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What inspired your usernames?

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Geez IDK what inspired my username, I guess it was just something ez that I would always remember.
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Geez IDK what inspired my username, I guess it was just something ez that I would always remember.
I gues your username reminds you that your name is not Nathan. :D


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It's a pun on "Hotel California". It just popped into my head when I was making my account, I guess :smile
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Well, I am some random fangirl... 13 year old me wasn't the most creative haha


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Apparently it was what my parents nicknamed me when I was still in the womb, as they didn't check my sex. It's a weird Romanian thing, as my parents immigrated to the US from Romania.
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Apparently it was what my parents nicknamed me when I was still in the womb, as they didn't check my sex. It's a weird Romanian thing, as my parents immigrated to the US from Romania.

Cool. I watched movie based in Romanian Caves called The Cave. A great suspense thriller horror film:

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Quote from: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on June 23, 2023, 01:49:05 PM
Quote from: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on June 23, 2023, 01:49:05 PM
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What does the aabiscus part of your username mean? :)

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What does the aabiscus part of your username mean? :)

Haha that’s the username I use on every site, I chose it when I was like 14. My goal was to appear first on any alphabetical lists, hence the double A, and I chose the word ‘abacus’ because I liked how it had the letters a, b, and c in it. (And the ‘I’ was just to make sure there weren’t too many ‘a’s in the word.) It was all very calculated in a kinda nonsensical way, but hey it kinda worked, I have very good Google SEO by this point from using it on so many sites!


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"DiddyK" comes from Diddy Kong, my all-time favorite fictional character, and "F1" comes from Formula 1, since I'm such an obsessive motorsport fanatic. :)petrie  Funnily enough, I was originally DiddyKF1Enthusiast on YouTube and a few other places for a while, but I later decided to shorten it to just "DiddyKF1" because I wanted a shorter name and it just ticked and stuck ever since! :petrieLOL
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Apologies for resurrecting this thread.

As I already stated at the Welcome Center, my nickname on this site is a nod to Pink Floyd, specifically their soundtrack to Barbet Schroder's La Vallée. Because of disagreements with Schroder, they renamed the soundtrack to "Obscured by Clouds". Because a valley plays a large role in TLBT, I ended up using the soundtrack title because I thought it sounded good. Also, ImpracticalDino pointed out that the Great Valley was indeed obscured by clouds in the film, so that makes the title even more fitting.

Edit: Fixed Auto-correct. Again.  :anger
« Last Edit: October 18, 2024, 08:34:01 AM by ObscuredByClouds »


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Apologies for resurrecting this thread.

Luckily, unlike most forums, this forum does not have an established rule for necroposting! :D

Glad you resurrected it too, since I'm pretty sure Mo-o-o had not seen this particular thread before.

But anyway... how was my username inspired?

With impracticality, of course! :MoEvil :Mo :lol

No, really. A show from truTV Mo-o-o really enjoys is Impractical Jokers, and that is the first part of my name. Add-on "Dino" to the end of the name, because, (duh!) this forum is dinosaur related!

And ta-da-a-a-a!!! There's my username. :SharptoothAmused


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