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Postby sunewbie on Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:26 am

I am a relatively new to forum culture, and I often find interesting and unique screen names.

How did you coin your screen name, what's your story :?:

Initially, I was was about to sign-in with my original name, but at that time, I did not found anyone using their real name, not even mods. So I began to coin my screen name.

My Name starts from letter 'S' and Surname (Last name) from Letter 'U'. 'U' coincidently also stands for Ubuntu, my first Linux Distro.

Hence my screen name 'sunewbie'.

After watching other screen names, I thought, I could have coined a better screen name, if allowed to change, I would settle with White Lotus :)
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby WhatUsernameIsFree? on Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:53 am

Frustration at all the aliases I use being taken.
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby Oscar799 on Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:01 am

Identity theft - Oscar is a cat,she was born in July 1999 - that's her in the avatar
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby sunewbie on Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:08 am

Oscar799 wrote:Identity theft - Oscar is a cat,she was born in July 1999 - that's her in the avatar


Hope she doesn't mind it :)

AFAIK, if you beat your cat, she might immediately bite, not the case with a dog. A dog will never bark or bite his / her owner.
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby lmintnewb on Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:09 am

^LMAO WhatUsernameIsFree? ... Can definitely sympathize.

Mine ... mainly cuz BiggydaddylongstrokeLinuxmaster was either already taken or too long ... dang it ! D:

Messing round, LM was 1st real stab into gnu/nix after quite awhile of being a sidelines fan, almost immediately borked it. Then made brief jump to buntu 10.10, after hearing how ubuntu IS LINUX, was horrified, at the dumb layout of it, within a couple hours removed buntu and had reinstalled LM 10 to give it another go. Next time round, things went mucho better. Though still managed to bork Mint 10 a couple dozen times learning how to tweak it and experimenting with stuff.

Ya know ... someone warned me when I first joined the Mint forums. What are ya gonna do a couple years from now and ya still have that username ? Didn't think I'd stick around very long, now I have 1400+ posts and am still username newb, shrugs. Though sheesh, it's true anyway. Trying to learn all things gnu/nix is either futile or a never ending process. ;)
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby The-Wizard on Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:10 am

two fold answer... my knack of obtaining the un-attainable, and the fact i have been married to a Pendle Witch for nearly 40 yrs
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby Pilosopong Tasyo on Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:20 am

Tasyo was a character in this Philippine novel. I've been using this moniker online for more than 6 years, starting from Yahoo Chat.

WhatUsernameIsFree? wrote:Frustration at all the aliases I use being taken.

LOL this reminds me of "NoMoreD@mnUserNamesLeft" in Yahoo Chat.
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby drumBE on Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:46 am

Drum is the name of my malinois and be stand for the country i'm living in.
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby w2ibc on Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:17 pm

my call sign issued by the F.C.C.
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby Habitual on Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:13 pm

Habitual b/c I needed to distance myself from PhrozenCrew after I re-signed.

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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby tdockery97 on Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:34 pm

First initial, last name, year I moved from Las Vegas back to Washington State. Kinda boring, huh?
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby sunewbie on Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:11 am

WhatUsernameIsFree? wrote:Frustration at all the aliases I use being taken.


Glad that you got this one free. Next user may not be as lucky as you are :D ;)
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby minitrucker on Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:58 am

the custom vehicle culture that is my favorite is called minitruckin'. That makes me - minitrucker. Figured it would be free on a comp forum like zis one
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby buteman on Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:25 am

I am a man and I live on Bute, a small island off the west coast of Scotland.

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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby Roken on Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:04 am

A packet of imported tobacco. I was joining a community and decided to alter my online persona, needed a user name and couldn't think of one - looked down and there it was, right on the government health warning "Roken is dodelyjk" (or something like that, my Dutch/Norweigian isn't too good). So now you know, I am dangerous :)

My previous user name which is still in use round and about some forums is D-Dan. I got that off a Desperate Dan coffee mug. Same scenario, different prop.
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby Anakinholland on Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:13 am

Roken,

It's Dutch indeed, it says "smoking is lethal".

About my nickname.... You may guess once... :P

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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby Herpy on Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:56 am

Well, you know the herp derp meme? at First I was going to name myself Derpy cause I am such a klutz but then I relized that people will think that I stole the name from that Derpy Hooves character from My Little Pony. So I figured since they already have the derp, why not add the herp? So Herpy was born!
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby dday on Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:20 pm

I am just me.... rather boring, but I was surprized it wasn't taken.. it usually is.
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby inhiway on Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:18 pm

I drove big trucks for a few years. Trucks ride on highways, so the 'hiway' part. I live in Indiana, so the 'in' part. Added together gets you inhiway. I used gahiway when I lived in Georgia. I never was very good at making up screen names. lol
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Re: How did you coin your screen name

Postby rfbennett1 on Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:45 pm

well "rf" are my first two initials and "bennett" is my last name the number "1" is just there :roll: probably because it's easy to remember :D
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