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

submitted 1 year ago by misnina@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Harvesting eyes of cuthulu from terraira?

[-] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Nope, never played Terraria. Here's a hint: I gotta have more cowbell!

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think I understand the reference, haha.

[-] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Alright, I'll explain it: the 'I gotta have more cowbell' comes from a Saturday Night Live skit where the band Blue Öyster Cult are recording the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" which has a cowbell playing after the first guitar chords, and the producer (played by Christopher Walken) keeps saying that he wants more cowbell. Tension rises within the band whether to have more or less cowbell.

I couldn't find the full skit for some reason, so here's a video of every instance Christopher Walken mentions cowbell throughout it.

So, to sum it up, this was me trying to hint, in a not too obvious and probably convoluted way, that Harvester of Eyes is a song by Blue Öyster Cult. It sounds kind of anti-climatic now, to be honest.

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, that's a fun way to try and connect the two! I just haven't watched much SNL, so it's lost on me.

[-] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Me neither, it was just really popular in the early 00s so I ended up knowing about it. But yeah, I wasn't sure if people would still remember it after all these years.

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