The story of my user name contains a lot of inside jokes. I'll try to explain them as best as I can.
One fateful evening, me and two friends had dinner together. One thing lead to another and we founded a rap band, Gurkenwasser (cucumber water), inspired by the use of pickled cucumbers in our meal.
Obviously, we needed stage names and at first, mine was Schlimmlauch. "Schlimm" means "bad/evil" and "Lauch" literally means "leek", but it's also frequently used in the German rap scene to refer to a wimpy/skinny (in the non-muscular way) dude. So "Schlimmlauch" could be translated as "Bad Wimp". I don't remember how that name came up. Blame general silliness.
Anyway, after recording the two best rap albums in all of history we were bored, for there lay no more challenges before us, and we turned to audio drama.
Before I go on, you need to know two things:
1. The
Three Investigators are huge in Germany and a staple of German audio drama. They're known as Die Drei ??? (the three question marks, basically) here.
2. We ironically worshipped one of our teachers for his strictness, no-bullshit attitude and ability to dryly take us apart. I say "ironically", but at some point we were so far in that we were almost cult-like (all in good fun, though). That teacher's first name was Peter.
So, we turned to audio drama and decided to call ourselves Die Drei !!!. Each of us represented one of the Drei ??? and adapted our stage names accordingly. I was Peter. Obviously, I couldn't taint the name of
the Peter, so I changed it to Piter (Englishly pronounced Peter and Germanly pronounced Piter sound the same) and added the Lauch from my former stage name. Then I added a -y because it sounded better to me.
And that's the story of how Piter Lauchy came to be.
Side note: When I was younger, my standard user name was Outshoutsign which is a literal translation of the German word for exclamation mark, "Ausrufezeichen". Aus = Out, rufe(n) = (to) shout, zeichen = sign.
I was certain that that would be my user name for life, as I was rather proud that I thought of it and also liked the "edginess". Yes, I was that kind of teen.
"Outshoutsign" is now pretty cringe-y to me while I still love "Piter Lauchy" for its uniqueness and goofiness. Funny how that turned out.