How'd you come up with your username(s)?

[bassCADET]

Autechre song d:-}

[Servant-of_Christ]

I think my name is fairly straight-forward. I am a Christian, and live my life for Christ.

[Djehutynakht]

Djehutynakht was the governor of Deir El-Bersha once long ago in ancient Egypt. The collection of his funerary art, including his coffins, statues, and boat carvings, are considered to be the best examples of art of his time. The gold and such from his tomb was stolen by grave-robbers, which ripped apart the mummies of Djehutynakht and his wife. When an expedition opened his tomb, they saw of the bodies only a torso and a head lying atop a coffin (pictured in my avatar). Currently, scientific analysis has not yet determined whether the head belongs to Djehutynakht or his wife.

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/secrets-tomb-10a

[Dr. Diaphanous]

I played freerice until I got to a word I didn't know. (Diaphanous = translucent || of fine, almost insunstantial texture)
Disclaimer: I am not diaphanous or a doctor. But I want to be Dr. McNinja when I grow up.

[flintlockpistols]

I go by two handles, usually -- FlintlockPistols and Sassy Turtles. FlintlockPistols is because I think they're sexy guns, and then Sassy Turtles has a really long story regarding a bath toy and me being very very hopped up on sugar.

*double pistols and a wink*

*blows smoke off red hot irony pistol*
*NONSUGGESTIVELY!!!!!*

[Black Dynamite]

One of the greatest movies I've ever seen. I introduced it to my group of friends and they adored it as well. One person suggested I should it make my xbox live gamertag, and I did. I have used it on other websites, too, and I've grown fond of it. Usually it's unique to a website, so I don't have to add any extra letters or numbers or punctuation, and I value that highly for some reason.

[Laserdan]

My WoW character name was Leodan (the local server celebrity in vanilla actually - wow that was pathetic...). Someday, I got a new piece of head equipment that made the eyes glow in a bright blue, and henceforth I called myself Laserdan. I also like lasers; they are delightful, they amplify joy, they're even stimulating. Emission can be a problem, and radiation is bad. So I like them a lot.

[Adam H]

It's my name! Weeeeee!

[lucrezaborgia]

I think Lucretia Borgia was an awesome woman and that she got a bad rap historically. I changed the spelling of the first name to make it my own and I've yet to find someone who uses the same username.

[Funshine]

Kendras, to Kendrubbin, to Cap'n Ken, to Cap'n "Funshine" Ken.

Yep.

Shortened to Funshine lately, all of it started because I'm just the happiest person on earth.

[CaptainFinglass]

In the middle of The Two Towers, there's a character named Finglass who appears for all of... oh, six sentences. Thus, I decided to make my name of the most obscure reference to a favourite story ever, and threw a captain in just because I could.

[Daimon]

Conquer Online, 2006, Leo Server. This guy named Sandals created a guild called Daimonas, which was supposidly demons in Greek or some language. I've used Daimonas or Daimon a lot ever sense. Really, there's only two usernames I use often, and this is one of them. The other is the same as you saw in my avatar. I was eight at the time, and wanted to think of two words together. Well, I kind of knew Le meant the in French, and I was also thinking of tigers at the same time. I just put them together, and it's stuck.

[cemper93]

I don't know. I've always used this username. I like camping, and CE are my initials. So that's probably that.

[Lawsome]

My middle name is Law.

And then some.

Lawsome.

[darknut]

in my mind i keep pronouncing it Lawlsome

[MotorToad]

(Even though the company got merged a couple of times and is now part of a big honking group where three letters isn't enough and I'm now "pnewton"; it's not the same.)

I would beg to have that changed to "pneuton."

[ahammel]

First initial + last name. I don't go in for this anonymity nonsense.

[BRNMan]

BRN = abbreviation of status ailment burn that appears in pokemon games.

[bearachute]

To be honest, I think I just took it from a last.fm I saw I'm not sure. It's a long horrid story.

[Radical_Initiator]

My WoW character name was Leodan (the local server celebrity in vanilla actually - wow that was pathetic...). Someday, I got a new piece of head equipment that made the eyes glow in a bright blue, and henceforth I called myself Laserdan. I also like lasers; they are delightful, they amplify joy, they're even stimulating. Emission can be a problem, and radiation is bad. So I like them a lot.

Leodan ... why does that sound familiar? What server was that?

Anyway, student in polymer science, and one of the best-known initiation methods for polymerization reactions is by using some manner of radical (ATRP is very well-known). Plus, it also has the connotation of someone who starts something different. Not that that's really me, but perhaps an aspiration.

[LinuxPenguin]

How did i come up with my username, you ask?


I... um... well... I honestly don't know. .. ?

[sco]

My name came from the first time I played an arcade-style videogame and got a high score at about age 5 or 6. I didn't know that they only used 3 letters for initials and so started to put in my first name: Scott. When I got to Sco it accepted and saved immediately. Not wanting the scoreboard to have too many different names on it I stuck with it and have used it most everywhere ever since.

[XTCamus]

Well, my username has an even longer, and even more brilliant and fascinating story behind it. OK, maybe not. My favorite band is XTC, and my favorite philosopher is.... Oh, man, you already guessed it!?

[karpmage]

You know, it's like magikarp, but it's also a mage... :S

[lylax]

I misremembered the star system Star Fox 64 was set in.

[FierceContinent]

The sound *was* pretty rough on that game

As for me a spicy bun to whoever can guess

[314159]

Easy as Pi...

[Phredd94]

For some reason, when I first met a few of my friends, they were coming up with various spellings of Fred (eg. Fredddd), since it was clearly far too boring (apologies to the Freds of the world). I came up with Phredd, being rather fond of the "ph" blend, and have stuck with it for all my online communities despite never actually using it among my friends. And then the 94 is fairly obvious, I suppose.

[Himself]

It was my gamertag for Star Wars: Battlefront. Whenever someone killed by the message would come up "Unit [number] killed Himself."
Elsewhere, many of my usernames on other sites contain "Ridley" in some fashion as I went through a phase when I was obsessed with dragons and was really into Metroid. Since Ridley is a dragon from Metroid, liked him and have liked the name ever since.

[The Great Hippo]

I used to play a game where my character's name was 'Ipponsugi'. This was a really long name and no one liked typing it out so it got shortened to 'Ippo'. Then, one day, someone called me (purely by accident, I think) 'Hippo'.

I soon discovered I liked the moniker, but it was already taken pretty much everywhere I went (turns out 'Hippo' is a pretty common username). So I needed a way to differentiate my designation from everyone else's.

Hence 'The Great Hippo'.

[Pfhorrest]

My name's Forrest, Forrest Gump. My main obsession back when I first got on the internet was the video game Marathon (from Bungie, the makers of the Halo franchise, back before they sold their soul to the devil from Redmond).

The main enemies in Marathon are an alien race called the Pfhor, and many puns were made on the word "for" and words beginning with the syllable "for". Naturally, perpetrating such a pun on my name was an obvious choice of username.

Because "Pfh" is such an uncommon combination of letters and "Forrest" is a relatively rare name to begin with, I'm almost always guaranteed to have "Pfhorrest" available anywhere I need a username.

Someone else got the Twitter account "Pfhorrest" before me, but I don't care to use Twitter; that person also uses it in a few other places I have no interest in, such as airsoft and fountain pen forums. So it's generally not a problem. Turns out, oddly enough, he is not named Forrest himself, but he is a fan of Marathon, and has heard of me and my work in that fandom (one of the most popular mods was my creation), but under my real name, not my username.

[davedrowsy]

When you play in punk bands, you end up getting nicknames related to whatever band you're known for being in. I was in a pop punk band called the Drowsies, and my name is Dave, so henceforth I became known as Dave Drowsy. The name stuck, so I use it as a username sometimes.

[selfassembled]

I thought it was clever and said something about me...

[TheMinister]

The Minister is the nice man in the church who will provide spiritual guidance and leadership.

The Minister is the backstabbing bastard who has climbed the greasy pole to sit in government.

Which am I?

[SecondTalon]

The Minister is the nice man in the church who will provide spiritual guidance and leadership.

The Minister is the backstabbing bastard who has climbed the greasy pole to sit in government.

Which am I?

Why not both?

[Weeks]

The Minister is the nice man in the church who will provide spiritual guidance and leadership.

The Minister is the backstabbing bastard who has climbed the greasy pole to sit in government.

Which am I?

The riddler

I am a lord of time, but I thought it would be a tad presumptuous to put that as my username so I went with my last name.

[mathmannix]

I do math (or maths).
I am a man.
My last name is Nix.

Of course, some people think I am a fan of Mannix, and I let them.