So I have been Wondering....

[Houseboat Mike]

How did everyone come up with their usernames? Mine is fairly obvious...I lived on a Houseboat, and my first name is Mike. Although now I live on a sailboat, I passed that "newbie" stage and don't want to start over. 

So other than the obvious (looking at you Mr. Dare), what made you pick the username you have?

I am especially curious of the following:

MMR

FineHoe

Noone

NRW

[thelakelander]

I was living in Lakeland when I signed up to Skyscrapercity.com and Skyscraperpage.com in 2003 as the Lakelander. When I was asked to start and grow a Florida forum (eventually grew into this site) at Urbanplanet.org a few months later, I added "the" to the lakelander.  When I moved to Jax, I kept the name since it was already known by people participating on the other discussion boards.

[Tacachale]

Tacachale is a Timucua term meaning "to light a new fire". The ritual of starting and maintaining the fire was an important part of the belief system of the Timucua and other Southeastern native peoples. There's a great book on Florida Indians in the early contact period called Tacachale. I picked the name in 2011 due to my interests in Native South and Native Florida history.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Hahaha...  Interesting question.  I'm still not really sure of the answer other than, as you stated, the obvious:  I was living on the westside and definitely didn't consider myself a 'redneck'.  Southern might be appropriate, though.  I've met quite a few of the regular posters IRL and pretty much to a person, I've been told that my personal self is unexpected based on my moniker here.

To help me out, I went and pulled my first post on the site:

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,8941.msg160153.html#msg160153

This, as most of Baptist's projects, are all that's keeping some of the local industries viable.  So far this year, they have pumped close to 10 mil into projects from downtown to the beaches.  If I'm not mistaken, they are using their own money to finance these projects, and they only rely on contractors that are local - another boon for the local economy.  I say all of this out of contempt for the 350 mil courthouse project that has been constructing using an out of state contractor, (mostly) out of state sub-contractors, etc....  Instead of recycling money in our own community, it's being outsourced to somewhere else (sorry for the vagueness, but I don't know who it is, and it's a little too late to care).
Back to my point - Baptist's newest project, the Wolfson Tower, will be an outstanding addition to the southbank, and a lot of us really appreciate their efforts.

Based on that time-stamp I can tell you that I just starting to recover from the housing crash and sort of entering another phase in life outlook.  Due to many of the articles that I was reading here, it started my shift towards a definitive "urbanist" outlook since the sprawling development that I was accustomed to had been taken away.  I guess you could say I was a bit jaded and really looking for some answers  and this was really the first online forum that I signed up to and stuck with for any length of time.   

[Adam White]

My parents are Art and Maura White. They named me Adam, presumably after my paternal great grandfather.

[Noone]

How did everyone come up with their usernames? Mine is fairly obvious...I lived on a Houseboat, and my first name is Mike. Although now I live on a sailboat, I passed that "newbie" stage and don't want to start over. 

So other than the obvious (looking at you Mr. Dare), what made you pick the username you have?

I am especially curious of the following:

MMR

FineHoe

Noone

NRW

Houseboat Mike you have to be feeling sorry for the Baltimore guys 2014-412. Losers! There is a $100,000 taxpayer bailout budget amendment pending. Winners! Winners! Winners!
2016-18 our FIND projects. We are so LOST. ADA gang.....Keep Wheelin.
Hey Jacksonville! We have a BARGE! Does Putnam county know about this?
RAM dock. Only opened when RAM is open. 6 years later.
Shipyards/Landmar 2010-604. And now the Ron Littlepage/Stephanie Burch 2016-305 "AMEN" brother and sister to SHIPYARDS PUBLIC FISHING PIER.
And you MJ'ers and you know who you are know that we have all given up asking you know who about you know what.
Somebody needs to make a Ruckus about this. No one is. Except Noone.

My last name is Nooney. Drop the y and then you can start to understand why. Too much fun.

I do appreciate it when someone will send me a note saying they understood everything that I wrote.

Visit Jacksonville! Mr. Paul Astleford

[RattlerGator]

I'm a UF grad with multiple family members and friends who are Florida A&M graduates. My wife also happens to be a senior administrator at FAMU. I've long sought to be a bridge between Florida's black flagship university and white flagship university, thus RattlerGator. I first used the name on a Gator sports board some 20 years ago.

[finehoe]

"finehoe" is a name I've used on online forums for years.  I'm not really sure of its origins.

[MEGATRON]

It's my name

[Adam White]

"finehoe" is a name I've used on online forums for years.  I'm not really sure of its origins.

Based on your avatar, it's clear you're one fine ho.

[BridgeTroll]

There once was a place at the corner of Ocean and Adams called London Bridge... fondly referred to as The Bridge.  A rather large group of regulars over time (I do not remember why) became known as bridgetrolls.  I simply took that moniker as my avatar... 

[Snufflee]

Snufflee like Finehoe is a random name I have been using for years for 4Chan/Reddit/Steam and the myriad of other online forums that I peruse.

[Downtown Osprey]

Osprey because I graduated from UNF and downtown because at the time I was living in Downtown Jax.

[TimmyB]

"finehoe" is a name I've used on online forums for years.  I'm not really sure of its origins.

Based on your avatar, it's clear you're one fine ho.

This forum clearly needs a "LIKE" button!!! 

[TimmyB]

As for me, it's obviously my first name, last initial, but I use it as a memory of my father, who passed away in 1975.  He was the only one who ever called me that, so it represents my keeping his memory alive.