What's the first name you always think of when asked to come up with a random name?

shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 46 points –
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Turd Ferguson is forever etched in my brain.

Ya. That's right. Turd Ferguson. It's a funny name.

Slartibartfast

I told you it wasn't important.

Yeah, that's what makes it optimal for testing code where the username isn't important.

Good old Slartibartfast has caught many a bug.

Doug

"I’m not going to ask you to remember them all. Mostly because I don’t remember them all. Therefore, for ease of both narrative and our collective sanity, I’m going to name only the more important members of the Crow’s Song. The rest, regardless of gender, I’ll call 'Doug.' You’d be surprised how common the name is across worlds. Oh, some spell it 'Dug' or 'Duhg,' but it’s always around. Regardless of local linguistics, parents eventually start naming their kids Doug. I once spent ten years on a planet where the only sapient life was a group of pancakelike beings that expressed themselves through flatulence. And I kid you notβ€”one was named Doug. Though admittedly it had a very distinctive smell attached when the word was 'spoken.''Doug'is the naming equivalent to convergent evolution. And once it arrives, it stays. A linguistic Great Filter; a wakeup call. Once a society reaches peak Doug, it’s time for it to go sit in the corner and think about what it has done."

  • Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

Tress of the Emerald Sea is a masterpiece, all four of the Kickstarter books are actually

Nice try, this is how you're going to get us all to confess our most commonly-used passwords.

Because my random word that first came to my mind was exactly that. And I'm not telling you what it is.

yeah there is no way im telling this clown that I always use bobsmypassword as a password. What does he think we are. Morons.

Owen Lincoln Potter. An alias I used in college when I was fucking around like an idiot

I have a terrible imagination. If asked to come up with a name, I'll simply flounder and say, "Eh?"

Case in point: my user name which I have used on multiple instances. (I've no idea how I came up with it).

NAME A WOMAN

I was actually thinking about clever sounding "non human" names. Human names are easy. Names of women: Lily Lilith Rose Penny etc etc

Just came up with a random name and it was Thomas.

In German, it's commonly an old people sounding name (Frederike, Ulrich, Brigitte, Gerhard, etc)

Just now? Romney. But I can't say I'd always pick that name, as first of all I haven't been asked that before, so I wouldn't know, and second of all, if I did, it would be predictable and therefore not random.