Seriously, dude, what does your username mean?

[mollyringle]

You. Yes, you. How and why did you select your username, if you don't mind sharing? (Ignore if patently obvious; e.g., "Uh, it's my actual name.")

I'll get the ball rolling.
LemonLye is the proper way to write my nick, but LJ doesn't allow capital letters. This was one of my first chat nicknames, chosen about six years ago when I was way, way into The Cure. Source: their song "The Caterpillar"; lyric: "Dust my lemon lies with powder pink and sweet..." I originally was LemonLie, but later tweaked the spelling, just to be cute. It has proved a handy username at lots of websites, since generally nobody has ever registered it before.

Isn't that fascinating? OK, your turn.

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[nicosian.livejournal.com]

Nicosia: a city, on a map, in Kim Stanley Robin's "mars trilogy." sounded cool. Sounded gender neutral. Tacked on an N. Nicosian. Easier to pronounce. Liked the way it looked.

Later on, I discovered that while it had, for me, sci fi geeky origin, it's also a city in Turkey, which is cool. Nicosia.

And the velvet underground had a person in their band, Nico. Since I like the band, that's kinda cool.

I much prefer Nico to my real name now.

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Cool! Would never have guessed. Wondered if there was some connection to "nicotine", originally... :)