[early QOTD question]
We've got some great usernames around here.

Tell us why your username is what it is.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 8:35, 75 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Mine
is a b3tardised version of my real first name.

So I'm not No. 31.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 8:37, Reply)

Mine
is an old nickname from 1991, and the game Lemmings.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 8:52, Reply)

Mine is an old
school boy nickname.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 8:52, Reply)

aye
without giving my real name away too much its part of an old school nickname
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 8:56, Reply)

My username....
....is due to my love of cars and driving them. Plus, if I could bestow a nickname on myself (rather than someone picking one for me) I'd like to be called "Stiggy".
(The Stig, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 8:58, Reply)

Well I get called the
Grammar Nazi by a lot of people as I correct their grammar however one of my old friends used to call me "Badger Girl" as he could never remember my real name and it was around the weeble badger infestation and we used to sing the song at each other. Also I hate choosing names and was probably drunk when I signed up..
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 9:07, Reply)

Mine
Is a song by late 90's British metal band, Iron Monkey.

Incredibly nasty they were too.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 9:07, Reply)

Ethelred
Was a king of England, unfit for the throne, his full 'title' is Ethelred The Unready.

This leads on to my old LAN gaming days, where I was always the last to click "Ready" and so held up the game, one of the guys mentioned the above king, and the name stuck.

The unfortunate thing is I get mistaken for a Lady (Not that it is unlikely on the weekend anyway).
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 9:30, Reply)

I'm
named after a character in a Jane Austen novel.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 9:37, Reply)

Je M'appelle
Devil In Tights.

I like the television programme Bottom, and one of the best episodes is Terror, where Rik Mayall dresses as a Devil in Tights.

So that's me. Yeah!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 10:00, Reply)

pretty simple
I used to be (still am I suppose) a bit of punk (various spikes of assorted colours)hence the SPIKEY part. Spike is also my nickname. Pickle was a nickname given to me by an old work colleague.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 10:30, Reply)

My name
Well, I used to co-run & DJ a cyber/industrial night in Liverpool a few years back. Most of the DJs on the cyber and goth 'scene' always picked cool 'scene-y' names, which I thought were quite pretentious.

So, I picked Labia Majora, as it's not 'scene-y', it's silly, and I got a kick out of printing 'Labia Majora' on flyers. It's the equivalent of writing 'bum' on a school textbook. The name has since stuck.

Oh, I also like teh ladyparts.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 10:31, Reply)

it was my grandmother's maiden name

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 10:38, Reply)

.
because I am hideously unoriginal...
(b3tamax Mate, you're fat and I'll throw you in the river, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 10:41, Reply)

Mine
Ah, it came to me one evening after hours of soul-searching and co-incided with all the planets being perfectly aligned. Or something.

Gilgamesh and CHCB both made me chuckle.

*edit* My username has become a bit of a millstone in that everyone I've introduced to b3ta instantly knows who I am. Suggestions on a more imaginative username are gratefully received.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 9 Oct 2008, 10:47, Reply)

boringly
Mine comes from a few years back when due to family commitments I had decided to give up my season ticket at West Ham.

I still loved the club though and found myself using message boards for them all of the time. Eventually I got tired of lurking and had to find a name, so I went with this one, which seemed apt at the time. It seems to have stuck ever since.

I still don't have a season ticket.
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 10:48, Reply)

Obvious really
Cross between a past-his-sell-by-date revolutionary and a symbol of comedic, ineffectual, class conscious, inadequacy from the sixties. [Well, you asked]

I like to think I'm like Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times' when he picks up the red flag that falls off the back of the lorry and ends up leading a revolution by mistake...but different.

I'm still really a punk at heart and grew up with Captain Sensible, Tory Crimes, Rat Scabies, Sid Vicious etc. If I could have multiple names I'd also be: Adrian Strummer; Mr Thelma Cockspittle; Prince Far-fetched-I; the Rt Rev Rabbi Ronnie Roughrider R.M. Rtd. etc. etc.

...feel free to adopt/adapt any of these for your own use with my blessing.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 10:51, Reply)

Because.....
My boyfriend looks like a frog.
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:04, Reply)

Because.........
I have the face of a bear-strangling bad tempered psycho headcase. Yet, when people meet me they think I'm actually quite nice really! It is also a nickname I got from the Phoenix Aikido club as I never seemed to get rattled in training, even when being attacked by big nasty well-trained men with implements of doom.
I thought of drawing a cartoon of a loonball skinhead who turned into a tweed-jacketed social worker type "whenever danger called" and always ended up with the crap beaten out of him, but it wasn't funny and I can't draw.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:15, Reply)

Because......
I am big

I am a girl

I am a wimp
( girlinthehole, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:18, Reply)

Mine began
as Gunter The Munter Hunter, which I stole from other people.

I then thought that was a bit crap and changed it to this, which I still think is a bit crap.

I have thought about changing it either to Bobinho or Nigel Superfly, both of which amuse me.
( Moey, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:28, Reply)

It's a crap pun
...based upon the industry that I mostly work in and the fact that I'm anything but.
(Oil Slick, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:32, Reply)

@No3l
Nobl? What sort of a name is that?
(Oil Slick, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:33, Reply)

Cause its from a groovy song
and Ive finally got fed up lurking
( horace wimp needs more than 49 characters to fully express hi, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:37, Reply)

No reason, really.
I just thought it sounded nice.

I thought about it for quite a long time, though... and I was St Enzyme of the Rock Cake for a while.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:43, Reply)

Star Wars
I lurked for ages, but I only signed up in the treasured possessions question, when people were being sanctimonious, whinging gits about star wars figures that they'd lost. "Star Wars" was meant to annoy them. Could easily have been "2000AD".

I tend only to post in response to self-important people. I have nothing interesting to say in my own right, and you probably have me on ignore anyway.
(Star Wars Starwarsy McStarwars Face, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 11:46, Reply)

Piston_broke
Is based on my usual state when I was at university- drunk, and usually penniless. And the naff pun? Well, that comes from an old joke...

A man was driving home from work one day, when all of a sudden the engine went clonk and his car juddered to a halt. Sighing, our man gets out of the car to investigate the problem. He pops the boot, and as he is looking round, he soon notes what the problem is. A homeless man wondering past asked him what was the matter. "Piston broke" said the man. "Yeah, me too!" said the beggar.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 12:00, Reply)

@ PJM
Nowt wrong with PJM

Feel free to use/adapt any of my suggestions above, alternatively, you could adapt your own and become Pyjamaman. I think that would suit you somehow; to follow Captain Placid's idea, you would be the all-action hero that changes into pyjamas and climbs into bed at the first sign of trouble.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 12:08, Reply)

Noel
Spanner :)

*waits for "like Edmonds?"*

Pyjamaman, Pyjamaman, pillows, duvet and pyjamas, man!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 12:18, Reply)

Che
That I like... I could be the first superhero who's special power is to roll over, scratch his arse and go back to sleep.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 9 Oct 2008, 12:22, Reply)

Just wait a mo'
while I pull on my trusty quilted dressing gown and tighten my tatty tassled cord!

That's better, now...where did I put my slippers?

"Come Captain Placid, let's proceed leisurely away from this scene of carnage."
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 12:57, Reply)

@PJM Do not knock it
Being able to ignore stuff is indeed a super power.

Mine comes from a discussion a friend and I were having about Vietnam war films. His son piped up with "What's a Porkylips Now?" It tickled me somewhat and so I used it.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 13:01, Reply)

And mine
comes from being the goofiest person in an old Usenet group. I think it was when I told someone I would send over my pet T-rex to eat them and shit them off a cliff that someone started calling me a loon. It just kinda stuck, and seems to fit me pretty well overall...

@PJM- I think your name is fine, myself- especially as we share two out of three initials. But if you really want a new name, how about Roosterman?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 13:50, Reply)

Mine
is what my old granny used to call me when I was small. Usually when I was doing something (or had done something) I shouldn't. I'm not much bigger now so I kept the 'wee'. Pertaining, of course, to my lack of vertical inches, not any fascination with human liquid waste. Up here in Scotland, that would be referred to as 'pee' or 'pish', not 'wee'.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 13:53, Reply)

I'm an early riser
just like the devil.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:02, Reply)

*shrugs*
mine does what it says on the tin

it's not that easy though....
(The Stalker's Stalker For all your stalking needs, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:19, Reply)

I
am retarded.


No. Actually, it's a gradual corruption of the nickname Elmo - Elmsters - Belmsters - Belms.

It's from school, kids can be weird.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:32, Reply)

Haha
"porkylips now", that's brilliant!

Mine came from a pub quiz team that beat us once so I stole it to use here. I sure showed them!

And I do love gin too...
(gin'll fix it, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:34, Reply)

I was feeling
particularly world weary when I signed up.
(GirlOfTheWorld, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:38, Reply)

It's a short version of Big floppy donkey dick
Been saying it for a while at my study, that's it. Nothing shiny or wild about it.
( Floppy Donkey crawled out of the ditch., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:10, Reply)

Its a song I like by bad religion
That is all
( epiphany coming live from sweden, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:10, Reply)

Fairly boring really
Wanted to have Duck, on account of my Potteries origin, but it was already taken, so I used Rubberduck
( rubberduck should only be used after consulting with your GP, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:10, Reply)

Because I am the one, the only, the original Steve

I have no idea, it just stuck as my generic forum handle
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:10, Reply)

sort of boring really
The

Big

Lad
( TBL I posted this on, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:12, Reply)

I wanted to think up something funny and clever
but failed.
( Prof UnderCover evitable, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:21, Reply)

Mine's a combo...
The James bit is actually my middle name. Nice and easy.

The Sonic Doom bit comes from my being a fan of Spacemen 3 songwriter Sonic Boom, but I couldn't just nick his rock star pseudonym, so I adjusted it to make it a bit bleaker. Plus, when you play really, really loud guitar, Sonic Doom just seems fitting.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:29, Reply)

Because
I support Sheffield United
They're the oldest United
And the best United!
( Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:30, Reply)

it used to be just "beef"
but then i got fat :(
(theswollenbeef where there's a will there's a wank, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:37, Reply)

i used to play counter strike and the best player i played with was called sock
i came back to counter strike a few years later and used the name sock, it's stuck ever since cos it makes me laugh
( sock more tea vicar?, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:40, Reply)

Because I'm shit at thinking of names for message boards
And I like eggs and ham, although preferably not green.

In fact I'm going to go and make some (normal coloured) eggs and bacon now (nearly the same thing!) for my unemployed skiver breakfast/lunch/who cares what the fuck it's called cos all I do all day is surf the internet in my pants
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:44, Reply)

Because lasers rock.

( Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:47, Reply)

When I signed up I wanted something punny and amusing
and I'd just been watching Bill Bailey's cockney medley, wherein he plays the Bauhaus hit.

"...I'll 'ave 'is chips then..."
( Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:55, Reply)

Mine is from an old issue of Loaded
About why it's rubbish being a man. And it was the name they used for one of the things in the "humourous" article and it caught my eye. So I stole it.
(Dangerous Disco Trev Isn't my real name, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:58, Reply)

redazril
Is an acronym of Red Rizla from my smoking days many years ago. It kinda stuck.
( redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 17:02, Reply)

mine's from Twin Peaks

there was a character called Log Lady who carried around a log which she had a psychic link with.

THe log would help her see visions like who killed Laura Palmer.

Here she be - she's ace

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=36aONSPSlMo&NR=1
( the_log_knows ..to pay cheeses, to the leopards in your head, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 17:11, Reply)

A bizarre clash
of my obviously more geeky traits and a daytime TV ad featuring a wizened old husk of a Thora Hird lookey-likey whizzing around the lounge in a remote controlled armchair. Probably looking for her specs, the People's Friend and bumping into things.

"Fuck me, she looks like Davros' Granny in that thing" I thought.

Why it came back to haunt me as I was thinking of a username I don't know, but it's stuck*, and I quite like being called DG around the house now. Tourette's has even changed my entry on her mobile phone to that.

*EDIT Obviously I'm a bloke so Davros' Granny would be silly...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 17:20, Reply)

Mine is a character from Dr Who
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meglos
( Meglos -.-. ..- -. - ..-. .-.. .- .--. ..., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 17:31, Reply)

because my computer doesn't have a spacebar
in order to put spaces into my posts, i have to hit it with a mackerel or brill

it doesn't have a shift key either. the things i have to do to get a capital letter are obscene
( spacefish bong!, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 17:36, Reply)

Many years ago...
A friend of mine had an especially demonic looking clown toy as a child, which after a particularly long night's drinking, we christened Evil Frank. A day or so later when I was trying to think of a name for a Doom deathmatch, I cast my eye about and spotted that damned clown. It started as an in joke, but it's become habit now.

No one knows what happened to the original Frank, but we fear he escaped...
(Frank., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 18:00, Reply)

Warmfuzzyfeeling
is my domain name.

Self explanatory really. I make warm and fuzzy things. And I like warm and fuzzy things. And I am, usually, warm and fuzzy and full of teh fluff.

I used to be Mad Hatter, but when I started working on my website I found that all the good domain names were taken. And casting my mind around for inspiration I remembered a conversation I'd had with someone where they used the phrase "warm fuzzy feeling" to refer to my stuff (or possibly to me, I can't remember now). It was perfect. And even better, it was available. I love it more than I ever loved Mad Hatter.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 18:29, Reply)

Mine is pretty self explanatory
My name is Alice and I like cabbage
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 18:34, Reply)

I had a stomach bug when I signed up
all better now though
( chunderbunny lacking humus since, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 18:46, Reply)

Mine isn't my usual username
I managed to make a typo in my email address when I first signed up and effectively blocked my own username. This one came from a random name generator and was fitting enough.

My actual username is usually stormie, which is shortened from 'Purple Storm', a name I came up with I was 14 and thought was cool. 9 years on I don't think purplestorm is cool but stormie has well and truly stuck. And I like storms, and the colour purple. (But I don't like Prince.)
(sanity challenged, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 19:17, Reply)

mine is pretty easy
my name is Rob, and I'm English.

Also a fan of the movie Unforgiven, where I stole the nickname from :P
(Cpl. Nobby Nobbs, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 19:22, Reply)

It used to be
Cyril Cyril Secret Squirrel

But that was a twat to type out all the time
(Barry Chuckle has gone out in the thong to feed the pigeons, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 19:30, Reply)

Mine
is obvious
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 19:31, Reply)

I build tanks, big remote controlled tanks...
That is all.
( Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 19:59, Reply)

@ Meglos
I knew that... of course I knew that.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 20:05, Reply)

Edward Monkton cartoon
I liked penguin of death (and i use this in other places) and i wanted smething similar but different for this. And i'm ginger. And lo the ginger penguin was born :)
(The Ginger Penguin la la la la la la, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 20:42, Reply)

There's another discussion at
www.b3ta.com/questions/treasuredpossessions/post158213

BTW: With me, I registered my b3ta account so I could post my first ever story. I didn't know what to call myself, so I just thought about what sort of person would do the thing I mentioned in my story. See my profile for details.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 22:09, Reply)

I was too thick to think of anything clever
so I just went with the first 6 letters I randomly typed out.
( Oysdgp there's nothing to smile ABOUT, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 23:06, Reply)

drunkness
discovering B3ta the morning after an awsome evening out. Which mainly involved diving into hedges.
So hence hedge diver(has nothing to do with lady loving, though ladies are ace)
( hedge_diver, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 23:15, Reply)

chart cat
was a minor character who used to frequent the games chart pages of Channel 4's Teletext magazine 'Digitiser'.

Clicking the 'reveal' button would sometimes show what chart cat was thinking. My favourite one of these revealed "me like salt" which made me spit my tea all over the TV screen.

Then, one day, for no apparent reason, he was killed off. The Digitiser writer Paul Rose (aka Mr Biffo) decided that chart cat was to be no more, so a message was left on the charts page. It read, simply:

"chart cat was left out last night, where he died of cold"

My username is an homage to chart cat and to Digitiser itself.
( chart cat has an itch, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 5:46, Reply)

Teletext FTW!
*bamboozles*
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 6:33, Reply)

Mine
stems from me calling my lad mean, so he called me median. I called him mode, he replied with:

"You're maudlin. What's maudlin mean? maudlin McCann?"
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 17:57, Reply)