Be Good Not Bad : Web Design :: Brian Warren : Denver, Colorado

Of Dead People

by Brian Warren on 13 November, 20052 Comments

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

  1. 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

  2. They were detecting your anti-microsoft bias and naming you accordingly….  smile

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

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