Real Names

is a palindrome

 

Three people in over 15 years online know my real name...one recently by accident. Which I felt pretty nervous about for a bit till I figured out the person is who they said they were.
You never know.
Let me tell you a nightmare story...
I was one of three administrators in a large political forum...so one day a pretty frantic member PM'd me...she had been conversing in pm's..email etc. with another member (male). They sent photos back and forth etc...until one day he said something to her that weirded her out. He admitted a criminal record he had and his crime was violent. So she stopped the "relationship". He wasn't done.
He wouldn't stop hounding here with emails/PM's found another login of hers on another forum and started hounding her there also.
He knew her real name. Knew she lived in a small town somewhere in Southern Illinois. The guy found out her address.
He sent her letters and photos and started to threaten her worse and worse.
She pleaded with us to figure out who the man is. Obviously we told her to go to the police...which might even make things worse.
Anyhow I provided her with his real identity and address. She did call the police, gave them the info and the police in that town did visit him.
At the end of the day..she moved out of her apt. and moved to another one.
That has been a good 7-8 years ago....I imagine she still occasionally looks over her shoulder.

 

Jimmy.

In the UK if you walk into any pub and say Jimmy or James, chances are half of the patrons are going to turn around.

 

Well the Kat in my name here is a part of my real name too.

 

op....do you pronounce bernard with an 'er' sound at the second syllable or an 'ar' sound?

ber-nerd
ber-nard

 

It's very hard to misspell....

 

i'm not worried about people knowing my mundane name. anyone familiar enough with how to find things out on the internet could find it easily enough without too much effort.
i just really have issues with both parts of it, and the origens there of. which is why i refuse to use it, any place i don't have to.
i've been themnax, for anything other then signing checks and other legal paperwork, for at least slightly more then half my life now, and came up with it, quite a bit longer ago then that.

i refer to what this thread calls "real" names, as mundane names
(mka = mundanely known as)

 

I kind of like the old Native American custom of changing a child's name when they become an adult, based on the idea that nobody can tell at birth what kind of a name is going to be a good fit for someone after they mature and develop an adult personality. Picking an online name is like that.

 

Rumpled Dickskin

 

The story of rumpled dickskin started many years ago when a poor whorehouse owner promised the men at his tavern that with just one suck, his best girl could turn your dick gold.

 

MrChuffy you're gonna have to let us know what your real name is because the suspense is killing me. If you think you can guess my real name from the stuff I post here, well then the best of luck cos it's impossible.

 

It would be interesting to see what "name" people would choose for themselves if they were able to do so.

 

i'm sure it depends on at what point they "become and adult" and get the chance to name themselves. if they get to choose at 16 or 18, the world's most common name would probably be Pimpmaster McBigdick or something.

 

I sure hope you mean the male gender.

 

No, I never try to guess. But I appreciate when people use their real name here.

 

i'm guessing the most common female names would all be Princess something.

 

This reminded me of a conversation I recently had with my parents. We know a couple of transgendered people in their early 20s, both who identify as male now, and they both recently chose new names. The names they chose were "Cal" and "Hitch". My dad thought hitch in particular was kind of a strange name and wondered why someone would choose a name like that. I just figured most people at this age would pick a more unusual name if they could change it. I think a lot of older people would pick unusual names too. We all just want to stand out from the crowd.

 

At age 16 to 18 they would want to be named princess? Have you met any girls before? 6 to 8 maybe.

 

yeah, and i couldn't think of a good answer for them, so i went with the silly stereotype.