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.
Mine is Finnish for "bishop", and I chose it for my username since that's what everyone calls me in the real world too. I'm not religious, so I'm assuming the name comes from my love towards long, black overcoats. Also, most my other clothing are black too.
ReplyWhenever I make a user name, I just string 5 letters together into a random two syllabus name.
ReplyEveryone has a reasonable explanation for their usernames.
ReplyI read out loud one of those stupid code things that you have to type when you make an account so that the website knows that you're not a computer or whatever, and the first three characters were "4BT" and I read it as FourBitty. Exciting, right?
I.. I'm middle-aged and just discovered the internet? Fuck.
ReplyMine is from my occupation...
ReplyI guess mine is kind of "the Juvenile" from above, but less embarrassing. Or at least I don't expect people to react to it in a way that would embarrass me, given that I don't use it in places where I expect anyone to care.
ReplyAnd I have kind of devoted my life to psychology, so that bit can stick...
I tell everyone I meet that I'm a doctor.
ReplyA lot of years ago in a GuildWars mission we got into discussing minipets, and soon everyone agrees that a pair of flying boobies would be the best one. Simple as that.
ReplyI read Joyce as a young man. I like cranes. Sorenb was already taken.
ReplyI had anger issues as a child so "calm" was a word I told myself a lot.
Replyum... man, none of those describe my username. jtmax24.... Let's just say it's a Star Trek thing and leave it at that :)
ReplyIt's a long story, but the second part came from a comic book-ish character I drew a lot called 'Dr. Jimm'. Dr. Jimm looked like an emaciated Robinson Crusoe in a lab coat and flannel pajama pants. He carried around a cartoonish machine gun that shot syringes.
ReplyI would read that if it got turned into a comic or something.
Schmergo was my imaginary friend as a kid, a Martian who I wrote stories about all the time. And I think every name sounds cooler with 'Captain' in front of it.
ReplyArwen from the Lord of the Rings and Black from Sirius Black in Harry Potter. Yes, I picked it out when I was in middle school, BUT I REGRET NOTHING!
ReplyI 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.