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Stefu's theory of nicknames: Everyone's alias can be shortened to 6 letters or less
Yep. That's my theory. Everyone's Net nickname can, and at some point will, be shortened to six letters or less.
Come on, I dare ya. Prove me wrong.
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January 19, 2003, 17:19
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Why 6? 3 is even better. 
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January 19, 2003, 17:19
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5 is good.
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January 19, 2003, 17:21
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2 is the best
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January 19, 2003, 17:21
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You can shorten the nicks to five or 3 letters, but that's forced. I'm talking a natural shortening, of the kind people would actually use.
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"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world
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January 19, 2003, 17:28
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My nickname is 5 letters. I am however using other nicknames, like "ExtraSonic", "Sonic747", "Sonic DeCnuckly" if my nick is already registered.
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January 19, 2003, 17:32
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Do away with vowels.
SlwHnd.
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January 19, 2003, 17:35
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Re: Stefu's theory of nicknames: Everyone's alias can be shortened to 6 letters or less
Tassadars Theory of Thread: Stefus Thread will be closed due to spam.
Come on, I dare ya. Prove me wrong.
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January 19, 2003, 17:35
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There must be some names longer than 6 letters that people don't bother to shorten for conveniance.
In fact ... there is.
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January 19, 2003, 17:36
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hmmmmm Boshko conforms quite well
what about Hardman?
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January 19, 2003, 17:37
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WorldWideWeb is easier to say than WWW. So why do we say the latter?
Edit- It automatically parsed WWW. 
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January 19, 2003, 17:44
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SlowwHand becomes Sloww. Tassadar's Tass. FrustratedPoet is easy - FP.
Hardman? That's tricky, that is, but I distinctly remember seeing HMan.
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January 19, 2003, 17:45
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Hardman? That's tricky, that is, but I distinctly remember seeing HMan.
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But that just doesn't properly convey the gay twatiness...
while we're at it how about CyberGnu? CGnu doesn't exactly roll off the tongue and just saying gnu doesn't do the job 
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January 19, 2003, 17:45
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Hard works just as well, IMO.
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January 19, 2003, 17:46
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MY THEORY IS ROCK SOLID AND SOUND!
Krhm. HMan it is.
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"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world
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January 19, 2003, 17:47
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while we're at it how about CyberGnu? CGnu doesn't exactly roll off the tongue and just saying gnu doesn't do the job
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Yes it does.
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January 19, 2003, 17:48
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What about Locutus?
That's 7 letters. AFAIK there isn't a regular way people shorten his name, but maybe I'm wrong.
Same with Theseus.
So there's two I've found.
You're wrong Stefu. 
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January 19, 2003, 17:48
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Besides, Hardman wasn't a poster. He was a phenomenon.
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January 19, 2003, 17:48
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ok last one for now, you just can't shorten werefox what would be sacrilege...
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January 19, 2003, 17:51
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What about Locutus?
That's 7 letters. AFAIK there isn't a regular way people shorten his name, but maybe I'm wrong.
Same with Theseus.
So there's two I've found.
You're wrong Stefu.
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Isn't Locutus shortened to Loc? He must be, because otherwise my theory would be wrong, and I'm never wrong.
As for Theseus, I don't even know who he is.
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January 19, 2003, 17:51
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Originally posted by Boshko
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You could just call him Hard.
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January 19, 2003, 17:52
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And werefox is wf. Come on, you knew that!
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January 19, 2003, 17:53
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Well ya you can abbreviate pracitcally anything.......
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January 19, 2003, 17:56
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Heck, you can reduce everybody's name to only two characters and still have over 6000 name possibilities...
I call dibs on X&.
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January 19, 2003, 18:13
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Yep. This is a Penis Bird-thread!
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January 19, 2003, 18:13
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t1nyp3n1s?
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January 19, 2003, 18:32
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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
What about Locutus?
That's 7 letters. AFAIK there isn't a regular way people shorten his name, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Actually, the number of 'non-official' occasions people have used my full nickname without abbreviations or misspellings has just about been doubled by this thread
Anyone who can think of a corruption of my name that I haven't seen before gets a cookie
And yes, Loc is the most common form...
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January 19, 2003, 18:34
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January 19, 2003, 19:18
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I think Stefu is right. In my experience with chats, I've never seen someone's which wasn't shortened to less than 6 letters, except if it is below (mine is obviously "Spiff", which is good, since I want to be called Spiff  )
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January 19, 2003, 19:18
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In the CtPDG, didn't some one call you Locust, Loc?
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