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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.

Sep-4-2005 20:21

I have green eyes and I like the stone Malachite and have always liked green.
All my names online are variations...
The Devonshire is a famous Emerald.
The "Lady" part come from another online game I sometimes play -Utopia, I've been lady Emerald there now for 2-3 ages.

Sep-4-2005 22:55

WAAAAAAAAAAY back before the internet, when I was in college, we had a college-wide network with a chat set-up. One of the names I used there was "Moonshadow," as I was in a Cat Stevens phase at the time. One time I typed moonsh by itself and hit enter too early, so I went with that shorter version as less to type. Then I had to change it at some point when the internet came around and I had to re-register for some site or other, so now I am moonshh all over the place online. It's rarely taken by someone else, so I get to use it almost all the time.

Sep-5-2005 00:00

Dr. Falco Maltese...probably obvious? It's a nod to the noir classic "The Maltese Falcon," and besides it just seemed kind of cool. I think I made him a doctor because of the archetype I chose, but now I can't imagine him without the Dr. in front...Falco is also a singer, Austrian, I think, with such songs as "Der Komissar" and "Rock Me Amadeus." I thought the connection with Der Komissar was appropriate, too. Turns out another player who actually /is/ Maltese was very disappointed that I am not, and that it has nothing to do with Falco's name. Sorry!

Jan-1-2006 05:53

My name may look kind of strange, but I have a liking for Welsh for some reason. I was putting some different phrases together and came up with this one: Lais gan 'r cysgodi. In English it means "voice in the shadows." I just pushed the first three words together and got my name. Laisgan'r Cysgodi.

Jan-1-2006 09:45

I named myself after a pretty cool toy monkey that I own. This isnt as sad as it sounds as he has a spacesuit lol. Unfortunately I kind of killed Marmalade and marmalade2 so I'm marmalade3. Not that inperssive but hey. I like lemonyshepard's name but I don't think thats how you spell shepherd ;-) or maybe thats the american spelling. I also have a detective named from the pirate monkey pirate name generator. Crazy or what?

Jan-1-2006 12:10

I could tell you....but then i'd have to eliminate everybody who knows...

Jan-1-2006 12:37

My nickname from my friends is Cinderella and I'm asian, Chinese to be exact, so I just put that together.

Jan-2-2006 08:15

Ni hao! :)

Jan-2-2006 12:56

Have you read the book 'Chinese Cinderella'? If not you should, it's great

Jan-2-2006 14:34

What can I say? I just figured the name went well with the face on the picture. This guy with the cap happens to look the most handsome compared with the other choices.