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14 May 2006, 15:49
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 33
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Your Nickname
What is your nickname?? i.e DaffyDuck and why did you choose/given that nickname? (handle)
DaffyDuck : i was given it by a chat company i worked for because no matter what happened i never gave up and i apparently was a miserable so and so, just like DaffyDuck (stuck ever since)
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14 May 2006, 16:14
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Henry Kelly
Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 7,374
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Re: Your Nickname
Marketing exercise?
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14 May 2006, 16:14
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Love's Sweet Exile
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Living on a Stair (Now Sword-less)
Posts: 2,371
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Re: Your Nickname
A chat company you say? don't suppose you'd be prepared to tell us which one so we can go and boost their ad revenue?
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14 May 2006, 16:15
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1up on you
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Birmingham, UK
Posts: 4,007
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Re: Your Nickname
A chat company seems interesting can I give you some money my nigerian friend
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14 May 2006, 16:22
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,290
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Re: Your Nickname
It was back in 99 or 98. I just got an internet connection (56k-modem with dial up. God, today i dont even know how I could live with that) and decided to give that whole playing computer games on the internet a try.
For that I needed some nickname (and a game, ofc. After I noticed that C&C Red Alert kind of sucked I decided to play Age of Empires). The first attempt 'encar_111' didnt sound like much. So because creatvity kind of never was my strength I looked around in my room and saw two cds: some Wu-Tang-Clan-album (I don't even remember which one it was, all I do remember is that it was a double cd) and a blank cd made by a company called 'Trax'-Data. So I put the two words together and put that underscore in the middle.
I like the sound of it, so I've been using it ever since. It also appears to be pretty much unique, so whenever you see someone calling himself wu_trax, that's probably me.
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14 May 2006, 16:24
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1up on you
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Birmingham, UK
Posts: 4,007
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Re: Your Nickname
seeing as he seems real...
my name comes from back in the day where we had private galaxies and we were a animal farm (get it?) so I chose pig. Kinda stuck with me but no one calls me it irl, which is good so I prefer my name Simon ;/ one day I might switch to my real name. Btw I swear we have had threads like this before
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14 May 2006, 16:24
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Tiny Dancer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Yellow Brick Road
Posts: 355
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Re: Your Nickname
after i married david furnish it was time to reveal my true colours.
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14 May 2006, 16:26
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 33
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Re: Your Nickname
i used to work for MSN Chat UK Teens Department about 3 years ago before it closed in october 2002, so not its not a marketing exercise its a general question. thought it would be interesting to find out reason behind people's nicknames thats all, Grrr...
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14 May 2006, 16:27
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Drink is Good
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,122
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Re: Your Nickname
originally it started off as Alkibas, when some girl just started calling me it for no apparent reason on our school trip to germany. Then i just used it for the internet, now I get called Alki after drinking myself silly for a good long period of time. I vary between the two, but i felt Alkibas was unique as whenever i use it anywhere noone uses it what so ever
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14 May 2006, 16:36
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1up on you
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Birmingham, UK
Posts: 4,007
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Re: Your Nickname
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaffyDuck
i used to work for MSN Chat UK Teens Department
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So your job was to chat with people under 16? Or am I reading this all wrong.
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14 May 2006, 16:37
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,290
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Re: Your Nickname
chatting up 16 year olds seems to be popular around here, so you have come to the right place
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14 May 2006, 16:47
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Evil inside
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,631
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Re: Your Nickname
I called my r3 planetarion planet for "Marshall Zhukov of the EasternFront" or something....
Zhukov was a WWII russian general, who later had a brief spell as Minister of Defence.
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14 May 2006, 16:48
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 33
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Re: Your Nickname
In Reply to : So your job was to chat with people under 16? Or am I reading this all wrong.
Hmm... My Job was to control the room's from illegal actions, and to make sure that people under 20 could talk in a safe environment, however due to a massive increase in user capacity this became impossible so we had to close the network down as we felt it was becoming unsafe,
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14 May 2006, 17:03
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Dirte
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,573
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Re: Your Nickname
Are you the same DaffyDuck that frequentet these boards a while ago? Or was it another nick with duck in it. My memory is a sad affair
I don't remeber how I got this nick, actually. I guess I just typed it out and liked it's ring.
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14 May 2006, 17:05
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Drink is Good
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,122
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Re: Your Nickname
angryduck?
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14 May 2006, 17:10
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a little bit broken
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,405
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Re: Your Nickname
what are you doing here?
(am interested in how people find themselves posting here)
oh and my nick is my name
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14 May 2006, 17:15
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Drink is Good
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,122
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Re: Your Nickname
Quote:
Originally Posted by madi
what are you doing here?
(am interested in how people find themselves posting here)
oh and my nick is my name
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there was me hoping you had a mad eye
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14 May 2006, 17:31
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 33
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Re: Your Nickname
No sorry i am not angryduck person u refer to, i found my way here via playing planetarion again (was bored one day about a month ago and remembered when i was at school years ago i played this game think it was round 1 or 2. so decided to play again
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14 May 2006, 17:49
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Lucky
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: -
Posts: 3,830
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Re: Your Nickname
Quote:
Originally Posted by madi
what are you doing here?
(am interested in how people find themselves posting here)
oh and my nick is my name
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14 May 2006, 17:51
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Born Sinful
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Loughborough, UK
Posts: 4,059
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Re: Your Nickname
When I first played PA (yes there was a time, shock horror) someone already had "Megalomaniac", so I thought I'd be daft and went for "Meglamaniac". I registered my forum account shortly afterwards.
Megalomaniac was a bit unwieldly for IRC, so logically got shortened to megla, which is what I tend to get called now.
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14 May 2006, 18:13
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mmm lambs
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: London
Posts: 1,906
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Re: Your Nickname
When I created this account I was quite small for my age so I went to use midget as my nick. Unfortunately that was taken so I tried midget1, midget2 and both taken. Switched to midge out of frustration but that was also taken so I just hit a random number and here we are.
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14 May 2006, 18:18
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Drink is Good
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,122
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Re: Your Nickname
oh ma gad, your actually called Koen?
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14 May 2006, 18:30
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Ron Burgundy
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: A glass case of emotion
Posts: 632
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Re: Your Nickname
No, it's spelt KoeN.
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14 May 2006, 18:51
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☆ ♥
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,489
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Re: Your Nickname
Androme account disappeared.
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R7: Fury
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R56-R57: FaceLess
R58-60: Apprime/Ultores
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14 May 2006, 18:56
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Bored
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nottm ->Shef ->Croydon ->Manc ->Durham ->Sheffield
Posts: 6,506
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Re: Your Nickname
Quote:
Originally Posted by pig
no one calls me it irl,
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Yeh we do...
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaffyDuck
Hmm... My Job was to control the room's from illegal actions, and to make sure that people under 20 could talk in a safe environment, however due to a massive increase in user capacity this became impossible so we had to close the network down as we felt it was becoming unsafe,
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OH **** they've found us
Oh and my nick is self-explanatory.
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14 May 2006, 19:08
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WANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAW
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Éire
Posts: 2,738
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Re: Your Nickname
I have no idea why on earth I picked this username to be honest, a college friend had introduced me to Planetarion when round 1 was starting and I had to sign up to the forums a while later. I had to think of a ruler name for my planet quite quickly as I had a lecture so I was just gonna pick Incubus...
But then I didn't want people to think I was a fan of that band with the same name, so I shoved a 'God' on the end.
Can't recall what I named my planet.
Anyway, I then just used the same name signing up for the forums.
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14 May 2006, 19:16
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Next goal wins!
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: London
Posts: 5,406
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Re: Your Nickname
It came to me in a dream.
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14 May 2006, 19:17
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Love's Sweet Exile
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Living on a Stair (Now Sword-less)
Posts: 2,371
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Re: Your Nickname
SYMM is the title of a manic street preachers song, named in response to Jimmy Mcgovern's film about hillsborough, and standing for South Yorkshire Mass Murderer. My planet in round 3 was "SYMM of An Empty Motorcycle".
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14 May 2006, 19:22
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Commodore
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 3,176
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Re: Your Nickname
My forum name of Ultimate Newbie was actually suggested by the then (R3) Strategy Forum moderator riposte (iirc, it might have been Tactitus). After showing more interest than normal in how combat worked and the various pros and cons of the ships at the time, riposte said something along the lines of me being the best (re interest) new player that he had seen in a while. Thus the name, Ultimate Newbie .
As for my different IRC nick, when i started my planet, it wanted a ruler name. Not quite sure what that was about, i eventually called myself the Sovereign of Dark Aurora, and the IRC nickname held. Not overly imaginative :\
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14 May 2006, 20:39
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King of The Fat Boys
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 3,332
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Re: Your Nickname
I really can't remember what was going through my head when I picked my forum nick.
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14 May 2006, 20:50
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Jazz Man
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 1,494
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Re: Your Nickname
I had read hitch hikers for about the millionth time and still thought marvin was the best character. just shortened it as i felt it sounded better :P
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Ex ROCK HC & PA Team Head of Support.
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14 May 2006, 21:19
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nomen est omen
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Bristol, UK
Posts: 1,095
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Re: Your Nickname
I`ve had so many, I can`t remember them all; "Hans_Blix; VooHoo!, Dr_Jim_Lad, etc".
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14 May 2006, 21:45
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,174
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Re: Your Nickname
Contrary to popular believe, my nick isnt from the game, rather my thoughts and ideology at the time.
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14 May 2006, 21:52
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Tilting at windmills
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 579
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Re: Your Nickname
I got it off the back of an air conditioning unit.
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14 May 2006, 22:09
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I see you!
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: In any girl
Posts: 2,825
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Re: Your Nickname
I'm not sure why I ended up with this nick. It was back in the day (1999/2000?) when I used to play AoE2 online. I needed a nick and ended up with Nadar (I had never heard of it before). Later I found out it means "to swim" in spanish Someone shortened my nick one day to 'nads' and lots of people call me that now.
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14 May 2006, 23:25
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Insanely Insignificant
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bournemouth
Posts: 1,056
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Re: Your Nickname
Mine was a name thought up when i was about 10 years old and played that god-frosaken game that is warhammer.
It's sort of the only thing that has stuck with me for any great length of time on the internet.
To this day i have no idea if my nick has any meaning.
My only regret is losing my account (originally registered nov 2000) in the great Fudging of yesteryear.
Damn him.
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14 May 2006, 23:31
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Motherfracker
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 2,985
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Re: Your Nickname
In real life I'm part of the Senegalese group Nuru Kane.
I'm the Kane part.
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14 May 2006, 23:51
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1up on you
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Birmingham, UK
Posts: 4,007
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Re: Your Nickname
Your nick is the best on the forums without exception.
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15 May 2006, 00:04
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Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
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Re: Your Nickname
I'm sure we've done this thread a few times. In any case, my nick's source is fairly obvious. As I have also said before, it was made extra sweet by the fact I shared a galaxy with randal in R5.
When I am out clubbing I generally tell people my name is Dante.
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15 May 2006, 00:27
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Next goal wins!
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: London
Posts: 5,406
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Re: Your Nickname
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
When I am out clubbing I generally tell people my name is Dante.
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That is excellent.
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15 May 2006, 13:20
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Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
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Re: Your Nickname
I have only ever bought Sony laptops and it's quite a cool name, much better than Compaq Armade or Toshiba
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15 May 2006, 14:21
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xXx
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 114
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Re: Your Nickname
AndroX
Well, beside other people think instandly of toilet paper or a woman fraction group I came up with this nick out of my own.
My real life name is Xander, toss those letters a tad and replace the e with an o and your done (thats also why the X is capital, because it's the start letter of my name)
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15 May 2006, 14:28
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Gone
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 14,656
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Re: Your Nickname
I am Marilyn Manson.
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15 May 2006, 15:12
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,174
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Re: Your Nickname
Omg really? Can I PM you?
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15 May 2006, 16:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 3
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Re: Your Nickname
It's the name of my favourite character in literature. Rodion Romanovitsj Raskolnikov.
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15 May 2006, 16:59
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Evil inside
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,631
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Re: Your Nickname
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
As I have also said before, it was made extra sweet by the fact I shared a galaxy with randal in R5.
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Was he that uber1337?
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15 May 2006, 17:12
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Gone
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 14,656
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Re: Your Nickname
Quote:
Originally Posted by sniborp
Omg really? Can I PM you?
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Feel free, please.
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