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 really liked Weird Al when I was like 12. Still do.
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.
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.
Username should be pretty self explanatory. If you still don’t get it you can either ask me or bravely run away.
I was promoted from the rank of Commander.
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.
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.
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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…
