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pap
Real first name is Paul, which is an inconvenient name to whack in a 1980s arcade highscore table. You can't really put PAU as it has a weak ending. PAL was out too. What if someone saw you entering PAL into an arcade machine? They may think you're a sad-case trying to befriend it.
Thus, pap became my chosen name in lights whenever I marked my territory in an arcade. No one else seemed to use it or want it, probably because the dictionary definition is:-
Material lacking real value or substance
And another is:-
worthless or oversimplified ideas; drivel
I figure if I can coast just above those definitions, I'm over-achieving.
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