HOW A SKINNER GOT HIS NAME
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Come with me if you will to a land far away and a time before skinning.

Picture the scene. A moonlit night in India. A woman wracked with pain. A man trying desperately to stay awake by drinking lots of tea.

Suddenly there it is. A screaming messy baby and a terrible choice.

The choice was hard and fraught with danger. And what was this most terrible choice you ask?

* cue dramatic music *

What to name their son?

* end dramatic music *

James (after his Father) or Philip (after someone else)? They grappled long and hard for what seemed like an age (but may have actually been seconds) and hit upon a cunning plan. They would use both!

But just when they thought they were out of the woods and running for home they found they had another choice.

* Cue stunned silence *

The choice was hard and fraught with danger. And what was this most terrible choice you ask? (Feeling a sense of deja vu yet)?

Why, it was which order to put the names. The wrong choice could doom their son to a lifetime of not having a catchy nickname. They sat and thought for another time that seemed an age (but may have ben seconds) and finally (after maybe even flipping a coin, although that may just be a corruption to the original story) bestowed the names on him. (He was also given the name Powell as a matter of course).

One day this bouncing baby boy (in his twenties) happened upon a wonderful land where wishes come true and dreams are made (and no it wasn't BoXXi's magical dragon land). It was called skinzorg or somethign similar. But before he could enter the wonderful land (flowing with skins and themes) he had to complete a task. The fiendish task was to find a name for himself.

Being an impatient sort with little imagination he just stuck his first two initials to his last name and entered the wondrous land.

And thus the skinner known to some as pj others as pjpowell and still others as 'The one who did that Thredz theme for DesktopX ages ago but doesn't do much else' and yet still others as 'Who? Oh, never heard of him.' got his name.

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Sorry for wasting your time here. The way I got my my nickname is so mundane I thought I'd make it sound interesting.

pjpowell was already taken ........

Phillip, I have sent you an e-mail, I hope that address in your profile is current!

It is and by this time you should know that as I have replied.

I love gadgets and gizmo's and anything electronic my house is full of them -friends kept calling me the gizmoqueen and it just stuck

My employer selected the nick name. He bought us black ice hockey shirts and at the back he wanted our names. Because I am eating a lot of (chocolate) ice cream and because I was mad he called me MadIce. My Dutch first name is Matthijs and MadIce sounds a lot like it. So, the nick is easier for you to write and pronounce. BTW: All the shirts did have the number 13 on it, because our company is called The Thirteenth Production.

/me tries not to mention Madice is a girls name in belgian or something.

Pipowell - Kawp jai mak for the mushlink. I am greatly relieved to know that juni does not smush dogs into the mud. Clarification to name story: Yes Isan provinces are near the Triangle, no I didn't grow poppies there, and please no more email about growing poppies in your garden. Next item: Koasati's response is devious

Jafo - that would be 'derogatory', not 'derrogatory'

Jafo can relate to my nik .... a "Wombat" is an Australian animal that eats roots and leaves .....
A "Wombat" is/was the Oz version of a "Tunnel Rat" in Nam.
A "Wombat" is also a stocky and rather grumpy little guy who can head butt his way through walls......
I didn't choose the name, it chose me!

mine is boring.

i was on an IRC chat channel one time and Ryan was taken so i added 4 random numbers on the end of it

Who's this 'pjpowell' geezer?....Nevva 'eard of 'im...

Those on Stardock IRC know me as 'ed'. Though that is not how I started out on irc. Originally I used WizofOZ because I was currently developing ObjectZip (sorry Jafo, nothing to do with your esteemed country). At the time the Stardock channel was on Efnet and I started getting private messages from people I didn't know. Being the naive sort sometimes, I didn't realize the Wizard of OZ is highly prized by the gay community. I am a married heterosexual and I didn't really like being contacted like this. Some of them were quite rude, so I had to find a different nick. Being less than original, I just went with the short version of my first name. By the time I got over to Wincustomize to register, 'ed' had already been taken. Somebody was as original as me , I felt proud . I was rereading LOTR at the time (before the movies ) and Faramir was the first name that popped in to my head. I kinda liked it and here I am.

Speaking of nicknames, or names in general, why did stardock call itself Stardock???

I feel so ordinary, my nick is my initials. I used them because my first nick got wiped out on one of ls.nets many crashes and someone else took it when it went back up.

Old crab about says it all. >

Stefan --- Stef --- Peff....go figure

Always liked Griffins. Unfortunatly it is always taken as are the alternate spellings. Griffinme never is.

BTW: It is not my last name. Caesar would be closer to my last name.

I'm always on the go, never stop. I even have my computer set up so that I can stand at it, rather than sit. That way, I can take off at a moment's notice. Go! Go! Go! A heart attack waiting to happen. Gotta keep movin'! See Ya!

I have great respect for wolves as an intelligent animal. I also relate to the way wolves interact in family settings. I feel a certain kinship with pack animals. I am the alpha female in my home and tend to be alpha in any company I keep. Thus, I created a nick that said how I feel. Unfortunately there are so many "Wolf" names out there I had to alter it slightly. I remembered my favorite epic poem in School was Beowulf and voila! I chose wulf. well guess how many wulf's there are? tons. so I considered the problem. While considering, I met the man of my dreams. thus "n1" (and one).
ok so it's dorky. It's still me. and wulfy is my nick to those who are close friends. (VvvvV)

I always imagined Stardock was because they were giving us infinity... it was the image I had from the name. If I were going to reach for the stars, I would want it to be in all this beauty!

Had the lifelong nick Buzz, but had to give it up in Thailand. "But(t)" is the closest a Thai can come, and that got old real quick. Lloyd came out as "rawy", so I say rawy and they pronounce it lawy ( close enough) Didn't even try for Buzz here 'cause I've never seen a site where it was still available. And Old Crab was already taken. Fuzzy Logic was also spoken for, and I couldn't live with Furry Reasoning.

wulfn1.......my wife calls me wulfy sometimes.
My closest friends calls me Wolf...... I like your nick!


Bangkokboy.... I couldn't live with Furry Reasoning.

okay me finally gets to this one... hehe

obviously I use no nic though I have some nic's that other ppl call me which I will spare you guys the details of. (only crae knows them) hehe

I choose not to use a nic cuz I can never think of one for myself that feels right to me, and I want to be me no matter where I'm at... (even though I hate my name)

/me wonders how ppl remember all their nics when they have diff ones all over the place

I think I tried one nic once and hated it cuz it did not feel like me... hehe

anyways you guys are stuck looking at my name...