phitter Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I am just curious (and I apologize if this is somewhere else) as to the explanation for your username. Is it an alter ego? Part of some esoteric inside joke you care to reveal at this time? *Gasp* your actual name? As for me, I go by "phitter" out of habit. I am a baseball freak and briefly operated a highly unsuccessful Cubs newsletter called the Pinch Hitter. As part of my brilliant marketing campaign I decided to use "Pinchhitter" as my username where ever possible. When I first signed on to eBay, however, "Pinchhitter" and "PH" were already taken so I shortened it to Phitter and have just kind of used it ever since. Contrary to what you may have previously thought, I am not a pipe fitter, I don't work in a shoe store and trust me, I am certainly not trying to boast that I am somehow in better physical condition than you are. -phitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcprs1 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 bcprs1 - short for Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox #1. I'm from the boston area and a huge Boston sports fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 My name is Shawn Sr. as I am a proud father of Shawn Jr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I'm just horny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 My mom named me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 5 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I'm just horny too. But my name is the real red 5. In books, Vader, previously Anakin's call sign was Red 5 too. Like Luke was in Star Wars. Holy crap that's geeky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wavemotion Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 .sdrawkcab delleps llabnip si eniM I chose it because one of the first forums I was on was pinball related. It just stuck. My avatar is Baster - the player 1 pilot from Radiant Silvergun. http://www.emuxhaven.net/~silver/Main%20Story.html Normally I just go by DaveB which is neither distinguishing nor has a clever story behind it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub_bobby Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 vdub is sort of slang for VW and I have a VW bug. And my name is Bob; some folks call me Bobby. I picked it 6 years ago when I was trying to get a yahoo email addy that wasn't already taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 im a big godzilla fan, zilla is also an old high school nick name, and i had a c64 warez group called zillaworks among other things :-) and a bbs called zillaz den.. and.. and.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 During the 80s and early 90s I ran a BBS I wrote and was known as The Dragon Master, or The Dm for short. All my software was released under SpiceWare as my last name is Spice. When I started getting on internet sets, The Dm wasn't normally availabe so I started using SpiceWare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I am just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 BassGuitari: I am a bassist, and adding the "i" after "Guitar" makes it sound like "Atari" with a G tacked onto the front. Meh, seemed like a good idea at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I'm currently hopelessly addicted to Guitar Hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the 5th ghost Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I did my best to annoy my fellow Ms. Pac-Man competitors to get them off their game during competitions. Thus, I was given this nickname. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfutrel Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Mine came from my first email address back in 1995. IBM Internet Access under OS/2 only allowed 7 characters, so it lopped off the last letter of my last name. Nothing too fancy. Yes I'm a mid-aged old fart. Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minorleagueguy Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 :...mine is for my facination with all things related to minor league sports. I do not own ANYTHING that has to do with the 4 major sports leagues. When I started going to card shows looking for "oddball" (minor league) items, the vendors used to say, "here comes that minor league guy"...and it stuck minorleagueguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Potatohead came from an impulse registration at Slashdot when it was first getting started. I ended up liking the name because it's not often taken. (This is not so true these days, but still mostly true.) Besides, I really liked my Mr. Potatohead toy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Like Godzilla, I'm also a fan of the big G. A friend from another list I'm on was in town for a rock show and crashed on my couch afterwards. He later posted to the list that he stayed at "Godzilla Joe's" place and was amazed at how many movies and G figures I had. The name kinda stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboypacman Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Ok growning up my family used to call me JohnBoy.Now am a fan of Pac-Man and even have a Pac-Man Tattoo.So i just combined the 2 and so "jboypacman"was born. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hounder Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Mine came from my dog. I have a basset hound and the word "Hound" just didn't seem to fit. So I went to "Hounder" which is what I use everywhere except ebay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Basically, when I got my first home internet connection back in 1997, I'd acquired a CIB of Eternal Champions from Electronics Botique (back when they were still selling used 16-bit games!) and I found myself using Larcen Tyler (the catburglar) a lot, and I decided to use that just for the hell of it. It ended up sticking with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recycled Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Name of an album. <------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 My user name came from my not-often looked at website, Atari 2600 Land. It's at www.atari2600land.com, so the URL is easy to remember. I know this is a shameless plug, but, hey, you asked... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0c7 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 "Data exception error" on IBM mainframes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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