# Name Changes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481 "2000-06-05T19:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SmoothOperator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SmoothOperator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmoothOperator)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/21 "2000-06-06T16:30:14Z")
Anti Pro I think we need water blasters. Trion, I’m flattered that anyone remembers me. I so rarely post here. Thanks. Kat, I think I tried to get a mentor, but wasn’t assigned to one when I was first posting. I went away for awhile. I’m sorry that I caused Christi to fall off the wagon because of my not posting and praising her. I forgot! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/22 "2000-06-06T17:07:06Z")
kiffa: thank you for changing your user name. Every time I saw your name, I thought, I don’t remember posting to that! Love the sig! ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/23 "2000-06-06T19:26:56Z")
At your service Madam. I hope it reduces confusion. I am sorry that it took so damn long to get the change done; one, I had to think up a new name and two, it took the MB a long, long, loooonnnnnnggg time to respond to my request as well as make the change. ---
**Author:** ![Snark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Snark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snark)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/24 "2000-06-06T22:54:19Z")
My name is Bill. My handle was **Snarkberry** on this board until I changed it to **Snark**. I later changed **Snark** to **Flinx** , and still later changed it back to **Snark**. I’ll be sticking with **Snark**. Sorry for the confusion. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/25 "2000-06-06T22:55:55Z")
And also, for those who don’t know: Snark used to be known as peaches and peaches8. Hope that clears everything up.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/26 "2000-06-06T23:59:16Z")
You mean we had **peaches** and **peaches8**? No wonder I was confused! Sorry, **peaches8** , I know you changed your name several times, and when I saw the thread about changing ‘peaches’ to ‘kiffa’, I just assumed you were changing again and didn’t look any further!☹ And sorry, **kiffa** , for confusing you with peaches8 - although I don’t think I could have confused you with a nicer person.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/27 "2000-06-07T16:50:36Z")
I was Kenny yesterday. Now I’m Moe (hence my new sig). But I’m still the same person Moe o’ less. ::ba-dump \<\\>:: ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/28 "2000-06-08T04:47:57Z")
Did I post to this thread? I vaguely remember making up Cristi doing something bad due to “her newbie” not praising her, in response to a post from SmoothOperator, and Smooth’s comment addressed to me supports that, but there’s no post like that in this thread. Am I losing my mind again? ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/29 "2000-06-08T06:42:08Z")
And I loved your name! Almost wish you hadn’t changed it. ☹ I named my cat after Bast, since she was the goddess of cats (amongst other things, as shown below). From [http://www.radiant.org/bubastis/deity/bast.html](http://www.radiant.org/bubastis/deity/bast.html) > [@](#): > > Bast > > Tameran names: Bast, Bastet, Pasch, Ubasti, Ba en Aset (N.B. In addition to native variations by locality or over time, there are often several possible transliterations into the Roman alphabet used for English.) > > Greek names: Artemis, Kore Artemis > > In ancient artwork, Bast is typically shown as a beautiful girl with the head of a cat. She is commonly shown with black, white, yellow, or glowing skin. Sometimes She is shown as a light-skinned European girl with long blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She is often shown as fully cat. > > Bastet is the name of Bast when She is in fully cat form. > > Pasch is recorded in extremely ancient documents as being an older version of Her name. We get the modern English word “passion” from Pasch. > > Bast is an extremely ancient Goddess, long predating writing. She had many, sometimes contradictory, roles. NB: not all of the following was believed simultaneously. Beliefs about Bast evolved over thousands of years and the views under the Old Kingdom were significantly different than the Greco-Roman views, not to mention a wide variety of modern variations. > > Bast is the Goddess of cats. > > Bast is the Goddess of the rising sun. > > Bast is the Goddess of enlightenment. > > Bast is the Goddess of truth. > > Bast is the Goddess of lesbians. > > Bast is the Goddess of civilization, bounty, and plenty. > > Bast is the Goddess of the household and protector of the home. > > Bast is the enlightened Maiden of the Triple Goddess. > > Bast is the Goddess of Goddess of creation. > > Bast is the Goddess of sex, fertility, and birth. See also information on the religious item known as the Djed. > > Bast is the Goddess of physical pleasures. > > Bast is the Goddess of bountiful positive energy. > > Bast is the Goddess of music, dance, and the arts. The priestesses of Bast were known for their erotic dance ritual, the forerunner of modern erotic dance and stripping. > > Bast is the Goddess of hemp and marijuana. > > Bast is the Goddess of the moon and possessor of the Utchat, the Eye of Her twin brother Heru Sa Aset [Horus]. Now I ask you, could there be any cooler username than one representing the Goddess of sex and physical pleasures? Hehehe 😃 But SmoothOperator’s ok, too. It’s just good to know that Bast didn’t actually disappear, but morphed into a different goddess. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/30 "2000-06-08T12:16:39Z")
Hmmm, I didn’t know Bast meant all that. I suppose that we should have had a Priapus to go with Bast. Although we do have a Sucellus. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/31 "2000-06-08T12:30:23Z")
I think I may have had vowels once upon a time (but had to sell them in troubled times) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481/32 "2000-06-08T21:48:01Z")
Okay, I know I am seriously messing everything up here. But I decided I may as well go back to my original moniker of vanilla. I’m sorry kiffa! I promise I will never change my user name again. (Now can I have a Wally sig?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes/21481.md?page=1)