How Did You Choose Your Username?

[Naam]

Take a wild guess?

you're a lady?

[PeaceBlondie]

PeaceBlondie

[Cobalt60]

A severe lack of imagination and the inability to get out of work mode.

[Ungabunga]

I have often used the catchphrase of cartoon character "Captain Caveman" at times when the right words elude me, or when I'm a tad tipsy - which I must have been when signing up for the forum.

Unga Bunga!

[canuckamuck]

It's really my name

[transam]

It's really my name

I feel for you. ....................................

[Jingthing]

It's really my name

I feel for you. ....................................

It's like A boy Named Sue but the Maple Leaf version ...

[nima]

By reading my name. Fortunately 4 characters are allowed to register here.

[7by7]

Was listening to Space Ritual whilst registering; couldn't think of a name when

started.

Short and simple, I thought.

[phuturatica]

Phuturatica (pronounced future-ratika) because I was 14 when I thought up that username and I thought I was cool. Plus my style was very futuristic. It's my online alias everywhere on the internet.

[rene123]

I guess I'm pretty boring. I just used my real name with some numbers behind it. I don't see much sense in hiding who I am.

[transam]

I guess I'm pretty boring. I just used my real name with some numbers behind it. I don't see much sense in hiding who I am.

Nice photo.

[andrew]

Yet another ego trip for this individual. Hopefully it will be shut down as fast as his last moronic thread.

andrew. It must of took ages to think that one up.

You could contribute to this thread and post an answer or you could simply ignore the OP's posts.

Why did you chose to do neither?

Some very unhappy people on this forum.

[andrew]

Mine is boring. I had a film company called SeaVision Films. I did some work as an underwater cameraman, and SeaVision was a play on words.

Then I moved to Burma, so just tacked that onto the end.

SVB ended up sticking, which was good as SeaVisionBurma is too long.

Sent from my ALCATEL_one_touch_918D

That was worth reading. Nothing boring about it at all.

[Tywais]

I put together my nick many years ago long before becoming a TV member. It was during USENET soc.culture.thai days when it was still civil. At that time, finding software to read/write Thai was near impossible so decided to write my own Thai flashcard program to help me learn the letters. I mentioned it on SCT and garnered some interest so decided to make it available. At that time software sharing was via BBS and public ftp servers. I packaged it up and uploaded it to several servers as donate ware.

Decided I wanted a trademark name and came up with Tywais. Bit of a play on words as it can be seen several different ways. Thai Ways, Thai wais , or Thai Wise. After 40 years experiencing Thailand, Thai Wise still doesn't fit quite right.

[villagefarang]

So after thirty some years in Bangkok I thought a change might be good. The change ended up being a small village 55 km east of Chiang Rai. Of course there is more to it, but this is the short version.

Out of the move came several life changes, some small and some not so small. For one, I began writing a blog and needed a nom de plume that distinguished my new country life from my old city life. Being the only Farang living in this village, Village Farang seemed to fit.

Of course at the time I really didn’t know who villagefarang might become or that he might end up, not so much a username, but an on online identity spanning many sites, ThaiVisa included.

[jomtienfun]

I life in jomtien I really enjoy life here a lot of fun so jomtien and fun = jomtiefun

As simple as that

jomtienfun

[Rsquared]

.....for me it was a nickname given to me when I was at sea.

Basically my initials multiplied by each other......R x R = Rsquared.

[watutsi]

It is a line from Wilson Pickets 1966 classic "Land of a Thousand Dances". He actually says "do the Watusi" but i heard it as Watutsi thinking it must be tenuously linked to the Central African tribe of the same name,maybe it is ,but it certainly has a better ring to it than the alternatives "The Pony" or "Mashed Potato".

[rucus7]

It was a place I visited while on the astral plane.

[stoneyboy]

I am known the world over as Stoneyboy,why should Thai Visa be any different.

[Habs]

Habs Best team in hockey (Montreal Canadiens)

[rene123]

Habs Best team in hockey (Montreal Canadiens)

I beg to differ. The Habs were great a LONG time ago when there were only 6 teams. But, that New York lawyer has destroyed the NHL and turned it into a joke. May they all rot in hell.

[Tchooptip]

The name of my wife's cat, I liked the sound of it... (from the name not the cat)

[Tchooptip]

I am known the world over as Stoneyboy,why should Thai Visa be any different.

The world over? In continental Europe I asked every one nobody know you

[Neeranam]

I wanted to be anonymous - my name means that in Thai.

[BoonToong]

Boon Toong is the name given to me by the Abbot of a temple. Roughly translated it means:

'Lucky git'

[seedy]

When I came to Thailand, there was already a Dale in our club, so I was known as Canadian Dale. CD - Seedy

[Potosi]

I love the last generation of sailing trade ships, the windjammer. This name was taken. The proudest of those vessel was the five-mast Preussen,' the queen of the queens of the oceans'. Nearly 150 metres long, speed 20 knots+. As fast as the Dreadnought or Titanic a decade later, and not propelled by filthy 50,000 hp engines. A shame the technology was abandoned. Preussen was taken also. Potosi was another ship of the 'P' fleet. It caught fire off the Patagonian coast, and an Argentine warship sunk her by gunfire in 1925.

[draftvader]

I love the last generation of sailing trade ships, the windjammer. This name was taken. The proudest of those vessel was the five-mast Preussen,' the queen of the queens of the oceans'. Nearly 150 metres long, speed 20 knots+. As fast as the Dreadnought or Titanic a decade later, and not propelled by filthy 50,000 hp engines. A shame the technology was abandoned. Preussen was taken also. Potosi was another ship of the 'P' fleet. It caught fire off the Patagonian coast, and an Argentine warship sunk her by gunfire in 1925.

..and is one of the highest cities in the world. It is in Bolivia and was a key location for the Spanish empire as it was one of their largest silver mines providing currency for their global trade.