How did you choose your username?

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 11/18/2022 at 6:29 PM, SugarBassJoe said:

Was using just my name for a bit, but wanting to be different, decided to use my nick name. Was doing a little inshore fishing one day, when I stumbled over a honey hole full of sugar bass. Caught around 20 in 10 minutes (all cpr'd). My deck hand buddy, started calling me sugar bass, and well the name stuck. Surprising number of joes out there, so the nickname helped differentiate me, so now I'm sugar, sugar joe or sugar bass joe out there.

Cpr’d??

[Theplatymaster]

after i had pretty much just a swarm of platies i began calling myself Theplatymaster in my head, and it stuck. So how did i choose my username. I came up with it and liked it, based on my fish

[AnotherHumanPerson]

"Another Name" was the name of one of the teams on BFDI (a niche webseries). I used it and variants as usernames for a while, and now "Another Human person", or just "Another", has become my default username/internet name.

[SugarBassJoe]

On 11/18/2022 at 9:34 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Cpr’d??

Catch, Photograph, Release

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 11/18/2022 at 8:03 PM, SugarBassJoe said:

Catch, Photograph, Release

Always the best way when it comes to endangered stuff 👍

[anewbie]

I have no clue what i am doing so that makes me a newbie.

[SugarBassJoe]

On 11/18/2022 at 11:03 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Always the best way when it comes to endangered stuff 👍

No messing with endangered species, we have a few of them out here and you'd be risking serious fines and/or jail time to take them out of the water. 

[Flumpweesel]

On 11/18/2022 at 4:59 PM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Dare you to change your username to Anne-jum 🤣!

Id be very interested in knowing how @Flumpweesel chose hers ( forgive me if I’m wrong about gender!).

Correctly gendered . 

My username was borne out of frustration a long time ago trying to set up an email and anything remotely like my name had gone so it's two randomish words one annoyingly spelt wrong.

Flumps (or The Flumps) were the characters a children's animated TV series in the 70's. So I guess a flumpweesel would be their natural predator.  The TV show wasn't that dark though.

It's now my default username on lots of things so if you see it you've probably found me.

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 11/18/2022 at 10:14 PM, Flumpweesel said:

Correctly gendered . 

My username was borne out of frustration a long time ago trying to set up an email and anything remotely like my name had gone so it's two randomish words one annoyingly spelt wrong.

Flumps (or The Flumps) were the characters a children's animated TV series in the 70's. So I guess a flumpweesel would be their natural predator.  The TV show wasn't that dark though.

It's now my default username on lots of things so if you see it you've probably found me.

I remember seeing a guy called ‘Wallace & Gromit’ on another forum…can’t say I’ve heard of those little potato people 😁

[Flumpweesel]

On 11/19/2022 at 6:38 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

I remember seeing a guy called ‘Wallace & Gromit’ on another forum…can’t say I’ve heard of those little potato people 😁

You are rather young I don't think modern TV scheduling has room for the simple joy of The Flumps. Kids TV was low budget and fairly new thing. In the 70s before people used it to sell stuff to kids.

We had "tales from the river bank" that used live animals to tell stores. (It could never be made now). And Fingerbobs where a man made paper finger puppets and then told stories with them. 

 Both of those seem to have been deemed to odd for any channel to try reshowing them.  Here are some tasters

 

 

Edited November 19, 2022 by Flumpweesel
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[The endler guy]

On 11/18/2022 at 4:14 PM, Flumpweesel said:

Correctly gendered . 

My username was borne out of frustration a long time ago trying to set up an email and anything remotely like my name had gone so it's two randomish words one annoyingly spelt wrong.

Flumps (or The Flumps) were the characters a children's animated TV series in the 70's. So I guess a flumpweesel would be their natural predator.  The TV show wasn't that dark though.

It's now my default username on lots of things so if you see it you've probably found me.

Any one else think they look like marimo moss balls??

[Anjum]

@Flumpweesel the Flumps are precious! I watched nearly the whole episode before I realized I'm a 44 year old woman sitting at the kitchen table on a Saturday morning drinking coffee & watching British cartoons from the 70's 😂 This forum is something else. 

[Flumpweesel]

Quite frankly @Anjum that doesn't sound like a bad way to spend a Saturday morning.. They certainly have a charm that's missing from the world today. If you want more recommendations just ask.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

I like Kamen Rider and Kaijus (Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera, etc.) 

[JJenna]

I knew there would come a day when it would be impossible to recall all the usernames I used over the years. Have used the jjenna4 tag since the late 80s everywhere.