Explain Your Username.

[Gunpowder]

If this thread (or one similar to it) already exists, call me out on it.

Why did you pick the username you have? Is there some meaning behind it? Is it something your friends call you? Or is it a name you just sort of came up with on the spot, or what?

Not to be anti-climactic, but there's no meaning behind mine whatsoever; Gunpowder is just a word I really like. Has a nice ring to it, I think.

[snake]

I liked Snakeweed, from the new tmnt show. I changed it recently. Snake sounded shorter and better.

[Toitlefan]

I didnt put a lot of thought into mine. It was just something I needed to get started I guess. It does make me think of Bebop and Rocksteady though.

[IndigoErth]

Have had this name scattered across the internet since I believe spring of 2004. o.O

Indigo... nice color, particularly like the bluer variations. Also like the word.

Erth... Earth without the "a," was still in my 20s, guess I thought I was being original leaving the "a" out. Was always kind of a nature kid, born on (U.S.) Earth Day in an Earth sign. Even my Jeep came to me used (1 year old - it's now abt 14) on my b-day/Earth Day (coincidental date that I could sign the papers) with a little faded "Planet Earth" sticker on it's bumper, so I knew it was meant to be with me. lol So the Earth thing has always been pretty well ingrained with me.

[joefsas]

Use mine for alot of things.
Back when I was eighteen I used to wear alot of 'Famous stars and straps' clothing.
My first name is Joe, hence joefsas :D

[pennydreadful]

Nothing all that special about mine - it's basically just a tongue-in-cheek reference towards inflicting what some would consider to be my "dreadful" personality on people. :lol: I also liked the horror reference... and at the time, I needed to come up with a name and couldn't think of anything else. *shrugs*

I continue to stick with it as it's what people know me by here and I couldn't really be bothered changing it now.

[ssjup81]

At the time I made up this name, I was a fan of DBZ and Sailor Moon. I couldn't think of anything better and picked this. I've had some equivalent of this name since about 1999. SSJ Jup81, SSJ_Jup81, etc.

SSJ = Super Saiya-jin (Dragon Ball Z)
Jup = Jupiter (Kino Makoto from Sailor Moon)
81 = My year of birth

[DarkFell]

I read Elfquest from time to time. The characters, some of their weapons and their wolves had odd names. Part of my username came from there and I just changed it until I got DarkFell.

[Candy Kappa]

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=21275&highlight=username&page=17

And here is the origin of my username:

Candy comes from my work title Eye Candy during my 3D game design year as I was making CG models for the game we where making. After finishing some ideas on how to make diverse buildings quickly, I was named Eye Candy 2.0.

Kappa is my favorite mythological creature and the protagonist of a comic I worked on for a long while was a Kappa, the comic is more or less dead, but my original username was based off him.

[Mew]

My origin is:
Mew, my favorite Pokèmon, and Meow, my favorite sound.

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

Nothing all that special about mine - it's basically just a tongue-in-cheek reference towards inflicting what some would consider to be my "dreadful" personality on people. :lol: I also liked the horror reference... and at the time, I needed to come up with a name and couldn't think of anything else. *shrugs*

I continue to stick with it as it's what people know me by here and I couldn't really be bothered changing it now.

Oh, I thought your username was from something else. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2628232/)

As for mine, anyone who has seen 'Turtles Forever' will understand.

[TigerClaw]

My username originally came from the game Wing Commander, There was a ship you were always docking in after each mission called, TCS Tiger's Claw
http://wingcommander.wikia.com/wiki/TCS_Tiger%27s_Claw

[Bry]

My name's Bry.

:tthumbsu:

[neatoman]

I was originally going to use a name I have used very frequently on forums, but I decided it was time for a change.

The reason? Well... I started to use that name when I was 11 years old and for the first 2-4 years or so I (understandably) said a bunch of immature, stupid and somewhat offensive stuff that garnered a lot of haters on these forums, what can I say, I was just a dumb kid behind a keyboard. And while I did learn how stupid I was and actually bettered myself, people on these forums still hated me anyway despite my apologies and improvement.

I don't know how many people here would know me by that username, but I did not want to risk getting unnecessary haters because of it. I just typed in the first subsitute that popped into my head, neatoman, and went with it.

[Mayhem]

Name is as name does, described my life at the time and what I usually bring to the party. There was also a videogame character of the same name around the same time (1993), and it stuck.

[Lethal Lullaby]

Well first I had started with RaphDonZixx because Raphael and Donatello were my favorite turtles and I liked Torbin Zixx from FF. Then I went to 19thCenturyGhost because well I thought the style from the era was interesting and I thought the ghost part added a nice haunted touch. After that I decided I wanted a change. First I was thinking something like Legal Assassin, a song from REPO! The Genetic Opera, then thought nah. I was also considering two words that both began with M, but then some people would shorten my name to MM (like Marshal Mathers aka Eminem. I like him, but it'd feel weird having a name sound like his when it's shortned) But finally I came up with Lethal Lullaby. As someone once told me before, it's like an orthodox. You sing a lullaby to put someone to sleep, but a lethal lullaby does more than put them to rest. I like my name now though and I think I'll keep it.

[TheBlueTurtle1]

I was mutated in the sewer with this stuff called "ooze" I had just been playing with smurfs and turtles (trying to make them fight) when suddenly ooze poured down a drain ( because for some reason I was in the sewer) and splashed all over me. I turned in to a turtle with blue skin:ohwell:

[Slade]

I change names a good bit. I'm gonna have to stick with one. Prolly Roman. It's kinda badass.

Anyway, I'm using Slade cuz I like Deathstroke...

[ShelleyQuick]

Mine's really quite simple. I really hate my first name so I mixed my first and middle name together, Sheila Michelle-Shelley(plus Shelley is nickname for Michelle also) and Quick is my last name. I usually put 80(my birth year) behind it, but, I forgot to do that when I signed up for this forum. I use either Sheila Michelle or ShelleyQuick on every webpage I'm on that way I'm easy to find.

[Netkeeper]

http://i.imgur.com/FKCCgit.png

[Prowler]

Iron Maiden song.

[Powder]

My real life nickname is Powder, which stems from the film/character of the same title.

[TheCanadiandrome]

I'm Canadian and I really love the Technodrome :D

[Blossombrooks]

Blossom Brooks is my alter ego, it started years ago when I was still at school and y'know when you do the 'stage name' ;) (mother's maiden name + first pet name) game? Well this is mine and I liked it so much I started using it to do all my artwork under, most people who I meet on the art circuit don't know its not my actual name.

[pennydreadful]

Oh, I thought your username was from something else. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2628232/)

LOL yeah, I get that a lot. Not a bad show though - what can I say; I'm a sucker for anything with Frankenstein in it.

My real life nickname is Powder, which stems from the film/character of the same title.

That was a cool movie. :)

[Raph's Girl]

Raphael's my fave of the turtles.

[Leo656]

Pretty boring. Leo's my favorite Turtle and 656 was part of my old phone number.

[Katie]

It's my actual nickname

[CyberCubed]

I picked this username back in 2001 when I was 15 or so. The Gamecube was Nintendo's new system at the time so the "Cubed" at the end of my name actually comes from Gamecube.

I bet some of you didn't know my username was Nintendo themed. Cyber is just generic because as a 15 year old in 2001 I thought virtual reality was cool and Cyber = internet/robots/whatever. I can't believe I've been using the same username since 2001 when I was 15 years old on the internet in general.

[ProactiveMan]

I use ProactiveMan here and there. It comes from an idea I had a long time ago about a superhero who spoke in management jargon. His name was Proactiveman, and he solved crime with process and buzzwords. Suffice to say, nothing came of that lame idea, but I had a soft spot for the name.

It was almost MrDetective, after my favourite showbag. (Maybe only Australians know what those are)

[Mayhem]

I can't believe I've been using the same username since 2001 when I was 15 years old on the internet in general.
Don't worry, as I pointed out in my entry, I've been using this Mayhem handle online since 1993. Yeah, internet existed then, way less websites than today, when the browser battle was between Netscape and Mosaic, you could use stuff like GOPHER to get files, and the search engines of choice were Alta Vista and Yahoo...

[Prowler]

I picked this username back in 2001 when I was 15 or so. The Gamecube was Nintendo's new system at the time so the "Cubed" at the end of my name actually comes from Gamecube.

I bet some of you didn't know my username was Nintendo themed. Cyber is just generic because as a 15 year old in 2001 I thought virtual reality was cool and Cyber = internet/robots/whatever. I can't believe I've been using the same username since 2001 when I was 15 years old on the internet in general.
Consider yourself lucky for having a simple yet unique username that's never taken in any new place you join.

[BlueKatanas]

I usually just pick a favorite character and go from there. On an Indiana jones forum I'm "Maybe.Not Today" - part of one of my favorite lines in temple of doom. My name here is kind of obvious. It's hard to pick a favorite turtle, but Leo is the one I empathize with most these days.

[Amaranthus]

Amaranthus caudatus is a beautiful plant.
I've always liked the sound of Latin. It has that electronic vibe to it.

[Donnieangelo]

Because Donatello and Michelangelo are my favorite turtles.

[Donatello_One_Shot]

The Kirby and the warp crystal one shot really got to me :)

[blindturtle02]

I'm totally blind and it's a turtle forum. I just couldn't come up with something unique that day because I remember being focused on cooking something or other. I suppose I could eventually change it to Darkturtle if that's not taken. I'll stick with this one for now, I guess.

[Netkeeper]

Consider yourself lucky for having a simple yet unique username that's never taken in any new place you join.
I dunno about anyone else, but I love coming up with new usernames.

[Jester]

I am prone to hearty jests....

[Storm Eagle]

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showpost.php?p=824595&postcount=122

[Nameless]

the gamer tag i've used for years is Nameless_one1988. not sure y i didn't add the _one1988 to my user name when i signed up years ago.

The nameless one is a character from an old RPG... and if you know which one then you are an awesome person ;)

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Nothing all that special about mine - it's basically just a tongue-in-cheek reference towards inflicting what some would consider to be my "dreadful" personality on people. :lol: I also liked the horror reference... and at the time, I needed to come up with a name and couldn't think of anything else. *shrugs*

I continue to stick with it as it's what people know me by here and I couldn't really be bothered changing it now.


Interesting. Funny, I thought it was something else.


Oh, I thought your username was from something else. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2628232/)



That's what I thought, too!


As for mine, I'll quote myself from the previous thread for this.

"Mine is fairly simple, actually. I am a big Marvel fan, and one of my favorite female characters from their comics is Ms. Marvel. I'm also married female, so it serves several ways- I'm a Marvel fan, I'm a Ms., and she's one of my fave Avengers. The Duckie part is because my last(married) name is- no kidding- Duck. I get called Duckie a lot at work because of it, and yes, I've heard just about every play on the name imaginable. In fact, one of the jokes I tell people when they learn my last name is to tell them that I married a duck. (No, not Howard- though my hubby has confirmed that they are related....) I've been using this name on almost every site I'm on, ever since I first used it on the Marvel boards back in 03. It's just kind of stuck, and I don't really feel like changing it, since A: it makes it easier for people to find me on-line when I use the same name every time, and B: it's too hard to remember more than one or two.

The only other username I go by (on Candlekeep and Eilistraee.com) is Alystra Illianniis, which is the name of one of my D&D PC's. She's a half-drow(AKA dark elf) priestess of Eilistraee, the long-haired nekkid goddess of dance, music, sword-fighting, and moonlight. Don't judge- she's actually the one GOOD deity of the drow(dark elves) in D&D. All the others are EBIL!!!"


And there you have it!

[Peanut]

To quote myself from a thread in 2007

Mine all has to do with a drunk guy I met on XBL way back when Rainbow Six 3 came out. My original XBOX tag was PeeJtmnt (PeeJ an akward way of spelling PJ, the nickname I've had since I was born, and tmnt...obvious) While playing RS3, some drunken fool on my team, unable to read my name properly, keeps calling me Peanut. Which was good, because I had been wanting to change my XBLtag, but couldn't think of anything else to use. That name kind of stuck, as my cousin (JameO) started using it IRL, which caught on to other friends and pretty much became my nickname all over the place. After a lot of deliberation, I finally changed my user name on here from Michaelangelo to Peanut.

So, yeah. My username means I routinely allow drunk people to decide things for me.

[CyberCubed]

Consider yourself lucky for having a simple yet unique username that's never taken in any new place you join.

Technically "CyberCube" is actually a real product:

http://www.cybercube.info/

Its some weird puzzle toy, anyone heard of it before? Although my username has nothing to do with it.

[Netkeeper]

Holy ****. I WANT ONE.

[BabyTurtles]

I picked BabyTurtles....cause I think the turtles are cute as babies/tots....XD

[Wesley]

My username originates from the character of the same name in the tv shows Buffy and Angel.

[IndigoErth]

Technically "CyberCube" is actually a real product:

http://www.cybercube.info/

Its some weird puzzle toy, anyone heard of it before? Although my username has nothing to do with it.
Looks like those things with the magnetic balls I've seen by other brand names, my brother in law had a set but not that brand.


(Keep them away from children and pets! They can damage the intestines if more than one piece is swallowed and the magnetism pulls them together from either side of the organ walls.)

[XERO]

From the original thread:

To be honest: Linkin Park is my favorite band ever. "Xero" was their name when they first started out, before they went main stream.

I just adopted it and capitalized all the letters. Been using it ever since.

To exaggerate it: I'm a zero who takes it to the extreme. Hence the "X" instead of the "Z".

[LeoRaph]

Mine's nothing special, my fave turtles are Leo and Raph where I like them about the same, some versions more than the other but they balance out overall...also my fave colour is Blue hence why it's LeoRaph not RaphLeo.