Why did you choose your username?

[oggbashan]

Back in the 1960s I was the system administrator for a mainframe in the UK's Defence Department.

I had an official username based on my own name but I also had a superuser account which only I could use.

I merged the names of two Royal Fleet Auxilary tankers that I had sailed on to make a word that meant nothing AT THE TIME. I must have been prescient because a new RFA tanker was given that name much later. When I left the Defence Department I deleted that account.

Later on I was a superuser on another system not Defence, I used that user name again, deleting it when I left.

In the next job I was the system administrator for a very confidential database that only I could access. I used the name again, but when I left, it couldn't be deleted because only that account could access the database. A duplicate account had to be created for my successor but my superuser couldn't be deleted without trashing the system. 15 years after I had left that employer, they contacted me with a problem that needed my admin privileges. My account name and password still worked!

When I started writing at home I was using an IBM XT with twin 360K floppies and dialing up the internet through AOL. I reused that account name on AOL for about five years.

But since a new RFA Tanker had been given the name I had created - I stopped using it as somone might have known of my past connection with Defence. My subsequent confidential user names were random letters and numbers.

 

[Tinyharold46]

I have a tiny dick and I am happy with it.

 

[Dark_corners_of_the_mind]

Because I wanted a name under which to write the dark, weird stuff that I have in my mind. Something separate from my usual online persona. That's why, here and on Ao3, I now goes under this name, to allow myself to write what is in the darkest corners of my mind.

 

[gordo12]

When I started writing at home I was using an IBM XT with twin 360K floppies and dialing up the internet through AOL.

Go XT. First computer I ever bought, $6500 around 87. Had to write my own software to run anything. The internet was not a thing then.

 

[Haulover]

...
OT: Is there a way to change a username?

I administer a large forum that uses the same software as Lit (it's called vBulletin release 4.x).

An administrator can change your user name, but you can't.

I.e. contact Laurel or Manu.

Long ago, I had them correct the capitalization of my user name.

 

[sdsioux]

user name

sdsioux should be easy to figure out.

 

[achingback]

Because it does.

Wo-Ho! 18 posts since 2008.

I guess I'm a lurker.

 

[LaRascasse]

Well, I was just hungry.. and thinking back to the last exotic dish I had eaten.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

I'd been reading stories on Lit without an account for decades, and my favorites were always the stories with lots of dialog, especially during the sex scenes. When I decided to take the plunge and write for myself, it was a conscious decision to write very vocal, communicative characters. I also knew I wanted to write form both a female and a male perspective, so I wanted a gender-neutral pseudonym.

While I was writing my first story, I heard Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me" on the radio and decided that would be the perfect pen name. But it was already taken. I liked it so much though that rather than come up with something different, I fell back on my high school Latin and translated it to get the name I wanted.

I have since been told by an anonymous Latin scholar in one of my comments that I should actually have translated it as "SordidasMihiLoquere" but alas the dye has been cast and I'm stuck with it now.

 

[rnebular]

Long time ago game

So my name came mostly as a joke for my best friend. At the time, we were trying to play this old MS-DOS game by Dynamix (I think?) called Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender. I loved the name Nebular, so shortened the Rex just down to R and added the Nebular. I've been using it for virtually everything else in my life since, and no one really catches on to it until I explain.

Most people guess that I'm a registered nurse. In reality, I'm an overpaid computer nerd

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

I'd been reading stories on Lit without an account for decades, and my favorites were always the stories with lots of dialog, especially during the sex scenes. When I decided to take the plunge and write for myself, it was a conscious decision to write very vocal, communicative characters. I also knew I wanted to write form both a female and a male perspective, so I wanted a gender-neutral pseudonym.

While I was writing my first story, I heard Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me" on the radio and decided that would be the perfect pen name. But it was already taken. I liked it so much though that rather than come up with something different, I fell back on my high school Latin and translated it to get the name I wanted.

I have since been told by an anonymous Latin scholar in one of my comments that I should actually have translated it as "SordidasMihiLoquere" but alas the dye has been cast and I'm stuck with it now.

... I don’t think I’d agree with that Anon poster. The verb form of “loquere” is “to speak”— it’s not conjugated. “Mihi” is usually dative case; here “me” is the direct object acted on. “Sordidas” is just plural I think. So literally, Anon claims your name should be “Tell me dirties” whiiiiiich ain’t the Poison song. Pretty sure you nailed it with LSaM.

Whew! Finally got to put eight years of Latin class to use IRL

But the actual scholar to ask would be Tio Narratore.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Whew! Finally got to put eight years of Latin class to use IRL

But the actual scholar to ask would be Tio Narratore.

That's more Latin than I have Vix, so I bow to your superior education. If Tio has ever seen anything wrong with my translation, he's never bothered to mention it.

 

[oggbashan]

That's more Latin than I have Vix, so I bow to your superior education. If Tio has ever seen anything wrong with my translation, he's never bothered to mention it.

I started Latin age 7 and finally got a university entrance qualification in it. LoquiSordidaAdMe is perfectly understandable. It is much better than many Latin mottoes which can be Pig Latin i.e. Latin as spoken by pigs...

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

I started Latin age 7 and finally got a university entrance qualification in it. LoquiSordidaAdMe is perfectly understandable. It is much better than many Latin mottoes which can be Pig Latin i.e. Latin as spoken by pigs...

I really appreciate you taking the time to say so Ogg. Thank you.

 

[EvelynEden]

... I don’t think I’d agree with that Anon poster. The verb form of “loquere” is “to speak”— it’s not conjugated. “Mihi” is usually dative case; here “me” is the direct object acted on. “Sordidas” is just plural I think. So literally, Anon claims your name should be “Tell me dirties” whiiiiiich ain’t the Poison song. Pretty sure you nailed it with LSaM.

Whew! Finally got to put eight years of Latin class to use IRL

But the actual scholar to ask would be Tio Narratore.

Yay! I love a happy ending! I'm surprised so many of you know/were taught Latin though- very cool. I feel like I have never seen that in my country.

 

[DavidVGKFan]

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[GuessImJamie]

sdsioux should be easy to figure out.

Didn't the NaziCollegateAthleticsAssociation make them and William and Mary change (oh, but not Notre Dame or FSU).

 

[GroverLang]

Because it’s concise and I didn’t want a name that would take ten minutes to type. Also I’m a grovelling bugger.

 

[bluefox55]

I'm a supporter of Leicester City hence the blue fox and my favourite number is 55

 

[lovecraft68]

Mine was chosen for me.

I'd been writing dirty stories for fun and to share with my wife, (in fact a few I have here are based on role plays we'd done) and she was a frequent reader here. She kept trying to get me to publish here to see what other people would think of my work, but I didn't have much interest.

So she created this handle based on my being a huge HPL fan, and unfortunately the year I was born

She also published my first story, 'Almost Perfect' behind my back, then sent me the link.

I was pissed at first, but I got some decent feedback on it both public and through e-mail, and decided I could do better than the one she picked and...so on and so forth.

Depending on what you think of my work, you have her to thank or blame.

 

[SimonDoom]

... I don’t think I’d agree with that Anon poster. The verb form of “loquere” is “to speak”— it’s not conjugated. “Mihi” is usually dative case; here “me” is the direct object acted on. “Sordidas” is just plural I think. So literally, Anon claims your name should be “Tell me dirties” whiiiiiich ain’t the Poison song. Pretty sure you nailed it with LSaM.

Whew! Finally got to put eight years of Latin class to use IRL

But the actual scholar to ask would be Tio Narratore.

I don't know Latin, but I do enjoy grammar, and I found this kind of arousing.

 

[GuessImJamie]

Mine was chosen for me.

I'd been writing dirty stories for fun and to share with my wife, (in fact a few I have here are based on role plays we'd done) and she was a frequent reader here.

That is IOurHO sweet. Seriously.

She kept trying to get me to publish here to see what other people would think of my work, but I didn't have much interest.

So she created this handle based on my being a huge HPL fan, and unfortunately the year I was born:rolleyes: ... Depending on what you think of my work, you have her to thank or blame.

Your are just a kid, we have a combined 25 or 26 years on you.

The correct answer is thank.

 

[johnnieblue44]

My name, the color of my eyes, and my birthday. Took me about three seconds to come up with it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Yay! I love a happy ending! I'm surprised so many of you know/were taught Latin though- very cool. I feel like I have never seen that in my country.

My school had it. I did six years or so of Latin, but I never was very good at the grammar. Some of the vocabulary has stuck with me, though.

The other day my partner was looking at a Valentine's heart that had "pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo" written on it, and asked me what it meant... there's nothing like the classics.

 

[GuessImJamie]

My name, the color of my eyes, and my birthday. Took me about three seconds to come up with it.

April 4, but which year?