You might want to take a cup of coffee and sit down for this.
Well, it all started in 2007. The world was a much more innocent place, or was I younger and more innocent? Who's to tell?
Anyways, being on volunteer work in Haifa Israel, a bunch of my friends and I started calling each other "Freak", you know, in a cool way.
Hey Freak, how's it going?
...
Dude, you're such a Freak
...
etc.
Now a bunch of the girls I knew started a mini clique of their own called "The Freaks". AndBeing that it was now the most exclusive club, I wanted so badlyhad to be in it (even though I was a guy). But they hesitated, it was really harsh for me, I felt that I was one of the founding members because I had originally in on the "Freak" naming. I had even looked up a Hebrew phrasebook and found the meaning of the word "Freak" which was:
Moozaroot - פריק
I was gutted, how could these girls exclude me in this little, random, meaningless but oh so exclusive club, when I was such a strong impetus of its creation? Yeah, na, I was having none of that.
So I spoke to my "sister" from the clique (who wasn't really my sister but looked exactly like me - weird huh, "freak"-y even, lol), so everyone called us siblings. After a long while we convinced them to let me into this clique (and I even owned my new moniker - "Freak Wannabe").
Now my "sister"sister and I started calling each other "Mooz" because it was just shorter and funnier sounding than "Moozaroot".
Since then, I've used Mooz, or a derivative of it, in:
- StackExchange
- Microsoft Live
- ASOIAF account
- And a myriad of online games
- A few of my younger cousins and friends have taken the 'Mooz' post-fix to their usernames too. I've sort of got a mini clan going, tee hee.
And there you have it, a small narrative titled "Mooz".
Theso, the next time I act like a "freak", you will know that it's because I am.
**Why 'Möoz'?** The '[umlaut mark][1]' doesn't actually mean anything to me, it just looks cool AF!