The Story Behind Your Username

[Lucky123]

Lucky123 was actually a mistake, I thought my username for some other sites was Lucky123, but it was actually Skink123, Lucky is the name of my skink so you can see why I got confused.

 

[aendi]

Mine is my name spelled in the phonetic alphabet! Pretty simple lmao

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

Well, mine goes back quite a ways. And not particularly interesting.

I am quite a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's"The Lord of the Rings". The books and much later, the movies. There was a parody of the books written a long time ago by the folks at the Harvard Lampoon. it was called "The Bored of the Rings". It was a goofy parody and now has a lot of dated references, some that even were before my time.
For those familiar with the original books, you may remember the character "Tom Bombadil" a fey woodland dweller who seemed to be just a whimsical character, but was actually quite a powerful entity, he just sort of went native, I guess you could say. He was unaffected by the One Ring and it was hinted that he was a very ancient being and that was much more to him than meets the eye. He spouted silly songs and was really just sort of a side character encountered by the hobbits during their journey.

So, the Harvard Lampoon created a character based on him, called "Tim Benzedrine". He was portrayed as a burnt-out, drug addled hippy, living in the forest with his old lady, "Hashberry" (a play on the character "'Goldberry', the original Bombadil's companion). The character amused me a great deal. There were references made by the authors that I didn't completely get until later, by the way, largely due to the fact that the book was written in 1969 and referred to a lot of sixties counter-culture items.

Years later, when I made my first venture into interaction into what was then early social media on the internet, a bulletin board called The Lord of the Rings Movie News" a site that followed the production and of course the development of the movie, that was the user name I chose.. This was around 1999, as I recall. I developed the personality that many of you have come to know and loathe here, not taking a lot very seriously, constantly making wise-cracks, wandering off topic, etc. Known for writing song parodies and sometimes slightly off-color posts and silly comments. And I was a mod, eventually. I was there until the site finally shut down, probably a decade later.
So I just sort of carried over the persona when I signed on here.

 

[Ratmosphere]

Made it up.

 

[Swagg]

Mine comes from half of my last name. When I went to basic training I had a drill sergeant that had trouble saying my full name. He started calling me swagg and the name stuck.

 

[ColeopteraC]

Oh dear, some of these backstories are really great and inventive.

My favourite order is Coleoptera and my first name begins with a C. There.

 

[The Mantis Menagerie]

It started with tropical fruit trees and then lepidopterans. But it was a mantis I found that fully led me down the invert rabbit hole. My collection is quite a diverse menagerie, and it was all started by a mantis.

 

[RezonantVoid]

got a dictionary
opened up to 2 random pages and chose a word from each i liked
combined them and replaced S with Z
i liked the ironic contradiction between resonating, and nothingness. How could an empty and barren space, emit anything?

hence, RezonantVoid
been using it for years

 

[Transrights]

I support trans rights.... Who could have guessed

 

[Garnet3942]

Well I mean this was just a name I wanted to use because my birth stone was Garnet but now that I think of it I do wanna change it because most of the time people think it's from a show. I honestly wanna change it lol. If you wanna know what I would change it to I would change it to midorkumo (greenspider in Japanese) mainly because my favorite color is green and my favorite animal is spiders! I do like the way it sounds too I think it's pretty!

my real name is William and I was thinking of an account name and I typed in mailliw my name spelled backwards and messed around a bit and ended up with mellow.

Lol that kinda reminds me of death note (sorry off topic lol)

 

[mellow]

Lol that kinda reminds me of death note (sorry off topic lol)

death note is one of my favorite anime!

 

[Garnet3942]

death note is one of my favorite anime!

That's awesome it's one of my favorites too!! (My all time favorite is bleach) Although I did not get my obsession from any anime lol more like I was afraid and yet I was curious about them and realised how sadly misunderstood they were spiders are truly amazing creatures!

 

[Heterogeneity]

I came up with my username in 2011 after getting divorced young and joining a new website called Okcupid.com. Online dating was like the Wild West back then AND you couldn’t tell anyone you were doing it lest they judge. Anyway, I wanted a name that described me in one word. I’m a bit of a contradiction being raised a poor farm kid but having since traveled the world. My education was eclectic so I chose a word to reflect that inner chaos, er, diversity of experience.

 

[mellow]

That's awesome it's one of my favorites too!! (My all time favorite is bleach) Although I did not get my obsession from any anime lol more like I was afraid and yet I was curious about them and realised how sadly misunderstood they were spiders are truly amazing creatures!

One day I decided to hold an emperor scorpion at a pet store and then i bought one, and then I got a giant African flat rock scorpion and just kept getting more scorpions, i only got into keeping other bugs like tarantulas and centipedes after keeping several scorpions and wanted to try something a little different.

 

[SamanthaMarikian]

It’s just my name because all my other usernames are my nicknames from when i was like 3 and i want to feel somewhat respectable But if i every change it it’s going to have beans or something legume related somewhere in it

 

[Garnet3942]

One day I decided to hold an emperor scorpion at a pet store and then i bought one, and then I got a giant African flat rock scorpion and just kept getting more scorpions, i only got into keeping other bugs like tarantulas and centipedes after keeping several scorpions and wanted to try something a little different.

That's pretty cool! My dad does not like the whole keeping scorpian idea he likes tarantulas more I do like tarantulas a lot but scorpians are pretty cool too.

 

[Tony]

I guess I dont really have to say anything

 

[Dr SkyTower]

Well I have an advanced doctorate in the little studied subject of "Utterly Nothing", who wouldn't want a degree in that! Unfortunately it hasn't helped me to to get a job anywhere in that particular field
My user name represents my chosen field of "Utterly Nothing" - reaching for the sky - in utterly nothing

 

[RezonantVoid]

Well I have an advanced doctorate in the little studied subject of "Utterly Nothing", who wouldn't want a degree in that! Unfortunately it hasn't helped me to to get a job anywhere in that particular field
My user name represents my chosen field of "Utterly Nothing" - reaching for the sky - in utterly nothing

However you may feel about your chosen field, your profile picture shows you are truly cultured and intelligent individual. If not for Hollow Knight i would have chosen a HZD machine as my avatar too!

 

[Dr SkyTower]

However you may feel about your chosen field, your profile picture shows you are truly cultured and intelligent individual. If not for Hollow Knight i would have chosen a HZD machine as my avatar too!

Awww, thankyou! I've actually got that avatar as a real live Lego MOC build... sitting on my desk next to my laptop! Built him without instructions and with no experience as a Lego builder! I have yet to give him a name...