Uh, I’ve been using Homer for a long time now, and I’ve responded to it in the past, sometimes when they weren’t even referring to me :eek:. I’m not sure if anyone on this board even knows my name, I don’t think I’ve revealed it in ANY of my posts.
Pat: It’s pronounced “Prissy-arrr” like a femme pirate.
Punha: Don’t we usually just refer to you as ::sigh:: and ::rolleyes::?
Katie: Remember, YOU brought those names on to yourself! You encouraged them even! Don’t shirk them in their time of need!
Silver: If we were alone together I’m sure I’d call you many things, but I doubt if Silver would be one of them.
I’ve been to one Dopefest and I introduced myself as Michelle, parenthetically mentioning my screen name. I respond to “Mom” - 'cause I am one - and I suppose I’d respond to my screen name if someone yelled it across the room, but it’s too much of a mouthful for normal conversation…
A few years back, my wife got my cat a driver’s license. (She - the cat, that is - had just turned 16. :)) Can’t see why your SN couldn’t get one too…email me for details if you want.
My wife and I, who met IRL, almost never call each other by our given names; we use assorted endearments instead. If I hear my actual name from her lips, it usually means she’s already called me three times, and I haven’t heard her once. So I doubt she’d call me by my SN if we’d met online.
Around Dopers, I answer to RT, Rufus, Rufe, Firefly, and even my real name, if someone should use it.
My wife often addresses me as “Poly” – but we’re weird anyway.
With a number of Brians that ended up in and out of our lives over the past few years, we usually refer to the gentleman from Columbus as Satan – but to his partner-in-crime as Libby. Most everyone else we know from real life we refer to about 50:50 by screen or real name. Except SqrlCub, who is always Sqrl (with the vowels, just like the rodent), mostly because we can’t decide whether to use his first or middle name, and whichever we choose, we have to explain it by the screen name anyway. And RTFirefly, but there’s a special story there: I misunderstood his first name as ending with P instead of M when I first heard it, so it’s easier to refer to him as “RT” or “Rufus” than remembering which name really belongs to him!
Oh, and “Silo” – nobody wants to remember your real name!
I don’t know about Dopefests (yet; roll on Amsterdam :)), but when the Dublin contingent meets in the pub it’s real names all the way. I’m sure we could go with screen names but it would feel a bit self-conscious. Having said that, I wouldn’t use a real name on the board, since people may value the anonymity.
I pronounce it “I-am-p’n-ha”. Think of the “p’n” as the “pn” in “pneu”. Only reverse the stressing. Or maybe in “op’ning”. The U sound is almost nonexistent. Remember, this is a word I made when I was two and a half. It’s not supposed to make sense. Nor is it one of those names like Shirley Ujest, Sue Duhnym or Sir Rhosis.
if you look at my post count, compared to the date i registered, i may be the champion lurker. i have never been to a dopefest, but would love to attend one.
to the o.p. many years ago, before i ever thought of such a thing as the internet i was given my knickname by my father-in-law. for the three years my wife and i were together before we were married, as far as he was concerned i was “that longhaired s.o.b my daughter goes out with.” after the wedding(in 1975, hence the 75 part of my screen name), and for many years after that i was “that longhaired s.o.b. my daughter married.”
a co worker went back to my boss after spending a few days as my assistant and stated “if i have to work with that crazy longhaired s.o.b. again i quit!”
at this date, longhair has become more than just a knickname or an online handle.
Hell, why don’t we just get a hold of Flymaster and have lunch over in the McNeill Room? Which is something that, in four and a half damn years here, I’ve never actually done. I mean, I go to the same college as two other dopers and I’ve never even met them. That’s kinda pathetic. Or, I can be found way too often in JEC 3207 or CII 3113 (where I am right now).
And if we do meet, you can call me Jeremy, which is my first name. I don’t really use waterj2 IRL.
Well, I have yet to date anyone from this board (or any other board for that matter), but at the DopeFests, I typically get called Joph. Or Jo. Or, if Omni is around, JoJo. As others have said, I’ve been using this nick since about 1993, so it’s instinctive for me to respond to it.
I don’t think I’ve had anyone take the time to actually pronounce Jophiel in its entirety at a Fest though. Slackers.
Hey longhair…you are hereby cordially invited to this summers FlintDopeFest. Search for the most recent thread in MPSIMS.
Now then, at the fests we’ve had here, it’s pretty much a hodg-podge of both real and board names until everyone drinks enough to forget who’s who. Then it’s a lot of Hey! You! Let’s go post!!!
As has been stated already, Demo and I call each other by our real names, of course. But as you can see by our posts, we refer to each other by our screen names online, be it chat, or a message board, the one exception being our livejournals, since those are ‘real life’ so to speak.
We do it just because it’s how people know us, and after all, these are names we got to choose, so we must like them. No one ever gets to choose their birth name.
I have met lots of folks IRL, most of whom I refer to by their screen name, with the exception of a few. I prefer that people call me by my screen name at meetings, partly because I don’t want to have to remember 20 names I’ve never heard and I don’t want to be rude. So, you don’t try to remember my name, I won’t try to remember yours, especially since most meetings involve drinking. And partly because I kind of like my screen name, (this comes up at every dopefest I have been to, it’s sigh-cat, not pussycat.) psy works just fine.
Hey, if you guys don’t mind an old fogey like myself tagging along, count me in. I’m just up the road in Saratoga. I haven’t met any Dopers IRL yet. I thought about going to the Montreal Dopefest, but the timing didn’t work. If they have another one, maybe we could get a group to go up.
To keep this from being a complete hijack: for some reason, I don’t think I’d care whether people called me by my real name or my screen name.
I’ve got no objection to old fogeys. Polycarp is somewhere north of you, I think, and RealityChuck is in Schenectady. Hmmm… this idea might have some promise.
andygirl . . . well, I tried. I don’t care in the end, but if people don’t know how to pronounce my name, I figure why not tell them? I don’t mind people calling me “poona”.
You can call me watever you want to, but don’t call me late for dinner.
:Ender graciously accepts award for most pitiful excuse for a joke in a thread:
So anyway, I’ve never met a doper in real life. While I’ve had this SN (or a close facimile thereof) for 5+ years, no one IRL has ever called me Ender. Can’t say I’d mind it all that much, I’ve grown quite used to responding to it online that I don’t think it would be weird to do so offline. If, however, you call me EnderW24 IRL I shall have to bitch slap you for the cyber geek that you are. Honestly, do you refer to websites by its numerical address? You’re the kind of person that’s memorized pi out to the 10,000th digit just because you can.
Now, as far as responding to others with their real name: if you haven’t given it to me, I won’t use it even if I already know it.
