Preserved Topic: Someone took it!

I just went to join another forum (it's not a photoshop forum...it's actually one on model railroading, another thing I do to satisfy my love for electronics), and I went to use my signature name...Skaarjj. Someone has already taken it. It is curently being used. I don't get it. It's a delibrate mispelling of the name Skaarj. ARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone else ever had anexperience like this?




What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine to - First Rule of a Dictatorship

Nope.

Hmm, can't say I've run into that one, but somewhere in my links pages I have a collection of what I call "False Ozones", other folks who also seem to be "Doctor Ozone". Some of them (most of them) just happened to choose the name as something cool, go figger.

Your pal, -doc-

Want a new one? I'll sell mine cheap! Only 5 dollars American! <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

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If you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer?

Happened to me just yesterday trying to sign up to read NY Times news.

Of course I may have just signed up a long time ago and just forgot my login info

hmmmm....


Walking the Earth like Kane

Happens all the time to me. Hundreds of people must use the screen name "Slime"... if I can't get it, I have to settle for Slime0 (slime zero) which no one else seems to take.

Funny, you wouldnt think many people would have the name Jestah but theres a lot of people that do. I usually hafta settle for something like ieJestah, Jestah91, Jestah77. I have a few computers in my house and I only have my login info saved on my computer in my room so it becomes a pain to login cause theres soooo many Jestahs that I have, at least this one is easy cause its the only one I have Jestah for.

Jestah
Jestah91@aol.com
ICQ - 77252449

I don't think I have to tell you guys how hard it is to get my name.. But still have managed to get it for a few things..

- Dan -

"mikey milker."

yeah.. that one is REAL popular with the kids.

cheers.mikey.milker

Don't seem to have a problem with Wes too much. Probably cuz it sounds like the name of a bad male stripper...

But I did use to peruse IRC by the name of Killian. Half the time, naturally, I'd have to use a variation because someone was already logged on by that nick. But, one day when I was able to use just plain "Killian," I started getting a bunch of hate messages from a guy who accused me of stealing his name. He demanded I change my nick so he could have it back. Really angry guy. Genuinely believed that his was the only person on the entire Internet who could use that name. So, me and about a dozen other people took on the names Killain1, Killian2, Killian3, etc. and started invading his channel. As we got booted, we change it to the next number and come back. Probably spent 15-20 minutes doing that. I've never seen someone so furious...

... >ahem< Guess you had to be there...

I think someone's messin' with me. it told me that my E-Mail address had already been registerd, under the name "Psycho". Yet, amazingly, I had never recieved anything from them in my email before. This really pisses me off. It's bad enough when someone steals your work, but when they register something with your e-mail address...I hope you realise...this means WAR!

I just realised...I'm coming up on my 300th post!



What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine to - First Rule of a Dictatorship

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I like wars... if theres anything you need done to him.. hehehe <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

You know, like threating phone calls... kidnapings.. savage beatings, attempted/completed murders... those little annoyances..

- Dan -

So far, no one has even come close to touching Bugimus. I like it that way. I have had more incidents of people stealing my designs though, that really blows!!!

has anyone played perfect dark? the enemy alien race in it are called the "Skaarj". u'd better go use Rare! lol.
no one's ever come up with hypershrimp 'cept me...

sue. i meant sue Rare....

That's a good idea hypershrimp, except for one thing. It's Skaarjj with two J's. Alot of people in this forum have problems with spelling it properly. Anyway, unless ID software made perfect dark, I think ID will be sueing them. The game Unreal, brought out two or three years ago by ID had a alien race called the Skaarj as their ememy creatures.




What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine to - First Rule of a Dictatorship

I don't think they copyrighted the names of the creatures, that would just be ridiculously lame.

In My early internet names I used Phantom
'cos my real name is tom...
Signed in at yahoo... "name already taken"
tried again with PHANTOM "name already taken"

At last i had PHant on one server Phantom_xxl on an other and 0.phantom.0 on an other.... then i started to get crazy about it. So changed my name in Rinswind 2th and the problems where over. And my name is choosen after a Discworld character a weird man which never graduated the unseen university. The almost-wizard Rincewind

See you soon on the darkside of the moon (when the Alchemists don't blow it up that is)

Just as a quick aside:

Epic entertainment developed Unreal, id software created the popular doom and quake series.

As far as names go, I am usually faily capable of snagging Tycho, or a variant therein using another language spelling or pronunciation (Like "Tyge", which was how Tycho was signed in the 16th century). Theres always some variation or other available.. I just have to be creative.

What if your sole lot in life was to serve as a warning to others?

oops. i confused Unreal with PD.

I've had to occasionally revert to the less prestigious "DH-17".....

Dang! I hate it when that happens! What was it that happened now?

I can relate, I have used 'The Jackal' as my online identity for, well, almost six years now. I find that most new places I register at, such as forums, I have to change the spelling to 'The Jakyl'. Even that is taken sometimes as well. There are only so many variations one can think of.



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I must be lucky, I'm the only Babamba in the world. Well, except for the fact that I found out it is some ethnic tribe or something in Africa. Who knew???


I am in the process of redoing my website, so this Sig isn't likned yet.
If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking 'til you do succeed. -Curly (One of the Three Stooges)

Funnily, "Bamba" is a very popular peanut snack for kids here in Israel, and i know more than a few people who use that nickname. but i never met a Babamba before, so guess you are lucky. Theres probably a tribe of voracious peanut snack eaters in Africa by that name. teehee!

Never Pet a Burning Dog
Rend

Speaking of irc names. Back in about 95 I used to regularly get such names as "you" and "I" and log all the messages I got overnight... Some of the funniest things I ever heard. Too bad I can never preserve HD data that long <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">

I used "Rubinya" for a good while and haven't encountered anybody by that name. I guess I got lucky, but then again Rubinya has a gothic sound to it (in my opinion) I chose it after my favorite color and stone, go figure!!! <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif"> <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif"> <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

hmm....twItch is often used...but my other nick, Mercurochrome, isn't...and when it is, I just change the e to a u.