Where'd You Get Your Username?

[RookieGuy]

Hello everyone! These types of threads can be fun sometimes. As the title says, how did you come to choose your username? Some I see played with names or dates. Others from characters I recognize. Still others seem comical and quirky, just like us! So if you'd like to share, here's a good place. I'll start us off.

Rookie was the nickname my platoon gave me when I got to my first army unit in Germany (go Big Red One!). I shrugged it off until I got back from my first war. The newbs there heard someone call me Rookie. And that was my name. It followed me to my second unit. And, years later, I meet someone I served with at the restaurant I was working as a chef. My coworkers heard I was called Rookie and then the nickname followed me around. I've made peace with it and take kind of a perverse pleasure in earning an army nickname that's stuck around since 1999.

 

[ouchyfoot]

Gout

 

[Stuart Ganis]

From my parents

8/19/42

 

[OpusX]

I'm a big cigar fan, and Opus X is at the top of my list.

 

[emwolf]

Mine is my username when I first got an AOL account in the early 90s. It then was my username when I got my first SLIP account.

 

[Lightcs1776]

The first part is part of my last name while the second part is a love for my country.

Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

 

[Ryanshh]

It's the response I generally get when prattling on around friends and family.

 

[Parkergreen]

It actually has nothing to do with the Parker shaving company. When I was 16, I took a job as a graphic designer. It was only temporary but I worked all summer and saved my money. When it was over, I used the money I had earned to buy my dream guitar at the time - a Parker Fly Deluxe in emerald green. Unfortunately, they’re no longer made but I still have it 20 years later in mint condition.

 

[Tarak83]

I made “Tarak” up long ago in college as a gamer name. Thought I made it up yet felt like I had heard it somewhere. A few years later I realized Terok Nor was the original name for Deep Space Nine in Star Trek.

 

[RookieGuy]

That was a HECK of a guitar, @Parkergreen!

 

[TexOkie Shaver]

I was born in Texas and have lived in Oklahoma for 65 years. I’m actually an Okie, but my heart belongs to Texas.

 

[CPTdeLos]

It was my rank followed by a nickname given by Army buddies; the context ought not be shared in polite company.

 

[Toothpick]

The mods are funny

I should have picked a cooler user name

I think about this constantly.

www.badgerandblade.com

 

[Parkergreen]

That was a HECK of a guitar, @Parkergreen!

Yes sir, it sure was! Plays like a dream and light as a feather too. It’s a shame they went out of business.

 

[AimlessWanderer]

Two reasons...

Firstly, I have always had an aversion to following the well trodden path through life. Buying a house, settling down, starting a family, and so on. Instead, I very much went "freestyle" through life. Intentionally stayed single, never had a sexual partner who knows where I live (I know nobody else my age who's achieved that), pursued random hobbies and interests. I did a sign language course just for the heck of it, studies and training in hypnospychotherapy, bought a canal boat, ran the boatyard, actively involved in a stage society, stand up comedy, charity work, all while holding down a career in engineering. I never followed anyone else's path, I made my own. I also enjoyed hiking, and the freedom of the great outdoors.

Secondly, as part of a wide spectrum of neurological disorders that have developed over the last few years, I have a chronic balance disorder, and couldn't walk in a straight line if I tried

 

[dieselfuel79]

Diesel is my dog pictured in my avatar. Fuel because he was, at one time, full of energy. 79 is the year I was born.

 

[Bakker1964]

Last name, year of birth. I'm boring that way.

On the subject of nicknames awarded by comrades, mine was Beeker (Muppet Show). Years later, coworkers found out about my service, and I was tagged as "Sarge" (only ever made Corporal, but w/e). SWMBO refers to me (in polite conversation) as the "Big A".

 

[seabee1999]

I am a US Navy veteran. 1999 was the year I entered. The Seabees was the unit I was a part of while serving. For those that are not aware, the Seabees are the construction group of the Navy. My job was as a surveyor and draftsman.

 

[Owen Bawn]

It is my name in Irish but transliterated into English. Written in Irish my name is Eoghan Ó Bán. That's pronounced Owen O'Bawn. But really who needs the O?

 

[Hachet]

Hachet is old English for hatchet, borrowed from old French 'hachete' (battle axe).