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?

    • NinaOP
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      310 months ago

      I’m not nerd enough! Obviously thinking of a colonel in distress, but everytime I read colonel I think of a middle school friend who would not believe me that it’s not pronounced “ko low null”

      • @ColonelPanic@lemmy.ml
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        210 months ago

        You got pretty close by accident because it is a wordplay on the pronounciation of colonel! And like your friend, I initially thought it sounds like “ko low nell” for a very long time until I realized that English pronounciations are just guesswork sometimes :D That’s why the word is now stuck in my mind forever (alongside town names like “Gloucester”).

        • NinaOP
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          210 months ago

          Wow, that’s so funny that a silly memory from my childhood could get it that close!

    • Lvxferre
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      110 months ago

      I didn’t get it without reading other comments because my spoken English sucks major donkey balls (or should I say… colonel donkey balls?), but now I got it.

  • Communist
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    810 months ago

    Mine’s insanely on the nose… i’m not very creative.

  • comfy
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    610 months ago

    This is probably my least enigmatic pseudonym, but maybe someone will have something to say about it.

    • NinaOP
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      010 months ago

      Well, it means comfy, but I think you probably meant it as a vibe based on your avatar, however I pictured a worn beige recliner. Pretty ratty, but comfy.

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        Hah, I don’t even have a fireplace, candles or a warm drink. I’m a fraud!

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        yes, it is a vibe. but in hindsight, I also like to treat it as a reminder, or a goal. It’s the internet, why make it any angrier? Make a site a home.

    • NinaOP
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      210 months ago

      Hey, if someone doesn’t know what didactic is, it is a mystery! It’s a big word! Which that someone would be me. I feel like it’s in the back of my brain but I’ve forgotten off the top of my head.

      • @DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one
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        210 months ago

        Yay, time to explain! You may be familiar with the term autodidact, someone who crafts their own curriculum and teaches themselves subjects without relying on the guidance of other humans.

        So, didactic means to be used for instruction, to teach.

        I can interpret my name in two ways I think. First, is that I am an instructive dumbass; my incompetance and consistent foolishness provides lessons, learning from my mistakea. Second, I am a teacher who is also a dumbass.

        • NinaOP
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          210 months ago

          That’s a fun one! Plus having alliteration makes it more fun.

          • @DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one
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            210 months ago

            Yes, I think so.

            The self-deprecation might be a little fatiguing, and it is a lifetime habit I am trying to extinguish.

            Still, it enforces the wisdom to never take myself too seriously, and that I always have something to learn.

    • @DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one
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      510 months ago

      Clever. I actually read it as freewifihotspots before seeing your comments.

      Um… Dim Sum but I get my choice of married women? Sexy I guess.

    • NinaOP
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      110 months ago

      well I would assume your wife’s hot pots would be ‘free’ to you in a sense so hmmm…Are you offering your wife’s hot pots for free? They’re probably good!

    • NinaOP
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      210 months ago

      It means you like being stonewalled :)

      • @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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        Pretty much lol, I got into programming in high school by writing programs on my TI-84. Needed a username to post some programs I made online and that’s what I’ve gone by online ever since.

        Of course, these days I’m a software engineer and mainly do embedded C and desktop C++ as a hobby with my OpenRGB project.

    • NinaOP
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      110 months ago

      I’m going to pretend you program Calckey to make it interesting

    • NinaOP
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      110 months ago

      uhhhhhh, I got nothin. At most I’m misreading unkow and unknown so disappearing unknown but also 74. Usually two numbers at the end is year born?

      • ernest
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        310 months ago

        In Poland, the term “kierunkowy” can be associated with a phone number and a specific region. That was my first guess ;p

      • ernest
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        110 months ago

        In Poland, the term “kierunkowy” can be associated with a phone number, specifically 47 - Norway. That was my first guess ;)

    • NinaOP
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      310 months ago

      a small russet potato! and 08, would be a bit young if it was when you were born, so when you graduated school? Could just be a number of course

      • Che Banana
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        210 months ago

        It just means there are 7 other russjr’s on here.

        Kinda weird.

      • @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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        110 months ago

        Certainly a good guess! It actually comes from the fact that my name is Russ[ell], and my name comes directly from my father so I’m “Russell Jr”. Then the number 08 comes from my birth date, which is the 8th of March!

        • NinaOP
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          210 months ago

          Ah! I didn’t think about 08 ever being simply the day of your birthday instead of year, that very interesting.