Story behind your forum username?

C@ppy1961 · 23 Mar 2020 at 12:23

Acme said:
I'm honoured you two chose to make 1/3 and 1/4 of your posts over the last decade in my thread.

I'm looking to massively ramp up my post count over the next decade to at least 20

neviditelny · 23 Mar 2020 at 12:45

I started with a username online based on my nickname in real life but this name I got from another chatroom as it was a bit of how I felt in my life at the time. Neviditelny is the czech word for "invisible" and I wasn't in a good state at that time so I chose that word for a username and it's stuck with me.

robfosters · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:00

neviditelny said:
I started with a username online based on my nickname in real life but this name I got from another chatroom as it was a bit of how I felt in my life at the time. Neviditelny is the czech word for "invisible" and I wasn't in a good state at that time so I chose that word for a username and it's stuck with me.

I thought it might have been an anagram of evidently

Greebo · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:02

Vimes said:
A fondness of the Disc World books by Terry Pratchett made me consider using the name "Vimes" on this forum. On some forums I would use the name Dibbler, another character from the Discworld novels.

My would be avatar.....

Love Vimes and Dibbler

Vince · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:07

Mine used to be VinceB I think then one day I was talking to @Gibbo (im pretty sure it was at Rye House) and he suggested to me that it should be just Vince. So a couple of weeks later that was exactly what it became

hyperseven · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:08

After my favourite RC car, the HOBAO/OFNA Hyper 7 of which I have had three

Josh · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:12

Hey @Feek - can I have a name change please, nothing drastic.

From JOSH to Josh

neviditelny · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:15

robfosters said:
I thought it might have been an anagram of evidently

I can't tell too much here as gotta think about the kids around, but when I came up with this name I used a czech dictionary to find random nicknames as well for the other chatrooms I were involved in. Could come up with some pretty good ones in that way

robgmun · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:31

Nothing amazing, just my names (including many middle names, I'm Latino) shorted down into a coherent handle that I use for various things

Curio · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:52

Was looking for a new name for Quake 3 on-line. Couldn't think of anything original, so did the ol' "open the dictionary at a random page and point" trick. After a couple of tries I hit this one.

pastymuncher · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:54

I'm a Cornishman and I love to munch on a nice pasty.

Malt_Vinegar said:
I once (for a bet) drank the entire contents of a large pickled egg jar (like the ones you see at the chippy)

I did that once while I was down the Falklands. I had flown off the mountain I was stationed at and flew down to Mount Pleasant for my flight home the next day. That evening I wondered over to the Engineering Flight bar to see if there were any fellow engineers that I hadn't seen for a while. It turned out there were a few there and somehow I ended up being bet that I couldn't eat all the pickled onions (those big ones) in a new jar. If I could I would have free beer for the night. Not only did I eat the pickles but drank the vinegar as well. I felt sorry for the people who were seated near me on the flight home the next day as my botty burps were just plain evil.

Kelt · 23 Mar 2020 at 14:49

LiE said:
An old email address I randomly decided on many years ago Life is Epic which I shorted to LiE.

You LIE!

Feek · 23 Mar 2020 at 17:16

Josh said:
From JOSH to Josh

Done

Curio · 23 Mar 2020 at 17:53

pastymuncher said:
I'm a Cornishman and I love to munch on a nice pasty.

I did that once while I was down the Falklands. I had flown off the mountain I was stationed at and flew down to Mount Pleasant for my flight home the next day. That evening I wondered over to the Engineering Flight bar to see if there were any fellow engineers that I hadn't seen for a while. It turned out there were a few there and somehow I ended up being bet that I couldn't eat all the pickled onions (those big ones) in a new jar. If I could I would have free beer for the night. Not only did I eat the pickles but drank the vinegar as well. I felt sorry for the people who were seated near me on the flight home the next day as my botty burps were just plain evil.

LOL, the first Xmas we spent as a couple, all I ate was pickled onions and sharp chedder. Even 15+ years later the wife still brings it up with a distant look of horror on her face!

Rickyw88 · 23 Mar 2020 at 17:57

Mainly my name lol, really need to think of a more original one

Fusion · 23 Mar 2020 at 18:09

It was my DJ name as a teen when I had the wheels of steel.

Zeebedy · 23 Mar 2020 at 18:13

@Feek

Can I please change my name to : "Zeebedy" from "rip-the-jacker"?

Thanks mate.

Feek · 23 Mar 2020 at 18:25

Zeebedy said:
Can I please change my name to : "Zeebedy" from "rip-the-jacker"?

Done. Even though that's not how you spell Zebedee

Zeebedy · 23 Mar 2020 at 18:26

Feek said:
Done. Even though that's not how you spell Zebedee

Thanks mate, yeah, I lik to be different

NVP · 23 Mar 2020 at 20:10

ElliorR said:
I’m a fan of Scrubs, Sarah Chalke especially, and decided to go for ElliotR in honour of her Scrubs character Elliot Reid. However I made a typo and when I noticed I couldn’t be bothered to try and change it.

Haha this is the best one

MouthBoy said:
It's my name.

Although I do regret using this now and wish I had something more anonymous if that makes sense.

Hahaha wait no, this one! Were you named after a church sermon or something?

Ryan-3 said:
My username is because I have no imagination. Lucky number is three. My name is Clarance..

....what am I missing?

Yaayuh! said:
My name’s ****.

Can a mod please change it to: Yaayuh!

ta

Em3bbs said:
Mine is named after an infamous jpeg that a fellow forum member used to post around in the old overclockers #motors IRC channel.

Disappointed, I thought perhaps you owned an E36 rolling on old school BBS

Mine used to be my first name, on every forum ever, turned out my first name was unique and the only hit in google for my name brought back all my forum posts etc - so changed it to a nickname from uni.