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Poll: how did you come up with your username?
4 points by adrianwaj on March 31, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I am wondering about people's usernames on Hacker News. These are some interesting questions about your username. Please select all that apply. Feel free to elaborate in the comments.
a shortened or abbreviated form of my real name
25 points
used across 1 or more other sites
19 points
my real name
17 points
exclusive to HN and not any other site
6 points
has some special meaning
5 points
it's nothing, just random nonsense I don't care about
3 points
it has to protect my anonymity
2 points
have 1 or more additional HN usernames that I've used in the past year
2 points
other
2 points
some fanciful word(s) I conjured up on the spot
1 point


CLICK!! "Oh, no. No bullets left!!!"

"No bullets left? Hey, laughing boy: no bullets left."

"Whaddya mean, no bullets left. Lemme see that thing."

"BOOM!!"

"Hey, whaddya know, there was one bullet left."

"One bullet left? Hey, laughing boy..."

"I know, I know!!"

Daffy walks off with his bill reversed...


The street I grew up on. I am not shamrock on any other site.


which jay? oh the japanese jay? gotcha...




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