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Offline Thimplum

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #100 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 13:18:54 »
Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #101 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 13:32:50 »
lcs == lucas without the vowels.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #102 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 13:35:37 »
Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

Proof. Show us a document.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #103 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 13:36:38 »
Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

A google image search of your name is very interesting.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #104 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 13:45:06 »
I have used the username Reign for as long as i can remember, for pretty much anything. I even have a tattoo on my left arm that says "-REIGN-". Unfortunately Reign was unavailable when i signed up here :( so i decided to choose a name that was pronounced the same but had a different spelling.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #105 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 13:57:10 »
Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

Proof. Show us a document.

What is this? PayPal?

Thimplum is my real name. Dead serious.

A google image search of your name is very interesting.

HAHA! I had never done that before. If you couldn't tell before, I'm on sparkfun. The first 2 pages of google search are actually me.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #106 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 13:57:38 »
The dog is cute :P

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #107 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 13:58:44 »
Let's see. It started with a series of gamertag changes on Xbox Live. I sure as hell wasn't going to use either A: My first AIM name (egghead356) or B: My runescape name (hi1405), so my first gamertag was last spawn. My friend had just talked about spawns of something and I thought, "Hey! That's a great idea! I'll be the "Last Spawn"!". Needless to say I looked stupid as all hell, and a year or so later changed it to i_SpAwNx because ya know, capital and lowercase names were all the rage. That then changed to something which was and still is my favorite animal, the turtle. Thus, oO TurTLeZ Oo was born and dear lord was the pitiful. After realizing I didn't want to appear as a child to every person ever seeing the username, I changed it to a simple and more sophisticated yet still mildly childish, oTurtlez and that has stuck for the last 2 years for everything. Maybe some day down the road I'll have a cool name like jdcarpe and jcrouse where nobody will know what my name could mean.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #108 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 14:13:13 »
Google Image search of my REAL(watevz, not thimplum) name actually brings up a bunch of legit pictures of me. That's scary.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #110 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 15:18:59 »
Google Image search of my REAL(watevz, not thimplum) name actually brings up a bunch of legit pictures of me. That's scary.

Make sure your signed out of google when doing that or you might get some false positives.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #111 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 15:35:06 »
Google Image search of my REAL(watevz, not thimplum) name actually brings up a bunch of legit pictures of me. That's scary.

Make sure your signed out of google when doing that or you might get some false positives.


I did.

My name is umm... unique, one could say.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #112 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 15:53:41 »
Spend most of my time on a desk on a computer, so inSilica seemed to fit (not very original I know)
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #113 on: Tue, 30 July 2013, 15:58:35 »
I've not posted an explanation here with my 'new' username, but I think it's obvious....;)

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #114 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 17:42:30 »
Love me some coffee and 5 hour NRG.. at work. I foam at the mouth and load trucks at 3x speed bonus.

Silly name but its better than the usual LGraves that I use.

It was my thiefs' name in GW2, that I played briefly cause of my damn brother! So I guess I just recycled it.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #115 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 17:50:52 »
I've not posted an explanation here with my 'new' username, but I think it's obvious....;)

you eat a lot of spam?
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #116 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 17:51:44 »
My names Tym and I'm imaginative.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #117 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 17:58:36 »
I've not posted an explanation here with my 'new' username, but I think it's obvious....;)

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #118 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 18:16:35 »
My last name.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #119 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 18:17:01 »
I got it from watching Generation Kill

NATO phonetic alhabet: "W" = whisky, "T" = tango

In military jargon, whiskytango is slang for white trash. I thought it was funny, and since I am from Alabama, appropriate.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #120 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 18:40:07 »
Used to game a lot under the tag of "Sentinel".  I've since shortened it to just Sent as that's what most of my Steam, LoL, PS2, etc. buddies call me by.

Plus, it's short and simple.  I like keeping things simple.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #121 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 19:59:10 »
Due to my background, physics terms float on my mind periodically, so it was 'photoelectric effect' for another place, which seemed proper, and I continued it here.  But I don't generally get the same user name for many places--I tend to pick a random association word when I register.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #122 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 20:23:30 »
 :blank: I am lazy, so I use my name

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #123 on: Wed, 31 July 2013, 20:47:24 »
When all you could enter was 3 letters on arcade machines, I would always put Rob, but it was a pain to do, especially as most reset to A each letter. So I have used RAB, an Irish / Scots version, since the 1980s, and it stuck even when they improved name entries.
The last part just varies now and then, the Rhee comes from some characters in the Shannara series. If my email gets too spam heavy (or thief heavy) I just think up another and swap accounts over.

I love Alfa Romeos, we just got a new one recently, so if I were to choose an Alfa related username it would have to be 'startyoubadlywiredbastard'. Probably too long.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #124 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 03:02:24 »
For most of my online life i went by Ollus, Ollusvq, OllusC (made in pre-internet times of playing HoMM). Got tired of it, decided to use my name in my new nickname and that's how DamnDan was born (Friends at work call me Dan Dan all the time, dunno why). You can also find me on some forums registered as Tarma (METAL SLUUUUUUG!) ;) Yeah...boring story:P

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #125 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 07:45:18 »
Metal Slug is my favorite game of all time :D

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #126 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 07:50:29 »
My favourite singer.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #129 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 10:24:49 »
After a binge of Outlaw Star, Reboot, Star Trek, and Babylon 5 I chose the username starwindsurfer, intending to evoke the image of solar sailing and stelar exploration. Instead people though I was really good at wind surfing, as in the water sport, something I have never done.  So I found a Latin dictionary and came up with:

sidus : constellation, star.
no : (nare, navi) to swim, float, fly, sail.

So there you have it, I am SidusNare, the constellation swimmer, or the star floater.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #130 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 10:36:27 »
Mine I guess is quite self explanatory for anyone who've watch Star Wars Ep I, which is just about everyone.....

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #131 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 10:40:47 »
Metal Slug is my favorite game of all time :D
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #134 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 12:24:48 »
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^^ I have this on cassette tape!! ;)

I have it on vinyl!   ;D

But do you have it on Edison cylinder? 

Cmon... Ancient clay pottery is the number one way of saving audio.
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^^ I have this on cassette tape!! ;)

I have it on vinyl!   ;D

But do you have it on Edison cylinder?

No...  :'(  That'd be a really cool format though, in all seriousness.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #136 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 14:45:40 »
Narcix was my main back when i played wow.
I think it is somehow related to narcissus
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #137 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 14:49:46 »
first name, middle initial, last initial. Pretty boring, but it's what I use for everything. Now go hack me :D
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #138 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 16:23:52 »
first name, middle initial, last initial. Pretty boring, but it's what I use for everything. Now go hack me :D

I choose to pretend that your name is Jame and you are a photographer.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #139 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 17:57:30 »
I chose my username "Microsoft Windows" because Microsoft Windows is the best computer operating system on the planet.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #140 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 18:04:41 »
I chose my username "Microsoft Windows" because Microsoft Windows is the best computer operating system on the planet.

Sure it is.  Pure joy and bliss every day.

first name, middle initial, last initial. Pretty boring, but it's what I use for everything. Now go hack me :D

I choose to pretend that your name is Jame and you are a photographer.

jame needs to add a "d", then he can be a digital photographer too.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #141 on: Thu, 01 August 2013, 23:37:44 »
first name, middle initial, last initial. Pretty boring, but it's what I use for everything. Now go hack me :D

I choose to pretend that your name is Jame and you are a photographer.

jame needs to add a "d", then he can be a digital photographer too.

Nah, he sticks to film.  He feels that the restrictions of film photography force him to put more effort into composing that perfect shot and in the end make him a better photographer.  He is still resilient to accept digital technology.  Jame is a technology rebel.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #142 on: Fri, 02 August 2013, 00:16:07 »
i was on an avatar type chatroom called the palace.

at the time in the "urban" area akademiks clothing was starting to get popular.

i am unoriginal bastard and used akademiks as my name on the palace. friend thought it meant "aka demiks".

then it went from demiks to demik. and this was maybe 15 years ago or something like that.

played a ton of CS in HS and the name just stuck.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #143 on: Fri, 02 August 2013, 00:31:26 »
i was on an avatar type chatroom called the palace.

at the time in the "urban" area akademiks clothing was starting to get popular.

i am unoriginal bastard and used akademiks as my name on the palace. friend thought it meant "aka demiks".

then it went from demiks to demik. and this was maybe 15 years ago or something like that.

played a ton of CS in HS and the name just stuck.

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #144 on: Fri, 02 August 2013, 00:34:18 »
si?
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #145 on: Fri, 02 August 2013, 00:43:49 »
Live in a town of 2K...  It's our towns mascot...  I was 8... :p

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #146 on: Fri, 02 August 2013, 03:02:29 »
In military jargon, whiskytango is slang for white trash. I thought it was funny, and since I am from Alabama, appropriate.
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #147 on: Fri, 02 August 2013, 08:04:07 »
Live in a town of 2K...  It's our towns mascot...  I was 8... :p

Your town has it's own panther!! That is awesome. ;)

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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #148 on: Fri, 02 August 2013, 08:20:26 »
I'll let you guys guess why I chose mine. Same goes for the avatar :)
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Re: What made you decide your username?
« Reply #149 on: Fri, 02 August 2013, 08:33:15 »
Back with there were bulletin boards you needed a "handle" for them. My son was into ninja turtles at the time and I'm a doctor so I combined the two. I use it everywhere and have for years.