Is it normal to wonder about the origin of screen names?

How did you choose the name you're signed into is it normal as? What's the story?

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Based on 66 votes (58 yes)
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  • ladymantoloveyoulongtime

    i went to Thailand a few years ago to get a sex change but something went wrong, now i have a penis and a vagina.

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  • increased

    :o

    People on here increase my knowledge.

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  • I_am_not_normal

    ...all the names I wanted were taken lmao

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  • Password

    When I was making mine all of the one's I wanted were taken, so I just looked at the words on the page and password was one of them.

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  • timebobbu

    long story cant be bothered

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  • Valkeer because I always liked the words Venison and Valkyrie.

    Plus if your name starts with V your bad-ass by default. See Darth Vader, Vladimir Putin and ummm. uh. Voldemonte...the guy from Harry Potter?

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  • cremeegg

    Mmmmmm.....Creme egg :P

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  • TheConsciousElectron

    Before I made my account, I was reading about how some scientists believe that electrons behave differently when they are observed than when they are not observed. The question popped up if electrons are "conscious" or not. It's just some crazy theory behind the particle/wave paradoxical nature of light.

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  • randomjelly

    Mine is somewhat boring haha. My nickname is Jelly (real name is Kelly) and everyone tells me I have a humorous and random personality. So, boom. I wonder sometimes where the names come from as well.

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  • LordKira

    As a teen I loved the manga Death Note, so I took the name Kira and added Lord to it

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    • hinata

      Same here i was a naruto fanatic and i adored Hinata so i choose that.

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  • I chose "Floyd" because I'm the biggest Pink Floyd fan I know, and I don't like pink(the color). Cloud came from my drug usage, since people always say 'high' as in the sky, and in the clouds, well, cloud shall be. Though I have NO IDEA where the Z came from, I don't regret putting it there.

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  • paradoxinsoxs

    I was watching the universe on discovery channel and they were talking about paradox's and I just so happened to be wearing socks...

    Nah, but really, I'm the king of the 4th dimension.

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  • NoraBaker

    Russian born British spy during WW II working in France! Tough cookie! :o

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    • dappled

      Hello spyface! Thank you for commenting on my story nine months ago and thank you to IIN for not informing me about it.

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      • NoraBaker

        Hi, dappypants! How sweet of you to mention my fifth comment on IIN. :)

        I'm almost at my 2000th now!

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        • Avant-Garde

          That's a lot:)

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  • Hmm a few things actually:

    On the week of me signing up I watched Charlie & The Chocolate factory and for some reason I love the line where Johnny says, 'Ha! You're really weird.'.

    The same week my friend kept telling me that I wasn't normal

    Several hours before I decided to register here I read some stories and thought 'These people are weird...'

    I also thought it suited the website title too.
    Yeah...not that creative but I like it.

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    • Shackleford96

      I miss this user :(

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      • dappled

        Me too. She left because of a racist attack on her by someone who still uses the site.

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        • Shackleford96

          Aw, that makes me sad. Shame on them.

          I hope she comes back someday.

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  • MercedesBenz

    V's are pretty great. I also like to type Vulcan.

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  • MercedesBenz

    I don't use my usual screenname here for anon purposes. But, MercedesBenz because my daily driver is a Mercedes Benz. I am a big fan of German engineering and both of my cars are German; Benz & BMW. Nothing exciting like carolann's story. That was great.

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  • CDmale4fem

    Well, I also have another name on other sites "Maninbra"so that and "Cdmale4fem" should give a good idea to most. But in case not -I am a male crossdresser that hopes to find a supportive and understanding female someday. Hell its only been 44 yrs since I put on first piece of lingerie.

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  • Riddler

    Well my user names are pretty random. They are usually characters I admire, I relate to or that I am totally obsessed with at the time of making an account. This one I randomly plucked out of my hat. I always loved the riddler. He was brilliant and so exuberant and creative in everything he did. Ironically right about the time they announced the new batman film. I wish I could say I planned this but I didn't. Its a funny coincidence.

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  • wr4th88

    Mine is an old counter-strike 1.6 alias i used that was intended to represent my intentions upon other players in the game >:D and since then, i just thought it sounds ominous and doesn't have to be relevant

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  • Geneva5

    BACON GAS GAY SEX 5000.

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  • Shackleford96

    King of the Hill of course :)

    and the 96 is not, despite what some users have accused me of in the past, my birth year. Lol.

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    • Riddler

      If it was wouldn't you be 17?

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      • Shackleford96

        Yes, that is my 'would be' age

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    • dappled

      I knew this was going to get an extra comment or two. I really wish the mods would have allowed my repeat story through, though. I wanted the current IIN generation to be able to say where they got their names from.

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      • Shackleford96

        Yeah, that is too bad. Maybe there is some way you could make a story and just casually throw in that link just for the heck of it or something?

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  • Ryuk5127

    I'm Lord Kira under a different name. I forgot my passwords for both this and my email :( . So I'm using my spare. Same reason, though. Ryuk was my second favorite

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  • chrissie

    Eh, my story isn't as exciting as everyone else's, but here I go !

    It's my nickname. Mostly I say it's my real name because I hate my first name (Chrissianna).

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  • I originally wanted to go with "averagejoe" but it was already taken so I swapped the word order. I guess it was because that's basically how I wanted people to see me: as an everyman, an average guy, not really special or standing out from the crowd. Probably some deeper psychological issues here but I don't really feel like going into that.

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  • My username I use for almost everything that isn't 'official'. Lia is my nickname and I like how the letters are like 1,2,3. Dumb, I know lol and 3 is just one of my favourite numbers ^_^

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  • My name was just a random one, some might think it's a short like name for "it does" but it isn't.

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  • "Remember me" is a book by Christopher Pike, which I adored, about a girl who was murdered and, between the world as we know it and the supposed 'afterlife', tries to find out who killed her. Everyone thinks it's a case of suicide, but really they have to dig much deeper to find out the truth. The girl refuses to be forgotten.
    Basically, the book's concept kind of reminds me of myself, and how wherever i go, i try my best to leave a permanent mark. And how one of my biggest fears is to, eventually, be forgotten as if I was never even here in the first place.

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  • imaaninja

    Well, my names Iman. And I think I'm a ninja. Get it - IMANINJA :)

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  • MrsBailey9

    I got married, hence the MrsBailey and we got married in 2009. Pretty boring compared to the rest! Lol!

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  • Noonesperfect

    Search it on youtube and find out lol.

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  • help_is_here

    I like to help. Sometimes I'm a smart ass, sometimes I really put effort into it :)

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  • From the movie "Poltergeist". My folks were watching it on video when I was about three and I heard the Carol Anne character say "They're here!!!!" For about two years after that every time I heard a funny noise I'd shout "They're here" and my folks would say "alright, Carol Anne". So it became a childhood nickname.

    My real name is Welsh and has way too many consonants so I go by one of my middle names.

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    • Ryuk5127

      Ah, someone else with Welsh blood.

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  • curt cobain and mclovin from the movie superbad. my usual name is knoke5 (no meaning) or iLess for games (i was creating an account for a game and i usually play as a sniper, i thought it would be ironic if a sharpshooter was without eyes

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  • vladimirzharkov

    I come from land far away from here. Where it is badass.

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  • Treynine

    My NAME

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  • From a video game character Amy Sorel - MissSorel. Not really original but there you have it lol.

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  • CountryRoads

    I'm from West Virginia...Like the John Denver song.

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    • Ryuk5127

      Love that song :)

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  • twistedmama81

    I have scoliosis...twisted, crooked spine. I had surgery and my back is straight now, but I've used twistedmama for a while && I'm a mom too :] 81 is my birthyear

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  • dappled

    Mine comes from a poem by Erica Jong which I'd read ten minutes before signing up for this. The last verse was:

    As long as you're at it,
    die wide.
    Follow your belly to the green pasture.
    Lie down in the sun's dapple.
    Life is not as dangerous
    as mother said.
    It is more dangerous,
    more wide.

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    • Uzzie101

      What's the name of that poem.
      And while on the subject, everyone should read
      "A Young Woman, A Tree."

      "Life spills over somedays,
      she cannot be at rest,
      wishes she could explode,

      like that tree over there,
      the one that burst into fire
      all this week."

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      • dappled

        It's called For Claudia, Against Narrowness. The full poem is:

        Narrowing life because of the fears,
        narrowing it between the dust motes,
        narrowing the pink baby
        between the green-limbed monsters,
        & the drooling idiots,
        & the ghosts of the Thalidomide infants,
        narrowing hope,
        always narrowing hope.

        Mother sits on one shoulder hissing:
        Life is dangerous.
        Father sits on the other sighing:
        Lucky you.
        Grandmother, grandfather, big sister:
        You'll die if you leave us,
        you'll die if you ever leave us.

        Sweetheart, baby sister,
        you'll die anyway
        & so will I.
        Even if you walk the wide greensward,
        even if you
        & your beautiful big belly
        embrace the world of men & trees,
        even if you moan with pleasure,
        & smoke the sweet grass
        & feast on strawberries in bed,
        you'll die anyway--
        wide or narrow,
        you're going to die.

        As long as you're at it,
        die wide.
        Follow your belly to the green pasture.
        Lie down in the sun's dapple.
        Life is not as dangerous
        as mother said.
        It is more dangerous,
        more wide.

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  • mizeka

    This nick name was made only for IIN. I won't use my usual nick here.

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  • Complex4

    ^^lmao

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  • gako

    Good question! I have no idea where "gako" came from. I guess at the time. It was a face expression.

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  • my nickname is jr but i dont really like it so....im a little devil i spose

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  • _me_

    I was bored so this is what I used :)
    But normally it is "yourcat"

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  • DannyKanes

    Mine is a nic name a friend gave me when I was 14 in year 9. It's kinda stuck since.

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  • CillyMe

    My nickname is Cilly (name Priscilla) so it just seemed a funny play on words. Plus I feel silly sometimes :)

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  • alv1592

    I wonder that too sometimes.
    my initials are ALV, and my b-day is jan. 5 '92, so that explains my username :) pretty simple.

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  • ms_funion

    I used to be addicted to funyuns a few years ago. I was eating them
    when i first met my husband. he gave me the nickname and it stuck (even though i can't really stand to eat them now)

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  • babylady

    Hahaha.....I just pick something that suits me...in this case i went for something i've never used before.

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