[OilsNotWell]

[bruin]

UCLA

Been some years now since college but the name always seems to be available and it's easy to remember.

[FatherOfTwo]

After learning about Peak Oil, the thing that bothered me the most was thinking about what it’ll be like for my 2 little girls. Growing up we’re all conditioned that lives will be better for our kids, peak oil changed that for me… thus the name.

[jaakkeli]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')o what's up with your names, people?

[Madpaddy]

Well,

My mates say I am eccentric and I'm Irish so - Madpaddy.

[cat]

As I was registering I paused to think of a name and my cat walked in the room. Creative huh?

[cat]

Father of Two wrote:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')fter learning about Peak Oil, the thing that bothered me the most was thinking about what it’ll be like for my 2 little girls. Growing up we’re all conditioned that lives will be better for our kids, peak oil changed that for me

[MD]

For years I have used "stringybeany". Here I simply used my initials.

[Nike62]

Nike62:
Nike = "Victory" in Greek, from which cames "Nicola", my first name
62 = 1962, my birth year

[dmtu]

I started operating electric mining shovels at the age of 25 which is pretty young. Eager to prove myself I would type dmtu into the dispatch screen ( they only hold about 13 characters) when the dispatcher wouldn't route enough trucks to me. Now I type dmtu you when they send me a steady stream of trucks. Needed something for my e-mail when I bought my first computer and that was what popped into my mind, so it has stuck.

[Vexed]

VEX:
1) to annoy: cause annoyance in; disturb
2) to worry: disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me"
3) to agitate: change the arrangement or position of
4) to subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation; "vex the subject of the death penalty"
5) to perplex: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"

Peak Oil Vexed me.

[SidneyTawl]

I picked mine so I could say to you at this exact moment that I think you are "data mining".

go away.

[killJOY]

Unlike most people, I've spent my life reading and researching, not watching TV, going to Disney World, or eating BigMacs. I've learned that most of what we think we know is horse hockey. But to dare question such sacred cows as Christianity, psychoanalysis, or consumer culture is to put yourself on the outs with 99% of the public.

So I chose killJOY because I hate you.

[satjeet]

it is my name

[SidneyTawl]

killyjoy, do you have a religious belief that makes you not believe in "shrinks".

Is it only christianity that you have a problem with or is it other religions.

Who is "you" that "you" wish to kill

a bit extreme, don't you say.

[ArimoDave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SidneyTawl', 'k')illyjoy, do you have a religious belief that makes you not believe in "shrinks".

Is it only christianity that you have a problem with or is it other religions.

Who is "you" that "you" wish to kill

a bit extreme, don't you say.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Sidneytawl, 'data mining'? Just curious, jeez. Killjoy, you need to see a good Freudian psychoanalyst.

[k_semler]

k_semler is a contraction of my first name and last name. My first name is Kurt, my last name is Semler. That is why I chose k_semler. I never said I was being creative.

[katkinkate]

My kname is Kate and I like the letter K. I thought it kool when I saw some userknames, when I first kame online, that used words knormally spelt with a c, use a k instead; like katalyst and krystal. But all the good ones I kould think of were taken and I didn't want to be katalyst3448. It seems so lazy and unkool to acknowledge that you're the 3448'th person to pick Katalyst and you kouldn't bother thinking up something else.

So I wanted a c-word to match with my K name and opened the dictionary to C and started skanning, testing the words with my kname until I kame to catkin. It has dual meaning for me, one obvious and one very oblique.

The obvious one is that catkins are soft fuzzy seed heads of a rush-like plant, and I'm a soft fuzzy kind of person.

The oblique meaning was inspired by the sound of catkin and Kate together - I suddenly remembered an old western movie/book kharacter Matt Kincade ("Eat lead, Kincade" bang bang). I liked the kontrast with the softer reference.

And no-one else in the whole world is using it! IT'S ALL MINE!!!!!!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('katkinkate', '
')And no-one else in the whole world is using it! IT'S ALL MINE!!!!!!