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What do you think (this person's) username means, without looking it up? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 (1 children)

Ok guess

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

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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

Mine should be easy enough lol

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

It's been 18 years since I had spanish class but uhhhh, the cat is white?

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

Lets gooooooo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A pack of octopus!

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

Mine's pretty obvious.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I like this game, tho I can't figure out any name in this thread lol, try mine :D

p.s. my avatar has nothing to do with it

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think googling will help, but I'm up for some guesswork.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm a horse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Alright, let's play

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mine's an initialism followed by a homophonic substitution :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Who can figure it out?

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

I like @[email protected]'s interpretation. But I had to comment on yours since mine is only 2 letters different. Though mine is pretty obvious where it came from :)

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