User Names: What's Your Origin?

I like roads.

Seriously, that's about it. I don't remember why I picked this name in particular, aside from it being the location of an imaginary company of mine when I was younger.

I thought it sounded cool back when I needed a new screen name in, like, 2004. It stuck.

I was registering for a My Chemical Romance site, but didn't want to use "Bella Muerte" from a lyric they had, so I went for something ~*~dark~*~ but not so different, so I "made up"(which means

edited 8th Oct '11 12:00:30 PM by Bellacide

@Bella: Okay, I don't feel so bad now about borrowing your handle for the name of my RPG character's band.

Anyhow, mine's pretty simple. I drink a lot, and I write. I used to be known as "Lord Whitesnake" back when I had long metal hair, but new site, new haircut, new handle.

It's on my troper page, but newbies don't read those.

"Not quite."

Should I clarify?

edited 8th Oct '11 12:18:16 PM by ekuseruekuseru

There you go.

As for mine: I like birds, and the colors white and black.

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edited 8th Oct '11 12:44:00 PM by BlackDove

All There In The Troper Page.

The very first website I got addicted to as a user rather than an observer was the Homestar Runner wiki, and I saw that almost everybody else there had usernames that were references to the cartoons, so I picked the first cool-sounding quote that came to my mind ("haldo") as my username. I came to associate that word with my online identity, so I took it with me wherever I went on the internet. It's like a second name to me.

Which toon is that from?

It's actually from one of the games, Peasant's Quest.

I missed a Peasant's Quest reference? Nooooooooooooooooo

I was thinking up a username that described me, not liking the ones I'd created before it, and it... kinda just popped into my head. I'm very fond of it now. (I'm pretty sure this site isn't the first time I made use of it.)

edited 8th Oct '11 2:25:13 PM by CompassionateSadist

It's a line from 'Ten Dollar Solo'.

Real-life story, GO!

My mom's boss suggested that I be nicknamed Tre since my dad was already Manny. My mom liked it. And then she had me a few days later.

The name stuck.

As for troper naming, originally I was Trerox (one of my two go-to usernames in general on the net) but I dropped it once I saw that "Tre" was available and Trerox was arrogant as frak.

Something I thought up on the spot when I was about to make an account at another big site... :/ also I do like strawberries quite a lot.

...This is something that I've been thinking about for a WHILE.

Remove the double "e" and you have my initials. Also:

It's my family nickname that came about due to baby-talk by my older brother. I think it was spelt 'Lonnie', but Loni is neater.

I made something up that sounded cool.

On some places, I'm "Killa Shade" if you're wondering what the K stands for.

I always said that if I had a pug, I would name it Wug, and that changed to wuggles (my username at some places is still wugthepug).

I'm a big Catch-22 fan, and Hungry Joe was a character I thought was neat. His name also started with the same letter as my first name, which for some reason makes me like characters more.Later, I learned about Hungry Joe Lewis, a conman who once scammed Oscar Wilde.

I use derivatives of Hungry Joe in other places. On the MSPA forum I'm Topaz Joe (since one of my first avatars was a piece of Topaz and a lot of folks still seem to associate it with me). On Archive Of Our Own I'm Heap Big Photographer, which is what Hungry Joe would tell Italian women so they would pose for him naked while he failed to take pictures of them.

"Multi-dinero, multi-ficky-fick!"

and he really is a photographer for Time.