Buzz Out Loud Lounge forum: What does your forum handle mean?

you can tell a lot about someone from their handles.

My others include:

KrazyKarl# - took it in 8th grade, still my im name
SNA7CHFAC3 - snatch was a name given to me in college which become my gaming handle for XBL since then.
Paceyhair - lol. i used to have a short hair cut when dawson's creek was popular. lol. that's pretty embarassing :-P

-karl

My nic defintely hails from the Quake 2 gaming scene. It was originally supposed to be something like "slick rick", but that nic was already taken by the time I got around to using it. "Slikkster" was the next choice.

Side Note: There is still a thriving Quake 2 online gaming community. Check out tastyspleen.net for their forums, and dredge up the old Quake 2 game and connect to tastyspleen.net inside the game. There's tons of new maps, and it's still one of the best multiplayer games ever made. Might want to download the maps pack available on the forum first.

ive had the same AOL IM name for 13 years (?) and I thought I was cool! hehe thanx for sharin!

First, I was Meli(@aol.com). One of the first AOL users, hence I got to have a 4-letter name, no number or anything. This is a nickname that came about because the standardized test results for the SAT only used the first for letters of my first name. Pronounced (as my best friend in high school decided) with a long E, long I, not "Melly".

But then I switched to Road Runner and I couldn't get Meli or even Melissa. At the time, road runner screen names had only 8 characters. My last name has 9, and there's no abbreviation of it that doesn't look really stupid. So, I sat and thought some more about other nicknames I've had. The story goes that a couple of my cousins couldn't say Melissa so it came out Beelissa, and it kind of stuck, at least my father used it into my adolescent years off and on. And, Melissa means honey bee, so that sort of fits. I had a website called Designs by Beelissa for awhile. It's an uncommon enough handle that it's often not taken when I try to sign up for something, so I've been going with that for awhile now, even though I no longer use the road runner email.

actually its not even out of 1600 anymroe right? isnt it like 2100 or something? lol

either way, welcome to the family!!!

-dr. karl

Ohhhhh!

First three letters of first/last names- then year of birth.

- Alex

The word commorancy means 'temporary residence' or 'home away from home'. It's actually quite befitting no matter where I use it as I'm always at virtually at home when I'm logged in. I actually chose it because of the definition.

Dictionary.com:

commorancy /ˈkɒmərənsi/
Pronunciation[kom-er-uhn-see]
noun, plural -cies. Law.
a dwelling in a place; usual or temporary residence in a place.

--
Brian W.

So when I used AOL dialup back-in-the-day I picked the screen name I8MyShoe b/c i thought it was funny.
Well there was this girl in highschool that used to joke me about my username. She would be walking by me in the hallway and say, "Hey Joel, what's that coming out of your mouth? I think it's a shoelace. Did you eat your shoe?"

It really wasn't very funny, but this girl just kept joking me about it for 4 years!

I'm still in counseling.... haha j/k

I used to use my old AOL name MassaYoda for everything, but 7 or 8 years ago I decided to use something that didn't automatically cast me as a big Star Wars geek (still am, don't get me wrong), not to mention someone pointed out that it might be construed as racist. So when I was trying to create a new yahoo e-mail address I was staring at a bottle of IBC root beer on my desk. My name is Randy. Thus IBCRandy was born. It amuses me that even though I've called in and had the call played on the show explaining how to say the name they still refer to me as I.B. Crandy. Ah well, what can you do.

I am happy to have inadvertently caused that little joke. Maybe I should change my buzz town moniker to I See Brandy Randy.

wanted a yahoo email address "quan"...taken...tried "kwahn"...taken...

Cuz at that time, i was translator and often times i worked late into the night...So latenight was borned...But on occassions if the username was taken i just added 9 behind it and it pronounces just like night so latenight9 was borned...kinda funny...

i just like the name and also because of the prodigy song.