Eons ago when I started attending Sci-Fi conventions the registration had a space for "Your Name" then another for "Badgename".

Being a certified weird person I filled in the second space, as requested, with BADGENAME.

It stuck, and I've been that ever since.

Thanks, Badgename, for getting this thread back on track.

Let's keep it clean. Thanks.

Well my mind was on clean thoughts, cats,  very clean animals

I guess it went astray, the topic, but not really, since my screename, is partially one of my cats names.. and a few other people as well have used their cats for screenames.

mine comes from my hippie days when i used to partake in great amounts of the chronic tonic, Nimbin being a town in australia where this product is tolerated and openly sold and consumed. hence it's my favourite town in the whole country and why my nickname is Nimbin

Classic.

Take it easy love...Stick around

I was originally "Mr.Mercury", But at the time I had a company that made custom flight cases which I called "BoXXi Flight Cases". I changed to that because it was short and snappy, and because everywhere else there was a Mr.Mercury.

Wow! It is so great to see the different ways one picks a screen name. I love reading the stories associated with the name. Some are sentimental others are outright hilarious! Thanks for sharing.

My screename comes from a character from a sort of fantasy that's been floating around in my head for a few years now (perhaps someday I'll have the authorial skills to write it down; it's really quite immense). the full name is Reyvin Nokaya Vinnex.  He's an alien.  Yeah, my own alien psychic (telepathic actually) alter-ego with a "brittish" accent (in quotes because he's alien, not brittish).  I use this name everywhere, it's become my penname (at least in my mind).

 My user image is a thumb of Minas Tirith from the Lord of the Rings.  I sometimes use a replicator spider from Stargate SG-1.

BTW what's this "karma" thing?

I thought you were going to say it's because you are a former Italian.

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You are hilariouis, Mirsguy!

I really don't get that one . . .

OK...now that's just plain funny!

My girl reckons these are the things I do best - Eat, Sleep, And Frolic (for want of a better word). Been using that handel for years also part of my addy.

Vinnex: Like Vinnie-a popular Italian name; ex meaning "former," (like "ex-girlfriend")

So, Vinnie + ex = Vinnex!

Sometimes my own logic scares me!

My Official handle is JukEboX but considering someone is using mine I had to use my secondary.

JukEboX is a name I was given and I gave myself. I listen to music doing anything plus I am good at voice overs, soundfx, and such with just my voice and mouth. The AuDiO part is the fact that I DJ and that I am loaded down with music. Also I have surround sound in just about everything I own.

I have another one known as System because I am like a computer. I bit scattered but very organized and in control.

I see.  But that would mean I changed my name, not my homeland.  My logic is more . . . cold, I guess.  I would say precise, but that would seem to be an insult.

PS;  I'm from Up-State New York (Capitol District, actually, near Albany), and that region has always been my home.

"Onestar" came from a D&D character I played back in college (YEARS ago).

When I got my first full-time job back in '92, I needed to pick a login name.  Folks have a tendency of misspelling my last name, so I picked "Onestar".

It's stuck with me ever since.

Actually back in the day when AOL was the closest thing to an internet service and 33.6 modems were the hottest thing on the planet.(Yeah, there REALLY was a 33.6 modem)   They had an on-line game then called Battle Tech. I loved the game, however, I sucked SOOOooo bad at it that the people in my clan called me their living target.  To make a long story short... it stuck.  After that Quake came out with their 1st installment (see how many of ya remember THAT.. ) And my handle got shortened to Livin_Target in order to fit the length restrictions. Since then it's become my standard gaming handle, forum ID and in 3 cases my e-mail addresses. I guess I sort of became the name over time. It seems to fit in so many areas of my life for me. Soo, odds are if you run into a Livin_Target in MOST cases it'll be me. After this long around the net I have become one with ALOT of sites.

Just jokin', dude.

Hi Vinnex!

I'm from Upstate NY Too! The picturesque Finger Lakes Region.