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Post by K3LLI on May 5, 2013 10:21:14 GMT -5
Another of the creative nuances in this versatile group is the fascinating user names. What's the story behind your screen name? How'd you pick it? What does it mean to you?
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Post by K3LLI on May 5, 2013 10:22:21 GMT -5
Mine story is a little on the boring side.... I subbed a "3" for the "e" in what is my real first name. And since the "3" was so much larger than the other letters, I went to all caps when I entered it. It really never occurred to me that hundreds of people would be seeing it in an app and/or on an online forum ;D
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Post by hochsten on May 5, 2013 12:10:08 GMT -5
Mine is the computer login name I got when I first entered university many many years ago when logins could only be 8 characters and animals could speak.
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Post by MimiSACo on May 5, 2013 12:16:11 GMT -5
I started off using Mimi simply because it was quick and easy to type in. Unfortunately Mimis are really common and I didn't want to have to remember a list of numbers. So I chose to use my initials SAC. Someone had bagged that too! So I added the next letter of my surname MimiSACo. No longer quick to type in, however!
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Post by kingrum on May 5, 2013 12:35:42 GMT -5
Mine is my first initial and last name. It was my father's email address too(I'm a Jr.) and I started using it a lot when he passed away last year.
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Post by ras727 on May 5, 2013 14:37:54 GMT -5
My screen name is my initials twice. 727 are the letters associated with the numbers on a phone.
Kingrum, my condolences. My mother passed two years ago. It can be hard losing a parent, especially if your relationship was close. My all time favorite quote is "It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting it's sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy.
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Post by kingrum on May 5, 2013 16:13:15 GMT -5
Thanks ras, that is a great quote.
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Post by echidnaq on May 5, 2013 17:10:20 GMT -5
My screen name has been following me for 15 years or more. I think I first used it as an AOL screen name back in the dark ages. I went through a series of names that were an obscure animal paired with a random letter. Then on a forum one day I made some friends who started identifying me with EchidnaQ and it stuck. Been using it ever since.
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Post by K3LLI on May 5, 2013 21:38:47 GMT -5
ras and kingrum, so sorry for your losses. Great Rose Kennedy quote. K-ingrum, I thought you were King Rum.
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Post by blackrose2890 on May 6, 2013 7:14:28 GMT -5
BlackRose2890
My screen name in Twitter, Instagram and SecondLife. (I can't remember if this is my username in GranadoEspada too or not)
--- 2890. My birthdate. 2+8=10 (october is my birth month), 28 (my birth date), 90=1990 (birth year).
Black. I just like the color black. Dark, it absorbs all colors. It feels cold, sad... Sombre. If white is purity all good things then black for me is when all of these good things start to die (or already died).
Rose. A rose is a beautiful flower, delicate, some say it's really feminine... But then again there's thorns underneath too.
I chose BlackRose because I feel some "rose" aspects of my life is starting to go "black" (dying) or already dead.
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Post by kingrum on May 6, 2013 8:14:29 GMT -5
ras and kingrum, so sorry for your losses. Great Rose Kennedy quote. K-ingrum, I thought you were King Rum. Thank you. One of the side benefits, I think King Rum sounds cool and piraty. I'm a huge fan of Pirates of the Caribbean(the ride, not the movies).
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Post by daniregald on May 6, 2013 10:23:07 GMT -5
Jack Daniels + Chivas Regal = Daniregald Not very original or inspired, but it's been my go-to user for miscellaneous online use and there's about 3 different variations I can use in the event someone has already taken the name.
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Post by K3LLI on May 6, 2013 10:23:47 GMT -5
One of the side benefits, I think King Rum sounds cool and piraty. I'm a huge fan of Pirates of the Caribbean(the ride, not the movies). Lol Then King Rum you shall remain!
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Post by alzheimer129 on May 6, 2013 15:20:29 GMT -5
In the early 2000s I was dating a much younger woman, every time I forgot something, she would ask me if I had Alzheimer's or something. She set up my facebook account for me and I let her have free reign... so, trying to be funny, she selected Al Z' Heimer as my screen name.
Years later, I was going to change it to my real name, but I found out that one of my "friends" was "facebook stalking" one of my nieces, so I decided to keep my old account for family and make a new account using my real name (Orlando Borrero) for friends.
I have since changed my old facebook account name to Orlando Calrissian, but for some reason, when I created my Draw Quest account, it was still set to alzheimer and added 129 to it, I was too excited to start drawing (I think I drew 4 quests my first day) and didn't realize what my screen name was until much later. I would ask the DQ team to change it, but my fiancee drew a couple of quests for me and added a disclaimer that they were drawn by alzheimer129's fiancee in the drawings.
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Post by mrchris46 on May 6, 2013 17:51:56 GMT -5
Someone took MrChris, so I added 46
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Post by andrewschawl on May 7, 2013 2:42:26 GMT -5
My name is Andrew Schawl. I woulda have used one of my other, more creative online usernames (ie Red Eyed Robot, my name when creating music via YouTube) but I logged in via Facebook, waited too long to change it, and now feel that too many DQers know me...as me. Is it too late to transform into Red Eyed Robot?
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Post by andrewschawl on May 7, 2013 3:06:48 GMT -5
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Post by MimiSACo on May 7, 2013 3:40:06 GMT -5
Don't know the film but it looks as if I might have to change my name to Ukume! I don't think you should change your name - don't see you as a robot. Does Schawl have a meaning?
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Post by andrewschawl on May 7, 2013 4:33:50 GMT -5
It's German. I believe it's a variation of the last name Schall, which translates to "sound" or "one who who makes noise/sound".
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Post by adana on May 7, 2013 6:51:23 GMT -5
Adana is just my first name!
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