So what exactly does your ATOT nick mean, anyways?

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anxi80

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Jul 7, 2002
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asked my friend for a screen name. he came up with the idea for anxi80 (anxiety) in like 10 seconds. was years ago, stuck with me since.
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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older than the internet :) alkemyst was unique then and now way more common.

Had to do with my chemistry / pharmacy knowledge.

 

440sixpack

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It's the engine of the Dodge Challenger in my sig. 440 cubic inch (7.2L) V-8, 3 2-barrel carburators (6 barrels, hence the term "sixpack". Plymouth's with the 3-2bbl setup were called "sixbarrels").
 

saxophonoia

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Nov 6, 2003
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I got mine because I play saxophone and I saw a piece named Saxophonoia........so I said hmmm that sounds like a decent nickname. So i started using it.
 

Zim Hosein

Super Moderator | Elite Member
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Nov 27, 1999
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Originally posted by: Yzzim
Yzzim is mizzy backwards. Mizzy is missy with a couple Z's. Missy was the name of my dog for the first 21 years of my life.

It's pronounced YA-ZEEM

Not jism :|

Damn, I just lost another bet! :p

Cheers Yzzim :beer:

My nick is my name :)
 

Xionide

Diamond Member
Apr 20, 2002
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cyanide needed a new look. Plus Voodoo33500 and UberVoodooFx9700 got a little old
 

RaiderJ

Diamond Member
Apr 29, 2001
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RaiderJ - Joel Rader (notice Rader != Raider)

When I was first signing up for an email addy (only 8 years ago!), I wanted something without numbers, one that was easy to tell someone verbally, and resembled me in some way. I figured that if I told people "raider jay at whatever dot com", they might not spell my last name right, so I added the "i" to help out. Sometimes people spell my email like my last name, but usually it all works out.
 

thraxes

Golden Member
Nov 4, 2000
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Thraxes... is simply a name I somehow came up with years ago. Whats funny is, if you enter it into Google, you will mostly see a trail of what I have been doing online in the last few years. 6 out of 10 hits on the first Google page are directly my fault :D
 

suklee

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Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: mto81
Initials + year of birth, I have no imagination :)
Hey hey, it's okay to be 'unoriginal' some of the time :)

Mine is just first half of name+bday.

 

Titan

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Oct 15, 1999
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tkotitan dates back to my first email where I had to pick something. My initials are TKO, my name is Titan, so I just picked tkotitan. Kinda oddly reflects a name kids used to pick on me in middle school, "tokyo titan's bad at fightin'" well, I showed them.

the 2 comes from the fact that my first attempt to get an anandtech userid failed, I setup the account for tkotitan and lost the password. So I made tkotitan2. If an administrator would like to change me to plain old tkotitan, with my current password, that would be nice.
 

Wingznut

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Dec 28, 1999
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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Wingznut
Detroit Red Wings Nut.

And the Z makes you 17% more L33t! :D

- M4H
Damn straight! :)

Nah... Yahoo Chat was my first forey into online chatting, and I had Wings_Nut there. I signed up on Heat.com for online game playing and my login got screwed up and I had to pick a new one. That one just kind of stuck.

Maybe I should change it?