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how did you come up with your user name?

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by ralphie250, Aug 9, 2011.

  1. swordsworn

    swordsworn New Member

    I actually took mine from a Mercedes Lackey book and ran with it.
     
  2. Bear Cub

    Bear Cub Goes down smooth.

    I'm a small bear.

    Also, I used to climb a lot.
     
  3. Candle

    Candle Vertical

    Location:
    Winnipeg, MB
    I was CandleintheDark on the old TFP, so when they made the switch I decided that it quite too much typing to log-in. The old name, is of course, a reference Carl Sagan's A Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. I've be an atheist, skeptic, and pursuer of science since quite a young age, and I enjoyed the appeal to reason the username gave. The picture is just a random picture of a candle.
     
  4. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
    Central MD
    Plan9 decided my middle initial, D, chould—and should—stand for "Dammitall." I replaced the second M with an N for 5.0.
     
  5. ktspktsp

    ktspktsp Vertical

    Location:
    Seattle, WA
    It came to me in a fleeting moment of randomness.
     
  6. issmmm

    issmmm Getting Tilted

    it was given to me by a buddy because of the way I talked or the way my mind works
     
  7. Cernunnos

    Cernunnos Vertical

    Location:
    Orlando, FL
    Cernunnos is a Celtic deity, generally titled 'The Horned God' or 'God of the Hunt'. The name itself suits me, and at the point in my life during which I became Cernunnos, I was on the hunt for something and had recently read a book that inspired me to delve into Celtic mythology, Mythago Wood.
     
  8. healer

    healer Extra Medium

    Location:
    South Africa
    I stole it from a friend who said it was the meaning of his name. I think he was lying.

    I just googled it...he wasn't.
     
  9. Stick

    Stick Vertical

    Location:
    Mudgee, Australia
    I've been called Stick for over 30 years now. I used to be skinny. That was about 40 lbs ago.
     
  10. Cayvmann

    Cayvmann Very Tilted

    I have always felt a close kinship with my troglodyte ancestry, and Caveman had already been taken, when I chose it, so I thought about Mel Brook's bit about a cave man, and "Jewed" it up a little to Cayvmann. No offense to the Hebrew brethren...
     
  11. OldBoy

    OldBoy Vertical

    when I was a kid, not even 5, my grand dad used to call me old boy as a term of endearment and never used it for any of my siblings, so its special to me
     
  12. flat5

    flat5 Vertical

    Location:
    Amsterdam, NL
    flat5 is an interval in music. A tritone. It is central in Western harmony - it begs a resolution.
    Among many things that might also be said about it, it divides the octave precisely in two.
     
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  13. Leto

    Leto Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Toronto
    I liked your old handle. In fact, whenever I see this one, my mind automatically translates it back.

    Mine is after a favourite, yet minor, character from the Dune series by Frank Herbert - a series of books that I was particularly fond of.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)#House_Atreides
     
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  14. Daval

    Daval Getting Tilted

    When I first discovered TFP back in like '03 via Fark I split a user account with a buddy. My name is Dave and he is Alan - voila Daval.

    After a month or two he finally made his own account and I inherited this one and been that way ever since.
     
  15. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
    Central MD
    The devil's interval. I'm a fan! :cool:
     
  16. TFP is all about evolution. People evolve and morph along with their usernames.

    My username has been shorted 3 times now. I'll probably end up with a username like Ish or Sh in a few years time.
     
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  17. Smackre

    Smackre Vertical

    Location:
    Ghutt, Ohio
    My old gaming tag was Smackre. Just never changed.
     
  18. ralphie250

    ralphie250 Fully Erect Donor

    Location:
    At work..
    i find it very enlightning to read how people came up with their names. it can also teach you alot about people
     
  19. DRP967

    DRP967 New Member

    Its the license plate # on the Monte Carlo in the movie Training Day.
     
  20. sapiens

    sapiens Vertical

    Location:
    Fort Worth, TX
    I was led to tfp by fark.com. I didn't think much about my user name at the time I joined. I was studying evolutionary biology. So, I chose sapiens.