Wow. I am so weirded out by...people using my name for theirs. I mean, it's MINE.
And they're saying it way way wrong, because of how it was pronounced in FF.
I am in my mid-30s and do not understand this humor. Perhaps if you mentioned the grunge music of my glory years.
I would, but I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
Strangely, mine's a completely fabricated alias. Because I'm definitely not real.
True, but the Somervillains went all out hiring actors to play "victor infante" and "thessaly".
Zenkitty is real. I'm a figment of her imagination.
I would, but I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
Ha ha! Let us now go watch The Chris Elliott Show and remember fondly the days when "President Bush" meant "guy no one takes seriously."
I started using my dcjensen name because I was in a weird mood when I started posting on USENET, and was tired of all the less-than-forthright people using pseudonyms here and there.
Then I just used that all over the place until we landed here, and in a moment of whimsy mixed with pretentiousness I created my username with my full name. For a while I thought about changing it, but never got around to it.
Not that I'm above using aliases. I have posted as WWP here and there, and in my old BBS days posted as Robert Heinlein characters (Lazarus Long, Jubal Harshaw, etc) and a few not-so-original others.
Honestly, I use my on-line pseudonym because it's pretty much unique, whereas my real-life name is very much not.
Plus, it protects me from the axe murderers.
Mathy screennames are the bestest.
This was my primary chat name. As a single woman living alone (back when I first got online), no way in heck was I going to waltz into a chat room with my own name. I valued the chance to choose my own name, and have generally felt that this one says at least as much about me as my meatspace name. Plus I rather like the song "Windy".
Plus I rather like the song "Windy".
As do I, milady. But then you know that.
This was my first on-line community (and is still pretty much the only one besides lj), and lots of other people seemed to be using their real names, so I did the same. Of course, Jen was Jen (hi, Jen!), so I'm Jen last initial. Going back, I'd probably just pick Jennifer, though I go by Jen or Jennifer, because I didn't realize there were so many variations of Jen (well, Jennifer is one of those, but you know what I mean). And that's my story.
Of to chemo #4. Ooh, look, there's a light at the end of the tunnel!
May this session be easy, and effective, Jen.
Plus I rather like the song "Windy".
Me, too. When I was little, I used to pretend they were singing
Cindy.
Ha ha! Let us now go watch The Chris Elliott Show and remember fondly the days when "President Bush" meant "guy no one takes seriously."
Hee. I just skimmed an Op-Ed piece [link] in
The Boston Globe,
about how the pols are already romancing New Hampshire. The writer, a New Hampshire resident, ends the column with this:
I remember meeting Jimmy Carter in 1976. He stuck out his hand, said, "Hi, I'm Jimmy Carter and I'm running for president,"
"Who's he?" I asked.
"A peanut farmer from Georgia," said a passerby.
"A peanut farmer for president," I sniffed. ``Yeah, that'll be the day."
It made me smile for about a half a minute. In '76, in my elementary school, we all campaigned for candidates, and held a mock election. I was for Carter, and swayed my mom away from the Republicans. Carter won our school, by the way.
Then I remembered my own reaction when I first heard W's name floated, and how I laughed and laughed and laughed, and never thought for a moment he'd be elected, or even taken seriously.
Then I went and had more coffee, because I can.