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: 2004-01-01 12:12 am (UTC)I don't know exactly where oogabooga came from. I may have made it up one day, as a random sound, before I even discovered the internet. Maybe some Ewok on Star Wars said it. My siblings and I used to say it to each other, or jump out and yell it instead of Boo, until one day I got so sick of hearing it I declared that it meant "I want to be tickled" and immediately started tickling them whenever they said it. So they stopped. But I've actually always liked it, and used it as a password occasionally, and finally signed up on Neopets with it (with added numbers - 264 - which I've also adopted as my personal numbers when necessary, like on my hotmail account).