How Did You Pick Your Username?

I was never called Dirt Dawber in my life, I just thought it fitting for use with an offroad group.  Also, I did not want to go with the usual spellings of it, like, Dirt Dobber or Dirt Dauber, just to be different.  But I do still like what Big Bubba always called me, Dut Dubber.

Mine is simple.. I use to pretty much live in a pool Haul, even met my wife in one. Back about 14 years ago I was setting up an account online. I needed a user name. One of my buddies was standing there and told me not to use my real name, use a nick name. I said well everyone calls me william or will thats it.. He said well you play pool all the time why not 8ball.. Been using it ever since.. 8ball is pretty common and is almost always already taken on forums, email providers ect.. So I added the 99, Which back in the day when all everyone had was pagers it was common to put your initials after the number you were calling from so people knew it was you. 99 stands for WW my initials.. Not all that interesting, but there is a reason behind it.

Before I had some health issues come up, I used to damn near live in the woods and on the waters hunting and fishing. So when someone said I lived like a "WoodTick" well, it stuck. And the rest is as they say, History!

mine is a boring subset of my last name (Sewell) with my first and middle name initials. It is actually the email screen name given to me by the University when I went to college. As you can tell, I am a creature of habit and don't like change, so I have kept all these years.

When I was younger I was told I had a "Bad Attitude" you know the cocky if they can't take a joke f them attitude type.

So I needed a screen name years ago and it just clicked Baditude and viola.

Now that I am older, much more laid back, much less stress. However, I too am a creature of habit and just stuck with it.

I started here using my first name, last initial. But, after getting tired of all the slams on the Rhino and other "pig-feeders", and especially my affordable, reliable Rhino 450, I asked Ronnie to change it... as a play on words for some of the "need-for-speed" guys...

Last name is Bush and that's what I was called all through school. It use to be Bush-rhino when I first started on forums but lost the rhino when I got a rzr

Half the time i can't remember my passwords or where i wrote them down. Just picked it while filling out entrance form for here. Kinda self explanatory.

Mine is my Name ChrisC = Chris Cole
Not a great deal of thought went into it.......  

Some of my friends think I am a good guy but sometimes only think of myself especially when it comes to people asking where we want to eat. So  you can always count on the DOG to speak up and let people know what I want to eat or where I want to go. So they just started calling me dog and after I got rid of the rhino could no longer use rhinorider259 so there you go.

I just used my last name because what people usually call me doesn't really single me out in this crowd. Ya only got one Hollon!! But plenty "assholes" so I stuck with Hollon!!  

2Slow4U wrote:

I started here using my first name, last initial.  But, after getting tired of all the slams on the Rhino and other "pig-feeders", and especially my affordable, reliable Rhino 450, I asked Ronnie to change it... as a play on words for some of the "need-for-speed" guys...

There is way more to this story!     and it is funny!!!!!!

As most of you all know I am not a big guy at all. I have a good friend of mine that is about the same height as me but is 180lbs of pure mussel. He has called me Big-R for most of the time I have know him. I always found it funny. Some when I signed up on my first message board I used the name.

You know what is really funny. Most all of are user names are some type of nick name. Or it is a short name for something else. However, we find it necessary to shorten it even more. Like my buddies calling me RRRRRrrrrr, or me call Anthony Deeeeeee, Jimbo pate or Marty (Catmostfeard) CAT. I could go on and on......  

Big-R wrote:

2Slow4U wrote:

I started here using my first name, last initial.  But, after getting tired of all the slams on the Rhino and other "pig-feeders", and especially my affordable, reliable Rhino 450, I asked Ronnie to change it... as a play on words for some of the "need-for-speed" guys...

There is way more to this story!      and it is funny!!!!!!  

Sumbuddy best be postin' up this story! STAT !!!!!!!!!!!!

Four hip replacement surgeries, on the right side, and still not right. Limp some so a friend called me GIMPY before I ever joined the club. Big R said it was fitting when I joined, so GIMPY it is.

Goose was my nickname in high school.

Been called "white devil" a couple of time's. (past girlfriend's parents:) And I bought a blue T4. so I came up with bluedevil. On another note my uncle's called me "john red corn" for some reason. Still don't know what that's about.

I use to build and off road Jeep J10 / J20 Honcho trucks 2 lifetimes ago. The first forum I ever joined was related to that. Been using it every since.

I was a firefighter at the Kennedy Space Center, that is until they stopped flying the Space Shuttle. I ended up finding work in Oak Ridge, TN as a Fire Capt. I've always used the same screen name so I kept it even though I changed departments.

because im brown  

I am thinking of changing mine to Honey Badger or something like that

Baditude wrote:

I am thinking of  changing mine to Honey Badger or something like that

Yap that's sound good bud:thatsright: 

Baditude wrote:

I am thinking of  changing mine to Honey Badger or something like that

You are not that mean.....  

I wasn't comfortable being known as asshole so I just stuck with my name.....Hollon

I've had a mix of screen names over the years on all the Crawler forums I frequent but found that I couldn't remember individual log ins (before the days of Tapatalk) so about 4 years ago I switched most of the logins to Reeko. Growing up a lot of my friends called me Reeko as opposed to Eric. Kind of boring but it is what it is.