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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.

Apr-18-2008 11:34

i dont have a story behind it really, i just like the way it sounds and looks on paper :-P

Apr-21-2008 15:24

mine is from a lyric from we both go down together by the decemberists

Apr-28-2008 22:09

Well, half my friends call me Rae, which evolved into RaeRae. Then, signing up for this that was taken, so I figured additional extra unneeded unnecessary redundant repetition was a good idea.

May-3-2008 04:27

I planned to registrate as Lucika (I use this always at online games), but I couldn't from my computer, so I asked someone to registrate. He was in a funny mood, so he registrated me as Lucika-Bucika...

Jul-19-2008 11:30

Well...
I knew what person I wanted and what background. The girl looked like a Tess to me. The last name Maritt sounded like a good name for a lawyer or detective. The two names just clicked.

Aug-1-2008 14:43

he looked like a mean old man and thought the name would be funny,didn't think I'd become a sluethaholic

Aug-10-2008 12:16

I liked the first name Dixie for a girl, and then I just randomly thought up the last name Perkins. Idk, I've had this s/n forever, I'm kinda getting tired of it now lol.

Aug-12-2008 19:25

I got my name from a book i read a lot so i will never run out of names.

Aug-14-2008 09:52

mine is kind of weird...
i was watching will and grace and karen was at a drag club and wanted to know what her drag name would be so mine is my drag name..

Oct-26-2008 17:00

great question! :)
Well, i have a dad called kevin and i once had a brother called Aaron Kevin Hey but he died when he was baby...God i hate cot death.
so when i first joined this site(which was today -_-') and had to pick my detective name, the name Aaron Kevin Hey just came naturally to me.