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submitted 1 year ago by pip@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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[-] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

A fiend told me I'd make a good scooby-doo villain and it wasn't taken by anyone else.

[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Former skydiver.

Performed a lot of Demonstration jumps into everything from airports, race tracks, professional sports stadiums, high school sports stadiums, golf courses, and a few other places that required skill and knowledge to land in safely.

Also, spent a lot of time teaching canopy skills to up and coming jumpers.

My poochie was clinically depressed

[-] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I have my email service generate an alias and I use that as my username. I delete my account every few months and make a new one on a different instance.

I am kind of introverted, am I actually introvert or socially awkward or whatever doesn't matter, but for the simplicity I'm introvert and I like cats.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] kubok@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

My username is called after my first home brewed beer. It's a portmanteau of a slur used for people of my city and the type of beer I brewed that day.

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My name is Helen. I hated that there were no good nicknames for it (ugh, Helly...) but I love my name. Mentioned this to a friend who was like "you could use other parts of the name for a nickname..." and suggested Lenny. As a woman on the internet, having a gender ambiguous username is very beneficial, so I adopted it, and I absolutely love it. I added extra ns because then it'd look like bad kerning Lemmy.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Breakfast the day I made my account

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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.

[-] ladytaters@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

As a bookish child, I made weekly trips to the library. To get to the kids section I had to pass the large print shelf, and there was one book that was always there: The Spitting Image. The gargoyle on the cover scared me! But when I finally looked him straight in the eye I found that he was trying to look furious, but came across as a little goofy. That's the way I imagine myself, too.

[-] Birch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Birch, please.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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+.

[-] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 5 points 1 year 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.

[-] white_nrdy@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I really liked Weird Al when I was like 12. Still do.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 year 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.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

I dunno, but people sure love calling me it all the time.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It sounds cute.

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Tower@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

My nickname was originally "Stoy On" but over time it got shortend to "Stoy".

"Stoy On" comes from a small Swedish comedy film by "Galenskaparna och After Shave", a fantastic group of theatre actors who has had a very long and successfull carreer of comedy theatre, television and film. They specialized in musicals, with plenty of amazing wordplay and some fantastic songs.

Anyway, the film I am talking about this time is the TV film "The Castle Tour", the summary of it is that a group of Swedish tourists are going on a tour of a castle in Sweden, the guide has them confused with an English tour, and the joke is that the guide just speaks a nonsense language.

Now, one of the nonsense pharses the guide used was "Stoy on!", which is meant to mean "Se upp!" in Swedish, and that experssion has two meanings in Sweden, the normal one "Look out!", and the litteral one "Look up!"

At the same time I was getting annoyed at not having a standard nickname online and when gaming.

And since I thought it was fun to have a nickname that meant "Look out!" in some ways, and I liked the sound of it, I adopted "Stoy On" as my standard nickname, and since it got shortend I mainly go by "Stoy" online, or, if it is taken, "Stoy On".

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[-] sleepmode@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I zonk out really fast. Sometimes mid-sentence.

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[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

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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[-] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I believe it's self explanatory.

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[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 4 points 1 year ago

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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[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Means potato / lame

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] TheKracken@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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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[-] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Quote from Fight Club

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year 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.

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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Nikls94@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a man that likes neon lights.

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