Your real name at DarkMatters

[Scleameth 19]

Theunis rhymes very well with a word used to describe male genitalia in Afrikaans

 

Delta!

 

Theunis is better than Giel !

[masteff 64]

My user name is actually a carry over from college when I picked my first email address: first initial, middle initial, first five letters of last name (to make the required 7 character user name required by the university).

 

My last name gets a lot of confusion because people want to replace the double-F with "ph".

 

And in the "a name is just a name" category, my father was adopted so I have no blood relation to my last name. No so different from the immigrants whose names were misspelled by semi-literate officials when they arrived in America.

 

Of course I prefer to go by my Royal Title: The Good Lord Wattaveudun

[podgie_bear 184]

I supose I had better let my guard down after all these years and admit that the Podgie Bear has a nice old-fashioned name, I am Sid (short for Sidney).

[Delta! 985]

Theunis rhymes very well with a word used to describe male genitalia in Afrikaans

 

Delta!

 

Theunis is better than Giel !

 

Yes I agree, but having the nickname "Theunis-met-'n-P" your whole high school life is not very great! Niel is also a bit eish.

 

 

My user name is actually a carry over from college when I picked my first email address: first initial, middle initial, first five letters of last name (to make the required 7 character user name required by the university).

 

My last name gets a lot of confusion because people want to replace the double-F with "ph".

 

And in the "a name is just a name" category, my father was adopted so I have no blood relation to my last name. No so different from the immigrants whose names were misspelled by semi-literate officials when they arrived in America.

 

Of course I prefer to go by my Royal Title: The Good Lord Wattaveudun

 

So what is your real name?

 

Delta!

[masteff 64]

The "m" is for Mike. Well, Michael... I call myself Mike but answer to both (my mother calls me by both). My Granny was the only person of significance to whom I was exclusively "Michael". Even when I'd call her, I'd say "Hi, it's Michael".

 

<soapbox> I get frustrated when I meet someone new and ask what they prefer to be called by and they say it doesn't matter.... yes it does matter, when you call a friend and say "Hi it's ____", what do you call yourself? How will I know that 95% of the world calls you "Bubba" or that you hate "Reginald" if you don't tell me? </soapbox>