# Changed Username **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066 "2005-01-10T16:57:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 12 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears) #### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/1 "2005-01-10T16:57:32Z")
I was _Deva_. Just in case ya’ll would like to know. Carry on. ---
### Author: ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera) #### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/2 "2005-01-10T19:30:17Z")
Er. Welcome? Why the name change? ---
### Author: ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink) #### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/3 "2005-01-10T19:46:55Z")
That’s a nice new name. The underscores on the old one were _aweful_. ---
### Author: ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink) #### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/4 "2005-01-10T19:48:26Z")
As is my speeling. ---
### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang) #### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/5 "2005-01-10T19:51:18Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > As is my speeling. ‘aweful’, sounds like a complement. (full of awe) I like the new name. Would you mind people calling you **TLT** occasionally? ---
### Author: ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian) #### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/6 "2005-01-10T20:43:46Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > ‘aweful’, sounds like a complement. (full of awe) [Pedant mode on]Orginally awful did mean exactly that. When a contemporary called the newly completed St. Paul’s Cathedral in London “awful” he was complementing it.[/Pedant mode off] Time Like Tears. I like it. Is there a story behind it? ---
### Author: ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose) #### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/7 "2005-01-10T22:11:50Z")
Is that a **Blade Runner** reference? I love that flick. ---
### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang) #### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/8 "2005-01-10T22:22:09Z")
> [@Scruloose](#): > > Is that a **Blade Runner** reference? I love that flick. ah! “All these moments will be lost in Time, Like, Tears in, rain.” ---
### Author: ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears) #### Post date: [January 11, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/9 "2005-01-11T00:54:28Z")
Good eye, **Scruloose**. Shorten it any way you like, but it’s my email addy on a number of servers, and I got tired of the aweful underscores, myself. When Roy says the line, the ‘time, like… tears’ part stands out. I just punctuated it the way I remember the timing of the line. Makes people ask a lot of questions, too. ---
### Author: ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked) #### Post date: [January 11, 2005, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/10 "2005-01-11T08:59:31Z")
I’m planning on changing mine too… how does one go about such a conversion? 🙂 ---
### Author: ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze) #### Post date: [January 11, 2005, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/11 "2005-01-11T09:07:37Z")
Is it appropriate for me to post my username change here too? Oh well, here goes. Formerly Cicada2003. Now under heavy pressure to say something funny (rather than just making hilarious typos). ---
### Author: ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera) #### Post date: [January 11, 2005, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-username/284066/12 "2005-01-11T09:20:38Z")
> [@Khiadra](#): > > I’m planning on changing mine too… how does one go about such a conversion? 🙂 Email \*\*TubaDiva \*\*and ask her to change it for you.