ILX name changes aliases etc

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I knew that was gonna come up SO completely wrong

― Zac, The Black Power Ranger (vicc13), Sunday, 1 September 2002 19:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight months pass...

I think I am ready to stop posting with my stupid name...maybe. But how will people know I have changed? Unless I do a "formerly known as..." email address like Chris V. But I fear loosening my grip on the statscock. I think I might hide in this name a bit longer. Arguments FOR and AGAINST silly ILX names?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

If I had a good fake name, like "Tracer Hand", "hstencil", "donut bitch", or even "Sterling Clover" (!), then I would be not be thinking about this.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

it's like band names, they're funny/clever/frought with meaning for the ten minutes after you think them up. then you have to live with them, but it's better to be recognized (and statscocked) than to go through the ridiculous process of convincing everybody you're still you.

I think yr name's relatively cool

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

I wish I knew when I started posting that I'd be here for longer than a day or two. Not that I mind my name -- it started out as a Yahoo account -- but I might've tried to come up with something a bit more fun. I worry that nobody knows how to pronounce my name. (Actually, I don't even know how to pronounce it.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

I think Nordicskillz is a way cooler name than hstencil.

But then again, very little beats my alter-ego:

GEIR HONKY!

― hstencil, Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

If you change your name, you should do one of those ... what are they called? Where it's like "how do you get from LAMB to STAR in five steps, changing one letter at a time, making sure each step is a real word in its own right"? You should do that. Ease us in. We might not even notice.

Either that, or change it entirely, and introduce the new you by flaming the old you on one of the threads, and we'll figure the old you was like scared off by your massive flameage or something, and the new you has replaced him, like a cowboy in a knife fight.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

Buttch already tried the gradual name change. First he was Oops. Then Hoops. Then Shoops. Then, uh ... Buttch.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

See, and it worked! (Except I still think of him as Oops).

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

Me too.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

Go kindergarten style. First name, last initial.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

Even at FAP's, I'm Jel. It's cool, I have this disembodied sense of self sometimes. "Jel? Who's that? Oh it's me"

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

i am toying with the idea of changing my name to "Peepy" for 3 days.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

This is why I settled on Trayce - its effectively my real name, only spelt weird. So at FAPs and the like I'm still called by my name. The amusing thing is now everyone spells my real name this way, I mean even work colleagues and my grandad in birthday cards and stuff. Maybe I should change it by deed poll.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

I always think of oops/buttch as a interjection-onomatopoeia combination. Like some dude is carrying something breakable like a baby or a drugged kitten and he trips and drops it and you just hear 'oops!' *BUTTCH*.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link

so does everyone call each other by their ILX aliases in real life?
I was amused on another thread at the thought of someone yelling "hstencil!" and waving.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

at least my name is part of my username which makes it easier to abbreviate

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

Tep was an RL nickname, except it mostly persists online now. People still use it occasionally, especially if there's another Bill around.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know if I met you if I could call you anything else.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

People do call me hstencil in real life. At least felicity does.

― hstencil, Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

I would call you stench.

;)

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

does she pronounce it "aychstencil" or "huhstencil"?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know if I met you if I could call you anything else.

See, that way I always know if someone's talking to me or not. When someone shouts "Bill," I just assume they mean someone else. (My mother never believed me when I claimed this, though.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

when you come to sydney jim i'm gonna stand in the audience yelling "electric sound!"

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

i shall have my water gun ready

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

i'll be the one in the yellow raincoat.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

I think of JayMc as JAY M.C.
Buttch is still oops when I read it.
I say, keep yer name!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

she pronounces the h.

― hstencil, Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

I'm thinking of losing this Chris V. persona I have and going with something new. Im tired of being someone else.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

I think of JayMc as JAY M.C.

That's probably the best way to read it, actually, since it's originally based on my initials: JMC. I couldn't be jmc325 (3/25=birthday) at yahoo.com (it was taken), so I spelled out the J. Only later did I realize it could be read as Jay McSomething.

Sarah, I've recommended that Nordicskillz take the name Auburn Dalliance.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:13 (twenty years ago) link

I gotta gooogle-proof my name.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

I thought Lyra was a real name, and proceeded to call her that for several FAPs until I was clued in.... oopsie!

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:27 (twenty years ago) link

okay one more vote and it's back to Oops, motherfuckers. I don't wanna be the cause of your traumatic mental turmoil.

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:48 (twenty years ago) link

I liked Oops. Buttch sounds too, well, butch.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:51 (twenty years ago) link

~~b-b-but it's my nickname IRL~~ So be it.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:55 (twenty years ago) link

You can't fuck with my cognitive dissonance THAT easily. Change it to Oops and I'll just think of you as Buttch. Keep changing it back and forth and I'll end up thinking of you as Boops.

Why does my gummi pizza have gummi pickles on it?

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:55 (twenty years ago) link

From the looks of it, the dissonance fucking has already begun

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:58 (twenty years ago) link

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:33 (twenty years ago) link

Oops in trying to please Luna SHOCKAH

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:48 (twenty years ago) link

(I believe that's my first SHOCKAH.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:48 (twenty years ago) link

jaymc: nah, baby i wuz trying ta please YOU

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:56 (twenty years ago) link

I think for the next hour, I'll be 'Wonder Twin Powers, Activate'

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:25 (twenty years ago) link

Starting now

― Wonder Twin Powers, Activate (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link

I like using my own name; it's quite exotic (in the Anglo-Saxon world, at least - the English equivalent would be Thomas), so I probably won't bump into another Tuomas anytime soon. At another board I was called The Truth, but that name started to feel somewhat pompous, even though it was a comics reference. Of course, it didn't help things that no one else knew it was a comics reference.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:34 (twenty years ago) link

Form of a rabid tiger!
Shape of an icecube!

― Wonder Twin Powers, Activate (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link

Hrmmmm. I think I actually preferred Masonic Boom to Kate (I love how despite the fact that other Kates post here, I am the only one that does not need a surname or initial) but it's much harder to type out every time. I'm lazy. And I refuse to register.

I was going to say I don't remember where Masonic Boom came from, but then I remembered it was a Spacemen3-related screen name. I used to have different screen names for different boards, depending on the topic of the board - hence I was Tabitha's Socks on a Blur board and Paranoid Spice on a Radiohead board. But Masonic Boom was the only one that stuck. (Pity, I quite liked Paranoid Spice, it really bothered pompous Radiohead fans who didn't get bubblegum.)

I quite frequently refer to people as their screen names. As in "Oh, look, Doomie is stalking us, here he is in another record shop!" (To the point where I think HSA actually believes that it is his real name.) And at the FAP, I introduced HSA, saying "This is Joe" and got blank looks until I added "Handsome Sound Artist?"

― kate, Friday, 9 May 2003 07:44 (twenty years ago) link

I think the hour is about up.

― Wonder Twin Powers, Activate (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:35 (twenty years ago) link

Woo.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:36 (twenty years ago) link

'luna' just seems so much lamer now in comparison

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:45 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah well call it my 15 minutes of fame, and now I'm back to boring old me.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:46 (twenty years ago) link

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Why do people change aliases? What's the point? I say pick a name and fucking stay with it.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 26 August 2007 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link

who did you used to be again?

― Filey Camp, Sunday, 26 August 2007 07:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Horace Mann = Dr. Superman
Miccio = da croupier
jfury = Je4nne ƒury

Nicole = I feel like she's posted here lately as just Nicole? Maybe I'm misremembering.

The rest I don't think post here anymore (neither Martin Skidmore nor Martin Mushrush).

― jaymc, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Nicole has withdrawn from ILX for the time being, possibly permanently.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link

That sounds ominous, Ned.

― jaymc, Monday, 27 August 2007 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Cashmere Combabe?

― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link

I will never change my name or involve myself in the shenanigans of a display name.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

STILL THE SAME

― Jeff, Sunday, 20 April 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link

I really want to change mine. :( I have no idea what it means and it makes me weirdly uncomfortable.

― tsrobodo, Sunday, 20 April 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link

domo arigato
tsrobodo

― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Sunday, 20 April 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link

*sigh* I guess there's always the transexual mr roboto angle.

― tsrobodo, Sunday, 20 April 2014 00:26 (ten years ago) link

Not really sure whether I recently changed mine to nathom. Shld go back to stevienixed cause that is the most awesome nickname EVAH (for me anyway).

― nathom, Sunday, 20 April 2014 11:53 (ten years ago) link

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