Thread: Why is your Username/Nickname?

Good thread I think mine is sort of explained in the signature line...
GemStar Custom Rifles is where the GS comes from
"Sixgun" has been my signin name forever and a day... Way back when video games first came out, for high scores it was always Sixgun, Six, or Gun that I would put in there... Later it just stuck because I was always shooting somthing or making somthing to shoot....

Wow... I wish my name was as cool! I just stole mine from a comic book mini-series I happened across when I was younger , "Spanner's Galaxy". the "o" at the beginning and the end was a practice back in the early 90's on AOL when someone else had the name you wanted!

http://members.tripod.com/originalvigilante/spanner.htm

My ebay name, oGADJo, comes from a little creature in the series that is a scavenger/mechanic.

Did I mention the main characeter uses a rather cool throwing "axe" to fight people with blasters? Hmmmm.... now that I think of it maybe I can use my RAD to fight crime!

I had a lacrosse buddy in High School obsessed with the movie Mallrats. I was a rather rotund kid at the time so he dubbed me Lunchbox. That, or some variation thereof, has survived to this day. In undergrad few people knew my real name, everyone called me Box, including my g/f at the time. It finally got to the point where it was weird when I was addressed by my given name. I'm still not totally used to it, but 4 years of graduate school has eased the transition a bit (damn professionalism). I still sign a lot of emails "LBX." 16 is my favorite number and what I used to wear on the lax field.

Mine is short for my original screen name, Limitup55. Limitup is a term used in commodity trading. It means the price of any one commodity can rise in one days trading, hence, LIMITUP. The 55 was my age when I first got a computer.

RU Grad 02~I graduated from Radford University, in Southwestern Virginia, in 2002. Hence the name, rugrad02.

Kyle

My family is from County Kerry, Ireland
and I was born in 1971, so kerryman71.

John

Can you guess, I have Dobermans. It was only 2 reds, but now I also have a black. The Devil Dog, as I call her.

w12code3... W12 (pronounced "William Twelve") was my unit number when I first got started in my law enforcement career. Code 3 is radio code for "responding with lights and siren at top safest speed". So if I was at work and called "w12, code 3" I would be letting dispatch and the other officers know I was responding with lights and siren. I guess it seemed 'cool' when I was a rookie.

Of course, I have since had a bunch of other call signs, William 9, William 7, Robert 72, 1-Paul-28, 1-Sam-28, and currently 1-Sam-2.

Like a lot of the other guys who have posted here, I just kind of picked a user name very early on in the popular history of the world wide web and I suppose I have just stuck with it out of habit and familiarity... except for gaming where I have gone as BuddyTheIdiotDog; but thats a whole different story.

Justin

My screen name matches my avatar and should be self explanatory.

2007 was a VERY GOOD YEAR!

2007 BCS NATIONAL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS

2008 NCAA NATIONAL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS

TIM TEBOW - 2008 HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER

My last name is Kasper, and I was given the nickname Kasperitis in high school by some less-than-friendly people. So, being the genius I am, I use it as a handle online. It means "inflammation of the Kasper". Apparently I'm inflamed or something.

One of my buddies makes fun of it and calles me "Kapernicus" as an intentional mispronunciation. I kinda like that though.