It's because I'm suffering from a homicidal skin irritation.

good idea! you shall now refer to me as r0tt3n533d!

I don't have numbers in my screen name, but I wish I had made it shorter, such as "kronos." I have accounts all over the intertubes with the user name "kronosposeidon," so I thought I'd be consistent (read: anal) when I created my account here. There's a long, boring story about why I chose "kronosposeidon" many moons ago. If you're ever suffering from insomnia, just PM me and ask about it. You'll be asleep before your head hits the keyboard.

I'm with krono...etc in that it's a consistency thing. I was given the username way, way back in the days of university, it was generated using first, middle, last name and if someone had already had that combo you got a number.

So... spoco2 it was.

And, I have a crap memory and am signed up on Soooooooooooooooooooo many sites that the only way I can remember is to have the same username (I do have a handful of different passwords though).

So, yeah, it's a hangover, but I'm not going to change now dammit... not for anyone.

I hate when people do that.

My name is the same as my hotmail account, and I only made it this way because I figured "dragonfriend" wouldn't be available.

I'm not entirely sure where, but at some point I wanted to use the screenname "gwiz" and I couldn't, so I added 665 to the name, because that usually is not taken. It's just stuck since then.

Farhad2000 was a necessity based around a false overestimation of Videosift's popularity when I joined.

Dunno how many people remember the days long, long ago before cellphones, but people only had pagers back when I was in high school. When friends would page one another, there was no way to know who sent the page. The method people devised to identify themselves to the recipient was to append a unique numerical code. For most people I knew, this pager ID was based on adding up the numeric values of their names or something else meaningful to them (e.g., A=1, B=2, C=3, ...).

76 is the value of the letters in my name and I added a zero to round it out. When I'd register on any site in the early days of the Internet "lucky" was usually always taken, so I just got into the habit of always adding the 760 even if I didn't need to. Go figure.

I thought about "BillOreilly420" but thought it might give people mixed signals and we can't have that

Hey, I'm special! Since I Mint wasn't free whenever/wherever I was trying to create it last (and I was Mint back during the days of Cleveland Freenet and MicroMuse), I refused to be Mint229, or something quite as tempting..

So, I just went for mintbbb.. Figured it'd be free (surprise! Nobody was as dumb!). I wish I had had more sense and made it something that made more sense =)

Oh well..

^At least it stands out in the crowd...

I liked lucky760's explanation. Only the most well equipped students had pagers in my grad school before the advent of the cell phones.

While I am digit-less, the xx...xx is similar. It was like 12 years ago when I transitioned from "dbug" to "overcast", only to find that "overcast" was taken damn near everywhere. I surrounded it with the Xes to avoid duplicates and then decided to use them all the time to remain consistent.

Now I've retired "overcast" as well and have begun using "greenseeker" to reflect my hiking hobby.

I like brains.
Every forum has a Zombie...but the rare and lesser sighted Zonbie is less frequent. Recent years have seen an increase in Zonbie's in the tubes...our army grows, and with it...power

Alternatively I was going to BrainMuncher332 but it just didn't...sell.

The 5 in my username is silent.

and invisible.