Originally Posted by epitome

Many years ago, when I was on IRC, I couldn't come up with a good nick that I liked.

One day I was reading an article about Courtney Love launching a production company called Epitome Productions. I liked that word because the definition is "the embodiment or encapsulation of; A representative example; The height; the best; A brief summary" and it's not a common word at all. It's always available when I need a username and I never need to use numbers.