Where did you username come from?

[The Howling Wolves]

The Howling Wolves started 47 years ago when I first met my wife.
Her name tag said Wolf mine was Wolfe... so being suave and debonair I introduced my self ..
Hi Wolf I am a Wolfe to! She should have turned and run away but here we are 47 years later and still Howling as all Wolves do.
All she had to do was add an e to her last name and put up with me. Love must be blind!
THW

And no we are not cousins! hehehe

 

[Layback Bear]

My Avatar says it all.
I took that picture at the zoo in Cleveland.
Very hot day and the polar bear was laid back in the water watching all the people watching him.
Me and 4 other iron workers (Iron Worker Local 17) made the bear cages, rocks, and mote ect. that the bears lived in. I was there to see if the bears liked the work we had done and the free pass was nice also.
The concrete was sprayed on by some men from Disney Land.

I also ate my lunch there with Ernie every day the time we were there building this thing.
I had to start bring a larger lunch because Ernie seemed to grow fond of my lunch. Ernie didn't like mustard.
Ernie was some sort of African antelope that to me looked like a Ernie.

I had to choose between Ernie the antelope or Layback the Bear.

 

[OvenMaster]

Back in 2005, I joined my first forum (audiokarma.org) and really had no clue as to what was going on, I was that much of a noob. So I figured I may as well puff up my own abilities being the family chef. It wasn't until a few years later that I found out it was the business name of a guy in the UK who cleans appliances. Me, I just dirty them.

 

[jadinolf]

j= Joseph

adinolf= Last Name

Really shows imagination, eh?

 

[A Guy]

I'm sure we had a thread here already, as I have told this story before. I was an Admin on a forum, I answered a question by a poster, a problem he had been trying to fix for months. He replied back "You are a god!". I replied,"No, I am just a guy". Started using A Guy on new forums after that. Made the mistake of "signing" every post, have typed A Guy ad nauseum, lol. Glad I didn't pick Engelbert Humperdink

A Guy (see!)

P.S. It happened here too

 

[paulpicks21]

It's funny though. As soon as you know a person's real name you tend to call them by that from then on.

 

[Boozad]

It's funny though. As soon as you know a person's real name you tend to call them by that from then on.

The exception to that rule for me is ganjiry, even when I'm talking to him on TS I still call him ganj instead of Ryan. It's just loads easier!

 

[aritra2116]

Mine comes from my initials (Aritra) and 2116 comes from my dad's official number or something which he uses to identify himself where he works. It is actually 21115 but I thought I'd have a smaller ID and something similar to Dad's so I kind of copied it and modified it and that is how you get 2116.

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

My username IownAmoneyPit relates to any computer I own having paid top dollar originally, then 6 months later on sale for 1/3 the price topped off with hardware upgrades 1 to 2 years later worth at least 1/2 the original cost.

 

[ShamrockRig]

Mine is really simple, Devlin is my second name, i always get called Devlin from all friends, Don't know why i've always came to the conclusion it sounds better than "Michael" and "1967" is the year Celtic Fc (I'm a massive fan) won the European Cup (Champions League before it was called "Champions League) and we were also the first team in Britain to do so!

 

[TVeblen]

The first newsgroup I posted in (anyone remember usenet?) was an economic group back in 1991. I was faced with needing a "handle" for the first time and the first thing that popped into my head was a term paper I had written in school for an Economics Systems class on Thorstein Veblen. I liked the irony created by combining TV (opiate to the masses) with Veblen's economic theories in TVeblen. Anyone who has studied economics would get that joke (so far: 2).

Since then I have used many Usernames, pretty much a different one in every group or forum, but I continue to use TVeblen in forums I consider "serious".

Interestingly I have found 5 other TVeblens out in the interwebs. One of them is certifiable. One day I will need to hunt him down and fix that.

 

[Kari]

Kari is my real first name, fifth most popular name given to boys in the year I was born in Finland.

Freaky with it is that I was named after my cousin who was born two months prematurely to my aunt and died the same day. My aunt asked her brother, my father to give me the same name when she heard my mother became pregnant quite soon after her own son Kari was born and died. My parents respected the wish, I got both my first and middle names from him: Kari Juhani.

 

[Computer0304]

The computer part is because I am a computer. Just kidding, I just like them obviously. The 0304 part is because I add 0 to a number for no reason often and 304 because on a calculator, when you turn it upside down, it spells hoe. And hoes are awesome. Well, the more bigger reason is a secret.

Another fun fact, both my first name and last name combined is one of the most common combinations in Korea. It is even the name of a famous Korean actor. But I can't tell anyone the exact name. If I were to use my real name in the web, it would be impossible to find the real me especially on Korean websites.

 

[Borg 386]

I like ST. The Borg are a computerized hive mind, so I chose that along with the designation 386, like the old processors. Old, like me....

 

[Computer0304]

I like ST. The Borg are a computerized hive mind, so I chose that along with the designation 386, like the old processors. Old, like me....

Yup, that's a classic. But according to Wikipedia, varients of it were made until 2007. What a blast from the past it is, right? If only I was alive when it first started production.

 

[Solarstarshines]

I made my name up using the Scientific name of the Sun Solar Star

So my name actually means Sunshines lol Solarstarshines hahaha

 

[C-11]

C-11 was the number of a truck I drove while refueling helicopters back in the late 1970's.

Station to C-11 on a CB radio at that time.

I go by Flatiron on other forums.

 

[mohavepc]

Mine is our company name and the logo in my sig badge is our company logo.
Mohave PC Computers
Just a small town Mom and Pop Operation.

 

[Fantail]

A Spring pursuit.

 

[indianacarnie]

Mines one of those that speak for themselves I guess, I'm a Carnie living in Indiana most off seasons.. This is my oldest and most used username too.