I grew up in a very rural area of the southern U.S. back in the 80s. The internet wasn't quite a thing yet, so my window to the world outside my small town was our mailbox, located at Rural Route Box 464. I had pen pal letters, catalogs, magazines and comic books delivered in the mail and it was pure joy to run down the dusty road and check for something new every day.
The internet became my new window to the world, so it just seemed natural to use "Box464" as my address. Even got the domain!
Ooh, and it's a neat website, too! I wanna dig into those posts later so I'm commenting in hopes that it helps me remember lol
I’d wager most people on Lemmy don’t want their real name anywhere close to their shitposting.
I'm just lucky. The random name generator gave me CrustyPelican96 initially, but I pressed it again and got my name. What are the chances?
6 years ago someone submitted a contact us form with the name Fuckwit McBumcrumble at work and we found it really funny.
Biology teacher in HS mentioned off-hand that apparently chickens can climb trees. I searched for images online, thought they were funny, and made it my handle.
That makes much more sense now that I think about it. I think debate about whether chickens could fly was the reason this came up way back then actually...
@treechicken normal healthy chickens can fly in a limited way, eg to chase insects or to get up into trees (they like sleeping in trees because it's safer) or on the roofs of barns etc.
People who keep poultry sometimes clip their wings (cut off the flight feathers) to stop them doing stuff like that.
Factory-farmed chickens are too deformed.
I was a DJ in the 90ies and needed a DJ name. I was looking for one and when I was on my way to Berlin for the Love Parade by train - already half drunk. And the we stopped in the city Jena, in the part Paradies, so the sign Spain "Jena Paradies" and I thought it was the perfect name for me as a DJ.
Then I added another e and dropped the "last name" part and here we are with "Jeena"
Well, let me tell you a little story
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea…
When ICQ was new, I met a girl online that went by Tina. Cute blonde with a gap in her front teeth. She and I would video chat all day while I worked. Many NSFW video chats from her side.
She named me Tina's Horny Boyfriend. And I lived in Texas.
Sadly, we never met and I lost track of her.
We chat online for like 2 hours a day, so I guess you can say things are getting pretty serious.
I had a screensaver in the late 90's that made random but grammatically correct sentences. One sentence said "I once was a vinyl wombat"
We are a small clique of kobolds who share a Lemmy account in real life. It seemed appropriate.
Well well, look who has a particularly talented nephew. If they can do such a great job, then why'd you even ask a fartographer in the first place??? Quit trying to low-ball the professionals out of the business!
24 years ago my dad asked me what I wanted my username to be and I was struggling and he said “hurry up or I’ll pick something silly like prettybunnys” and type it in and I said “ok”.
You need an exclamation point at the front, and no spaces in the brackets. Like this:
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