It means “potato” in Irish.

Round about the time we ordinary mortals were getting our first access to the Internet, we'd befriended another group of folks in my local and it turns out they gave nicknames to everyone and mine was Emperor. It stuck (there are people I know from the boozer who don't know my given name. Back in the day if you'd gone into my local and asked for The Emperor someone would have pointed you in the right direction) and is now, for all effects and purposes, my Common Law name. So it made sense to use that name when I had to create a username online and I've not felt the need to change it since.

Mine is a play on Friend of Dorothy and thought I'd go with a different character from the movie

The name of an actor from Steven Toast's autobiography Toast on Toast (from the sitcom Toast of London). He's having a huge rant about a film's credits being listed in alphabetical order after being assured that he would get top billing, and poor old Ted Zanzibar is one of only a few people listed below him.

It’s the name of a fictional pub mentioned in a book called ‘The Ascent Of Rumdoodle’. It’s a sendup of early mountaineering expeditions.

First letter of my first and last name and eardrum is because I am a music teacher. Need a eardrum to hear all that glorious music.

I noticed that swapping J and B makes his name way better.

I made a spelling mistake on the new user screen for yahoo chat and it was already taken, so it recommended the 2au postfix and I just rolled with it.

Well...

My parents started calling me it about thirty years ago; it’s either an allusion to the fact I have broken so many bones, or a tacit admission that I was an unplanned pregnancy. Or both.

The first default (player controlled) team in Worms on PSX was called "1 UP", with the 4 worms being Ginger, Smidge, Fluff, and Dodger. My sister used to kill smidge in the first round so often it became a bit of a running joke and I adopted it as a screen name. Unfortunately, so did others in the early Internet days, so I went 1337 Sp33k and tweaked it to sm1dger, which I've kept for what must be 20 years or so

It's a name I made up for a character in an rpg game when I was a kid, I liked it enough and was registering for my first email address around then, so I adopted it as my handle.

Talking online with a friend 20 years ago (I can't even remember what we used to talk online back then), I said something rude probably, and he typed "well, that's pr" and I said "?" And he said "etty blatant" and that became my punk name from then on

Mine is boring.

There I was, a teenager, staring at the battle.net login screen on Diablo 2, wanting to play online with some friends, but I needed an account so I could load up my sorceress and kill some minions of hell.

Everything I tried was taken, so I tried varying spellings and variations of different user names.

I finally found one that wasn't taken that I thought was "cool" in my teenage mind.

The name kind of stuck. I'm far too invested into this username now, I can't really change now without many months or years of reminding all my online friends who I am. I'm not angry with it, but I do think the name is a bit juvenile at this point.

I just want pictures. Doesn't even have to be any specific kind. I like seeing things.

I read on Wikipedia that the executioner throwing the switch for the electric chair was called the state electrician and I found that euphemism interesting. And when it was time to pick a username I remembered it.

We are all Kosh.

OP, what's your origin story??

There was a Windows 95 toolkit made by the developers, separately from Microsoft, called "Tweak Tools 95". Years later, I wanted to pick a 90's hacker style username to use in Counter Strike 1.6, and this came to mind. There was one gamer guy called "Tel" (like, his mum called him that) who would actually use that instead of my real name.

Years later, I get accusations of references to South Park or being a meth head. I didn't even know what meth was at the time. When I played Clash of Clans, some random meth head started a conversation with me because he thought he'd found a kindred spirit.

I just combined my dogs' names, Kona and Loki, taking the first syllables from both and then the second. Ko-lo-na-ki. But when I first used it, I misspelled it "Ko-lA-na-ki" and decided it sounded better as cola than culo. 😅

I always thought it sounded vaguely Hawaiian, but not too long ago I searched it just to see if id find my Lemmy comments/profile and it turns out "Kolanaki" is also the name of a neighborhood in Greece.

I likę brewing Beer. Fuggle is a strain of hops.

Wutang clan name generator.

Jars are neat, stick your hand inside for a little treat.

Thought it was a capital idea.

Random username generator. Churned out truck as it's random word after a few randomize.

heh... why not. I am become Truck-kun, destroyer of protagonists.

I couldn't decide what I wanted and wondered if Kbin would let me change it later.

Oh, nothing...

I wanted to come up with something unique and also fun(ny). I think this one's a five way to give people a heads-up that I've no idea where I am or what I'm talking about.

I'm a guy. Most of my jobs have been related to cleaning up after people who were too busy, self important, or incompetent to do their work the right way and instead leave it for someone else to fix before it goes out to the client.

Mine’s location based, as explained on my website http://www.snaprails.uk/

Self explanatory.

More of a mantra then a username

The British were sent some M1 Garand rifles for testing to see if it was something they were interested in acquiring to replace or supplement their Enfield rifles. In their official reports they occasionally refer to the M1 as the “YSL” or “Yankee Self Loader” and that seemed like the perfect fit

My story will keep you in the edge of your seat!

Started playing WoW TBC, wanted a cool name for my night elf rogue so found this one on one of those random name generators and just kept using it... :)

There was this guy called Nik...