What's behind your fluther?

initials and former credential. Nothing fun. Just something I can remember. My nickname is Cindy.

my fluther name is just my initials.
(not very creative, I know!)

mtl= montreal, the greatest city ever
zack= my nickname

My blog

Lump me in with the other uncreative people who just use their name.

peedub = PW

My name is Truman :)

Astro= Elroy Jetson’s dog
Chuck= Vomit

AstroChuck is kind of my hero…

When I was eight I had to think of a username for some odd thing. My cousin Samuel had just been born and I thought I would put his name backwards. Needless to say I did this wrong, but nevertheless I’ve stuck with it for the past six years.

Chica- I’m a girl
Del Playa- The street I lived on while going to college in Santa Barbara.
Plus, I’m a girl that loves the beach!

I made this name up when I was playing an early “dungeon”-type RPG from Infocom on a TRS-80. This was back in the 1970s, when there were no graphics to speak of and it was mostly a game of the imagination (and therefore extremely vivid). Each level of the 4-level dungeon took 10 minutes to load from a tape cassette, and it took weeks to play a game through.

One time the roll of the virtual 18-sided die (pseudo-random number generator) gave me a strong, skillful female warrior, and this is the name I made up for her. She had nearly solved the fourth dungeon when she tripped an arrow trap in the ceiling behind a secret door and went down in flames. Best alter ego I ever had. It was in her honor that I chose an image of a queen in armor as my avatar.

haha .. well i use MELLY6708 for practically everything.. but MELLY is my name (melissa) and 6708 are the last 4 numbers of a phone number of some guy i used to like

I KNOW I WISH I COULD CHANGE IT!! but its too late. its stuck for life ;\

I’ve been using this name all over the internet for years, so much so that I get annoyed if I see that anyone else has it. Thankfully, that’s pretty rare. Kinda self-explanatory, though. I’m a huge dreamer, in almost every way imaginable. It works for me and I’m happy with it. Once I found out I was an INFP, it made me chuckle even more that I chose this for myself. :)

August = birth month
Lan = initials

What is an INFP?

I was high when I created my account. Pete isn’t my real name, but petethepothead has a nice ring to it.

@Augustlan: personality type, I believe, on the Myers-Briggs.

My daughter’s nickname is tigger, and I am her mom, hence, Tiggersmom. She is most important to me, and I love her dearly.

Mine is my first and last name in ROT-26.

@pete: I’m devastated by this news.

Mine was an old domain I had asmo***.net. But Asmon’ay’ works just fine for me. ;)

Mine is just my name. It’s really easy to remember something that people have been calling you for nearly 22 years.

Mine is two-fold, one for the awesomeness of the true Dynamic Duo in my mind, the 60s Batman and Robin… oh Adam West. The second is that I have a few pet bearded dragons, and two of them cohabitate and often make interesting and dynamic poses.

It has been my screen name I use for everything since I was fourteen. I forget any other ones when I try to make new ones. My name is Jessica, I use to raise turtles my whole life, and 23 is from when I started reading Robert Anton Wilson when I was going through a conspiracy phase in middle school.

My name is Tony, and my username is an attempt to add some edge to an otherwise boring name.

@tonedef but what is up w/ the tufted tit mouse?!

Mine is easy to remember. Snoopy was always looked upon by the other characters as “just a dog”, but was actually one of the smartest ones in the bunch. I always admired that about Snoopy.

@snoopy: Aww! It’s just my favorite bird. I’m quite the avian enthusiast. Maybe one day soon, I’ll change it to a loggerhead shrike. I hope people can still recognize me. Also, super cute explanation.

@tone In my area we the TTM…but they aren’t super common. I have been known to look out my window and hiss quietly “look! tufted tit mouse!!! tufted tit mouse!!!” Plus, I think the name is funny. hehe :)

Daloon = the loon. Sort of like reclaiming derogatory terms. I feel pride for living a reasonably productive life despite my diagnosis.

forestGeek because, though live in in the city and sit in front of a computer all day, when I go into the forest, I totally geek out of plants, trees, animals and nature in gerneral. Also was a forest ranger for 5 years.

My last name rhymes with radar and isn’t spelled how it’s pronounced. When I bother to correct people, I say “it’s like radar.”

Sueanne is my real first name. Tremendous was how I was feeling when I signed up here some months ago. I honestly didn’t think I’d hang around here long so I didn’t put a lot of thought into my name. It’s a pretty pretentious name, but awww…y’alll been so nice…

Oh, and my real last name starts with Tre…

One day, I was feeling knotty… and voila.

@johnpowell… cannot lurve ya enough for “ROT-26”. Brilliant.

@Asmonet, I thought you were an artist…thinking of yourself as Monet.

@Daloon, I’m sorry if this is getting too personal, but—you were diagnosed as a loon?
I happen to be a loon lover myself. I’m the one for whom some calendar company puts out a wall calendar every year with photos of loons on it. Hey, that sounds like a fluther Q to me.

@Jeruba: I am one. Happy coincidence. :)

@jeruba: I was not diagnosed as a bird, silly! But I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I trust that’s loony enough. Well, it is for me. I do spend a week every summer on a lake that has loons.

Nickname is Jan – short for Janet. “B” is the first initial of my maiden name which I use as my middle name and “B” is the first initial of my married name. Boring but true.

If you want more of a story, ask me about my avatar.

@janbb: Consider yourself asked! Please elaborate : )

My husband said years ago that I looked like a penguin and since then penguins have been part of our family lore. I always have my nose (beak?) in a book and I am a librarian by trade. I saw this picture in the New Yorker a few years ago and adopted it as my avatar, but Fluther has been my first official use of it.

I like my avatar. The guy in it is Jonathan Crombie (look him up….like now…you won’t regret it). He just recently played The Man In The Chair for The Drowsy Chaperone on Broadway and touring. I met him and he is soooooooooooo awesome! And HOT!!!!

@daloon: oh. Well, you never know what is going to turn up in the DSM, though, do you? It’s good to know you’re hanging in there despite disgnosed condition. I have awakened only once to hear loons over a lake at dawn. I was about 13, but I’ll never forget it. I am loony for loons—even bought myself a loon-call whistle and a recording of Clair de Lune with—guess what.

(Make that “diagnosed”)

Ajax is an African Grey (female, but named before the DNA test came back) , my favorite color is gray, and I am of the age to be gray haired (if I let it).

I’ve been a serious Edward Gorey fan since I was a little girl. In the dark, dry vein of Gorey, the Figbash is a mysterious, shape-shifting character who appears in odd places and contorts himself into the letters of the alphabet.