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Roger was my dachshund.  We had many years of him hanging out in the garage.  He was quite fond of laying in front of my tool box like a log requiring me to step over him.  

My avatar is the Picasso sketch.

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Mine is from waaaay back when my brother and I played computer games and had to separate our save games on our one family PC...yeah I'm getting old.  We always competed without saying anything to come up with more badass names to surprise the other the next time we would go to play...his best taken name was really good in my opinion and being the big brother, I just couldn't let my bro one up me, so Raze was an attempt to come over the top and burn him to the ground...

Avatar used to be in front of an F22 with my old restored Fiat, but I recently retired it for the 1LE up at Road Atlanta.

Creative does not describe mine. It is the name I've gone by my entire life and it is just my initials.

Dad wanted to name me after him and my grandfather since I was the first born son. Mom did not want me to be a "Tommy" or "Little Tommy" or something like that and she also didn't want anything to do with me being a third. So, I have the same name as my grandfather. Same name as my father except he is a Junior. It is a bit confusing sometimes when the Junior is the father. Anyhow, the compromise was that I could get the name without officially being a third and would be called by my initials to not be "Little Tommy".

EDIT: I think on the old board I was TJ instead of T.J.

Mine is pretty simple, I used to work for a manufacturer of pinch valves. When I set up our first AOL account, that was the username I chose. I still use it because I can be pretty sure that the name isn't already taken.

Really enjoying this thread--thanks, doc! (Also, I reacted to Trent's post by making a mental note of, "He's Jumper K. Balls.")

I spent the 90s and early aughts shunning the computer world, so when I started having an online presence, all the super obvious names I came up were taken. This was the first semi descriptive screen name not rejected.

  I had recently been studying blacksmithing, and, like myself wheels are round and have a hole in the middle.

Interesting side note. There was a time when I was studying smithing in Smithville, and cooking in Cookeville, all the while living off the Joe L. Evans exit. My name's Joel, hence the new Joe-with-an-L tag. Put your right hand to your forehead in the traditional "looser" sign to get the full effect.

Avatar is just a picture of my truck's hood.

When I first got on message boards, I didn't want to use my actual name- and, well, I drive Alfas.  Virtually all of my names on various boards around the internet have something to do with Alfas.

For such a simple name, one has to be early in the game- and I joined this board back in the late '90s when it formed.

Well, I used to just be Burrito, but I found it to be too limiting.  There's a great many food item out there in the world wrapped up for easy transport and utensil-less consumption.  Only a fool would limit themselves to just burritos.

Went to the Challenge for the first time in 2004 and had a whole lot of fun!

In addition to my car habit I raced large sail boats in both inshore and offshore events for the better part of fifty years. The last few boats I owned were all named Pirate

I came up with Streetwise in about 82 as a cool name for the speed shop I was destined to become wealthy running.  In 88, I took over a cheap little two bay gas station, and named it Streetwise Service.  97, moved to my current shop, still Streetwise Service.  Not a speed shop, but a regular out automotive service shop with a fondness for Volvo, and a dislike of anything German or British. People look at me funny when I will work on their old Fiat or Renault, but not their BMW.

Guy, because Streetwise nongenderspecificentitywhoisntgay is too wordy.

Avatar is my IT2 Neon, I think going through the keyhole at Race City(rip) in Calgary. 

I got mine long ago in the elantra boards. I had a habit of wrecking threads like Godzilla in Tokyo..... technically I still do. But one of the mods of one thought it would be funny to change my screen name to bobzilla and then modified my sig with a picture of Godzilla added into my normal sig. I liked it so mu Co I kept it for everywhere

I have wood.

If I remember the order of things it goes like this.  When I first joined I had an 81 Alfa GTV6 so I used 81GTV6.  Sold that car to Mr. Aussie on here and changed it to Rusted_Busted_Spit after the 64 Spit sitting sideways in the back of my garage for the last 20 years, my first car incidentally.  Then different people started changing their usernames to their names so I did it too.  Nothing very creative but there it is.  I also have and like turbo SAABs so my avatar is the old school SAAB boost gage.

I wanted a Daytona Shelby Z for my first car when I was 15YO, but a high school auto shop classmate was trying to talk me into a turbo DSM. I signed up on DSMtuners with the user name "ShelbyZ" to do some research and ask questions. I ended up going with the DSM, but since then I've continued to use ShelbyZ as a default anywhere it isn't already taken.

I added some merit to it by adding a Spirit R/T to my fleet 3 years ago.

I am in an odd spot.  My username is mostly a placeholder.  Most of my usernames in the past have been more of my name, since you used to be able to do that safely.  I picked this one for the Appleseed forums (no relation) because it made introducing myself to other instructors I would be working with easier (I am currently a shoot boss).

My secret-identity-never-been-used username matches the vanity plate that I have also not gotten yet, and only will get when I have earned the right to put it on my car.  I did, however, use it for my email address which I got way back when gmail was still invite only (beta).  That was a long time ago, which makes me very sad for me and my car, but it is still a good carrot.

I got the nickname Ron in high school when one of my friends mispronounced my name, Ryan, and it stuck. Since then I've kinda used Ron as an alter ego and when I bought a $300 minitruck I decided to make an alliteration out of it.

My car number with 2 different autox clubs was 39, hence, car39

'Duke' is my nickname since birth.  My real name is George and I come from a long line of Georges, but they didn't want to call me George even though my grandfather was dead and my father never went by George normally.  Could have named me something else, but tradition is a harsh master for some folks, I guess.

I'm lucky that 'Duke' wasn't taken here - on forums it usually is, and often by someone who made 3 posts 4 years ago and hasn't posted since.

My avatar is my hero and looks close enough to real life that it works for me.

I engineer bacteria, E.coli and cancer cells to do my bidding until they kill themselves through overwork. 

When I did all sorts of weird white hat work way way way back in the day I had a different handle until someone found me at one of the OG defcons and I decided to kill that off.  Not quite spot the fed bad of being called out but enough that I like this one and I use it for car stuff. 

I'm totally uncreative.  My name is Tyler Hamilton.  My avatar is a picture of me in the engine bay of a 1986 MR2, welding in new engine mouts for the 3SGTE engine swap.  

Mildly intetesting fact:  I have a couple random Strava stalkers that always give me a thumbs up any time I complete a run or ride.  It finally dawned on me that they think I'm the other Tyler Hamilton, the former professional cyclist.  

A long time ago, in a country far, far away ( well.....Canada) I was a regular autocross competitor. A buddy blew his motor and suggested we share my car for the remainder of the season and he would supply the tires and wheels. Deal! After one event we were imbibing in a local pub and he mentioned that the entry forms had a spot for a team name, so we should come up with one. More imbibing led to me coming up with "Dead Skunk Racing", I don't remember how. Picture me and a drunk, heavily accented Scotsman having the discussion. Dead Skunk has been my handle/email/screen name for almost 30 years now.

The avatar is Dudley Do-right, an upstanding Canadian, like me !

I used to be Suprf1y because Superfly was always taken on forums full of turbo Firefly owners. The connection to a 70's Cadillac driving pimp was a bonus - my Dad actually drove a 74 Eldorado

I changed it to Zomby Woof, a tribute to a Zappa song (I'm the creature all the ladies been talkin' about) of the same name. Interesting trivia, the awesome backing vocals in that song is Tina Turner

Then I adopted the name of a favourite childhood cartoon character because I really am a short, bespectacled, annoying little know it all like the guy in my avatar who, incidentally, likes to start each episode with the words Peabody here .

I don't know, it's something my parents started calling me. I guess it stuck.

All jokes aside, I'm enjoying reading how everyone came up with their forum usernames. My avatar is actually the front of a Porsche 904 (if I remember correctly) that I took with my phone a few years ago at the 12 Hours of Sebring.

I was a long time rider of BMW motorcycles. Had a few old boxers and my final motorcycle was a 1988 K100LT that I put over 100K miles on. I was riding that when the boon of the internet took off. This name was always available so I just keep using it for the last 2 decades or so to keep internet continuity. 

The funny thing is over the years I will make a negative comment about BMW cars and people will say but your screen name. I will remind them that Motorrad and the car group are 2 completely separate operations. 

My avatar right now is picture I took of Travis Pastrana going up Pikes Peak in a Cayman GT4. Can't see it well in tiny size but it's raining and starting to hail in the pic. You can see a small pieces of hail in the full size pic.