# Flutters in as the name suggests **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 26, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flutters-in-as-the-name-suggests/55873 "2001-02-26T01:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flutters-in-as-the-name-suggests/55873/1 "2001-02-26T01:05:15Z")
Hello everybody! This is the new me… I felt it was time for a name change and I think this name is cool… so here I am formerly TopazAntares now Obsidian Flutterby. A flutterby is a type of faery with butterfly wings btw. They also think themselves above faeries though they are very rare. (ie just me) See you guys around the board… Obsidian Flutterby ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flutters-in-as-the-name-suggests/55873/2 "2001-02-26T01:50:09Z")
🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flutters-in-as-the-name-suggests/55873/3 "2001-02-26T01:50:42Z")
2 things… 1. Hope you cleared the new name so you don’t get a drubbing by Mods and others with no clear sense of discretion… 2. Obsidian Flutterby… have you read Obsidian Butterfly, and the rest of that serious… Mmmmmmm… 3. Hi Opal! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flutters-in-as-the-name-suggests/55873/4 "2001-02-26T01:58:15Z")
1. Yes I have if you’ll note my post count is above 800… if I just created a new name it wouldn’t be that I had TubaDiva change it for me (Thank you again!) 2. Yes I have and I’m working on the rest. I read as they come in for me so I’m pretty much reading backwards… I seem to get two books at a time that go in order but they are back from the first I read. I loved the book and I loved the name Obsidian Butterfly but someone has that name (not nescessarily here I haven’t searched but other places where I now have the name) so I had to adjust it and give it my own twist. I call butterflies flutterby’s so it’s an obvious switch. 3. Why does everyone wave to Opal? _has been curious about that for awhile_ ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flutters-in-as-the-name-suggests/55873/5 "2001-02-26T02:48:49Z")
The hi Opal thing (FWIK) comes from some time in the past that Opal used to list things, and whenever she listed 2 things, she listed a 3rd item that said she hated lists with just 2 items. People have run with it. So know, whenever someone does a list, one of the items is always Hi Opal… your welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flutters-in-as-the-name-suggests/55873/6 "2001-02-26T05:21:12Z")
Ahhhh that makes sense. If I ever do lists I’ll have to do that _grins_ ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flutters-in-as-the-name-suggests/55873/7 "2001-02-26T06:22:45Z")
Great, now you made me have to change my sig. _grumbles_ 😉