Why did you pick the username you have?

**Sealy** · 07-25-2004, 01:11 PM

Why did you pick the username you use? Any particular reason or meaning behind it?

I had been given a Seal Point Persian for Mother's Day one year and I named her Sealy... about the same time is when I fist started out online and so I liked the name and chose it.. Iv had it for 8 1/2 years now..It kinda seems to fit me .

**numby** · 07-25-2004, 02:01 PM

When I first started out, I used the user name im_comfortablynumb because I am a huge Pink Floyd fan... From the different forums, it has been shortened to numby and so I now be "numby"

Volt-Schwibe · 07-25-2004, 04:17 PM

i'm going to have to tell two stories, since my name has been changed here.

first off, i was Bob Vila.

i always thought that bob vila was a good sounding name, and so sometimes to be funny, i would leave that name on my voice mail, and it would confuse my friends.

then, i starting using it on my pc as my registered owner, sort of as a way to be anonymous. (no real need to be anonymous, as now i realize)

then, i got tired of being bob.

so, i asked for my name to be changed to WaltSide.

the story behind that, is that when i first moved to vancouver, Wa, (from a small town) i settled into a bad neighborhood. the kind where teenagers stand in the street at 2 am and drink beer with a funnel.

the kind where someone says something about a gun and there's suddenly 20 police cars and 35 police officers all surrounding one intersection.

the kind where you leave your car unlocked and empty, so that the people wont break your windows trying to get in.

that neighborhood is split into two main halves.

i lived on the slightly better half. the neighborhood youths knew that i didnt like having the police showing up all the time, so they all agreed to not be criminals near my house. alot of them were theives, alot of them were drug users and dealers, but they respected my request mostly, and they kept it quiet on the "Walt-Side" of the neighborhood.

people used to yell waltside when they would see me, and i would laugh.
over time, i grew to be friends with some of them, and i watched many of them get arrested now and then, and most of them are settled now, and i still see them from time to time.

i don't live there anymore, so the joke really is an old one, but i still consider it my name in a way, so i use it for all my emails, i write it on things i possess, and so on.

but yeah, thats why i chose it.

( next time ask a simpler question, i damn near typed my fingers off just now... j/k )

**numby** · 07-25-2004, 04:55 PM

Yea Sealy, simpler questions for WaltSide,,, I damn near read my eyes out just now.... LOL!!! j/k,,, Good story Walt... I lived in a place like that once,,, for about a week... Nothing worse then getting in your car first thing in the morning, pre-coffee, starting it, slamming it in gear, punching it at the first open space in traffic,,, only to go nowhere really fast... Get out and find some nice person thought your wheels were dirty and kindly replaced them with four brand new rectangular grey ones.... And I could see the police station from the front door...

**Sealy** · 07-25-2004, 06:38 PM

LOL Walt... but I really enjoyed reading it.. good job ;)
My Sealy name also carries over with me in real life, I often get called that more than I do my real name.. I like it though until someone asks me if I got my name from the movie The Color Purple or orther jokes that I wont mention here O_o lol

Chevy · 07-25-2004, 09:41 PM

Mine is a nickname that I've had since I was 5 or so. Just a shortened version of my last name.

There was a time, not too long ago, where I wouldn't answer to Joe (my real name) because I hadn't been called that in years. Even my commanders called me Sergeant Chevy.

But now I'm just plain ol' Chevy ... or TechnoJoe on the radio.

**Midnight Tech** · 07-25-2004, 10:13 PM

Well....when I started off repairing computers, I was doing the work mostly at night - REALLY late at night, so I declared myself the Midnight Tech.

Trying to teach Lady Midnight a little about computer repair .... wish I could give her a brain dump...

**DumberDrummer** · 07-25-2004, 10:41 PM

Quote:

(no real need to be anonymous, as now i realize)

What makes you say that?

As for my username, a friend of mine called me "The Dumber Drummer" at band camp, and I liked the way it sounded. So I've used that online ever since. Its only been about a year since then though, so it hasn't really proliferated that much, at least not to the point where I get it confused with my real name.

**Horse** · 07-25-2004, 11:36 PM

I got my nickname from my first girlfriend at age 17............... you do the sums.................LOL. Nah seriously, I got it at school because I was 6ft 5 and could run like the wind. It started as Stallion but combined with my looks it was decided I wasn't as pretty as a stallion and someone in their infinite wisdom called me Horse. Used it as a nick ever since.

**Jason** · 07-26-2004, 12:46 AM

At the time Danrak was unique. But sadly I'm starting to see it used more often over the net. This has lead to me being acused of being someone else when I'm not. I still like it although I do have a nice alt I use sometimes.

celia · 07-26-2004, 04:13 AM

My full screen name is "sweetcinnamoncelia"....comes from a massage oil I used to make up & use that smelt like cinnamon....an ex b/f would to call me his sweetcinnamoncelia.......the celia part is not really mine either.....when i was a teenager our next door neighbour could never remember my name...celia was what she called me....so, even to my family, i have been celia ever since.....

Hotmail[Mike] · 07-26-2004, 04:48 AM

I was trying to open up a new hotmail acct. and I tried every combination of words with my first name... "Mike" and everything was taken, so after about 45 min of trying to get an email address, I just put hotmailmike and it went through... I like to have a similar nick for everything online (although I do have a couple) so now my SN everywhere is "Hotmail[Mike]" or something similar.

Hopefully Microsoft doesn't sue me for violating their copyright

My old SN on here was "SociallyInept" but after the server issue was resolved... it turns out my account was deleted...

So, I just started over, with a new Screen Name...

Not much of a story behind "Socially Inept" an old girlfriend said I was socially inept... and it kinda stuck...

~~Lobos~~ · 07-26-2004, 04:49 AM

Lobos is the spanish name for wolves. when i was younger i used to dream about wolves probably since they are loyal and family oriented and i never had either until i got older but that is a different story lol.

Since then I have collected alot of things that have pictures or figurines, blankets, etc with wolves . so pretty much i consider the wolf that brings my life in perspective .

since i am surrounded by wolves every where i look I typed in Lobos.

Lobos

**Der Rabe** · 07-26-2004, 05:30 AM

When I was younger I was a goth and earned the nick Raven due to having the Edger Allen Poe poem memorized. When I left high school I decided to change it to meet my heritage. Though I am a euro mutt I probably have german in me the most. I converted The Raven to german and Now it is Der Rabe or Der for short

**merlin** · 07-26-2004, 08:30 AM

Merlin was the call sign for Tim Robins' character in Top Gun. Top Gun was on TV when I was signing up for the board

**Drupy** · 07-26-2004, 09:05 AM

I guess mine was a nickname given to me as a kid. It's just a name I've come to use everywhere.

**jgvernonco** · 07-26-2004, 09:14 AM

Trying to find reasonable names for email accounts that hadn't been taken...

jg are my initials and I live in Vernon County....

When I was visiting some new boards, I just typed that in to register, and, viola, it stuck.

You know, Walt, I lived in a "better" part of Phoenix; in fact, we found a house in an area that we could not afford, that we could afford. Still, gang grafetti could be seen, every night we heard/watched the PD helicopters combing our area with huge searchlights, and gunshots could be heard frequently. I remember well an armed gunman being loose in our neighborhood, and my sitting in my backyard, Glock on the table, until 1 am (when a passing PD advised me that he had been found in a house down the street and cuffed up).

I worked PMs and often had a grocery list to fulfill before I went home. I remember walking across a parking lot at a grocery and suddenly having a gang-related shoot out going down, with me in the middle. I drove behaind a parked car and drew the trusty Glock, but the battle subsided and everybody went away.

One Sunday morning, I was heading for the freeway in my trusty GMC 3/4 ton van when I saw a car suddenly swerve to the side of the road. The guy jumps out, puts some fists into a lady who was walking on the sidewalk, and throws her in the car. I did a "cut off" park in front of the car, leapt out and presented myself at the back of the van. Dude was waving a pistol around. In those days, it would take about 1 1/2 seconds for me to draw the weapon and put the sights on his head, which I did. He threw the gun in the backseat, threw it into reverse, and fled. A nice lady pulled up and advised me that she had called the police on her cell phone, complete with license number. I met an officer about 2 blocks from the scene, and he told me that the guy had been apprehended...a "domestic dispute".

Two points here...1, there just wasn't any "john-side" where I came from. 2, I have not reassembled or loaded my Glock in the two years that I have been here. (I do have my trusty old H&R 22 cal with the nine inch barrel loaded up, as we get some varmints around here sometimes, and I will scare them off with a shot).

Boy, am I glad to be "jgvernonco".

07-25-2004, 01:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sealy Resident Brat Emeritus :P Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 2,046 OS: XP(home)	Why did you pick the username you have? Why did you pick the username you use? Any particular reason or meaning behind it? I had been given a Seal Point Persian for Mother's Day one year and I named her Sealy... about the same time is when I fist started out online and so I liked the name and chose it.. Iv had it for 8 1/2 years now..It kinda seems to fit me . __________________ ~Brightest Blessings~ Sealy Kim --------------------- Ná glac pioc comhairle gan comhairle ban. O Autumn. Laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof, there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance, Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers. -William Blake- Contributions will not go unnoticed.

07-25-2004, 02:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
numby I helped the forums. Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Pa. Posts: 160 OS: XP-SP1	When I first started out, I used the user name im_comfortablynumb because I am a huge Pink Floyd fan... From the different forums, it has been shortened to numby and so I now be "numby" __________________ Does a Dyslexic Agnostic Insomniac, stay awake all night wondering if there IS a dog¿ ASUS A7V600 XP3000 400 FSB Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 1.5 GIG OCZ PC3200 Chaintech FX5600 Ultra A-FX71 256 meg Philips Acoustic Edge PSC706 sound card 3com ethernet card Bushlink DVRW812D 2 Western Digital 80gig IDE Okia 550 watt PSU

07-25-2004, 04:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Volt-Schwibe Asst. Manager, Automotive Forums; HJT Trainee Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Behind you, watching you as you type. Posts: 7,241 OS: Click "My System" to view details My System	i'm going to have to tell two stories, since my name has been changed here. first off, i was Bob Vila. i always thought that bob vila was a good sounding name, and so sometimes to be funny, i would leave that name on my voice mail, and it would confuse my friends. then, i starting using it on my pc as my registered owner, sort of as a way to be anonymous. (no real need to be anonymous, as now i realize) then, i got tired of being bob. so, i asked for my name to be changed to WaltSide. the story behind that, is that when i first moved to vancouver, Wa, (from a small town) i settled into a bad neighborhood. the kind where teenagers stand in the street at 2 am and drink beer with a funnel. the kind where someone says something about a gun and there's suddenly 20 police cars and 35 police officers all surrounding one intersection. the kind where you leave your car unlocked and empty, so that the people wont break your windows trying to get in. that neighborhood is split into two main halves. i lived on the slightly better half. the neighborhood youths knew that i didnt like having the police showing up all the time, so they all agreed to not be criminals near my house. alot of them were theives, alot of them were drug users and dealers, but they respected my request mostly, and they kept it quiet on the "Walt-Side" of the neighborhood. people used to yell waltside when they would see me, and i would laugh. over time, i grew to be friends with some of them, and i watched many of them get arrested now and then, and most of them are settled now, and i still see them from time to time. i don't live there anymore, so the joke really is an old one, but i still consider it my name in a way, so i use it for all my emails, i write it on things i possess, and so on. but yeah, thats why i chose it. ( next time ask a simpler question, i damn near typed my fingers off just now... j/k ) __________________ <signature> TSF is funded by our Admin's pocket, care to help? New Members: Subscribe to your thread (Thread Tools) to receive an instant email notification when you get a reply. Power Tip: Creating a single new thread in the correct section is the best way to assure your thread will receive a reply. </signature> Last edited by Volt-Schwibe : 07-25-2004 at 04:18 PM.

07-25-2004, 04:55 PM	#4 (permalink)
numby I helped the forums. Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Pa. Posts: 160 OS: XP-SP1	Yea Sealy, simpler questions for WaltSide,,, I damn near read my eyes out just now.... LOL!!! j/k,,, Good story Walt... I lived in a place like that once,,, for about a week... Nothing worse then getting in your car first thing in the morning, pre-coffee, starting it, slamming it in gear, punching it at the first open space in traffic,,, only to go nowhere really fast... Get out and find some nice person thought your wheels were dirty and kindly replaced them with four brand new rectangular grey ones.... And I could see the police station from the front door... __________________ Does a Dyslexic Agnostic Insomniac, stay awake all night wondering if there IS a dog¿ ASUS A7V600 XP3000 400 FSB Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 1.5 GIG OCZ PC3200 Chaintech FX5600 Ultra A-FX71 256 meg Philips Acoustic Edge PSC706 sound card 3com ethernet card Bushlink DVRW812D 2 Western Digital 80gig IDE Okia 550 watt PSU

07-25-2004, 06:38 PM	#5 (permalink)
Sealy Resident Brat Emeritus :P Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 2,046 OS: XP(home)	LOL Walt... but I really enjoyed reading it.. good job ;) My Sealy name also carries over with me in real life, I often get called that more than I do my real name.. I like it though until someone asks me if I got my name from the movie The Color Purple or orther jokes that I wont mention here O_o lol __________________ ~Brightest Blessings~ Sealy Kim --------------------- Ná glac pioc comhairle gan comhairle ban. O Autumn. Laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof, there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance, Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers. -William Blake- Contributions will not go unnoticed.

07-25-2004, 09:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
Chevy Semi-Retired Manager, Microsoft Support Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Notlob Posts: 5,188 OS: Vista Ultimate My System	Mine is a nickname that I've had since I was 5 or so. Just a shortened version of my last name. There was a time, not too long ago, where I wouldn't answer to Joe (my real name) because I hadn't been called that in years. Even my commanders called me Sergeant Chevy. But now I'm just plain ol' Chevy ... or TechnoJoe on the radio. __________________ “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. ” - Robert Bloch

07-25-2004, 10:13 PM	#7 (permalink)
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07-25-2004, 11:36 PM	#9 (permalink)
Horse General Manager (Administrator) Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Durban South Africa Posts: 4,135 OS: WIN XP PRO My System Blog Entries: 1	I got my nickname from my first girlfriend at age 17............... you do the sums.................LOL. Nah seriously, I got it at school because I was 6ft 5 and could run like the wind. It started as Stallion but combined with my looks it was decided I wasn't as pretty as a stallion and someone in their infinite wisdom called me Horse. Used it as a nick ever since. __________________ Please Read The 5 Step Process Before You post A Log Hijack This v2.02 :: Adaware SE :: Spybot Search & Destroy :: SpywareBlaster :: CWShredder To Donate :: Please Click Here :: PROUD MEMBER OF ASAP SINCE NOVEMBER 2004

07-26-2004, 12:46 AM	#10 (permalink)
Jason Seasons Greetings Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 6,848 OS: Windows XP My System Blog Entries: 2	At the time Danrak was unique. But sadly I'm starting to see it used more often over the net. This has lead to me being acused of being someone else when I'm not. I still like it although I do have a nice alt I use sometimes. __________________ Posting Tips \| Advice for New People \| Common Fixes \|

07-26-2004, 04:13 AM	#11 (permalink)
celia Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: new zealand Posts: 7 OS: xp	My full screen name is "sweetcinnamoncelia"....comes from a massage oil I used to make up & use that smelt like cinnamon....an ex b/f would to call me his sweetcinnamoncelia.......the celia part is not really mine either.....when i was a teenager our next door neighbour could never remember my name...celia was what she called me....so, even to my family, i have been celia ever since.....

07-26-2004, 04:48 AM	#12 (permalink)
Hotmail[Mike] Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 12 OS: Windows XP	I was trying to open up a new hotmail acct. and I tried every combination of words with my first name... "Mike" and everything was taken, so after about 45 min of trying to get an email address, I just put hotmailmike and it went through... I like to have a similar nick for everything online (although I do have a couple) so now my SN everywhere is "Hotmail[Mike]" or something similar. Hopefully Microsoft doesn't sue me for violating their copyright My old SN on here was "SociallyInept" but after the server issue was resolved... it turns out my account was deleted... So, I just started over, with a new Screen Name... Not much of a story behind "Socially Inept" an old girlfriend said I was socially inept... and it kinda stuck...

07-26-2004, 04:49 AM	#13 (permalink)
~~Lobos~~ Troubled Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: California Posts: 943 OS: Windows XP	Lobos is the spanish name for wolves. when i was younger i used to dream about wolves probably since they are loyal and family oriented and i never had either until i got older but that is a different story lol. Since then I have collected alot of things that have pictures or figurines, blankets, etc with wolves . so pretty much i consider the wolf that brings my life in perspective . since i am surrounded by wolves every where i look I typed in Lobos. Lobos

07-26-2004, 05:30 AM	#14 (permalink)
Der Rabe Watching from the shadows Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Currently In Michigan Posts: 1,112 OS: XP Sp3, Vista sp1, 2003 sp2	When I was younger I was a goth and earned the nick Raven due to having the Edger Allen Poe poem memorized. When I left high school I decided to change it to meet my heritage. Though I am a euro mutt I probably have german in me the most. I converted The Raven to german and Now it is Der Rabe or Der for short __________________ <---Please help keep it alive by clicking it Too see all my dragons click here

07-26-2004, 08:30 AM	#15 (permalink)
merlin I helped the forums. Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,612 OS: 3.11	Merlin was the call sign for Tim Robins' character in Top Gun. Top Gun was on TV when I was signing up for the board

07-26-2004, 09:05 AM	#16 (permalink)
Drupy Stuck in a treestand.... Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Lancaster SC Posts: 928 OS: Win 2003 Server on my Apple IIe	I guess mine was a nickname given to me as a kid. It's just a name I've come to use everywhere. __________________ BJH Trust me I think I know what I'm talking about! If not I can BS my way through it. A+, NET+, MCP,MCSA,CCNA,BS+ (OK for everyone not knowing! BS+ = Bull S#@ter +)

07-26-2004, 09:14 AM	#17 (permalink)
jgvernonco Old Timer Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Northern Arizona Posts: 7,960 OS: Vista Home Premium, SP 27	Trying to find reasonable names for email accounts that hadn't been taken... jg are my initials and I live in Vernon County.... When I was visiting some new boards, I just typed that in to register, and, viola, it stuck. You know, Walt, I lived in a "better" part of Phoenix; in fact, we found a house in an area that we could not afford, that we could afford. Still, gang grafetti could be seen, every night we heard/watched the PD helicopters combing our area with huge searchlights, and gunshots could be heard frequently. I remember well an armed gunman being loose in our neighborhood, and my sitting in my backyard, Glock on the table, until 1 am (when a passing PD advised me that he had been found in a house down the street and cuffed up). I worked PMs and often had a grocery list to fulfill before I went home. I remember walking across a parking lot at a grocery and suddenly having a gang-related shoot out going down, with me in the middle. I drove behaind a parked car and drew the trusty Glock, but the battle subsided and everybody went away. One Sunday morning, I was heading for the freeway in my trusty GMC 3/4 ton van when I saw a car suddenly swerve to the side of the road. The guy jumps out, puts some fists into a lady who was walking on the sidewalk, and throws her in the car. I did a "cut off" park in front of the car, leapt out and presented myself at the back of the van. Dude was waving a pistol around. In those days, it would take about 1 1/2 seconds for me to draw the weapon and put the sights on his head, which I did. He threw the gun in the backseat, threw it into reverse, and fled. A nice lady pulled up and advised me that she had called the police on her cell phone, complete with license number. I met an officer about 2 blocks from the scene, and he told me that the guy had been apprehended...a "domestic dispute". Two points here...1, there just wasn't any "john-side" where I came from. 2, I have not reassembled or loaded my Glock in the two years that I have been here. (I do have my trusty old H&R 22 cal with the nine inch barrel loaded up, as we get some varmints around here sometimes, and I will scare them off with a shot). Boy, am I glad to be "jgvernonco". __________________ Donations keep TSF moving forward. Please help. http://www.myspace.com/speedbumpthecelt