# Post your first name here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471 "2000-08-07T21:11:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/21 "2000-08-07T21:44:42Z")
You guys are brave. I don’t dare post my real name for fear that someone from work will see it and know I’m here. (My name is quite unusual, or so I hear all the time.) ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/22 "2000-08-07T21:45:27Z")
Thanks Milo. I think I’m actually going to get to meet you this weekend in Flint. You did say you were going, Right? ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/23 "2000-08-07T21:46:46Z")
Amanda ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/24 "2000-08-07T21:48:09Z")
My given name is Elizabeth, but nobody ever calls me that. To my friends and family, I am and probably always will be Libby. I hate both names equally. ---
**Author:** ![Qixotica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5fc32e/32.png) [@Qixotica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qixotica)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/25 "2000-08-07T21:49:33Z")
Virgil ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/26 "2000-08-07T21:52:13Z")
See you there! And I think Libby is a unique and nice name, so it fits its owner well. ---
**Author:** ![Skummet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Skummet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skummet)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/27 "2000-08-07T21:52:46Z")
Brian here 🙂 Flint… would that be Flint, MI? ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/28 "2000-08-07T22:02:28Z")
My given name is Philip, but only my mother calls me that. My name is Phil. ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/29 "2000-08-07T22:08:19Z")
/hijack > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skümmet \* > Flint… would that be Flint, MI? > \*\* That would be the one. There is a doper party there this weekend. For more info seehere /end hijack ---
**Author:** ![GreenEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f9ae1b/32.png) [@GreenEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenEyes)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/30 "2000-08-07T22:10:32Z")
Michele ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/31 "2000-08-07T22:11:48Z")
Skummet: Yes, that would be Flint, MI. Follow the link in my sig for more info, if you’re interested! The party is at my house! Oh yeah–my first name is _Laura,_ not Cristi. Cristi is a nickname from my middle name, which is Christine. I didn’t give myself this nickname–my mom did. She’s never been able to give me a satisfactory answer as to why the nickname from the middle name, and why the funky spelling, too. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/32 "2000-08-07T22:14:40Z")
Well, I forgot to supply the link, but I see little\*bit took care of that! But I’ll do it anyway, because I said I would. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/33 "2000-08-07T22:14:41Z")
Tracy. I don’t feel like a Tracy, but after 26 years, I think I’m too old to start answering to something else. And for some reason people always call me Amy. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/34 "2000-08-07T22:47:27Z")
Patrick . . . and this thread reminds me an awful lot of "I can’t BELIEVE I didn’t do this . . . " or somesuch. Perhaps the more important question is: what do you want to be called? ---
**Author:** ![SmoothOperator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SmoothOperator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmoothOperator)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/35 "2000-08-07T23:07:06Z")
Sarah ---
**Author:** ![Zoing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zoing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoing)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/36 "2000-08-07T23:09:45Z")
Marissa ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/37 "2000-08-07T23:12:46Z")
In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20859) from April, we all said not only what our names were, but talked a bit about how we have been traumatized by them. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/38 "2000-08-07T23:16:33Z")
Vickie ---
**Author:** ![Skummet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Skummet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skummet)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/39 "2000-08-07T23:49:25Z")
Im in Denmark, Europe… its just Ive only been to the states twice and Flint was where i spent some time last summer when i was up there visiting a friend… Well actually it was in Flushing… but i stayed at the Days Inn in Flint… (room 217 if i remember it correctly) anyways i had a real cool time up there and the place isnt all that big, so i was surpriced to see it mentioned here… Hope you have a cool party tho! 🙂 Ok back to the name thing 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471/40 "2000-08-07T23:57:06Z")
Kinsey. Just so you know, since I didn’t post in the gender thread, it’s a girl’s name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-first-name-here/28471.md?page=3)