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?
Birch, please.
My poochie was clinically depressed
Resol - can mean a number of different things. It’s the first 5 letters of the word “resolution”. It’s also the word “loser” spelled backwards. It’s two notes on a keyboard (D and G in Anglo-Saxon music notation). And it just looks and sounds cool in my opinion.
van - the Dutch word meaning “of” or “from”. Note that I am not referring to actual vans (the German equivalent being “von”, which also appears in a lot of names). Also I prefer spelling that word completely in lowercase.
Lemmy - isn’t it obvious? It’s this wonderful website.
Put them together, and you get “Resol van Lemmy”. It sounds pretty nice, don’t you think? Especially since I really hate my real name.
I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.
I really liked Weird Al when I was like 12. Still do.
CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan’s best. Violà.
I opened a physical dictionary to a random page and pointed to a word without looking.
First attempt was diarrhea
I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.
I was promoted from the rank of Commander.
Username should be pretty self explanatory. If you still don’t get it you can either ask me or bravely run away.
My husband’s nickname for me. I was born in the holler in Appalachia and am a woodsy pixie. It stuck and is now my trail name.
I was playing some crappy F2P MMO (Perfect World, maybe?) and I made a warrior of some werewolf race. Just played with random wolf-related combinations and settled on this. Quit after two days and the username carried on for probably 15 years now.
I don’t even really know all that much about Stalin. I just pulled it out of my ass.
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Way more years ago than I would like to admit, when I was in my teens, I learned to play a Fender Mexican Stratocaster. It became my name on my BBS, and has stuck ever since.
Most people think it has to do with FM radio.
Edit: Also, this question has managed to get replies from almost all of the prolific participators on Lemmy. Nice.
Do you play the Steely Dan classic FM on your FMstrat?
I liked Legos and I liked Pikachu at the time(I was 11 or so? Trying to make a Minecraft account lol)
I don’t think I’ll be able to use this name for anything commercial if I wanted to do that…
