# Best alias used in a personal story

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-alias-used-in-a-personal-story/43759>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 2, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-alias-used-in-a-personal-story/43759 "2000-12-02T22:33:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-alias-used-in-a-personal-story/43759/1 "2000-12-02T22:33:01Z")

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Often, when recounting a personal experience, posters will change the names to protect the innocent. What is the most interesting/unusual/bizarre alias you have seen used?

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**Author:** ![User\_10K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@User\_10K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/User_10K)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-alias-used-in-a-personal-story/43759/2 "2000-12-05T03:18:57Z")

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😕 aren’t all the names fictitious here?

In book, I usually am startled when British writers follow Dicken’s style of using apropos names.

Softleigh for the shy one.  
Strider for the bold one, etc.