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 when i was a teenager i changed my name to "jak" to be cool.

it didn't work. 
 Friend of mine did the same thing. Rikki for hockey. 
Didn’t work either. 
 😩 
 Hi jake 
 LMFAO 🤣 BEST ANSWER 🤣🤣👖🫡 
 Similar. I tried to roll with KC for a while in my teens 
 Was it with a soft J so it sounds like yak?  
 There's no cool without a "C"  
 Not kewl bro 
 Based.  🔝 🤙 
 Can confirm 
 😅 
 Beats ‘Janet’ misspelling  in the newspaper when I was a kid on more than one occasion 😄 
 Well that's just Jacked!  
 Just a step on the path . . .

to world domination. 
 Awww 
 Who was your Daxter? 
 worth a try anyway.  
seems like it worked out in the end. 
 hey jak 
 LOL 
 😎🤙 
 But you had to try to find out Jak 
 but you’re the coolest it must have worked eventually 💕💜 
 Try it again when you are a teenager next time and use lasereyes😸 this will work. 
 it wasnt cool as it was missing exactly the 'c'   ;) 
 At least you did not try X. 
 He tried a bunch of randoms though. 🤣🤣🤣 
 ok, jon 
 We care about what others would think when we are younger. Not trying to be cool per se is a freedom of unnecessary stress.  
 If I were younger, I would wish I was as deep down the rabbit hole as I am now and would buy #Bitcoin  
 💀 
 🤣😂 
 lol i like jack 
 neither did the billions lol 
 jak🫂 
 jk 
 and now look at you 
 Didnt work hah? 
 It didn’t work ‘yet’ 
 Yo jak🫂 
 you can't just going around deleting the letter c. Who wants to support "open soure" projects. 
 god i hate autocorrect while nostr-ing 
 jaq would have been cooler! ahahah 🤣 
 🤣 
 https://m.primal.net/HiQP.png 
  @jack are best at butt scratchers that would work and me want me money - you can keep scratching some one butty toot toot tik tok 
 In Turkey, we call you “cek”.  A polite name 🫂 
 I believe it 
 Was it Jacque or jock or … I’m really laughing at this 🤣🤣🤣 
 😂 
 Do you go to your high school reunions? 😂 😂 😂 That shit would be insane. Bet they weren’t expecting the computer nerd to become a billionaire 😅😅😅 
 Ah, you were being too hard on yourself as a teenager. As we all were with ourselves, perhaps. Jack is a great name. I think you’re pretty cool, so alls well that ends well. 
 You’re cool anyway ! 
 Legally changed? 😂 
 /seems suspect 


🤷🏻‍♀️ 
 It's not just three or four letters actually. It's a part of the process of discovering oneself when one is a teenager. Beginning with Self is really a curious, precious beginning. @jack 🫂 
 should have tried Jax 
 So 1990s. Like "zone". 
 💗 
 yeah it did. 
 @jack could you be anymore adorable? 
 Already too cool to begin with 
 I shared your photo with my niece while you were on stage in Madeira because you looked very cool. She's a teenager in Iran, and what she sees on social media and TV doesn't truly define what being cool is. 
 i do that all the time. It has never worked. Just for different reasons. But it’s fun. 
 Still time to try it again.  I used to sign notes to girlfriends (yes, pre text messages) “mrottenwheel 
 😂👍🏼 
 lol lol lol 🤣😂🤣😂
Jak is kinda punk tho 
 Jack When is the Bitkey gonna start shipping? You had said late Feb early March 
 HI JAK 🫡 
 sick story n beard bruh 
 I bet you didn’t know they’re lovely creatures 🙃 
 I like this

I changed my name so many times
bc I’m a misfit. I don’t fit in one role. I’m so many. 
 When you own twitter and was failing and needed a bailout and I begged you to buy after pay and today that work and you made billions nd I am still begging you for my respect and money as you sit like you king jak- THAT AINT GOING TO BLOODY WORK EITHER SELFISH THE PERSON WHO ONLU THINKS BOUT HIMSLEF AND  WANTS. DELETE BUTTONE DEETE YOURSLEF AM RESDY TO MOVE ON YOU PHUCKER BUT YOU. BIG PHUCKER ROACH 
 do you have another name? 
 hmm 
 jack sounds cool 😊🤗 
 It only works if your friends change it for you. 
 As you attorney, I advise you to call yourself captain jack and see if that helps. 
 I'm hip. 
 So cool “jak” 👀 
 Smug bastard 😂 
 OMG...things we did when teenagers......what was thought to be cool
I miss those years especially 13th to 21th... 
 My last name is difficult for a lot of people to pronounce so I thought about some kind of alias but then its my name...so .it is what it is.... 
 Why Jak is cooler than Jack? 😁 
 Jack is already cool name  
 LOL, I use to tell this lady I work for I was Heraldo Revera, was relevant back then, she laughed and paid me cash, is been 7 years you vampire IRS agents watching...... 
 Good life lesson @jack.  Be yourself and ‘cool’ will find you…or at the very least you will find your tribe 😎 
 what didn't work? changing your name or being cool? =P 
 you are fine  
 Have you noticed how much more often people with old bodies try to highlight how young they still are, than say things like "when I was young I did something stupid I would never do again"? That means they never really achieved adulthood.
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 There is nothing wrong with having a positive, fun menories about teenage years....or experiences or feeling young. 
Jack exercises and diets he has a good body
Being a troll is not how you an adult..... 
 My note was a compliment to Jack, basically saying how he is an adult at the age that he should be, unlike many others who in their 40s pretend to be almost younger than teenagers. Actually, they do not have to pretend, because in their minds they really are.
 Pardon my English if I did not make myself clear. 
 Oh, I see the word body that I used sounded misleading. I just wanted to highlight my dislike for the people who have lived for like 40 years and more in this world but still have the brain of a 10 year old. They call it youthful, I call it retarded.
I did not mean to say anything about the looks of the body. 40+ years old body is always old. It can be healthy, and stronger and nicer than most teenagers, but it is old nevertheless.
Jack is cool in his mind and body, too. 
 Need to make that Only Fans video I mentioned before- show off good body 👌 😁
Trolls are trolling  
 Teenagers will be teenagers 😂 
 "Jak" was ngmi. 
 ,⛹️☕☕☕  be cool 
 wow that is really interesting 
 Hip-hop culture started all vocab shorts - tagging for names, Acro's for crews. Hip-hop culture will continue to produce trends that flow into S curves forever, unstoppable like BTC and NOSTR. 🙂 
 😭 
 LMAO. 
 I tried Arthur Fonzarelli aka "Fonzie" ... but was too late 
 Story would be cooler if you changed your last name to "Mehoff" 
 Never too late, what about ack? 
 yea instead you turned into the biggest douchebag on earth NICE! 
 Eum you litrly put it on the internet forever now x) gj Jak 
 Peoples look cool by action and attitude, not by clothes or names.

Internal things are permanent,
External things are temporary. 
 Agree, via by action and attitude but style also matters. 

Clothes are a form a self expression. 

And actual COOL people do not think about nor try to seem cool to other people — they just are. 
 Agree, just be don't force to look like someone else.

Be natural  
 when i was cool i changed my name to nuclear techno queen

it didn’t work 

https://twitter.com/QueenNuclear 
 ur story shows you’ve already been cool… 
 Yeah you kind of Cool guy 
 i think he’s pretty great! 
 being cool, you mean? 😏 i definitely noticed that. i was about 10 videos deep when i recognized: "wow - this dude is not even remotely a little cool". hot and sexy remains to be seen though - correlation is not causation. 
 Jak Jak 
 Have you tried ‘jack of spades’ ? 
 do you ever go by Patrick? 🍀 ✨