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Spyder Todd 2008

19:00 / 29.03.06

I have several fake names I use from time to time some with varying uses. Eventually, I hope to have an ID and documentation for all of them so I can become whoever I need to. For example, if I ever clone myself, I'm going to let the clone think he's me, and I'm going to start going by "Benjamin Riley" just for irony's sake. If I ever end up becoming a professional assassin I think I'm going to change into "Victor Duvall". It has a nice ring to it, I think.

umm...
I probably shouldn't have told you all that...

19:43 / 29.03.06

I'd be Cassandra (were I to change my name, which I think would take a lot more energy than it would be worth). I was once told that that meant the opposite of my real name, and whilst I have no idea how that could be the case I've liked it since then.

21:18 / 29.03.06

I've been using an extra middle name for a couple of years now. I've only used it when I sign e-mails, letters etc. or introduce myself. I reckon I will take the last step and change it officially soon, and then I shall be known as Morten Amadeus!

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21:22 / 29.03.06

Tiglath Pilesar.

Fritz K Driftwood

21:43 / 29.03.06

I was named after my grandfathers' nicknames, Ted and Chris, and so became Theodore Christopher. In high school, I fantasized about changing my name to their real first names: Ingar Alton, but I wimped out.

I quite like having Theodore as a first name, since people who know me never refer to me by that name, and so call center types who inquire after "Theodore" are told that he isn't home and that they will have to call back and leave a message. They almost never do.

Sometimes I am "Peter Crowley" as they are both common names on my mom's side of the family and I like the sound. I've thought that if ever I started writing, I would use it as a pen name.

21:46 / 29.03.06

I decided I couldn't be bothered learning any more names so from that point on I was just gonna call everyone at work Stoatie. Unfortunately, it kind of caught on and everyone was referring to each other as Stoatie for a while, which didn't really make things any easier. Some of them still call me Stoatie when I see them now

A friend of mine in college started his freshman year off calling everyone Chowda, and that became his name. Even though I had known him and his family for years before we went to the same college, I soon called him Chowda as well.

When I was seven I wanted to change my name to Crystal, as did every girl in my second grade class. If I recall correctly our teacher actually attempted to humor us and call us all Crystal for a few months.

I like my first name and am evenly a little overly attached to it. I like the way it looks, the number of letters, it also has a color to me (green), and I feel it's so tied to my identity I can't even imagine being called by another name. Someday, though, I will drop my last name and change it to my partner's last - I have conflicting feelings about the tradition of doing that but the fact is he has one of the coolest last names ever and I totally want it for myself too.

21:58 / 29.03.06

...but astrojax is my real name. there have been many before me...

23:38 / 29.03.06

I want to punch every person I meet or hear about who has my first name. Thieves, I tell you, all four or five of them. I changed my name in high school, and don't like my friends who met me then to call me by my first name. It sounds weird when they say it. If I could pick a name for myself, I'd keep the first name I have now.

00:29 / 30.03.06

Both my father and my brother changed the vowels in their first names. Alan became Alyn, and (a bad move in my opinion) Adam became Adm... I quite like my first name, thankfully. It would be embarassing to change it to Ndrw or something...

When I got married I wanted to change my last name to my mother-in-law's, since it's 17-letters long and has a nice aristocratic history.... it's also great when telemarketers call. "Is Mrs. Sesss..umm..siestren...umm Miss Siessstrencehh.... home?"

00:34 / 30.03.06

When I was a child, I wanted to name myself...

David Armstrong

because I thought it was a strong name, a forceful name that summoned my presence with an echo. Now, I'm happy with my name.

00:41 / 30.03.06

I had a friend who used to refer to me as Grecovich Kartov, Last of the Romanovs, heir to the Russian throne.

I like it.

Daemon est Deus Inversus

00:51 / 30.03.06

Re: Christine/Justine

I'd be willing to bet that she probably had a sister called Juliette who found out at 22 that her real first name also began with a C. These pathologies are rarely isolated instances.

Daemon est Deus Inversus

01:26 / 30.03.06

You could also get a Latin dictionary and choose a magickal motto which brings to mind stupid connotations in English. Over the years, to name a few, I've come across Frater P.M.S., Soror V.A.T., Soror F.P.L. amd Frater O.T.B. (the last two bring to mind Florida Power & Light and Off-Track Betting in N.Y.C.).

When I was a young naval lieutenant, I walked into a club called "The Thirsty Camel" in the environs of Fleet Landing in scenic Naples, Italy only to run in to a dozen or so drunken sailors from my ship. One of them asked me that if, presumably not to chill conversation, they could call me "Jack" (which has nothing in common with my own first name save the first initial) in situations like these ashore. I agreed but only in the quality establishments along Fleet Landing in Naples, Italy or in the bottle and set-up clubs in Norfolk, Va. (they could- at the time- get away with really bizarre shows by not actually selling liquor). On the same ship, we had another officer actually named "Leander" who insisted on being called "Bubba." We also had an Ensign Bozzo (though he pronounced it "Bahzzo"). Whenever I stood OOD In-Port (you couldn't get away with nonsense like that Underway), I always- if he was on the Duty Section- found a reason to page him while making sure the Boatswains Mate of the Watch mispronounced his name.

07:30 / 30.03.06

Tiglath Pilesar

Yes!

My grandmother was always called George, apparently because she went to a school where all younger sisters of existing pupils were called George (as a sort of de-personalising ritual, I suppose - see also molesworths one and two). I still find it a little peculiar that she chose to keep this name - I suppose she must have hated her given name a great deal...

07:35 / 30.03.06

I don't know if I'd change my name to it but Moxie Crimefighter has a ring to it.

That's Penn Gilette's kid's name.

Daemon est Deus Inversus

10:05 / 30.03.06

Kit-Kat,

If a pupil had two younger sisters, would the middle sister be called George Major and the younger one George Minor? Also, would you have to construct a sentence so that the context indicated which George one was referring to? I understand that at the long defunct Beefsteak Club in London ("Roast Beef and Liberty") all waiters were invariably addressed as "Charles" (presumably so that members could be free to solely concentrate on their food and drink).

Until fairly recently, the most junior ensign on any U.S. Navy ship was invariably addressed as "George." I suppose it was to underline that everyone who was no longer "George" had at one time been equally stupid ("George, go to the bridge and have the Boatswains' Mate of the Watch pass the word, 'There are divers working aloft. Do not rotate or radiate ehilr divers are working aloft.' Here, we have it typed out for you." "George, strike below. I want you to get Smith and Jones out of the compartment. Post them as Port and Starboard Mail Bouy Watchstanders.").

Here's a reverse "George" story. It seems that Anne Rice was christened "Howard." Apparently, when she enrolled at a Ursuline convent school, the Mother Superior decided it would be more appropriate that she be called "Anne." I suppose she was lucky that the reverend mother didn't have a particular devotion to an early female martyr with a bizarre name.

It does raise the question, should one arbitrarily assign names to ones friends and acquaintances?

13:35 / 30.03.06

Once upon a time I decided to go by my middle name after moving abroad. However, it transpired that I didn't really like my middle name very much after all, plus my parents couldn't get the hang of it. It turned into a bit of a nightmare after I abandoned the project. I was only just getting the hang of the local language and found that the explanation for why I appeared to have two names operating simultaneously severely overstretched my communication skills and nobody had any idea what to call me any more.

I would change my surname, though. To something excellent. Like.......Fraggle.

13:38 / 30.03.06

I knew a doorman called Fraggle.

Daemon est Deus Inversus

13:47 / 31.03.06

I don't have a middle name. In some bureaucratic communications, long ago, I was assigned "NMN." What the hell should it stand for should I wish to adopt that?

14:11 / 31.03.06

I wouldn't object if people started calling me Remy.

Thaddeus "B." Glands

14:55 / 31.03.06

I've introduced myself to various people as Frank Snow, Colin Wakefield (which is my middle name and mother's maiden name), and Richard Trent Swift. I take far, far to much pleasure in affecting a name that isn't mine for a short time.

A good friend of mine once called me Paul Jonas for about a year. I think was reading a lot of Otherland at the time.

19:28 / 31.03.06

Mysterious Transfer Student

16:40 / 01.04.06

During my days on the Kosmische scene (Tango-Mango knows to what I'm referring), it seemed as if everyone I knew not only had thought of a cool, ace-face nickname for themselves, but had convinced everyone they knew to use it, too. Oh, what a fulfilment of youthful dreams of coolness... I had to be content with plain old ******* (everyday male English forename removed for online anonymity's sake, not seven asterisks).

A long time ago I used to post on an Aeon Flux fansite where another prominent poster called hirself Eniac Blast. What an enviable name, I used to think (and still do).

17:06 / 01.04.06

Hercules, or Frisbee

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