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EvilGeoff -> RE: Nicks (9/24/2005 2:44:41 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WickedKev
This thread has probably been posted many times before but what the hell. Who here uses thier nick for more than just being online? And how did you come by it?
My screen name/scene nick is now based on my real name, Geoff. Unfortunately, having gotten started online rather late in life, it seems that "Geoff" as a nick has been taken in pretty much every forum I have been on. Sooooooo... I tacked the "Evil" part on to differentiate from the other, more 'nilla Geoff's already out there. *chuckles*
Em's met me, even had the chance to see me play (though I don't know if she was paying any attention at all to me at the time...) So maybe she can vouche for the "Evil" part as well as the Geoff part... *LOL*
I "retired" my previous scene/screen nick a bit over a year ago, after my youngest child reached 18 years. For several years before that, I used a scene/screen nick as a layer of anonymity. My visitation rights could have been yanked by Family Court if my "minor children" were exposed to my life style.
I started using Hamilton vanZander because A) Hamilton was part of a nom de plume I had used off and on but it had no connection to my real name, and B) to my inner "ear" vanZander had this nice "Old World class" feel to it. Hamilton vanZander got shortened to HamiltonZ very quickly. Then, after a few months in this one particular OL community, I was "awarded" the title "Lord" in a rather nice OL ceremony in honor of my contributions to that particular community.
LordHamiltonZ remained my scene nick everywhere, online and off, for several years because I'm a firm believer in "one nick per customer". To quote Popeye: "I yams what I yams". My family and business associates always knew me as Geoff though.
The longer I was involved in the realtime Scene, the more uncomfortable I became with the "LordHamiltonZ" nick, though. It really started to seem silly and pretentious to me. But I had created it and felt I had to live with it. Until the youngest turned 18, then I felt free to "retire" the nick and start over again.
And there you go... Why Geoff is "EvilGeoff" here (Evil_Geoff in most other forums, collarme wouldn't let me use the _ inbetween....).
YIK,
- Geoff
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