How did you pick your name here...

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by amm0bob, Oct 24, 2008.

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How did you pick your name...

  1. It's my real name.

    8 vote(s)
    19.5%

  2. It's close to my real name.

    5 vote(s)
    12.2%

  3. I had it on another board.

    11 vote(s)
    26.8%

  4. It's made up.

    9 vote(s)
    22.0%

  5. A friend gave me this nicname.

    2 vote(s)
    4.9%

  6. I was tired and didn't want you to know who I am.

    1 vote(s)
    2.4%

  7. My name was already chosen.

    1 vote(s)
    2.4%

  8. I like this nic, so I'm using it.

    6 vote(s)
    14.6%

  9. There isn't room fo my real name.

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  10. The choice of letters limited my options.

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  11. To annoy you... did it work.

    4 vote(s)
    9.8%
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  1. Rokeby

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    W - first name
    C - middle name
    Hardin - last name

    Legal name, I don't go by the "W"
     
    #22 wchardin, Oct 24, 2008
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    I normally go by some shortened version of my name, generally "ecco", but as this appeared to be a predominately US forum, and I am an Aussie, and when I joined had just become an Owner, so why not something different;).

    Don't know if did actually originate here, but it is a fairly common term used in Oz, as is the cleaned up version.
     
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    Before the Internet, I needed a nom d'plume for my writing. Using my actual initials, and some prodigious imagination, I came up with RaeVynn Sands.

    When I first got online, I scored a Hotmail account of raevynn@. It's been my online name ever since, everywhere (well, most places. back in '01 someone else nabbed raevynn and started using it on various websites; now I have a secondary name for those places), since 1996.

    In many ways, I am RaeVynn. This is my personality, and my given name doesn't really fit me as well. Never really did. There are people "IRL" who only know me as RaeVynn.
     
    #24 Rae Vynn, Oct 25, 2008
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    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    In Real Life? That's so RaeVynn. :)
     
    #26 hyo silver, Oct 25, 2008
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    Spectra Amphi-Prius

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    Maybe "Her Name is IRL" ... ?
     
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    I've never heard either version spoken over here and never seen effwitt written anywhere so I thought it would be unique - oh well...
     
    #29 effwitt, Oct 25, 2008
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    This is waht I look like on the weekends.
     
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    I picked mine off my drivers license, and credit cards, work I.D. bar I.D. fishing license, and the unpaid citation I got for entering the hov lane just 20 feet after the broken line ended :(

    Hey boo, ... that's the same answer you gave when this thread ran its course last time :p
     
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    NB: I completely forgot about that prior thread ... demon alcohol.
     
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    *sigh*

    I was just making the point that there are people that I occasionally meet with that call me RaeVynn. They either prefer it to my "real" name, or they tend to forget my real name.

    "IRL" is an obsolete, obscure, BBS acronym. So sorry for using it here. *sigh*

    And, Hyo, you know my real name. Which name seems more like me, huh? ;)
     
    #36 Rae Vynn, Oct 26, 2008
  17. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    This is real life. And you're RaeVynn. That was sorta kinda my point - please don't sigh. :)
     
    #37 hyo silver, Oct 27, 2008
  18. Rae Vynn

    Rae Vynn Artist In Residence

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    You're right. I should have said "offline".
     
    #38 Rae Vynn, Oct 27, 2008
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    Rae Vynn, I enjoyed your cruise pics. Do you post on the CruiseCritic.com board? If you've never been there, you might enjoy that site as well.
     
    #39 dmdiver, Oct 27, 2008
  20. Rae Vynn

    Rae Vynn Artist In Residence

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    Yes, I do post there... and on cruiselinefans.com, as well... :)
     
    #40 Rae Vynn, Oct 27, 2008
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