I think of Cash as Cash, Plei as Plei, Cass as Cass, meara as both meara and her real name, and think of Hec as both David and Hec, and tend to interchange them depending on what is transpiring in the conversation.

I never go by my board name in real life.

That must make things awkward.

I didn't know Fay wasn't your birthname!

It's my middle name. Or one of them - I have four names in total. So Fay is my name, but it's not the one I normally go by in everyday life. Um.

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That must make things awkward.

Yeah, in real life, he goes by The Eutectic, which is hard to say.

Oh, and Fay is most definitely and completely Fay.

That must make things awkward.

It's rare that I need to be that specific.

Cindy, apparently they took out my on-the-uptake piece today, too. I totally didn't even recognize that Xander quote. I hang my head in shame!

in real life, he goes by The Eutectic

Okay, I had to go look up eutectic, and while I'm still kind of trying to wrap my brain around just exactly what that word means, I still think that's a wicked cool nickname.

I used to go by...

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Bifster.

Err.

It was ironic and stuff? Honest? And I never was called it IRL.

The other nym, the one I used for years online, was a Red Dwarf ref (Cloister the Stupid). I think I did respond to Cloister. I had a secondary nick for some private pretentious subboards, but again, never went by it IRL.

On the racing boards, before I left in the post-9/11 world (not a good place to be a liberal commie), I went by Delicate Vine (we all had horse names) or DV for short.

Fay is Fay. meara is meara. shrift is shrift. Cass is Cass. What's much stranger, though, is that I think of myself as amych here (but not as a-mitch or a-mick, thankyouverymuch).

I'm much more weirded out by the fact that I'm the first and majority hit for one of my not-here pseuds even though (a) I've done squat to use it in visible places and (b) it's a word, damn it.

I had no idea Sean was other than Sean. Or do you mean that the K is silent?

In non-pseudy news, Fay, the hub and I were just saying this morning that the unpleasantness in Thailand seems so very, very Thai, at least judging by all our Thai friends and acquaintances -- what with the whole "yeah, we're having a coup, with the martial law and all, but we're going to be really nice about it". I'm glad your coup d'etat experiences are matching up.

{{{Cass}}} Much ~ma for your sister and the twins.

I've always answered to sj, because that is what my family used to call me. I'll also answer to my first and middle name together which a couple of buffistas do and my grandfater does. My grandfather does that because my middle name was my grandmother's name, so he remembers her when he says it.

Edited to add that Big Papi just hit his 50th home run this season! Woo!

Woo Hoo!!! Thanks Jen. I missed the game and you just made a bad night a little better.

Yay, for safe Fay! When we heard about the coup, Teacup Guy asked me, "Isn't that where one of your buffista friends is?". We have both been thinking about you and hoping that you were well.

In mememe news, I should not be allowed to be an adult.