# I'm A Reg! I Swear! I Just Changed My Name! Please Don't Hurt Me! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2000, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087 "2000-06-12T03:53:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/1 "2000-06-12T03:53:41Z")
I never did like posting with my real name. So I changed it. I toyed with the idea of having a contest, and giving a prize to the first person to guess who I used to be, but that would be too darn easy. I’m Cristi. Honest to goodness, it’s me. I also have a new email address. I’m still working on a sig, though. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/2 "2000-06-12T04:02:06Z")
Yes. [Eyes Persephone suspiciously…] Who are you? And what have you done with Cristi? [Summons the constable.] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/3 "2000-06-12T04:02:28Z")
Welcome back, dear. But your definitely harder to spell, now. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/4 "2000-06-12T04:04:12Z")
Wellllllll, ok. Are you SURE you aren’t some Cristi clone? Some trollish sort of sockpuppet? Step up for your retinal scan and DNA test. Checks out ok, I see. IT’S OK GUYS!!! IT’S JUST CRISTI!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/5 "2000-06-12T04:05:16Z")
I hate my own typos more than anybody else’s. _you’re_ ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/6 "2000-06-12T04:06:58Z")
Sig line? For the member formerly known as Cristi? How about “Persephone, the former slayer of peeps”. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/7 "2000-06-12T04:10:54Z")
How about Persephone, slayer of Cristi?? ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/8 "2000-06-12T04:12:07Z")
WAIT! WAIT! How about Persephone, slayer of Cristis peeps! ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/9 "2000-06-12T04:12:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Welcome back, dear. That’s the really weird thing. I never left. The name change occurred just a few minutes ago, just as I was getting ready to reply in a thread. I had replied to a few other threads as Cristi, then all of a sudden, I wasn’t Cristi anymore. Weird. But I like the new name. I know it’s harder to spell, but I always did like the story of Persephone. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/10 "2000-06-12T04:23:31Z")
Christi? \ Is that really you? Yep! I think it is! Hello, there! Boy, am _I_ relieved! I kept looking at when you registered, and your post count, and thought I was losing it! Whew!! ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/11 "2000-06-12T04:27:51Z")
Maybe we should test her. Someone ask her a question only Cristi would know the answer to. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/12 "2000-06-12T04:32:41Z")
A drive-by: > [@](#): > > **Persephone** is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Persephone was such a beautiful girl that everyone loved her, even Hades wanted her for himself. When she was a little girl, she and the Oceanids were collecting flowers on the plain of Enna, when suddenly the earth opened and Hades rose up from the gap and abducted her. None but Zeus had noticed it. > > Broken-hearted, Demeter wandered the earth, looking for her daughter until Helios, the all-seeing, revealed what had happened. Demeter was so angry that she withdrew herself in loneliness, and all fertility on earth stopped. Finally, Zeus sent Hermes down to Hades to make him release Persephone. Hades grudgingly agreed, but before she went back he gave Persephone a pomegranate to eat, thus she would always be connected to his realm and had to stay there one-third of the year. The other months she remained with her mother. When Persephone was in Hades, Demeter refused to let anything grow and winter began. This myth is a symbol of the budding and dying of nature. In the Eleusinian mysteries, this happening was celebrated in honor of Demeter and Persephone, who was known in this cult as Kore. > > The Romans called her Proserpina. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/13 "2000-06-12T04:33:29Z")
Out of curiosity, how did you manage to keep your post count after you changed your handle? I thought that a new handle meant starting over again. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/14 "2000-06-12T04:40:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Out of curiosity, how did you manage to keep your post count after you changed your handle? I thought that a new handle meant starting over again. > \*\* Kyla–I’m not 100% sure, but I believe it might relate to whether or not the admins close your account and give you a new one, or not. I changed my name early on (typed my actual, full name in, like a dumbass) and kept my low-at-the-time post count. I’m not sure why some people do change their accounts instead of just the name (e.g. Notthemama), or if the admins do one thing in some circumstances, and a different thing in another. ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/15 "2000-06-12T04:58:27Z")
Congratulations Persephone. My name change just went through too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/16 "2000-06-12T05:00:53Z")
> [@](#): > > A drive-by: > > > [@](#): > > > > **Persephone** is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Persephone was such a beautiful girl that everyone loved her, even Hades wanted her for himself. When she was a little girl, she and the Oceanids were collecting flowers on the plain of Enna, when suddenly the earth opened and Hades rose up from the gap and abducted her. **None but Zeus had noticed it.** > > > > Broken-hearted, Demeter wandered the earth, looking for her daughter **until Helios, the all-seeing, revealed what had happened.** (Bolding mine) Um…how is this? BTW, great name, Cri…Um, Persephone! (I always loved this story too.) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/17 "2000-06-12T05:10:11Z")
Has anybody noticed that, in the standard Amurrikin pronunciation, the last two syllables of Persephone are “phone-ee”? Pretty suspicious! Seph, I love the name. But I loved Cristi, too. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/18 "2000-06-12T07:16:04Z")
I dunno, _Persephone_. If you really are the true Sin Twister, here’s a test. I have here a bottle of tequila and a match… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/19 "2000-06-12T10:40:07Z")
Oh shit. Don’t be starting that again, elelle. Unless you want another spanking. I really like the new name, PerCristephone. Goddess of the underworld indeed. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/20 "2000-06-12T10:55:05Z")
**Evilbeth** , this is just one of many inconsistencies in the myths. Of course, myth fundies will have a bunch of reasons why it’s not inconsistent, such as, since Helios is all seeing, mentioning him along with Zeus is unnecessary. In other words, Helios seeing everything is a given, therefore, saying only Zeus noticed still includes Helios. Skeptics don’t buy this, of course, but since we don’t have the original manuscripts (and even some translations are questionable) what it comes down to is faith, which is subjective and not always logical. There are those who hope that recent archaelogical finds will shed light on the myths, and may even prove portions of them to be true, but I believe this will only open many more cans of worms. I eagerly await the publishing of the so-called “Zeus Project”, in which mythologists, historians and other scholars are attempting to find the real Zeus and perhaps shed light on what he really did, said, etc. No doubt this will result in more contention and controversy, but the course of serious study should not be curtailed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087.md?page=2)