What's with your username, dude?

[beej]

We've got some pretty strange names around here. Sure I can understand "PeteDubaldo" or "TommyinDelaware", but "candid_x" or "fingbeagles"? Wassup with that?

So how about a quick explanation of where your handle comes from (if it warrants an explanation).

I'll go first ... the censored version is that "beej" is how a drunk friend of mine kept pronouncing my last name (which is actually Bigué - French Canadian). Too wasted to stand up or say anything else ... the only word we got out of buddy was "beej". Kinda stuck ... so now I'm "beej" to my friends.

 

[psy501]

..psy for the profession....(psychiatrist)
..501 for the jeans..
..easy, isnt it ?
..

 

[leftyguitarblue]

I actually screwed up my name and forgot to add the "S" to the "blue" at the end of my name when i made my account. But it worked out because I ended up getting a blue Luke guitar, so my blue(s) are gone!!!

 

[Astrofreq]

mine is my ebay username for 10 years now.

eBay Seller: radrock: Guitar, CDs items on eBay.com

 

[AnthonyD]

Not sure I really need to explain...

 

[Norrin Radd]

 

[KungFu Grip]

I came up with mine years ago. It's one of three that I regularly use.

 

[PRSPlayer]

I signed up prior to purchasing my EBMM and ... well ... "Dino" was already taken.

 

[Norrin Radd]

I came up with mine years ago. It's one of three that I regularly use.

I assumed you collected G.I. Joes.

 

[travs]

its my name with the 'I' missing. creative its not.

 

[MikeVt]

Let's just call mine 'lack of creativity'.

Mike

 

[brasco68]

My first name is Donnie so a friend of mine has called me "Brasco" for years because of the movie. The 68 part of my username is the year I was born.

 

[hedkutter18]

If anyone has seen the movie "Crossroads" with Ralph Macchio, you'll know that he gets into a Head Cutting contest with Steve Vai. I was 18 when I first used it in another internet forum and I still like it.

 

[spychocyco]

I actually get this one quite a bit. Wonder why?

When I first got online around 1996, the only option for getting online in my area was AOL. I ran through about 20 usernames trying to find one that didn't have numbers behind it because it was already taken. I was getting frustrated, and I looked around and my dog Spike was sitting there. His registered name was Psycho Spycho (and he lived up to it, believe me.) I fiddled around with it a little until I got a version that worked with their character limit at the time, and I've used it on every message board since. It's never taken.

 

[Eilif]

Eilif is a scandinavian name that I came across in a viking story. I ended up using it for a D&D character back in the 1980s. (Yes, I'm a nerd. But I also played football. Does that make me schizo?)

 

[ruso]

Oh that's an easy one... it's bits and pieces of my name... Ryan Mancuso.

 

[bovinehost]

My parents, Carl and Louise Host.......

 

[Nemesys]

Mine's sort of an anagram of my first name.

 

[Smellybum]

It's a bit hard to explain.....

When I was 14, I worked in a music shop on the weekends, and my boss Gerry Mckenna who played with Mike Oldfield and Billy Connolly and the corries had 2 names for me: -

1. Eddie van pot noodle - 'cause my playing was all over the place and I wanted to play like all the fast players (not eddie - more like George lynch but it was the only player my boss knew as he was into folk etc.)

The second was smellybum in reference the the smells i produced after eating at a cheap bakery around the corner,

when i discovered ebay there was already a smellybum so I tagged on 5150 which i had no clue what it meant - found out a week after I joined this board.... wish I could remove it now !

Gread thread, thanks for asking !

 

[fogman]

When signing up at various websites and forums I was always cautious about using real names.
So with that, my favourite architect is Frank O. Gehry who is know for cladding his buildings with metallic scales. I am a huge fan of his and his style reflects my own.
His initials are FOG.
Bring in me and I'm fogman!
Which because of here is now Foggy, Foggles, Fogmeister, Froggy........
I think I like Foggy best as it was derived from this forum.