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What does your username mean (or why did you choose it)?

A Knuckleball is a type of pitch in baseball that puts no spin on the ball, causing it swerve, when it's pitched. This makes it more difficult to both hit and catch. It's a type of pitch that is typically thrown by a pitcher who specializes in Knuckleballing and who requires his own catcher.

I like the idea of being somewhat unpredictable and erratic. I named my web development company Knuckleball Design and it's also the basis for an album that a friend of mine recorded, called The Knuckleball Suite.

Ironically, I know very little about baseball. I know enough the be able to understand what's happening in a game, but I'm terrible when it comes to stats, etc.
 
Mine is simple: My first name, plus my favorite song by my favorite band. If you don't know it, look it up. And get off my lawn! 😀
 
Hmm, Lao tse is a central figure in taoism. I put the "i" becouse Lao was already taken by someone else.

On other online stuff, I have username Echoes2331. It means that Echoes(pink floyd) is the best song ever and 2331 means that it is 23 minutes an 31 seconds long.
 
Back in 2002 or so MSN groups started up a new feature where you had to lock your username down. Raggedjimmi was the name it suggested, thought it was ironic with my family having a fair few pennies to its name. But also because I'm a scruffy bugger who likes shaggy bed hair and shaves once a week. Sorry 😱
 
I chose it while I was in my honours year at uni, and I was writing the "Abstract" section of a physics lab report. It was always the part I hated the most, since I didn't care. I wrote the report, and nobody but my lab demonstrator/tutor was going to read it. Anyway, I was pulling an all-nighter, and it took me around 2 hours to summarise my work in half a page. At some point in between, I joined MacRumours. 😀


It has nothing to do with paintings, thoughts, or anything of the sort. 😱
 
When I created my account here I was using an iBook G4 as my main computer, thus iBookG4user. (I still think that iBook was the most reliable computer I ever owned. It never gave me any trouble whatsoever.)
 
I wanted a name that would appear as high as possible in the alphabetised member directory. Immediately after going with ".Andy" I realised ".Aaron" would have been better 🙁. I have regretted that mistake every time I log in....
 
I'm a red-head. I guess I was feeling a little violent when I created the account. That, and I like swords and feeling strong, and always seem to be rebelling against something, so it seemed to suit. IDK, I kinda had to struggle to come up with an explanation. 😱
 
I used this username since 2004, I think. Watabou is a character from the Game Boy game "Dragon Monsters". He was my favorite monster, plus its a nice monster name, haha.
 
An available name

I've had mine since 1996. I originally chose it hoping no one else had it. I keep using it for the same reason. It always seems to be available.
 
A shorted version of my first name. I wasn't in a creative mood that day, and it's too late top to change it now. 🙄
 
Um mine is a bit odd. Back when i first started work, when i made a stupid mistake i would openly call my some a tool rather then a dick head

So december rolls around and it's the staff christmas party. We had secret santa and one of the staff gets me a Hard Hat with Toolbox written on it. So the name has stuck since.
 
I'm embarrassed to say that it was what I picked as my AOL account name back in the early 1990's...I just stuck with it...
 
ehh it's the user name that I thought of a long while ago and I use it for everything. Tuff Luff is a song by The Unicorns.
 
Three years ago, while subscribing to Runescape my friend was helping me make a username, "What is your username going to be? Benguitar?" Me- "Okay!"

Benguitar has been my username for almost everything now.
 
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