How did you think up your Apolyton username?

[Paul Hanson]

I love threads like this.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by ixnay37
My original username, Kyller, was a play on my first name (Kyle). Eventually changed it to ixnay37, from the 1996 Offspring album "Ixnay on the Hombre". The 37 is a remnant from my first email account that has managed to stick to all my usernames since.

1 additional qweegle for that one.

[red_jon]

Mine wasn't too difficult. I kinda like the fact my name's wierd.

[Finvola]

This is the name I've used for nearly everything since I've been online. I used to be active in the SCA and Finvola was what I called myself and all these years later, that's still my nickname.

[Alex]

oh, I hate to be repetitive. But here we go.

When I first got an webmail account, I registered under the name "Alexnm" (Alexandre N. Moreira).

When I first registered on Poly, centuries ago, I was still under the impact of that webmail account (oh this is so cool) and chose it to be my login.

Later on I noticed that Alexnm sounded like Alex Enema...

I wanted to change it, but nevermind... A lot of people would be confused if I did it. When I say "a lot of people", I mean two, actually.

[Zopperoni]

Zoltan Pepper --> contracted: Zopper --> elonged: Zopperoni.

[Dauphin]

I have no idea how I came up with my username.

[Gangerolf]

it came to me in a vision

[Kassiopeia]

God told me. That is, I came up with it myself. Maybe it was just because of that astronomy course I had taken in school a couple of months before. Or the fact that in a short story I wrote when I was 13 there was a starship called Kassiopeia.

I've grown to use this nick, or the shorter version Kassi, pretty much everywhere; sometimes I do use my real name.

There's only one problem with "Kass" - people easily assume I'm a girl... not that I always have trouble with that. No wonder though, considering that Cassiopeia was a woman in Greek mythology. I've started to read more about mythology to avoid blunders like this.

Anyway, I've thought of changing it, but Stefu would do horrible things to me if I did that. Horrible things...

[Alexander's Horse]

I've always been a user

[Verto]

Verto is my video card.

[Solly]

Becuase I'm the cream of Manchester.

[Buck Birdseed]

'Birdseed' is a jehova's witness term for 'non-believer', refferring to the prophesy that on the day of resurrection non-believers shall have their flesh ripped off by crows. I thought it was sufficiently gruesome.

I thought it lacked something as a username though, and as a lover of silly Rock pseudonyms (Cheetah Chrome, etc.) I thought I'd add a suitably Rock first name to it. Having learned the lesson from my last user name and its unfortunate Emocore connections, I did a websearch for the obvious choice "Johnny Birdseed" and found some f*cker had used it as the name of a character in some ancient and unsuccessful Sci-Fi short story. So I asked the counterglowers to come up with one. Laz supplied "Buck", Taz "Scabrous", and I've used both.

[Eroberer]

It was 1997 and I was registering for an old online gaming service, Mplayer, and I played a lot of C&C: Red Alert at the time, plus my foreign language of choice was German. I tried more for a Quake-style nickname, but they were all taken, or they had umlauts in German. Eroberer was the first thing that stuck. Then I realized that my connection at the time was horrible, so I spent a whole lot of time just in the lobbies, chatting, which got me a lot of online pals. I took this nickname first to ICQ, then to AOL IM (with various additions), and on every bulliten board ever since.

Addition: It's now also my university email address, if you can believe that. Some of my professors have been perplexed by it already.

[Arrian]

Flavius Arrianus Xenophon, more commonly known as Arrian, was a Roman citizen of Greek descent who was a close associate of... Hadrian, I think. He ended up very high up on the proverbial totem pole. Anyway, he wrote what I think was an excellent History of Alexander the Great, which I read in college.

-Arrian