The story behind your nickname...

Cool thread.

I defy anyone to guess the origins of my nickname :D

Cheers!

CAClark wrote: Cool thread. I defy anyone to guess the origins of my nickname :D Cheers!

CA = California
Clark = You are a superman fan?

Edited by DcapVividOptic - 01 January 2006 at 12:32

Nightfall wrote: kleptolux wrote: I made up kleptolux out off two Greek names: klepto: To steal a little Lux: Light Great nick , just a small correction. Klepto is indeed greek, but lux is latin (and yes it means light) . The greek word for lux (light) is Phos (φως) (and that's where photo- comes from )

Alex,
Thanks for the correction. Reminds me I should have taken Greek instead of Latin in high school.

JL

When I registered, I thought about using the nickname I use on the Pokerstars website which is "DumbnUgly" but I felt that this was a more civilized forum and that name would not be appropriate.

When someone on Pokerstars asks why I use that nickname, I tell them I once looked up my family tree and found that half of my ancesters were dumb and the other half were ugly. Hence the nickname.

Not really of course.

Love this forum.

John

Edited by jdrandall - 31 December 2005 at 13:25

hi guys,
getting on bit age wise,nickname reminds me of my
first name and where i live.
allthe best
john

hey all.. (special greetings to indigo77 and nightfall ;-))

well my nickname is boring.. Ni-Kant from the initials of my real name.. given by our *nix sysadmin back to college days..

I can't tell you my other nicknames.. I'll have to kill you afterwards.. :P

Well I got my nickname form being able to fix stuff. I was fixing my bike and my friends bikes when I was 8 or 9. When I was 12 I wanted to build a Go Kart, my parents both being acedemics thought I was crazy but said I could go for it. So I hunted around and found a frame for sale I bought that for $75 that I made from my paper route, next I found someone selling a rotortiller with a 5 horse power engine sutiable for a go cart so I bought that for $150, then I mail orderd the rest of the parts I needed-my parents thought I was crazy. The whole thing worked and I built 3 in total. Then came the shop classes, I fixed just about anything with a motor, dirt bikes, lawn mowers, weed wackers and just about everyones cars in school, including the teachers. Soon people started calling me Goodwrench Garth, then just Goodwrench. I became a mechanic, got my journyman papers at 22 and bought my shop when I was 25 and here I am.

Goodwrench Garth

PS My latest thing is fixing lenses and cameras. My tinkering mind just cant leave it alone.