Choosing usernames that sound professional but like usernames

[jack]

Most online identities sound really dorky when quoted in non-online media such as news articles, etc. "The pentagon network was hacked today by the hacker known as paragon_fire". Is there any solution if you were hypothetically to want to choose a name that (a) wasn't just your real name, for whatever reason, but (b) sounded vaguely sensible and competent outside the internet?

(I can't think of any good examples. The closest are usernames based on most but not all of a real name, and names of websites rather than people.)

Comments

[naath]

I don't think 'naath' sounds silly (or at least until I explain where it comes from, which *is* silly).

Or you could pick something made up out of real names (maybe not yours) like john_smith I guess.

[jack]

Indeed, I don't think of Naath as a screen name any more, but as a complete name in its own right :) That's a very good example, because (if you don't know it) it sounds sufficiently unusual to make you think the person may have a RL name as well, and yet sufficiently like a traditional name to look in place mnentioned in professional contexts :)

[hatam_soferet]

Mine, mine! Totally makes sense in a Jewy context, anyway.