There can only be one! Er, two!

The name xlorp is as far as I know utterly unique.  It's an onomatopeiaic word I made up for a beginning linguistics class in college.  All it meant at the time was the sound made by pouring a can full of stewed tomotoes into a bowl.

I liked the word, and took it as my email handle everywhere later.  This caused no end of confusion when my sneaky personal account on apple.com became my formal business account when they took away applelink as our official in-house communication system.  (For the curious I left Apple about 10 years ago for a much larger tech company that also started here in the bay area, and I have done well there.)

Last year I took part in many on-line sessions of a group dynamic game known as Werewolf (originally mafia I think).  The word's meaning became known as the sound when a werewolf scoops the brains out of a villager's skull.  Still, it's quite short and unique and no one has already taken it on any system or login I need.

Fast forward to the present day.  I hang out on an MMORPG called Runescape.  I run into another person whose handle ended in the string 'xlorp'.  Needless to say he was totally freaked out because his real name was Xavier Lorp.  We chatted a bit and I added him to my flist and such.

Xlorp is offically no longer unique.  But I was there first!