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 Ecko
Lieutenant Junior Grade
Joined: Oct 12, 2011
Member#: 31504
Posts: 70
Location: NW England
   
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Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:08 am Post subject: Nickname |
 
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ECKO
Not a typo. Though I did originally see if I could be 'echo' (you know, the whole nickname in keeping with the 'sound' theme... lol). But 'Echo' was already taken.
Then, whilst randomly browsing the web, I came across a really funny picture of a gecko and it hit me -- Gecko. Rhymes with echo. Not only that, I actually keep a leopard gecko too, coolest little critter in the world he is. So, I typed in the nickname 'Gecko' to see if that was available... it wasn't. But that's when 'ecko' really stood out at me... Cool I thought, so I ran with it -- 'Ecko' the friendly gecko. 
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Car_Park
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Joined: Oct 24, 2012
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Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:05 am Post subject: |
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My username was supposed to be 'Par Cark' as I often say this by mistake when saying 'Car Park' .
But I typed the word correctly when signing up to SST.
The irony!!  |
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 zgurl49
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Joined: Aug 08, 2006
Member#: 15310
Posts: 824
Location: Minot, ND
 
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Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:29 am Post subject: |
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My username was supposed to be 'Par Cark' as I often say this by mistake when saying 'Car Park' .
But I typed the word correctly when signing up to SST.
The irony!! |
LOL I literally laughed out loud!
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 Philipp82
Cadet 2
Joined: Dec 09, 2012
Member#: 33866
Posts: 6
Location: Berlin, Germany
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Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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I saw the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" a while ago and quite liked it, but I didn't know until recently that the Name was adopted by many dictionaries to describe some sort of daydreaming person.
Because of certain responsibilities I can't dream all day long but still I can identify with this name.  |
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LadyInque
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Joined: May 20, 2005
Member#: 10281
Posts: 2224
Location: Eastern Massachusetts
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Bruiser 
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Joined: Sep 10, 2003
Member#: 3050
Posts: 135
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Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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bruiser is the first thing I thought of when I signed up. I'm a recreational figure skater and I fall down and get bruised up a lot on the ice. Most people in chat call me bru, so I was considering changing it. I kind of wish I had thought it through a little better now.
I'm a girl, btw.
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 olaziolek
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Joined: Dec 02, 2008
Member#: 23654
Posts: 215
Location: the middle-earth of poland
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Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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mine's easy.
when i was signing up i didn't think i'll be joining such a big community. and that i will take part in this community. so i just typed the usual login.
'olaziolek' is simply my name and last name but the sign-in chart won't allow me to use polish letters.
in reality it looks like this: ola ziółek [pronounced 'olah zhi-oo-wek'].
btw: i'm a girl [ola is a sweet name for aleksandra]
btw2: my mom sometimes calls me olaziolek. but she does these things to me. she's weird
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 SkyAero
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Joined: Jul 15, 2013
Member#: 34557
Posts: 26
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Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:41 am Post subject: |
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I used to have a website called 'aeronautics' (It doesn't exists anymore btw), containing photo's I made from airplanes.
I used my website name on different (aviation-focused) discussion boards, but because of the length of the name, people started to call me 'aero'.
I adopted this name in computer games I played. But the name was often occupied and with the introduction of Windows 7 and the Aero desktop theme (which I loathe), I changed my name in SkyAero. |
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 Bryophyte
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Joined: Aug 26, 2011
Member#: 31259
Posts: 31
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a biologist. When I became a member, I was writing a paper about the boreal forest and was starting the plant section. I thought Bryophyte sounded like a good name.
I'm a girl. |
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 Locutus76
Lieutenant Junior Grade
Joined: Mar 21, 2004
Member#: 5698
Posts: 97
Location: Netherlands
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Thu Nov 03, 2016 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Not hard to guess. Best episode of TNG, most awesomenest protagonist AND antagonist : Locutus of Borg. And 76 is the year I arrived at/on Earth.
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DieTeeFee
Lieutenant Commander
Joined: Aug 04, 2014
Member#: 36042
Posts: 291
Location: where the trouble is at.
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Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:33 am Post subject: |
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I didn't post this here already? No? Okay... here goes.
I actually got my nickname from a coworker. When i was doing an apprenticeship in this small company, everyone there was drinking coffee. But i told them that i'm not gonna do any coffee cooking, so whomever does not wanna go make his own coffee, will just have to drink tea
So everytime i'd actually make a round and offer tea to my coworkers, one of them would say: Here comes the Tea Fairy again 
When i left the company, i had converted half of my coworkers to tea. |
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olaziolek
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Joined: Dec 02, 2008
Member#: 23654
Posts: 215
Location: the middle-earth of poland
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Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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fee, you're dangerous
you have power over people
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 Pez5069
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Joined: Jan 20, 2020
Member#: 49361
Posts: 21
Location: Styria
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Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:34 am Post subject: |
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I got my nickname from my sister who calls me Pez instead of Petra and the numbers are my age and the year of birth.  |
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607
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Joined: Sep 19, 2018
Member#: 46975
Posts: 221
Location: Amersfoort
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Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| I got my nickname from my sister who calls me Pez instead of Petra and the numbers are my age and the year of birth. |
Oh, that makes sense for the number! The first part isn't right anymore, though.
Also, I don't think I ever knew that bruiser and Bryophyte were female.  |
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Quicksilver
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Joined: Nov 06, 2005
Member#: 12313
Posts: 14
Location: Monterey Bay
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Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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When I was young, say 10-12 range, I had a solve-it-yourself book titled "Codename: Quicksilver" which was one of the last in that series of books which I loved. This leads me to occasionally use Quicksilver as a codename or filler content for things. Also because I was a geeky kid who thought mercury was a cool element & was fascinated with old alchemy. Fast-forward a few years to needing a screen name for a chat service (AIM maybe?) - I needed a name unrelated to my own, so Quicksilver it was. Then when I joined a forum I used it again so my friends would recognize me. Then another log in followed... So yeah, now it's just my default username.
(P.S. Avitar(s) are from a long-running forum video game based RPG where I played as Sarah Kerrigan, Serina and Chell - so I'm used to looking for them to identify my posts.) |
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