireberd" T1 link tester/Bit Error Tester (Device) at work. When I first signed up for Qlink and entered a user name my Daughter suggested "firebird" but it was already in use so I went with the "fireberd". I've used it ever since.

As a side note, when I first got on Qlink it was with a Commodore VIC 20......

Jack

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Lady Fitzgerald was my stage name back when I worked Renaissance Festivals. I portrayed a brash, disenfranchised Irish noblewoman. Even now, more people know me as Lady Fitzgerald than as Jeannie.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Mine originated back in the "Qlink" days (which is now AOL). I had a TTC Corp "Fireberd" T1 link tester/Bit Error Tester (Device) at work. When I first signed up for Qlink and entered a user name my Daughter suggested "firebird" but it was already in use so I went with the "fireberd". I've used it ever since.

As a side note, when I first got on Qlink it was with a Commodore VIC 20......

Jack

I remember Q-link (I used a Commodore 64C back then). One reason I will have nothing to do with AOHell is, when they bought Q-link, they abandoned it and, without any maintenance, if quickly became unusable and I had no choice but to quit it. AOHell bought up a lot of the smaller BBBs around then and deliberately abandoned them.

 

[Joan Archer]

Mine is just my name.

 

[Slartybart]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Slartibartfast on Life

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[Indianatone]

Indianatone...They called me Tone for short from Tony or Anthony and I moved from England where I was called Big Tone as I was bigger (6ft tall) than Little Tone (Tony 5ft 5) and I moved to Indiana from Northern Cambridgeshire. England. The ATV badge is a long gone TV station in England that we used to get when we lived in Nottingham and Banbury but lost when we moved to Huntingdon. I put up a huge aerial and picked up an entertainment quality signal in the towns I lived in till I moved to Peterborough where once again I received ATV now Central TV with a superb signal. I left England before all the digital nonsense and ITV restructuring occurred.

 

[z3r010]

It's just a binary thing!!!!

 

[Indianatone]

It's just a binary thing!!!!

We have digital TV here. Analogue went away mostly in 2010. HD signals and SD signals all in 1 and 0.....Some low power relays, religious stations still broadcast in analog along with some low power school and college stations.
I use Windows 7 to record the Big Bang Theory and other stuff in HD.

 

[carwiz]

Do I really have to describe where I got my handle?

Actually, my career was all computers, business management and consulting. Antique and Classic cars was a hobby ever since I could lift a wrench but my career allowed me to "tinker" with cars. Since then, I've turned my hobby into a small business that's keeps me busy. I restore and/or build cars now. The current project is replicating a rare 1921 Mercury Speedster body. I'll be making three for a customer but I may make one for myself too.

 

[Slartybart]

The current project is replicating a rare 1921 Mercury Speedster body. I'll be making three for a customer but I may make one for myself too.

That's pretty cool Ken.
http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/m/mercury/mercury.htm

 

[carwiz]

Yep, that's the one.