Just out of curiosity...
Dec. 30th, 2003 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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!
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!
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Date: 2003-12-31 06:50 am (UTC)When I was born, Jennifer was just on the verge of becoming a popular name. Little did my parents realize that every third girl born in the next 5 years would share their daughter's name... By the time I was running around on the playground, it got to be too much - my mother would call out "Jennifer" and get 5 girls turning around. So they decided a nickname was in order. At the time, I couldn't pronounce Jennifer, the closest I got was Juhjuh. Which was mutated into Ginger and so I was called for the first 10 or so years of my life. By the time we moved up to New York and I was in school here, I got teased over the "Ginger" thing quite a bit. So at the ripe old age of 10 I told my parents that I was Ginger no more, Jennifer was my name and that's what they should call me, at least in public. And so the change was made. Now at home, and to a very few friends, I was still known as Ginger. My mom decided to play around with that and would call my "Gingembre", which is French for Ginger (my mom is part Belgian.) So when I went online around '95 and signed up for a Yahoo e-mail, gingembre it was. Much later I had to re-sign up as I hadn't checked my mail in a long time and couldn't remember the password, so I set it up as gingembre79 (my birth year) which is my other incarnation online. Everything I've signed up for online has been on of those two, usually gingembre if it's not taken (which it usually isn't). So there's a gingembre user in Yahoo, AIM, neopets, NYTimes, BalletAlert and so on. In fact, when Connie signed up for a LJ account, I checked and realized I had signed up for one oh-so-long ago, and was able to remeber the password. So here I am :-)