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 liked playing tachanka on R6, tht is short for TheHolyTachanka
It flows
It’s a reference to a Simpsons episode, where Bart writes “nobody likes a sunburn slapper” on the blackboard in the opening.
Engineers left it on my PRs before waiting several months to merge them :)
Huh, I always expected you to merge them ….
I only merge on Fridays before big releases
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
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)
Many countries have some sort of analog:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terms_referring_to_an_average_person
A few years after high school I joined the stage crew for a musical theatre group some friends started. At a performance after party, I was looking after some of the younger cast who had a few too many: one of them decided I was like Bosley to their Charlie’s angels; the other felt I was looking after them in a fatherly way - so they combined it, and that became their nickname for me. Also, the nickname my siblings had given me, NoPatchGlandBoySleepyTheIronDeficientBrother was just too long.
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.
Ehhh it is what it is.
I zonk out really fast. Sometimes mid-sentence.
Clever name!
Thanks I thought it was lazy :). Yours is great. Makes me think of The Wrens.
I have no imagination and my legal name is Tanis Nikana.
It scans like a username when it’s all lower case and jammed together though.
I’m fatigued in more ways than one and people joke that I’m fae because I’m allergic to metal.
“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
I mean….
Used to live in Norway when I joined reddit, and the whole Norse lore resonated with me. Back then I had a number attached, that wasn’t needed on Lemmy anymore.
