How Did You Choose Your Username?

[Dark Passenger]

I read the Dexter books. I watched the Deaxter show.

I liked them.

[oshima]

I found that the character Oshima in Kafka on the Shore and I shared many views on literature,and I just found her/him interesting, so it seemed appropriate. I know, epic tale,right?

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Togre is handle I use pretty extensively on the internet. It is really an elision of T. Ogre.

I got this nickname year ago. I was visiting friends at college after having transferred to a different school. There were a handful of us playing Tekken (a fighting game). I was mostly a "button-masher" hitting controls at random and hoping for the best, until I found the character "True Ogre." He had one move where he flew backwards slowly while breathing out flames. It was a move I could control and my opponents couldn't counter and after using it three times in a match they would die. So I used it exclusively to the point of taking the fun out the game. They called me Ogre based off that.

When I returned to the school where I was enrolled I told the story and the nickname stuck. I am 6 ft. 3in., broad, uncomfortable around the humans and on occasion smell. I don't know why they would call me Ogre. The "T" stands for "the."

And that's a long story on something only I find truly interesting :)

:lol: I know exactly what move you're talking about.

[The Comedian]

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[LitNetIsGreat]

Originally Posted by Jassy Melson
My user name is an anagram of my real name. The letters are transposed in a pattern that's easy enough to figure out if you're so inclined.


Sassy Meljon?? I didn't know that was you..Man, it's been a long time.

No, no, it's clearly Jason Slyme or Jason Smely.

Neely is my surname. I didn't really think much when joining the forum (I don't even remember joining the forum) often students call me "Neely" instead of "Mr Neely" or "Sir" so maybe I just put it in because of that. Also, I think there is something quite quaint addressing people by their surnames sometimes.

[jmnixon95]

jm = First two initials
nixon = surname
95 = last two digits of birth year

[YesNo]

When I realized I had to pick a forum name the identity dilemma presented itself.

Should I use my real name or spend hours trying to think up something cute?

Yes? No?

[Bustrofedon]

When I realized I had to pick a forum name the identity dilemma presented itself.

Should I use my real name or spend hours trying to think up something cute?

Yes? No?

Apropos. Well done.

[XQZ]

I was hesitant, a certain trepidation about enlisting in yet another forum that may or may not be 'alive'. Too many have been disconcertingly slow, causing me to wonder what the point of even visiting them was. Though all display days and sometimes weeks of hyperactivity before cooling for a few months, I thought up a name that would advertise myself as unavailable for the duration of periodic ice ages betwixt posts. Being of a rather distracted disposition normally and generally, it came to me in a flash of chance inspiration that my elected signature could be reduced to three letters capable of being typed with one hand whilst my pinky rested upon the SHIFT key, but a split second before hitting the 'I accept' button (actually an innumerable number of minutes as the d and Shakespeare antispam thing for some reason kept causing brain spasms of confusion as I was sent repeatedly back to the same page) I was stricken with internal conflict: was it 'literary' enough? would it be misunderstood? would it be glanced over and ignored as just a silly throwaway? Finally I decided that the XQZ moniker would have to do as the best referential and allusional names would probably have already been taken, or were just too obvious (or both), and actually I've grown to quite like it...

[Delta40]

I was always told I talk too much. My mother said my mouth ran like a river....

[Three Sparrows]

I love birds, and I just thought this name sounded nice, so I went with it. My story sounds so lame...

[papayahed]

How Fun, I forgot about this thread.

[SilentMute]

I was embittered by a fight I had on another forum, and had originally vowed I would never talk on another forum ever again. Or if I did, I would just say superficial things that couldn't possibly be misconstrued in any way.

I got over it, though.:lol:

[howtowriteabook]

I chose mine to match the title of a blog I'm working on about writing! :)

Mani

[MystyrMystyry]

I narrowed it down from five hundred and sixtythree million four hundred and twentyone thousand three hundred and seventynine and three quarters possible contenders

In the end I went with my birth name:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/mystyrmystyry.png

[kiki1982]

I was embittered by a fight I had on another forum, and had originally vowed I would never talk on another forum ever again. Or if I did, I would just say superficial things that couldn't possibly be misconstrued in any way.

I got over it, though.:lol:

haha :lol:! I continuously have that frutration, but then I come on here and realise all is well again :nod:.