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What's in a (nick)name?

Post 161

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

The page turns and voila:

>> "Lucinda, please be sure to re-post the link to your fine article every time the page turns here, wouldja huh, please" <<

>Heh, I missed that, the first time round. But if you insist...

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peace
~jwf~


What's in a (nick)name?

Post 162

PQ

My current name was adopted for a different medium and I've only kept it out of habit - I had lots of IDs both before and after but this is the one I keep coming back to (plus it is original).

Other names include:
My real surname - which thanks to it's bizarre spelling was never recognised as such.

I'mDeadScouseMe -when feeling homesick - always misunderstood tho and I gave it up more out of frustration and being fed up of explaining it than anything else.

George'sGirl - after I met my hubby (in the same chat room) and in tribute to him - strangely though people still mistook me for being variously male (George) or american (Georgia). I eventually got a little tired of being defined via my other half - plus george went offline for a while so noone had any idea what I was talking about (not an uncommon experience)

Fermat'sFirstTheorem - would of worked except people kept asking me what it was and I didn't know

HammerWeildingNordicGod - that was quite fun but I mainly chose that to get a rise out of someone called thor

StripiestSocks - still quite like this one - at least people were forewarned about my overfondness for all things stripey and primary coloured.

and finally

BottleGreenSpecs - although my specs aren't bottle green i do like green and i do wear specs so....

PQ - a lapsed chatter (still not used to having typing speed being a major factor in conversation)

PS - please feel free to steal my old ID's - It would be nice to know that all the time devoted to thinking up original english ids (ie not SUZY1836758) didn't go to waste.


What's in a (nick)name?

Post 163

Researcher 178815

I couldn't be bothered reading the backlog, let's face it, it's been over a year since I last visited this thread smiley - winkeye

Anyone care to analyse aka? If you like, to make it more of a challenge, you can ignore the "also known as / alias" definition smiley - winkeye

The story of how said name came about is rather dull, but I'll like to hear your presumed stories, and analytical comments (what a mouthful!) first smiley - winkeye


What's in a (nick)name?

Post 164

Researcher 178815

By the way, Pencil Queen - "ImDeadScouseMe", is either a bizzare way to fool people into incorrectly assuming your location, or you're from liverpool smiley - smiley

If the latter, where about are you from, if you don't mind? smiley - smiley I hailed from a pretty rough area but turned out.. *just* smiley - ok, although it may've had an effect on my mental state smiley - winkeyesmiley - tongueoutsmiley - silly

Another name, accompanying aka, which I used for a while was "The Sinning Saint of Opposites", so if anybody wants to spend time analysing that one themselves, feel free smiley - smiley No need if you don't want to though smiley - smiley


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