How did you choose your username?

Mine was the result of a “crap, gotta come up with a name, gotta come up with a name…” moment. It was back when I thought Adagio was the pinnacle of quality or something (despite having never tried any of their products at the time), and their name always made me start playing Fiona Apple’s song “The First Taste” in my head, which contains the phrase “adagio breezes” in the second verse (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRgtOWwamHU ). It’s not one of her better songs imo, but it’s a decent username and I couldn’t think of anything better at the time. Most of my usernames have been music-related, come to think of it.

Carol Who sent me down the rabbit hole by mentioning this thread…I’ve just spent quite a long time reading all of these, because names are so interesting to me. How incredibly fun! I loved all of your stories!!

I’m just going to add my story, since it’s like a fun party here (even though I showed up really, really late, and the punch bowl is down to the dregs and, and I missed all the great songs…..).
This is one of the names I use a lot… it’s from Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” comic, when Delirium is bored and starts making little frogs…
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1cu0yw7DW1qbolnoo1_500.jpg
I always loved that panel, and Neil Gaiman is one of my favourites….

I love this thread.

Many of you know that I am married to a Dane. On our first date he showed up with candy in hand, specifically Anthon Berg strawberries in champagne. I started loving marzipan after that. It became a running joke every time we visited Denmark, my brothers-in-law (I have four) would show up with an Anthon Berg marzipan “bread” which is basically a candy bar – marzipan covered in chocolate. It just started being a thing.

Great story! It’s what makes a person unique!

i was listening to a remix of cell therapy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWXyjiiWRlk

Easy one. I bought lots of tea. Mrs K comes home, opens the cupboard and shouts “more bloody tea!” and thus it stuck from there on.

So I got my original name – darby14 – around 2000 when ebay and internet usage were starting to get more popular. Darby Hendrickson from the MN Wild hockey team was my favorite player…we had just gotten NHL back in MN….his number is 14. Years later I came to realize that most people thought I was 14! So I still use both but a lot of the time for a screen name I just use Darby so that I don’t confuse people.

I’ve come to really like it and if my mom wouldn’t be hurt, I’d probably change my really name from Jodi as it’s too short.

Well, my name is Luciana, but most call me Lucy, and my last name starts with a letter T, and I like tea, so I figure, LuciTea. Nothing too fancy.

Mine is easy enough…someone always has tea I want but dont have. Is the 11th comandment “thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s tea”?

In the vein of having more discussion topics that are welcoming/inclusive (and less spammy) – I thought this would be an old thread to bump that could be fun since there are definitely some different people on Steepster now than there were five years ago – I’d love to learn the history behind some of your usernames!

See if you can find my response back from earlier in the thread – I guarantee the story behind my username is different than the average assumption.