Where do people's forum names come from?

[swirly]

I've used swirly for many a year now. I first started using it back in a chatroom somewhere. I needed a nick and so gave a bit of thought to things that I liked. I came up with the british sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf since its my favorite show ever. In the show they have a character who references certain space phenomena as swirly things and when he saw one would declare that there was a swirly thing alert. Thus I took the name swirly.

Of course there is the occasional person who makes a joke about it and toilets. I generally think of those kind of people as people I don't want to be talking to anyway. So its kind of an early warning system. ; )