Comments on: Friday fluff: What’s in a name

By: john robins

john robins — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:46:32 +0000

This is the exact reason why a safety and health policy is so important.

By: mazonas

mazonas — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:28:33 +0000

to bunny mazonas, your name roots are from samogitia.Its 12-13 century.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:05:50 +0000

Lynne is my real name. This is the first place on the internet where I ever used it! Now I use it on Shakes, too, though for a little while I was banjo over there (because I play it. A little bit). Then I got less chicken on Shakes and switched to the real name there, too.

Before this, pretty much everywhere online I was “sydzg.” It was guaranteed to never be taken on the webz (except by me, if I had forgotten my pw and had to sign up again). Back story: After a rousing game of scrabble in college, our remaining letters at the end of the game inspired SM and I to become old-school Japanese warriors. Immediately after that we had to RUN back home to catch the X-Files season premier! Later FJ became SM’s warrior horse. The horse that kills.

And epiphenomena (sp?), do I know you??

By: Ydnic

Ydnic — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:16:37 +0000

Oh, and I pronounce it “eed-niss.” I always want to know how names sound when I read them.

By: Ydnic

Ydnic — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:15:05 +0000

Ydnic is my first name backwards. My brother and I used our backwards names as nicknames when we were kids, and after I realized how many Cindys were posting in the Fatosphere, I decided to use my old, silly, nickname. Just for a bit of differentiation..

By: Moonlight0806

Moonlight0806 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:55:54 +0000

I always have a bit of an existential break down every time I have to choose an online user name. For some reason or another it always causes way too much panic for me.

It may come from being female and having a unisex first name that is most often used as the male spelling. So I was always that little girl that got the boy prize in school because no one bothered to ask the teacher my actual sex, which did not make much of a difference to me seeing as I have always been a tomboy but it generally provoked teasing from my classmates.

Did I also mention that the Dr’s told my parents that I was going to be a boy? And my favorite color is Blue. So I have thought a lot about how your name reflects who you are in the eyes of others.

I have been a night owl my entire life. My internal clock is just set differently. I prefer to wake up late and stay up late into the morning hours. So when it came time to choose an SN I went with that characteristic and have used it ever since. And the numbers…. My birthday… I know not very creative.

You would be better equipt at telling me my own online persona being that ones online persona really only exists in the minds of the people they interact.

As far as managing it I try to be as concise and respectful as possible. I appreciate how posting online gives me a chance to step back and reevaluate before i hit the submit button. And I can’t spell worth anything so i am painfully aware how a spelling error can make someone appear, so i try my hardest to double and triple check everything. I hope my efforts have paid off.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:08:14 +0000

Boring screen name: my first name. Other screen names I have are netekay (a combination of my first and middle names) and camelot (after a fetish for Arthurian literature)

Mind blowing…I know… :)

By: Liza

Liza — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:51:39 +0000

I’m super creative…

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wait for it…

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It’s my first name.

Don’t drop over or anything.

By: dogmamaonly

dogmamaonly — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:05:42 +0000

I am “dogmamaonly” because I am childfree and will parent only dogs in my lifetime.

By: scotlyn

scotlyn — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:59:44 +0000

PS – just getting creative here. Check it out. I’ve just added a new term to the urban dictionary since it was sitting there undefined – JLW (“Just lose weight”). I’ve defined it as “a non-sequiter or an instruction that has no bearing on the original context.” I’ve given as an example – “patient: my knee hurts. Doctor: JLW.” My proposal has probably gone to moderation now, but if youse all check it up from time to time, maybe we can coin our own useful term.