Where does your name come from?
By rappeter13
@rappeter13 (8608)
Romania
March 5, 2020 3:44am CST
I am talking here about the myLot name.
Mine is a story from childhood, I use this username everywhere.
I always liked rap music, that is the "rap" part from my username. Peter is my actual name. The number comes from my favourite football player from that time, Michael Ballack, who wore this number at the German national team and at Bayern Munich, my favorite football team, too.
I made my username 18 years ago, and I kept it since.
How about you? Where does your username come from?
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27 responses
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
I do not use an avatar. That's my real name.
Good story.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
My name is too common, and it is hard to have a username like that. That is why I tried to make it unique, when I was 13 years old.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
@rappeter13 Your avatar has rhythm. Good thinking when you turned teen.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
@MALUSE The internet is virtual. An avatar could also be a name.
@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
5 Mar 20
I just made it up on the spur of the moment when I joined myLot.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
You don't do any other online earning opportunities?
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
@lazydaizee And you remember all of them correctly?
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
5 Mar 20
@rappeter13 I do , but I use a different name for each of them.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
@DianneN a valid reason
I didn't know it, either. I was 13 and I made my email address. I liked it and it remained as my online alter-ego.
I didn't know it, either. I was 13 and I made my email address. I liked it and it remained as my online alter-ego.1 person likes this
@Deepizzaguy (122070)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
6 Mar 20
My name comes from my former employer Deepizza Delivery which last around six months in 1986.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
6 Mar 20
Did you like it there? Or just the sound of it?
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
8 Mar 20
@Deepizzaguy It is clear that you enjoyed the time there if you kept that in your name
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@Deepizzaguy (122070)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8 Mar 20
@rappeter13 It was a great startup pizza company that I enjoyed working for six months before it went out of business.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
5 Mar 20
Porwest comes from an old company name I took on. I was going to start up a distribution company dealing manly, at that time, with Poore Brother's potato chips. Thus, Por. The West part comes from where I lived at the time and where the company would have been based out of. West Allis, WI.
The company never took off. But I kept the name.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
This is an interesting story of your username. What was the problem with the company?
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
@porwest So, it was more of muscle showing from the current distributor.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
5 Mar 20
@rappeter13 I couldn't get the license away from the current distributor who held the license to distribute the product in the areas I was wanting to distribute to, EVEN THOUGH they were not distributing the product to those areas.
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
6 Mar 20
mine came from the frustration that I never seemed to get there first. Meaning my actual name, was always alrady taken as a user name, so cperry2 became my representation. It is still actually my name though. you see, I am a junior, cperry2 = cperry jr
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
7 Mar 20
@cperry2 People say that I would be a great dad, too. But I don't feel like that. I don't want children, neither.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
6 Mar 20
So, it is also a logical way to take it. 2 meaning that you are the second Clint Perry in the family.
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
6 Mar 20
@rappeter13 exactly right. There is a third now as well. (Although he assures me, he will never allow his son to be named the fourth.) He and his wife have vowed to have no children of their own. Unfortunately, I believe him. He would make such a great dad. Maybe they will adopt at some point.
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@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
5 Mar 20
Mine is from a nick name my sister gave me when we were young.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
I guess you liked it a lot, since you kept it. Good thing!
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
@LeaPea2417 this shows that your bond is strong.
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@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
5 Mar 20
@rappeter13 Yes, my sister will still to this day call me that, even when she sends me emails.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
5 Mar 20
I use the name "Indexer" because indexing is something I used to do - but no longer. I did several "back of the book" indexes for textbooks that were commercially published, and my biggest job was to index a 30+ year run of a journal devoted to the life and works of Charles Dickens. I had to cover some 6,000 pages of text and the final index was nearly 200 pages long. It was published as a hardback book by the University of Buckingham Press.
These days I prefer to write silly stories - although these are self-published and available via Amazon!
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
It means that you've read a lot of books in your life. That seems to have been a job which developed many skills. Great thing!
Do you make good sales on Amazon?
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
6 Mar 20
@rappeter13 Not as yet - but if you want to improve my sales figures I won't stand in your way!
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@lovebuglena (52143)
• Staten Island, New York
6 Mar 20
My official name was Yelena Kovadlo but everyone Russian speaking called me Lena. I like the sound of Lena better than Yelena so decided to use that on my social media accounts. Now that I am married I have a different last name but on social media I still use my maiden name. I also use that as my author name: Lena Kovadlo.
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@lovebuglena (52143)
• Staten Island, New York
6 Mar 20
@rappeter13 Close. I am from Belarus.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
Nice to know this. Which is your family name?
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
6 Mar 20
@rappeter13
I would rather not say. This is not a secure site.
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@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
5 Mar 20
From the month of December,
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
@resukill22 you are almost a Christmas baby
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@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
5 Mar 20
@rappeter13 it's 22 of the month
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
I remember you, we were friends on Bubblews, too. You had touching posts about Dustin
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
5 Mar 20
@rappeter13 Oh yes, I knew there was something familiar about you! Thanks for remembering.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
So, you are a football fan? I haven't really seen anyone liking football around here. In the previous version of myLot, there were, but now, I haven't met anyone.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
7 Mar 20
@Aleskys In South America, football is a religion. It is one for me, too.
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@Aleskys (5879)
• Venezuela
6 Mar 20
@rappeter13 I am a woman and I love soccer, both national and international league wishing one day my country can go to a soccer world cup ..
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
@LadyDuck your nickname has grown up, too.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
6 Mar 20
My username is my name and surname in short.
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@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
5 Mar 20
My username is taken from my first name and my surname, the number 23 represents my birthday.
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