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jstkdn
jstkdn
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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.

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ichiban
ichiban
Well-Connected

May-30-2005 14:46

because I am. No because I think I am. No no because I think I could be. Actually my orig. avatar looked oriental and was my first Detective.My Grandpa told me he was #one and I was#3 so I used his pic

Texan
Texan

May-30-2005 22:39

Well, it's quite obvious why I picked Texan. Being from the State of Texas, I was looking for something simple and easy to remember, plus Houston Texan's is my favorite football team.

Chronestrian
Chronestrian

May-31-2005 08:28

My agent's name is the title of a song I wrote (and subsequently the title of my cd), and it means 'time rider'. Slightly a difference from Chrononaut which is 'time traveller'. My other agent's name, Noeticist, roughly means 'thinker'. I was a linguist for the USAF in the '80s (yes, that means I'm old! lol), and words have always fascinated me. Ok, I'm done. :-)

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Jun-1-2005 02:29

I used to play another game where my name was redalong. After a while people started calling me reda. Seemed like the obvious choise for my detective name.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jun-1-2005 02:46

Lol, I always assumed that your real first name was Reda. :)

Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jun-1-2005 15:38

Not sure if I should release this VALUABLE info, as many have asked me over and over...

I will simply say that 227 stands for Feb 27 - My birthday.

No one will get out of me why jojo

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jun-1-2005 18:42

jojo means yoyo in Dutch. To be sure of the correct spelling in English I actually looked it up on www.disctionary.com, and to see if I could find any clues. I had to laugh when I saw it, and with this could eliminate that you identify yourself with a yoyo.

This is what I found in the dictionary:

A toy consisting of a flattened spool wound with string that is spun down from and reeled up to the hand by motions of the wrist.

Informal. One that undergoes frequent abrupt shifts or reversals, as of opinion or emotion; a vacillator.

Slang. A stupid or objectionable person.

Can Karacan
Can Karacan

Jun-27-2005 15:47

ok, call me a narcissist cuz i chose my own name as my detective name :) karacan is my last name and can is my first name as you can figure. when i had to create my detective, i thought like "why would i need another name since my real name is already unique enough?" by the way Can is sounded somewhat like "john" -not like the way you say a "can" of beer. see you guys!

Merritt
Merritt

Aug-6-2005 21:51

I chose my name because... it's my real name. No terribly fancinating story I'm afraid.

DJ_Nuclear
DJ_Nuclear

Aug-7-2005 18:11

I choose my name because um, the other names I had lost as a detective.

I usually use this for video games like halo. (hence the war like nuclear part)

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