Username Origins

[rmsandw]

rmsandw....short for my site "Roads of the Mid-South & West"

[John]

I think mine is really self-explanatory...

[Dougtone]

My name is Doug and I'm a fan of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.  I came up with this username around 1998, when the Bosstones were at the height of their popularity.  I figured it would be a good name for myself and others to identify me.  For a few years before then, I used the name "Icemutiny" as my Internet moniker.

[Bryant5493]

My first name is Bryant. The numbers are just random. 


Be well,

Bryant

[Chris]

My first name is Chris.

Advantage if you register on a forum quick, you don't need a nick like Chris12345111one...

[Lyle]

I just used my first name, Lyle. I was considering using "Gizmo," the name of a cat that I used to have, but I decided to use my real name.

[aswnl]

aswnl:
asw=AutoSnelWegen; nl=.nl
So just the abbreviation of my sitename.

[tankerdave]

tankerdave:

Tanker is a nod to my job in the military (MOS 19K M1A1 Armor Crewman)

Dave is, well, my first name.  First created the name for a new email address about 3 years ago.  Half the guys in my unit called me tankerdave as a joke when they found out my email, lol.  Some still do.

[Tarkus]

Emerson, Lake and Palmer is one of my favorite bands, and Tarkus is the name of their second album, released in 1971 (before my time ), as well as the 20-minute long title-track and the armadillo that adorns the cover, as depicted in my avatar.

It's been my username on most sites since about 2006 or so, though when it's taken, I usually go for Aquatarkus.

-Alex (Tarkus)

[PAHighways]

The URL of my website.

[ctsignguy]

Ctsignguy...a guy who is very interested in Connecticut signs (and collects them too!....told my SO i was going to stop once i had 'a hundred thousand of each and every kind of sign (that Connecticut put up!)'

Mine started off as a Livejournal handle for my hobby journal that morphed into my eBay handle (to prevent confusion when bidding on signs....Jake, Mike, and myself have a small cooperative where we scour for signs for each other and this system has worked well for a couple of years)

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Emerson, Lake and Palmer is one of my favorite bands, and Tarkus is the name of their second album, released in 1971 (before my time ), as well as the 20-minute long title-track and the armadillo that adorns the cover, as depicted in my avatar.

It's been my username on most sites since about 2006 or so, though when it's taken, I usually go for Aquatarkus.

-Alex (Tarkus)

Aw, I love ELP too. They're one of my favorites (along with their fellow prog rock contemporary Yes)

Anyway, my name is kind of non-descript as well. I was 14 I think, and that was when I became obsessed with roads. I had a stupid IM name at the time (forgot what it was) so I made a new one. It reflected me liking highways, roads, and signs. I tacked on the 394 because it's my favorite Twin Cities highway.

[DrZoidberg]

Mine is pretty self explanatory.  I really liked Dr. Zoidberg on Futurama, and I felt "Bender Bending Rodriguez" was too long a name.

[corco]

Corco is an abbreviation of my last name that I acquired in 1999 when AOL suggested I use the screen name Corco16446. I've dropped the 16446 but have become well known on the interwebs as Corco. I haven't used AOL in 7 years.

[Zezug]

This screen name is entirely thanks to someone mispelling my last name in the school office a few years ago. And since then, I've used it pretty extensively online in games and on websites.

[yanksfan6129]

yanksfan because I am a fan of the New York Yankees, 6129 is the first for numbers of my birth date, June 12, 199x

[Truvelo]

Mine is the name of a type of speed camera.

[exit322]

I needed an email address when my family first got internet (late 1997), and so I threw a tiddly wink onto a map set from the top of a stairwell and it landed on I-75, Exit 322 in Michigan.

Voila.

[Southern Illinois SKYWARN]

Southern Illinois= Where I live; SKYWARN= NWS spotter organization

[Alps]

Of course, my website is Alps' Roads.  The ROADS part (all caps) comes from a time when many of us would shout "ROADS!" "SIGNS!" etc.  The Alps refers to my last name, which became my nickname.  When I first decided that my website should have a name to it, way back when I was a student, I was tossing around ideas and starting thinking, where do I know anything with an Alp in it.  And then it struck me.

[NJTurnpike]

My username comes from me living in New York, but my interest in Philly teams.  I plan on moving to Philly sometime.

[Voyager]

Wouldn't it be NY then?

[NJTurnpike]

The NJ Turnpike is the easiest way to get from New York to Philly.

[Marc]

Technically, my username is KatyFreeway, which comes from the name given to Interstate 10 on the west side of Houston. For now, I have my display name as my real first name.

[BigMattFromTexas]

BigMatt
Well im 13 and almost 6-foot tall
and my name is Matthew