What does your user-name mean?

The 15 in my username represents the year I joined (2015) but on hindsight, and having seeing the creative genius behind other people's names on here, I wish I'd chosen something more original. If I wasn't a zoo fan, then why would I be a member of ZooChat!

I think @ThylacineAlive has a particularly inspired username and I like how @Chlidonias was derived from a genus of terns since birds are obviously a passion of his. There's another user on here @Jabiru96, that is no doubt inspired by the bird also? I like usernames also that are inspired by people's favourite animals @soona @Nisha (who I assume is after Auckland's Zoo's famous tigress?).
 
My name was originally 'edthetiger26' which is simply my name, for some reason calling myself a tiger and my lucky number 26. I changed it because it sounded childish and when I went to Cotswold WP in 2015, I saw a Magpie Goose and thought their name sounded good and also because it was the first (and only) time I had seen a Magpie Goose and they were fascinating and made a funny sound.
 
Mine is simply my nickname (Jay) followed by my initials, and I use it for several other sites as well. The 2 is for the fact that I am "the second" as in, I have the same name as my father. I get a lot of questions about that :p. I have considered changing my name on here, but haven't really come up with an alternative that I liked, so I'll stick with this.
 
Lintworm is the Dutch name for a tapeworm (Cestoda), which I thought was a nice change from all the usernames named after one's favourite animal...

Lintworm also bears some resemblance to my last name and 15 years ago my karate teacher used it as a nickname for me, so that is why it is a tapeworm and not Guineaworm or Plasmodium :p
 
lintworm said:
Lintworm is the Dutch name for a tapeworm (Cestoda), which I thought was a nice change from all the usernames named after one's favourite animal...

Lintworm also bears some resemblance to my last name and 15 years ago my karate teacher used it as a nickname for me, so that is why it is a tapeworm and not Guineaworm or Plasmodium :p
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I thought it was a worm which lived in the lint (as in, the dust which collects under a bed). I didn't read anything into the name, but thought it was interesting.

It also sounds like Lindworm, which is also a good name for those who like mythological beasts.
 
I just chose my nickname because I originally intended to only start 2 threads, and I chose the easiest name I could think of.
 
Mine's an abbreviation of my first name.

:p

Hix
 
TheMightyOrca is an altered version of a name I use for a blog. When I came across ZooChat I wanted to sign up so quickly that I didn't want to spend time coming up with a new and creative name ha ha. If I could change it, I'd pick something fun or silly like PangolinParty or UnicornConservationSociety.
 
My nickname is based off of a few things. The nickname actually originated on a different site. At the time I read various Japanese comic series in a weekly magazine entitled Shonen Jump, so I chose my nickname for that forum to be a homage to the magazine, with my real name and lucky number thrown into the mix.

I'm probably going to change it in the coming year or so as I read the series less and less now, and the name isn't exactly zoo or animal related.
 
There is a little more to my username than first meets the eye. I really do like Zoo Tycoon but that is not the sole reason I choose this name. The very first internet forum I registered to was a ZT2 forum, the game still had a growing, flourishing community back then. When I discovered ZooChat, the ZT2 community had started to fall apart. To pay tribute to my favourite game and it's crumbling community (that might soon cease to exist at all), I decided to choose something related to Zoo Tycoon.

For the "Mr" part, well, I thought it was more original than a random mix of numbers or the first letters of my name. And anyone knows I can safely be referred to as a "he". :p
 
On other places I used to be called "The Fluffy Raptor" or just "Fluffy" with a name origin I forgot, I just thought it was a random username. Eublepharis or Corydoras aeneus are both nicknames I go by now. Eublepharis, as you can tell, is the scientific genus of the Leopard gecko :P and Corydoras aeneus I'm pretty sure you all know about them
 
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