Story behind your username?

[Falhófnir]

Had a look around as I was expecting a thread like this to already exist, but couldn't see one from a cursory search. There's quite a lot of interesting sounding names in use going about the forums, and it got me thinking there could be some equally interesting stories behind some of them.

For myself it's unfortunately a bit of a sad one, Falhófnir was the name of the horse I learned to ride on, and we lost him a few weeks before I joined up officially, so it's my little sort of tribute to him.

So do share here if there's an interesting pun, story, meme or anecdote behind your MacRumors moniker!

 

[seadragon]

Mine is based on the game that I used to play on my Apple ][ computer.

 

[LizKat]

Because my avatar is a photo of an old cat, people probably assume the Kat in LizKat is about felines. But in fact when I signed up for MacRumors I had been reading some book about the travails of English queens in the time of Henry VIII and his succession. The names of those women included an Elizabeth (one of his daughters) and two Katherines (or Catherines) who were the last two of his six wives.

So... LizKat just struck my fancy that day. It's true that I am called Liz by some in real life. The cat in my avatar though, she was called PorchKitty.

She adopted me in a snowstorm by punching her way through a screen door onto the porch after a blizzard and screeching for a room service breakfast. After that I became her "bed & breakfast" provider, but she retained her mystery, pursued a daily round of adventures nearby about which I never learned anything, and hissed at me for 8 months straight whenever I set out her breakfast in the morning. Finally one day she licked my hand when I brought the food. Eight months it took for her to trust me, so someone may have abused her in a previous setting.

Some despicable person essentially put paid to her life about three years later with a pellet gun, although she managed to crawl back here to me and I got her some veterinary attention, but alas, too much damage and she had to be helped across that Rainbow Bridge. So now she's as immortal as she deserves to be, or at least for as long as MacRumors lets her photo hang out on the site. Her ashes reside in a bookcase in my library here and I smile when I reach for a book in there. She was a lot of fun (won a lot of fights in her youth to judge by her cauliflowered ears and a ripped nose!) and was very affectionate once she had come to trust me. No one can take away those memories. We used to play a game at lunchtime in the summer called "catch the wheatgrass stalk". She always won. I loved it that she felt safe enough to be playful.

 

[tranceking26]

I'm a huge Trance music fan, and tranceking was taken back in the xbox 360 days, so tranceking26 was born

Used it ever since. Cept for Mario Maker 2, where tranceking is all mine!

 

[kazmac]

@LizKat I love that there is a history behind your name.

My nickname was Kaz at one point, and I’ve been a Mac owner/user since 1996: so kazmac it is.

Not very interesting, but if I could change it I would.

 

[ThisBougieLife]

Not to be a self-promoter, but also see this thread for the story behind people's avatars:

What is the significance of your avatar/profile pic?

What is it a picture of? Why did you choose it? Do you change yours frequently or have you kept the same one for a long time? For those of you who don't have one, will you ever get one? I ask because the new forum design has changed the way "no avatar" users are displayed. Now a single capital...

forums.macrumors.com

(Although mine no longer applies, I may be bringing that avatar back).

 

[AngerDanger]

When I was 11, I found out how to set desktop wallpapers on my school's computers and then prevent others from changing them. I quickly sketched a terrible pie in MS Paint with the phrase "Fresh Pie" underneath, and over the next few weeks, that picture became the background of half the computers there.

A couple years later, my friend started getting into Macs and asked me to check out this forum. When signing up for an account, I decided to name it after that wallpaper and use it as my avatar.

Aaanyway, I changed it to the eye rhyme AngerDanger a few years ago. 🤷‍♂️

 

[Anonymous Freak]

A joke on the default not-logged-in user name shown for not-logged-in comments on the old tech news aggregation/comment site Slashdot.

(Comments made by not-logged-in users were labeled "Anonymous Coward" - I chose this because I thought it was a funny take-off on that. Signed up for MacRumors forums about the same time, so the name carried over.)

 

[Gutwrench]

It’s my real name. My parents hated me.

 

[44267547]

I like the idea of this thread OP, Interesting read.

My username includes a two part meaning:

The ‘Relentless‘ part of my user name really describes the type of person I am, I just very persistent/focused towards achieving something.

The ‘Power’ part of My user name simply just is about my passion for all ‘tech’ alike, which requires ‘power’ for us to enjoy technology.

 

[ScreenSavers]

Mine’s not very cryptic...
It’s the name of my business, started in 2012. I used to repair a lot of iPhones, hence the name. I mostly just to Macs now.

 

[stillcrazyman]

Sometime back in the 90's, I was playing a game called Carmageddon. Totally addicted to it then, some one called me a "crazy man" for playing it so much. I've used variations of that moniker since.
As the years have passed.... yeah. Still Crazy, man.

 

[Gravydog316]

"Gravydog" is my dog (my big sister named him Gravydog 'cause when he was little he'd only eat food if it had gravy (or peanut butter, or margarine (but not butter) we learned later LOL)...

but everyone calls me Gravy, after my dog.
Even my teachers called me Gravy.

& the "316" is from WWF wrestling, 'cause I wrestled from age 5~18

(& TMI, but I was named Sarah after Sarah Connor from Terminator lol)
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Sometime back in the 90's, I was playing a game called Carmageddon. Totally addicted to it then, some one called me a "crazy man" for playing it so much. I've used variations of that moniker since.
As the years have passed.... yeah. Still Crazy, man.

I JUST found my big sisters Carmageddon CD-rom downstairs in a box yesterday haha that's cool

 

[someoldguy]

It's 'cause it's what I am ...

 

[Apple OC]

Used to work in printing and graphic arts... Apple Obsessive Creative.
Apple OC

 

[monokakata]

I'll play. In 1969 I started doing anthropological research with and among a group of about 7,000 people on Bougainville, an island in the southwestern Pacific. They are known as the Nagovisi. Although they sometimes distinguished outsiders by referring to their skin (kabu) color, they more commonly referred to body (mono) and then appended a color term.

Not surprisingly, white people were referred to as mono kakata, literally "body-white."

My real name begins with D, which their language doesn't use. And pronouncing someone's name incorrectly is considered insulting.

You can guess the rest: my name became Mono Kakata, sometimes just Kakata. There were very few white people around, so that worked.

Interestingly, the younger generation (I'm considered one of the elders now) consistently uses my real name -- this is on Facebook and in emails and texts. They just have to type it, not speak it, so it poses no problem.

My avatar is very simple -- I have a lot of Tibetan art, including a tiger door that hangs in my office, and this is the head of one of the tigers.

 

[Gutwrench]

... 'cause I wrestled from age 5~18 ...

Come at me, sister!

 

[Gravydog316]

Come at me, sister!

sorry i had to retire! i fractured my neck. i'm old & washed up ☹
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sorry i had to retire! i fractured my neck. i'm old & washed up ☹

(otherwise, i'd clobber you & humble you!!)

 

[D.T.]

Come at me, sister!

I'll send my wife over, she's scrappy, and yes, I totally regret showing her any BJJ techniques ... I'm years out of training, she's got 5 years on me, and her yoga gives her some kind of superhuman strength.



Don't tell her I said this, I'm a little scared ...

 

[OLDCODGER]

Mine is self-explanatory. I want the last millennium back!

 

[D.T.]

Hahaha, amazing user who posted / user who liked synergy

 

[Gutwrench]

(otherwise, i'd clobber you & humble you!!)

Why I oughtta....
.............🍳
🏃🏻‍♀....... 💨 🏃......
you.........................Me

I'll send my wife over, she's scrappy, and yes, I totally regret showing her any BJJ techniques ... I'm years out of training, she's got 5 years on me, and her yoga gives her some kind of superhuman strength.

Don't tell her I said this, I'm a little scared ...

I have to school this one first! 💪

 

[mmomega]

1998'ish.
My cousin had bought an HP WalMart Black Friday special, computer.
She got in to the whole yahoo chat thing then, I got a little interested and she told me I had to create my own chat handle.
I tried several things, nothing stuck. And I was running out of ideas. So laying on my desk was the lates Marilyn Manson CD.
Mansons character name on this album was Omega and the Mechanical Animals.
So mm for marilyn manson, and omega for omega.
It didn't mean anything really at the time but it just stuck. So 22 years later, here I am, same username I pulled out of nowhere to be able to log on to a yahoo chat room one evening.

 

[ucfgrad93]

I graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1993. I was the first person in my immediate family to earn a college degree.

My avatar is it logo.

 

[decafjava]

Not to be a self-promoter, but also see this thread for the story behind people's avatars:

What is the significance of your avatar/profile pic?

What is it a picture of? Why did you choose it? Do you change yours frequently or have you kept the same one for a long time? For those of you who don't have one, will you ever get one? I ask because the new forum design has changed the way "no avatar" users are displayed. Now a single capital...

forums.macrumors.com

(Although mine no longer applies, I may be bringing that avatar back).

I remember that, my username is simple a play on words as a coffee lover also working a promotion as a content manager who drank way too much of the stuff the name kind of was obvious. I avoid decaffeinated coffee though.