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!

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[squittycat.livejournal.com]

If by username you mean livejournal username, the story is pretty simple.

My roommate Rob and I used to watch/post in bikepirates from time to time, but then they stopped allowing anonymous posting. So we needed an lj account. Our friend blingblingvegan set us up, since this was back in the day (like... a whole month ago!) when one needed an invite code to do such things.

At the time, there was a kitten at our apartment whose name was Squid. And squitten was taken, dangit! So squittycat it was.

Eventually, though, Rob decided to make his own account, which is his name, robarchangel

If you're curious about any of my other usernames, they each have stories too. But there's a lot of usernames, and hence a lot of stories. :)

[conuly]

You can tell me about all the usernames you want. But the only one I was asking about is the one I know you by, of course... I like to know why I call people what I do, and not something else.

[shoumagic.livejournal.com]

Well, my LJ name is basically something I made up years ago. I had this story that involved some people who were able to use magic. Their magic was called 'silver magic' and was different than any other magic because of its efficiency and the whole concept of it. The shou part comes in because the people who were able to use the silver magic spoke their own language. And, in their language, shou was the word for silver.

I joined neopets with this name a little more than two years ago, right after my first account was scammed. I barely remember any of the story plot anymore but I use the name pretty much where ever I go.

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

Mine is fairly simple. My real name is Dawn. Aurora was the goddess of the Dawn. One of my Neo accounts is the_lady_aurora and luckily it was available. Voila!

[conuly]

*arches eyebrow* What was Magic in that language, though?

Doesn't matter, shoumagic is good, though I always think of tiny elves....

[conuly]

Hm. Yeah, that's simple. So, why were you named Dawn? Any reason, or your parents just liked the name?

[phibby.livejournal.com]

Hmm...well, my story's not all that interesting, but I'll tell it anyway.

Okay, I'm a big fan of Slayers, right? Well, in the second series of Slayers, called Slayers Next, the main baddie is one of Shabranigdo's (he's like this really powerful and important Mazoku (a Mazoku is like a demon, basically) lord) subordinants, name of Hellmaster Phibrizzo. (He's also a Mazoku, not that it really matters.) He takes the form of a cute little boy that nobody will ever suspect, but he's a tricky little thing, not to mention being quite evil. Anyway, the usual nickname fans refer to him as is "Phibby." Since Phibrizzo is one of my favorite Slayers characters and I think that his nickname fits me well, as does his personality, I decided to use his nickname as my own. ^_^

Funny, I rarely refer to Phibrizzo as Phibby anymore. Guess it kind of feels weird. XD

[http://users.livejournal.com/the_silent_one_/]

Well I was looking for a new e-mail a few years ago_{Maybe 3 years?}
I wanted something that showed my personality.. I'm usually really quiet until I get to know you, and then once I do I never shut up...so I just thinking and came up with The_silent_one..I love it cause it works both ways..so it just stuck.
My Neopets name Animalover46 came about because I love animals simple as that...the number is just because I had to have it.

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

My parents wanted names that couldn't be shortened so I'm Dawn, my brothers are Neil and Roger - so they slipped up with Roger as it used to be shortened to Rog. Now, though, everyone calls him Luke. That's because the family surname is Lucas.

Thing is everyone calls me Dawnie - which is really annoying when you're hurtling towards 40 at top speed :0)

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

Okie. My story starts in the land of Yahoo Chat. At some point in 99, I was obsessed with Nsync, and found chatrooms on Yahoo. Being the pathetic teeniebopper I was, my screen name was joeysgirl_2. Skip to around October 99. By this time I have found pokemon, and am now hanging out in those chatrooms. Since the screen name I use is lame, people shortened it to Joey. I finally made Joey my official online alias when I joined up with Tr47. Ta-dah!

As for LJ username... That's kind of a funny one. When I went to sign up for a journal, joeyoak was taken. That would have been my first choice. So I went with joeymew, because I RP as a mew. Boring. But the funny part is, I looked up the joeyoak journal a few weeks later, only to find that it's me. But I cannot remember creating the journal for the life of me. So it's just there.

[conuly]

Weirdness. Hey, did you ever send me your address? Because if you did, you're getting a scarf... well, maybe not. Is it ever cold enough to merit a scarf? Please say yes, because I have the cutest, frilliest pink yarn for your scarf.

[black-rat.livejournal.com]

Mine is supurbly boring. I wanted something to do with rats, but I prefered black rat (AKA roof rats) to brown rats (AKA sewer rats, wharf rats, Norway rats, ect...). I mean, rat are interresting anyway, but black rats were the rats blamed for spreading the plague. And I'm also writing a book about black rats...

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

About...ooh... two to two and a half years ago my parents had me cancel AOL which meant my previous IMer screenname was more or less toast. I'd been online for years but always with an alias from a book or (more often) a TV show and I was getting a little sick of that. So, like any good classics nerd I ran to my Latin dictionary and started paging through.

Now -trix is one of my favorite endings but most words are either too common (and thus taken), have connotations I would rather avoid, or both. So, after some searching I found 'nemoricultrix' meaning 'denizen of the forest'. It's always available, has a nice ring to it, and (as I realized later) works because I come from a rather forested place.

Here and there I still show up as 'divia79' because I was and always will be a Forever Knight fangirl :) In hindsight, though, picking a character that wasn't crazy (and not in the endearing way) might have been a good idea :)

[mhari.livejournal.com]

I've been going by Manon for ages now, ever since I named a character that. It's kind of a convoluted story.

Anyway, Manon is a French variant of Mary, but when I got to LJ it was taken. So I made it Mhari, which is also a variant of Mary, from the Darkover series. I think it's quasi-Gaelic or something. So. That's why. :)

[shoumagic.livejournal.com]

Elves? I always think of little silver seashells, though I have no idea why.

I never figured out what magic was in the language. I really should find a word for it.

[black-rat.livejournal.com]

Then I take it your name is Mary. I would have choosen Maria as a veriant. I'm such a sucker for WSS. However, odd veriants are great.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I think I sent it... elotaria@hotmail.com? Scarves are good. It's probably not cold enough by normal peoples standards, but I'm freezing at 60 ^-^;;

*sweatdrop* Frilly pink yarn?

[neutralface.livejournal.com]

Neutrality is always safe. Take a look at happy and sad faces.

: ) that is demented.

: ( as is this.

If people were either of them constantly I would definatly keep my distance. I find manic people just as insain as depressed people. While I am not saying people should never be happy or sad...they should not be happy or sad all the time. So between those moments...what face should they have.

: | the neutralface.

Plus...being a psych BA...I am supposed to have some degree of impartiality or neutrality.

BTW...who are you? How did you find me? Why did you add me?

...neutralface...

[conuly]

*sweatdrop* Frilly pink yarn?

I'm sorry, but I saw it in the store and thought immediately of you! If you really really really are opposed, I suppose I could ask my mom to use another color, but the joke was too good to pass up!

[conuly]

You're a few posts too late... scroll down to the one where I said "I'm adding friends, mostly by searching random interests".

So I either 1. searched LJMAPS for users in my area and found you (are you in New York?) or 2. searched communities of which I am a member and added people with interesting journals.

It really is completely random, don't worry about it. If it does worry you, I'll take you off my list and forget about it, though.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

Nah, I don't think it would be too bad... want me to send my address again?

[zarriq.livejournal.com]

Do you know how foreign language instructors often ask their students to pick out a new name for themselves belonging to that language/culture? Well, I'm studying ancient Sumerian. My name is recorded in a pretty mundane tablet regarding the allotment of barley. It comes from an Akkadian adjective, zarriqu, which means "with speckled eyes."

[conuly]

Nah, I still have it... I'm just avoiding my email.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know the feeling. Especially with hotmail :P Hn... now I'm all thinking about the yahoo email adress I forgot the password too...

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Rats!