my SDMB user name that is.
dhchait
it sucks. it’s boring.
i wanna change my login name.
but the damn board won’t let me pick a new one. one fateful day back when i was a proto-doper-poster, i picked a plain jane name. first initial middle initial last name. and now i’m stuck
fuck. i wanna change my login name
I want something cool or funny or inspiring. i have a bunch of ideas. it’s not fair.
i wanna change my login name.
e-mail tubadiva ( tubadiva@aol.com ) and ask nicely. she can change it for you.
you only have 14 posts, why don’t you just re-register? all you have to do is change the email addy in your profile (so that it doesn’t see you as two people with the same email, not allowed i think).
i don’t think the rule against having two logins counts if you never plan on using one of them again.
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Do NOT do that.
Wrong.
Email TubaDiva, like wring said.
Email TubaDiva. She is a god. BUT ASK NICE!! or i’ll have to kill you.
As said before Cessandra is very, very wrong. E-mail TubaDiva, the wonder she is, and tell her who you want to be.
“the damn board” will let you have a new one. Ask TubaDiva nicely and all will be well. Others have done it before you and more will do it after you. Your post count won’t even change. Painless process, really.
What isn’t painless is having more than one name. They take a very, very dim view of having two screen names around here. (Not that I know from experiance, I just watch the wrecks.)
Have fun with your new identity!
Or you can email me. I’ll be more than happy to change your name, within reason.
Cessandra, please do not suggest that people re-register. We DO NOT like people having more than one name, regardless of their intentions.
Lynn
Administrator
For the Straight Dope
oops, sorry. i’ve been away from the sdmb for a long time, and that’s what they generally ask people to do on the other boards i frequent.
It works, it works! The ever gracious TubaDiva has granted my petition for a name change. Now I am free to abuse, attack, belittle, rage and rant and generally spread vitrol(to say nothing of confirming that at heart I am the worst sort of pedantic git) under the cloak of relitive anonymity. Now to find me my enemies must search the universe for a big old guy with no balls and bad knees; a veritable needle in a hay stack.
A word of advice, however, have some sort of plausable reason before you try this.
( runs off to inflict ruin and desolation to the thrilling sound of hoof beats… gallop, gallop, limp, gallop, gallop,limp…)
Since we’re in the pit:
“Shit dammit rats aargh this is terrible. I hate everything.”
OK, now back to normal: thanks everyone for such helpful advice! I’ll email tubadiva & get the show on the road. Man, as usual the sd board is chock full o’nice people.
Excellent.
Cool digs Racer Named Fisk, if I may ask, what’s the story behind said shiny new name? C’mon you know you want to enlighten me…
And, try not to make too many changes. The admins don’t like it when you do it too often. 
MrC, what have you done?? And how long ago did you do it?
M’s child:
It’s from an old Cecil column, i think from his first book. Explaining that, when approaching the speed of light, one contracts along the axis of acceleration.
Apparently this effect is known as the “Fitzgerald contraction”.
Anyway, he (Cecil that is) randomly included a poem in there that i’ll never forget:
“There once was a racer named Fisk.
Who took a considerable risk.
When his dragster got traction,
The Fitzgerald contraction
Reduced his wazoo to a disk.”
Anyone who can write a limerick about near-light-speed physics deserves to have people named after him!!!