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<a la Dirty Dancing>Oh loverboy… </dirty dancing> :wink:

Now on to the OP…

I went to my first DopeFest last night. It was pretty much all screen names. Then again, there were only four of us and lots of music. I also talk to quite a few Dopers on the phone or via e-mail. For the most part, I usually change from screen name to real name (or reasonable facismile thereof) But when I talk to others from the board about someone I’ve gotten to know more personally, I use screen names for the most part. Just trying to keep it less confusing! :slight_smile:

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I’ve had this handle since 1984. This handle is old enough to get its driver’s license. (And if it can manage it, I’ll let it.)

I answer to my handle just as readily as I answer to y real name. Possibly moreso, since when people find out my real name they tend to pronounce it sotto voce until they figure out how to say it, whereas people who have just met me are more than willing to bellow, “Hey, HAMMY!!!”

I’ve always felt weird about calling people by their real names. I feel as though it gives me some sort of strange power over them. I prefer handles whenever possible, quite honestly…though I don’t mind at all when people call me by MY name.

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Brace yourselves…“Max” is not my real name. But I’ve been using this name so long (since 1991, at least) that I’ll answer to it, so if you wanna call me “Max”, that’s just fine. Heck, I know people I first met as “Max” in the early 90s who still call me that to my face, and I’m cool with it. I’ve only been to a couple of 'fests, but at both, everyone clearly preferred the “Max”.

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:eek:

Most people, in chat, IRL, or here call me Robin or Robyn. Which is fine with me, because it’s my real name. I’ve been using this as an online name since 1996, when I learned how to use IRC.

Robin

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Well, not that I’ve ever been to a dopefest, but I probably won’t respond to my real name, as it is never used.

My friends usually call me by my handle because it’s my nickname in real life (which is why I chose it.) And my family calls me Drew (which is close to, but not, my real name.)

So at any dopefest it would be better for me to be called bouv. (Of course, bouv needs a dopefest in his area first (Albany area), and NO, he will not orginize it, he’s bad at those sort of things.)

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I’ve been Rasa online for like… 9 years or so, so there are a lot of people who only know me as Rasa. At Dopefests, I generally go by Rasa, cuz it’s a very name-like screenname. Some people I think of by their real names, but most of the Bay Area Dopers have such name-like screennames that I can’t think of them as anything else. Sue Duhnym will always be Sue, Doobieous will always be Doob, Jack Batty will always be Jack, and I have no idea what Snooooopy’s real name is!

As far as what I call oldscratch, I definitely call him by his real name. It’s a really cool name, and fits him.

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Albany, NY? If/when I manage to get up there for my sister’s wedding (if she manages to get married!, mybe we can work something out. I’m going to be down in Delaware County, and Albany wouldn’t be too far of a drive for me to go… But you’d have to make the arrangements, 'cause I don’t know Albany…

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And some of us call you Sailorboy. :slight_smile:

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Well, I’m sure if I had ever met any one on these boards in real life, I would never live down the name “Katie”. That or “Trixie”. I assume thats what I’d be called IRL other than “Asshole”, as used in such text as “Hey Asshole, you’re an asshole!” or something like that.

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That is so sad…

Sarah’s fine for me, but I imagine anyone I happen to meet from here would call me Silver.

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I’ve never met anyone in real life :frowning: but even when I get e-mail from people they usually still refer to me as Euty (never Eutychus, for some reason) instead of my real name which is Fahnstock P. Beaudrey.

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I’ve met so many people from the boards (and other computer-related activities) IRL, and Nym seems to be my moniker of their choice. It’s been my all-purpose screen name for going on four years now, and even people that have known me for that period of time and are really good friends still call me Nym. I’m okay with it, although I had no idea it would turn into my name when I first picked it.

There are one or two people that refer to me by my real name, but these are people that I hang out with constantly and consistently, FWIW.

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Andy is not my real name. It’s from my middle name, and it’s what quietgirl calls me. Funny thing is, I’ve gotten to prefer it over my real name. Whenever I go to dopefests, I just tell people that I prefer to be called Andy.

It is very strange at points, though… matt_mcl had a hard time calling me “Andy” after three years of knowing me by my real name.

At dopefests… well, it depends on the person. Some first names are just easier than their usernames.

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Hell, I don’t mind, I just find it funny that even after group sessions of “this is how you (I) pronounce my SN” you still don’t understand:)

And as for choosing a weird nick . . . what, you callin’ ME black?

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Or Miss Tyque.

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Interesting, interesting.

It’s kind of relieving that couples seem to call eachother by their real names, rather than by their screennames. Not that all the screennames arent cool, but - well, I dont know what I would do if my guy called out, in a fit of orgiastic extasy - “oh, Sneeze, Sneeze!” It would just be weird.

I wouldnt mind if people called me Sneeze in real life. Everybody calls me by my real name - I get no variety. Jes, do this, Jes, do that, Jes, have you been into my stash. Of course, no one in real life would know to call me Sneeze, so it’s ok. If I ever somehow went to a Dopefest or something - it might be nice to be called Sneeze.

And Democritus and psycat, I am dreadfully, terribly sorry for leaving you out of the OP! It’s very nice, though, to know you call eachother by your real names.

Hamadryad, I didn’t even know that they had Internet back in 1984. That is impressive that you have kept the same name for so long.

And Iampunha, I always pronounced your name “I imPUNE ya.” Kind of like it was supposed to be a trick name, like Sue Duhnym, but a kind of lame one. I’m still not sure how you pronounce it, but I am glad to know I was wrong.

Anyway - back to my monologue about cats.

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Seriously, what did you think we called each other? We’re in a full-fledged honest-to-Cecil relationship. We’re both real people and interact in real, honest, non-virtual ways. Right now, the SDMB is just a small part of our relationship, it’s just the place where we met. If we met, for example, as being cast members of, say, RHPS, would you think I call her Janet offstage?

At Dopefests, I have to remember to introduce her to people as Anniz; when introducing her to non-Dopers I just have to make sure I don’t mispronounce her real name. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m still flattered that you mentioned us in the subject.

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I’ve been Rasa online for like… 9 years or so, so there are a lot of people who only know me as Rasa. At Dopefests, I generally go by Rasa, cuz it’s a very name-like screenname. Some people I think of by their real names, but most of the Bay Area Dopers have such name-like screennames that I can’t think of them as anything else. Sue Duhnym will always be Sue, Doobieous will always be Doob, Jack Batty will always be Jack, and I have no idea what Snooooopy’s real name is!
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Okay, I’ve met you twice now, Rasa, and I have to admit, I can’t remember what your real name is! So I guess you’ll continue being Rasa to me. Oldie has a very short, unusual name that I am afraid of mispronouncing, so he remains Oldie. I have tried calling Doob by his real name, and it just doesn’t work out so well.

Mine is easy. I should change my handle, it’s so boring.

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Una cosa más. Back on the old AOL SDMB, we tended to call each other by our first names more than here, so I still use the first names of anyone who was a reg there, even if they rarely use them here. i.e., Libby is Libby and never DrainBead, and Cyndar will always be Princess (Mich)Elle. :slight_smile: Main exception is Opal. I know what Opal’s real name is, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it once.

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Having been to a handful of dopefests around the country, overall, most people seem to refer to each other by way of their screen names. As for me, once I get to know someone better (IRL), I tend to use their real name instead of their board name. IRL I prefer to go by my real name–Mike.