I don’t mean my username! Yours!

I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking ‘guess’ or saying ‘:)’ or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person’s username?

Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone’s name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people’s weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.

Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?

  • HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ok, let’s do this. If you can guess where it’s from, you have great taste.

    And don’t worry, I don’t actually harvest eyes.

          • HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Alright, I’ll explain it: the ‘I gotta have more cowbell’ comes from a Saturday Night Live skit where the band Blue Öyster Cult are recording the song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” which has a cowbell playing after the first guitar chords, and the producer (played by Christopher Walken) keeps saying that he wants more cowbell. Tension rises within the band whether to have more or less cowbell.

            I couldn’t find the full skit for some reason, so here’s a video of every instance Christopher Walken mentions cowbell throughout it.

            So, to sum it up, this was me trying to hint, in a not too obvious and probably convoluted way, that Harvester of Eyes is a song by Blue Öyster Cult. It sounds kind of anti-climatic now, to be honest.

            • Nina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Nah, that’s a fun way to try and connect the two! I just haven’t watched much SNL, so it’s lost on me.

              • HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Me neither, it was just really popular in the early 00s so I ended up knowing about it. But yeah, I wasn’t sure if people would still remember it after all these years.

    • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I gave up and looked it up. Thank you for your nickname! (You likely get what I mean, I don’t want to spoil it for the others.)

        • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago
          Explaining it further.

          As I websearched your nickname, the first mention that popped up was a song, Blue Oyster Cult: Harvester Of Eyes. I didn’t know the band or the song, but fuck, I loved it, I’m a suckeer for 70’s music. So thank you for the indirect suggestion!

          • HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago
            Oh, I get it now, haha.

            You’re welcome and I’m glad you liked it. Their first 3 albums are great starting points. Out of those, Secret Treaties is probably the most consistent but Tyranny & Mutation goes hard too. Especially Hot Rails to Hell.