Hi everybody,
I thought that it would be fun to share how we decided on our usernames. I notice that some of us use our names and some of us of do not. Please everybody join in. You can put as much or as little as you want, but please let's all join in. I'll start by telling how I came to decide on my username. I am a member of two other computer forums. On one them I am ComputerLady. I was going to call myself GeorgiaLady on this one but I'm GeorgiaLady on another site, so that was out. I decided to call myself by my nickname of Jeannie for SAF since my nickname is easy for me to remember (naturally) and it's what I go by normally. Who's next?
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If you’re a big fan of the Flintstones like me you’ll know who’s Dino; he’s the funniest dinosaur that ever existed, and we identify with each other size and comedy wise.
If you’re a big fan of the Flintstones like me you’ll know who’s Dino; he’s the funniest dinosaur that ever existed, and we identify with each other size and comedy wise.
My Motorcycle Club's nickname is Ferro, which anybody knows, means Iron in English.
I am registered as Ironbender on several places.
Hey Dino, why don't you use Dino as your avatar ?
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Chris
I am registered as Ironbender on several places.
Hey Dino, why don't you use Dino as your avatar ?
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Chris
Do you want the short version or the long version......Once upon a time in a land far far away......ok...that will take too long. I actually had a different user name when I first came to SAF years ago. Eventually just dropped it and used my real name. Later, PCRigger (Rob) nicknamed me Rosegirl because I used different roses as an avatar. I adopted that as a user name I use at other boards now. Thanks Rob!! 
To be honest I can't truly remember 
I have used this name for many years now, I guess it was a play on words +plus the game I like the most is HL maybe that had something to do with it at the time
I do have 2 others I use, I won't say what they are but one I started using here but forgot my password etc. and at the time couldn't get it to send my a email with the password or something one is to do with what a IRC admin is called another is a WW2 aircrafts name.
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The zenith is the point in the sky that appears directly above the observer. (opposite: nadir).
Zenith may also mean:
In aviation:
* A Montgolfier balloon flown to a record of over 8,000m in 1875; see timeline of aviation—19th century (1870s)
* Zenith Aircraft Company, a manufacturer of light aircraft
In business:
* Zenith (watchmaker), a Swiss watchmaker
* Zenith Carburetters
* Zenith Data Systems
* Zenith Electronics Corporation
* Zenith FM, a local radio station in Kiato, Greece
* Zenit (camera), a Russian camera brand produced by KMZ (referred to as Zenith in some English-language literature)
In fiction:
* Zenith (comic), a superhero comic series written by Grant Morrison that first appeared in 2000 AD
* Zenith, the fictional town in the fictional state of Winnemac, and the setting for Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and other novels by Sinclair Lewis
* Zenith has also existed as a fictional city in the DC Universe since 1947.
In entertainment:
* The Zenith, a famous concert hall in Paris
* Zenith Brass Ensemble, a youth brass choir in Michigan, USA
In general-purpose language
* Zenith may mean "highest point", as used in sentences like Mount Everest is the zenith of the world.
Zenith may also mean:
In aviation:
* A Montgolfier balloon flown to a record of over 8,000m in 1875; see timeline of aviation—19th century (1870s)
* Zenith Aircraft Company, a manufacturer of light aircraft
In business:
* Zenith (watchmaker), a Swiss watchmaker
* Zenith Carburetters
* Zenith Data Systems
* Zenith Electronics Corporation
* Zenith FM, a local radio station in Kiato, Greece
* Zenit (camera), a Russian camera brand produced by KMZ (referred to as Zenith in some English-language literature)
In fiction:
* Zenith (comic), a superhero comic series written by Grant Morrison that first appeared in 2000 AD
* Zenith, the fictional town in the fictional state of Winnemac, and the setting for Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and other novels by Sinclair Lewis
* Zenith has also existed as a fictional city in the DC Universe since 1947.
In entertainment:
* The Zenith, a famous concert hall in Paris
* Zenith Brass Ensemble, a youth brass choir in Michigan, USA
In general-purpose language
* Zenith may mean "highest point", as used in sentences like Mount Everest is the zenith of the world.
I have used this name for many years now, I guess it was a play on words +plus the game I like the most is HL maybe that had something to do with it at the time
I do have 2 others I use, I won't say what they are but one I started using here but forgot my password etc. and at the time couldn't get it to send my a email with the password or something
one is to do with what a IRC admin is called another is a WW2 aircrafts name.
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Ferro, which anybody knows, means Iron in English.
I didn't, I thought it was a name of a bird. Very nice Topic Jeannie...
Well, I think I always used LF from MC..... LF = name & MC = Town, now when I join a Forum, it's just plain Lorraine.
Marcia, you had another username, that I liked a lot....Red ------
Dino, I think Chris is right, that would be a nice avatar.
QUOTE(Ironbender @ Oct 25 2006, 01:55 PM) 
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QUOTE(LF from MC @ Oct 25 2006, 06:52 PM)
Dino, I think Chris is right, that would be a nice avatar.
I’ll give it a try then; thank you both.
Jeannie,
Are you trying to tell us you have "light brown hair" ????
Are you trying to tell us you have "light brown hair" ????
skysoldier as i was one long ago. Also served as a Parachute Rigger before going grunt in the Nam.
So Marcia, this PCRigger (ROB) makes me wonder if he too was one red hat?
Jeannie, very nice idea for a post. Was it your own or Lil Bits idea? lol
I could if I had a Browse Button post the Riggers Red hat or my Airborne Unit or even a few pixs from the Nam... BUT!
So Marcia, this PCRigger (ROB) makes me wonder if he too was one red hat?
Jeannie, very nice idea for a post. Was it your own or Lil Bits idea? lol
I could if I had a Browse Button post the Riggers Red hat or my Airborne Unit or even a few pixs from the Nam... BUT!
Mine is simply a nickname my brother once came out with on the spur of the moment.
It made me laugh, so decided it would make a good screen name.
It's enough like my real name, yet different enough to provide anonymity
My avatar is a scanned section of a Celtic CD I have with the screen name superimposed onto it.
It made me laugh, so decided it would make a good screen name.
It's enough like my real name, yet different enough to provide anonymity
My avatar is a scanned section of a Celtic CD I have with the screen name superimposed onto it.
Hi everybody!
oldbob, I don't have light brown hair but I do have medium brown hair with a little gray and I have blue eyes. skysoldier, I got the idea for the post when Lorraine started her thread called "Where do you live?"
I'm glad that everybody likes this thread. I do too if I may say so (since I started it). I think that it's interesting. For instance I had thought that Chris worked with iron and that is why he chose the screen name Ironbender.
oldbob, I don't have light brown hair but I do have medium brown hair with a little gray and I have blue eyes. skysoldier, I got the idea for the post when Lorraine started her thread called "Where do you live?"
I'm glad that everybody likes this thread. I do too if I may say so (since I started it). I think that it's interesting. For instance I had thought that Chris worked with iron and that is why he chose the screen name Ironbender.
QUOTE(Jeannie @ Oct 26 2006, 12:48 PM)
For instance I had thought that Chris worked with iron and that is why he chose the screen name Ironbender.
The only iron I work with is my 23 years old motorcycle...
I forgot to say that I am known as "Ferro" (Iron), because I ever say "Ooooooh Ferro !" (something like the Lone Ranger's "Hi-Yo, Silver!") when I arrive somewhere with it.
I've had the username "Interceptor" since '98. It initially was "The Great Red Shark", named after a car depicted in the Hunter S. Thompson novel "Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail", but was too long. Interceptor came to me shortly after I was pulled over on my (late) Harley ('75 Superglide) just after crossing the PA state line. On the side of this nasty, front-end jumping, ground trembling, obviously severely cammed and built '70 Challenger was a decal showing "Pennsylvania State Police-Interceptor". Hmph...I asked the trooper what the car had in it and his response was "None of your *bleeping* business". Then he laid a patch a ways down the highway and took off. Bit of a yutz he was, but that car was pretty mean.
Interceptor--accept no substitutes. I am the original.
Interceptor--accept no substitutes. I am the original.
Marcia are those bats in your avatar?
Dashwood95 has been my name since 1995. It is the surname of the family in 1995's Sense and Sensibility because I fell in love with that movie.
I do have one alterego that I began using on my online games, but it really was just something I heard that I liked. Serafina.
I do have one alterego that I began using on my online games, but it really was just something I heard that I liked. Serafina.
Jeaannie, I have your Topic pinned at the top also, I have it in with...
Pinned: Show & Tell Pictures And Where Do You Live?
Also,How Did You Decide On Your Username
I didn't have room to add to to the Topic Title, but just had enough room to put it in the Description.
Pinned: Show & Tell Pictures And Where Do You Live?
Also,How Did You Decide On Your Username
I didn't have room to add to to the Topic Title, but just had enough room to put it in the Description.
That's a pretty name Dash, they even have a Town named Serafina, in New Mexico. I was trying to find out how to pronounce it, and I found this...
Dash,
I was on a gaming site somewhere on the Internet last year and I remember that one of the users of that site called herself Serafina. Maybe it was you.
Thanks for letting me know Lorraine.
I was on a gaming site somewhere on the Internet last year and I remember that one of the users of that site called herself Serafina. Maybe it was you.
Thanks for letting me know Lorraine.
They say that I moon'd the professor from the second story dorm, I did but I didn't think anyone saw me --- Ha!!!
anyway, been called and respond to moon ever since.
anyway, been called and respond to moon ever since.
Moon that's great!
Jeannie you'll have to tell me what game because I was on a couple.
Lorraine it's [sare uh feen uh]
Jeannie you'll have to tell me what game because I was on a couple.
Lorraine it's [sare uh feen uh]
My username came about in honor of my two pug dogs: Shogun (female/Deceased) and Dang-tu (male/Deceased ). First three letters of each name and a dash = sho-dan. Corny, it could be. But I 
my babies.
my babies.
Greetings,
My username is the name of my dog, he's my computer buddy.
His picture is my avatar.
How simple can you get!
My username is the name of my dog, he's my computer buddy.
His picture is my avatar.
How simple can you get!
I use the name ranchhand because my dad was rancher in the Bitterroot mountains of central Idaho. I rode, had my own .22 rifle at age 9, and loved my horse and dog dearly. Went to a one-room school house, Dagget Creek Elementary, grades 1-8. Older kids helped teach the younger ones. It's gone now, along with most of the ranches. Taxes went so high the ranchers couldn't afford to keep their land, and it ended up in the pockets of developers. So goes this country, also. I kept the name even though I live in Chicago area. Long, mostly unpleasant story how I ended up here, won't bore you with it now.
Hi Bob, Ranch, I can understand, but ranchHAND ? Sorry, I am not too familiar with American nick(names)
Chris, a ranchhand is a helper on a ranch, and he was a helper on his dad's ranch. Well, I think that's why he used ranchhand as a username. 
Webster, and sho-dan, I think it's wonderful you both use your best friends name as your username.
Webster, and sho-dan, I think it's wonderful you both use your best friends name as your username.
QUOTE(LF from MC @ Oct 27 2006, 11:32 PM)
Chris, a ranchhand is a helper on a ranch, and he was a helper on his dad's ranch. Well, I think that's why he used ranchhand as a username.
Ah ! Thanks Lorraine.
My username is my last name, my family name...
It's from Belgium, like my father's parents... I'm very proud of my last name, it means audacious in combat:
http://www.winandy.org/index2.html
It's from Belgium, like my father's parents... I'm very proud of my last name, it means audacious in combat:
http://www.winandy.org/index2.html
What a wonderful link to your family websites, winandy. I've been on there before, and I haven't even touched the surface, there is so much in there. I like the pictures from the earlier years, and the one with the motorcycles.
I've been on there before, and I haven't even touched the surface, there is so much in there. I like the pictures from the earlier years, and the one with the motorcycles.
Well, friends at SAF
Interesting to hear how your usernames originated, mines pretty boring really but I'll tell you anyway (I'm also testing a banjo animation avitar).
Bill=me, H=surname initial and H again to distinguish me from Bill G!
Bill.
Interesting to hear how your usernames originated, mines pretty boring really but I'll tell you anyway (I'm also testing a banjo animation avitar).
Bill=me, H=surname initial and H again to distinguish me from Bill G!
Bill.
QUOTE(moon @ Oct 27 2006, 12:06 AM)
They say that I moon'd the professor from the second story dorm, I did but I didn't think anyone saw me --- Ha!!!
I've been meaning to tell you moon. I like the your moon image in your Sig.
QUOTE(Bill H H @ Oct 28 2006, 03:52 PM)
Well, friends at SAF
Interesting to hear how your usernames originated, mines pretty boring really but I'll tell you anyway (I'm also testing a banjo animation avitar).
Bill=me, H=surname initial and H again to distinguish me from Bill G!
Bill.
Well, my original username when i started with this whole web thing (eons ago) was bobcat0013 (bobcat, bobcat13, and bobcat013 were all taken in hotmail at the time), as bobcat was my nickname in high school and 13 is my birthdate. That email account got spammed to heck, so I opened a new one with the name of the king of dragons, Bahamut.
I use the smae name for everything. It turns up most everything in Google.
I use the smae name for everything. It turns up most everything in Google.
Skysoldier, I was a parachute rigger then went to the Nam 101st Airborne recon teams on my orders. But 90th Replacement said they needed riggers in the 173d Airborne for a combat jump. I re-enlisted after the jump for the 173 Long Range Recon Teams.
Hi all
Well mine is pretty straightforward really.
My real name is peter, but the wife calls me pedro sometimes,
and when I got my 1st pc I wanted a username somewhere and it wouldnt let
me have pedro, so added the 1st 3 letters of my name
pedro pet
This is sure is nice to see how you chose your username, it makes it more friendlier when knowing, instead of just a word, or word with numbers.
You've got me trying to remember why my twin picked of all things, popsicle18. She was popsicle56 a bit too for Elvis in 1956, but I sure can't remember where the popsicle part is from.
My wee little sis (ha..she's now 24!) went by sugibugi after the nickname she gave her grossly overweight sheltie.
My wee little sis (ha..she's now 24!) went by sugibugi after the nickname she gave her grossly overweight sheltie.
Just tripped over this topic and I find it really interesting to see how people got their user names so I thought I'd add my story here too.
My real name is Ann and I was born in the city of Sydney, Australia but as soon as I was old enough I went to live in the country, in the mountains and eventually I lived in the Australian Outback. After that I lived on a remote Island in Papua New Guinea, had an isolated lifestyle sailing on boats then lived in an isolated town in the Mojave Desert where I got a job as a morning radio talk show host. I was called Outback Annie on air because of my having lived in so many Outback type lifestyles. The name Outback Annie has just stuck with me for many, many years so I use it as my internet name.
Cheers all
My real name is Ann and I was born in the city of Sydney, Australia but as soon as I was old enough I went to live in the country, in the mountains and eventually I lived in the Australian Outback. After that I lived on a remote Island in Papua New Guinea, had an isolated lifestyle sailing on boats then lived in an isolated town in the Mojave Desert where I got a job as a morning radio talk show host. I was called Outback Annie on air because of my having lived in so many Outback type lifestyles. The name Outback Annie has just stuck with me for many, many years so I use it as my internet name.
Cheers all
I didn't know you were on the raido Annie, that must have been great....as you see, I still like to call you Annie.
Hi Lorraine,
Yes I had my time in fame on the air doing morning radio and that's how my nickname really stuck but you can always call me Annie for short.
Do you ever have any contact with anyone from the AUS forum? I lost touch with everyone when I went on the road again.
Nice to see your name in here when I come in on the rare occasions I find time to spend on the computer.
I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and a Very Happy New Year Lorraine.
Cheers from Ann
Yes I had my time in fame on the air doing morning radio and that's how my nickname really stuck but you can always call me Annie for short.
Do you ever have any contact with anyone from the AUS forum? I lost touch with everyone when I went on the road again.
Nice to see your name in here when I come in on the rare occasions I find time to spend on the computer.
I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and a Very Happy New Year Lorraine.
Cheers from Ann
How did I Pick my user name... hmmmm... Actually, I was listening to my husband rattling around in the kitchen one night and he kept muttering "no, no, bad girl" under his breath and I assumed he was talking to the puppy. As it turns out he was muttering at ME, for the lack of cookies and or sweets to snack on, so I thought what the heck, sounds like me...
What a different it makes when someone lets us know how they picked there username.
Thats cute nonobadgirl.
Thats cute nonobadgirl.
My user name came about easily enough. I've had a few gaming names, but started out with Silver Scorpion, or Black Scorpion...and those came about because I'm a Scorpio birth-sign...
So now I just use Scorpion, or am known as Scorp to gaming buddies, and sign posts the same usually
Scorp.
So now I just use Scorpion, or am known as Scorp to gaming buddies, and sign posts the same usually
Scorp.
Well, I'm not a gaming buddies, but nice to have you aboard, Scorp.
I had a couple of angelfishes in my aquarium... pretty ones..... so when I entered the www I used angelfish as my user name.... a few years later one of them died then one day the other one died.... soon my Internet service provider went bankrupt and wound up business... I switched to a new ISP... all was going well but about a week later my entire setup blew up in smoke due a massive 33Kilo Volt surge through the internet cable that passed a couple of meters below a near by High Tension Electric Supply line. It was over in a split second a bright spark followed by thick smoke... I lost all computer data peripherals all electrical appliances connected at the time.... and alomost lost my younger daughter who stood separated by a wall 6mm thick panel from the killer surge.... Though the panel was blown to splinters she escaped with just a few strands of burnt hair..... that was about 5 years ago... I came to terms with the loss, I setup again... but no Internet at home..... It was like "once bitten twice shy.." It was only last December I got my self a new connection and here I am... this time no aliases.... just me Sunaabh...
Historically,Tecumseh was a great Shawnee (American Indian tribe) leader. Tecumseh is also the name of the Indian statue just inside the entrance of the bar on the famous Cheers TV show. I just liked the sound of the name.
I'm sure glad your daughter wasn't hurt sunaabh, so sunaabh is your real name, does it sounds like it's spelled??
Tecumseh, that's a interesting name. Hey!!, it does sounds nice, I just looked it up in a dicionary, and it pronounce the name.
Tecumseh, that's a interesting name. Hey!!, it does sounds nice, I just looked it up in a dicionary, and it pronounce the name.
QUOTE(LF from MC @ Jan 17 2007, 08:23 PM)
I'm sure glad your daughter wasn't hurt sunaabh, so sunbath is your real name, does it sounds like it's spelled??
Tecumseh, that's a interesting name. Hey!!, it does sounds nice, I just looked it up in a dicionary, and it pronounce the name.
I wanted to name my new grandson Tecumseh two years ago, but my daughter wasn't having any of that!!
Hmmmm, maybe ask her if she would consider using it as his middle name
I got my nickname back in high school. A friend of mine saw me walking and called out PINOCCHIO! Then he told me i look like that little wooden boy from the Disney cartoon. Ever since then i used the nickname Pinokkio in almost every single forum i joined.
I made my own avatar cause i thought if someone else found it on other forums, they would recognize me and wouldn't confuse me with another user named pinokkio.
I made my own avatar cause i thought if someone else found it on other forums, they would recognize me and wouldn't confuse me with another user named pinokkio.
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