What is the origin of your username?

[donalde]

donalde has been my online name from beginning on '90, when I 1st time entered irc. By that time I was huge fan of books by donald e westlake, also I had some reason RL nickname 'aku', donald duck is 'aku ankka' in finnish, but that 'aku' didn't come from that. So, 1st time I entered irc, I tried nickname 'aku'. In Use. 'donald'.. also in use. 'donalde' was not in use... well, it has been in use since.

[Magnate]

No such qualms!

[HallucinationMushroom]

Do you still have the car? Please tell me you still have the car. I want the car.

[Therem Harth]

Le Guin character. When I was a teenager I thought it was all cool and geeky-literary; at this point I'm a little embarrassed to be using such a handle on forums related to a rather barbaric computer game.

(Not that I have anything against barbaric computer games. But the association seems kind of strange, to say the least.)

[Magnate]

Do you still have the car? Please tell me you still have the car. I want the car.

Yes - but being middle-aged, it's now on axle stands in the garage with its seats out and one side removed. It failed its safety test just before my daughter was born four years ago, and I started work on it last month. I am hoping to get it back on the road this summer ...

[AnonymousHero]

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(Filler to avoid spam filter.)

EDIT: Oh, and Buzzkill gets credit for the avatar. He drew two avatars (one for me and another for another forumite) and I cropped 50% of each. Win.

[Thraalbee]

I did not think much of it at the time, just needed something for the login. Now I wish I had chosen better. But it'll do. Obviously inspired by Douglas Adams' Bugblatterbeast of Thraal.

[dos350]

dos350 please no abuse

dos was taken so i add about three fiddy, on steam then battlenet then d2jsp and here and email

from my rap-name Dossy-G

[Bagplant]

Mine was a random word combination that came up in a default password generator that I found amusing.

[bio_hazard]

I'm a physicist.

I'm a biologist. Me and my friends used "the biohazards" as a pub trivia team name for a while.

[Mr Mushroom]

Back when I were a halfling I was named Mr Mushroom in my UT clan for being a dapper gentleman and having lag so bad it was a bit like being on mushrooms (you think you should be moving fast when actually you're really slow). Since then it's even leaked out into real life and I'm sometimes called Shrooms by my friends.

[Narvius]

A name I randomly made up for a LoGD (a browser RPG - basically a MUD for people who don't know what MUDs are) character about five years ago or so. Kept it, as it's not that bad.

[OOD Town drunk]

I enjoy a drink or two more than anyone else in town, also I have Overly Odorous Drawers.

[MadeOfBees]

I just thought anything that is constructed entirely of bees is pretty damn awesome.

[OOD Town drunk]

I just thought anything that is constructed entirely of bees is pretty damn awesome.

that is some ironclad logic