A Question To All The News Section Contributors

[sp1814]

I'm curious- how did you all choose your profile names?

I'm not asking for any personal information, or anything that could uniquely identify you, so please bear this in mind when answering. I'm just curious, and unlike most of my posts, there is not agenda here, hidden or otherwise.

I'll start...the 'SP' are the initials of the street I lived on when I got my first home PC, and 1814 refers to my favourite album at that time (Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814).

[-Talbot-]

40/1 in the Hennessy, Sibbo?

[Psybbo]

Long memory Mick, 66/1

[Huderon]

Mine is an old adjective meaning lazy, a rather good description of me :)

[Psybbo]

sp, I apologise, I've only ventured into News once or twice, so not really one of the ones you are interested in.

[Cloverjo]

My favourite name is Clover, but that was already taken on AB - even though I've never seen a post by anyone using the name - so I put another name that I like on the end.

[sandyRoe]

My AB name comes from a district which was literally on the other side of the tracks from where I lived on the Grosvenor Rd in Belfast.

[ladyalex]

My name is Alexandra.
You have no idea how often people have looked me straight in the face (and body, I have bumps in the front) and called me Alexander.
So, I thought that now I would ensure that there would be no doubt as to my gender.
It was also a bit of a tip of the hat to my father. His name was Alexander.
He had a very occasional bet . When he was betting, it was usual to use a nom de plume rather than your own name on the betting slip...a hangover from when betting was illegal I suppose.
Anyway, his nom de plume was LordAlex, and that is why I am ladyalex.

[Caran]

Mine used to be carandrog, an amalgamation of our names, when we had the chance to change I thought Rog doesn't contribute on here, why have him so I got rid. Not literally he is still here as OH, just not on AB.

[janbee]

Mine is my name. My first name and the initial of my surname.

[Sir Alec]

I collect memorabilia of Sir Alec Guinness. Our most versatile actor to date. But that's my opinion........!

[WELSHYORKIE]

Easy peasy - Yorkshireman living in Wales

[Cobwebs06]

Removed some old cupboards and found numerous cobwebs lurking behind them.

[youngmafbog]

Well mine comes about from something a very good friend suggested I name my team:

Middle
Aged
Fat
Balding
Old
Git

Originally I tried to get that one but AB screwed up and locked it when I tri4d to set it up. As I was at the younger side of middle age I prefixed with 'young'

[Quizmonster]

At one time, I was running three different weekly quizzes in three different pubs in my locality. When I returned to my local one evening after presenting one, one of my friends said, "Ah, here's the monster quizzer!"
The nickname stuck. However, when I decided to join AnswerBank, it allowed only a maximum of eleven letters in user-names, so that one was rejected. I made as small an alteration of it as I could and came up with Quizmonster.

[andy-hughes]

Mine is my name, because back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and AB started, everyone used their own name.

There was a glitch in my account, and I was not able to re-log my name, so I stuck a hyphen in it.

[Quizmonster]

I guess we're the dinosaurs now, Andy, eh? Of course you're the senior dinosaur!

[lindapalmara]

I don't hide behind pseudo names and avatars. WYSIWYG

[paddywak]

As I've said before my middle name is Padraig,when I was born my elder sisters always used to sing the old nick knack paddywak song to me so I've been paddywak for the last 66 years.

[andy-hughes]

QM - "I guess we're the dinosaurs now, Andy, eh? Of course you're the senior dinosaur!"

Good morning - I hope I find you well and in good health.

Yes indeed, we shall soon be in our bath chairs, side by side on the sea front watching the dying embers of the sunset and putting the world to rights, and mumbling about 'young people today ...' and how sad it is that our arthritic fingers will no longer type our deathless prose into the Answerbank ....