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How did you decide on your username?

Mine is a nickname I had back in school; 'greebo' was a ninties word for one into metal, but my love of indie pop, and the tight jeans that went with, was misdiagnosed as being 'greeby', and somehow 'noggin' got tagged onto the end, so I was greebynoggin, greebynognog or just greebynog. People in my home town still call me that. I don't know why I chose it, I don't really like being called it...

Mine is the name of the Master of my home-brew Space Marine Chapter.

Mine is the name i gave my first Dwarf in D&D some 20+ yrs ago. I have named most of my chars in games Kardos thereafter

I was named after a fake MTG card that I made in photoshop and tried to use in a game once.

If you know anything about Chaos Space Marines than you'll know what mine is.

Mine's the name of my Warboss! WAAAGH!!!

I got mine because my real name was taken for Gmail and it was one of its suggestions.


Christopher Louis Thompson = CLThomps

I like the movie Dogma.

Mostly because it opens with a Platypus reference, and the Platypus is the greatest animal in all creation.

Mine doesn't mean anything, it's just what I always use.

I got mine because my real name was taken for Gmail and it was one of its suggestions. Christopher Louis Thompson = CLThomps

I wondered about that.

I considered using the name protonfury, but I would have been copying someone off of a different forum, so I just stuck with what I always use.

Mine is a title for a specialized wizard type I created for a wargame that I've been working on for years. In the game there are Portals (Like in Stargate) but their is no physical substance to them, just a circle of runes spinning in the air. Only these wizards have the specialized training required to change a portal's destination and defend it from being forcibly linked to an enemy's portal. Long before DakkaDakka, I went through about two dozen before I decided to use it because everything else I wanted was already taken.

I joined the military to get chicks like my older brothers did. All the ladies called them heros, so I called myself the Sexiest hero. Yes it's cheesy but it got me my wife and she loves the name. The 90's were good for cheesy names.
(Irony is, I wasn't half as cocky as the nick named suggested, and spent most dates acting cool on the outside but panicing on the inside.)

I'm a Pyro. Full version of the name is Aduro Terrarum. Fun with Latin FTW.

Mine is a mispelling of the eastern philosophy term atman. First day of class no books yet and going by the professors pronunciation I wrote ahtman in my notes. Then I found out that it was actually atman.

Lewis Grizzard was a Southern comic my grandfather used ot love to listen to. I thought it was great. So GRIZzzard + GRIN= me. Been my screen name since 94.

Mine is my RL 1st name

The true name of Hellboy...

"...and upon his brow is set a crown of fire..."

Mine is because everything else was taken on other forums and sites, and while thinking of a different name I had some lego sitting on top of a CD burner on my desk so I just glued the two names together to create legoburner.

Kilkrazy is fairly obvious for a wargamer.

I chose it when I was playing arcade games in the late 70s. Back then you could only put a three letter string into the game, because of memory limitations, so I used Kil for short.

Kilkrazy fits in eight letters which is still a common string length limitation in software.

Gabtrid is a user name I've been using in a long history of shooter games. Spelled backwords is dirtbag, which oddly xboxlive and other games wouldnt allow.

Sebster is my dog's nickname.

This one day I started to refer to myself in the third person for fun, and I started shooters that day, and made that my name. 1231 Is a cool number set me and my friends use.

I play Farsight enclave. My user name is what I was Baptized in.

Anung Un Rama wrote:The true name of Hellboy...

And a cool one at that.

I have red hair growing out of my face. It seemed to make sense.

One day I needed a username. This was a number of years ago on some random forum. I kept trying to think but everything was taken. Then I just kind of thought to myself to get me thinking "What am I typeing on? A typeline... Typeline". And it's never been taken since.

Mine is for the Faithful 42nd, the Valhallan Regiment I have been collecting for about 9 years.

I've been using Arctik since about '98. Started as Arctik_Wolf, went through the 'made of symbols' phase, then lost the dog.

Firangi is my general business title, derived from the Persian/middle eastern 'farangi' and similar (basically meaning a foreigner), hybridised with the Old Norse 'Væringjar'. At least that's how it works in my head.

Go ahead and read the fluff (I mean history) of the Varangians. good stuff.

Francois Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who discovered a well known reaction that creates carbon-carbon bonds using ketones ( among other things ). He also apparently worked on detection methods for mustard gas and made phosgene during WWI, and shared a Nobel with Sabatier for the Grignard reaction.

Basically I needed a name for a MMO ( DAoC if I recall correctly), and I had been studying that evening so the name sort of fell out. I've used it since but apparently others had the same idea because I recall seeing at least 20 grignards that played WoW.

I picked it up from Calvin & Hobbes. The 205 is just a made up number cause boyofdestiny by itself was already taken.

Boyofdestiny205 wrote:I picked it up from Calvin & Hobbes. The 205 is just a made up number cause boyofdestiny by itself was already taken.

That's one of my favourite Calvin & Hobbes strips.