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Canadia-Nikon

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Mine is simply a play on two words. Canadian Icon. (Icon meaning a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something).

I am a proud Canadian, and a dedicated Nikon user.

Nikon, or in this case "nicon", just fit in the middle and made for a natural pun. :eek:
 
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ABN Panzer

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I took a variation of my current job as a Paratrooper in the 82[SUP]nd[/SUP] ABN Division and am also an Armored Reconnaissance(Cavalry) guy.
ABN: The abbreviation for Airborne
Panzer: Took theGerman translation for Tank or Armor.
 
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Blyro

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What does your nickname means?

I'd like to play in the game where everyone tries to explain what their nickname means and why did you take it. I'll begin. I chose Blyro really randomly. I was wondering for an interesting nickname and found some generator in the web. After a few attempts it gave me that nickname.
 
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jay_dean

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Re: What does your nickname means?

After long deliberations chairing high powered executive meetings and paying an advertising company eye-wateringly extortionate amounts, I settled on my actual name....just to be different!;)
 
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tea2085

Senior Member
Re: What does your nickname means?

tea2085 is the model of my beloved Ferguson tractor-a beauty made in 1954. I gave the tractor to my son after I sold my 50 acre plot of land. I still miss her after almost 10 years. Paul
 
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Fortkentdad

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Re: What does your nickname means?

Short version: I live in Fort Kent (in Canada not Maine) and I'm a Dad.

Little Longer: My kids went away to college when the Internet was being invented ... they called me one day to explain this new inter-web information highway fad that I was sure would pass. But they said I needed a "handle" to get on that e-highway to happiness. I said, well just call me "Dad" - well even in those early days "Dad" was already taken. I think this was on AOL but maybe not. Anyway we added Fort Kent preface and that name was available. ... and it stuck.

On a few places on line I do go by FKD - but mostly if you see fortkentdad - that will be me.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Re: What does your nickname means?

Blyro said:
I'd like to play in the game where everyone tries to explain what their nickname means and why did you take it. I'll begin. I chose Blyro really randomly. I was wondering for an interesting nickname and found some generator in the web. After a few attempts it gave me that nickname.
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You picked this name after I banned you using the other two names you picked. Now just don't come back trying to advertise that bad photo retouching/finishing site.
 
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RobV

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Re: What does your nickname means?

My first name and last initial, which is Valdez. Dad was born in Laredo, TX and raised in San Antonio.

A "handle" I adopted around 2000 was "tomfarr". That is my late brother's first and middle names. A gentle giant taken from us before the age of 40 by exposure to Agent Orange.
I use it mostly for my email and private logons, rather than social media sites.
On one motorcycle forum, I was watching some Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe for the first time, and "don'tpanic" popped out at me when I was registering.
 
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RobV

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Re: What does your nickname means?

RocketCowboy said:
Remember CompuServe? Before AOL bought them out?
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I think we used CompuServe for telecommunications in the Eighties in the data center I worked. We were a retail company, and we would dial-up each store to get their sales for the day.
 
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RocketCowboy

Senior Member
Re: What does your nickname means?

RobV said:
I think we used CompuServe for telecommunications in the Eighties in the data center I worked. We were a retail company, and we would dial-up each store to get their sales for the day.
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Sounds about right. We had some slow modem banks for dial-up, but also had X.25 deployed where we needed faster speeds (back with 56K was expense leased circuits, not dial-up modem speeds).
 
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singlerosa_RIP

Senior Member
Re: What does your nickname means?

My last name is Singler. When we moved into our current home about 25 years ago, a buddy nicknamed it the "Singlerosa" after the TV show Bonanza's Ponderosa. Since then, I've used singlerosa for email, corporate names (not DBAs) and logins.

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