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

[goddess588.livejournal.com]

Mine goes back to the first time ever that I was online and creating an excite e-mail address. I've always regarded women as Goddesses - all women, something that was reinforced by the female driven spirituality in Jean Auel's Earth's Children series (Clan of the Cave Bear etc). It's ancient stuff.

Anyway, I wanted goddess but that was already taken. So was samthegoddess and sam_the_goddess. And bitch_goddess. I needed something that I'd remember and all I could think of was a number - so I picked 588 which is our house number - and we'd just bought the house.

I moved from excite to yahoo mail, to yahoo clubs and e-groups and then yahoo groups (I do Pernese interactive RP) to neopets and finally to LJ, and I kept the same username and password everywhere, apart from AIM because some other goddess588 had nicked it first (everything's gone on AIM).

Frankly I'm sick of it, but it's too much hassle to change. Everyone knows me as goddess588. I have a few alternatives (te_tuatahi - my dog's name - it's Maori for 'the first', and some others that I've picked up and use as aliases) but not everyone knows all of them.

Thanks for asking such an interesting question - I very much enjoyed reading everyone else's responses!

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for asking such an interesting question - I very much enjoyed reading everyone else's responses!

I'll second that. :)

[conuly]

*grins and blushes*

It's always something I wonder, and it gave me a chance to give the whole backstory on my own.

*hugs* Sorry you're sick of your name, Goddess... pity this is LJ or you could just switch it gradually... first be goddesssomethingelse, then be somethingelsegoddess, then just be somethingelse. Oh well.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

Hey kool! Another person who remembers Yahoo Clubs!

[goddess588.livejournal.com]

And bloody shocking most of them were - LOL.