I once worked with a person named Alison Funkhouser. She was a college intern, and her university's username policy was: first_name[0] + last_name[:6] The

I once worked with a person named Alison Funkhouser. She was a college intern, and her university's username policy was: first_name[0] + last_name[:6] The resulting username was afunkho. (she was also really great to work with, and she knows her stuff when it comes to robotics... if anyone happens to run across her resume anywhere, hire her) There was also the athlete Kevin Youkilis, who happens to be Jewish. One website that lists pro athletes used this scheme to provide a unique URL for each athlete: last_name[:5] + first_name[:2] That's right, his identifier was youkike. When someone pointed this out to the website owner, he changed it... to youklKe. Which isn't much better. (I don't know Kevin Youkilis personally. I got this off TVTropes.)