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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #150 on: August 26, 2016, 07:49:21 PM »
Maila Nurmi played the character Vampira who appeared in Planet 9 from Outer Space.   

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #151 on: April 29, 2017, 07:07:39 PM »
So, mine is probably the most embarrassing name origin.  It is the same username I have used since I created my first email address when I was in the 7th grade.

The sprite part comes because for some strange reason, when i would drink Sprite I would get very hyper...even though it contains no caffeine. I eventually grew out of it, but from like 5th-8th grade my friends thought it was hilarious & would egg me on to drink sprite when we were all together. So, when it came time to create an email account, my pre-teen brain thought spritegirl was an awesome idea.

The 24 is my birthday & the 7 is my lucky number. Plus, by making it 24_7 it's also kind of a play on me being spritegirl all the time.

So, since that was my first email account, it stuck, and I use that username for pretty much all of the accounts I have online.


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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #152 on: April 29, 2017, 07:25:49 PM »
I'm a runner. I love running. I've done 36 marathons in the past 12 years and have averaged 2200+ miles each of the past 6 years. And every year I've gotten faster and faster. In fact, I tend to run the second half of a race faster than the first half. Hence "accelerate".


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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #153 on: April 29, 2017, 07:38:32 PM »
This thread always reminds me that I need a more catchy user name...  :)

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #154 on: April 29, 2017, 07:51:22 PM »
You and me both...
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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #155 on: May 02, 2017, 01:00:15 PM »
Hikanteki is the Japanese word for pessimistic. I adopted the name about 15 years ago when I had a pessimistic outlook. That no longer applies (although alternate meanings of the word include cynic/realist, which do apply), but I still like the handle and it isn't that common, so I kept it.
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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #156 on: May 02, 2017, 01:07:34 PM »
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So, mine is probably the most embarrassing name origin.  It is the same username I have used since I created my first email address when I was in the 7th grade.

The sprite part comes because for some strange reason, when i would drink Sprite I would get very hyper...even though it contains no caffeine. I eventually grew out of it, but from like 5th-8th grade my friends thought it was hilarious & would egg me on to drink sprite when we were all together. So, when it came time to create an email account, my pre-teen brain thought spritegirl was an awesome idea.

The 24 is my birthday & the 7 is my lucky number. Plus, by making it 24_7 it's also kind of a play on me being spritegirl all the time.

So, since that was my first email account, it stuck, and I use that username for pretty much all of the accounts I have online.


Ha, I have a similar story.  My username comes from when I was in 6th or 7th grade also, way back in the early 90's when we had dialup AOL and they had a short username character limit.  Back then I was super into fighter jets and I loved the F-15 Eagle, which was designed to combat the Mig-25 Foxbat.  Hence, foxbat(killer) was born.  I've kept it ever since.  It's been my username/email for like 23 years at this point.

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #157 on: May 02, 2017, 04:04:35 PM »
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Ha, I have a similar story.  My username comes from when I was in 6th or 7th grade also, way back in the early 90's when we had dialup AOL and they had a short username character limit.  Back then I was super into fighter jets and I loved the F-15 Eagle, which was designed to combat the Mig-25 Foxbat.  Hence, foxbat(killer) was born.  I've kept it ever since.  It's been my username/email for like 23 years at this point.

Definitely understand that! I figured, I've had it for 15-20 years, so it'd be way too much of a hassle to change it now.  :)

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #158 on: May 23, 2017, 02:17:28 PM »
My name is Michael John. Mickey is not uncommon a nickname for people named Michael. Jack is a typical Irish nickname for people named John. My friends starting combining the two in college. It's what my wife calls me (when she's not mad at me). My athletic number in college was 3. I was a runner (speedster?), so the Flash has been my avatar. Thus mickeyjack3 with the Flash symbol on the forum.

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #159 on: May 23, 2017, 02:48:56 PM »
I liked the name lavender, but was a bit plain (and taken everywhere). I started using Lavendar (Comic Con ID and FoCC) in part as an homage to the Beastmaster lead character Dar.   

I saw some old movies being shown at the Con, wonder how they choose...hmmmmm.

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #160 on: May 23, 2017, 04:54:48 PM »
I use my name on all my social media, I decided since I'm under 40 and only have 4 cats I'm not yet a crazy cat lady yet so I opted to make myself a superhero instead, Meow! 😸

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #161 on: May 23, 2017, 04:58:17 PM »
I'm changing mine to something like Chris Hassellhoff...

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #162 on: June 02, 2017, 07:58:31 PM »
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I'm changing mine to something like Chris Hassellhoff...

Chris Wemshorth. I can be Mark Camel. If nothing else it'll be fun making dinner reservations.

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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #163 on: June 29, 2017, 05:11:25 AM »
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Re: What was your forum username inspired by?
« Reply #164 on: September 11, 2017, 04:35:04 PM »
I like the Marx Brothers.