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conus00 · 06-24-10, 10:20 AM

I got the nickname when I started skydiving when I was 17. At my local dropzone nobody went by their real name, we all went by nicknames.
One night we were sitting in the bar, drunk, and somebody found Czech-Russian dictionary.
It was originally Konus (or конус in Russian) which is an exact translation of my last name. It stuck for a little bit but then one of the other guys (an astrologist) told me that there was a Conus nebula so it was later changed to Conus.

00= year 2000. The year I moved to the United States.

06-24-10, 10:20 AM	#124
conus00 Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2008 Location: DB85 Posts: 804 Downloads: 166 Uploads: 0	I got the nickname when I started skydiving when I was 17. At my local dropzone nobody went by their real name, we all went by nicknames. One night we were sitting in the bar, drunk, and somebody found Czech-Russian dictionary. It was originally Konus (or конус in Russian) which is an exact translation of my last name. It stuck for a little bit but then one of the other guys (an astrologist) told me that there was a Conus nebula so it was later changed to Conus. 00= year 2000. The year I moved to the United States. __________________ Last edited by conus00; 06-25-10 at 10:45 AM.