# Whee!  Name change!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whee-name-change/251185>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 19, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whee-name-change/251185 "2004-06-19T07:33:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whee-name-change/251185/1 "2004-06-19T07:33:34Z")

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I’m wiggly-wiggly happy right now.

My discontent with my former user name ( **lillalette** ) had been growing for quite some time – ever since I discovered that there was a [world-known](http://www.mum.org/liloct88.htm) [tampon](http://www.mum.org/lilletsa.htm) with a startlingly similar name. Who wants to share a name with a tampon? It’s bad enough I occasionally confuse Carefree with Stayfree: try explaining to the pimply gentleman cashier what’s going through your head when you shout out, “Wait, I need some Carefree!” and then rush to the secret ladies’ aisle.

No, sir, I did not need that.

So, here I am, **Miss Purl McKnittington** , formerly known as **lillalette** , ready to poke some ignorance in the eye\* with my weapon of choice – a number 10 1/2 knitting needle in metallic sea green, flying a flag of truth done up in k2p2 rib.

And it’s all courtesy of **Madame Lynn “Bodacious” Bodoni**. Thank you!

Oh, _yeah_.

_Not that I’d actually poke a person in the eye. Oh no. Just ignorance, which, as far as I know, has no corporeal substance_\*.  
\*\*This is, of course, open to argument

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whee-name-change/251185/2 "2004-06-19T08:21:37Z")

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> [@Miss Purl McKnittington](#):
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> I’m wiggly-wiggly happy right now.

Great. Sit on my lap and we’ll both be happy. 😃

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whee-name-change/251185/3 "2004-06-19T11:27:32Z")

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We don’t swim in your toilet, please don’t “whee” all over our Board. 😃😛😉