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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] 3 points 5 days ago

The way I drove and the papers I used for rolling joints back when I was a teenager

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It means bare, naked, possession-less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Calvin and Hobbes. I added a 'y' to the end because I could.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I read a fantastic book where there was the count Valmond or something.

Best name ever, never taken on forums and such, always free!

Til I learned it was de Valmont, not Valmond 🙃 but here I am!

Funnily it's usually pre-used om platforms nowadays.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Engineers left it on my PRs before waiting several months to merge them :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The Reddit API debacle that killed third party apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Title of a book by my favourite author Jonathan Carroll. Almost all of my various handles over my time online have been some variation of one of his book titles because they're so unique. I used one on Reddit and some Nazi started stalking me, and it turns out some lady on Twitter uses it as her handle there, so he kept messaging me and calling me Stephanie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It's from valarin (Tolkien's language of the Valar)

https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/motsvalarins.html

Akasan is 'he says'

-z suffix is a person's name

So it's basically 'Teller' (I'd say storyteller) in valarin.

The 'h' was supposed to help in pronunciation, it only mildly does, I find

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I'm 6'4" / 193cm, so I'm taller than most.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

When I was younger, I was crazy about Idaho and wanted to move there. One of my old nicknames was Lil Miss Potatoes. Now I'm a grown ass woman, so I'm Lady Taters. People tend to think it's a nickname related to my chest though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It's a permutation of a permutation of a pseudo random username.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Because I always wanted to have my own theme song.

But really, I browsed through my music collection by alphabetical order and it sounded cool. Blue Öyster Cult always delivers, even with the title of their songs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm a huge fan of Bathory, so I just combined Quorthon with his previous stage name, Ace.

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

First shiny Pokemon I ever got. Basculin carried my team a lot, hence the name "CaptainBasculin".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

HUM - The Scientists

Keep this benzine ring around your finger, and think of me when everything you wanted starts to end

The song is one of my favorites. About a couple scientists, probably in a relationship, testing drugs

With HUM, you never can really tell what they are talking about but it's always pretty poetry and awesome music. With a good imagination.

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

I love airplanes and was excited to see a “modern” one where you could slide back the canopy just like in all those old WWII movies! It’s even ok to fly with it open (a little)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_American_AA-5

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

it just means emoticon in french canadian

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Found a Kraken in Ultima Online. Thought it was rad and didn't know how to spell it as an 11 year old.

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

Tally Hall (band) → callyral (pseudonym + username) → cally (nickname)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I read it in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I believe it's self explanatory.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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] 5 points 6 days ago

Breakfast the day I made my account

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days 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.

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

Patrik/Pat is just my name, sometimes use Legendbird on sites because once it was the first thing I thought about (Zapdos, to be exact).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Around the time I first started using this username about 7 or so years ago, I was playing through the Megaman Zero games, that take place approximately 100 years after the events of Megaman X, which take place during "year 21xx". So 'Zero22xx' specifically references the version of Zero from the Megaman Zero games.

On top of that, I also just thought it was a cool mix of letters and numbers that can look pretty random if you don't know the games, or if I'm not using a profile pic.

The only annoying thing is that at some point around the time I created this username, I started seeing an anime character called 'ZeroTwo' around. So I guess it could be mistaken that I'm referencing that too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

A few years after high school I joined the stage crew for a musical theatre group some friends started. At a performance after party, I was looking after some of the younger cast who had a few too many: one of them decided I was like Bosley to their Charlie's angels; the other felt I was looking after them in a fatherly way - so they combined it, and that became their nickname for me. Also, the nickname my siblings had given me, NoPatchGlandBoySleepyTheIronDeficientBrother was just too long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I love the phrase “your average Joe”, but it doesn’t translate very well, or I couldn’t think of a translation quickly enough (English isn’t my first language), so when I was talking with my friends one day, I translated it as “your average mortal”, and I liked it

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M is the letter my real name starts with, and 137 has been my favourite number since I was a kid, and I still think is the coolest number (has nothing to do with 1337, as some people have previously thought).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I got named Bizzle in like 2008 because my real name wasn't cool enough, it just stuck

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

water, metal, pressure and faith.

leaky showers and prayers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It's a reference to a Simpsons episode, where Bart writes "nobody likes a sunburn slapper" on the blackboard in the opening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

My name's Darren. Here I am in the 'net.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

An ex drinking buddy was drunk and high as F and would butcher the name of several people. I couldn’t let this one die.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It is kind of descriptive...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Means potato / lame

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days 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] 4 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I was making a silly joke on Reddit...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Quote from Fight Club

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days 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.

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