Maybe she’s from the south…
To echo a few others, the reason we have aliases is for anonymity. Why then should we use the real names of our family members, thereby rendering our anonymity moot?
To be fair, for some small percentage of folks that actually probably is a reasonably acccurate statement of fact…I’m a ball and chain man myself.
Thanks for clearing that up. I thought it stood for “dickhead.” Though I’ll keep that, because I like it better.
I don’t know if the hatred for smilies here counts but I know that I sometimes use them just to cheese off a couple of the members. 
Regards,
gravitycrash
This.
[But also, ironically, ‘This.’]
I call my common law spouse “the Beau” because at 41 I’m not crazy about having a “boyfriend” and if I say “partner” it comes across as a same sex relationship. (Nothing wrong with that, but it isn’t a same sex relationship.) I tried for a time to call him Horatio Nelson Muntz to go with Mona Lisa Simpson, but I didn’t like it.
My son, I just call my son, sometimes M.
I really dislike the DH thing, its like Flylady. Saccharine sweet.
Other memes I like, use /dislike eschew but don’t care much about. It is what gives this board its own character.
I never said you should use their real names. I said don’t treat your fake name like your real name and pretend it’s also your kid’s name when you could just as easily say “my kid”.
Instead of “fakenamelad said a bad word in school today” just say “my son said a bad word in school today”. The former makes lack of a vomit smiley near criminal. The latter sounds like the start of a normal everyday conversation.
Put me in the camp of people that like all the little “in jokes” and stuff.
The second one has been around IRL for as long as I can remember, it’s hardly a doper, or even an internet, meme.
I use smilies because it gives emotional content that the written word lacks, especially when your sense of humour is as dry as mine is. The fact that it irritates some members who need an ass-stickectomy is just a bonus. 
They’re a lot better than they used to be- a few years ago there seemed to be heaps of in-jokes, references, and things “you had to be there” to get, so I’m glad it’s improved in that respect. Sure, there’s some (and they add flavour to the board and provide a sense of local culture, so to speak), but it’s a good thing IMHO that there aren’t more.
Don’t hate it, but “I see what you did there” is kinda played.
So I guess that Arthur Dailey is probably on your hit list then with 'er indoors?
Me fourth, Mean Mister Mustard. And it looks kind of pervy, especially if the post was about something intimate or distasteful and it closes with “mmmm”. Makes me think you wrote the post with this face.
You’re absolutely right, and I’ll go further and say that I hate it.
I do the “MrWhatsit” and “Whatsit Jr” thing mostly because that makes it instantly clear who I’m talking about without having to constantly type out “my husband” or use stupid abbreviations like DH. I suppose I could use their real names but I don’t really expect people to remember that Keith is my husband and Zeke, Stazi, and Gus are my kids, so I use my board name as shorthand.
Didn’t realize it bugs some people but am not likely to change it at this point.
I disagree. It’s a useful shorthand to recognise where someone has made a clever joke or reference which may not be immediately obvious to readers. I sometimes use “Nicely done” instead but the convention is still worth keeping.
Don’t do it on my account. I actually prefer these references since I not only don’t have any idea what the people’s real names are, I’m not going to keep track of non-usernamed-based nicknames.
There are people on this forum who are capable of making insightful contributions to any conversation. The rest of us are relegated to the status of hangers on, or at best, sidekicks. If we couldn’t say things like;
“BooYah!”,
“How’s that working out for ya?”, or
“That’s what she said”
We would be forced to indulge in some more aggressive assholery just to be noticed. So don’t take that away from us.