Where Did Your Username Come From And How Old Is It?

[cbwjm]

I just decided to change mine to an old Disney image I found on this site.

Perfect match for your username.

 

[dbm]

My user name is my initials, and I use it pretty much everywhere I can.

My avatar is a picture of our first cat when she was a kitten; she passed in 2020 at a good age for a cat. I use the picture as she had very distinct markings and it is recognisable even as a small thumbnail. And she was lovely.

 

[Thraic Ogmund]

Mine is the name of a dwarf cleric that I played in an AD&D campaign starting in 2020. It is derived from combining a first name built from the prefixes and suffixes from the Dwarves of Rockhome and a last name that is actually a first name taken (if memory serves) from The Northern Reaches. I seem to recall that one of the prefixes in DoR was "Far" and one of the suffixes was "to" - so perhaps I should have gone with "Farto."

 

[Waterbizkit]

Thanks to @MoonSong I realized I'd answered this previously:

The year was 1996, I was in middle school. Someone called me a cracker, they were serious about it. Using the sort of clever repartee children in middle school are known for I asked "What kind of cracker?"

This got me a confused look, so I went on... "There are a lot of crackers. Saltine, graham, oyster, water biscuit..." This got me a string of profanity in response. Such is life.

For some reason the part of the incident that stuck with my friends was the fact I knew there was a type of cracker called a water biscuit.

Fast forward a little bit to my first AOL account and Waterbizkit was born. It was the 90's so of course biscuit had to be spelled bizkit. It's been my one and only online handle used everywhere ever since.

As for the avatar, "Like a Sir" is my go-to. I like the finer things, what can I say?

 

[Moving Pictures]

Comes from the fact that I
a) Have long been a fan of Rush
b) was, in the early days, a professional photojournalist

 

[Kannik]

When I first got online in 1993, I chose this name for my lynxish self, loosely basing the name on one the words for snow from one of the dialects of Inuktitut. And it's been my online identity ever since!

(Humorously, I later found out that it's also an actual if rare name from the Scandinavian countries.)

 

[Doctor Futurity]

my name is multilayered....so the story begins in 1986. I am running a play by mail game which has dueling participants competing to write the best story of tales of superheroes called Crossover Earth. I'd taken it over from Ken St. Andre (of T&T), and we published the winning stories in a fanzine. A good friend of mine was Quentin Long, noted filk artist, and he'd invented some fantastic stories featuring references to numerous characters, including a time traveling mage named Doctor Futurity.
Now Quentin was older than me and knew of the novel of the same name, but I did not. I took over running this character and for many years made him a foil, ally or villian in my many DC Heroes RPG sessions. Soooo....yeah cut to the age of the internet and this was a shoe in for me.

 

[MoonSong]

Thanks to @MoonSong I realized I'd answered this previously:

The year was 1996, I was in middle school. Someone called me a cracker, they were serious about it. Using the sort of clever repartee children in middle school are known for I asked "What kind of cracker?"

This got me a confused look, so I went on... "There are a lot of crackers. Saltine, graham, oyster, water biscuit..." This got me a string of profanity in response. Such is life.

For some reason the part of the incident that stuck with my friends was the fact I knew there was a type of cracker called a water biscuit.

Fast forward a little bit to my first AOL account and Waterbizkit was born. It was the 90's so of course biscuit had to be spelled bizkit. It's been my one and only online handle used everywhere ever since.

As for the avatar, "Like a Sir" is my go-to. I like the finer things, what can I say?

TIL learn what "Limp Biskit" means

 

[jian]

My rpg.net handle for 20 years or so, originally derived from the mistaken belief that Jet Li’s name was Li Jian-jie (it’s actually Lian-jie). I also like jian but don’t know how to use them, I’m more of a HEMA guy.

 

[Umbran]

Mine is from a D&D character I played back in... 1995? I think I started using it as a handle in '97 or '98 maybe?