Username Translator
Sometimes you can read someone's username and know exactly who you're dealing with, and which word they're about to misspell in the comment they left.
Choosing a Username: The Most Important Decision of Your Life
You step blinking into the blinding white light. All is new and the opportunities are endless. The vast wilderness of the Internet lies stretched before you, beckoning you, enticing you with its untold possibilities. All that remains is a name, a handle, the very essence of definition for the blank slate that IS...you. It can not be overstated, the significance of this ac...oh, you've picked CockasarusRex...well, that's good too.
I played Toussaint Charbonneau in a 4th grade play and wore #85 when I played football in high school.
ReplyI had the Beatles song "Helter Skelter" stuck in my head, so I just decided to use it...
ReplyI thought of it when I was 12, and really into Avi's books, and now I just use it for everything.
ReplyMy name refers to my Gaelic astrological sign. The irony is that almost every single website I get a screen name for already has a nion, so usually I have to tack my birth year onto the end. Youtube was the worst, requiring me to put the year at the BEGINNING of the screen name. The irony? I have NEVER seen the "original" nion post on ANY of these websites. *le sigh*
ReplyUmmm, i like reading?
ReplyIn a forum a few years ago, a discussion about Metal Gear came up.
ReplyOne of the questions was 'What codename would you give to someone who has been specially trained to defeat Solid Snake' and after a few minutes, I chose Plasma Mongoose.
I liked the name so much, I ended up using it in forums like this.
A fake Chinese name. Obviously to dissuade Americans from guessing my true nationality.
ReplyCan an Aussie guess Korean?
First name Larry.
ReplyThis is what people usually actually call me. Usually. And I can no longer remember which one of my friends thought it up, or why.
Replyunfortunately- most of my usernames include the word 'cat' not because I esspecially like cats, but because those are the first three letters of my last name. I only recently made the connection. *sigh*
Replymy usual user name (satorui) is a deliberate misspelling of the Korean word for enlightenment satori. because anyone who thinks they have it all figured out is wrong.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesYou're so mysterious?
Such an enigma. Teach me how to be like you?
Well, mallionaire, you're half-way there.
See, anyone who thinks they're a real millionaire is dead wrong. Good work, enigmatic man.
My usernames always have a meaning to me... somewhat. Except this one, Webbed Menace... well, because darn it, J J Jameson comes out with awesome shit.
ReplyLove my Wolfram.
ReplyI was really into the macabre (not emo, I just really liked Halloween) and wanted my username to be Blackkat, which was sadly taken. I refused to put numbers or underscores any where near my username so I kept trying, unsuccessfully, to find anything else I could shove onto it somewhere. I finally settled on Icy when I realized I wanted to hurry the process the f**k up because I was freezing my ass off.
ReplyRather than tell you the origin of my username, try to guess. Go on. I'll wait.
ReplyYour real name is Bob Gerry, but at age 21, you found out you were really two-thirds Chinese, coming from a Mandarin part of China?
So you decided to be two-thirds of a Mandarin, which would explain the "Mander"?
Once, I went to Burger King, got some hamburgers off their dollar menu, thought that Buck Double would be an awesome rapper name, took the K off of Buck, and here I am...
ReplyI really don't remember putting fgh as my user name, I have no idea why this was it, since I definitely remember typing in fightingelefonky (a lil' bush reference and my own personal political opinion)
ReplyMy band!
ReplyI still like jpr11011 :) And I made it years ago, when I was in fact 11.
ReplyI wanted to post a comment on something and I couldn't be bothered to think of a better name (that's my excuse anyway) x
ReplySure ya did gramps