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jaylek55

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Aug 26, 2000
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Wow! Got some cool nics with some great explanations. Mine doesn't even compare. :(

jay = The 1st letter in my name, Jaime
lek = Taken from the Star Wars species, the Twi'Lek
55 = Have no idea. I had to add something to 'jaylek' when I signed up for AOLIM (for some unknown reason a name I created was taken :|) and '55' seemed to fit. It's stuck ever since.
 

speg

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Apr 30, 2000
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www.speg.com
When we first got online ( my family ) we tried the AOL free month thingy ( please forgive me! ) Anyway, they have this user freindly stuff and says pick a user name/pass that no one can guess. So we chose "speghetti", which was a typo of "spahhetti" ( I can't spell to save my life, and I acutally remember us writing down different variations of the word on paper before we typed it in, and we still got it wrong! )

So anyway as the AOL cheeze continues, I was in a chat room one day ( hey, chatting was the cool thing to do back then ) some guy called me "speg" ( since he didn't want to type out "speghetti" ) and that is how speg was born :) And now speg has is own domain! speg.com - coming soon! :D
 

numark

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Sep 17, 2002
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I was sitting online one day, signing up for something that I don't remember, and I decided it was about time for me to have a fairly permanent nick. I glanced around the desk for inspiration, and happened to see my headphones that I was using at the time, made by a company called "Numark" (you might know them for their DJ equipment, too). The rest, as they say, is history.
 

eLiTeGoodGuy

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Jun 6, 2001
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Mine... Orginionally when I was first getting online picking out my "Screen Name" I wanted something to do with, Good Guys and Bad Guys. So I chose TheGoodGuy... eventually I dropped it to GoodGuy. Then with some of my friends who changed theirs so I added eLiTe infront of mine to be like theirs. So on ATOT I have eLiTeGoodGuy.... but I screwed up and I no longer remember my password and no longer have the email address that I registered it under so I had to make eLiTeGoodGuy1
 

BaDaBooM

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May 3, 2000
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I made this nick back when The 5th Element came out. I had a real thing for Milla Jovovich in that movie. She just looked so cute when she said, "Ba-da-boom." Must be the orange hair and the vulnerbility.
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Also when I use this nick in gaming I emphasize the boom, as in BaDaBOOM! It's my war-cry so I decided to keep it. :)
 

PCMarine

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Oct 13, 2002
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Back 1 or 2 years ago I was really a hardcore gamer. Originally it was PC_Marine, then PC_M@rine to make it look better, but at AT (due to regulations) It's just PCMarine. The name means "Cyber Warrior" (kinda...it's a stretch).
 

JediJorgie

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Apr 15, 2003
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my nickname has always been jorgie, so i signed up a while ago under the name jorgie, but i dont know the password to my isp's email, so i was never able to logon. i got a new email recently, and was able to signup with a new account. i wish it was just Jorgie, but JediJorgie works too.
 

Isla

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Sep 12, 2000
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My grandmother's name was Isabel and I've been called "Island Girl" by friends and family... so I mixed the 2.
 

CaptnKirk

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Jul 25, 2002
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First name - the Curse of StarTreck

And everyone asks " Is that Kurt or Curt ?"

It's 2 K's like in ' BeMeUp - Scotty '
 

civad

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May 30, 2001
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Civad-
Civ because I am a civil engineer, and A & D are the first letters of my first and last name, respectively.
 

4Lclovergirl

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Mar 25, 2003
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Originally posted by: nmcglennon
Originally posted by: 4Lclovergirl
Mine's pretty easy. 4L stands for 4 leaf, then clover, then I am a girl. I have a very weird habit of finding alot of 4 leaf clovers. However this is my first time using the name, but I think I like it.

Habit of finding 4 leaf clovers? Do you live by a nuclear waste site or something?


No, I ride horses, and after riding we take them out to graze, so for a good 30-45 mins I stare at the ground where there are lots of clovers. It's just all probability, I look at alot of clovers, I am bound to find alot of 4 leaf clovers. And I do, on any given day I can find 1-2 of them. I have gotten an eye for them ;)
 

TuffGirl

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Jan 20, 2001
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Mine is simply my first initial and last name. Then '58' is the favorite number of the first boy I kissed.:p

I just kinda picked it when I was creating my email ID freshman year in college and it stuck with me. I have used it everywhere when I sign up for anything since.
 

VBboy

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Nov 12, 2000
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It's a good thing that this is no an adult forum, 'cuz then we'd have all kinds of freaky usernames :D

12inches :)
 

Crappopotamus

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Oct 1, 2002
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crappopotamus. does it need an explanation? i saw it on penny arcade one day and i thought it was really funny. yep.
 

VBboy

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Nov 12, 2000
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Originally posted by: NetworkDad
Network (i work in telecommunications industry) Dad (im a dad)

Hehe, at least it's not NetworkDaddy :D
"Who's your network daddy?!"