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This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.

So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What's the meaning behind it?

Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

A bunch of goofy bureaucracy name fuckups to my real name. It’s a long and boring story. It’s in no way related to being a group for tacos addicts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Means potato / lame

[–] ClipperDefiance 4 points 1 day ago

Clipper Defiance was a Boeing 707 operated by Pan Am. Its main claim to fame was when on February 7th, 1964 it brought The Beatles to America for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I read an article, that the executioner who operated the electric chair was sometimes called the state electrician. I liked that, as I like many little known words and phrases. It has nothing to do with his job, the euphemism just tickled my fancy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I once created a character in a story when I was a child about a Jack Green from the planet Æarth, and named an account on a popular site accordingly as a similarly young person, as I lacked nominative creativity, evidently. People kept getting confused between Æarth and Earth so I just changed it to Earth for future accounts.

[–] superminerJG 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Minecraft username I coined at the age of 8. The name speaks for itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What is the JG at the end?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Behold, a token effort" sick line dropped by best boy linhardt in fire emblem warriors three hopes

My display name is probably from the most mysterious song on the internet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

i like the swapnote girl so i borrowed her name

[–] EvacuateSoul 4 points 1 day ago

Quote from Fight Club

[–] slazer2au 5 points 1 day ago

I misspelt it back in yahoo chat days (yea, that was a while ago) and stuck with it because it is unique enough that no one else would accidentally grab it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's norwegian shorthand/slang for "No you" (nei du), in the context of for example "Oh no you don't!". A friend of mine had (for unknown reasons) that as his MSN-status for years before his accidental death, and it kind of stuck in the back of my mind. It popped up when I was registering a lemmy account.

This is my 3rd account:
I forgot the password of neidu. Plus it was on .ml before I learned the implications of .ml so no real loss.
neidu2 was on a good instance. The only downside was that people kept assuming I was dutch. Not too bad, as I've been called worse things, but it is more useful for me to mod from sh.itjust.works instead.

For the record: only the accounts mentioned here are mine. Any other variations that may or may not fit my schema are to be treated as someone else. The ones I interact with regularly know this and have other methods for verifying my identity, so don't bother trying to become a mod through setting up neidu4+.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I can remember the Ace part of AceFuzzLord very well. Comes from me always using Ace whenever a game requires a profile name or a 3 letter initial.

The Fuzz Lord part I don't remember really at all, but I assume the Lord part comes from the fact I think pretty highly of myself despite the fact I'm a nobody.

Oh, and do y'all see AceFuzzLord or do y'all see Dizzy Devil Ducky? I have no idea who sees either. I see Ace and I've had other people see DDD. Either way, DDD comes from the fact that he's my favorite Tiny Toons character.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Breakfast the day I made my account

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

mine is just my normal name given to me in usual earth custom with my parental units assigning me one and another indicating my placement in a lineage. So boring and typical of the species. I mean our species.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I mashed the keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Every time I go to make a new username I just choose the first 2 words that come to mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I‘m doing a 6-2 job in finances on autopilot while mentally at another place to not be drained when I follow my hobbies after work

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 4 points 1 day ago

Mine’s a music joke and a reference to a line from the song “Shiny” from Moana.

Though if my great grandfather was a god it was of strawberries which is nice. He’d grow plants and ship them to gardeners all over the east coast

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

it's better than what I had before

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I just wanted something short and reasonably pronounceable, as that's easier to remember.

In the past, I've used a FIPS-181 pronounceable password generator to generate pronounceable usernames that don't collide with existing usernames. But since the Threadiverse is still young, plus each new instance has its own username space, it's practical to have a very short username.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Tell me about it :p

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I can be a bit melodramatic and sassy, also like making music and looking good. Long-time fan miku fan too.

[–] MisterNeon 4 points 1 day ago

I'm a man that likes neon lights.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My username is a reference to the Wug test, specifically this question: "This is a man who knows how to gling. Yesterday he glanged. Tomorrow he will _____."

My irl nickname is Lizard. This is the story:

I was at what was supposed to be FNM, but none of us were feeling Magic that day so we decided to play Secret Hitler, mostly because it was my fiancée's best friend's sister's birthday so she ended up picking the game.

If you haven't played Secret Hitler, at the start of the game you get a little envelope secretly telling you whether you are a Liberal, Fascist, or Hitler. Liberals want to pass liberal policies to win the game, the fascists want to pass fascist policies that give players ability to shoot dissidents and eventually get Hitler to win. The relevant thing is that Hitler and the Fascists are lizards; apparently the Liberals are normal people, but I don't know for sure since I've never played as a liberal.

Just to be clear, it's almost statistically impossible for me to have never played as a liberal. In each game I've played in, there was a total of 3 Fascists (including Hitler) and usually about a dozen Liberals. I should have been a liberal at least once by now, considering I got my nickname 2 years ago.

On this particular night, we played about a half dozen games, in which I was Hitler twice. I kept suprising them by doing well! They all know I am autistic and can't lie to save my own skin, so as the games went on they got progressively more tilted each time I was revealed to be a lizard. I was also getting frustrated because I really do not like lying!

At the start of the last game, I opened my envelope, saw a lizard, and I was just so fucking done. I snapped at the shuffler, "Are you even shuffling these cards?" and threw my envelope at him. He responded "Well, now I need to reshuffle. And for that you shall die!" and started chasing me around with the Nerf gun we had been using to shoot dissidents. Eventually he cornered me with me cowering and covering my face with my hands, and with a shout of "Die, Lizard!" he shot the gun.

I somehow caught the bullet in between my hands with my eyes closed! And that's why my name is Lizard.

[–] Uriel_Copy 2 points 1 day ago

I enjoyed The Talos Principle. And the messages in that world seemed about as real as you guys. I mean that in an endearing way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was supposed to be the thing the kid says in the “pork chop sandwiches” Gi Joe spoof, but everyone seems to think it’s a reference to Jeff Dunham

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I am terrible at names

The name i used before was "youtuber", which i "came up with" when creating my youtube account

This is the first name that wasnt already taken in Minecraft so i kept it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Old demo crew I formed with school friends when I was a teenager.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I couldn't think of a better one, and just shortened my full name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Wishful thinking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Just an old meme.

[–] workerONE 3 points 1 day ago

I think I picked it when registering with Sharky Forums back in like 2000, it just means a wage labor worker.

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