How did you settle on your username?

[Stigdu]

I really liked the book Stig of the Dump by Clive King when I was a kid, and because I wasn't particularly keen on either my first or middle names mum and dad chose to give me, I asked friends to call me Stig instead of Stacy.

Stigdu just came from STIG of the DUmp as a gaming nickname, which I've been using for about 35 years now.

Over to you!

[RetroRobot]

I like retro robots and sometimes stick Enby in there but wasn't sure how that'd go down here

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Its what the kids call me down at the local arcade

I'm forty

[Spudgun]

Give me a potato and I'll show you why.

[sevendaughters]

Had 9 kids and noticed a pattern about the ones I liked

[Small Potatoes]

Give me a potato and I'll show you why.

Eek!

[Magnum Valentino]

Misheard it during a conversation about wrestling aged 14 or so and adopted it as my wrestling moniker for messing about and having a daft laugh and that, permanently.

[bgmnts]

Put this on a game of Timesplitters 2 one time in about 2002 and it stuck because I liked it. 

[Buelligan]

Because I like cats so much.

[TrenterPercenter]

[imitationleather]

I like imitationleather, the popular poster on the Cook'd and Bomb'd message board.

[Jockice]

School nickname. Which only my very closest mates called me (my 'official' nickname was Jock, which I hated at first but unless you're very lucky you don't get to choose your own nickname. I got used to it though. I had to because even the teachers ended up calling me it). I only became Jockice online because I was originally signed into another forum under my real name but there was some malfunction and I had to think of another username. So there we go. Practically nobody calls me Jock anymore (except the odd person from school I bump into who I haven't seen for years) and my besties don't call me Jockice either. So now it's a strictly online thing.

[Dex Sawash]

Eek!

Exactly the sort of sock puppet simnock was talking about

[PlanktonSideburns]

Misheard it during a conversation about wrestling aged 14 or so and adopted it as my wrestling moniker for messing about and having a daft laugh and that, permanently.

One of the best usernames

[Dex Sawash]

Shit, thought that was an @Maris Piper post

[Norton Canes]

Remember when motorway service stations went through a brief period of being cool again? About the time Peter Kay did The Services?

Yeah.

[PlanktonSideburns]

I've had so many usernames on here in the past,
[Reference to banner user removed - Barry Admin],
[Reference to banner user removed - Barry Admin], also [Reference to banner user removed - Barry Admin],
and who could forget [Reference to banner user removed - Barry Admin], I don't think I can remember how I came by this one to be honest

[ImmaculateClump]

Fucking HATE my username. Just the first two random words that popped into my head when I was cunted late night signing up.
Wish I could change it. Or make a new account. I don't feel like I'm being myself anyway or fitting in at all.
ImmaculateClump, it's too fucking long and makes me sound like a right fucking wank.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Fucking HATE my username. Just the first two random words that popped into my head when I was cunted late night signing up.
Wish I could change it. Or make a new account. I don't feel like I'm being myself anyway or fitting in at all.
ImmaculateClump, it's too fucking long and makes me sound like a right fucking wank.

Yea it does a bit

Feel exactly the same about mine to be honest

[ImmaculateClump]

Yours isn't as bad. Mine sounds pretentious. At least yours is just insufferably whacky.

[non capisco]

An ex was learning Italian at the time I signed up. It's such a shit username that also sort of implies I'm a bit thick but ehhhh whaddyagonna do as the Italians also say.

[flotemysost]

Mine's got quite possibly the most boring backstory of all. It's a value from this database: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/sql/linq/downloading-sample-databases

I'm not actually a programmer or anything. I was sent on a three-day SQL basics course for work ages ago, and quite honestly the only thing I remembered after that soporific interlude was a funny-looking word (which I now know is a type of Norwegian brown cheese, though I didn't at the time).

Still not a clue how you pronounce it.

[touchingcloth]

It was an accident.

[touchingcloth]

Mine's got quite possibly the most boring backstory of all. It's a value from this database: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/sql/linq/downloading-sample-databases

I'm not actually a programmer or anything. I was sent on a three-day SQL basics course for work ages ago, and quite honestly the only thing I remembered after that soporific interlude was a funny-looking word (which I now know is a type of Norwegian brown cheese, though I didn't at the time).

Still not a clue how you pronounce it.

It's pronounced "fish".

[TrenterPercenter]

Still not a clue how you pronounce it.

float my saust I always imagine.  Sorry I've just realised that looks a bit rude writing it down but it doesn't sound it phonetical.

[TrenterPercenter]

It was an accident.

turtlin'

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

The phrase "big garlicky corpse" is amusing to me and I was rewatching Agatha Christie's Poirot when I signed up.

[TrenterPercenter]

The phrase "big garlicky corpse" is amusing to me and I was rewatching Agatha Christie's Poirot when I signed up.

It's a cracking user name it must be said.

[non capisco]

The avatar really makes it pop.

[TrenterPercenter]

I actually assumed it was a Partridgism that had evaded me