How Did You Pick Your Username?

coco_lola

Following from our discussion in the chat thread, lets go Ladies (and Gents)! How did you decide your name? Where did you get the idea/does it mean something to you?

Mine is the names of my two Guinea Pigs, simples

Surprisingly I don't have a boney arse. It's a line taken from the Butcher Boy

Ilyana

Mine is basically my name, shortened. Not very secure but there you go! Ireland is very small, I'll probably be figured out eventually!

x Purple Pawprints x

boney: I've seen The Butcher Boy twice or three times and I don't get that reference..

Anyways, my username isn't that clever. My first name is actually Jane, I'm from Laois (LS) and I was born in '88. I picked it when I joined back in 2006 and I was only 17-18 at the time. I wish I'd been more imaginative. :rolleyes:

The Lovely Muffin

Copied/pasted from the chat thread.

My first name (Purple Bobbin) I came up with because I used a purple bobbin to tie up my hair! :pac:

The Lovely Muffin is because when I make buns they turn out like muffins, and they're lovely! :pac:

daenerysstormborn3

I love the pixies and I love nirvana (Frances Bean).

lilmissprincess

I've had my boards account since I was 13. I quite liked the Mr Men and Little Miss Books, and am quite short, and the princess thing seemed to be a theme at the time...

Catari Jaguar

Wore a pink & black leopard print top to school and one of the kids told me I look like a jaguar, it just sounded funny cos he's Chinese and speaks hardly any English. My boyf goes "Ah! I'm gonna call you Atari jaguar!" and my name is Cat so voila...

Fluorescence

I picked it on a whim as the username I normally use on forums was taken

Tesco Massacre

I can't remember, but I slightly regret choosing it.

Kiera

Mines my middle name. Wish I had an exciting story to tell people

Fluorescence

Fluorescence wrote: »

I picked it on a whim as the username I normally use on forums was taken

Sexylady123?

Lia_lia

I have no idea...it was 8 1/2 years ago! Lia isn't my name at all. Maybe I was trying to make myself anonymous or something.

Fluorescence

Deleted User wrote: »

Sexylady123?

Irish_Bob :pac:

Bubblefett

OH calls me bubble and I'm a star wars nerd...

Posy

Jane_LS_88 wrote: »

I wish I'd been more imaginative. :rolleyes:

Always time to change it to something craaaaazy!

Mine is a name from the book, Ballet Shoes. There is a girl called Posy in it.

I wanted a short, female name (I had been on boards before with an ambiguous name and people thought I was a smelly boy!) and this was the first name in the list I considered that wasn't taken already by some fecker signing up and never posting!

KERSPLAT!

First letter from each of my names, not very inventive

seenitall

An over-inflated sense of personal wisdom, basically.

(What can I say, I'm still learning after all...)

OakeyDokey

Boyfriend says it a lot so just used it.

rainbow kirby

Used to play Super Smash Bros a lot, in the GameCube version (Super Smash Bros Melee) the 6th event match is called Kirbys on Parade, and has the tagline "Look out! A rainbow of kirbys is after you!".

The Big Red Button

I honestly, really, don't know! I hadn't ever used any sites before Boards, so didn't have any regular username. I think I wanted Butterfly, but that was gone, so I thought Catterpillar, and added in the chat bit. I wish there was a more interesting story behind it. I'd change it to something cool, if I could think of a cool name!!

FouxDaFaFa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo

Boeuf.

Lia_lia

^ Everytime I see your username I get that song in my head

The Lovely Muffin

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

X5hrUGFhsXo

Boeuf.

Hahaha I love it

Off topic - is Flight Of The Conchords any good? From that clip it looks funny, have never seen any episodes it though!

FouxDaFaFa

The Lovely Muffin wrote: »

Hahaha I love it

Off topic - is Flight Of The Conchords any good? From that clip it looks funny, have never seen any episodes it though!

It's really, really good. But I do think it's a very particular type of humour. Like, I became obsessed with it (to the point where a drunken meeting with Kristen Schaal was basically me telling her I loved her over and over) but some people don't like it.

Princess Peach

I love Nintendo

Pembily

[NERD]In science class years ago we were messing with element symbols in our names (were meant to be doing an experiment) and put lead into my name and it stuck!!
[\NERD]

IvyTheTerrible

My dad used to call me IvyTheTerrible when I was small after the character from the Beano comic, because he thought I kinda looked like her and I was a bit bold too...

I use the word whoopsadaisydoodles quite a lot when I drop something/make a mistake/trip etc. It's a happy word

I can't use it anywhere else though as it's too long

Bad Panda

I was watching 'Bad Santa' and (for some strange reason) thinking about Panda's!

spuddy90

Spuddy is me nickname since about 5! Although I used to be called tayto as well, didn't like that one so much :-) I haven't a clue where me numbers came into it

Ayla

Mine's the lead female character in the Clan of the Cave Bear series written by Jean Auel. Loved the books when I was a teen & it just stuck.

favourite colour + animal...

chughes

Mine is my first initial and surname. I would like to be able to change it to something a bit more anonymous but I think you have to have a paid subscription and I don't fancy spending €50 to change my username.

Maybe Mr Boards will allow me to change it for free to mark my 1000th post:D

rainbow kirby

It's actually €5 (one month's subscription) rather than €50 (one year's subscription) to change it

Dolbert

You can subscribe for around a fiver!

Mine's a spelling variation on my own name, meaning sad or sorrowful. I've no idea why I picked it as I'm not especially sad :pac: It does come in handy if I'm at a beers and I don't have to introduce myself as 'SpaceCat72' or something!

Fluorescence

Or become a mod. When I did, I made the huge leap from fluorescence to Fluorescence :pac:

Acoshla

Mine is a messed up spelling of where I'm from

Caribbean Cat

Mine came from my romantic obsession with Caribbean pirates and also I like cats

Fluorescence

Fluorescence wrote: »

Or become a mod. When I did, I made the huge leap from fluorescence to Fluorescence :pac:

and henceforth were known as CAPITAL F forever

Fluorescence

It's a capital F for Fancy-pants :P

Novella

I put my i-tunes on shuffle and named myself after the first song that came on. That's how good I am at picking names!

Dolbert

Novella wrote: »

I put my i-tunes on shuffle and named myself after the first song that came on. That's how good I am at picking names!

-Tries it
-Gets 'Kyles Mom Is A Big Fat Bitch' from South Park

Think I'll pass :pac:

Narsil

I'm a LOTR nerd so I wanted something a bit more unusual to the Arwen's and Galadriel's out there. I am fascinated with the Anglo Saxon influence on Tolkien and the sword naming culture of them so I decided to choose a sword name and Narsil was my favourite(both before and after being reforged to become Anduril)..........oh gosh I'd better stop:o

Glad you asked Coco and my big ol ball of fur dog Ghost sends a woof to you:p

eviltwin

I've suffered on and off from depression for years and the person I am when I'm down is a million miles away from the person I am when I'm feeling good so I have christened her my "eviltwin". I think I set my account up here on a bad day hence the name.

Novella

Dolorous wrote: »

-Tries it
-Gets 'Kyles Mom Is A Big Fat Bitch' from South Park

Think I'll pass :pac:

I was worried about that happening too but I got lucky!

Desperate housewives ( it was on the telly as I was registering with Boards )

TeletextPear

Mine came from a reference in this very odd cartoon...

Morag

from a scifi novel I love.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AgainstADarkBackground

Sharrow, a cynical, emotionally scarred aristocrat who once led a personality-bonded combat squadron, is warned by her cousin that the cult who killed her mother when she was very young has obtained a Hunting Passport against her, a legal license to murder for a year and a day. There are only two ways out; survive the year, or return what her long-ago female ancestor stole from the cult: the last Lazy Gun, a whimsical weapon of destruction.

Ickle Magoo

I started calling my husband Mr Magoo - and so he would sometimes refer to me as Mrs Magoo. I was going to go with that as my username but typed out it just looked so...middle-aged...and having spent a bit of time lurking around boards I didn't think advertising my gender right off the bat was a particularly wise idea. I'm also vertically challenged and decided Ickle went well with Magoo and had the added bonus of sounding vaguely Scottish...

Looking back, I wish I'd deliberated for longer than 12 seconds...

It's a Smashing Pumpkins song - and I'm a big fan.