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May-26-2005 05:26
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Some of us have interesting reasons to pick a detective name. What is yours?

jstkdn which some people don't realize right away stands for JuST KiDding! It is something I tend to say a lot in real life after a lot of sentences. A good friend of mine in the US had jstkdn as a license plate of her car, so I wasn't that inventive myself.

My previous other agent was PM, which stands for Project/Program Manager, my profession in real life.

My only detective that I currently play with is freelancermountaineer. Only because Freelancer was taken. Sidney Bristow in the Alias series uses two call signs freelancer and mountaineer.

May-26-2005 05:33

Thank you for this topic, jstkdn!

Okay people, cfm stands for nothing more than my RL initials! I never intended to get this involoved with this community, and so I didn't really work all the hard on my name when I created my detective. It takes a lot to jump start my imagination, and so it was just easier that way.

May-26-2005 05:42

I have written a series of stories around four brothers, three of which run a PI agency and the fourth who is a police officer. Their names, from oldest to youngest, are:

Corin Joshua, Delphi Joshua, Saxon Joshua and Blaise Joshua.

Hence, my names : o )

May-26-2005 05:44

my name is rather boring.. its ver similar to my real name. my first name is Mark and middle name is Andrew.... so i dont get any points of originality :(

May-26-2005 06:36

Beats me? Cane lol.

May-26-2005 06:56

I have no idea...I just liked the name Makensie, and Brewer, who knows, it just popped in my head after I chose Makensie as the 1st name. Not too exciting of a reason lol ;)

May-26-2005 08:29

P. Rockwell-the bio is actually taken from US history. He's just been interesting for me to study over the years.

Reverend-Actually my real nickname. I guess my friend find me preaching sometimes. And with a little energy, Reverend Raymond Brown (RL name) sounds pretty cool.

May-26-2005 09:29

I am very short, and most of my friends call me Lil' because of it. Therefore, I combined Lil and my first name, Rachel, to come up with my name, LilRach.

May-26-2005 09:30

My fiance calls me sweets. Sweets was taken, so I used part of my real name, R to invent R Sweets, private detective.

May-26-2005 09:55

As a teen, I was a camp counselor at a camp where the counselors used "camp names" rather than their real ones. My camp name was "Orbit," but some of my friends started calling me "Orbitrux Maximus" as a joke.

May-26-2005 10:16

I chose the picture I wanted first, then thought about who this chap might be - and then chose a name I thought suited the character!

Apart from being British, he has no similarities to me in RL whatever - as my agency colleagues will no doubt tell you with some amusement :-)