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I always like starting this thread on whatever board I join. It's just interesting to get to know some of the other board members and how they chose their handle, not to mention what their handle means.
Okay, I'll start.
I logged onto Goonsnet to post a couple of specific threads that I couldn't hold in anymore back in July of 2003.
I wanted to register as quickly as possible because I was using my computer at work and didn't want the boss to catch me.
Anyway, I wanted to log on as "Mothman" from The Mothman Prophecies but that handle had already been taken. Wanting to hurry up and register, I thought I could change my handle later (it was my first registration as a newbie internet user), so I picked the first thing that came into my head.
It was two nicknames that I had for a couple of cats my parents owned back in the 1980's. I thought this one Siamese cat looked kind of like the little grey alien that is my avatar, so I nicknamed him "Zoid". The other was his mate, and she got the nickname "Zodian". I just combined them into my handle thinking I could change it later.
And the rest is history. After registering on Goonsnet as Zoid Zodian, I actually posted my first thread on the K-VAR forum as just "Zoid", but during their website upgrade my identity and threads were deleted, so I re-registered as Zoid Zodian. I'm Zoid Zodian on every forum I've registered for, now. Sometimes I feel more like Zoid Zodian than I do my real name.
Okay, I'll start.
I logged onto Goonsnet to post a couple of specific threads that I couldn't hold in anymore back in July of 2003.
I wanted to register as quickly as possible because I was using my computer at work and didn't want the boss to catch me.
Anyway, I wanted to log on as "Mothman" from The Mothman Prophecies but that handle had already been taken. Wanting to hurry up and register, I thought I could change my handle later (it was my first registration as a newbie internet user), so I picked the first thing that came into my head.
It was two nicknames that I had for a couple of cats my parents owned back in the 1980's. I thought this one Siamese cat looked kind of like the little grey alien that is my avatar, so I nicknamed him "Zoid". The other was his mate, and she got the nickname "Zodian". I just combined them into my handle thinking I could change it later.
And the rest is history. After registering on Goonsnet as Zoid Zodian, I actually posted my first thread on the K-VAR forum as just "Zoid", but during their website upgrade my identity and threads were deleted, so I re-registered as Zoid Zodian. I'm Zoid Zodian on every forum I've registered for, now. Sometimes I feel more like Zoid Zodian than I do my real name.