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I don't mean my username! Yours!

I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking 'guess' or saying ':)' or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person's username?

Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone's name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people's weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.

Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hm...sheldon screaming bazinga like a bot at ikea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ahhh, excellent. Let’s see if I can find my community here. Guess away.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Give it a shot if you like

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Magus makes me think of a mage for some reason? I don't remember the word root of why that would be. So, mage bear!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I would second that, I also immediately had the "mage" association.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your name is Catty and you you pat Cats. I did almost read it as Paddy Cake but Catty Pake instead.

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your name is kylee and you like any of the -onite crystal names, and thus you are kionite

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One of my professors in college was named kurt vargo. He was in a commercial where he drove the bike across the screen, and in the take that was on the commercial, he drove too far and trashed very very expensive equipment and lighting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mine has a special meaning, I doubt anyone will guess

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lol that's funny but not even close its an auto suggested world of Warcraft name from almost 20 years ago don't even know why I still use it have not played the game in over a decade

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe my original nickname - Miersetnik. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Two small hints for mine: 1. Latin, and 2. it has nothing to do with the smoking chimp avatar.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Ok, let's do this. If you can guess where it's from, you have great taste.

^And^ ^don't^ ^worry,^ ^I^ ^don't^ ^actually^ ^harvest^ ^eyes.^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jeepers creepers take a look at those peepers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I gave up and looked it up. Thank you for your nickname! (You likely get what I mean, I don't want to spoil it for the others.)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's give this a shot then!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

foosel, I can't figure out a meaning. It makes me think it would sound like a type of cute weasel. That's very weird for me to think that of a word that I don't know, but it is what it is!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It admittedly is a bit of a tricky one...

spoilerIt's a combination of the metasyntactic variable foo and the German word for "lint", which is "Fussel".

But I really like the cute weasel idea as well πŸ˜„

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