What’s in a name

ZEROPILOT

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My username has evolved a LOT over the years.

It started in kindergarten, when we had to set up our school computer accounts, and our username had to be the first three letters of our first name, and then our last name. Since my name is Macy, the first three letters were Mac. For some reason 5 year old me thought it was hilarious that my name sounded like “Mac and cheese”.

Some time during elementary, I got a substitute teacher that, for whatever reason, pronounced my name as “Macky” during roll call, and that nickname stuck. I was cool with it because I like mac&cheese, lol.

Fast forward a few years, and I’ve started playing online games. I usually used names like “MacyMacaroni”, “macandcheesygirl”, and so on.

When I was somewhere around the age of 12, I found a pretty stupid multiplayer game where you could play as a raptor(the dinosaur), but they came in all sorts of colors. I chose one that was black with rainbow spots, and changed my name to TechnoCheese to fit the colors. I’ve used this username for pretty much everything, and on non-reptile related accounts, my profile picture is a poorly drawn bowl of mac and cheese.

I guess it stuck, lol.
Very intetesting
 

LaLaP

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My username has evolved a LOT over the years.

It started in kindergarten, when we had to set up our school computer accounts, and our username had to be the first three letters of our first name, and then our last name. Since my name is Macy, the first three letters were Mac. For some reason 5 year old me thought it was hilarious that my name sounded like “Mac and cheese”.

Some time during elementary, I got a substitute teacher that, for whatever reason, pronounced my name as “Macky” during roll call, and that nickname stuck. I was cool with it because I like mac&cheese, lol.

Fast forward a few years, and I’ve started playing online games. I usually used names like “MacyMacaroni”, “macandcheesygirl”, and so on.

When I was somewhere around the age of 12, I found a pretty stupid multiplayer game where you could play as a raptor(the dinosaur), but they came in all sorts of colors. I chose one that was black with rainbow spots, and changed my name to TechnoCheese to fit the colors. I’ve used this username for pretty much everything, and on non-reptile related accounts, my profile picture is a poorly drawn bowl of mac and cheese.

I guess it stuck, lol.
Macy, yours was the name I was most curious about and that story did not disappoint! Thanks for sharing.
 

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On another forum, my posting name is my initials spelled phonetically. As my first two initials are LC this makes the name Elsie. It is amazing how many people just assume that's my real name :D

As I meet people from that forum pretty regularly at conferences and trade shows, I now answer to Elsie as well as my real name :D

We do have some pretty strange face to face introductions. "Nice to meet you spuffmonkey. I'm elsie, this is witch and soulfish is over there talking to DosBox"... At least posting names are unique. When you find out real forenames you discover you have 3 Johns and two Sarahs and then it gets confusing :D
 

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The name of the street I lived on back when I joined. Didn't realize that so many would think I was a male because of it.
The only funny part about that. I was a Tomboy as a kid with a very short pixie hair cut. Was mistaken for a boy a lot lol.
Once I realized the crazy people on this forum were harmless, I added my name to my post signature to help clarify.
 

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My username has evolved a LOT over the years.

It started in kindergarten, when we had to set up our school computer accounts, and our username had to be the first three letters of our first name, and then our last name. Since my name is Macy, the first three letters were Mac. For some reason 5 year old me thought it was hilarious that my name sounded like “Mac and cheese”.

Some time during elementary, I got a substitute teacher that, for whatever reason, pronounced my name as “Macky” during roll call, and that nickname stuck. I was cool with it because I like mac&cheese, lol.

Fast forward a few years, and I’ve started playing online games. I usually used names like “MacyMacaroni”, “macandcheesygirl”, and so on.

When I was somewhere around the age of 12, I found a pretty stupid multiplayer game where you could play as a raptor(the dinosaur), but they came in all sorts of colors. I chose one that was black with rainbow spots, and changed my name to TechnoCheese to fit the colors. I’ve used this username for pretty much everything, and on non-reptile related accounts, my profile picture is a poorly drawn bowl of mac and cheese.

I guess it stuck, lol.

I almost got expelled in 9th grade? Some rumors circulated and I'm staring down two old timers giving me the inquisition. Talking about how people were going to get hurt. I didnt know what they were referring to. The other student has been standing there feeding them as the information poured out this kid kept giving all this info about a gang. My gang that I had and downtime about it. Truth be told I'm not sure what the hell that kid told them, but they didn't mess with my crew again.
 

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