What is the origin of your SDMB screen name?

[LucyInDisguise]

I did this a long time ago:

Please explain your DoperName

Lucy is my middle name. It’s kind of a long story … I’ve tried (without success) for 39 years to come up with a shorter explanation, so this is the way I usually explain it in person: As you may imagine, no child ever gets away with using just their middle initial if their middle name is unique or has an unusual or uncommon spelling. Here is (verbatim, as near as I can recall …) the exchange during roll call on my first day at Irving Junior High: [Well meaning 7th grade English teacher] “Glen…

Still applicable.

Lucy