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Ivar Refsdal09:10:32

I came across the documentary movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17660740/, which sounds like a fun movie (I have not seen it though). Have you heard about it @pez? I also wonder why your handle is (Pappa)Pez? Regards 🙂

elken09:10:38

I would imagine a slightly altered portmaneau of his name, like some of us 👀

pez09:10:16

I must see this one! Rubs my self image the right way. Stick it to the man!

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pez09:10:44

@elken is partly right with his guess. I have been using the nickname since I was 14 or so. (That's 40 years, for full disclosure). I liked to play pinball games. They had this huge arcade at an amusement park in Stockholm. You could visit the arcade w/o also visiting the whole premise. One day I had some major luck and the game asked me for my name to enter into the high-scores list! It only accepted three characters. While playing I had put down my PEZ dispenser on the glass of the machine. So it is indeed also the candy that is involved. 😃

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elken09:10:12

Ah good old pez

elken09:10:16

(the candy)

pez09:10:58

Arcade games kept limiting to three-character names for long. This is how a Sega Rally 2 machine could look like in 1998 if you found an arcade where I used to play. 😃

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quoll16:10:00

Ah, this explains Twitter this morning

pez19:10:46

Haha. It took me a while to get the way back machine to find me the photo. 😀

elken09:10:28

I did LKN

pez09:10:42

That's the Swedish record you see there. I never broke the 3.59 line... Pains me to this day.

pez09:10:16

Whats behind LKN, @elken?

elken09:10:21

There was always some guy who tried to make rude words with it :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

elken09:10:42

Closest I can get to elken (portmanteau of my name that I use as a username because I'm original)

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pez09:10:11

Haha, of course, it is obvious!