# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/21 "2000-06-12T12:38:35Z")
I love the new name, Cristi… um, Persephone! If you haven’t already, go read “Book of Shadows” by Phyllis Curott. I think you’ll like it a lot. ---
**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, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/22 "2000-06-12T15:44:25Z")
Now there are myth fundies vs skeptics? And I suppose longterm disagreements between the Roman and Greek churches? Dave, I hope you weren’t joking about that “Zeus Project.” Sounds interesting. I’m at 199 and will lurk as long as I can before I am forced by my big mouth to post #200. ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/23 "2000-06-12T16:25:24Z")
Imposter!!! Bring back Cristi!!! I mean NOW!!! ---
**Author:** ![SoSueMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SoSueMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoSueMe)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/24 "2000-06-12T17:15:24Z")
Want sig suggestion? ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/25 "2000-06-12T17:21:58Z")
This isn’t very noteworthy, but I thought I’d mention it since I always loved the name Persephone. My real name is Melania, and that is what Demeter was called in the wintertime when Persephone was with Hades. I always thought I would be ‘funny’ to name a daughter (if I had one) Persephone. So, Christi, even though I’m 26, I’m going to mother you. ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/26 "2000-06-12T17:28:40Z")
My dictionary has a slightly different definition – I’m not sure they kept their Greek and Latin straight. > [@](#): > > A daughter of Zeus and Demeter _abducted by **Pluto** to reign with him over the underworld._ While my schedule at the moment is too busy to allow for any actual abductions, I do expect you to fulfill your duties in reigning over the underworld, **Persephone**. We are low on brimstone in sector 7 and Tantalus needs a new boulder. There is a Punishment Committee meeting at 8:00 tonight and I think you should take charge of our ladies auxiliary, Hell’s Belles. And be a dear and run out and get some doughnuts, would you? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/27 "2000-06-12T18:42:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Now there are myth fundies vs skeptics? And I suppose longterm disagreements between the Roman and Greek churches? Dave, I hope you weren’t joking about that “Zeus Project.” Sounds interesting. Nah, that was parody - and first-rate parody, IMO, poking fun at inerrancy and the “Jesus Project” in the same post. Had me ROFL! > [@](#): > > 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. So you didn’t intentionally change your username, Cr…er, Persephone? Maybe this is your apotheosis to Board Goddess! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/28 "2000-06-12T19:00:17Z")
_click_ Yes, this message is for Persephone. This is the Flypsyde Memorial & Monument Company. We’re calling to inform her that her epitaph just got in from the regional warehouse. She can pick up at the front desk during normal business hours. Thank you. _click_ ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/29 "2000-06-12T19:22:26Z")
I’m just wondering, after DAVE’s comments, if Mythology is being taught in Kansas? ---
**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, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/30 "2000-06-12T22:18:20Z")
> [@](#): > > I have here a bottle of tequila and a match… :::pours tequila over clenched fist, strikes match, lights hand on fire::: Lighting herself on fire seems an oddly appropriate thing for the Goddess of the Underworld to do… > [@](#): > > So you didn’t intentionally change your username, Cr…er, Persephone? Yes, I did change it intentionally. Tuba just happened to be doing the name change while I was logged on to the board, as Cristi. But if you want to think of me as a Goddess, well, I certainly won’t object. One more worshipper never hurt anybody. 🙂 > [@](#): > > There is a Punishment Committee meeting at 8:00 tonight and I think you should take charge of our ladies auxiliary, Hell’s Belles. And be a dear and run out and get some doughnuts, would you? Happy to, dear. But you’re going to have to get the doughnuts yourself. No way in Here I can get them past that ugly-assed three-headed thing you call a dog. He’s never liked me anyway. > [@](#): > > Seph, I love the name. But I loved Cristi, too. Thanks, drpozone! BTW, “Seph” will work just fine for anyone who doesn’t feel like typing out Persephone. I rather like it! > [@](#): > > 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. I asked Tuba about this before I changed my name, and she said it could be done. I didn’t want to get totally raked as a newbie. So Tuba is the real goddess, not me. Although I really would like to be Tuba when I grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Oncle\_Biere\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oncle\_Biere\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oncle_Biere_1)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087/31 "2000-06-12T22:44:45Z")
Course not. Here, have a cold one and let’s stare at this new name together. Fascinating as a new baby, isn’t it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-reg-i-swear-i-just-changed-my-name-please-dont-hurt-me/22087.md?page=1)