User blog comment:Sprinklemist/What's In a Username/@comment-3339987-20091229142546

OK!

Anyways, back when I was young and foolish...I signed up for Webkinz XD. My first pet was an elephant, so I typed in elephant as my username. (Obviously) It was taken. I kept trying random numbers with elephant until I got the historic "2356025". And of course, that wasn't taken.

I kept registering as that on differerent sites as I grew up. Eventually....Elephant2356025 wasn't available on a site. *collective gasp* So I just transferred the sequence to Chimchar, and it's been that way ever since! ^^