Real name, user name, or some nickname?
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Topic: Real name, user name, or some nickname?
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Real name, user name, or some nickname?
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:36
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I used to associate myself so much with the user-name Logan that it felt odd if people called me Greg, but now I prefer to be called Greg. Some here will be called by first name, user-name, and by some other nickname (the nickname often being based on the user name). Some prefer to keep even their first name hidden, and don't add it to the profile. In some cases I've greeted someone by the real given name, and people have been surprised that I knew it (it was in the profile, but they did not know that was public). I like the more personal touch of real names. It can feel awkward when I call someone by a username that doesn't even sound like a name, particularly -- might be a combination of words, and then with no real name given one is apt to abbreviate it. So "I_dig_intellectual_old_tracks" becomes "Idiot". Hi Idiot, welcome aboard, you've come to the right place! Of course the username alone provides more anonymity (and is sometimes suggested for security reasons), and I'm not comfortable giving out my full name to the public. Do you prefer being known by your real name, and do you prefer to call others by real name? ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:40
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To try and beat slarti to the punch. Call me whatever you want, just don't call me late to dinner. ------------- 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:41
People only ever call me Mike or KBT, so it's what I'm used to. Mike is more often used though. In real life, however, hardly anyone calls be by my first name, I get last-named so much that there was actually a point where I was offended if someone called me "Mike" and I didn't know them well enough. A favorite highschool moment of mine was when someone asked, "Hey Sharkey! What's your last name, anyways?"  .
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:43
IDIOP  People that know me use my real name, others usually use NS. Either way is fine by me. |
Logan wrote:Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:43
| I prefer not to be called. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:44
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Heeeere Vompatti! Here boy!! Vompage! Vompage!! |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:44
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It seems to be split 50/50 with Dan/Daniel and Itsy. I'm fine either way.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:47
Stop waving that sausage in front of me. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:51
Therein lies the idiotic joke (calling someone an idiot who can't even get an acronym right). I think I'll edit anyway.  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 15:54
Fine. More sausage for me. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:00
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Don't care for either one. Usually people call me by my first name... I hate it, but who's asking me? I wish I had a cool nickname, but thinking of one requires brain cells.
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Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:07
Are you a Bubuhead??? That's great
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:12
i choose ''by dog's name '' .because a friend of my called me by my dog's name ''Aquatarkus ''  ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:12
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I've edited the options a bit. I don't really mind if I'm being Logan or Greg or Logz or sLo-gun or Log-In, or Gegs or Gorio or Gregory etc. In real life, I have an aversion to being called my my last name (I went off that during my fairly short time in the military) and don't like being called Mister, or Sir.... That bugs me. What I don't like is being referred to in the third-person when I'm around, or, as happened at the forums once, "some guy." I guess it was forgotten who said it, but I would have been easy to check, and I do like the personal-touch.
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:17
That's how I feel too; it depends on who's addressing me and how deep of a relationship we have. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:18
You betcha, Crimmy! I love Argentinian Prog, and Bubu's Anabelas is one of all-time favourite albums.------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:29
I can understand that. Sometimes I'm a little uncomfortable using real names when I don't know a person well. From your user-name, what do you prefer, the full one (but that sounds awkward to me), MovingPictures, MP, MP07, MoP....? I used to prefer reserving my real-name for people that I felt I'd developed an understanding with based on mutual sympathy -- people who you feel closer to and relate to/ can speak on a personal level with. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:33
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My username is a shortened form of my first name (Raffaella, for the very few who still don't know). When I went by the name Ghost Rider, I liked people to call me by my first name, and when almost everyone started using Raff, I thought, "what the heck? I want to be called that for good". At least now people don't take me for a man as easily as they did in the past ! Anyway, just like Greg (though not for military reasons), I hate being called by my surname, unless it's in a friendly manner
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:34
But your last name is so welcoming...  |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:34
That's for real!!!??? Tarkus would be an amazing name for a pet ( or a child
)I suppose I d like to be called by my name instead of my user name. Specially since it's not a very original one
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:45
MP is fine if you want to use an abbreviation, but anyone is free to call me Alex and I'm fine with it. I've talked to you on enough occasions, Greg, that it's definitely comfortable. Either way is completely acceptable. The only complication is that if someone knows me really well, then I almost prefer them to call me Alex, rather than just MP or Moving Pictures. -------------
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:46
Sock monsters like sausage too. -------------
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:53
| I prefer to be called Sir. |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 17:07
As You wish Sir. Well, I'm called with various forms of my nickname and first name: Tuzvihar, Tuzi, Tuz, Bartlomiej, Bartek, Bart, etc. From these I like Tuz and Bartek the most. ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 17:11
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Re: by pet name. Calling me with my cat's name would be a little confusing. I think one Micky is enough.
------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 17:15
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BTW, "Sir" is pronounced similarly to "ser" in Polish which means "cheese". ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 17:43
Sir Riviere - that doesn't have a nice ringing to it, so I'll call you Sir Tony (if I don't forget to). I always use my real name as my username, sometimes with the first letter of my last name attached (usually only because 'angelo' is already in use). As a result - people call me by my name, which I like best. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 17:51
Neither Guigo nor Atkingani are my real names or first names or second names or last names or whatever... my real name is El Señor Don Antonio De Los Ríos, PhD, KBE, VC.   ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 17:52
So your name is Angel O, is it? -------------
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Posted By: June
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 18:13
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Went with the having to kill you option...
I hate my name.
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 18:24
How did you guess, Scot T? Or is that Scottie?  ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 18:33
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Call me the breeze ------------- Signature Writers Guild on strike |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 18:35
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My close friends and relatives call me JayDee.
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:02
call me Deacon Blues...
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:16
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I am a stranger in your land, a wandering man, call me sand. On second thought, don't call me sand, call me gravel. My name is Gravel. Pea Gravel. |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:32
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I like my first name, and I like being called by it too. ------------- 
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:40
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Knowone calls me by my real name only on occasion i've heard people do it but everyone including me looks at them stranglely because i havent been called since school.Everyone calls me variations of Coz or Cozzy,Hence Mrcozdude.Cozfunkel seems to popular because i play bass and like funk and its sounds like garfunkel.
There's some useless information for you. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:45
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Didn't vote, couldn't choose. Over the web, Chris is fine, call me that. In real life people usually call me by my last name and that's usually preferred, because so many people do it it almost seems more natural. But then again, to make it simple, you can call me Al. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:54
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Most people (even those with who I have a deeper relationship in here) still call me Bern which is perfectly fine to me. I picked that user name cause it is special to me. I think it also helps that it's such a short word who already sounds like a nickname that could actually be my first name. I like being called Olivier too though cause I like my name. -------------  
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 21:10
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My real name shall remain forever unknown. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:01
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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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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:40
------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date 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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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 23:02
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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!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 23:17
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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!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 23:46
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I voted the hey fool option.
Though in reality, I prefer 'hey doofus'. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me 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. |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 00:43
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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 -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 00:47
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My name is actually Joseph but I prefer Jozef as my username.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date 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. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Dean
Date 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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:15
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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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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:17
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 ).------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:28
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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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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:52
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I´m used to "hey, you a****le!"... but böthy works fine also ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:55
What is there to believe? jajajaja... you are peruvian, right T? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 05:03
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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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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 05:22
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micky? mikey was taken... and and my first user name got me into problems here ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 05:26
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^^^ pray tell. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 06:40
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' ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 06:42
Tarkus was the name of our sadly departed leopard gekko  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 07:16
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I'm not picky. I don't even get cheesed off if you spell Brian Brain.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 07:21
I voted Mister X.  Seriously now, my name is Swan Song. And my nickname is Pagey. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 17:56
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On real life(), they call me by my last name, but abreviated, don't know if it's common on other countries.... But here on PA, it's ok if they call me Cacho and not my real name, Pablo, though I do hate when they call me Chaco(  Mike!) |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 18:24
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Lord or God would do just fine But no, seriously, Alex is fine to be honest. Or "that guy with I - Meshuggah as his avatar". ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 18:28
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^ How about "Kibble"?
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 19:40
False sir, false. I'm from Ecuador. Just north of said country. -------------
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 19:58
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I just get 'Dylan' usually because I mostly post in threads and areas where I'm already acquainted with most of the people who post in them. I was addressed in my username more when it was Chameleon. I've never heard somebody call me Leningrad. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 20:02
BUT I BET YOU'VE HEARD SOMEONE CALL YOU LINGRAD BEFORE, AM I RITE |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 20:05
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That's the closest I've gotten. Oh, and I just noticed that one of the choices is 'to be called by someone else's username'. If you see me around, feel free to call me HughesJB4. On second thought, HUESJ4/ or something similar would probably be better.
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 10:08
Rob in normal use. Though Robert is the name my parents use (or if I have done anything wrong  )
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 12:53
Thank you for the thoughtful and interesting response. In regards to your query, Peter (and please excuse the rambling): I've been using this nick since a couple of years or so after I started with message boards. Originally I used my full name, both at a screenplay writing site, and then at Rex Murphy's "Cross Country Checkup" forum. I started using Logan at a site as a fictitious character at a long defunct humour-based site. After a while I identified myself with the nick and it followed through several boards -- this being my last board. At other sites I was only known as Logan (or Funk). I offered my first name in my profile, and others decided to use it (especially PA colleagues of mine), and then I got into the habit of commonly using first names. I have thought about changing my username to Greg, but then I'd have to specify Greg M. At least I'm the only Logan here. I actually prefer the name Logan, I have never liked the name Greg or Gregory, but it's pleasing when people refer to me by real name as it indicates for me that those people have taken an interest in me (even if they don't remember my real name, at least they've checked my hardly informative profile). If I used Greg as my username, then automatically everyone would call me that, and therefore it would be less of a pleasure when people call me by my real name. I know that's very shallow of me, but it's comforting when people take some interest in the more personal details. In the past I was not one to divulge things of a personal nature (be it my name, situation, job etc.) but as I've felt closer to this community, I've shared more about myself, and for a long time I have taken an interest in the lives, and not merely "the words", of other people at forums, as I have wanted to "know"/ "understand" people as well as one can in such venues. I don't like to pry into other people's lives, but one gleans much over time. I'm particularly fascinated by people's idiosyncrasies. I must be reasonably well-known for my soggy digressions. I think it's selfish need of mine because understanding other's helps me to understand myself. I know this is a serious digression, but it's related -- has to do with my desire to personalise the members more (knowing and using someone's real name is one part of that). Especially after becoming involved in team work, this site became a more personal venue for me. Though my memory is not nearly as good as it was before having children, I have a very good memory when it comes to placing real names to nicknames, and for remembering what others have said, but it's not uncommon for me to learn a poster's name by checking the poster's profile. Anyway, I have seriously considered changing my nick to my real name, but there are various reasons why I would rather keep my old one: people from old sites I visited might recognise me as Logan; I have used Logan for things I have prepared for the site (don't want to have to edit); a change of username can create confusion; people have quoted or referred to "Logan" posts, and it could confuse old threads (make them less readable/ easy to follow); I don't think the admins should have to change it to satisfy my ego; and, egotistically (and this is really very, very minor), there would be no particular pleasure in having people address me by real name if it were my username as well. It must be said, though, that having people refer to me as Greg in threads has led to confusion (people not knowing who is being referred to -- once had a thread where I was confused with Greg Walker) I'm fine being called either, though, and tend to be happy to be called something. I sometimes am chuffed somewhat when spoken to directly rather than being referred to in some vague way (even if it is critical). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 13:32
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I don't really care whether you call me Jeanine, Jean or BaldJean; just don't call me BJ because that stands for something else -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 13:35
| Barclay James? Bob Johnston?? Billie Jean??? |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 13:46
| Brenda Jean? Barbara Jo? Bank Job? |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 13:46
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BJ-1
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 19:06
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Hmmmm...
Bomb Japan?
Bolivian Jurist?
Born Jewish?
Bug Juice?
Blue Jewels?
Bring Juanita?
Bite Juan?
Biscuit Jelly?
Burmese Jungle?
Bongo Judo?
Burgundy Jam?
Blame Jesus?
Burning Joint?
Bang Jimenez?
Bonk Janice?
Bleating Jackass?
Busking Jazzmen?
Brawny Joe?
Broken Jaw?
Balmy Jupiter?
Boring Job?
Blown Jape?
Bikini Jane?
Beginner's Jitters?
Bimini Jade?
Black Jaguar?
Bloody Journey?
Belly Jeopardy?
Beautiful Jasper?
Basking Jailer?
Boyfriend Jilter?
Big Judy?
 I dunno -- it's on the tip of my tongue, as it were....or not! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: January 15 2009 at 00:44
For those of us that use a different screen-name, it is intereting to see who picks up on the real name; it seems to facilitate a more personal interaction, as Greg said, especially when you know that someone had to take an extra step to reach past the screen name. ------------- Signature Writers Guild on strike |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 15 2009 at 01:10
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I use my nick on many forums and in other places, for example for playing Bridge at BBO (Bridgebase online). "Jean" (with American pronunciation, like "Gene") is simply short for "Jeanine" (with French pronunciation) and is used by people who like me. when being a kid I was only ever called "Jeanine" when I had done something wrong. "Jeanine, who has broken the Ming vase"? "Bald" of course stands for my hairstyle, which was chosen for personal reasons ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 15 2009 at 01:23
You forgot BeetleJuice ;) |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: January 15 2009 at 01:28
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yeah....gotta change mine, way too formal and as Peter says, too " Google" friendly having a full name. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: January 15 2009 at 02:43
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Chris ... Coops ... T.Rox ... Dinosaur ... I will generally respond to any of them.
Coops is in my profile, and that is a nickname in itself ... and the guys at work call me DJ Coops, which has stuck from my days on Community Radio. ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: January 15 2009 at 10:42
By my Name or Zafreth, my alter ego -------------  |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: January 16 2009 at 16:05
Oh Vompatti... You just... had to bring that back up didn't you Yes, I would respond to that name also ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Trial and Error
Date Posted: January 17 2009 at 02:43
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Cat's name. Call me Mignon. First name would work too. Tae just sounds like a misspelling of tea. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Trial_And_Error/?chartstyle=SidebarRed1"> 
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Posted By: John McIntyre
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 13:34
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Although my handle on this site is John McIntyre, my use of it stems from some illicit sexual activity I participated in when I was 13. I had to travel to and from school by train in West Cumbria, England, past the Sellafield Atomic plant. The school taught me and the rest of the class the "Facts of Life"! On the way back home, a few of us wanted to try it out. I finished up in a toilet on the train with a girl doing a bit of 'exploration', but (fortunately) there wasn't enough room to perform properly. Many years later, I read the original M*A*S*H book, where I learned how Trapper John got his name. He was 'well away' with his date in a train toilet and was caught "in the act" by the train conductor. She renaged on the arrangement by yelling "He trapped me, he trapped me!" Trapper John's full name was John Francis Xavier McIntyre.
I also had the nick-name Taff, as my ancestry is predominantly Welsh. ------------- I am one of only about 1,800 people in the world with an original M400 Mellotron! |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 13:39
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I'll go by Folly, Pnoom!, or Aaron, don't really care which. Voted don't care. |
Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 13:57
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Well, girls and boys, I have not enough reliability to name every one of you
by your own name.I`ve been here only since last November so I don´t feel
as I can talk to some of you by your real names.
For me, most of my lols call me Caban , as my first surname is Cabanzón
,but it´s quite remembering of a spanish film character: Dr. Cavan.
I just prefer Nando,´cause my first name is Fernando and most people call me like
that. ------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 14:22
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I remember one time when someone has called me by a name here, and it was my real name. It felt weird to some extent since I'm so used to hiding behind this user name or Pedro in some other forums, but it also felt kind of nice, more personal, fuzzy and warm. So I guess I prefer the real name. I feel I'm more Pekka than this stupid thing I made up some night under foggy circumstances. Which of course somewhat translates to Keppa4yearsold ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Diaby
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 14:58
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I prefer to be described, as in "hey, fool!"
btw, first name/username ------------- yeah |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 16:20
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Either Jeff or progrocker2244. I like Jeff more though.
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 16:22
real name- Kevin
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 16:35
| People may or may not acknowledge that I dig tunes. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 16:38
I prefer to be referred to as "Big Daddy Spank-Bottom"  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 17:40
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Well, whenever people call me by name, then it feels like there is a closer connection with that person, so for me, the people who call me by my first name are typically people I've chatted via PMing alot, and have therefore formed a more straightforward friendship with.
My 'Nickname' is really either 'Mike' or 'Kain', the former of which I have only been called by one person, and the latter is what people know me by online when not incredibaly close to me. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 17:48
It could be just me, but every time I see your name I think of prunes. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 18:11
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I really haven't been to a forum where people have called me by anything other than my username. Or toppy, which they sometimes call me. So I think it'd be weird if they did use my real name or nickname. However, I don't really care, so that's what I voted for.
And I'm not expecting anyone really to remember this, but my nickname is Miah, which is short for Jeremiah in real life. Yeah, Miah does sound like a girl's name when you say it, but I'm so used to it I really don't care.
How do you pronounce that? Puh-noom? ------------- 
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 18:12
Prunes are alright, but I prefer plums. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 18:29
| In environments like this, by username. Among friends and acquaintances, by nickname. |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:59
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I prefer my first name Markos ,I have many nicknames like Bela Lugosi,Penguin,Reo,Hippie Penguin ,Crazy Penguin,Monsieur Cromagnon,Cronch... etc etc
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 13:46
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I don't care. My first name is Stewart, my stage name is Stool Man, and I have a couple of nicknames. I also answer to "hippy" among my non-hippy friends.
------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |