Why did you choose your forum username?

[spectroscopy]

idk why i chose this name i saw it in a chemistry textbook once and i was failing chemistry and i thought hey that sounds cool ill be that thing
still do not know what spectroscopy is

[sweetiepi]

Mine's the name on my yr 12 jacket, but that it's a play on words of what my friends and fam call me

[blacksanta62]

yeah but why blacksanta specifically XD

We wanted something which would start conversations in pre game lobbies and sure enough it did. Plus it was just really funny when we considered the idea of santa being black (we're african)

[The Usual Student]

Lol
I haven't even seen the usual suspects, just watched clips of it on YouTube but yeah that is what my name is based on

[Yacoubb]

I literally just chose my name lol! Originality/10

[Joseph41]

Because, naturally, my name is not Joseph.

A proper response.

So back in the day, when I could actually do things without getting injured, I played a lot of cricket. I made my seniors debut when I was  barely 14, so most of my teammates were a lot older than me. A few years in, I was probably playing at a grade or two higher than where I should have been playing out of necessity (a lack of wicket keepers in our club at the time). So when I did something well, people used to say "good, Nick" (because my actual name is Nick) as encouragement. One bloke thought that that sounded a bit like "Gutnick" in rapid speech. Now (and I hope you're following), there is a guy called Joseph Gutnick. In the late 1990s/early 2000s, he was President of the Melbourne Football Club, which I support very heartily. Hence, Joseph. It usually became Joey, which also had the double meaning of me being much younger than most of my teammates (as in a young kangaroo). The name really only stuck for a short time because I then had to give up cricket due to injuries, so nobody calls me that now (except for Brenden accidentally hahaha). I've sort of adopted it as a pseudonym, though.

And 41 was my cricket playing shirt number.

So there you go!

[heids]

^He's lying.  That cricket shirt thing is just a cover-up.  '41 is actually his birth year, as he's reluctantly admitted to me before, and let me tell you, he looks his age too.  Fact.

(And I have both substantial in-person and photographic proof).

... and yeah.  If only we didn't censor things round here, that's what I should've changed his name to... JosephFuckNick.  Classic Brenden.

[tashhhaaa]

I wish it was more interesting but my name is Natasha lol, hence.... tashhhhaaa which also happens to be my username on some other accounts

how do we change our names lol??

[JellyBeanz]

I wish it was more interesting but my name is Natasha lol, hence.... tashhhhaaa which also happens to be my username on some other accounts

how do we change our names lol??

I think you need to make a request to an admin or something lol iirc

[jamonwindeyer]

Because I'm boring and my name is weird enough as it is 

[nerdgasm]

My name on this forum was originally 'amalgam', which I also use on some other internet sites. I just probably wanted a boring name, and I use actual and made-up words as my internet usernames most of the time. Funnily enough, I'm actually enrolled in a dentistry course now, but I came up with the name long before then (either that, or my subconscious is way ahead of my conscious mind).

Some time after I joined, I wanted to write a unit review for a subject I did at Monash University. The subject featured a lot of embryology. However, it so happened that the string of letters 'yolo' was blocked in all posts at that time, even if the string was contained in a larger word. Of course, this made it hard to write a review of embrYOLOgy, so I begged the mod/admin team to temporarily suspend the blanket ban, and thus help me post. Grudgingly, they did ... and also changed my name to 'yologam' instead.

Some months after that, the mods/admins found out that I was happy with the grades I had for that semester of uni, and again changed my name to nerdgam. From there, it was only a short step before they changed my name to what it is currently.

I'm almost tempted to post and help out more so I can eventually become a mod and exercise a most terrible revenge on the people who altered my name ... but let's face it, they'll probably be long gone by then, and I'll just be a sad, cranky, spiteful old codger 

to be honest, i kinda like my name now

[heids]

snip

You surely have the coolest name journey of any of us.  That's classic.  Gave me a laugh.

[Poetic-Justice]

It was the first thing that came into my head, i was going to go with Psycholigical Euphoria but that was a bit long. 

[Bookworm101]

My name is Bookworm101 because I am a bookworm and I completed the 2016 Reading Challenge on goodreads and read 101 books

[studybuddy7777]

Seeing as Bookworm101 already dug up this thread, ill just add to it by saying "studybuddy777" was my bos username (before i changed parties ), after changing it from "bioboy123" and "biobuddy123". I then picked 777 because I'm lucky like that and like the number 7
OFFTOPIC:

Spoiler

Anyone put crosses through their sevens? Like a line on the lower part of the 7?

Anyway.. someone had already claimed studybuddy777 so i just added another 7.
Lol