Friday OT - Story Behind Your Screen Name

[MeowingCows]

It just came to me once. Rolled off the tongue well, so it stuck. Used this for years on various things.

Really irrationally bothered me that I couldn't put a _ in it, I always stylize mine with an underscore. I settled.

 

[BanjoCy]

Pretty self explanatory... except I created it when I started learning tenor banjo (4-sting) and subsequently loaned it to a friend... so I don't actually play the banjo (it's been on loan ever since).

 

[no2cyclones]

It just came to me once. Rolled off the tongue well, so it stuck. Used this for years on various things.

Really irrationally bothered me that I couldn't put a _ in it, I always stylize mine with an underscore. I settled.

Does "CyBer" not roll off the tongue as easily?

 

[mdk2isu]

My initials and I went to ISU. Boring, I know.

 

[klamath632]

Janny was a Portuguese conquistador who oversaw a group of Brazilian settlements in the 16th century, known for his penchant for exiling criminals & lawbreakers into the Amazon wilderness. His rule was eventually ended by a civilian uprising that saw him brutally tortured and dismembered.

You could have just gone with Evo Shandor then.

 

[mdk2isu]

Janny was a Portuguese conquistador who oversaw a group of Brazilian settlements in the 16th century, known for his penchant for exiling criminals & lawbreakers into the Amazon wilderness. His rule was eventually ended by a civilian uprising that saw him brutally tortured and dismembered.

Are you expecting to eventually be brutally tortured and dismembered by an uprising of angry CFers?

 

[Bret44]

My best friend Bret was shot down over the South Pacific in '44. Hench the name.

 

[Mr Janny]

My initials and I went to ISU. Boring, I know.

And here I thought you were just a fan of Demolition Man.

 

[Entropy]

It's what I am and what I do.

 

[mac4cy]

Mac is was what everybody called me. Short for my last name. It is even on my license plate. So to put that for the Cyclones = simple.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Janny was a Portuguese conquistador who oversaw a group of Brazilian settlements in the 16th century, known for his penchant for exiling criminals & lawbreakers into the Amazon wilderness. His rule was eventually ended by a civilian uprising that saw him brutally tortured and dismembered.

So it's just like your time here?

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Name is Randy D. Switched the R and D around. Got Dandy (which apparently makes people think you're a girl). Added Cyclone.

Don't chicks usually spell it Randi with an I?

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I came up with mine on a whim, although I've never been crazy about it. Tried to think of something that had CY in it and for some reason the Def Leppard song "Are You Excitable" popped into my head. So I shortened it to ruxCYtable and went with it. I think it's kind of dumb though.

Huh. I thought it always had something to do with Teddy Ruxpin.

 

[no2cyclones]

In mafia games, I traditionally let Farnsworth explain my name, since he did that for me a couple of times before I saw the question posted. Let's see if he still remembers.

 

[Shawker]

I'm a fan of the Hawks and I enjoy giving...ah forget it.

 

[Walden4Prez]

When I started at ISU, Walden was the "coach". He was amazingly terrible. My buddies and I wore bags on our heads to the Missouri game during the famous (infamous) 0-10-1 season and ended up making on the TV 13 news.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Mine is because Cy is the mascot of Iowa State University. And he's so awesome that he rocks my pants.

 

[Mr Janny]

So it's just like your time here?

 

[CloneFan4]

I'm a fan of the Hawks and I enjoy receiving...ah forget it.

FIFY :twitcy:

 

[cyzygy11]

i was looking for something original... I visited the "cy" part of the dictionary, but found nothing that moved me......then i visited the "sy" area of the same dictionary, and found the word syzygy, meaning a unique whole found from disparate elements, which made think of "punching cy" mid 90's version, and adopted the name cyzygy...I tacked on 11 because it's my number, and because I thought other people would have thought of this idea..this is why I"m Cyzygy11.....