[Eriamjh]

Perhaps this has been done, but I haven't seen it.

Why did you pick your particular forum name? Is it a nickname? Does it have meaning? Is it pronouncable? Do you use the same name everywhere else? Post here if you wish to give people insight to your craziness.

Mine is a cheat code for Jedi Knight (Dark Forces II) for the ability to defy gravity (fly). It comes from the movie Brazil by Director Terry Giliam and is actually a misspelling of the code to take the elevator to the top in the buildiing (the JK coders misspelled it and I used their misspelling).

It is actually an abbreviation for "Here I am, J.H." if you speak with an accent. ('ere I am, J.H.). Most people cannot pronounce it when read. I'm not sure if many recognize it.

I chose it because I needed something fairly unique and basically had no other ideas at the time. I never had a nickname growing up which I guess is a good thing.

[Spheric Harlot]

"The Spheric Harlot" is an anagram of my real name.

[iWrite]

Remember when I guessed your name a while back?



Anyway, my name is what it is because before I was home on pregnancy leave I was a content editor for a large (online) news organization/site.

Not very complicated!

(By the way, they just informed me that they've decided to move from the Apple platform to IBM -- ugh -- in my absence and have ordered many new ThinkPads.)

[ryju]

From an episode of the Simpsons where Homer changes his name to Max Power.

homer: you could change your name to Homer Junior, the kids would call you HOJU.
bart: no thanks dad

ryan junior= ryju.

[wolfen]

It's what the voices told me to pick. Can't you hear them, too?

[dillerX]

This way, I don't have to use my real name and get made fun of.

Peter Poon.

[lil'babykitten]

Originally posted by dillerX:
Peter Poon.

AHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

ahem. So yeah... anyway.

My username? Well I like kittens. Go figure.

Actually, it's not a username I use often. Usually I use 'meepnaakeek' but that's a whole different story.

[joltguy]

Named after my favorite caffeine delivery system! (Lame site, excellent drinkables)

[gorickey]

I don't think I need to much explanation here; however, for those who don't know...

I am a big Rickey Henderson (professional baseball player) fan...

GO RICKEY!

[PB2K]

powerbook 2000 aka Pismo aka my second powerbook which made me the man I am today

[voyageur]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
"The Spheric Harlot" is an anagram of my real name.

And all this time I thought the harlot thing had something to do with living in St. Pauli.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by iWrite:
Remember when I guessed your name a while back?

I remember you trying.



(it's not like I have anything to hide, though, so...)

-s*

[dav]

david > dave > dav

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by voyageur:
And all this time I thought the harlot thing had something to do with living in St. Pauli.

Y'know, it's really odd, but that actually never occurred to me until now.

I've actually known of the anagram for longer than I've lived here.

I used to think it rather appropriate for somebody with high-flying ideas prostituting himself with menial jobs to pay the rent; but that feeling has been slowly subsiding and adapting to real life - and vice versa.

Nice to see that it works on more levels, though.

-s*

[Cipher13]

I was big into encryption at one point, hence "Cipher". Yes, it was before the freakin' Matrix.

13 is my favourite number, and also has a cryptographic relevance to me.

This is one of the only places where I use this name.

[entrox]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
"The Spheric Harlot" is an anagram of my real name.

Soo Mr. Theo Hitler-Sprach.. um no... Mr. Hirte Hochstapler.. err no.. Mrs. Petra Hirschhotel.. naah... Herr Plato Ethisch? Hmpf.. I give up.

[keekeeree]

It's an old childhood nickname. When my little brother and I were just little guys, he couldn't say my name (Frankie), so he called me Kee. That eventually grew into Keekee, and then Keekeeree. Although he quit calling me Keekee many years ago, my mom still calls me Ree on fairly regularly.

I picked it because it was unique and have been using it since I first came online back in 1996 or so.

[pimephalis]

My past training as a biologist made me pick this name. It's actually a mis-spelling (really, a secondary older spelling) of the generic name of a species that I happen to like. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to find out which species of Pimephales I personify.

[benign]

Because apart from from my disgust
(nausea, loathing and moral outrage)
of weak minded superstitious fools
I'm really friendly.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by entrox:
Soo Mr. Theo Hitler-Sprach.. um no... Mr. Hirte Hochstapler.. err no.. Mrs. Petra Hirschhotel.. naah... Herr Plato Ethisch? Hmpf.. I give up.

What about yours?

[lil'babykitten]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
"The Spheric Harlot" is an anagram of my real name.

OK, I give up. All I can come up with is:

Christoph Leather
Thrash Helicopter
Hatcher Heliports and
Chart Lithosphere

[Turias]

It must be Charlie Thorps!

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by lil'babykitten:
OK, I give up. All I can come up with is:

Christoph Leather

I think not.

Originally posted by lil'babykitten:
Thrash Helicopter

I like that one.

Sounds like an air-guitar-based speed metal band.

Unfortunately, I do keyboards.

-s*

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

I couldn't remember my regular password when I was bored at work one day and needed a login. You'd be surprised at how many names I tried to get that were supposedly taken before just settling on this one. This one was based on a mod (Nate) over at another form who would always use "Go Go Photoshop Powars!" when 'shopping up another member's photos. Fun times, now that forum's dead.

[lil'babykitten]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
IMAGE!

GAH MY EYES! get it away, get it away!


Come on, we need hints or something!

[Jens Peter]

My forum name is just my real name.
Nothing fancy about that... I just that name on all the mac forums I visit.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
"The Spheric Harlot" is an anagram of my real name.

Hmm, in that case I would be:

ICKY GORE

Interesting...I hope I'm not related to that Al Gore character...

[mdc]

mdc - mike dot cosentino. like mike dot cosentino dot com, my website.

[entrox]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
What about yours?

I see, a Google Images user you are. But he true roots of the nick lie in an ancient German video game called "Schleichfahrt" (which thoroughly rocked). The game is set in an post-apocalyptic future where humankind is forced to live underwater because of radiation, creating an almighty corporation in the process which provides energy, transportation and oxygen. The abbreviation was "EnTrOx Corporation". Well, back in the day I also played a lot of QuakeWorld and was in need of a fake nick once. As you can see, it stuck and I have been using it for the last 7 years (at least on fora and IRC, I use my real name otherwise).

[davesimondotcom]

Well, mine came in a sickening moment of self-promotion...

I've also registered "webdav" which I use on another forum *cough* *bbq* *cough* - but I never use that one because I be a post count whore!

"webdav" is sort of a joke made at work one day about the protocol - and the fact that I do web design and my name is dave made it stick.

[The Placid Casual]

AFAIK, 'The Placid Casual' originates from some songs by the Super Furry Animals...

It is also the name of their record company I think.

I just like it... Well, it is better than my lastname; Marc2211...

[Superchicken]

Uhh mine is just pronounced superchicken and uhh mine comes from OK... feel free to make fun of me but it's from a band called superchic[k] and... sigh... yes I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW, if you've heard this band they're not that good, their first album wasn't so bad but their second one sucks and I ASKED Demonhood to let me change my name now but he won't cchange it!

Normally I'd go by Salty on a message board... sigh...

[Voch]

Voch has been my nickname since the fifth grade. It's the phoenetic spelling of the last syllable of my last name.

Superchic[k]en: Do you remember the Superchicken cartoon? With Fred the lion?

Voch

[andi*pandi]

mine is the result of a mispent youth wasted watching too much british television.

No, not that show, the other one. There you go.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
Uhh mine is just pronounced superchicken and uhh mine comes from OK... feel free to make fun of me but it's from a band called superchic[k] and... sigh... yes I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW, if you've heard this band they're not that good, their first album wasn't so bad but their second one sucks and I ASKED Demonhood to let me change my name now but he won't cchange it!

Normally I'd go by Salty on a message board... sigh...

Well, you already re-registered as "Superchic[k]en" from "Superchic[k]" so people wouldn't think you were a girl, what's keeping you from re-registering as "Salty"?

Post-count vanity?

'Cuz I'm sure anybody familiar with you would recognize you within two posts, and you could leave a hint in your sig, if it's that important.

-s*

[starman]

Maybe I should change mine to "do a search", or some anagram thereof.

Mike

[Kilbey]

A decade or so ago, friend and I who share the same opinion of our favorite band were sitting around discussing them. Our favorite band is "the Church" and the lead singer is Steve Kilbey. We were joking around about how we could use "killbee" as a username for a board he had started. Well, someone else had already registered "killbee", so I registered as "Kilbey". I have been using it ever since. It seems like everything else I ever tried to use was already taken, but "Kilbey" never was.

I know, VERY unoriginal.

[Buck_Naked]

Not just a name, a choice

[vexborg]

Originally posted by iWrite:
(By the way, they just informed me that they've decided to move from the Apple platform to IBM -- ugh -- in my absence and have ordered many new ThinkPads.)

Ok, that really sucks - poor you

I have been supporting IBM PC's for the last 1� years - and they are not the best computers out there (I don't know about any other brand names).

Regarding my name, well 'vexborg' is my surname - just a lack of fantasy.

[TubaMuffins]

TubaMuffins backwards is sniffumabut which is kind of close to Sniffing a Butt. That's an old one that dates way back to middle school i think.

fun thread idea

[Stradlater]

Just a rather full-of-himself guy from Catcher in the Rye; I hate thinking of forum names and other types of logins, and I was reading it at the time I needed to register and ask a question. This is the only forum I use it on; in fact, I haven't posted more than a few times on any other forum.

[sanity assassin]

Named after a Bauhaus song, which was their last single, if I remember right, think it was sent out to the fan-club members at the time, just after they split.

[Tulkas]

Because I forgot the password to my last two usernames so I made a new one.

Tulkas being the physically strongest of the Vala in LOTR.

Yes, I will change it soon.

[iWrite]

This has turned into a very amusing thread.

[leffo]

Hey, it's been around for a while.

[nredman]

nredman - my name - i remember when i first started school for web design, every email address i got from school was always nredman @ whatever.edu...its simple.

[euchomai]

Euchomai is the greek word for prayer. I like to pray for wisdom in my decisions, thus Euchomai.

[mac-kerouac]

Pretty straight forward, you know, mac-sounds like: jack, my favorite author. I like to think if he were around today, he would trade in his Underwood for an iBook.

BTW, is there a Kerouac "Think Diffferent" poster? If there is not, there should be.

[Sherwin]

Compuserve chat once asked me for a username. There was an invoice from a local printers - Sherwin Rivers - sitting on my desk.

[kiwibabe]

Well let me see:

Kiwi - Im from New Zealand

babe - well Im a girl

So I put the two together, as well as the name I wanted was already taken.