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I don’t like it. It’s too stinking long, and it doesn’t really have anything to do with me. Unfortunately, I can’t think of anything else, which was the original problem. I couldn’t think of anything the first time that wasn’t already taken, and typed in StuffLikeThatThere because I had recently heard the song. I accepted it because I was tired of trying. It annoys me in a low-level way when I see it, but I still can’t think of anything better.
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I like mine. I hope I might have introduced some non-Brits to the Clangers’ world. They are a cultural icon* in the UK but the Yanks, at least, have never heard of them (maybe a cover up after the moon landing fakery fiasco?)
Icons, whatever. Anyone really, properly British speaks* Clanger as a second language.
**well, not speaks as such.
I’m not. It’s my user name on most boards, but only becuase I’m terrible uncreative. My past user name on the original SDMB (and still my AOL screen name as well as my user name on some other boards) is Nec3f. Why? Because when we first got AOL, I couldn’t think of anything and I looked around the room and at the bottom of the monitor I noticed that the brand was NEC and the model was 3Fge. So I took Nec3f. (I wish people would stop calling it Neck-3-f). When I had to set an account up for my mom, I used a similar method. Her screen name is V34isp. It was from a modem box… Version 3.4 Internal Speaker Phone. Yeah, she loves that.
If there’s one thing I wish I had more of, or any at all, it’s creativity. I’d love a new name.
Nope! It’s some dreck from a song or poem I liked when I was thirteen. I’ve been thinking about changing it recently, but I always have an awful time coming up with names and handles and the like.
Gonna post and then come back to read the answers.
I really do like Anaamika. I like it because it’s unusual on this board, but extremely common on the 'Net, so I sink into a sea of obscurity (if you google me, you do get to my OKcupid profile, though, which I use to take quizzes).
No one ever confuses me for a boy, and it even has an appropriate meaning. It means “the girl with no name”, and anaamika is colloquially used as “anonymous”.
Yep. I suspect the impression it leaves with people is not at all my personality. But I love the obscurity of the name (there is a historical Dangerosa).
I like mine. I’ve pretty much been Wile E since I’ve been on the internet. I like to say that Wile E Coyote is my totem cartoon animal. I do sometimes wish I didn’t have to explain that I’m female all the time. I’ve tried other more feminine monikers but they just didn’t suit me. I started out here as Tiramisu, my favorite dessert, but I kept seeing the name and forgetting it was me.
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I’ve tried to get my username changed to just plain “Lemur”. But someone else has that username. That asshole has zero posts.
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Oh, good, because I tend to refer to you as Lemur in my posts, and I always wondered if that bothered you (who knows…the number might have some great significance to you, you know?)
I like my name mostly because it uses my own name, but I think (hope) the “feena” part makes it a little memorable. I came up with it because my husband sometimes calls me Sarafina. Everyone can feel free to just call me Sarah if they want to!
Meh. I had a phone on my desk and I was snacking on Shreddies when I came up with my username. Neither happy nor disgruntled. It’s what I got, don’t really care either way.
I don’t really like mine, but I don’t what I’d change it to. As it is, it does give you some information about me, but I wish I could come up with something clever and appropriate.
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I do sometimes wish I didn’t have to explain that I’m female all the time.
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:smack:
I’m not particularly imaginative, as evidence by my user name. It’s what I usually call myself when I am yelling at myself. If I had given it a little more thought, I would have gone with geegaw because that’s just fun, or something from Pride and Prejudice. But it doesn’t make me unhappy.
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I’m not a big fan of my name. Hell, it’s really not even mine.
Lemme splain - I’m not a sock!
Way back - circa 1998 - I bought a computer. I lived in a house with 3 other guys. One of the guys had a last name quite similar to “brewha”. He created an AIM account on my computer with the screename “brewha”, used it for the night and never used it again.
Later, I started chatting with people on AIM. I didn’t want to deal with creating a new account, and I had an profile hanging out on my computer anyway, so I became “brewha”.
A couple of years later, when I decided to join the SDMB, I signed on with this name.
So, this name really has nothing to do with me, and since it ends in an “a” it apparently makes me look like a girl.
I’d change it, but I’m too lazy.
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Similar situation. Back in the dark days when AOL was just about the only way for the average person to get online, my wife set up our account. She meant to type in Eire, for Ireland. She instead put in Erie. AOL assigned the 774 because the name was already in use. She accepted and started sending the e-mail address out to people before she noticed the typo. Too late, it stuck.
She didn’t use the system much but I did. I was sending out resumes with tat address and didn’t want to get forgotten so I appropriated it. When I started here, I just took it along.
I don’t like it because people assume 1) that I am female and 2) that I am from Pennsylvania.
I think I’ll change it if the one I want isn’t taken.
I’m not sure I’m particularly clever with mine (it’s the name of a character in at least two Tom Robbins novels, Ellen Cherry Charles). But since Ellen is my actual name, it at least looks like me, so I’m not confused when someone’s talking to me on here (which I have no doubt could happen).
I did sign up, way back in the dark ages (1999) with just “Ellen” … but it looked so lonely that in a burst of creativity, I tacked on the Cherry at some point.
I’m fine with mine. I’ve used it since BBSing in the early 90s, and have never seen a need to use a different one anywhere online–unless it’s been taken somewhere, in which case, I use a variant. Besides, I sometimes get called “Spoons” in real life by my friends. Changing it after so many years would be like changing my real name, I think.
I don’t like mine any longer. It was one of those frustrated choices lo those many years ago when I first went online. The good part is it’s always me. If you see a jsgoddess, there I am.
I’ll probably switch to my real name one of these days.
