<p>I’m not very creative, and I figured it would introduce me.</p>
<p>I thought the apostrophes were clever, until I recently realized there should only be one of them…</p>
<p>With a nod to Charles Schultz, it’s what I’ve always called DS#2</p>
<p>Dad’o’2 … I thought you were making a “touchdown” sign Dad 2 College 0 sort of thing… Sounds better than not counting apostrophies</p>
<p>I’m not saying my naming protocol.</p>
<p>Doesn’t “eso” mean “big” in Finnish? Am I onto something here?</p>
<p>Lafalum is fine, its the 84 I should have skipped. Would have made it a bit more cryptic. I know some people thought it had something to do with “laughing.” The 84 gives it away, though.</p>
<p>Yes Rodney, Boolehigh or something similar would have worked as well. Or something involving Pards. Maybe OldPard… (homage to OldFort)…</p>
<p>My personal favorite CC name: Funding Father</p>
<p>DS was a high school senior and I was experiencing full-on “fouling the nest” syndrome. I lurked for a long time before posting. Obviously, I was subconsciously hoping to keep him in the nest.</p>
<p>The use of call signs is pretty much a given in the AF fighter community, a moniker handed out by your fellow aviators. I’ve had mine since I was a Lt. flying F-111s, and 20+ years later most of the Senior Generals I work with everyday in the Pentagon call me by my callsign versus my real name. Using it here seemed pretty obvious.</p>
<p>You’ll have to ask Pima how she got her nickname from me. Suffice it to say her name (P-I-M-A) stands for something. I’ll let her explain it…</p>
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Well, yes. But when I’ve used it, it’s more in the line of, “I don’t think that word means what you think it does.” Probably just as well that I keep that screen name for a distinct identity with a specific theater of operations.</p>
<p>I’ve sometimes wondered if anyone here is someone that I read under another name elsewhere. It’s one thing to have a double identity but another when your triple or quadruple up.</p>
<p>Best on-line community I was ever in, everyone with very few exceptions used True Names and those who didn’t, their IRL identity wasn’t a secret, they just used an occupational riff for their name.</p>
<p>Alas, GEnie is dead these many years now. !@#$%^&*! corporate dumbshts that took it over, didn’t understand what to do with it, and then killed it off.</p>
<p>Psychiatrist.</p>
<p>another regretful name chooser, but I don’t think I’ll change unless someone IRL tells me they have seen me on here.</p>
<p>hmmm, shrinkrap…a psychiatrist whose brother is nominated for a grammy…very interesting…</p>
<p>mine was a nickname given to me by a girl I was dating in college. Mostly, the nickname stuck with friends then and now. EXCEPT- now that I’m 50+ yrs, many don’t call me the “young” part anymore. Oh well.</p>
<p>One of my kids was reading a Captain Underpants book. My name converted is really - Sloopy Chuckledoodle. Chuckledoodle struck my funny bone (hee hee)… If you are interested in finding out what your new name would be:</p>
<p>(The following is excerpted from a children’s book, Captain Underpants And the Perilous Plot Professor Poopypants, by Dav Pilkey, in which the evil Professor forces everyone to assume new names.)</p>
<p>**1. Use the third letter of your first name to ; determine your New first name:**a = snickle; b = doombah; c = goober; d = cheesey; e = crusty; f = greasy; g = dumbo; h = farcus; i = dorky; j = doofus; k = funky; l = clicky ; m = sleezy; n = sloopy; o = fluffy; p = stinky; q = slimy; r = dorfus; s = snooty; t = tootsie; u = dipsy; v = sneezy; w = liver; x = skippy; y = dinky; z = zippy</p>
<p>2. Use the second letter of your last name to determine the first half of your new last name:
a = dippin; b = feather; c = batty; d = burger; e = chicken; f = barffy; g = lizard; h = waffle; i = farkle; j = monkey; k = bouncy; l = chicken; m = bubble; n = rhino; o = potty; p = hamster; q = buckle; r = gizzard; s = lickin; t = snickle; u = chuckle; v = pickle; w = hubble; x = dingle; y = gorilla; z = girdle</p>
<p>3. Use the third letter of your last name to determine the second half of your new last name:
a = glop; b = star; c = face; d = nose; e = hump; f = breath; g = pants; h = shorts; i = lips; j = honker; k = head ; l = tush; m = chunks ; n = dunkin; o = brains; p = biscuits; q = toes; r = doodle; s = fanny; t = sniffer; u = sprinkles; v = frack; w = squirt; x = humperdinck; y = hiney; z = juice</p>
<p>I’d be Sleezy Potty Shorts. I’ve always HATED Captain Underpants books.</p>
<p>Zippy Chickendunken here. With my kids Dipsy and Dorfus, and my husband Snooty.</p>
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<p>YDS–because it means you’re among friends. (We seem to have a lot of nicknames on the 2010 thread–FAP, VP, PMK, Keil, r6l–how else could we get our astronomical post count?!)</p>
<p>My screen name is not too interesting. Based on D’s intended major (astronomy). She’ll probably change it, like many kids. And it won’t be relevant during D2’s college search.</p>
<p>We are Sloopy, Dorky, and Dorfus Gizzardbrains. Gee, “colmomto2” doesn’t look so bad anymore. :)</p>
<p>Sneezy Burgernose, here, with kids, Dorky and Sneezy - I guess Sneezy, junior?</p>
<p>@younghoss, apologies for my suggesting in a thread a while ago that you would view a situation differently when you became “oldhoss.” We are of the same vintage.</p>
<p>I joined when oldest was in high school. Lurked for a long time (and still lurk a lot). I am so uncreative that all I could think of was to use the name of my car. But then, the name represents a long wandering journey, and so it seemed appropriate to use for the quest to find the right college. Eventually, I realized it represents life itself. So what initially was to me a mundane name is now, to me, the right name. And I use it elsewhere, when it is available to me.</p>