Tinworm is a cute euphemism for RUST. For the last ten years (on and off, when not learning to fly and then being distracted by flying, and by other car and bike projects, etc) I have been restoring a very badly rusted 1958 Austin 101 small truck.

I have been blogging the restoration in the name of Tinworm

Thergox spawned when I was dwelling upon character names for my stories. Actually, I was in the middle of writing my best one (Or so I call it) and the name hit me like a rug (Yes, a rug). I immediately scribbled it down on the side of the paper and continued writing. When my usual screen name, 3Rr0r, happened to be taken, I switched to Thergox as a. . . Forgot the name. Substitute! yes, substitute.

well

Aussie (slang for Australian)
Angler (someone who fishes)
Gal (need i explain?)

I chose Shockwave because it was a random nickname given to me by my best friends, but to my horror it was taken. Henceforth I change the S to a 5, giving me the the name 5hockwave

Um....Well....uh...

The first part of my username is simply my favorite amime character, Lady Resha, form Rave Master, because her past self created the Holy Brings that could help save the world from being overcome by evil, but in the process of making the last and final Holy Bring she was killed because the power of etherion was too strong for her. In recognition to the girl who risked her life to save many, they renamed the Brings to RAVE by taking the first and last letters of her first and last name (ReshA ValentinE). 50 years in the future a girl, Elie, who lost all her memories, is discovered to have the same power of Lady Resha when she meets up with Haru Glory to find the rave stones and restore the world to its initial happines. Elie is known to look a lot like Lady Resha and very well may be (But I haven't gotten that far yet) She acts a lot like me in many ways.
Long story short LResha is my favorite anime character and 1547 is my favorite number.

Moem is my nickname of choice. It's from the Dutch version of the books about the Moomintroll family, one of my favourite series of books ever. Moem is simply Dutch for Moomin.
I'm Moem on BookCrossing, Dreamwidth and on the wiki of our local hackerspace, Hack42.

Of course, over here it was already taken... and as usual by someone who doesn't use the account at all. So I'm Hack42Moem, to distinguish me from that Other Moem.

Greg Inc, because I am constantly building things, drawing or something or another.

THEGRIMM came to life when me and my girlfriend were deciding on a name for our band so it's a good memory and to me it sounds cool and mysterious

mine is very simple my last mane and the number of family members

I got this nick when I was playing Brothers In Arms with a friend. He was Schumi22, and another friend was Schumi24. I've kept the nick ever since, though I only played the game 5 times, and not for over a year :)

So, It means nothing!

"nutsandbolts_64" was an idea born because I worked in a hardware store (erm, family business :D). Given all the stuff there, all I could think was "nuts and bolts... nuts and bolts" so I gave that a shot. What with 64? Honestly, that's just completely random. Only the left side of the underscore actually means anything at all.

The Isalnd of Onrust. A 12 acre island with a restless and violent history. Also.....The Onrust, a yacht, was the first decked vessel to be built entirely in North America. The construction, with help from the Lenape Indians, took an entire winter. I LOVE nautical history, fables, yarns, superstitions, and "opinions"......try me!

After reading some of the posts, I must say I could have come up with something more creative than what I chose. But I try using this online name where ever possible (unless the screen name is already taken).

So, here it comes:
My name is Michael and I've been working in the US for 3 years. One of my colleagues always called me mike, and I was born in '73.
Usually I use an underscore between Mike and the 73, but the name was either taken or underscores weren't allowed.

I love underscores. They allow linking files in windows. No underscore and most links to files on the company network don't work :-)

My company name: lime3D

I tend to mutter to myself when I am working intently and "cd /etc" is something that I say quite frequently. I imagined that my co-workers might call me that behind my back. "Oh look, here comes ol' cdslashetc!"

My username is a combination of my name and the name of Ehud the judge from the bible. He was left handed and so am I.

My Name is mobile_earth_explorer i Am From The Andromeda Galaxy,
My Current Location is Inside A Space Station Orbiting Your Planet,
My Mission is To Remotely Explore Your Planet Using Your 3.5G/4G Network :)

PS: i Come in "Peace"

Interesting thread. Mine you can probably guess, my name is Paul and the rest is a simple statement of fact. I use the same name on all the sites about making things I frequent and on my blog.

I love sunshine so I picked sunshiine. I wanted it to shine so I added an I.

p = Paul
fred = Frederick
2 means my second account

I was pfred1, well I still am I suppose, I just don't know what I did with my password for that account.

It's nothing to do with Twilight, first of all.
I had the nickname eclipse on some other websites before those horrid books ever existed. I just liked the name and I like astronomy and the moon.
Then I came to Instructables, and eclipse was taken, so I added a d to the end.

and now people see my name and think I am some 14 year old sparkly vampire fangirl.
:p
NOT!

From Plato's Republic, Thrasymachus...yup...I'm awesome original. But at least I know it. Right?

wherewillwhy was given to me by a fellow hacker .the abbv www and my name is will

vroom...vroom...vroom?...........I got nothin'.

I chose Monsterlego becuase I MAKE MONSTER LEGOS! GGRAAAWWRR!!!!!!!!

Freeza' Burn is my "rapper" name that i came up with a couple years ago. 36 is my favorite number. I am freeza36

M-Y NAME

Flatliner= what we call dead people as paramedics, I like dark stuff and death and Ive seen death its turned my life around.

OR (versatile)
ZOMBIE

Medic-Paramedic

I have usted my username for ages now, or at least 7 years. I thought that I was clever when needing a name for a rpg on a forum, so i combined Jessica with Catharina and thought that I had made a new name. Turns out, I haven't, but it's been with me ever since.
I'm also known a Lady Jerina or Lj for short, in EVE Online

mine (modaawesome) means mo (my home nickname) the awesome

well- mine started out as monocleice, which didn't sound good- so I went with monoICE- which became mono935- 9 = I, 3 = C, and 5 = E, and then, one day, I saw a guy with the username hucking fuskie on a forum- and it was a match made in heaven. I decided on Monofuskie935, and with some tweaking, I got moneyfuskie935.

So basically- it means monocle ice, or dust.

Mine is a double entendre. I am a huge Vancouver Canucks Hockey fan and also a Canadian (which are sometimes referred to as Canucks), so since I'm a girl, I went with canucksgirl. I opted to use the Team Canada Hockey Jersey versus the Vancouver Canucks Jersey just to emphasis the meaning. :D

I needed a nickname, so I went to wikipedia, and hit "random article".

this is my nickname my godson uses for me cept the 2005 part it is when i started this id. i use it on neopets,youtube,as well as a few other sites

I grew up on a farm and my family had four geese, Mad goose, Gooseloops, Tuloose, and Rasberry

I have a YouTube channel and my name there is proberry1.....so the "i" means instructables....and then my YouTube name....makes everything almost the same,iproberry1.

I have dreads and my name is Jazmin= Dready Jazz

My usernames just missing the last 5 letters of my last name. Pretty nuts aye?

Mine means sunshine in Danish. It's an old nickname.

Mine stands for Soaring Eagle in Cherokee and is my native american name. I am really not native american, but a white man. when i became an eagle scout, i had native american dencers come to my cerimony and they suprised me by giving me the honor of having a native american name. actually, it looks like this:

So-ka-mi Wo-ha-li, or Sokami Wohali but i smushed it together here on 'ibles.

Well I would of thought that mine would have been fairly obvious/nonsensical, however here it goes: Elf's are just plain awesome (Just take a look at Link or Legolas) so naturally I wished to incorporate that into my name now adding the fact that I am a child in the eyes of the world ElvenChild seemed to be perfect (I wanted "ElvenChild" (with the quotes)) however it would not change to that from the username I had when I originally signed up back in 2008 (boy).

Apparently some believe mine means naive or ingenuous. Sorry guys and gals, I know to much to ever go back to the dark ages of ignorance and anosogosia...

From Plato's Republic, Thrasymachus. I used to use the whole thing but got tired of people complaining about having to type in such a long name and started using a shorter version. It's not original but at least it isn't too common.

Das Brunstig Unicorn it means the horny unicorn in German. I thinks its a clever little innuendo.

Missouri born and raised, and I've always fancied myself a villain. The misspelling in the handle is deliberate nowadays thanks to an error made by a friend who created a forum tag for me years ago. I also go by ShadowPuppet, Gilgar, and game under Lucis Ferre ( my truly evil alter ego).

mine rhymes with "instructables", and it is also an allusion to the Bill Cosby show

My husband came up with CDAWisconsin. We were living downtown Chicago and he was dreaming of moving away from the city to some wide open spaces in Wisco. The C is for Christopher. The D is for me, Deidre, very Irish. A is for my oldest daughter and at the time our only child. She is on Instructables as sistrgldnhair. We are technically now CDACBWisconsin.

"Books" in my native language, basically.

Archemedes ye old scientist.

Long time reader but just signed up yesterday. :)
Gutbucket is my username in most domains, except Flickr where, surprisingly, it was already taken.
I heard it uttered as an insult at somebody years ago and took a shine to it.
Physically, it suits me. But be forewarned; I'm much faster (both on a bike & off) than I would appear. :)

or you can call me Dave.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet.
;-)

MichelMoermans stands for my first name Michel and my last name Moermans. I never really liked submitting under a different name. I don't care who knows my name and who doesn't. Plus it's much easier to just point to this site in jobinterviews and say look at the instructables of MichelMoermans then for example "crazy donut guy 101" or something like that...

Hi. New to Instructables.com but anywho....
sassimo is just a weird word that popped into my head when one of my friends just blurted out, "That's just so awesome-o!" and 03 is when I graduated from high school.

...because I'm ferocious, like a _______