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#280304 7-Dec-2020 15:59
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Hi all,

 

I'm just wondering where peoples usernames came from.

 

 

 

Mine was from a game many years ago called F22 Lightning... I wasn't the best and kept getting shot down, hence the name.

 

 

 

I'm sure others have more interesting stories, just for some fun as some topics get a bit niggly 😎




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  #2617641 7-Dec-2020 16:04
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Interesting ? Nope. But a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) I was a bit of an aviation buff (still am actually) and fancied myself as the Red Baron, hence rb. The numbers are just numbers.




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  #2617644 7-Dec-2020 16:05
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Yes Minister.

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  #2617650 7-Dec-2020 16:08
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I forget. Something like the Simpsons or some similar cartoon had a character that often added “tastic” to the end of words. Like “bustastic” etc.







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  #2617655 7-Dec-2020 16:13
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I couldn't think of anything clever at the time so just used my initials 😅

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  #2617656 7-Dec-2020 16:14
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Its my first and last names joined together... lol

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  #2617662 7-Dec-2020 16:22
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My ethnic identity and being male.....





 
 
 
 

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  #2617664 7-Dec-2020 16:23
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just one of my old number plates for a car i had at the time.

 

 




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  #2617668 7-Dec-2020 16:27
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Many moons ago I owned a citrus orchard 

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  #2617669 7-Dec-2020 16:28
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna 

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  #2617672 7-Dec-2020 16:34
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Mine was from Red Dwarf. TalkieToaster was the originally intended name but when I typed it into Foothills (a MUD from about 1992) from an internet connected VAX at Otago Uni it silently truncated the username to just "TalkieT"... No error, no option to change - just truncated the name and that was it.

 

Haven't changed it since, apart from some minor variations with capitalisation...

 

Mind you, I also have only gone one thing from paper/scissors/rock since 1994...

 

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  #2617678 7-Dec-2020 16:40
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Mine is from the old 4WD forums. I had a Hilux with a Chevy 350 in it... so it was called the "chevrolux".

 
 
 
 

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  #2617679 7-Dec-2020 16:45
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SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

Yes Minister.

 

 

@SirHumphreyAppleby I loved that series and the following Yes Prime minster. 

 

 

 

Mine is just me 😀




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  #2617684 7-Dec-2020 16:52
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From my first mainframe login back in the (late) 80s.




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  #2617692 7-Dec-2020 16:58
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It's what I do!

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  #2617693 7-Dec-2020 16:58
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My parents.  Though it replaced an old user name I'd used for a number of years for twitter etc....now generally only used on github.

 

 




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