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Of Dead People

by Brian Warren on 13 November, 2005 • 2 Comments • Permalink

So, I was signing up for MSN Groups today, and as I did, it was rejecting my suggested usernames, because all the good ones were taken. I’m sure you’ve seen this before, you sign up for some website with the user name of pants and it says “sorry, the username pants is already taken, would you like to select from the list of suggested names?” and it has a list such as:

pants123
pants1985
fancypants
coolpants

So, my name was misterwarren. Of course it was taken, so the ones it suggested were:

MisterWarren123
UrbanMisterWarren
CadavericMisterWarren

I kid you not. They suggest I associate my name with dead bodies.

Comments

I say stick with coolpants next time. Heh heh. Or maybe mistercoolpants. Nicer ring to that one.

§ #1 By AmyH at 4:52am on November 13 2005
They were detecting your anti-microsoft bias and naming you accordingly….

§ #2 By David Fields at 4:52am on November 13 2005