Username Amnesty Update
Posted by Fraser Lewry on 20 October 2008 - 11:03am.
| Old Name | New Name |
| Nic | Nick Orton |
| Andy_B | Andy Barrons |
| David | David Sutherland |
| Bingham | Bang Em In Bingham |
| Rokketeer | Reno Dakota |
| StevenC | Steven C |
| Leedsboy | Lee Rimmer |
| FraserM | Fraser M |
| Rokketeer | Reno Dakota |
| Scottie | Scott W |
| Johnsy | Graham Johns |
| andymac | Andy Mackenzie |
| samfid | Sam Fiddian |
| PaulHThompson | Paul Thompson |
| noedebohuse | Martin Langkjaer |
| mikehull2u | Mike Hull |
| davesixstringsperry | Dave Perry |
| Con_Coleman | Con Coleman |
| Springer | Springer Bell |
I've decided to extend the Username Amnesty until midnight tonight, so if you'd like to hand in your current username in exchange for a gleaming new title, please leave your request in the comments below.
Perhaps you're tired of anonymity and would like to switch to your real name. Maybe you'd like to get rid of some unsightly punctuation in your current moniker (our usernames allow spaces). Or perhaps you'd simply like to update your nom de web to demonstrate your affection for a certain television series set in Baltimore. The choice is yours.
To the right are the people who've handed in their old names so far. We salute them.
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Full name
Thanks Fraser. Please amend my user name to Carl Parker
Done!
CarlP => Carl Parker
Many thanks
Carl
Trend alert
Using your real name instead of an abbreviation/nickname is the new black.
Just space for me
Can I lose the underscore...?
Certainly
Would like like capitalisation on the initial letters too?
Why not, let's go crazy. I
Why not, let's go crazy.
I keep thinking about the episode of Open All Hours where Arkwright contemplates spending all his money refitting the shop to frighten off "The Black Widow"/Stephanie Cole, and ends up changing the doorknob....
I don't know why.
Done!
mat_riches => Mat Riches
First name for me please
Could you amend my user name to Seamus.
Thanks.
Done!
Dr.Robert => Seamus
So farewell then
... Paul Thompson's 'H' and Dave Perry's 'six string'. Age shall not wither them etc.
Please change mine...
As it was done in tribute to my favourite player who, days later left the sinking ship to stay in the Premier League, with all the publicity, wealth, girls, and superior football that goes with it (wonder why he did that...?)
Luckily I never got the tattoo done to go with my user name...
Still, next season he'll be relegated and we'll be promoted so he will rue his arrogance...bitter me? Never!
Oh yeah, can you change my user name to Retro Man
Thanks very much!
Kitson signing off.
Done!
Kitson => Retro Man
Thank you...
Can we do this again in another couple of months?
Yes
I don't see why not.
Great, can you also...
cut the cord on all the embarrassing / factual incorrect / libellous comments that I make and leave them behind with the old name...?
Nope
I'm sorry, but they'll follow you around forever.
Rats...
Have to proof read all my comments this time round then!
Hmmmmmm,
From one Retro to another I may need to enter the binary morphometer for some recalculating.
My favourite name check on an album is for a pianist, on an excellent Phil Cunningham CD I own (The Palomino Waltz), called Koos Koos McCafferty.
Am I alone to note that both Rokketeers have changed their names, simultaneously.
I remain avowedly anonymous to protect the innocent: if anyone I knew had read any of this, there are more than enough clues about me to reveal me as Sid Skidwards, o damn, what have I done.......
Add a bit of Beth or Joe
Go on then - I'll be standard old Matthew Horton, please.
Cheers.
Done!
Matthew H => Matthew Horton
Ok
Just because you spelt "iainso" wrong when you printed my "Lemmy Frightens Child" letter in last months issue (thank you, by the way, it still gives a warm glow to see ones writings in print!), I'll come out of the closet and be Iain McKinney. Not the basketball player, before anybody from Sheffield asks.
Ta Ta
Done!
iainso => Iain McKinney
(Sorry about the mispelling, btw - it's almost certainly my error).
dallardi to David Allardice
dallardi to David Allardice please.
Done!
dallardi => David Allardice
Anonymity is soooo over
From now on I shall be just Chris Young please.
Done!
kingeagle => Chris Young
Nodge1970 to John Waite please!
Nodge1970 to John Waite please!
Done!
Nodge1970 => John Waite
Not *the* John Waite?
...of Babys fame (for some value of the word 'fame')
Or Radio 4's
star of Face The Facts?
Go on then...
Goodbye RobotMonster, can I be Andrew Rowan now please?
Thankyou very much!
Done!
RobotMonster => Andrew Rowan
This is getting so confusing
Time was when the only people who used their real names on here were the denizens of Word Towers. Now the only way to tell us apart from them would be if they now all adopted appropriately puerile nicks - so please say hello, Mr_Eebahgum, KiWiFi, Poolman and KnobTweaker (with rare visits from UkePlucker666).
My God
I go out for lunch and the whole world's coming out! At this rate they'll only be 4 of us left by tea time.
Standing firm
against the revisionist tide, I'll spell it out : it took me over nearly fifty-one years to attain this degree of cranial shininess, and I'm damned if I'm changing my nom de blog just because it's suddenly become trendy to do so. [I'll] Say it loud : I'm (nigelthe)bald and I'm proud.
This is my 'I was listening
This is my 'I was listening to the Manic Street Preachers WAY before you were' moment.
I got a bit tired of internet pseudonyms a good few years back - when you end up meeting people off of the internet and they start referring to you by your login name in real life, THAT'S when it's time to quit.
The problem is people then start presuming that your real name is made up, and what you are really called.
So, Fraser, can I change my name to SEXYTART_69 please?
EDIT: ps not really I was only joking thank you.
Perhaps...
You'd like to take 24 hours to consider this decision - you know, to make sure you're absolutely certain. It's a big step. I trust your family know?
I'll stick with the old one
I've just remembered what happened at one of these off-internet meet ups where one person had to greet everyone with their login name: 'Hi, I'm Hunglikahoss'
The horror.
Reno Dakota
A name so good, it should have been a New York Doll.
Thank you...
... Mr. Valparaiso - rather chuffed with it myself, if truth be told.
I usually come up with fairly awful pseudonyms - just glad to get shot of the old one.
OK I'll apply for the amnesty too
fifer to Gavin Adam, please.
Thanking Fraser in anticipation .
Gavin Adam
Done!
fifer => Gavin Adam
And
I'll be Paul Bernays tonight please Fraser instead of that whole brevity thing of PaulB. Thanks.
Done!
PaulB => Paul Bernays
Yes please
Given Mr Hepworth's dislike of UPPERCASE can I change from CHARLIE GORDON to the much less controversial Charlie Gordon
Done!
CHARLIE GORDON => Charlie Gordon.
Phew.
My martinet reputation now travels so far ahead of me...
...that I regularly get the blame for all sorts of things.
I await the request from Hepworth, D......
.....to revert to his real name of Vulnerable Vernon (as in "...and the Boneshakers")
Some of us have every long memories. Denial is futile. I have sent the microfilm to Seville.
Wrong sources
Sorry ...looks like I didn't check my sources on CAPITALS. It was 'futurenoir' who said it in response to your blog.
I have put on a copy of Robson & Jerome's Unchained Melody as penance.
We are assuming
these are people real names they are giving. All our personalites constructs of our up bringing, genetic inheritance or falling to earth from our home planet.
Fraser Lewry sounds like an anagram to me.
Mine’s a pseudonym
My real name is Honeysuckle Weeks
*slicks back hair*
Well Helllllo!
I
say!
Rah
Thurr.
That would be
Rawer Flyers then
Yes please
MichaelJT to Mike Todd if it's no bother. Cheers
Done!
MichaelJT => Mike Todd
What!
Not the former consort of Elizabeth Taylor?
Another full name
Can be Tim Turner please?
Ta ever so.
Done!
timt => Tim Turner
Name Change
I know I don't post here often (enough), but can my name be changed to the one I was given with
Mark Buckley
Thanks in advance, Fraser
Done!
Mojave1979 => Mark Buckley
*Looks at floor in shame*
My name isn't Larry Heliotrope. It never has been. I thought maybe a few people would enjoy my reference to a minor character in a novel by Julian Maclaren Ross. But I don't think anyone did.
My name is David Rothon. I've only really ever wanted to be David Rothon. Can I have my name back please?
*Shuffles a bit*
Done!
Goodbye Larry, hello David.
Much obliged, sir
Hope you're getting paid a decent overtime rate for this!
I'm late Fraser but if you could........
My second change as I inch towards the real me:
Scott Wilkinson
Cheers
Updated
Scott W => Scott Wilkinson.
The Amnesty is NOW OVER.
Thankyou (again)
.
But but but......
Fraser, I needed to change my name to S?????????????text of message missing
(Blimey, I hope it is all over....
...I'll never remember how many ?s I put there....)
Fraser,
how about a salute for those of us with the courage of our pseudonymous convictions? (Also, how about a full list of changes?)(I'm sure you have the latter in hand....)
Oops...
...didn't see this thread before the other one, sorry about the late name change request there
Sorry I'm late ...
... is it too late to get my username changed to douglas_green?
If it is, can you tell me how to delete my account to set up anotyer one with the same e-mail address, as the system doesn't let me set up a new username while the existing one is still active?
Done!
bighairykiltyman => douglas_green
Many thanks Mr L!
Sincerely, the former Mr BHKM.
Shouldn't it be Dougie?
Fits the earlier nom de plume better