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iammyownrushmore  ·  3723 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's The Story Behind Your Username?

Many years ago I was in a terrible band with a few friends and one of the members was in a constant state of disarray over one girl or another. He really liked the band Every Time I Die and played this song for me once while we were driving around. I waged a perpetual war of giving him shit for his (what I perceived at the time) weakness of character for letting his relationships dictate so much of his life and emotions, and made this my AIM (yikes) moniker and I liked the way it sounded so I kept using it for other accounts as well.

Now it doesn't mean shit to me other than the syllables, and I hope I haven't come off as arrogant or having some juvenile personal philosophy to some people because of it. I never really pay attention to usernames other than to just accept them without any deeper meaning, thinking they're always just some neologism like mine.