Why not make a username change archive to help us (we?) less frequent readers remember who's who.

Some are simple, like jimhogan -> fuknjim, customsex -> l0ser, ynoT -> tony. But I keep seeing others that... I recognize the avitar but forget the name.

To start, my contribution:
FireFox31 -> FireFox31

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fukinjim*
yn0t_*
tonyc*
avatar*

--- l0ser

I'm thinking of changing to frog52 - well, I am getting older

Or maybe frig51 - hey, I think I like that...

as posted in the other thread on this same subject:

Meatballman -> JBjorgen

marria01 -> andym

much better, I no longer have to explain my handle to everyone.

Now, who do I have to pay to get a green name around here?

l0ser, old hand -> l0ser, spelling polise [sic]

sadly, still orange...I just don't talk enough

bxgurl->Heather.

Maybe now you people will stop calling me Laura.

LOL

hi Laura

Hahahhaahahaha. I was waiting for that one...

I remember my company manager whose name was Brian Everly decided to implement new e-mail address scheme. The address would contain first letter of the first name and at most 7 letters of the last name. After the new addressing scheme was in place for a while, he suddenly mundated a change to the addresses to add a middle initial letter right after the first letter in the address.

Heh, reminds me of the "Brenda Utthead" Dilbert comic.

When I set up the email system for our group, I did the first-of-first-plus-last which resulted in normal-looking email names like "TFabris". But our corporate overlords have a different scheme for their email system which is much more amusing. First five letters of last name followed by first two letters of first name. Somehow this results in some very funny names:

Tod Bouris: Bourito
(With beans and rice, he's a combination plate.)

Tony Fabris: Fabrito
(When my friend Chris saw that on my return address for the first time, he cracked up and started saying "yo soy el Fabrito! Arriba! Arriba!")

Eric Brooks: Brooker
(Clearly the hard boiled cop with a stained past, but he's got a heart of gold)

David Yarwood: Yarwoda
(Mmmm! Today backwards talking we are!)

Etc.

Right, so Zane Yoakum turns into an illustrious mafia address.

Wow, I totally missed that we can change our names now! I'm sooo ready to drop the "FerretBoy" thing (an old fraternity nickname I used because I thought I'd post only once or twice).

Formerly known as Rue.

Just by way of an explanation...
Like others have also said here; you typically choose some arbitrary handle because you know that this BBS, just like all of the others you sign up to, is going to be yet another grab-what-you-want-and-run kind of affair. You know that the l33t wtfpwned k1dz on the board and all of their immature bickering means that you have little reason to hang around either. Not to mention the fact that this is the 100th place you've signed up to this week for some reason or another and you want to standardize on an anonymous handle to make logins easier to remember.

So, back to origin of "Rue": Well my RL partner calls me Rue - short for Andrew and that's where it originated.

Would my French friends, if I had any, call me "Street"?

I didn't know that people got us mixed up, we look nothing alike

Cristian > Cris

'cos you try shouting "CRISTIAN!!!" without sounding totaly gay!!! And only my mother calls me that now anyway.

Cheers

Cris.