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How did you pick your username?

172 replies

Tatzelwyrm · 25/07/2023 16:41

I know it's been done a gazillion times, but this is chat!

Mine is based on a being from a book I'm reading at the moment (or just finished) by Marissa Meyer

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Ostryga · 25/07/2023 16:58

Mine is oyster in Polish, because I was eating oysters in Poland when I signed up.

DrSbaitso · 25/07/2023 16:58

Gazelda · 25/07/2023 16:57

Many years ago, there was a bought of MN hacking alerts so we were encouraged to name change. I struggled to think of a suitable name on the spur of the moment, and randomly decided to use the name of the good witch in wizard of oz.

Except her name isn't Gazelda, it's Glinda.

I've lived with this big mistake ever since.

It's Galinda. With a Ga.

ThePersistenceOfMammories · 25/07/2023 16:58

Mine is a play on the name of my 2nd favourite painting

LadyMargaretDevereux · 25/07/2023 16:59

Oscar Wilde's dear old mum.

DimplesToadfoot · 25/07/2023 16:59

I put my real name in a "what's your Hobbit name" generator and this was what came up.

Useruser0912 · 25/07/2023 17:00

Because I have a brilliant imagination

VWT5 · 25/07/2023 17:02

Had to change my 2 previous usernames, they were too descriptive of a hobby and therefore identifying….friends, acquaintances, even spectators just stumbling across the names would have identified me.

Name also associated with embarrassing questions (e.g. aged fwb encouraging me (f) to give viagra a try etc…🤣) (It did nothing btw)…

Changed name currently to my vehicle type, unusual for a woman of a certain age, most people won’t see the connection though…

Blarn · 25/07/2023 17:04

It is the name Diane writes on her Starbucks name badge in the fantastic adult cartoon Bojack Horseman.

Mothew · 25/07/2023 17:04

I change my name regularly - this one is from a funny video on Reddit of a little boy naming his pet moth.

Blarn · 25/07/2023 17:05

DrSbaitso · 25/07/2023 16:58

It's Galinda. With a Ga.

GalindawithaGa could be your new name!

DrSbaitso · 25/07/2023 17:06

Blarn · 25/07/2023 17:05

GalindawithaGa could be your new name!

I'm due a change....

LadyEloise1 · 25/07/2023 17:10

It's one of my daughters' names.

I've namechanged-
one of my last usernames was another daughter's name.
Not very original I know. Blush

PedrosSluttyKnee · 25/07/2023 17:15

Say no more...

How did you pick your username?
cleverliterarynamehere · 25/07/2023 17:22

I have been here aeons and change name often for various topics

brownbeauty80 · 25/07/2023 17:23

I am my username
🙈😎😍

MargaretThursday · 25/07/2023 17:24

From Noel's Streatfield's books Thursday's Child and Far to Go.

brownbeauty80 · 25/07/2023 17:24

Although I'm not 80
That's my birth year

RhymingGuitars · 25/07/2023 17:24

Currently from a Roxy Music song "Oh Yeah"

AProlificNameChanger · 25/07/2023 17:26

I’m a prolific name changer.

Flipflopflopflip · 25/07/2023 17:26

My footwear 🤣

Devilsmommy · 25/07/2023 17:27

Because of my son's name

MerelyPlaying · 25/07/2023 17:28

Shakespeare fan

Azerothi · 25/07/2023 17:29

Mine is because I am a resident of a semi fictional world

HashBrownandBeans · 25/07/2023 17:29

Mine have all just been random at the time

Loveys · 25/07/2023 17:31

I'm an actooooor