What's the origin of your AT username?

[Zeze]

Zeze is the main character little boy in the book - My Sweet Orange Tree.

The book is actually read WORLD-WIDE. Hugely popular in Korea, Europe and as well as Latin/Central America and more.

It's a semi-autobiographical story about growing up in poverty in Rio de Janiero. It's utterly heartbreaking.

I don't know why this book is out of print in US or never really gained a traction.

It's million times better than Catcher in the Rye, etc.

I don't think I could read it again as a dad.

 

[dank69]

First name, last initial and I'm a satyromaniac.

 

[nakedfrog]

Ages ago, a girl I was chatting with online told me about a radio contest where the first one to call in and say "naked monkey with a hammer" would win a prize. I updated my screen name at the time to naked frog with a mallet, and it stuck for a while. That's why my avatar is wielding a mallet.

It's million times better than Catcher in the Rye, etc.

FWIW, I checked that out from the library after high school (we never read it in class) to see what the fuss was about, and it didn't really strike me as being a "great" book.

 

[biostud]

I studied biology and it was part of my university email so bio(logy) stud(ent).

 

[IronWing]

Ironwing the Bell Maker

 

[deadlyapp]

I used to play a lot of counterstrike and at the time I thought I was a clever high schooler and came up with the name "Deadly apparition" as my gamer tag. Obviously that ended up being way too long so I shortened it to deadlyapp. It's stuck around for a few different things but mostly only exists as a forum handle now.

 

[herm0016]

nickname+numbers because someone already had the handle "herm"

 

[Greenman]

I'm green and male. Or an environmentalist and male. Maybe a tranny that's not feeling well.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Bill Gates gave me the name.
I worked with some younger than me guys who were liking Halo and shadowrun(?) on the Xbox. There was a brief period with shadowrun where pc & xbox could play together so I said what the hell I will join you guys.
Game required me to make an xbox game tag thing. During the process it asked a few questions and then gave a name suggestion. I thing the first was Fanatical Violet or some color. Didn’t like that so I clicked next on the color box and Fanatical Meat was born.

 

[Pohemi]

po(t)he(ad)mi(dget)

source: Total Devastation (rap group from early 90s), they were similar to Cypress Hill but never made it nearly as big, obviously

 

[Chapbass]

I attempt to play Chapman Stick. I do play Bass guitar. I also totally get that it sounds awful, but I couldn't come up with something better.

 

[Zeze]

I studied biology and it was part of my university email so bio(logy) stud(ent).

hey stud.

 

[UsandThem]

Mine is named after a famous Justin Bieber song.

 

[LikeLinus]

Mine's from a demo song of my favorite band Deftones. I have no clue why I picked this user name, but I've had it since the late mid-late 90's and never bothered change it. I really only use it here and two other forums. Have a completely different Steam/Xbox/PS name.

 

[BoomerD]

I was a crane operator for most of my working career. "Boomer" hot hung on me pretty early in life.

 

[SKORPI0]

my zodiak sign.

 

[nakedfrog]

Mine's from a demo song of my favorite band Deftones. I have no clue why I picked this user name, but I've had it since the late mid-late 90's and never bothered change it. I really only use it here and two other forums. Have a completely different Steam/Xbox/PS name.

I'd always figured it was some kind of oblique reference to Linus Torvalds.

 

[TheVrolok]

"There was "Ordog"- the Devil, "Pokol"- hell, "stregoica"- witch, and "vrolok" and "vlkoslak". Both of these last two words mean the same thing. One is Slovak and the other is Serbian, and they mean either werewolf or vampire."

I guess I was an angsty teen reading Dracula? I honestly don't remember. May have just been recall bias.

 

[olds]

Olds 455 in my jet boat.

 

[SKORPI0]

Olds 455 in my jet boat.

weren't you Oldsmoboat a while back?

 

[highland145]

weren't you Oldsmoboat a while back?

Now he's just old.

 

[nisryus]

I used to played and painted wh40k army... before wife stopped me for wasting time and money. The name is from that universe.

 

[Paratus]

The ops groups at work all had Latin sayings. Ours was Semper Paratus (always ready). So I borrowed the Paratus. (No relation to the Coast Guard who uses the same slogan)

 

[Ajay]

Literally my nickname since I was a few years old. Mom added the 'ay' to AJ when I asked how to spell it. Kind of cool now, means 'always victorious' in Hindu.

 

[LikeLinus]

I'd always figured it was some kind of oblique reference to Linus Torvalds.

I know! I'm sure everyone here does. At the time I was a teen and had no clue who he was. Hehe