How did you come up with your user name?

[matr]

Something that intrigues me is the different user names on forums. It makes me wonder how people come up with them and why.

So what's the story behind your user name?

Mine's boring..... My name is Mat and my last name starts with R... Thus matr imagination at it's finest!!

Cheers, Mat

[gregb]

My name is Mat and my last name starts with R... Thus matr imagination at it's finest!!

Some of the coolest handles are devised that way

Cheers,
Greg B

[lob]

It's my initials (first name, and last name - O'Brien.) More importantly, I was addicted to arcade games in my misspent youth (still am - I have a home-built arcade machine), 'lob' was the initials I used for my scores.

[drsmurto]

Nickname from school was Smurto.

The Dr prefix came after 9 years at uni.

[billybushcook]

I think mine's a bit obvious,
It comes from my love of Camp Cooking & Camp Ovens.
"Camp Oven Cooking in Australia" was the first Forum I signed up to.

Mick.

[warra48]

Used to live in Warrawee.
48 vintage.

Thus: warra48

[Tourist]

Did the standard Aussie backpacking around England/Ireland/Europe, etc. about 15 years ago. Was the first of my group of mates to venture outside the country, so earned the nickname "Tourist", which they still call me. Ocassionally go on cycling/hiking/running quests, which kind of fits the name, too.

[rotten]

My first name is John, I have been called many variations on this. One night I got called johny rotten, I may or may not have been drunk dancing and rockin out.

[SuperBroo]

Am on a few other forums (falcon gt stuff) but just wanted to come up with a relevant name for this forum.
Have since combined both passions for my avatar 'superbroo', wish i had thought of that before i hurriedly made up grog.

Cheers to all

[chadjaja]

Well I'm Chad..

And when I was racing (road cycling) I was told I had a poker face like Laurent Jalabert(famous French cyclist) and his nickname is Jaja....Jaja stuck so I kept it in my online id's....

Years later I raced against the man and had a chuckle that all the Jaja's written on the road were for myself LOL Although none were

[speedie]

speedie drink fast ,ride fast, drive fast, think fast
react fast
bye fast
speedie

[Oliver]

Have since combined both passions for my avatar 'superbroo', wish i had thought of that before i hurriedly made up grog.

You know I have the power to change your username ... you just have to say the word

Cheers,

Oliver

[SuperBroo]

Go for it Oliver, SuperBroo would be much more relevant for me.

Thankyou

Regards,
Chris

And good thread idea matr

[SuperBroo]

And what do you drive fast Speedie ? (coz i'm a car nut i am curious)

[speedie]

lx ss 283 torrie hg 400 hp small block ute tricked wb statesman 1200 sporty
oh and my good old pushbike
the bowtie wins!

[lethaldog]

My story is pretty boring really, about 12 years ago i joined ebay and my nickname was Lethal, the only thing close to that available was Lethaldog and its stuck with me ever since!!!!

[bullfrog]

Mine's another boring one. My name is Jeremiah and, as we all know, Jeremiah was a Bullfrog.

[bentaxlebob]

As my first name is Bob I had heard an old Slim Dusty song about a man who owned a trucking company and always took the cheapest shortcuts with old tired equipment. The song is bentaxlebob.

[Oliver]

I was talking to Pyssedas Heavy Industrial the other day and he was saying that he'd typed out an explanation about his name but then had a computer malfunction when he went to submit.

Alas, perhaps we'll never find out ...

Oliver

[drunkpaul]

i just try to make my user name relavant to the forum im joining, thus drunkpaul. the mrs thinks it suits me though.
great idea for a thread.ive often wondered myself.