What's in a Username?

Really? I can see that. That makes sense. But it was sort of me trying to simply say I was a fan of the movie, and specifically Bob and Helen, while including my first name. I failed. If we could change them, if I thought of something more clear, I would change mine. I like how my name sounds, but I despise the connotations. :neutral_face:

Grifoshka, you’re welcome. :smiley:

I was thinking of chaning my username to somethingelse. Problem is, I’ve been known as TSS here for as long as I could rmeember, so it would be a big change.

I can’t remember if I revealed this here before, but I guess now’s a good time as any.

I went through many ideas before signing up here (I was a lurker for about two years!), but I finally settled on ā€˜thedriveintheatre’ because it combines my two loves for cars and films. What could be a better physical manifestation of the world’s love for automobiles and cinema than a drive-in-theatre? There’s something majestic and beautiful of breathtaking visuals projected on a giant canvas under the stars; a dazzling symbiosis and synergy of man and nature. The fact that it was one of the settings in the Cars credits, and that I would love to visit one in real-life one day, made this a perfect summative symbol of my character.

In my ā€˜About Me’ sections of my various fan sites, I presented myself as the proprietor of a fictional theatre in Radiator Springs (cos’ I was a huge Cars geek back then). Good times. :slight_smile:

Also, I realised much later that it contains my name in there. Yes, if you pick the right letters (it’s not all of them, for sure!) and rearrange them, you can spell out my full name (first and last). It’s a secret partial-anagram! So to the curious and cryptography-inclined, see if you can figure it out and look me up on Facebook. :wink:

My reason for picking S 330 was because I was working on a personal 3D animated short about a robot called S 330 (my avatar is also the head of the robot).
I usually pick something starting with the letters TWS (in reference to the miniature studio name I chose for myself: Time Warp Studios) like TWS Administrator or TWS Composer with the exception of this forum and two others.

i feel so lame i can’t even. like, /everyone/ has some neat backstory to their username.

mine went something like: i was sitting there staring at my computer screen and being the horrible username picker that i am, i opened this word document that has like a million bits of lyrics & junk that i use for fic titles on ff, and bits & pieces was right there at the top and i was desperate so i was just like OKAY IT’LL WORK.

and that’s how i got my username~

Whoa, kind of like Lord Voldemort! :laughing: And I liked learning the meaning behind your username, its one of my favorite usernames on the site!

Heehee don’t worry. That’s excatly how I came up with my username too. I just smacked together 3 Pixar charcter names and added some slashes! Not very creative on my part, but I like your username!

This might sound really dumb to you, but I assumed(which is why I sound dumb :stuck_out_tongue: ) that your user name was due to in Tangled when Flynn says ā€œI’m just picking up bits and pieces hereā€¦ā€ 8D

I mentioned that there is always a reason why poeple choose their usernames. So it’s never lame. You made a decision, and we have come to know you because of it.

True, I can’t imagine being known as anything else but ellie-jessie-eve!

I like my username, I pretty much chose it from the start.

Same here. I prefer my username to my actual name.

I grew to like my username so much, I use it for pretty much every website I’m on. I think I’ve even called myself K9Girl a few times when talking to myself. :stuck_out_tongue:

iv: it doesn’t make you sound dumb! lol, i remember you saying that in some other thread a while ago and now every time i watched tangled i’m like, ā€œAHHH OMG MY USERNAME!ā€

Im kind of glad I chose something other than the standard TWS________. it’s nice to differentiate.

Really? Hahaha. I’m glad it amuses you. :smiley:

Well a reason I chose to not use my actual name is for security reasons. Don’t want people searching me up online, and I’m careful of what I say to people online.

I’m the opposite. I’d like to be facebook/twitter friends with as many PP members as would be my friend. :stuck_out_tongue: 8D Maybe that’s why so many don’t want to be my friend, I’m too open to friends. 8D :slight_smile:

Yeah, I’m the same way, sort of. I’m great friends with all the regular members here, and friends with them on facebook or twitter with most of them!

Yeah. :smiley: It’s fun to be connected to you guys like that!

My thoughts exactly! I just love my username, not to sound too full of myself or anything. But it’s like I got to name myself, and I love the sound of it when I say it outloud!