Hippy Hollow is an inside joke; anyone from my hometown will get it. I like it, it’s pretty good, gender-, class-, and race-neutral, which is how I wanted my online persona to play out.
But today I was watching an old XTC documentary when they were recording Black Sea in Chipping Norton, near where I used to live in Oxfordshire. Chipping Norton’s got a little size to it, I imagine most UK Dopers have heard of it. Middleton Stoney was a little village just outside of RAF Upper Heyford which we traveled through every day to school. Yep, I should have been Middleton Stoney. Maybe I will change it…
Anyway, did you discover a better SDMB username after you’d come up with your brilliant nom de guerre?
No, but I did have to change the spelling of mine. I started out with “Snakescatlady”, which caused some Dopers to think I had issues with snake shit. So I changed the capitalization (thanks, TubaDiva!) to reflect that it was intended to represent different words.
I sort of regret running with RoninCyberpunk. I mean, I’m one of those kids who grew up on the Internet and so my cool highschool AIM name is only cool for so many years. Now I’m wishing I had gone with something different. Perhaps one day I’ll seek a name change on here, but nothing has grabbed me thus far.
This is the only place that I’m Kat…because it’s taken everywhere else. From time to time, I consider changing to match one of my other usernames, so people from one place could know it’s me here, but then I think, Why should I make life easy for them?
Captain Carrot’s sig, if anyone was wondering, is (according to his profile):
I figure I should have been named the same anyway. I got my name from the Doonesbury character who is pretty naive (I was at the time)–and not the famous Hawaiian-based military hospital.
Anyway, long story short, I am Tripler, hear me post (and then some)!!
Tripler
Proud of the name, proud to carry on a formerly wet-behind-the-ears tradition. (I ain’t anymore).
I live 6 miles west of Chippy (as the locals know it) and have been through Middleton Stoney (the village) many times. It’s on my route to the M40 motorway. Chipping Norton can’t be that sizeable. I was talking to an American visitor in a pub there one day and he asked me where the downtown area was, to which I was forced to reply, “You’re in it.”