Usernames Origin

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  1. AtherianKing

    AtherianKing Well-Known Member

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    Just a thread regarding origins of usernames on the forum such as what made you choose yours

    mine came from a quick name think as I was in a hurry the first time on the forums to find an answer to something i was stuck on and since there’s no option to change it it stuck, and in all honesty I’m not very creative for usernames
     
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  2. krustynuggets

    krustynuggets Well-Known Member

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    Mine is what it is simply because I refuse to be normal, and it has the glorious side effect of making you paint mental pictures in your mind, because that's just how humans beings work lol...........:D :D :cool:
     
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  3. paulc

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    Mine is my name! My PSN Is KingboyD2009 this comes from my love of the KLF, Bill Drummond 1 half of the KLF likes to be known as KingboyD.
     
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  4. TheCadManFan

    TheCadManFan Well-Known Member

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    Mine is a reference to an old British actor called Terry-Thomas, who was active from the early 1930's through to the early 1980's. He was typecast as a 'cad'. Always well dressed, impeccably charming, but an inveterate skirt chaser.
     
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  5. Diamondderp

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    Mine is pretty old, like 10 years or so. I was thinking of a user-/nickname what I can use (almost) everywhere.

    So I made it of two references:

    • Minecraft: diamonds
    So there's the answer of my username!
     
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  6. tallboy7648

    tallboy7648 Well-Known Member

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    Mines is because I am quite a tall person. I am taller than all of my friends and keep reminding me that I am tall so that's why my username is the way it is. I am 6 feet, 4 inches tall :)
     
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  7. CrazyHorseyMan

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    I really like chess, and a less formal name for the knights are horseys. Also, their movement is pretty... crazy!
     
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  8. Challenger3985

    Challenger3985 Well-Known Member

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    My username's been with me since Trainz back in 2007. But I don't know where I got it from, hmmm...
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    Nope, not a clue. ;)
     
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  9. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Mine is a combination of a UK Locomotive Engineer Terminology Driver with a call of duty Black Ops series character Frank Woods last name & US constitution date 1787
     
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  10. dave55007

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    Mine is my name - Dave and the 55007 is reference to the British Rail Class 55 locomotive 55007 'PINZA', my favourite loco. My avatar pic shows classmate 55020 'NIMBUS' if she had got the FP trademark white cab windows.
     
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  11. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Mine is first initial and surname...
     
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  12. solicitr

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    Used to be a lawyer (retired now)
     
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  13. Hiro Protagonist

    Hiro Protagonist Well-Known Member

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    Main character of one of my favourite novels (Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson) and also (as is the case in the novel) an in-joke (obviously the character is both the hero and protagonist of whatever game you are playing). I am neither Japanese (the name Hiro is Japanese, pronoucned the same as hero), Korean nor African-American (the character in Snow Crash is both)
     
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  14. highland beastie

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    Mine is from a type of cow called the highland beastie (I think they're more commonly called highland cattle), which is a animal I've aways quite liked with their lovely horns and coat. I use that name for most of my profiles as it's a fairly rare name.

    Coincidentally I saw some yesterday's so here's a picture I took of one 20220426_140948.jpg
     
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  15. Krazy

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    So I've always been a huge fan of trains, but around the age of 8 I think, I was introduced to the amazing world of monster trucks. So big, so glorious, so darn loud. Anyways, I became a huge fan of those things, and discovered a truck called "Krazy Train". I saw that and was like, "wow, a monster truck themed after a train?! This is the greatest thing to ever exist!".

    So I made "Krazytrain" my Roblox username. It's been plenty of years at this point, and I thought the simplicity of the word "Krazy" was pretty cool. And so here I am. Sometimes I make accounts with the name "Krazyt" so that the "train" part is kinda there.
     
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  16. junior hornet

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    Ageing Watford supporter
     
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  17. Suomen surkein junakuski

    Suomen surkein junakuski Well-Known Member

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    My username is something I made up, when I first created a profile in Tsw. Here where I live, there is a tv-show called "Suomen surkein kuski" (Finland's worst driver). Since I thought it was funny, I just added the word train in it, and now it's "Finland's worst train driver".
     
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  18. jasonpfc

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    Mines simple

    My first name, and the initials of the team I support, "cries at league 1" football again
     
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  19. Blacknred81

    Blacknred81 Well-Known Member

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    Two favorite colors, favorite number, been my username around the internet for quiet awhile now. (Though I've been using a different username more often in recent times).
     
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  20. Blartthaniel42

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    Mine was actually a nickname my brother gave me. At the time, he was reading Hitchhiker's Gide to the Galaxy, and thought the character Slartibartfast had a funny name. So he took my name, Nathaniel (even though my name is only Nathan) and mixed it and got Blartthaniel. 42 is a reference to the answer to life, the universe, and everything (also a Hitchhiker's Gide to the Galaxy reference). Had the username since my brother set up my xbox 360 account and use it for everything cause I know no one else will take it.
     
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  21. Tomas9970

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    Mine is pretty simple. I'm Thomas or Tomáš in Czech but I stripped the diacritics to make it easier to log in. As for the numbers, I had to have a unique username on some website. Tomas99 was obviously claimed but the site was offering -70 sufix so I just hit it and it went through.

    I've been using it for the past decade or so and very rarely had issues with it being already claimed.
     
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  22. cloudyskies21

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    It was 2021, and a cloudy day when I joined the forums... :)
     
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  23. Commiee

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    Self-explanatory, I guess *Kappa*
     
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  24. KiwiLE

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    My "LE" bit is for a locomotive engineer.
    I'm not a "Kiwi" though, so that was a bit of a gin moment
     
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  25. chieflongshin

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    Mine is from friends always calling me chief as a kid and the “longshin “ as I’m 6ft 6
     
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  26. FD1003

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    My initials + a random number as my birth year was taken.

    Imagination 100
     
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  27. Scotrail156467

    Scotrail156467 Well-Known Member

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    My local Train company and my favourite class of train
     
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  28. Shackamaxon

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    Mine is based on a locomotive that was involved in the great train wreck of 1856.
     
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  29. derek#2931

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    Mines just my name and random numbers lol
     
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  30. TSW Nathan

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    I chose mine because it was supposed to be my login username and easy for me to remember but I was wrong. Does anyone know how to change Ur username??? Train Sim 9723
     
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    Good to hear another Scot! Glad you like the Class 156's
     
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  32. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    Do you live in the Highlands. If so nice to meet you. I also live in Scotland but I live south of the Highlands near Glasgow. I go on holiday there though. Nice photo of a Highland Coo
     
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  33. highland beastie

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    I don't live in the Highlands, but I would love to visit someday, as they're beautiful.
     
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    Mine is named after the type of new train that now operates the Intercity services between Norwich and London Liverpool St.
     
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  35. finntd#7891

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    Mine is a Combo of my Steam and Xbox account, FinnDaHuman57 on my xbox and Train Dude on Steam
     
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  36. tft#6439

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    My name kind of made itself it's own trademark in a way as the was originally going to be tft instead it came out as tft#6439 and its a cool name I kinda just went with.
     
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  37. It was chosen by friends in my early years. Electrocuted more times than I can remember. Blown up just as much! Done quite a few crazy things that I was gonna mention but would get deleted by a mod.
    Should be dead dave probably fits better!
     
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  38. BeastyBill88

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    When me and my brother was younger (2007-2008 if i remember correctly) I apparently reminded him of Big Foot, you know the one tall, hairy and so very rarely seen it's considered a myth? And since then the nickname BeastyBill has stuck, more people call me Bill than my actual birth name lol. The 88 on the end of it is just the year I was born :D
     
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  39. rennekton#1349

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    Mine is just my steam name which came from this game I used to play, league of legends, if anyone knows of that. There was a champion named Rennekton who I enjoyed playing.
     
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  40. sceptre#1685

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    I owned a sceptre monitor and couldn’t think of a steam name, it was the the first thing I seen and said that will do.
     
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    "Last Train to Clarksville": the title of a once popular song, but also the name of the town where I've lived, worked, and am now retired. There's still a train station here, but only very occasional freights now pass by it. When I first moved here, in 1981, it was still possible to travel by train from here to St. Louis, Missouri, where I grew up and where my daughter and her family live -- but that route, which involved traveling in the middle of the night, dried up years ago.

    This is by far the most interesting and least hostile thread I've ever encountered in these forums -- many thanks for starting it!
     
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  42. hibiki

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    Mine is from two anime characters, Hibiki Tachibana from Symphogear, and Hibiki Ganaha from Idolm@ster. Although with my friends, me and my wife are known as the Purus. from Gundam ZZ. My wife beiing Elepo Puru, who is a friendly person. As for me I am Puru Two, the bad tempered one. But now It was changed to Hibiki Puru.

    The reason being hibiki, was I was in a very bleak period in my life, but after watching Symphogear, it actually made me see life in a different light.
     
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  43. tehangrybird345

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    I’ve just been a fan of angry birds, and I added a randomly generated number. The teh part was just because I wanted to use something different from the, even if it’s a meme way of saying it
     
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  44. Lightspeed

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    Mine is based on the fact that, l like fast things! Like warp speed, hyper speed and of course, light speed! Also I’m a bit of a science fiction nerd.
     
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  45. GrandMoffLucaPaguro

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    I'll let you guess the origins of my Username ;)
     
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  46. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    In the first part you took Grand Moff Tarkin's name the commander of Death Star I. I could not get the second part of your user name
     
  47. WipEout_F7200#3763

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    WipEout 3 Special edition.
     
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    Mine is because it somehow became my nickname
     
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    Mine is based on the instrument I play and also my part time extra "job"
     
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  50. GrandMoffLucaPaguro

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    Second part is Luca Paguro, the main character from the Pixar movie Luca, because at the time I had literally zero imagination :D
     

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