Back in college (40 years ago) someone gave me a baseball cap with moose ears/nose. I would wear it while snow skiing and people on the chairlifts would often yell āMoooooseā. My college friends picked up on it and started calling me moose as well and it became my defacto nickname. Moose is used a lot online so I added my area code 408.
(I still have the hat and still wear it when skiing).
Somewhere around 1991 I joined a BBS dedicated to trading Grateful Dead tapes. I used the login know_u_rider after the Grateful Dead version of the song I Know You Rider.
As forums and user names became more common I found that I would have to change the spelling or add numbers because that name was already taken, but Iāve been using some variation of that user name for almost 30 years!
I have nothing to hide 
Very boring Iām afraid, just my initials and the year I was born.
Hopefully something I will not easily forget in the future.
Michael
Lieven is my firstname
De Vleeschouwer is lastname
Meat watcher? Whatās the history of your surname, if you donāt mind me asking?
Aliomenti is from a book series: The Aliomenti Saga by Alex Albrinck.
I got it from my mum
Someone who inspects the quality of meat.
Sure it doesnāt come from vleesch-houwer (butcher) @LievenDV ? I suspect there wasnāt a lot of quality inspection done at the time surnames were introduced 
As for my username, I honestly have no idea where it came from - it just popped up in my mind.
To be precise, it is a ākindā of butcher, grading the meat.
It is some kind of duality thing with a butcher and not a butcher.
When I was in the leader team of our local movement and our theme was Braveheart, I had a double bladed lightsaber, a white robe with blood all over and I was calledā¦The Butcher 
I gotta say that so far, this is the only one that made me laugh out loudā¦
sorry Tony if it wasnāt meant to be humorous!!! 
Tod
Uh, well, Iām left-handed and my favorite number is 6 
OK I make no apologies but this will be a long read but could also be educational.
Took a bit of digging as this was all initially written on the old forum.
I thought it was in my old Roadcase or learning log as its now called. But it was copied over as a separate post Diary of a Madman. So glad I now have my POD GO !!!
That spawned the new handle and was carried forward on my YouTube Channel warts n all. Madmanās Music Studios
Hopefully that will satisfy your curiosity Tod ? Oh btw I am also barking mad to boot.
Was that you 
Just swap the lightsaber for any kind of medical instrument or stable attribute and you wouldnāt have drawn any attention at all in that attire during my student days - bloodied white robes were our āuniformā.
Never understood how anyone could ever have thought white was a fantastic color to wear when wrestling with cows and horses - I was a vet student .
@CATMAN62 Glad it made you laugh. Thereās a story I tell about my name that always brings a good responseā¦
Iām of German heritage, and people have asked if Tony is a german name. I asked my mum and she said itās not an uncommon name in Germany. I explain it this way. I consider myself to be the luckiest of all the boys in my family. My brothers names are Horst, Seigfried, Klaus and Hans. Dadās name is Gerhard and Mumās name is Hildegarde. Iām lucky I didnāt get named Mud guard!
based on me, has to be. Historically, the dates check outā¦at least it feels that way
Well, it was this one or BuzzSolo which Iāve had about the same amount of time (though my sisters nicknamed me Buzz back in 1969). The Solo came when I got married.
But I am somewhat of a rocket scientist, not a physicist but a mechanical engineer who worked in aerospace back in the 80s and 90s. I was in the USAF and worked on Reaganās Star Wars program, actually called the Space Defense Initiative, then when I became a civilian again, I worked on the Space Exploration Initiative, as well as a bit with the space shuttle.
Now most people who actually know me probably figure I named myself after my dogs Rocket and Luna, but no, my dogs are named after spacey things. My next dog though I called Ziggy Stardust because, Apollo just didnāt fit him and as for my behemoth Kaylee, sheās named after Kaywinnet Lee Fry from the TV show Firefly. All space related even if it was only in a fictional sense.
And now yāall probably know way more about me than you need. 
BUT, if you need an Operations Plan for a lunar base any time soon, Iām your gal!
So, your answer brings to mind another questionā¦ is Tony your actual given name or is it short for something else?
I did know a kid when I was in school (eons ago) who we used to tease about his nameā¦ as I remember it was Sigfried Wilson Oberstein & we always called him Siggy Frankenstein! Then a bunch of people thought his name was Ziggy & it kinda stuck. So, years later, I run into him and he is using Ziggy as his name, funny āol world isnāt it? 
Tod
I like your story, Rebecca!
When my wife was little, her favorite aunt called her Buzz & nobody knew why. They presumed that it was because she Buzzed around like a bee 
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No plans for a Lunar Base anytime soon, but Iāll put you on speed dial just in case!!! 
Tod