Usernames

[Haids1987]

So I'm being nosy--how did you guys come up with your usernames?  I read certain ones and I'm like, "Wow, how'd they think of that one?"

My username is actually my nickname.  My name is Hailey, and for as long as I can remember my family has called me Haids.  1987 is the year as was born.  Yawwwwn. Pretty standard and boring.

So please, enlighten me.  How'd y'all come up with yours?

[B'rrr]

It was my nickname in highschool *nods*

[Farquhar]

For me it's a character from the KQ novel "See No Weevil", the apprentice magician Farquhar.

[Tage7]

Tagen - Furcadia
Tage - Everquest
Tage7 - Much Later (Don't Remember the Most Recent One)

[GoneTooLong]

I was here, but then one day I was gone. I came back, but I'd been gone too long. I'd missed too much here and I just wasn't me anymore.

Somewhat cryptic, but it's the best explanation I've got.

[Kimmie]

Uber boring...mine is just  nickname!

By the way Rob, why were you called B'rrr in school?? I'm intruigued 

[I_am_so_nifty]

A friend used the word nifty a lot--it sort of become her catchphrase--and it somehow made it's way into my username.

[B'rrr]

By the way Rob, why were you called B'rrr in school?? I'm intruigued 

Because they were all out of good idea's for nicknames when it was my turn! They just inverted my name; so it became Bor, then Borrie, then B'rrr. 

[Rosella]

By the way Rob, why were you called B'rrr in school?? I'm intruigued 

Because they were all out of good idea's for nicknames when it was my turn! They just inverted my name; so it became Bor, then Borrie, then B'rrr. 

Huh, that's interesting.

Three guesses as to where my name came from.

I'm honestly not sure when I started using it as a username. When I was into Harry Potter, I used Hermione500 on Mugglenet IRC (I guess the number 500 appeals to me? ) so on the KQ forums I registered on, I used Rosella500 (you know, for my favorite character in that series ) and just from then on, I've used Rosella500 as my username pretty much everywhere (But I like to try registering it without numbers just for fun, and was somehow successful at this forum ).

[waltzdancing]

In my second semester of college I took a dance class, and my favorite was the Waltz! I was so good at it, still am, that I just turned it into Waltzdancing a user name for my email and brought it over to the forum when I registered here.

[crayauchtin]

Cray Auchtin (or variations thereof) is my MMO character.

Questing Character was because characters are my favorite part of any fictional world (as you might notice if you look at my High Fantasy Wiki because that's basically all I have on it so far ) and it's a King's Quest forum so the characters were presumably questing.

[Haids1987]

Very interesting, all!  Thanks for sharing.  Does anyone but me find this interesting? 

And Rob, is it partially 'cause you're Robert?  "Ro-BRRRR-t?" 

[B'rrr]

No.

[Haids1987]

Oh.  Well then.

[B'rrr]

 

Naw, seriously, noone calls me Robert anyways. don't think my classmates even knew that was my official name.

[waltzdancing]

This is a really cool thread. Its fun to see how people think up these names and to read the back story to them.

[Jafar]

Well...er...my name is Jafar.
















That's all, folks!

[copycat]

My first username (not here, but the forums over at Sierra, during MoE) was 'copyman'. You see, it had just bought a CD-writer and naturally, was doing some copying work with it. After all, we've always been entitled to make one copy for back-up purposes. Not that that was always the case, but
Then, the forums switched and since in the meantime I'd become a bit obsessed with cats (too) I asked for my username to be changed to 'copycat'. Asked another member who was good in graphics to alter a picture I downloaded from somewhere and thus my avatar and current username was created.
When I register at a forum, I always go for 'copycat' at first. Naturally, if that's unavailable, I take variations on it. Lately, I've been using 'phoenixcopycat' rather a lot, three guesses where I got that idea... Sometimes, I use 'copycat1973', which incorporates my birth year. On one forum (that was way before my KQ9-days too), I took a completely different turn and became 'the infamous cat'.
Don't remember at all what I was called in school. If anything, it had to with with me wearing glasses.

[crayauchtin]

I guess I should explain how "Cray Auchtin" came to be my MMO character name.

It's a really complicated story....
....
It's a couple of syllables I thought sounded like a fun name. I was fifteen, but I still like it to this day.

[Rosella]

My first username (not here, but the forums over at Sierra, during MoE) was 'copyman'. You see, it had just bought a CD-writer and naturally, was doing some copying work with it. After all, we've always been entitled to make one copy for back-up purposes. Not that that was always the case, but
Then, the forums switched and since in the meantime I'd become a bit obsessed with cats (too) I asked for my username to be changed to 'copycat'. Asked another member who was good in graphics to alter a picture I downloaded from somewhere and thus my avatar and current username was created.
When I register at a forum, I always go for 'copycat' at first. Naturally, if that's unavailable, I take variations on it. Lately, I've been using 'phoenixcopycat' rather a lot, three guesses where I got that idea... Sometimes, I use 'copycat1973', which incorporates my birth year. On one forum (that was way before my KQ9-days too), I took a completely different turn and became 'the infamous cat'.
Don't remember at all what I was called in school. If anything, it had to with with me wearing glasses.

I still remember you from the official KQ forums.