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How did you arrive at selecting your "nick?"

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blinderbomber... I hated my old nick that I used on AIM and decided it was time for a change. Took my last name, blinder, and stuck something that rhymed, bomber on the end.. I sorta realize now, because some people have said it that they thought I was trying to imitate the unibomber, oh well. Also a 'blinder' was a nickname for Russian bombers during the cold war 🙂
 
When I first joined this big club called "the Internet" I was using AOHELL and wanted to use Brutus (my dogs name) and Kendall (my last name) but they would only let me use 10 letters. Hence Brutuskend. And since I suffer from short term memory loss and didn't want to have to remember something else (since my brain is full, and everytime I learn something NEW I forget something that I once knew) I have stuck with it all these many years.

BTW: What was the question again? HOW did I get HERE?
 
<-- Being a big fan of the Dune book series, I decided to use a term from the book, kindjal = knife -- kinda strange, I know.
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Well, the painting room in my high school's shop happened to be poorly ventilated. I was in there with some of my friends staining pieces of wood for a sled project we were doing. The fumes must have gotten to me because I suddenly blurted out that my name was "DeRusto" after seeing the can of DeRusto paint on the shelf. Of course, this paint's name is probably pronounced Dee-Rust-oh, but..being high, I pronounced it Day-Roost-oh. I dunno, it just kinda stuck🙂
 
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Well, the painting room in my high school's shop happened to be poorly ventilated. I was in there with some of my friends staining pieces of wood for a sled project we were doing. The fumes must have gotten to me because I suddenly blurted out that my name was "DeRusto" after seeing the can of DeRusto paint on the shelf. Of course, this paint's name is probably pronounced Dee-Rust-oh, but..being high, I pronounced it Day-Roost-oh. I dunno, it just kinda stuck🙂
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hahaha, that's pretty funny...

jackwhitter is a name i made up. my friend goes by fred macgarther, so i picked jack whitter... no reason.
 
I like a great cup of coffee, so when I drink or taste bad coffee I like to say where did the fake coffee come from. So then I would say where is the realcoffee.
 
When I picked this name I could say I Jump out of airplanes...... I guess now it should technically be IJumped.......
 
Jimi Hendrix - "If Six was Nine"

' White collar conservative flashin' down the street
pointin' their plastic finger at me
well soon my kind may drop and die
but, I'm gonna wave my freakflag high... '
 
When I first got this 'nick' (7th grade or so, going into my junior year of college) I offered $50 to anyone who could figure it out, for a reason. I would be amazed if anyone could track it down now, but the reward is still good.

Considering how hooked I got on anime though, most people just assume it comes from there these days. The fact I named my DAOC character Ebichu doesn't help 😉

-Chu
 
Actually, it came from paintball. After wiping out the entire enemy team of 16 singlehandedly, I started getting "bought" into matches. Friendly matches, team games, or just someone who'd been talking too much s**t and needed a bit of real backup. 🙂

- M4H
 
uhh.. my name is bob.. my game is 970...

then theres my screen name.. tallb1ll... hehe... a girl i went to a dance with gave me the nickname of tallbill.. 😛
 
A man on a flaming pie appeared to me in a vision and said "From this day forward, you are mpitts".

I stole that from John Lennon.. It's actually:

First initial, Last Name
 
i was at a hullabaloo and was sitting with some girls tryin to think up a name for the hulla board.

the one girl wrote in my book "eakers! you are the cutest girl ive ever met"

so basically its short for eakers! the cutest girl you'll ever meet.


*kat. <-- oh sketchy sketchy hulla parties 😀
 
ack in the day when i first signed up for AOL in 5th grade or so, i had just finished watching frosty the snowman. well i typed in frosty as a screen name, and it was taken but came up with the option to use frosty3709, so i did. well when i got rid of aol later on, i went to sign up for an instant messenger screenname, but since i had just dropped aol, i couldnt use frosty3709, so i went with frosty3799.

and, 8-10 odd years later, i still have it
 
Sean Connery starred in a '70's sci-fi movie "Zardoz". His character's name was Zed. I was really impressed with his role since he was trying to break away from his James Bond stereotype.

I am Tom. Zedtom...my alter ego!
 
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