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?
I opened a physical dictionary to a random page and pointed to a word without looking.
First attempt was diarrhea
I like captain Picard.
All of Lemmy knows. Never stop. Your account is basically a cultural heritage site at this point.
Mine stands for “Divided by Zer0”, based on the programming error “division by zero”. Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for “database zero” or “dragonball zero”.
TIL. I don’t know why I never questioned that or the instance name.
Ehhh it is what it is.
Glitch from the original Pokemon Red/Blue.
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.
My poochie was clinically depressed
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…
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 was promoted from the rank of Commander.
I mean….
It’s from my favourite Shakespeare play, Much Ado About Nothing.
Beatrice (on the subject of getting married):
Would it not grieve a woman to be overmaster’d with a piece of valiant dust? To make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?
It doesn’t make that much sense as a username for me, because the piece of valiant dust would be the husband and I’m a woman. But I thought it sounded nice.
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.
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.
Observing the internet from my toilet.
