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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 6 months ago

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

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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.

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My cousin, brother and I used to get high and play MTG quite a bit back in the day. There's a card called "Reef Pirates" that we used to joke around and call them Reefer Pirates. When I was making an account on Diablo 2 some time around then it's what popped into my head and stuck.

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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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I used to see the F1 in the so called boring years.

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Just an old meme.

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I made this account shortly after watching Jackass 4. One of the new guys brings his dad on, this guy served time and did not look like he was one to fuck with. They put his head in a fishbowl with a tarantula and he instantly went into full bitch mode. That man's name was Dark Shark.

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It’s like 15 years old from back when I used to PVP in EVE online. Vaguely weird to pronounce and towards the middle of the alphabet so I don’t get primaried

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Username should be pretty self explanatory. If you still don't get it you can either ask me or bravely run away.

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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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The Reddit API debacle that killed third party apps.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

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It means bare, naked, possession-less.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Tenno, wake up. It's time to put on the silly norg fish mask from cetus and make it look good.

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What about you pip? My first thought was the main character of Kid Icarus.

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Mine comes from the intro to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

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I asked Dr GPT for a list of nouns and adjectives with a particular theme and picked some I liked and combined them. I do the same process for all my digital identities.

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Kona + Loki + accidentally changing an O to an A = Kolanaki

And then it turns out, it's also the name of a place in Greece.

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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] 2 points 6 months ago

I mashed the keyboard.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

https://youtu.be/FhykvrPZwA4

The pinnacle of Australian culture

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

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"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] 2 points 6 months 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] 2 points 6 months ago

Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Redditors are stupid in very specific ways and it annoys me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Hank likes hominy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Surname plus 3 random numbers

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

From a famous Australian poem called... "Said Hanrahan"

https://www.australianculture.org/said-hanrahan-john-obrien/

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