How did you get your Username?

[GrySql]

These blogs all ask for a 'Username' and our Forum has some unusual ones, like mine. I often wonder how we come up with these names and thought it would be interesting to discuss. I'll go first.

 

About 30 years ago we were on a family trip and stopped in a California redwood forest for a small hike. We distributed some walki-talki's and when I asked how we'd identify each other one daughter thought it would be funny to have forest names, she named me 'grey squirrel', all the others got similar forest animal names too. My name sort of stuck (my grey hair) and the nickname would pop up in conversation from then on.

 

To make a long story longer, many years later, we bought a new 2003 Mustang GT convertible, it was silver (grey). When that daughter saw it she exclaimed that it ought to be called 'the grey squirrel', she laughed - it happened. I bought a CA vanity license plate with 'GRY SQL' on it and put a funny license frame around it, see below. The Mustang was sold a couple years ago and the license plate is gone but it was one of those cute family jokes that lasted a long time. (I got a birthday card last year from a grandkid with a grey squirrel on it)

 

Ok, anybody else?

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The GT plate and frame.

Edited November 1, 2015 by GrySql

[murphy]

I never violate Murphy's Law.

[DeeCee]

Mine is pretty simple, the initials of my first and middle names. Back in my working days my boss all called by my initials DC. I use it for user ID's on some sites including this one.

[nv rick]

After retiring from cold, wet Milwaukee WI, we moved to Nevada. Ergo, nv Rick.

[nv rick]

@GRY SQL,

Just curious, doesn't CA allow you to transfer a plate to a new car?

[rwhgme]

We are Nascar fans. My wife loves Rusty Wallace. I got us pit and garage hot passes at Charlotte. She met him and got his autograph. I figured that would be it...WRONG. Next year we go..also with hot passes. She asked Rusty if she could give him a hug for luck. He said.."Sorry MA'AM I can't, my wife will get pissed". Well, my wife was crushed. All that weekend I did all I could to soothe her. Rusty finished second, but Carolyn was still heartbroken. We just got a new car. In Missouri you can put 6 letters on a plate..RWHGME, stands for Rusty Wallace Hug Me. The next year, he had a fan club get together. She got her hug then, and we have been friends since! We are now friends of all the Wallace's. great folks!

[Cobra348]

Back in the days of text gaming - MUCKs, MUDs, MOOs - I was a WizOp (gamemaster) in a MUCK I had written the story line for. While my in-game characters were pretty easy-going, my WizOp Cobra was not. He was the puzzle development master and for a couple of rather misguided players, the last stop before being booted out the door.

 

While I've given up gaming in general, I do keep up on Ultime Online (UO) as I spent 12 years in that game and played the predecessor Ultima on my Atari in the '80s.

 

The numbers in the screenie - very simple - birth month and year. Yeah, I'm that old.

[GrySql]

This is good stuff! :)

 

 

@GRY SQL,

Just curious, doesn't CA allow you to transfer a plate to a new car?

Yes, I could have saved it for another car but time moves on... :play:

[hybridbear]

My wife calls me bear. She says that I'm like a bear because I'm tall & broad-shouldered & for a variety of other reasons she says I'm bearish. She started calling me "hybridbear" because of my interest in hybrid cars.

[gkinla]

My initials are G. K. and I live in Los Angeles, hence gkinla.

[Silver Bullet]

Our 2014 FFHSE is Ingot Silver and drives beautifully as fast as I want to go (which is rarely above the posted limit these days). Silver Bullet just seemed right...no connection to the Lone Ranger.

[GrySql]

Our 2014 FFHSE is Ingot Silver and drives beautifully as fast as I want to go (which is rarely above the posted limit these days). Silver Bullet just seemed right...no connection to the Lone Ranger.

I think one has to be a certain age to remember who the Lone Ranger was...

 

Hi-ooo Silver, away....

 

 

 

BTW, Silver was the horse... ;)

Edited November 1, 2015 by GrySql

[CCalvinN]

I'm afraid that my online name lacks any creativity. When I signed up for my first online account (a local BBS back in 1990) I just put in my name. My friend who was helping me said that it wasn't appropriate to use your real name (I think it went something like "Don't be a dork, use a cooler sounding name!") so I used my middle name. Calvin. Calvin is cool right?

 

Eventually when local BBSs became the big open internet, everyone kept their BBS handles as their internet identities, but everywhere I went there 'Calvin' was already taken. So since I was a dork and used my name anyway, I continued to do so. I added my first initial and my last initial; C Calvin N. CCalvinN. Thankfully to this day CCalvinN is rarely taken.

[Timewellspent]

Driving my Ford Fusion Energi is TimeWellSpent :shift:

[Cobra348]

I think one has to be a certain age to remember who the Lone Ranger was...

 

Hi-ooo Silver, away....

 

 

 

BTW, Silver was the horse... ;)

It was also what his bullets were made from.

[GrySql]

Calvin. Calvin is cool right?

I think so.

 

 

It was also what his bullets were made from.

Good one! :thumbsup:

Edited November 1, 2015 by GrySql

[rjent]

Richard Jones Enterprises

[ceilidhdog]

We used to raise AKC black Schnauzers. We named one of our bitches Ceilidh, the Gaelic word for party. I called her Ceilidhdog, and that became my user name on a number of Web sites.

[Texasota]

Many times I have wondered what the story was behind the user names. Great thread. My heart lies in both Texas and Minnesota. --> Texasota

[jeff_h]

My real name is Clint Eastwood, but that causes too much confusion so I just go with jeff_h.

[talmy]

It's just my name, Tom ALMY. It was my second corporate email address name (mid 1980's) and I decided to use it everywhere I could.

[thavil]

Another boring one here - Initial of my first name and the first half of my last name.

[hermans]

Mine comes from a pen name that I use.

[tr7driver]

I have owned a Triumph TR7 for 26 years....

[SteveB_TX]

Duh! :)