yrmencyn | LJ name meme

As tagged by

alstaria.

Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.

Following tradition, I shall be explaining not only the LJ name, but also LJ page titles.

Yrmencyn: So, WAY back in the day I was using AOL for random purposes. At this point I honestly don't remember what in the hell those purposes were, nor why I was using AOL on top of the university's dial-up system, since AOL had no local Nacogdoches number. The username I'd been using for a while was way too long for AOL's system at the time (probably... '96? '97?), so I had to come up with a new one. I had downloaded this program called "The Old English Name Generator," and I decided to use that. So far as I can tell from sketchy investigation at the time and still sketchier memory now, the program had lists of syllables common to OE names, with very rough rules for how they could be combined. Anyway. One of the names it spat out was "Yrmencryn", but that was too long for AOL, so I took out the second 'r'. And thus Yrmencyn was born.

La vache doit me toucher dès jeudi: My LJ title. This is actually stolen from an early ep of BtVS, wherein Buffy doesn't speak French worth a damn. I modified it slightly so it makes grammatical, if not semantic, sense. It basically means "The cow must touch me since Thursday."

Deux ratons-laveurs se luttant dans ma ruelle: The LJ subtitle. Mandi and I overheard two girls talking while we were waiting in line to get books signed by David Sedaris, and one of them was talking about "two raccoons fighting in my alley." For some reason it made me laugh, and I put it in French because... that's what I do. If I had it to do over I'd render it as "Deux chaouis..." (yay Cajun), but I can't seem to find that edit option in the bowels of the LJ system anymore, so thus it remains.

I don't tag anyone, because I am contrary. But I eagerly await your voluntary writings.

Bonus Material:
My first s/n on the internet, chosen to participate in the chat room at Sam Choukri's John Lennon webpage, was "tlhInganval." This means, in Klingon, "intelligent Klingon." I shit you not. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried -- I really was (and am) that much of a geek.