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Its the same username I had at the other place that shall not be named, until I got permabanned for reasons still unclear to me.

I originally joined via the swimming sub there, looking for recommendations on waterproof music players to use while swimming so I can listen to AC/DC and Motohead etc while swimming laps. I'm a bogan (Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated) and I swim laps every day. Therefore..... waterbogan

Agents 0 to 640 were taken.

A real life nickname I've had since I was 7. I've just stuck with it for the past 26 years. It actually originated from the Beanie Baby Lizzy. And Izzy is just Lizzy the Lizard without Legs. 🐍

Why not?

Way back in the day I wanted my club penguin to be named sparky, but that name was already taken. So club penguin recommended to me sparky678348

The first time I tried karaoke, I was a bit intoxicated and worried that, having a common name, another Nick would get confused. My parents worked by full name incorrectly, so, I figured that that would be a great way to differentiate it, not realizing at the time that the name "Nick" itself normally has a "k" in it, making "Nick w/ a K" arguably more confusing. After sobering up, I found the whole concept wonderfully silly and decided to switch to it as my main screen name.

I like pretty assholes

I was binge watching the show "Letterkenny" One of their plotlines was about a Ostrich. Allegedly.... Im Australian, No Ostriches, only Emus.

Just some random thing that comes on my mind at the time, i guess.

Because I wanted to be obscure and mysterious, but if I'd call myself MrMysterious I'd know deep inside that I'm a wanker.

It's a play off Friend of Dorothy.

it is I

I like noodles

I like potatoes.

You can work it out yourself by looking at my instance name.

Food you want to eat but won't risk your life for

I write an anticapitalist tech blog at theluddite.org

Coolest shit I’ve ever pulled off happened on a sick day

That is just who I am

I hit randomize in a passphrase generator until it farted out a mental image that made me laugh.

Self descriptive.

am sour ._.

My favorite song from an artist

There's a character on Adventure Time named AbracaDaniel and I just switched in my name.

Out of habit. It was my reddit username for almost a decade and the first thing that came to mind when I made a lemmy account.

Why I originally chose "justlookingfordragon" on reddit: I was looking for fellow Pokémon X/Y players with dragon-type safaris willing to share their codes, but the simplest usernames like "dragon" and "safari" were already taken, and "Imjustlookingforadragontypesafarikthxbai" didn't fit the character limit. I originally didn't even plan to keep the account, so I didn't care that the username was silly and awkward.

"Wolf Link" was a nickname that came later.

To promote razors

The Dude abides.

I lived in Tropical country and iced cool water is the best

Two random nouns

Because squid can fly and it's awesome.

Well, I'm waiting to drop a standard line that can be deduced from my username, but I still haven't landed a good post to do so...

Also, I wanted it to be disjoint from my former Reddit usernames

I’m one of Zaphod’s cousins

Because it's accurate

Because fewer a's were all taken

I don't remember my username

Star wars

song by a band that fitted with my habit of nuking my PC every couple of weeks, either because I wanted to try a different Linux distro or because I got some kind of Limewire chlamydia

For Karl!

I like popcorn.

I'm afraid to say why.

In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix

First
Must
Burn.

~Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

My name is not Tony