How did you pick your username?

[Havra]

I went to see Ross Noble this year. During the interval I put a love note on the stage with a friend and he couldn't read my name.
"From Mel and... Ha-ha- Hava- Havra? Sounds like a witch from Lord of the Rings"

I got to shout over the audience telling him that he was a twat. Also that it was actually Laura...

 

[SovietSecrets]

My friend bestowed upon me the name of EcksTeaSea and I don't know a better name to use now.

 

[Zeromaeus]

My favorite final Fantasy is III.
The final boss is Zeromus.
I like Latin sounding words.
I like words with ae in them.
Put it all together!

 

[Thelonesun]

I use this name everywhere, which was inspired by my dad long ago, who uses the name Thelone everywhere, and when i was younger I asked him to sign me up for a MMORPG that i now forget the name of and he set me up wit the name of Thelonesun.

 

[daftalchemist]

I needed a new screen name because I was tired of my old ones. I decided to choose two words at random and string them together. I got the "daft" part from Daft Punk. I got the "alchemist" part from...my ass, I dunno. It just came to me. And thus I became the daft alchemist, and then I decided to take the space out. I don't know why.

 

[Klarinette]

I play the Clarinet, and I like the German language

 

[slowpoke999]

My friend bestowed upon me the name of EcksTeaSea and I don't know a better name to use now.

I like the name, but you do know that it is meant to sound out the name of the drug Ectasy when you say it right?

I'm so unoriginal, I just like the Pokemon Slowpoke and the number 9, so I just combined them, woo me.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Because it will not.

And other names I was going to use were taken.

 

[Mr. Gency]

In Disgaea there you can go into the item world and if you have a item called "Mr. Gency's Exit" you can leave in an Emergency. So of all the possible Disgaea themed names, I went with the one that was least likely to have been picked.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Well anyone who's a fan of Weird Al, as I was when I chose it, will recognize it as one of his songs "Trigger Happy" (I believe off of the album "Poodle Hat," but its been awhile). When I first tried using it on XBL, it said it was taken, so I dropped a letter. The "94" comes from my birthday: 9/4/94. And I kept it because I occionaly have the tendency to shoot team mates when startled or I can't identify them fast enough. better safe then one extra point for the other team.

 

[Kei Kaemon]

Hmm, I pretty much just made it up. I like the letter k in names, so I just made up Kaemon, and then when I went to make a xbl name years ago I just did Kei because its pronounced k.... So that's how I got KeiKaemon...

I never intended it to be Japanese, but turns out Kaemon is a real name, shows how creative I am....

 

[Darius Brogan]

1) Tobias Brogan: The antagonist in 'Blood of the Fold' by Terry Goodkind

2) Tobias reminds me of some retard from a show I can't even remember the name of, but Brogan was really cool.

3) I got bored one day so I 'figured out what my name means' on the internet, I was not satisfied so I tried Darius, which I'd already thought sounded cool, and it fit me SO much better, so I created a composite and I am now Darius Brogan.

 

[Snotnarok]

Red Faction 2 my profile name was Ragnarok, I was sick and left the room to blow my nose, I come back my friends renamed me Snotnarok, so it just stuck.

 

[Lidrial]

Name I used for my ranger character in an mmo a few years ago. Couldn't think of anything better to use as my escapist name at the time.

 

[Axzarious]

My name started as aword I made up in my childhood... I think it was a name of some continent I made up... then it evolved into the name of a character idea... Im now thinking it of soley using it as my online name, and replacing the characters name with "Syrus".

Its a distinct name, that, has, ironically, been "stolen" and used by somebody on both youtube, and whatever network you would call the one that Xbox uses (Had to sign up for that abomination to play Dawn Of War 2).

 

[hiks89]

i watched aliens when i was about 9 years old and i thought cpl hicks was the coolest guy ever.but being the lazy sod thet i was i missed the "C"

ive bin thinkin of changin my name to jazxyqk after the charector "CAT" in red dwarf used the letters in scrabble

 

[unoleian]

Pretty ridiculous, actually.

It's pretty much just a bastardized spelling of Anole (as in Anole Lizard) with an 'ian' tacked on the end for flavor. A random decision, a random-ass name with no real bearing on anything. (Tho I do like lizards)
Nothing to see here...

 

[TyphoidMary]

My name, in real life, is Mary. A friend of mine gave me a Giant Microbe plush of Typhoid Fever, and it makes me happy.

Not to mention the fact that no matter how many people she (the real Typhoid Mary) killed, she insisted on still working because she wasn't a carrier. Really. And she had no idea why those nice people all died from the same virus...

 

[Yarggg]

I got mine from me and some friends at school were talking about the word Yarg and saying it in a weird way. so I just decided to add on another two g's.

 

[LadyRhian]

When I first went online on AOL in 1991, my screenname was Vampire1. In that time, I developed a character, Rhiannon Sian Emyr, who happened to be a Vampire. Welsh and from the late dark ages (born in 1221). She's 5'6, with long brown hair down to her thighs, has a liking for dresses of her time, and has eyes that vary between brown and gold. She also happens to be a healer, and can go out in the daytime thanks to a black sun necklace she received from a magus whose wife she saved after a difficult childbirth

I got knocked offline for 8 months in 1992-3, and when I came back, I had to take a new screen name. It's been LadyRhian ever since, and I adopted it for use everywhere online. It's even in use on my blogspot blog (http://ladyrhian.blogspot.com), my ebay name, and so on.