― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
Why does my gummi pizza have gummi pickles on it?
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wonder Twin Powers, Activate (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wonder Twin Powers, Activate (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― Wonder Twin Powers, Activate (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 9 May 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Or simply as "james", weirdly spelled?
― OleM (OleM), Friday, 9 May 2003 10:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 9 May 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 9 May 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 9 May 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
'Fred Nerk' is appropriate in this case in one sense. In Oz slang FN was the name you called someone when you'd forgotten their right name.
― Fred Nerk, Friday, 9 May 2003 11:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
I can't remember why I was Mark C. I know I orginally posted under my full name, but wised up to that smartish. Maybe I felt, paradoxically, that it was awkward to have a nickname among a load of people I didn't know.
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
I wondered where Tico had popped up from.
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Talcynuts (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link
Sometimes though, I, like Tico Tico, prefer to name myself after rum.
― Overproof (starry), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
Tico Tico made me think of tacos.
― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link