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Permalink Reply by Satina on April 23, 2010 at 1:09am

nicknames generally either make you sound more exotic and interesting or they make your name easier to say. Ive never really had a nickname because my name is already unique and doesnt rly shorten

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Permalink Reply by Delphine HappinessComesInHoops* on April 28, 2010 at 7:57pm

Same with my first name, though my family call me Phine and friends have come up with some *interesting* non-hooping nicknames over the years. lol

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Permalink Reply by BenaeQuee on April 23, 2010 at 3:31pm

Mine is a handle I have been using for years so I just transferred it to Hoop City as well. All my online friends know me as BenaeQuee (pronounced Be-Neye Kwee). The story behind it is too long to share lol.

I found handles or nicknames are easier to remember than a real name sometimes

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Permalink Reply by Malena tHe mAd hOoPeR on April 23, 2010 at 3:35pm

that's cool both are interesting I bet the stories behind them are interesting too :)

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Permalink Reply by circularlogic on April 23, 2010 at 4:44pm

I love your nickname! I'm an Alice freak too though I've never gone so far as to get an Alice tattoo-- the only ink on me is from doing too much calligraphy with dip pens. ;)

Actually my hoop name circularlogic is tangentially related... as a child I was so obsessed with Alice that I read everything by Lewis Carroll that I could get my hands on, including a book on symbolic logic which I loved. I always found it fascinating that Carroll (a.k.a. Dodgson) was a mathematician, a rather staid one at that, & yet such a fanciful writer & clearly a lover of nonsense. Hooping to me has the same combination of playfulness & puzzle, serious silliness you might say... so my name is a bit of a nod to Lewis Carroll too!

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Permalink Reply by Malena tHe mAd hOoPeR on April 24, 2010 at 1:26pm

that's a great story!!! I love the fact that he was such a logical man yet he loved things that were non-sense! :)

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Permalink Reply by Zbena on April 23, 2010 at 8:10pm

Brutal Brie came about because we were having a hoop jam and my friend was like AH DUDE THATS BRUTAL
and another friend said afterwards, "well it's brutal because it's brie"
thus, brutal brie. =D

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie the Incendiary Faerie* on April 23, 2010 at 8:45pm

I came up with "The Incendiary Faerie" after me and a few friends over heard people arguing over how you pronounce Incendiary. idk exactly how the name came about, lol, but that's where it came from, at some point when we realized it rhymed with Faerie, XD.

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Permalink Reply by Scunshine on April 23, 2010 at 8:49pm

Scun's been my online handle since middle school and scunshine was something an online friend called me and I loved it so much I stole it from him. Though I've been trying to think of something more "hoopy" and all I've come up with is Solspinner, which I'm not really feeling. If anyone wants to steal it, go ahead, just be completely awesome and do it justice :P

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Permalink Reply by Goldfish on April 24, 2010 at 9:28am

Well, I know Goldfish isn't really hoopy but.. I was at a festival and I ended up running around with some random guy. I would stop talk to random people and then stop by the stage to dance a while and then wander on and meet more people. The guy I was with goes "You have the attention span of a goldfish! You're like 'Oooh loook! Something shiney!' and then you turn around and go 'Hey Look! A Castle!!'" So he started calling me Goldfish and then everyone started calling me that. After a while people didn't even know my real name anymore lol

~Goldfish~

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Permalink Reply by Scunshine on April 24, 2010 at 11:59am

nice! My husband calls me goldie on account of my poor memory, lol.

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Permalink Reply by Malena tHe mAd hOoPeR on April 24, 2010 at 1:29pm

I love that!!! I have been told too by my brother that I have attention of a goldfish. Hey but that is what makes us interesting! ; )

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