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thiscatis
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What's the story behind your nickname?

thiscatis.. this cat is a landmine (song from 65daysofstatic, atticus,the nickname I mostly use was already taken)

Atticus
- Clothing Label started by Mark Hoppus to promote local & upcoming punk,punkrock,emo,screamo bands.
- Roman writer, best friend of Cicero (one of my favourite authors when I was still in High School (latin class)
- Attica (beautiful region in Greece)

and yours?
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Oren
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Post by Oren »

It's my real name :P , good enough? :wink:
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Daedalus

Mason, Inventor, Intellectual, Killer.

He is a fictional character from Greek mythology. He built a dancing-ground for Ariadne and the labyrinth for Kind Minos. He fashioned wings from wax, wood, and feathers to aid his son Icarus and himself in escaping a tower after they were imprisoned there by King Minos.

Icarus died because he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted. Daedalus traveled to the land of Camicus and stayed in the court of it's King, Minos eventually traveled there and found him and was killed by the King's daughters.

It's a long story, Google it.

He was killed his sister's nephew out of jealousy for the boys skill, which he feared would surpass his own.

Daedalus is also the name of the AI that helps you in Deus Ex. There are also references to the name in Macross, Star Trek, and Stargate.

I chose the name because it sounds cool and I like the story of Daedalus.
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RobertGonzalez
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

I think Minotaur would've been better :wink: . Which reminds me, have you ever seen the painting Icarus by Bruegel? Or read the poem 'Musee des Beaux Arts' by WH Auden. Very nice.

The painting
The painting and the poem

Anyhow, my handle comes from the name of my business, Everah Media Services Company. It has a meaning, but I think I might keep that to myself at the moment.
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Post by alvinphp »

my name is painfully boring and obvious.
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Jenk
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Post by Jenk »

Jenk.. originally jeNK .. one hand over eyes, other proding keyboard 5 times. Literal outcome: jeNK
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Mine comes from the fact that I am a goat, but I know martial arts and I live in space.
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Post by panic! »

I like American Nightmare (now called Give up the Ghost) they were on an atticus compilation I think...

ps my nickname is Tim, my middle name, even my parents call me Tim...weird
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My dog (black lab) is named murph.. I somehow got in the habit of referring to him as "The Murph" :)
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klarinetking: Wrong spelling of 'clarinet', which I study in Uni, and King, 'cause I'm a king ;)
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Post by alex.barylski »

I've always used really stupid, at times offensive names...

About 5-6 years back I learned that a non-offensive name would work better in getting replies and respect...and Hockey was a name which was never taken already, still today even I can usually get away with Hockey...

Besides, I"m Canadian and a Hockey fan...

The additional positive is that I've actually scored contracts with Hockey fans based on the name... :P

My tip of the day for freelancers' :P
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Post by feyd »

A previous thread on this subject.

viewtopic.php?t=26270
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zyklon
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Post by zyklon »

a while ago i started off as ultrakilla(i have know idea why), i got in trouble with the name entered it into a matrix name gen and here you go!
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Post by Luke »

Hockey wrote:Hockey was a name which was never taken already, still today even I can usually get away with Hockey...
I just assumed that was your last name...

[offtopic]<<And the new avatar for this week![/offtopic]
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Post by neophyte »

Daedalus- wrote:Daedalus

Mason, Inventor, Intellectual, Killer.
Right arm of the almost as legendary SDF-1

(You'd have to be a total dork to get that reference.)

Oh yeah my name NEOPHYTE: a recent convert to a belief; a proselyte or a beginner or novice.

I started learning PHP and posting here at about the same time. I was new to PHP and new to programming in general. Don't believe me read my first post! :D
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