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What's the Story Behind Your Moniker?
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Jizzo T. Clown



Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Location: at my wit's end

PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:46 pm    Post subject: What's the Story Behind Your Moniker? Reply with quote

Jizzo T. Clown is a nickname given to me from back in the day because when we would get stoned I would be the one making people laugh, and "Clown" wasn't satisfying enough for my friends at the time. Rolling Eyes

Then in China I took on the persona of JTC when I was teaching kids (well, to a small extent) and went as a clown for the past two Halloweens (don't plan to again).

So believe it or not, no masturbation or sex was involved in creating my online moniker. In fact I was trying to find a way to change it, but too late for that so I just go with it.

Why did you choose the name you use? Many just don't make sense to me.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shortly after I'd moved here and after I met my future wife, I was chatting on MSN to a skinhead from my home province. He jokingly called me a race traitor and said I wouldn't go to Valhalla.

We were members on another message board where there's a daily contest for most popular poster. If you win, you get to give a tagline to another person, and it can't be removed except by winning the competition another day. Anyway, this guy won it one day and he gave me the tag "RACE TRAITOR." I liked it better without the space and that's how I used it when I signed up on other boards. I also chose to keep it in capital letters because it gives off the impression of words scrawled on a brick and thrown through a window, or spray painted on a front door.

It's funny to me because the idea of betraying one's race is totally ridiculous, and the only people it upsets are uptight English teachers on this board and white supremacists who believe in racial segregation.
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MANDRL



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothing special really. M is for the first letter of my name AND for the word and, R for the first letter of my fiancee's name and L for our last name= MANDRL.
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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

People with names like "Mom2Eight" and "MeAndMyHubby" or "Johnny'sGirl" make me crazy.

Atavistic is a good old English word and reminds me of the fabulous Stuart Davis song, "Atavistic Viking."
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PeterDragon



Joined: 15 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Peter Dragon" is the name of Jay Mohr's character from the short lived TV comedy "Action", which was an excellent show. I started using it as a handle in 1999, when I briefly worked as a telefundraiser for the Republican party. Back then, telefundraising was much less regulated, and we could use whatever name we wanted on any call. So my calls opened up with "Hello, I'm Peter Dragon, and I'm calling on behalf of the Republican NAAAA-tional comittee. We're just calling to say thanks for all your past support...."
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Ryst Helmut



Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

6 months already...man, time flies!

!shoosh,

Ryst
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

seemed doubly apt at the time:

(1) from Vancouver Island

(2) was living on a Korean island and seriously contemplating getting a Daewoo mini-van
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nautilus



Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm drawn to spiral shapes..Its a fundamental pattern in nature...I also feel ancient sometimes..been through a lot over time like a fossilized nautilus. And I have travelled far and wide like the good ship nautilus, of 2000 leagues under the sea.
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rockstarsmooth



Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: anyang, baybee!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm just that smooth.
rss Cool



Arrow right now i'm listening to: melt banana - circle jack (chase the magic words, lego, lego)
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
"Peter Dragon" is the name of Jay Mohr's character from



Before that, it was the name of the author of "Trail in the Sand".
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indytrucks



Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ryst Helmut wrote:
6 months already...man, time flies!


Here's a little trip down memory lane.

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=447&highlight=handle
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bejarano-korea



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bejarano is my mums maiden name and Korea is where I'll soon be at!
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zappadelta



Joined: 31 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

zappadelta is just cool.
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princess



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hohoho...Take a guess. Very Happy
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LuckyNomad



Joined: 28 May 2007

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Luck just tends to drop in my lap and I have no permanent home.
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