View Poll Results: Signing Posts with your real name?
None of your business
3
3.70%
A nickname
20
24.69%
A pet name from childhood
0
0%
A fake name or alias
18
22.22%
My real name
40
49.38%
Voters: 81. You may not vote on this poll
Signing Posts with your real name?
Elder User
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 773
Likes: 0
From: VA/USA
Your real name?
"TOUGHLover" ... or perhaps, "(TOO?) Tough to love" is more apropos- take your pick - it's paradoxical (story of my life!) and it fits - I like "things" that LAST ... except marriages evidently (on my third - and it's not anywhere near as STRONG as I'd like it to be - but have never worked as hard as I have at this one - rather, working SMARTER this time - *TRANSLATION* Learning to restrain the tongue - a.k.a. keepin' my big "yapper" shut!).
And Ford Trucks & TOUGH just plain go together - has a nice ring to it (though I don't claim this name to be one of MY "Better Ideas". I rest my case.
Glenn Ralston Conner (Miller) ...
And Ford Trucks & TOUGH just plain go together - has a nice ring to it (though I don't claim this name to be one of MY "Better Ideas". I rest my case.
Glenn Ralston Conner (Miller) ...
Last edited by TOUGHLover; Jan 24, 2003 at 01:19 AM.
Fleet Owner
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 29,941
Likes: 46
From: Drummonds, TN USA
Your real name?
Various people around the web know my real name - many of them moderators of sites like FTE, but on different topics.
Hmm - and it occurs to me that most of them are female...
How odd, I didn't actually go out of my way to achieve such a result as far as I know!
"Greywolf" is a holdover handle from my early days online, when I would have had to be an idiot to give out real life info (If anyone here has ever been to "theglobe.com" before they folded, you would instantly know why. TOO MANY HACKERS!)
"Dutch" is a real life nickname I picked up over the years, originally short for "Flying Dutchman" back in my partying years.There are still people who call me "Dutchmann" due to my fathers side of the family being Pennsylvania Dutch.
It became a pet bug of mine after a while - seeing if anyone else on a site already had Greywolf as a handle. It's no suprise that there are so many "Wolf" variations as nicknames online, it's a very popular critter.
But anymore I just go with whatever is comfortable.
Hmm - and it occurs to me that most of them are female...
How odd, I didn't actually go out of my way to achieve such a result as far as I know!
"Greywolf" is a holdover handle from my early days online, when I would have had to be an idiot to give out real life info (If anyone here has ever been to "theglobe.com" before they folded, you would instantly know why. TOO MANY HACKERS!)
"Dutch" is a real life nickname I picked up over the years, originally short for "Flying Dutchman" back in my partying years.There are still people who call me "Dutchmann" due to my fathers side of the family being Pennsylvania Dutch.
It became a pet bug of mine after a while - seeing if anyone else on a site already had Greywolf as a handle. It's no suprise that there are so many "Wolf" variations as nicknames online, it's a very popular critter.
But anymore I just go with whatever is comfortable.
Fleet Owner
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 29,941
Likes: 46
From: Drummonds, TN USA
Your real name?
Bluntly-
I got stuck on the ship.
It happens from time to time, and being on active duty is another reason I don't put a lot of personal info online.
I don't have too much longer before I can take my life back into my own control again - in fact I had that same conversation with a carreer counselor today.
It was very short, and one way! NO; twenty years is long enough and you guys can't afford to pay me what I'm really worth anyway.
(assuming they let me do the things I'm gifted at in the first place)
I got stuck on the ship.
It happens from time to time, and being on active duty is another reason I don't put a lot of personal info online.
I don't have too much longer before I can take my life back into my own control again - in fact I had that same conversation with a carreer counselor today.
It was very short, and one way! NO; twenty years is long enough and you guys can't afford to pay me what I'm really worth anyway.
(assuming they let me do the things I'm gifted at in the first place)
Postmaster
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 3,529
Likes: 1
From: The Star-Club, Hamburg
Your real name?
I have a real name that no one but my mother and the government uses (although a few people call me by my initials), a nickname that everyone else does use (since I was about 3 years old anyway), and the nickname that I use here, FarmForward (sometimes just 'FF'). Not sure where I came up with that one. Just seemed to fit.
My everyday nickname is "Doc". My grandpa gave it to me when I was a kid... he said I sounded like Doc Holliday because I had asthma and was always coughing and wheezing. It's stuck for more than 30 years now... in fact, I have some family members who don't know me by anything other than that name.
My everyday nickname is "Doc". My grandpa gave it to me when I was a kid... he said I sounded like Doc Holliday because I had asthma and was always coughing and wheezing. It's stuck for more than 30 years now... in fact, I have some family members who don't know me by anything other than that name.
Posting Guru
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,876
Likes: 6
From: Wolfforth
Your real name?
I picked ford4life69 just to annoy my dad when I was in hs and got my first Juno email address at school. The teach didn't know I was using her computer for my email instead of for her adobe photoshop 5.0 which we were designing our web page graphics in. When I moved to college and found that it was open on aol, I kept it and have only found one place that I couldn't get this name on. Doesn't really surprise me with all the mergers and stuff though becuz it was netzero where it wasn't available and it was my Juno name, my freewwweb name, etc etc so it's probably stuck in their computer somewhere. I usually don't give out my last name in person or on the computer but my middle name is Lynette. Don't know why my mom didn't call me that instead of Connie (ick!) but she didn't and now it would take too much for my friends to start callin' me something else. My best friend and I went by our middle names at band camp one year. We were Lynn and Lynette and we never answered to them...Lesson learned I guess.
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Senior User
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 229
Likes: 0
From: Covington USA
Your real name?
I use both. Sign in with my online nickname DeKuma - a rough Japanese translation of The Bear. Bear is Kuma in Japanese, and adding the De is a simple way of saying The. Sounded better than Kuma-San!
I always sign with my real firstname. I figure if someone wants to find me, they can and if they do, they better be able to run about 2340 feet per second and dodge six consecutive rounds as fast as I can pull the trigger.
I always sign with my real firstname. I figure if someone wants to find me, they can and if they do, they better be able to run about 2340 feet per second and dodge six consecutive rounds as fast as I can pull the trigger.
Senior User
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 279
Likes: 0
From: Tillsonburg ON
As a biker-chick, I tend to remember people by what they ride/drive. I'm terrible with names. I've been "Ducati Girl" for quite a few years among friends & acquaintances and I use it as an email alias too. I also figured that with so few girls on this site, I should use something that would distinguish me as female -- I've noticed most of the other girls do this too. I HATE MY REAL NAME and this is a perfect opportunity not to use it. 
Postmaster
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 2,958
Likes: 0
From: Southern NH
I use my first name on this site. But I'm a little leary about giving out my last name. I've had some bonderline stalking incidents happen to me before. Got me gun shy with the public, so please, no offense to you club members.
Robin
Robin