I don’t like challenge… But I resigned after the joint assault of @ruth-girl, @reggaemuffin, @fredrikaa. Guys and girl… you got me… pfff....
Let’s start with the rules
- Tell us in a post how you chose the current Steemit username you have. The story behind it.
- Tell us your real name!
- If you could change your current username, which name would you choose and why? If you have a possible usernames list, mention it!
- Use the tag #steemitnamechallenge so that the creator of the challenge can track all the posts and check them out
- Nominate 5 people for this challenge
The origins of my username
My username dates from the time I was spending half of my time in Lausanne in Switzerland, when I was at the same time a PhD student at the Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology in Grenoble. Yeah, this is more than 10 years ago. I was kind of youngish and unconscious during those days…
Once @lamouthe and I were walking down the streets in Lausanne, and at some point we saw a poster of that featured a mammoth. It was written, in French, something that we could translate by thick-haired mammoth. Moreover, the mammoth was fully red-haired.
[image credits: Pixabay]
For those who saw me face-to-face, I have a red beard… At that time, I had not the full beard, but just a goatee, and it was pretty thick…
Yeah the connection becomes apparent...
We both laughed and from that day I became ‘le mammouth’ (in French) or ‘mon mammouth’ (but strictly reserved for @lamouthe).
As this was way too long for a nickname, it was quickly abbreviated in lemouth. And this stays accros time.
My real name
This does not matter, even if I don’t especially hide it. In short, if you want to know, just look for it by yourself :)
Changing my username?
Lemouth is my brand… I am known within my friends (and even some colleagues) as lemouth. Furthermore, my wife is lamouthe, my sons are nicknamed as the maxithillon and the minithillon (the ‘th’ originates from ‘mouth’), etc…
So no thanks! No way to change this. This will stay at least forever! :)
The tag has been added
5 nominees (+ 1 free)
It was not too hard to find 5 people who didn’t do the challenge yet… But at the end here they are: @lamouthe, @nickskywalker, @planetenamek, @zest, and even if they won't probably do it: @justtryme90 and @mobbs.
Who knows, maybe after insisting, some of them may do it :)