Hi everyone

The topic says it all!

I will start. When I was at college I got called brain as everyone thought I was going to take over the world. My friend got called pinky, my nickname stuck and his didn't.

Later on I formed a demo group (anyone remember those?) called digitalis after the plant poison from the foxglove plant. The demo group didn't last but the nick I had at the time (brain/digitalis) was so unique I started using it for forums as I could guarantee it wasn't taken already. So that explains that.

What about you people? Curious to find out!

Like many here, it's from my actual name: jbadams for Jason Bradley Adams (since hyphenated to Astle-Adams.

Quite some time ago I used to go by 'Kazgoroth', taken from a monster in a series of Forgotten Realms novels.

honestly i don't know why i chose this handle, i've used it since i was probably 10 or 11, and have no memory of what made me choose this.

I like skunks.

But I wanted it to be more badass so I made it flaming, since everyone knows that flames make anything badass.

I seem to recall running through an entire list of names which were already taken, before settling on this one out of frustration. Then it stuck.

I like skunks.

But I wanted it to be more badass so I made it flaming, since everyone knows that flames make anything badass.

No no, it is obviously beards that make everything badass, just ask chuck norris... :lol:

I've always been unimaginatively calling myself 'jacmoe' - first 3 letters from my first name and first three letters from my last name. :p

I'm pretty sure mine was self invented as when i found it i googled the net and nothing came up, then i did it 2 years later and the only other thing that came up (which i'm pretty sure was named before i used the name AND i'm also damn sure i had never heard of) was a small mine in a third world country . . .

Mine dates back from the mid-to-late 90s when my family first got dial up (AOL) internet. Obviously I'm a Nicholas, and I really like Sci-fi, or more specifically, space adventures (when I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut!). So Star + Nick...Starnick. It's been my handle ever since.

my hobby/ passion car (for 14 years, sold 2 months ago) was a siërra cosworth, also known as a cossie.

Hence, cozzie. It's now used in so many places, even the car is gone, I don't want to go through the hassle of changing it