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@Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

How did you get your username?

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How did you get your username?

@Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 1 year ago
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  • box464
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    81•1 year ago

    I grew up in a very rural area of the southern U.S. back in the 80s. The internet wasn’t quite a thing yet, so my window to the world outside my small town was our mailbox, located at Rural Route Box 464. I had pen pal letters, catalogs, magazines and comic books delivered in the mail and it was pure joy to run down the dusty road and check for something new every day.

    The internet became my new window to the world, so it just seemed natural to use “Box464” as my address. Even got the domain!

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      19•1 year ago

      Everyone have super random username but this warm my heart 😊

    • moosetwin
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      7•1 year ago

      Even got the domain!

      They did!

      • @zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2•1 year ago

        Ooh, and it’s a neat website, too! I wanna dig into those posts later so I’m commenting in hopes that it helps me remember lol

    • @snapoff@sh.itjust.works
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      7•1 year ago

      I love this story

    • HotDogFingies
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      5•1 year ago

      Aww, neat!

    • livus
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      1•1 year ago

      That one’s so cool!

  • @NoneYa@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    deleted by creator

    • Victor
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      18•1 year ago

      Finally someone asked, right?

  • @Nobody@lemmy.world
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    34•1 year ago

    I blinded a cyclops and got stuck with it.

    • Victor
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      8•1 year ago

      Odysseus? Is that you? At long last!

    • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      4•1 year ago

      Oh dysieus

  • Ada
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    31•1 year ago

    It’s my name :)

    • Jesus
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      16•1 year ago

      Same

      • SVcrossDO
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        4•1 year ago

        Simple is your first name or last name?

    • @jerome@lemmy.world
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      6•1 year ago

      name crew 4evr

    • @madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5•1 year ago

      i wonder how many people were lucky enough to get their name as their username

      • Jesus
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        21•1 year ago

        I’d wager most people on Lemmy don’t want their real name anywhere close to their shitposting.

        • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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          3•1 year ago

          Shitposting becomes way funnier when done in your name 😂

      • Ada
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        5•1 year ago

        I’m just lucky. The random name generator gave me CrustyPelican96 initially, but I pressed it again and got my name. What are the chances?

  • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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    29•1 year ago

    6 years ago someone submitted a contact us form with the name Fuckwit McBumcrumble at work and we found it really funny.

    • Victor
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      3•1 year ago

      Lovely rimjob_steve content. 👌

  • @treechicken@lemmy.world
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    26•1 year ago

    Biology teacher in HS mentioned off-hand that apparently chickens can climb trees. I searched for images online, thought they were funny, and made it my handle.

    • livus
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      6•1 year ago

      @treechicken they fly up into them.

      • @treechicken@lemmy.world
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        4•1 year ago

        That makes much more sense now that I think about it. I think debate about whether chickens could fly was the reason this came up way back then actually…

        • livus
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          @treechicken normal healthy chickens can fly in a limited way, eg to chase insects or to get up into trees (they like sleeping in trees because it’s safer) or on the roofs of barns etc.

          People who keep poultry sometimes clip their wings (cut off the flight feathers) to stop them doing stuff like that.

          Factory-farmed chickens are too deformed.

  • Jeena
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    24•1 year ago

    I was a DJ in the 90ies and needed a DJ name. I was looking for one and when I was on my way to Berlin for the Love Parade by train - already half drunk. And the we stopped in the city Jena, in the part Paradies, so the sign Spain “Jena Paradies” and I thought it was the perfect name for me as a DJ.

    Then I added another e and dropped the “last name” part and here we are with “Jeena”

    • @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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      7•1 year ago

      That photo goes hard af

    • Ghostalmedia
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      5•1 year ago

      DJ Jeena on the ones and twos at the Legends of the Hidden Temple

  • @TheSpermWhale@lemmy.world
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    21•1 year ago

    Well, let me tell you a little story

    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea…

    • @SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
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      3•1 year ago

      That’s more in depth than my story

    • @AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world
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      3•1 year ago

      Isn’t there a bypass there now?

    • @PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world
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      2•1 year ago

      42!!!

  • @MoreOrLess@lemmy.world
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    18•1 year ago

    I can’t deal with absolutes

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      6•1 year ago

      Understandable, it’s what Sith do.

  • @thb_tx@lemmy.world
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    18•1 year ago

    When ICQ was new, I met a girl online that went by Tina. Cute blonde with a gap in her front teeth. She and I would video chat all day while I worked. Many NSFW video chats from her side.

    She named me Tina’s Horny Boyfriend. And I lived in Texas.

    Sadly, we never met and I lost track of her.

    • @mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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      19•1 year ago

      We chat online for like 2 hours a day, so I guess you can say things are getting pretty serious.

      • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        8•1 year ago

        Tina you fat lard!

  • SGG
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    18•1 year ago

    I typed it in. Lemmy said it was available.

    • Pendulum
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      This

      • Annoyed_🦀
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        8•1 year ago

        Love. This. Comment.

        • @Mango@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          ♥️

  • HotDogFingies
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    17•1 year ago

    I am an idiot.

    • GregorTacTac
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      0•1 year ago

      Understandably so

  • wookiee
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    17•1 year ago

    RAWRGWAWGGR

    • @ChewbaccasClitoris@lemmy.nz
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      10•1 year ago

      Son!?

    • TheWoozy
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      10•1 year ago

      Well said, fur ball.

  • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    We are a small clique of kobolds who share a Lemmy account in real life. It seemed appropriate.

  • @vynlwombat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I had a screensaver in the late 90’s that made random but grammatically correct sentences. One sentence said “I once was a vinyl wombat”

    • GregorTacTac
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      0•1 year ago

      Does that screensaver still exist? I need it.

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