Your Story Behind Choosing Your User Name/Handle?

[davidabcd]

I regret, after seeing some really interesting user names, to not have given mine more thought (davidabcd). I only tried to grab a name that wouldn't get rejected. I chose something equally as lame on the UK sister-site: davidfromUS. Embarrassing!
Does anyone have a not-so-lame story?

 

[Inkleg]

Back in my group cycling days you could ride with someone for hours, but not recognize them once the helmet and gear came off at the end of the ride. Having a lot of tattoos on my legs people who didn't know me would say "I rode with that guy with the leg tattoos". During one ride as I dropped off the front of the pack after a really strong pull someone said "Good pull Inkleg". The name stuck and they called me Inkleg from then on.

 

[balrog]

Was watching LOTR. Lame, I know, but surprise! It was not a used name on this forum yet. We Physics types don't lead interesting lives.

 

[davidabcd]

Having a lot of tattoos

That's exactly what I was talking about. See, that's cool. Also, @RPh_Guy? I have no idea.

 

[davidabcd]

Was watching LOTR. Lame, I know, but surprise! It was not a used name on this forum yet. We Physics types don't lead interesting lives.

YOU...SHALL..NOT...PASS!
That's a nice one.

 

[Dgallo]

That's exactly what I was talking about. See, that's cool. Also, Rph guy? I have no idea.

He likes sours so my guess is it has to do with tht lol

 

[imasickboy]

 

[bracconiere]

i got mine from google translate, i was playing a video game that involved lot's of hunting animals....so i punched 'hunter' into it, to find the coolest sounding foreign word...ended up with Italian for 'poacher'.....

edit: sometimes i use 'jeger' german for hunter.....

 

[davidabcd]

@imasickboy That's not a bad tune.

 

[davidabcd]

i got mine from google translate,

I was curious about yours as well. It looks like a French word. You did not disappoint.

 

[mongoose33]

Back in the days when CB radios were the thing, seemed like lots of supposedly bad-ass CB users had the handle "Snake" or "Python" or similar. It was pathetic.

What beats a snake? Why, a Mongoose, of course. So that became my CB handle, and I've used it more or less ever since. I've sometimes used a variation of "Goose" as well. I don't use Goose much--too many people think they're clever by saying "Talk to me, Goose." Ecchhh.

 

[davidabcd]

I'm going to think of what I would have chosen without a time constraint.

 

[BruceH]

I think mine is fairly easy to decipher. I went by this during a time when I was very involved in cars and decided to keep using it when I came here.

 

[davidabcd]

I think mine is fairly easy to decipher. I went by this during a time when I was very involved in cars and decided to keep using it when I came here.

If you wouldn't mind, you'll have to enlighten me; I don't get it. I would have just assumed first name plus last name initial.

 

[bracconiere]

I'm going to think of what I would have chosen without a time constraint.

https://www.behindthename.com/name/david

don't know what the bcd is for, but you could get all kinds of ideas from beloved, uncle....greatest king of isreal...and the such...

 

[Amadeo38]

Mine is based on the first handgun I ever owned, which was handed down to me when I turned 21. An Amadeo Rossi .38 special.

 

[501irishred]

After multiple failed attempts I got frustrated and enter my area code and what I was drinking while signing up (also my first all grain batch).

 

[jrgtr42]

Some interesting stories - hope they continue.
Mine's fairly simple. my initials - J.R., my other main hobby is playing guitar, so GTR, and one of my favorite books is Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, so the 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

 

[BruceH]

If you wouldn't mind, you'll have to enlighten me; I don't get it. I would have just assumed first name plus last name initial.

You are enlightened and you got it.

 

[davidabcd]

bcd

I wish it were more complicated but it was truly just a spur of the moment attempt at picking something no one else had chosen.

 

[davidabcd]

You are enlightened and you got it.

I'm glad to have that squared away.

 

[meich75]

I'm not very creative so mine is just a different way to spell Mike and the year I was born. Use that name for pretty much everything online.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Chose the first instance of the username in 2002 when I went on a three month holiday to Vancouver and needed a separate email address because work didn't allow external connections. So went with adding Canada's national bird to the name.

 

[Leezer]

Mine is just a nickname I used to have based on my real name, Lisa.

 

[burntchef]

Retired chef, kind of self explanatory. lol

 

[Hophunter]

I’m always looking for extremely hoppy beers and I am a hunter.

 

[Immocles]

Immocles was the name of my first character on Everquest back in 1999. Nearly all of my current handles on various sites/apps were originally gaming character names.

 

[Zuljin]

Also from a video game. I was WoW fan when I made my name. Haven't played since Panda, though. Got to be too big a time sink and grind. Made some irl friends out of it and two of them actually met through the game and are happily married to this day.

 

[Immocles]

Also from a video game. I was WoW fan when I made my name. Haven't played since Panda, though. Got to be too big a time sink and grind. Made some irl friends out of it and two of them actually met through the game and are happily married to this day.

Time sink is putting it lightly. It actually sort of sickens me how much time I stuck into EQ from 1999-2005. Or whenever WoW came out, that game pretty much killed EQ, and I hung up my mouse and keyboard about a year later. Still found myself attached to the names though.

 

[grampamark]

Mine is self-explanatory. My name is Mark and I’m a grandfather.

My son and DIL have two boys. The oldest turns 20 next week, the youngest is 16. My daughter and SIL also have two boys. The oldest is 4, the youngest 18 months.

I’m pushing 70. If I inherited more of my paternal grandmother’s genes I might be around long enough to see the youngest one become a grandfather. If I inherited more of my maternal grandfather’s genes I might be gone by next Thursday. Life is quite a crapshoot, ain’t it.