Where did you get your username from?

[Twentythree]

Twentythree is the number of chromosomes in a haploid gamete. I use it symbolically in my art as the mating of viewer and art creates an experience, almost like a sperm and an egg create a life. I use it here because I figure eventually, after my first 50 posts, I’ll be able to start mating ideas with all the creative free thinkers herein.

[Melmoth]

Got mine from the eponymous character in Melmoth the Wanderer. I've always had a bit of a thing for Faustian pacts, plus he's one of my favourite characters in literature. He has a number of traits that I can relate to: an occasional, compulsive need to cause disaster, a tendancy to inadvertently burn down bridges and a generally reclusive, hermit lifestyle being some of them. I like the 'wandering jew' types.

But I have no real, conscious reason; the book was within my line of sight and I picked it impulsively.

[YaarghMatey487]

When I was 5 I had a dream that I was captured by pirates.

[terranus]

Hmm...guess I wanted to say I'm just another asshole Earthling.

[sillyseal]

So many creative usernames! I got mine from a nickname my lame friend gave me. We have many nicknames for each other and one of mine's is Silly Seal. I hate it. It's so immature and dumb

[Tank]

So many creative usernames! I got mine from a nickname my lame friend gave me. We have many nicknames for each other and one of mine's is Silly Seal. I hate it. It's so immature and dumb

It can be changed if you want.

[sillyseal]

So many creative usernames! I got mine from a nickname my lame friend gave me. We have many nicknames for each other and one of mine's is Silly Seal. I hate it. It's so immature and dumb

It can be changed if you want.

Yay! May I ask how? I seem to be technologically challenged because I can't find a way to do it.

[Tank]

So many creative usernames! I got mine from a nickname my lame friend gave me. We have many nicknames for each other and one of mine's is Silly Seal. I hate it. It's so immature and dumb

It can be changed if you want.

Yay! May I ask how? I seem to be technologically challenged because I can't find a way to do it.

Beg pardon, I should have said. A user name can be changed but only by the system admin, Whitney. Check the member list to make sure the name you want is not already in use and then drop a PM to Whitney. I don't know if there is a policy on this I haven't seen anything in the rules about not doing it.

[DeterminedJuliet]

When I was thirteen (way back when internet forums were just becoming a "thing") I took some stupid "what kind of girl are you" online quiz and the answer was "A Determined Juliet". I liked it and it just kind of stuck as my username. I'm a bit of a forum junkie and it's been my online persona ever since.

I did have someone ask me if it meant I was suicidal. No. I'm not. Haha.

[Ulver]

I did have someone ask me if it meant I was suicidal. No. I'm not. Haha.

Haha! I didn't think of that. Funny.

[proudfootz]

Proudfootz comes from Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' - just the name of a hobbit family.

[ZombiePhysics]

I took the physics part from a user I met in a GMod server by the name of MelonPhysics, and I don't really remember too much beyond that. My YouTube username (feel free to spam =3) GrimReaper2485 was really just the first thing I think I came up with one day since I wanted an account. For some reason I always found it amusing that I signed up three days before DeceasedCrab did. I'm not sure why I think about that so often. Any other names I've used on Steam have just been somewhat spontaneous and random thoughts like CornMuffinsofDoom. I have also since added lambdas to the ends of the name just for the hell of it.

[Tank]

I took the physics part from a user I met in a GMod server by the name of MelonPhysics, and I don't really remember too much beyond that. My YouTube username (feel free to spam =3) GrimReaper2485 was really just the first thing I think I came up with one day since I wanted an account. For some reason I always found it amusing that I signed up three days before DeceasedCrab did. I'm not sure why I think about that so often. Any other names I've used on Steam have just been somewhat spontaneous and random thoughts like CornMuffinsofDoom. I have also since added lambdas to the ends of the name just for the hell of it.

I do like CornMuffinsofDoom 

[Norbie]

Norbie was the dragon that Hagrid hatched as a pet in Harry Potter.  I used to name my raccoon babies based on themes each year.  That character appealed to me so the first baby I took in that year was named Norbie.  The rest of them that year were all "berts" of some kind or another... Norbert, Herbert, Eggbert etc.  Norbie was a special character.  He was rescued in a Georgia wildfire.  People watching the fire's progress saw his mother desperately moving babies out from her nest.  She was cut off with more babies left in the nest.  They couldn't stand it, so they went in and took the two others.  Norbie's brother died from complications, and Norbie was a tough rehabbing job.  He lived, but became unreleasable.  That is always a quandry for a rehabber.  So he became a companion and educational animal.  Luckily he had the disposition for it.  He lived with us until he passed from old age.  I honor him by using his name on-line; and my avatar is from another unreleasable raccoon, Tammy Faye.  She also spent her whole life with me.  Both of them taught me many things, from technical things about rehabbing to how to sit back & enjoy life.  Raccoons know how to be happy.  Peace, Kim

[DaveD]

My username is just as unimaginative as it appears!