What inspired your username?

Does anyone have an interesting or amusing story about how you chose your username? If so feel free to post it here and enlighten us all.

My username is based (loosely) on the asteroid "Apophis" which is on a possible collision course with earth in the year 2036. I intentionally misspelled the name simply because I didn't like the way it is spelled. I look forward to hearing from everyone.

 

Just needed a name that wouldn't be taken anywhere and sounded sweet. Don't ask me the exact pronunciation though, that's up for you to decide. I think it was first for an IRC name in SIRadio.FM's channel.

 

My nickname in real life is dmac. Then I jsut put some random numbers until the sign up screen said that the account name was available ;D
I like your name apophos755.

 

I had wanted to make an account for GameFAQs many, many years ago, and couldn't think of anything cool (to my nine-year-old-or-so mentality). So, I looked at the game that I liked at that moment - Armored Core: Nine Breaker - and, lo and behold, the persona of 9NineBreaker9 was created. I guess I've just stuck with it for that bit of nostalgia, and because I've grown too attached to change it to much anything else... unless, for some reason, numbers are not allowed first, then it's become Ethermagus, in a nod to my WoW Shaman.

 

Thank you.....Like you I just added a bunch of random numbers as well.

 

Lazar Wolf is the name of the butcher in "Fiddler on the Roof." WAAAY back in the year 2000 or so, my brother was in a Junior-High (abridged) production of the play, so my family rented the movie, and I absolutely loved it. Also around that time, my brother and I were into Laser Tag, and I could never find a gamer tag that suited me, until I tried "LazerWulf" spelled alternatively to sound futuristic, and it stuck. For the past 8 years, I have never had any trouble registering the name LazerWulf anywhere on the internet (except on MySpace, where the name was taken by a German rock band, but I never liked MySpace anyway).

I am LazerWulf, now and forever.

 

Awesome name......I like it.

 

I don't like having the same nick for long periods of time but it's a problem because most sites don't offer the chance for you to change it. I used to use the nick Darkside mostly, but was then known as Forlorn-Skies. Now however, I use grimsim. Its really simple and not amazing or anything but I couldn't think of anything better at the time. Its a play on my real nickname, which is Sim, combined with the word grim, which kinda sums up my attitude at times. Not too original but I guess I'm happy with it for now.

Oh and I have a 1 after it because someone had already used it on somewhere else (think it was Skype), and I decided to keep it because I came up with it on my own and it does incorporate my real nickname so screw the other person I thought

Anyways the rest of you have some cool stories and interesting nicks. Looking forward to hearing the rest.

 

Well I would've of used rizzer-rex because that's my username I use most of the time but I felt like having something diffrent so I chose Monter which when I was small child I couldn't say monster so I would always say monter.

 

@ LazarWolf
Reminds me of my other name as LaserRhith for photobucket!
I've been into high powered laser for a while and photonics is what I want to major in.
I wish my story was better for my name. :-\

 

My name + random numbers = my username

 

That's a cool story......and also a cool choice of career. I wish you the best.

 

Nothing like a little fun with las0rs!

 

That dude has a huge Afro..

 

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