What's in a username?

[Grommett]

Yep

That's me. Not a sci-fi aficionardo. Besides which, when I watched James T Kirk was still in black and white!

I prefered William Shatner reborn as Denny Crane. A less plastic if not entirely wholesome character.

But....I do understand the reference now. Thanks to RedShirtGuy.

Regards
Paul

You are not alone, passed me at warp speed.

[jimbur]

Touche (where's the damned accent when you want it) or is it douche?
Regards
Paul

As long as you wash your hands.
Cheers,
Jim

[Ted2]

Usernames and the creativity of such is generally indicative of the size popularity and population of the forum that you joined.

Years ago i tried to join one of the biggest computer forums in the U.S only to be repeatedly confronted with a page stating that the chosen username was already in use.

As most can imagine and or experienced themselves this gets VERY FRUSTRATING especially after the first 20 minutes and getting worse by the minute and gawd knows how many pages later. You simply run out of ideas.

Eventually, frustration wins out and you start using what you think is very clever, subtle, (and not so clever or subtle) and or very sarcastic abbreviations of swear words or less than idealistic phrases to come up with something to let you join.

Unfortunately most times you have already been beaten by someone else who also experienced the same thing and secured FFS and this is absolute Bullshi# and variations before you too

After 45 minutes no less and tearing my hair out I yelled out "usernames: who gives a ####" and input a variation of that and the page accepted it.

Fortunately I didn't have much problem getting a variation of my preferred username here. So if you ever see some name a little bit off in a large forum you now know what likely prompted it

[Ed Reiss]

Been really interesting to read how some of you agonized over finding a user-name

Me? "Ed Reiss" is my user name - it's an anagram of my real name that my parents burdened me with, which is un-spellable and un-pronouncable

[Cliff Rogers]

desires or resides?

[Ashore]

When I retired from going to sea I came Ashore , ....or in this case became Ashore

[MrA]

The first forums I joined were run by racist ones so I picked the name MrAngry and used an avatar of an angry Mr.Man and I trolled away.

After a while I was reffered to as MrA and so I've kept it on all other forums I've subsequetly joined..... and not trolled.

[Milo]

Meet Milo!! My best mate, we have the most indepth conversations in the shop!

[witch1]

I was born on the 31st of october a hell of a long time ago
work it out (no prizes)
witch1

[Chesand]

Meet Milo!! My best mate, we have the most indepth conversations in the shop!

And I bet there are no arguments just intelligent discussion.

My User name consists of the first 4 letters of our then dog's name (Chester) and the first 3 letters of my sirname (Anderson)

Sadly Chester went to doggie heaven last March at less than 10 years old.

[Yeldarb]

Yeldarb...I'm a little bit backward so it only makes sense

[Milo]

And I bet there are no arguments just intelligent discussion.

My User name consists of the first 4 letters of our then dog's name (Chester) and the first 3 letters of my sirname (Anderson)

Sadly Chester went to doggie heaven last March at less than 10 years old.

Never ever an argument just love and support! and the occasional lick on the leg!

[Bushmiller]

Never ever an argument just love and support! and the occasional lick on the leg!

Don't you find your dog's leg a little on the hairy side?

Regards
Paul

[Christos]

Meet Milo!! My best mate, we have the most indepth conversations in the shop!

I have a friend like that and the only problem is he keeps telling me what to do. Now if you get to hearing Milo I would think it's time for a little break.

[Grommett]

Christos

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