Why are we who we are?

[ravenhair]

Does anyone have any interesting reasons for choosing their user names? Do tell, without giving away any personal information, of course.

[Andromeda]

Am into astronomy and think that M31 is a great looking galaxy. Picked it as my craft name a while ago. Plus I always fancied being an 'Andy'.

Andy

[sft42]

it's a combination of my initials and the answer to life the universe and everything, or half of one of my fav band Level 42

[bimsey]

My user name is the name of my boy jack russell....!!!!

[ipek]

I was given mine by a Turkish friend after an embarrassing misunderstanding during a phone-call. When I called and told her it was Jean ringing from England, she heard it as Jane and launched into a tirade to stop harrassing her hubby and slammed the phone down! I had to get MY hubby to call her back and explain.....so I became 'ipek' thereafter to avoid confusion. I took to it straight away because it means 'silk' (the Turks have a habit of naming people after things) and makes me feel as special as the fabric.

[Kit]

Quick to type, rarely mis-spelled, usefully androgynous.

[tief]

In person I often manage to come across as pretty scattered. A friend of mine started referring to me as 'tief' without any explanation. I finally beat it out of him - he said he'd had the wrong impression about me for months and if I wanted to know why 'tief' to go and look it up in the dictionary. Didn't tell me to get a German dictionary did he? Funny little word, but it's grown on me over the years.

[magpie]

I got mine at work due to my habit of "borrowing" items of stationery and othet interesting things for my own departments use...

[Gigadave]

I chose mine because I'm a big bloke called Dave. But Big Dave is taken everywhere, so I thought 'whats bigger than big?' Mega was taken too and so I went for Giga! And thus Gigadave was born...

[morpheus]

I'm on the run from agents of oppresive machines. Or am I the King of the Dreaming? Even I don't know anymore,

[flirty41]

Hey, morpheus - you're back!! Good to 'see' you again!

[icecoldin]

As I'm sure a few of the movie fans out there will realise, my username comes from the 1960 film starring John Mills and Sylvia Symms - Ice Cold in Alex. It was a name given to me by a very gorgeous girl who I used to work with. Not that interesting. ( and yes, my name is Alex)

[Cactus]

I watched that film this afternoon! And yes, it was worth waiting for... oh, my name? I grow cacti. How dull eh?