My name is Andrew. I like it, but I find that too many people have it these days.

name is Adam. orange is my favorite color.

friends call me:

Orange Adam
or
Agent Orange

I can't believe I haven't posted to this thread yet.

My real name is completely boring. Its initials are TCS, T for Timothy. My last name is about as common as one gets in English.

I've GOT to get the cash to change my name to Thraeryn. :P

last name is short at 4 letters and very German :cool: - my dad is full blooded but my mom has a mix of french, tiny bit of indian, and God knows what else.
Middle name is from my mom's father - who died just a month or three after my parent's wedding in '71 from sustained illness/old WWII stuff. First name is a common enough english name meaning "God is my judge".

Euan. My last name is even more unusual. I think it's cool having an unusual name... better than being yet another Stephen Smith or whatever.

bob

What's the point? In this land of conformity and indoctrination there's alot in a name... we start to embody the essence of others who have possessed our name before us and our personalities are the forged of a muck of sediment and sludge that came before I am a Michael, Mike, Mikey Mikele and Mick I also go by many nicknames because I don't seem to have the inherent ability to be what a Michael is destined to be in North American "culture". So you might know me by Tortoise, Rigor Mortis, Iceman, Slasher, Pussy Man, PFD and Sharo Khan to name a few. I never gave myself these nicknames and although I don't particularly like any of them and there's a story that always leaves me looking funny and or stupid behind each and every one. In one's quest for identity there must be a higher occurence of moments of self reinvention I guess a changing name gathers no moss.

<-- Guillermo

My First and Last names are Robin and Leach

If I had a nickel for everytime someone came up to me with a horrible British accent, screaming "Robin Leach, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous!!" then, I'd have a shitload of nickels

Initials REB. First name Robert.

Hi!

Mike

Harrison, better known as Hardison by friends like crow_daw.

Jason

Jeremy

Melissa

Craig

jerry, but my friends call me dumbass

This really got me thinking...
My first name is Robert, so at any time I may be reffered to as Robert, Rob, Bob, Bobby, or Robbie.

I was named after the second oldest kid on "my three sons".

My middle name is my maternal grandfathers,it is an old fashioned ethnic name that I hated until I realized what a great man he was. I would do well to be 1/3 ythe man he was.

When my paternal grandfather passed we found paperwork with three different names for him. Only one person in the family knows the whole story and they are embarassed to talk about it. The closest I can get to an answer is that he made up my last name when hje ran away as a teenager

Kevan...yes...Kevan with an "a"...I like it...:-)

My first name as my parents gave it to me is "Miklos"

...it's a Hungarian variation on that name. So I was always Miki or Miklos until I entered kindergarten, when the authorities decided I'd be better off with a more "American" sounding name so we discussed "Michael" and "Nicholas" but I assured them that it had to be Nicholas to maintain my connection to the Christmas gift giver figure I always associated with.

Now I am very satisfied with Nicholas, there aren't many around so it's not one of the more common names. During periods of ethnic identity resurgence, I think about changing back to Miklos but don't believe I ever will.

My real name is Mark. I don't like it much so I am always making up someone else to be.

I go by TJ. Given name is Thomas John. I've been called Tom and Thomas, but I like T.J. John has never felt right but I dont dislike the name.

Dan.

I work in a pizza delivery place. My co-workers gave me the nickname "Road Rage" for some reason unknown to me. ;)

Nicklas, simple and easy..

My name is Brent Woodle - And I like it!

(*)(*)
\ . / Go by buzz but real name is John.
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My name's Ian Rennie.

And this is the room of those who care


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Harry... nothing more, nothing less

(except my middle name and surname)

my first name is ryan. i like my name personally... although someday i probably will change it...

Lazerus for me.

My initials are BWK. For some reason my parents named me Bruce Wayne. I never much cared for my middle name. I really hated it when the original Batman TV series came out and all the other kids gave me grief about it. Showing my age here. Bruce is kind of a cool name. Not a ton of them around, then again, not so unusual that receptionists ask me how to spell it.

Quintin --- Means 5th child but im the second of 3 so go figure...

Oh.. and for some reason... the NJ DMV absolutely INSISTS on spelling it Quinton

Go figure....

<-- Harrison. :-)

My name is Jessica, but I hate it..Everyone has that name and its boring. I prefer Jessie (Not Jessi,Jessy,Jesse) That pisses me off. Jessie is more informal and it differentiates between me and the other 7 Jessicas (which I did have in my art class in highschool..That was a nightmare!)

jesse is my name

Andy.... I'm fine with this name.... looks special

My name is Jill, I like my first name, but hate it when ppl call me jillian. I would change my middle name but its my grandmas name so i cant.

Will is my name :)

Ross Logan.

If it was the other way round i would seem so cool.

You can call me Carl, because, well, that's my name

Nicole...french canadian...now live in US...nice to meetcha!

Tim. My initials are TAC :rolleyes: :p

Daniel T. D.

Beau Rasmussen, Thank god my mom didn't win with my name being Brock oye.

Nolan :) No big deal. I ain't got much to hide

my name is jenn, everyone thinks its joy, I'mdebating about going by Alex (my middle name..) for college, just to feel different.. I'm just worried I'd forgetto respond to Alex.

Timothy

:)

William is my frist name, but I never go by that unless it is a person of authority (or at least my first run in). I usually go by the nickname of my middle name: Daniel.
In conclusion: Im confusing and annoying, call me Danny.

hmmm... seems I never bothered to really answer the question in this old thread.

Hmmm that sounds familiar...

Since I did happen to learn this in the LA Unified School District in the 70s, "Me llamo Brian." seems fitting for the times.

I've been thinking about doing this for a long time Brian, but you beat me to it. Bringing back old threads for the newer folks to get in on, that is. It'd be nice to have their perspective on some things we never seemed to solve.

:lol: you know, I reread my original post here and realized I still haven't bothered to change my name legally. 3 years and counting I guess...

Amanda Renee...I hated it when I was younger and was always called Mandi (with an i darnit!), but after my husband said it the first time, I started liking it. When I signed up for college, I signed my full name and when they called it in class the first time, my friend beside me had to punch me so I'd answer roll call. :lol:

My maiden name was German and hard to pronounce, so it was always easy to tell if I wanted to talk to the person calling on the phone. I like(d) the name, mostly because I have great respect for my dad, uncle, grandpa, etc that carry the name.

I mostly go by Mandi, or Mando. That's what my closest family and friends call me.

Chadwick James is my real name my middle name is my grandfathers first name my first name my parents were smoking some good dope they both have a diffrent story on how they came up with it lol I go by chad or cj or well im not going to put my last name

My first name is Jessica. Shocking, I know. :lol:

My middle name is my maiden name because I didn't want to lose it altogether, and I never had a middle name before!

Whoops, forgot to mention... Don't. Call. Me. Jessie. Ever.

Yep. Jessie always equated dogs or boys' names to me. Not me. Used to let people call me that in 5th grade, though.... too many damned Jessicas in every class. :rolleyes:

Ara Robin, and I've always hated it. The only other Ara that I've met was a man.

Don't tell anyone, but.. my name's Nancy.

Kids used to tease me about it when I was younger but despite that I've always loved my name as I think it's beautiful. And furthermore I've always liked the fact that it's a very rare name in Denmark - only 1181 women share my first name.
I have a very common Danish last name so instead I use my middle name, Benfeldt - it sounds way more artistic.

When I met up with TFP, I used a different nick from other forums for two reasons-a) should anyone from the other forums actually be in here(I saw familiar nicks, but since have found they're just coincidences), I'd be anonymous and b) only one other person, a friend IRL, would know it was me. So for over two years, I've been called either NG or Dawg and I respond to it.
When I joined PGR, knowing there'd be many times I'd be with other members, I used my previous online name, which is from my real name and now, when they call me that, I hesitate to answer.:lol:

Real name: Louise (eh), my friends know me as Lou or Louann(what my paternal grandmother preferred) I would be shocked if there was one other Louise here-I was the only one throughout school, including the 3 first grades I attended in PA and NJ

First name is Jeanette, after my maternal grandmother. Family calls me Jenny, hubby and everyone else call me Jen:-)

Middle name is Crane, after my relatives who came to America in 1630 on the Winthrop expedition. I used to hate it, but it grew on me. Now I'm kinda proud of it. If I were motivated enough I could do the research and join the DAR, haha!

My maiden name is an Italian name that nobody can pronounce (honestly, I don't even think my family pronounces it correctly!), but my married name is a common last name. Starts with "W."

I like this thread!

My first name is Maryellen - -
originally it was Mary Ellen - with a middle name I haven't used since first grade... but somewhere around high school, I got sick of being called Mary-- so I had my name legally changed to the way it's spelled now...

I never liked my name as a kid because it wasn't cute, it was boring... but as an adult I like it because it's a little unique.. (I was the only Maryellen in all og my highschool of 2000 students.. the worst part was the new princical we got in elementary school... Sister Mary Ellen... oooh boy did i get teased... :)

A few weeks ago, I was on the ferry from Long Island, NY to New London, CT and the name of the ferryboat -- was.... drumroll... The Mary Ellen!!! I was shocked!! I thought my ticket should have been free, although with my luck lately i was kinda amazed the boat didnt sink.

People really close to me will often call me ME (pronounced Em Me) and I kinda like that nickname - but hate it when people who don't know me well use it...

The worst part of my name is because of the speed in which i talk - I talk fast -and people often hear my name as Marilyn... (I really hate that name :)

It's funny -i got a pm from someone the other night, who over the course of the pm exchange, I get the feeling that they have imagined the real names for everyone on this forum - they were kinda close on mine.. I wonder if what we imagine people's real names to be are in fact - really their names...

Wow!
What a blast from the past. I just finished scrolling through all 7 pages. Lots of names that I haven't seen in awhile.

Wanna know mine? Scroll back. :p Nyah.

My entire name is Icelandic. Initials: JGY. Yeah yeah, gettin' jiggy wid it, I heard it all. :)

My first name is my Icelandic grandmother's name, in good Icelandic tradition. (Even though it was my Thai mom that named me that!) :lol:

My middle name is my Icelandic father's first name followed by -dóttir. It's basically what my last name should have been, were I born in Iceland.

My last name is my Icelandic grandfather's first name followed by -son. It's what my father's last name was, since he WAS born in Iceland. I got his last name because I was born in America.

So I have two Icelandic last names, one for a son, one for a daughter. No wonder I've always been so confused. :lol: Really, though, I like my name. It has basically four people's first names contained within it (if you include me), and they're all pretty much unpronounceable because Icelanders love their consonants. I've never minded having a difficult name, though it adds a few minutes to any official exchange when I have to spell it three times. In fact, I love my name. :)

There are no American names in my entire family (e.g. Stephanie, Jennifer, Kim, Amanda, etc... no offense to you folks), since they're all immigrants. And I plan to keep it that way, for originality's sake. I was ALWAYS the only one with my name, in any school or work scene... always original. I loved it.

And if someone is reading my name off a list (without having heard me say it first), I let them screw it up first, then correct them. Every. Single. Time.

Hehe, I read that as "Been Felt"

My first name is Matthew. I like it a lot except for that fact its somewhat common. My middle and last name are somewhat rare though and I really like them too. Good strong names. Initials are MAK, which used to be my nickname.

My name isn't Vincent.

:)

My first name is Jennifer. It's the only non-Hungarian first name in my family, but I have a typical Hungarian last name. No middle name because when my mom gave birth to me, the nurse came in and asked what my name was and my mom thought she was just being nice, so she didn't mention my middle name.... (that's what the awesome drugs will do to you, lol) I'll probably add it in (it would have been Amanda) when I get married.

Name hasn't changed...and a lot of you know the last name by now ;)

My first name is Laura. I used to hate it as a child, there always seemed to be at least 3 Laura's in my class. I wanted to be different. Never did change my name to my middle name like I wanted to. Oh well. My initials were LBG until I got married, now they are LBJ. My dad thinks this is hysterical. Something about Lyndon B. Johnson. *shrugs* I always hated history.

I like my name, i think it suits me fairly well and of course i'm used to it so i wouldn't wish to change it. But I think that either Grace or Zoe would have been more suitable.

sweetpea

My real initials are SMN. My first name is a traditional Russian girl's first name, which I got from my mother who was an Eastern European mail order bride. Most people think it's a bit exotic, but it's really more the Russian equivilent of Jane or Joan. My middle name, like most Catholic girls', is a variation of "Mary". My last name used to be a ver common Irish surname, but I took Grace's last name when we were married because I wanted us to share a family name and would not ask her to give hers up. It's not "Nakamura" but has the same four syllable rhythm that many Japanese names have.

Gilda

My first name is Peter. My middle name is James. I'm named after a boyhood friend of my Dad's.

I like it now, but as a teen I wished it was cooler. I fatefully noticed that on Television, the benign sensitive guy who gets dropped in favour of the risky love, is always named Peter.

In one of the first PM's I received here, the sender shared her true first name with me, and I was quite touched by that. I generally do the same.

For most canadians of a certain age they will always associate Jessie with Uncle Jessie on the Beachcombers...

Now, when I think of you I will have to try and remove the face of Uncle Jessie. :D

PS: The Beachcombers is pure canadian TV from the 70s... it was on after The Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday evenings.

Uncle Jessie was Bo and Luke's uncle as well - from the dukes of hazard.. :D

Uncle Jesse was also the John Stamos character on Full House.

Gilda

<- Pearce

I dunno why my first name is spelled like the usual last name... oh well, at least it's original.

And everyone likes John Stamos, right?

My name is a closely guarded secret. Well, alright, not that closely guarded. My first name is easy enough to find with a bit of digging.

Fun fact about my moniker - I've recently been giving very heavy consideration to the idea of dropping my last name. In so doing, what is now my middle name (and my mother's maiden name) would become my last name.

Now that I think about it... Jessie on the Beachcombers wasn't "uncle" Jessie... he was just Jessie.

The Dukes and Full House were bleeding into my canadian pop culture references... Just don't get me started on Relic and Nick's love for each other...

my first name is stephen.
i dont have any particular feeling about it. except for the fact that saint stephen was stoned to death and so i think he is the patron saint of the stoned. roachboy does not refer to roaches in ashtrays, tho. folk seem to think it does.

I have a not so common name...so I'll just post my initials..CN.

I'm Lily Jane Britainnia. Do I seem like a Lily?

No stalker related issues here, I can post my real name: Chris Jones

Yeah, good luck trying to find me. :D Do I like my name? I guess. It's really, really bland. It's really just a different version of John Doe. Perhaps even more John-Doey than John Doe itself (I've never heard of anyone who actually has that name). But I sure have gotten calls from random people (when my name was listed) trying to track down someone they knew with the same name. But having a ridiculously common name is kind of funny in its own right, so I don't mind too much.

changed my mind. name's been up for long enough.

Dawn Marie

My mother wanted to name me "Dawna Maria" (and no we're not spanish) but my aunt (who came up with the name) talked her out of it... Although my mom still calls me "MARIA!" when she gets a little miffed at me. :)

I'm Dan. I prefer to be called Dan, but for some reason a select few family members call me Danny. They only get away with it because they're family. I am never referred to as Daniel.

My last name is not Daoust. I only dream of sharing the name Dan Daoust with the original hockey god by the same name.

I knew a Dan once, his last name started with a D too. Some of his friends called him double D. Do you ever get that?


edit: Ooops I misread.
Your lastname isn't your username, my bad.

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Jessica and my initials are JAB, if I ever have a child I want to name them so their initials are NAB.

my name is Brad and my wifes name is Barb and our last name begins with B so we are quite well known as B1B2(those in Aust will know) They are two huge bananas that wear pyjamas and have a kids show....but we dont have kids!!

My real name is......on the other hand:
I'm not posting to rain on anyone's parade....but the second article is especially chilling. The potential for abuse, harrassment, persecution, prosecution, intimidation, all amount to control over what you say and do, now that the "gloves" are apparently coming off.

My advice is to remove references to your "real" name, anywhere that you have publicly posted them on the internet, and to watch what you write in emails, or say on the telephone, or say to anyone that you don't really know or trust.

They are spending billions of dollars on all of this information gathering and analysis. The fact that some of what they are doing is blatantly illegal, and that they have already put people in jail and held them without trial or access to a lawyer, or given them a hearing of the charges against them before an impartial judge, should convince you that they are serious and you need to be, too.

Just three years ago, as the last article above details, the "program", TIA, run by convicted felon and former navy admiral, John Poindexter, was supposedly "shelved". It wasn't shelved....it has morphed into something even more ominous and intrusive....without privacy protections and abuse audit restrictions that would have protected all of us from intrusion and harrassment by government intelligence agencies.

At the least, ordinarily I would apologize for bringing this here....but this is not "ordinary" news, and these are not "ordinary" times. You need to know all of this, because the news reports indicate that the government is not protecting us from the potential of abuse of our constitutionally guaranteed rights, so all that is left is for us to protect each other.

That's strange, Host. I thought the last time you were talking about it you wanted to spread your name, address, etc. so if by some chance you went missing, well, we would know what happened. The more public you are, the less easily Bush will be able to send you to Siberia.

My name is.... *drumroll* JASON!

Wow, did ya see that coming? :-P

I really like the name Duncan, but hey... Jason's cool.

I know the song! BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE RUNNING DOWN THE STAIRS, BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE CHASING TEDDY BEARS...

Oh, the joys of having worked as a nanny.

I love when these old threads come back. I always read through them and see all these people that used to post all the time and wonder what ever happened to them.

Hmmm, well, first of all, my real name is Jesse.

Next, as a security professional, I'm usually the one who is overly paranoid about such stuff, especially in relation to identity theft. However a first name is easy enough to get regardless (internet anonymity isn't really something that exists, folks).

As for your thoughts, host, I agree but I don't. First, personally I'm in the military, so the gov't has all the data on me they could ever need. Secondly, if they want more, I say FUCK THEM! They'll get it if they want it, I think it's wrong, and I'm happy to go on official record as saying they can kiss my big white all-American hairy ass! They know my address... I'm happy to answer a knock like that at my door... fuckers!

hehehe, that's funny, so is flymans........

the host has me afraid...very afraid...

My real name is Giant Hamburger.

/me falls over in a dead faint...

Host left politics!!!

Praise Jesus!!!

My real name is James....

...and, damn I still miss JadziaDax and Red Raven...hope they made it ok...

from the corners of my mind....

I've always wanted to call you Jessie. :(

My first name is Sean, go figure! :p

But my middle name is Michael. Theres something new!

I like my name, its different, and everyone misspells it, but I don't mind.