Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?

sociablefish@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 18 points –

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I don't know. Lemmy find an answer for you.

Per Lemmy's GitHub

Why's it called Lemmy?

  • Lead singer from Motörhead.
  • The old school video game.
  • The Koopa from Super Mario.
  • The furry rodents.

Lemmy Koopa was actually named after Lemmy from Motörhead. In fact, most of the Koopalings were named after musicals.

Huh. I didn't know that. To be honest, I didn't know that there was a Koopa named Lemmy until I looked at their github either. I've never played Mario.

Why is kbin called like something KDE developers would use to parse their binaries?

Somebody liked the Motörhead rock band, maybe (Lead vocalist's name was Lemmy)?

...so it's nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?

I am disappointed.