The story behind your screen name

[wdw_]

This is a thread where you can tell the wonderful or terrifying truths behind your screen names.

Here’s my story.

I was probably 11. I didn’t have the internet at my home yet, so every chance I got I would get my parents to drive me to the central library. I would spend hours surfing the web. It was amazing to me. Once I spent 12 hours strait in front of the computer at the library.

Well one day, I asked the guy how I would go about getting an email address. He came over to the computer and showed me Yahoo.com. He took me to registration form and It asked me to pick a screen name. At that time I was a huge Disney fan. I loved Walt Disney World. I would cry when thinking about it. Anyway, I tried the screen name wdw but it was taken. I tried many variations but they were either taken or I didn’t like them that much. Finally I came up with the name wdw_ *angels sing and clouds part*.

I’ve used that screen name for almost everything since.

[julguribye]

It's almost the same story with me... The first time I got internet on my mac, I went straight to the hotmail.com site to get myself a mail. I Signed up with my name "xxxxx xxxxxx" and then hotmail atomaticly made a short version of it and made a "julguribye" suggestion and I choosed that and since then, I have always used that name on everything just to remember it...

[Lessthanmighty]

Lessthanmighty... it is short for.... The less than mighty blink day tones!

A mixture of bands that I like.
-Less than Jake
-Mighty Mighty Bosstones
-Blink 182
-Green Day
-Deftones

Got it... good!

[Nummi_G4]

Wow... you all have stories. Mine is just my last name, and my G4. My first MACOSX name was just Nummi... but we all know what happened there

[Valrus]

I've loved walruses ever since I got a stuffed one (as in a plush toy, not a real 10-foot taxidermified walrus) in elementary school. Since then I've been accumulating stuffed walruses (the original was sadly lost in the sands of time, or something like that) and other walrus paraphernalia, and I think I probably have one of the largest walrus collections around. The name "Valrus" comes from a friend of mine in high school with a rather perverse interest in my brutal death saying, "Ian, I hope you get mauled by a rabid valrus in the stairwell." Well, I decided to reclaim the word "Valrus" as my own, and it pretty much just stuck.

And I have to say that "Valrus" is a pretty cool word.

-the valrus

[mrfluffy]

the band i do a website for (www.misterfluffy.co.uk - subtle advertising) are called fuddle, but at the time fuddle.co.uk wasnt available so they chose misterfluffy.co.uk as the url. and i've use it as a SN on every message board im signed up to.

[themacko]

Back in high school when I played basketball, everyone on the team called eachother by their shortened last name with an O on the end ..

Parnell = Parno
Sanchez = Sancho
Jones = Jono
Mackey (me) = Macko

and so I've carried this name since then.

[nkuvu]

I'd tell you... but then I'd have to kill you. Or at least gnaw off your ankles...