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Choosing a user name

71 replies

sparkleowl · 04/07/2024 14:09

Half the fun on MN for me is looking at the fantastic user names on this site, and I wondered how you all chose your names some are so inventive.😃
I saw a Barn owl on tv and it was so clean and white winged that it sparkled.

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Ihopeithinkiknow · 04/07/2024 18:46

Mine is one of my favourite songs by my favourite band lol I'm so shit at picking usernames but I always love to see funny inventive ones

Tarkan · 04/07/2024 18:59

Mine is my dog's name. I know it's outing but I don't post anything here I wouldn't like people knowing about me. I would NC if I had an issue I didn't want linked to me but haven't had to do that.

JamSlags · 04/07/2024 19:01

A highlight for me was the speed of posters name changing during the ‘Brian From Hull vaginal massage’ thread. My Little Yoni, Yoni Mitchell, Jon Bon Yoni…

NotAgain1963 · 04/07/2024 19:04

I think one of the funniest user names I've seen on here (must have been about 5 years ago) was 'BoiledFart' yes I know I'm childish

BriansGotHisWinkyOutAgain · 04/07/2024 19:14

Brian is my dog...

Laiste · 04/07/2024 19:18

My significator from the Faerie Oracle. To move quietly, to open the door, to bring light to the shadows.

RockyRogue1001 · 04/07/2024 19:26

TwattyMcFuckFace · 04/07/2024 18:06

I got inwardly frustrated at a prolific MN mansplainer and found myself thinking, "Oh there's Twatty McFuck Face again" as I clicked out of the thread.

Then I started laughing at myself for thinking it and so chose the name 🤣🤣

Was this recently ish?

Cos if so, I bet I could guess who

RockyRogue1001 · 04/07/2024 19:27

I went Rogue on a thread I was a regular on.

And once managed to be post no 1001 on a thread.

The rocky is disposable, but I quite like it

CaptainOliviaBenson · 04/07/2024 19:51

Nothing inventive about mine! 😂I started binge-watching Law & Order SVU and I bloody love Olivia!

leeverarch · 04/07/2024 21:11

Shittification · 04/07/2024 18:13

Well this will be outing and I'll have to immediately name change...

Colleague once got a request at work for some more Liberace files. That took a while to work out :-)

😂

NevilleFromTheSwan · 04/07/2024 21:19

I'm a Brentford Trilogy fan

Thanks auto correct!

OctoblocksAssemble · 04/07/2024 21:34

Kids TV shows. You'd be amazed how many Octoblock references were taken.
My previous one was from True and the Rainbow Kingdom.

Birmingbacon · 04/07/2024 21:36

I was going on a work trip to Birmingham and then got thinking about why it was Birming ham and not birming bacon.

FatmanandKnobbin · 04/07/2024 21:41

I usually change mine to the song I'm listening to in the moment, or something that's on the TV.

I was watching an Eminem video that had Batman and Robin on it, was stuffing my face, hence the Fatman, and I'm a bit of a knob too 🤣

Sharontheodopolodous · 04/07/2024 21:45

I was watching birds of a feather-the one where Sharon almost gets done for benefit fraud

I checked if it had been used,it hadn't and here I am!

BouleDeSuif · 04/07/2024 21:47

It's from a story.

coffeepleeease · 04/07/2024 21:49

I love coffee !

Jackjackjackaroo · 04/07/2024 21:50

@Allthislovelygreen Same!

reluctantbrit · 04/07/2024 21:53

While I love living in Britian I didn't plan to naturalise until Brexit. So I did it reluctantly....

Devilsmommy · 04/07/2024 21:54

Redhothoochycoocher · 04/07/2024 17:20

I remember the jam slags thread. No idea what a jam slags is and still none the wiser after a Google at the time!

It was supposed to be jam tarts but everyone preferred calling them jam slags after the op's hilarious autocorrect 😂

Devilsmommy · 04/07/2024 21:55

Oh and my username is a nod to my little boys name 😁

JackJarvisEsq · 04/07/2024 22:00

I was an esteemed resident of Craiglang

GoodHeavens99 · 04/07/2024 22:19

Mine was after I watched an old American tv clip from the 60s, about women trying LSD and their reactions.

And they were all very prim and proper, all-American-girls, white picket fences ladies, who i immediately 'took to'.

One of the women was interviewed, and when describing her experience said 'good heavens', and it really stayed with me.
I keep trying to find it on You Tube.

GoodHeavens99 · 04/07/2024 22:22

JackJarvisEsq · 04/07/2024 22:00

I was an esteemed resident of Craiglang

Of Osprey Heights.

Love Still Game.

CoffeeIsBetterThanTea · 04/07/2024 22:32

Because coffee is better than tea? Grin