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The T 
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 Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:01 |
Unless you can say my whole name (Teodoro Jose Gomez de la Torre Rosero) I really prefer to be called Teo (not Theo as I don't believe in name translations) or better yet, just T.
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martinprog77
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Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:40 |
 crimson87 wrote:
martinprog77 wrote:
i choose ''by dog's name '' .because a friend of my called me by my dog's name ''Aquatarkus ''  |
That's for real!!!??? Tarkus would be an amazing name for a pet ( or a child ) yes thats for real .actually my first choose was ''arubaluda '' but ''aquatarkus ''sounds better.
I suppose I d like to be called by my name instea of my user name. Specially since it's not a very original one |
since you have a really cool name use it !!!! 
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Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
Never give a day away.
Always live for today.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:46 |
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Hughes, Harry, both good really.
Hughes is my last name anyway, JB4 being a reference that guitarists might possibly understand if they are guitar-geeky-ish enough.
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Peter
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Posted: January 12 2009 at 23:02 |
My real name is Peter, and you can all call me that, just as people do in real life (though often at work I get "Sir,' which I don't mind as a traditional sign of respect for my position).
I have never used a nickname here. Way back when I joined, I decided to be "real," to mean what I say, and to attach my actual name to all of my posts, to show that I took responsibility for my words, and was not hiding behind some nickname or assumed "web persona." I am an actual person, not a "role" or "construct." (I also wanted my reviews to have my real name attached to them, as they are my original work.)
I had no previous experience with forums (this is still the only one I belong to), so perhaps naively I started out with my full name here (as Jim Garten still does). After a couple of years or so, though, and some particularly acrimonious exchanges with others, I decided to remove my last name, in the interest of my own privacy and security, and that of my family -- you never really know just how unbalanced an angry (or possibly lovestruck? ) stranger on the web might be. I also did not want just anyone to be able to Google my name, and link to all of my posts here (some of which might not be the sort of thing I'd want a boss or student to be able to read and instantly associate with me, for example).
Thus today, I just go by my first name here. Much like getting a tattoo, a nickname would frankly feel silly to me, and "limiting."
 I have also often wondered why so many use nicknames, only to then get called by their (publicly listed) real first name anyway, by all who come to "know" them. I just can't keep track of all of those real names, if it's the nickname which I see on the posts on a routine basis. ("Logan" is Greg, "Dude" is Geoff, "Maani" is Ian, "Vibrationbaby" is Ian, "Easy Livin" is Bob, etc, etc, etc.) Why have a nick, if people generally and freely just call you by your actual name anyway, and you even encourage that by disclosing it in PMs, etc? I don't get it. 
Anyway, I'd like to close with a general request: Many here know my surname from my early days here, but I would really be grateful if they would nonetheless respect my wish to now keep it more private and off the forum. It irks me when people write my full name (as some have done with Tony, above) -- I think you should not use someone's last name online, if the member himself doesn't use it. (Again, I dropped mine for a reason). 
So please, just call me Peter -- if you really mean Peter Gabriel, or Peter Hammill, then use their last names. Me, I'm just "Peter" -- for real. 
Interesting topic! 
Edited by Peter - January 12 2009 at 23:18
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Peter
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Posted: January 12 2009 at 23:17 |
Of course, I know that at this point, almost five years in, most of the common first names (like mine) will be already taken, so any new Peters will need nicks, or some other sort of additions to their names, anyway.
It was good to get in early!  |
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: January 12 2009 at 23:46 |
I voted the hey fool option.
Though in reality, I prefer 'hey doofus'.
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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manofmystery
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 00:43 |
man of mystery is my full given nickname but my friends just call me Mystery
and yes, I had it before that damn VH1 show came about
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Jozef
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 00:47 |
My name is actually Joseph but I prefer Jozef as my username. 
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Tapfret
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 02:26 |
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Call me by the genre of the last band I mentioned, except use 'proto' as a prefix and "core" as the suffix.
And that's MR. Protozeuhlcore to you.
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Dean
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 03:37 |
I dislike my first name and always have, but it's still preferable to all the alternatives. My mum chose it because she liked James Dean, my dad went along with it because it couldn't be shorted (something he hated for some reason) and he didn't like James. I'm just peed-off they couldn't be creative enough to come up with a second name to go with it and at least give me the choice of which to use... (Of course what my dad failed to notice is that rather than shorten it, most people make it longer by adding spurious vowels to the end - something I'd probably would have coped with if it were not for that bloody pet dinosaur off of the Flintstones  ). It's not a common name in England, though it has had brief periods of popularity, at one time there was three of us in a class with the same name - and to much hilarity, I often found myself sitting next to a kid called James or Martin, and at one time next to a girl whose surname was Dean, again to much hilarity.
Through out school life I accumulated a number of ecclesiastically-based nicknames randomly derived from my first name, all of which are gladly forgotten. Kids can be particularly cruel when giving nicks to people and I've always made a point of not using them.
At school the girls were called by their first name and the boys by their surnames - that always bugged me to the point where I'd simply ignore people who called me by my surname, including the jumped-up little dictators known as teachers, who I never liked calling "Sir", though after several periods of lunch-hour and after-school forced captivity known as "detentions" I eventually gave in on that score, but always spelt it "Cur" in my head...
Thanks to my surname, I became the past-master at ignoring people who derived nicks from that too. It also bugs me that I struggle to pronounce my own surname over the 'phone - (I discovered recently my sister used to have the same problem - but she fixed that by simply changing it) - the really annoying thing is I can pronounce Bracknell with ease
On AOL I was known as DarkDean because that seemed like a Gothic thing to be, then one day I accidentally deleted the username and couldn't get it back again, so became DarqDean and some people still call me that IRL, (or DeanDarq or just Darq) - I dropped it here simply because some people (such as Iván) kept calling me Darg.
So, bottom line is Dean is fine, because I don't have an alternative and after 50 years I'm slowly getting use to it.
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What?
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someone_else
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:15 |
To all ye aka's and avatars I am very sincerely someone_else. The underscore is just because someone else has posted twice in the forum more than two years ago. I have already blown a crack in my principles concerning internet anonimity by putting my B-date in my PA profile.
However, in daily life I prefer to be called by my first name, so I won't make any objections if I'm addressed as Robert. And when I perform a virtual migration to Rockpommel's Land, you may even call me by my cat's name. |
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Kotro
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:17 |
The T wrote:
Unless you can say my whole name (Teodoro Jose Gomez de la Torre Rosero) I really prefer to be called Teo (not Theo as I don't believe in name translations) or better yet, just T. |
I remember a discussion I had a while back about parents calling their children by their full name if they did anything wrong - like instead of "John" or "Johnny" they would go "John Wilkes Booth, get your ass in here!" I remembered going "Mm, nope, that never happened to me, too much of a mouthful for my parents to say - guess you would be the same, right?
Male friends call me Kotro or Kotras.
Female friends call me Johnny.
Most family calls me J.
My brother calls me Dumbass.
And I'm fine with either, coming from the right people (only my brother gets to call me dumbass, don't get any ideas ).
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Bigger on the inside.
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Jimbo
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:28 |
Well, since people generally don't react to my posts in any way, I can't say that I have this problem. No one ever calls me anything.  Seriously though, should the occasion arise, Toni & Jimbo are both fine by me. My sweet lord sounds pretty good too. Hallelujah!
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el böthy
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:52 |
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I´m used to "hey, you a****le!"... but böthy works fine also
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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el böthy
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:55 |
The T wrote:
Unless you can say my whole name (Teodoro Jose Gomez de la Torre Rosero) I really prefer to be called Teo (not Theo as I don't believe in name translations) or better yet, just T.
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What is there to believe? jajajaja... you are peruvian, right T?
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Plankowner
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 05:03 |
Guess I could explain my handle..
Plankowner is a Naval term, I was in the Navy for six years... When you are part of a newly commissioned ship you are considered a plankowner of that vessel. In the old days they'd actually give you a piece of the ship (a plank of wood) with it inscribed etc... Now all you get is a plaque. Also Tampa Bay is known for the apocryphal legend Jose Gaspar (Gasparilla) who was a Spanish pirate who operated in SW Florida. Hence why our football team is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Since I'm a season ticket holder I needed a name for my own custom jersey and since being a buc fan since their inception in 1976, I decided on Plankowner with the number being #76... So, I've pretty much kept this moniker.
Before Plankowner, I used the term Shellback which is an initiation when you cross the equator on a naval vessel, before the initiation you are considered a slimey polywog. The initiation itself is rather unthinkable and really isn't suited for telling to civilians, just know they remove the slime and you meet Imperium Neptuni Regis which consists of the Royal Staff, Neptunus Rex (Ruler of the Raging Main) and his Royal Scribe Davey Jones. So you get inspected, instructed and passed into the Solemn Mysteries of the Ancient Order of the Deep. I still like that nickname but really got tired of explaining it, hehe...
But to answer the topic itself, I don't mind being called by my first name, or last name, handle, or forms of it...
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micky
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 05:22 |
micky? mikey was taken... and and my first user name got me into problems here
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Plankowner
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 05:26 |
^^^ pray tell.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 06:40 |
Peter wrote:
I had no previous experience with forums (this is still the only one I belong to), so perhaps naively I started out with my full name here (as Jim Garten still does). |
This was the second online forum I joined - on the other I was (and still am) known by my DJ name, but on this one I just wanted to be known by my real one (it's only going to last 5 minutes, there's only 30 members on the forum anyway & it's not as if I'll ever meet any of them is it...? )
Since then (5 years ago nearly?  ) I've joined a couple of other music forums (fora?  ) & usually use another alter-ego Leslie145 (although I always use the same avatar, which has led to meeting some other PA members on other forums/fora/whatever), a reference to... well, a reference to a Leslie 145 (for those who don't know, a specific speaker cabinet used with Hammond organs).
In real life, I was Christened James, but the only person who ever calls me that is my grandmother.
Personally, I prefer the abbreviated version 'Jim'
Edited by Jim Garten - January 13 2009 at 06:49
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Jim Garten
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 06:42 |
crimson87 wrote:
Tarkus would be an amazing name for a pet |
Tarkus was the name of our sadly departed leopard gekko 
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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