Oh, and Tripler, is it okay if I call you “sugar tits?” 
[QUOTE=Carnac the Magnificent!]
Can it now be revelead that your stage name is “Trixie Tuba Delight”?
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Bertha DaBlues, actually. But that’ll be our secret.
I think of this “polite fiction” as rather like the internet version of Chatham House Rules.
[QUOTE=John Corrado]
For the record, I’ll be really pissed if someone reveals my real name on this board.
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Fuckin’ A.
[QUOTE=mobo85]
Oh, and Tripler, is it okay if I call you “sugar tits?” 
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If you so desire. (I don’t get the reference, though. . .)
Tripler
::shrugs::
A long time ago, in an internet far, far away…
Way back when the Internet Oracle was pretty well known and fairly heavily used, I began to get harassing phone calls from an irate user because I wouldn’t select his (obviously magnificent) pearls of wisdom for the digests. They stopped shortly after I pointed my phone number to a modem bank. (It’s good to work for a phone company.)
Since then I’ve been a little more discreet about the use of my real name. I’m sure it’d be pretty easy to find, especially since I have my email addy posted, but I tend to be a little more careful now.
Bertha! I can’t believe it’s you! I was at the table next to yours in chemistry lab in high school! I dated your brother, Bjorn Torsink DaBlues.
Hey, how did that little thing with the morals charge come out? 
(It’s me – Hortense Rotman. The one with the pink leotard that caught on fire during the SATs)
[QUOTE=John Corrado]
For the record, I’ll be really pissed if someone reveals my real name on this board.
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Me too!!
[QUOTE=John Corrado]
For the record, I’ll be really pissed if someone reveals my real name on this board.
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“Lighten up, Francis.” 
You know it’s a little annoying to me even when a poster has no problem with it. Say some poster has revealed their IRL 1st name- and then a few who have met/know that poster respond to that poster using that name. It’s confusing. They’ll say something like “Good post Bob”, and there is no Bob as a poster name.
Even if “Bob” signs his posts with “Bob” if his postername is “MrSillyPants” that’s what I like to see him refered to. But that’s just me.
[QUOTE=Zoe]
Bertha! I can’t believe it’s you! I was at the table next to yours in chemistry lab in high school! I dated your brother, Bjorn Torsink DaBlues.
Hey, how did that little thing with the morals charge come out?
(It’s me – Hortense Rotman. The one with the pink leotard that caught on fire during the SATs)
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I remember you! Or was it your cousin . . . Bessie Mae Mucho? I always got you two confused. You were the one witih the harelip, right?
[QUOTE=TubaDiva]
As someone who routinely has their real-life information (name, address, phone number) published elsewhere in cyberspace as a harassment technique, I absolutely understand why a poster would be dismayed to see any real life information displayed anywhere.
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Indeed. I seem to recall a case last year where a member of this message board—an administrator, no less—knowingly flouted the SDMB/Chicago Reader privacy policy by making a criminal allegation about one of our members and then providing a link to his real name, contact information, and photograph. The administrator in question was suspended, and Ed Zotti was obliged to issue an apology to the member concerned and a public comment confirming the SDMB’s commitment to its members’ privacy.
I’m glad that you absolutely understand how upsetting such a violation of privacy would be to the person involved, and that you extend the same respect and consideration to others as you expect for yourself.
[QUOTE=Tripler]
If you so desire. (I don’t get the reference, though. . .)
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When Mel Gibson was pulled over for drunk driving, he referred to a female police officer as “sugar tits.”
[QUOTE=mobo85]
When Mel Gibson was pulled over for drunk driving, he referred to a female police officer as “sugar tits.”
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Now what the hell is so anti-Semitic about that? Geez. You’d think he called Dubya a “Communist” or something. . .
Tripler
I kid! I kid!
I remember the Stage Manager debacle. That poster used his real name in his public email address, and that is how I found out that, according to a sexual offender database, his attempt to catagorize his crime as more of a misunderstanding than anything else was sick and wrong. Dude was convicted of a heinous, brutal sexual crime against a minor, and that might even have been a plead-down.
If you don’t want your real name known, don’t use it as your frigging email address. Duh.