Just out of curiosity...

How did you pick your username? Full story, please!

My story

This starts a long, long time ago in a game far, far away....

I believe it was... okay, I don't really remember, but I couldn't get Connie or Tansy as a name. So I eventually just typed random letters and came up with Ulyyf. I didn't expecially like Ulyyf as a name, but it had the advantage of looking like a guy name, which was the person I wanted in this vaguely medieval game I was playing whose name I cannot recall.

So when I got to Dragon Court, Ulyyf was the natural option for me. I still didn't especially like it, and was starting to get irked at always getting confused for a guy, but I was used to it and I knew nobody else would have it. Incidentally, I was addicted to Dragon Court for a good year before I found...

Neopets. Where I took the name Ulyyf without even seriously considering anything else. After a few months on Neo, I ventured to the I&S board, and became quite popular. I&S means, of course, Insane and Strange, so nobody minded my weird fondness for instituting strange rules like "all nicknames must end in a Y (for example, mine, Uly)". In fact, I tried my darnedest to make everyone get a Y nickname except for my friend Nig. Now, Nig is sort for Enigma, as in the_true_enigma or i_am_enigma, but I do not think I am the only one who realized it almost sounds like a profoundly inappropriate racial epithet. And Niggy was completely out of the question, of course. So, as a joke, I decided to call her "the". That had long since ceased to be her username, which made the joke all the funnier mihi. In retaliation, she called me conuly, which is a pity, as I actually liked the name and am willing to use it.

As for why Xiggy made this account for me using Conuly instead of Ulyyf, I can only imagine, but that's why the name Conuly exists.

Your turn!

I watch too much Buffy....

Why isn't there another new slayer? I mean, the first time Buffy died, we got Kendra. And when Kendra died, we got Faith. But then Buffy died again. Didn't that activate another new slayer? We know her resurrection helped destabilize the slayer line, so why did we still have only two slayers running around, instead of three?

(edit)After typing that, I realized I have problems with some other shows, so let's turn this into a general inconsistencies rant, okay?

1. I don't, unlike some people, mind Captain Picard speaking with a British accent... it's certainly better than trying to make Patrick Stewart speak with a French accent! Heck, I don't even mind the fact that his French, when required to speak it, isn't all that good. But why on earth does he seemingly know no French authors or playwrights? Why is it always Shakespeare and Dickens? Why not Moliere and Voltaire? Or La Fontaine? Or, well, anyone? It's a further outgrowth of my complaint that Terran Culture is just American culture with no money and cool spaceships. *sighs deeply*

2. Why, oh why, has Daniel Jackson stopped translating everything? Universal translators are, frankly, impossible, but in shows and books where they exist, I accept that... I'll allow some suspension of disbelief. But when you have a character whose job it is to translate, why on earth does everyone start speaking English? It's annoying. Just make up some sort of translating device, maybe one which works semi-realisticly by making you learn languages faster instead of really translating, and I'll be happy.

3. What happened to Judy from Family matters? They used to have two daughters, and then, all of a sudden, they just had one. No reason either, she just disappeared from all but the credits. Similarly, what happened to the older son in Happy Days? Huh? Huh?

4. Back to Star Trek. One word. Klingons. And don't give me that "we don't talk about it" crap, I want a real reason, one that fits into the story. Yes, I know they didn't have the budget for the makeup in TOS, I still want a real storyline reason!