# Is there any way I can change my nick name? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 30, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222 "2001-07-30T13:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jukeball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jukeball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jukeball)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/1 "2001-07-30T13:41:34Z")
Hey is there any way I can change my nick name and still keep the number of posts that I have posted??? ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/2 "2001-07-30T13:50:05Z")
Email **TubaDiva** at [tubadiva@aol.com](mailto:tubadiva@aol.com) Or you could just keep asking the question, opening up a myriad threads in ATMB in order to do so. I feel that this would be an artistic statement as well as having the advantage of drawing attention to yourself. pan ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/3 "2001-07-30T13:50:14Z")
changing your nick name is tough since people are used to referring to you in a certain way. Changing your user name on SDMB is easy - just email **TubaDiva** [tubadiva@aol.com](mailto:tubadiva@aol.com) (of course you shouldn’t want to do this frequently ya understand) and while You’re emailing her, you might want to ask her to delete the extra thread you posted (you only have to hit ‘submit’ once) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/4 "2001-07-30T13:53:15Z")
I feel that I should note that although **kabbbes** beat me to the punch (\*and don’t think it didn’t **hurt** , I included the joke about a nick name vs. user name. so there. thbbbt. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/5 "2001-07-30T13:54:57Z")
More letter 'b’s! More, I say! pabbbn ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/6 "2001-07-30T14:07:22Z")
Obbbviously, there was a glitch in the system which transformed my “)” needed to close my parenthetical thought, with a “b” and moved it to the closest other “b” for support. The tech folk will have to work on that. I’ll email [techfolk@peoplewhocare.com](mailto:techfolk@peoplewhocare.com) and I’m sure it’ll get resolved. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/7 "2001-07-30T14:27:16Z")
And, I might add, what a marvellous pair of perky ‘b’'s they are too, wring. Standing proudly yet so pleasantly nested in a perfectly formed and elegant construction… It’s the heat, I tell ya…Where’s my Earl Grey ? For further information contact: [support@KeepTakingThePills.co.uk](mailto:support@KeepTakingThePills.co.uk) ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/8 "2001-07-30T14:42:09Z")
::swoon:: **London Calling** thought my “b’s” were _perky_! ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/9 "2001-07-30T15:02:01Z")
b 😃 b - No Matron ! I’m having fun. Leave me alone…home on the Range, where the deer and the antelope play-_eee_…Gotta find shade, need shade… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/10 "2001-07-30T16:11:46Z")
Get a grip, man! Is this the spirit that won us the Empire? Call for a chota peg and adjust your solar topee, that’ll see you through! You don’t see me complaining about the heat, do you? (Of course, that might be because I sit under an air conditioner set to Extreme Arctic Blast, so much so that I have to wear a coat indoors… there is no such thing as a happy medium… well, actually, that J.Z. Knight always seems perky enough…) Um. It’s the heat. Or the cold. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/11 "2001-07-30T16:57:21Z")
Well its all right for you in your state of the art, corporate Air-Con cubes. I’m here with a battery driven fan-strapped-on the-head contraption that keeps sending me skyward. Thankfully the keyboard cable is long enough to type from the ceiling – just have to remember to tilt the monitor up as I begin the accent. I wish someone would dust the top of this window frame. Honestly, you can’t get the staff…Hoping the batteries don’t run out…I think I can _just_see France from here…HELLOOOOOOO !! ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/12 "2001-07-30T17:02:13Z")
Make that _acsent_ and don’t tell matron. ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-change-my-nick-name/74222/13 "2001-07-30T22:00:20Z")
like i said