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[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m one of Zaphod’s cousins

[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A last name of Prefect would blend in better.

[–] TheDude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like popcorn.

[–] ahornsirup@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I had a bottle of maple syrup on my desk and I'm not a very creative person.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I hit randomize in a passphrase generator until it farted out a mental image that made me laugh.

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 year ago

I became that which I feared the most

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago
[–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well. I am a wench. And quite jaded. I wanted to make something I had not really used before, back when I joined the place that shall not be named, and it sort of stuck. I also really love the color green. If it makes you feel any better I am a much happier person today than I was then. Still a wench though. 😈

[–] Wussy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm afraid to say why.

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Because my tiny little arms have been replaced with laser-cannons.

[–] webpack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I originally chose this as my Minecraft nickname, it's the name of a JavaScript library that I used (https://webpack.js.org)

[–] CupDock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Two random nouns

[–] EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was a now deleted YouTube video by OneMinuteGalactica called "Apollo launches his viper funny" where Apollo from the original BSG tries to take off, but the launch tube just goes for miles and miles while the bridge crew and other pilots scramble to figure out what's going on. I thought the reference to it was funny and sounded cool when I was 15ish and it's pretty much stuck

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 1 year ago

I chose mine because one day I had nothing to do and was super bored, so I just stared at ceiling and blackedout. And mind you I wasn't tired or anything neither did I sleep, I just lost consciousness because I was bored.

[–] SangriaFerret@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Randomly generated by another website and I thought it was funny.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Because it sounds perverse, slummy/moist, and randomly generated in equal measure.

[–] erasebegin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

song by a band that fitted with my habit of nuking my PC every couple of weeks, either because I wanted to try a different Linux distro or because I got some kind of Limewire chlamydia

[–] floppy@rabbitea.rs 4 points 1 year ago

You can work it out yourself by looking at my instance name.

[–] trash@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Because it's accurate

[–] beta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Beta as in Beta Pictoris, a cool star.

[–] Solo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] sherman@kerala.party 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] irdc@derp.foo 3 points 1 year ago

I really don't care.

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] waterbogan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Its the same username I had at the other place that shall not be named, until I got permabanned for reasons still unclear to me.

I originally joined via the swimming sub there, looking for recommendations on waterproof music players to use while swimming so I can listen to AC/DC and Motohead etc while swimming laps. I'm a bogan (Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated) and I swim laps every day. Therefore..... waterbogan

[–] sickday@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Coolest shit I’ve ever pulled off happened on a sick day

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[–] TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I liked Ren and Stimpy when I was a kid first getting on the Internet.

[–] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't choose your username. Your username chooses you

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[–] serfraser@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the back of my name stuck on the front of my name. Also hope it makes me sound like a knight of the seven kingdoms.

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[–] taanneth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tanith was one of the goa'uld from Stargate SG-1 which I was a huge fan of as a kid. Back then I was not so good at spelling so I sounded it out and kept adding letters until I found a username that wasn't taken

[–] _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

TK is a journalism joke. In that field, placeholder headlines used to commonly be written in as "Headline TK" or "TKTKTK" etc. It comes from back when newspapers were typeset physically before set in lead to be sent to the printer. It is short for To Come. Many editing marks are misspelled on purpose to make them stand out from the final text. "TK" is an unusual pairing of letters, so it stands out.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I was trying to call someone an idiot, but I only had a calculator on hand. I also didn't consider talking as an option.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a guy who likes MsDOS

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's my real name.

[–] BiggestBulb@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Discord nickname that originated from OneShot (the game my icon is from). I chose it like 4 or 5 years ago and it stuck on Discord so I just adopted it to here

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] zettajon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

A catchphrase of an interestingly math-themed villain in my favorite game, The World Ends With You

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Because of Russians.

Se got lots of immigrants from Ukraine these two years. One girl started going to our summer camp/all year group (something like Scouts) and started dated my friend. He keeps "dictionary" of mispronounced words.

There is lots of good usernames but "plactagonic relationship" was best at the time (it grew a lot since).

[–] Eigengrau@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Eigengrau's interesting colour

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