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AIBU to ask your the meaning behind your username?

593 replies

Tinner01 · 08/11/2022 21:05

Just that really. What is the meaning behind/origin of your username?
I’ll go first: mine is based on the name of a holiday home I visited many years ago now.

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KettrickenSmiled · 09/11/2022 16:28

NarNooNarNoo · 09/11/2022 15:59

Great thread!

Mine is the sound my ds used to make to imitate emergency vehicles - he rejected the classic ‘nee naw’

😂
Is your DS Sheldon Cooper @NarNooNarNoo?
I approve of his precision & readiness to discard convention :)

wickerhearth · 09/11/2022 16:28

I have one in my bedroom, it's huge and I love it.:)

MrPoppysParka · 09/11/2022 16:30

I was watching Nativity at the time 🙂

ChocolateCakeYum · 09/11/2022 16:30

I like chocolate cake.

Floydthebarber · 09/11/2022 16:31

It's a Nirvana song. My usernames are always pretty spur of the moment, I think I had listened to this song when I came to name change.

Itsabitnotcold · 09/11/2022 16:33

I was surprisingly warm at the time 😂 I hate making usernames.

WiddlinDiddlin · 09/11/2022 16:35

Mines from this song...

Not just because its a great song, but it was written by Ian as a protest to the patronising charitible efforts he was asked to participate in/raise money for - in particular the International Year of Disabled Persons.

It was banned by the BBC and other radio stations due to its offensive lyrics.

I mean.. SO offensive... there isn't a rude word in there!

I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus

I wibble when I piddle
Cos my middle is a riddle

I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus

I dribble when I nibble
And I quibble when I scribble

Hello to you out there in Normal Land
You may not comprehend my tale or understand
As I crawl past your window give me lucky looks
You can be my body but you'll never read my books

I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus

I'm knobbled on the cobbles
Cos I hobble when I wobble
Swim!

So place your hard-earned peanuts in my tin
And thank the Creator you're not in the state I'm in
So long have I been languished on the shelf
I must give all proceedings to myself

I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus

54 appliances in leather and elastic
100 000 thank yous from 27 spastics

Spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
Spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
Spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus

Widdling, griddling, skittling, diddling,
fiddling, diddling, widdling, diddling spasticus

I'm spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
Spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
Spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
Spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus!
I'm spasticus!
I'm spasticus!
I'm spasticus!
I'm spasticus!
I'm spasticus!
I'm spasticus!
Spasticus!

Newcatbrowntail · 09/11/2022 16:41

I like a user name which is current either what’s happening on mumsnet, in the news or my home life, as I change regularly, this one is because we’ve got a new cat with a brown tail. I’m fond of this one because it sounds similar to Newcastle Brown Ale. And I like a pun.

samandpoppysmummy · 09/11/2022 20:06

I am Sam and Poppy's Mummy :)

TwoMonthsOff · 09/11/2022 20:14

@WiddlinDiddlin
I love ‘high brows wonder whether Clever Trevor’s …..clever’
such a fantastic song I listen to it a lot, always so impressed he can remember all those lyrics even live
love Ian Dury RIP

AHelpfulHand · 09/11/2022 20:17

Mine is to do with me helping my mum leave her husband

WiddlinDiddlin · 09/11/2022 21:40

TwoMonthsOff · 09/11/2022 20:14

@WiddlinDiddlin
I love ‘high brows wonder whether Clever Trevor’s …..clever’
such a fantastic song I listen to it a lot, always so impressed he can remember all those lyrics even live
love Ian Dury RIP

Another of my favourites yeah! Such a loss to the world :(

SammyScrounge · 09/11/2022 21:58

My cat was called Sammy the Scrounge because of epic performances of scroungery.whenever he saw anyone with .food to share.

NannyOggsWhiskyStash · 09/11/2022 22:01

I love the Discworld books, and I am quite witchy, and Scottish.

Doingtheboxerbeat · 09/11/2022 22:06

Name of a cool 80's band and the name one of their tracks 🤗.

SweetSenorita · 09/11/2022 22:09

Welshwabbit · 09/11/2022 13:46

A Frida tour de force!

Absolutely @Welshwabbit I adore Frida's vocals. Agnetha's too. It's not cool, I guess but ...... Abba are my guilty pleasure 😍😍

Doingtheboxerbeat · 09/11/2022 22:13

@BreastedBoobilyToTheStairs is just brilliant 🤣, l love this for you.

RaginaPhalange · 09/11/2022 22:17

Phoebe's made up name from Friends (spelt wrong tho)

Mercy1968 · 09/11/2022 22:29

Mercy is the name I call my car and I was born in 1968

VeryQuaintIrene · 09/11/2022 22:32

Quaint Irene Coles from EF Benson's Lucia books is my role model but added the Very because I'm just Quaint Irene on some other sites.

99point9FahrenheitDegrees · 09/11/2022 22:33

This is my optimistic name, from a Suzanne Vega song - stable now, with rising possibilities

TwoMonthsOff · 09/11/2022 22:42

@WiddlinDiddlin
i have seen a username on here ‘NewBootsandRanty’ (possibly different Capital placement) which always makes me smile 😊

NeverDropYourMooncup · 09/11/2022 22:50

It's kind of a public information broadcast. All part of the MN service.

ThreeblackCats · 10/11/2022 01:56

I have three black cats.
I also have family, but I guess the cats were next to me or in the room when I registered my user name.

LordBuckley · 10/11/2022 05:21

Eccentric American comedian from the 1950s.

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