Just out of curiosity...

[conuly]

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!

Comments

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

My first screenname on neopets was xgelert_grrrrlx. Why, I dunno. I suppose I liked gelerts. AND being the dork I am, it's got the same amount of letters on each end of the _, which is why there are so damn many r's. As for xiggy. Well you should know this one, Phibbs also. That one chat room, on I&S, you and Phibby decided that I needed a nickname, because referring to me as gelert was... stupid. So someone (Phy I think) suggested Xgy, because Con, you'd said that all nicknames must have a y at the end. But I decided that it was too close to ms. Angel's nickname at the time - Xby, so Phy stuck in a few letters, and... Xiggy. Voila.

[conuly]

She did? Huh. I thought I was the one who started calling you Xiggy... Well, I guess it doesn't matter, I *know* I'm the one who started calling her Phy!

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

You both agreed/decided upon it. It was so fucking cool when I was visiting - everyone called me Xiggy. doesn't seem odd, but imagine MY family calling YOU uly. ;)

hey, wanna know how I got the name Katy irl? It's a conception story... *blerg*

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

lol, that night I also got your xmas pressie. It was like OCTOBER but I wanted to... I got you this book and spent literally all of my np (18K at the time :P) on it. I was soooo excited to give you it. arrr what I a dorkwad I am.