Whats your nick/alias history?

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EverLearning
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Re: Whats your nick/alias history?

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I think my nick is self-explanatory :D Always learning new things and enjoying it.

In the past I used nicks such as Mythrandir(read the book at least a dozen times), thunderstorm (I love thunderstorms and lightnings, what can I say :twisted: )
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Re: Whats your nick/alias history?

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Well, if you all must know.

Maugrim "The Reaper" McFiriba is the actual full name if you want to get technical. In the mid-90's I was an avid writer of Fantasy and Mythological Fiction. Still am, but not seriously just yet - it's a hobby I dropped shortly after leaving college when I lost the time to keep it up. Maugrim The Reaper (usually with underscores) was first used as my original Yahoo! account name. Alas, that has since bit the dust since the email account it's associated with has long since fallen to spam.

Maugrim, for even more history, was a Druid who lived in an alternate reality. He was a member of the Tuatha De Danann, a mythical race from Irish Mythology who inhabited Ireland/UK a few thousand years before the arrival of the Sons of Mil (the Celts). Oddly for an Irish tale - the Celts never fought the Tuatha in a real war. The Tuatha decided to vacate the island and depart for the Otherworld (where Maugrim now lives).

Robert Jordan fans should be aware that Tuatha De Danann is likely the actual full name of the Tuatha'an in the Wheel Of Time saga. The Tuatha are described in legend as very tall, blond haired, angular people who had control over the elements. The legends also state they were vulnerable to Iron.

So that's Maugrim_The_Reaper ;). On Google I've kept the third/fourth result position for a few years now for a search on "Maugrim".
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Have you made good use of the spam button in Yahoo? If so then your account should be able to handle incoming spam just fine. You also need to make sure your email address is never posted clientside for any reason to avoid spam spiders from crawling a page and capturing it. Though of late a few legitimate emails have ended up in the bulk folder though I'm still generally happy with the account.
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Re: Whats your nick/alias history?

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Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:On Google I've kept the third/fourth result position for a few years now for a search on "Maugrim".
Hehe, I noticed back when I was looking for your article on data objects, which ended up being here anyway. :P

My username has changed a lot. My username here on the boards was the name of my web design company, which has since been put on hold due to insane amounts of schoolwork. ;_;

The first nickname I remember having was "raislam" which was a mix of the words "Raichu" (yes, the pokémon) and "Slam." I stopped using it after I got tired of people assuming it mean "R. A. Islam" and constantly asking me if I was Muslim, which increased dramatically after 9/11. Go figure.

I also go by LiveWire: Tha Tyrant, but that's just from the music that I create. That has also been put on hold due to school. They need to just give me my degree so I can go on to a web development job already! ;_;
I already know everything in all of my COSC courses...

Recently I've adopted other names, like Volectricity (for my blog, soon-to-be much more advanced, which is why it hasn't been updated in forever) and Damntastic (which carried over from MySpace... hehe ^_^*).

.... I wrote too much. I haven't been on here in forever!
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

.... I wrote too much. I haven't been on here in forever!
Hey welcome back superdezign!

I used to be like you superdezign, into lots of different things. Trying to forge my hobbies into careers. In the end I found I had to settle on one thing and make it my focus.

Sorry I'm in one of those moods. Ahhhh :D (that was a happy sigh btw)
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Re: Whats your nick/alias history?

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I'm hoping to have time to get to my blog, too.
maugrim_the_reaper wrote:are described in legend as very tall, blond haired, angular people who had control over the elements.
If you have every researched "aliens" (fallen angels from the Pre-Adamite earth), you will find that they are often described as that. (also with blue eyes)
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