It’s been gnawing at me pretty much since soon after I registered as a Doper several months ago, what with the sudden realization that I wasn’t “alone”, my sometimes evil twin’s several gentle reminders and more or less subtle inferences as to the loss of one’s identity, the confusion and ensuing mix-up amongst other Dopers regarding the authorship of postings, etc.
I have decided to give omniscient his Christmas gift early. Omni, you will henceforth* be able to enjoy your handle(!) unfettered, you will rule unchallenged, you will again have the pleasure of wearing solo an identity I had quite unwittingly usurped (actually, it was more of an hommage to Unca Cece at the time).
*…well, perhaps not exactly henceforth-henceforth. Now comes the tricky part of re-inventing myself. I thought that the Teeming Millions could be of assistance in this regard. I have a few possibilities in mind that I would like to submit to you but feel free to add to the list if you wish. You have a general idea of my “profile” from my previous postings so if you can think of something funny/far fetched/witty/etc., I’m open.
Here are my choices: pangnosticnot (partial re-invention) and doctuscumlibro
Closing date for submissions: Oct. 31st, 11:59 P.M. E.S.T.
Well I always think of you as “omninot” - would that work? Or maybe you could do something in uppercase, so it doesn’t look so much like omniscient’s name.
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[li]OmniscientNot[/li][li]omniNOT[/li][li]OMNI - forget it, nobody likes names in all caps[/li][li]Cecilnot[/li][/ul]
Actually, I think “Skeezix” was one of the characters in the Gasoline Alley comic strip. Remember that? No? Well, I…I heard about it from my Grandfather, yeah, that’s the ticket, my Grandfather!
Omniscient is a collection of Latin roots, no? Couldn’t you combine Greek roots to get the same thing … pansophist? Pansopher? Then you could figure out how to say “not” in Ancient greek …
Actually, I just looked it up and apparently pansophist is a real word. Now that I think about it though, it’s the wrong part of speech. The word you want is pansophic. So, either somebody’s gotta figure out “not” in Ancient Greek, or you can be PansophicNot (capitalize to taste).
Apansophic?
Antipansophic?
PansophicNon (for that Greek-Latin joint venture feel)?
Nothing I write about any person or group should be applied to a larger group.
Omni, I don’t see why you have to change your name. I like it the way it is. I don’t confuse you and the other Omni, and I’m sure no one else does either.
Besides, none of the suggested names are any good.
