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Steve Steed
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Join date: 2 Sep 2004
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01-28-2006 11:11
first of all my RL name is not Steve and never will be It is just a SL name..
I am in the works of changing my RL name to Andy. I never did like my old RL name. I am so sick of it and hate it so bad I am going to kill it for good..  My New RL name will be "Andy" I just love the name and will be very happy with it. My old name is Philip  So is there more out there in SL that changed your RL name or like to? Andy (Philip is dead) _____________________
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Cocoanut Cookie
Registered User
Join date: 26 Jan 2006
Posts: 1,741
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01-28-2006 11:25
I think it is wonderful that you are getting a name you like better!
When I was in my first year of college, I decided to "change my name" in a way. I put on my door that my name was Fran. Everybody knew me as Fran. Come spring, I had tired of that, and went back to my regular name. Now, this was weird, I know - but then, I was 18 at the time, and the other 18-year-olds didn't consider it THAT weird, lol. Some of them just kept on calling me Frannie! But a real-life name that you have disliked your entire life - I know you will love the new name. In my case, I didn't hate my old name or anything, I've just never particularly loved it. Your parents might well be upset, though - maybe you could officially change your new name to "Andy Phillip" to make them happy, and just never refer to the Phillip part. I also answer entirely to Coco in all my games and when I meet people irl from my games, and this is cool by me, too. coco _____________________
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Maeve Morgan
ZOMG Resmod!
Join date: 2 Apr 2004
Posts: 1,512
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01-28-2006 11:38
I've thought about changing my RL first name to my SL first name, long before I was ever in SL, but I was named after my Grandmother who passed away before I was born, so I think my mother might stop talking to me. My RL first name no one ever says it or spells it right, so I spend a good 3 minutes longer than anyone else when they ask me my name over the phone, as I have to say it, spell it, and say it again.
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Reitsuki Kojima
Witchhunter
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,328
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01-28-2006 11:41
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I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Neehai Zapata
Unofficial Parent
Join date: 8 Apr 2004
Posts: 1,970
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01-28-2006 11:47
I changed my entire name. First, Middle, Last.
My last name as Gore before I changed it. Who knew I could have shared my last name with a Vice president. I just thought it was unpleasant name. Always made me think of blood and gore. Then I decided I couldn't find a middle name that went well with the first and last, so i just came up with something completey new. I've been pretty happy with it. It has been about 18 years now. _____________________
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Felicity Sneerwell
The shoe fiend
Join date: 20 Aug 2005
Posts: 150
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01-28-2006 12:32
When I was a kid, I absolutely hated my first name. No one had the same name as me. Like most kids I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be something else, what that was I have no idea. But the nice thing about my name is when someone said "hey (insert rl name here)" I knew they were most likely calling out to me. Now that I am an adult, I embrace my first name. I like being somewhat unique. There are more girls now days with the same first name, but it is still not too common.
I have met a couple of people from SL, irl and none of them called me Felicity, Fel or Feli. Not that it would have bothered me. I actually wondered if they would call me my SL name or my real name. But I say if you hate it, change it. |
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Cocoanut Cookie
Registered User
Join date: 26 Jan 2006
Posts: 1,741
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01-28-2006 12:45
My real life middle name is a boy's name and I have never in all my life found another girl with it. And I'm not telling you what it is! I was named after my uncle. It was hugely embarrassing when the teacher in grade school would make it a point of reading everybody's full names.
I thought twice about possibly marrying Jack Slaughter because of his name. Fortunately, I never had to face the possibility of having that last name. It got to me the same way Gore gets to Neehai. coco _____________________
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Reitsuki Kojima
Witchhunter
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,328
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01-28-2006 12:50
I use a pen name when I write at the moment because I don't like the way my RL name sounds *on paper*, if that makes any sense. It's a fine name, it's a family tradition (I'm techicly Me the Second (Not junior)), but it just... It wouldn't look good on the cover of a novel, ya know? I can't see, "The latest bestselling fantasy novel by (my name)" having a ring to it.
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I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Leilany LaFollette
Not old, just older
Join date: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 686
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01-28-2006 16:55
My real name's Isolde (which I hated with a passion as a kid), then it turned into Ysolde due to some third world government official's typo. All my life, only a handful of people have gotten it right (one opera buff, one literature snob and a lit teacher), very few can spell it right the first time, even fewer can pronounce it (in English or Spanish) and the faces of most when I tell them it's celtic is priceless
 The recent movie just gave it a hint of recognition to some people, so yes, I've thought it'd be awesome to just get rid of it and adopt something like *Ana*. I bet even aliens can get that one right! Leilany  _____________________
Es el libertador. Es el océano, lejos, allá, en mi patria, que me espera...
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Felicity Sneerwell
The shoe fiend
Join date: 20 Aug 2005
Posts: 150
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01-28-2006 19:34
I've thought it'd be awesome to just get rid of it and adopt something like *Ana*. I bet even aliens can get that one right! That just made me think of last names as well. My maiden name was all but impossible for people to get right. No one could say it when they looked at it spelled and no one could spell it when you said it. When I got divorced, I opted to keep my exhusband's name. Not because I had feelings for him, I just didn't want to go back to my maiden name and having to spell it and pronounce it a billion times and people still not get it right. Plus I figured if I ever get married again I would change anyhow. |
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Spinner Poutine
Still rezzin or am I
Join date: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 583
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01-28-2006 23:40
I've never changed my name in RL but am considering changin it to Spinner which has been my nickname for quite a few years now and that's what most of my friends call me. Maybe my real life name will become my nickname
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Nolan Nash
Frischer Frosch
Join date: 15 May 2003
Posts: 7,141
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01-29-2006 01:00
I've been pondering changing my last name for years now, and it's quite a quandary.
My biological dad was killed in Vietnam, so Mom raised me for few years alone, until she met a guy, fell in love, and married. When I was about 5 or 6, they had my name legally changed to her husband's last name. Of course I agreed, I mean - he DID bring home rubber bugs and monsters for me to play with! Had I known how things would go in the future, I would've told the judge "NO!", when he took me into his chambers and had the one-on-one talk with me about whether or not I wished to accept the name change. Making a long story short, my adoptive dad turned out to be a mentally and physically abusive, alcoholic, highly critical, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do type, who gave my mom ulcers and made me into a rather nervous young man. Therefore, I have never been too thrilled about carrying his name. Now the quandary part - My adoptive dad had one sibling, a sister, who married and had 3 girls. So the family name ends there. The only people left with the last name were my Grandparents, Dad, Mom, brother, and I. Obviously, Grandma and Grampa aren't going to have more kids, they're in an assisted living house, my adoptive Aunt is done, her daughters are adults now, adoptive Dad passed away in '89, my brother had one kid - a girl who does not have our last name, and swears he will not be having anymore, Mom got remarried again - so she's out - which leaves ME. My adoptive Grandparents have laid it all on me to carry on the family name (which isn't even mine, not to mention, I never was particularly close to them at all) and I don't even particularly want the damned name! I would prefer my biological father's name or that of my maternal Grandparents. What do I do? I am not even sure that *I* will have kids - I am no spring chicken. I suppose I could wait until Grandma and Grandpa pass on, or do it now and not tell them. Sigh.  As far as my first and middle names go - they're quite common, and that used to make me dislike them, but they are the names my mother chose for me and were picked because they were her Uncle's and her Dad's names - and I do not wish to dishonor her or them by changing those - plus I have a couple nicks that my friends call me anyway, which have nothing to do with my given names. _____________________
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Spinner Poutine
Still rezzin or am I
Join date: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 583
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01-29-2006 01:10
I've been pondering changing my last name for years now, and it's quite a quandary. My biological dad was killed in Vietnam, so Mom raised me for few couple years alone, until she met a guy, fell in love, and married. When I was about 5 or 6, they had my name legally changed to her husband's last name. Of course I agreed, I mean - he DID bring home rubber bugs and monsters for me to play with! Had I known how things would go in the future, I would've told the judge "NO!", when he took me into his chambers and had the one-on-one talk with me about whether or not I wished to accept the name change. Making a long story short, my adoptive dad turned out to be a mentally and physically abusive, alcoholic, highly critical, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do type, who gave my mom ulcers and made me into a rather nervous young man. Therefore, I have never been too thrilled about carrying his name. Now the quandary part - My adoptive dad had one sibling, a sister, who married and had 3 girls. So the family name ends there. The only people left with the last name were my Grandparents, Dad, Mom, brother, and I. Obviously, Grandma and Grampa aren't going to have more kids, they're in an assisted living house, my adoptive Aunt is done, her daughters are adults now, adoptive Dad passed away in '89, my brother had one kid - a girl who does not have our last name, and swears he will not be having anymore, Mom got remarried again - so she's out - which leaves ME. My adoptive Grandparents have laid it all on me to carry on the family name (which isn't even mine, not to mention, I never was particularly close to them at all) and I don't even particularly want the damned name! I would prefer my biological father's name or that of my maternal Grandparents. What do I do? I am not even sure that *I* will have kids - I am no spring chicken. I suppose I could wait until Grandma and Grandpa pass on, or do it now and not tell them. Sigh. As far as my first and middle names go - they're quite common, and that used to make me dislike them, but they are the names my mother chose for me and were picked because they were her Uncle's and her Dad's names - and I do not wish to dishonor her or them by changing those - plus I have a couple nicks that my friends call me anyway, which have nothing to do with my given names. I always thought that carrying the family name had some to do with being part of the bloodline as well. Since you were adopted(and abused), I wouldn't think that you are in any way obligated to carry out the name of your adopted Stepfather. I you choose to do so morally is your decision. How does your mother feel about all this? You may want to discuss this with her. _____________________
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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01-29-2006 02:04
I've actually been musing to change my 1st Life name to my 2nd Life one. Really.
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Trinity Serpentine
Schwan's Avitar Reject
Join date: 1 Oct 2003
Posts: 2,972
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01-29-2006 17:33
I've thought about changing my RL first name to my SL first name, long before I was ever in SL, but I was named after my Grandmother who passed away before I was born, so I think my mother might stop talking to me. My RL first name no one ever says it or spells it right, so I spend a good 3 minutes longer than anyone else when they ask me my name over the phone, as I have to say it, spell it, and say it again. Minus the part about my grandmother dieing, you took the words right out of my mouth. Hell, they can't even spell my nickname right. Gar! _____________________
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Billy Grace
Land Market Facilitator
Join date: 8 Mar 2004
Posts: 2,307
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01-29-2006 18:00
I'm thinking of changing my RL name too. Ghandi is soooo 90s.
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Zapoteth Zaius
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Join date: 14 Feb 2004
Posts: 5,634
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01-30-2006 15:39
I've actually been musing to change my 1st Life name to my 2nd Life one. Really. Do it, do it, do it now! _____________________
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Zapoteth Zaius
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Join date: 14 Feb 2004
Posts: 5,634
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01-30-2006 15:41
I've been pondering changing my last name for years now, and it's quite a quandary. My biological dad was killed in Vietnam, so Mom raised me for few years alone, until she met a guy, fell in love, and married. When I was about 5 or 6, they had my name legally changed to her husband's last name. Of course I agreed, I mean - he DID bring home rubber bugs and monsters for me to play with! Had I known how things would go in the future, I would've told the judge "NO!", when he took me into his chambers and had the one-on-one talk with me about whether or not I wished to accept the name change. Making a long story short, my adoptive dad turned out to be a mentally and physically abusive, alcoholic, highly critical, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do type, who gave my mom ulcers and made me into a rather nervous young man. Therefore, I have never been too thrilled about carrying his name. Now the quandary part - My adoptive dad had one sibling, a sister, who married and had 3 girls. So the family name ends there. The only people left with the last name were my Grandparents, Dad, Mom, brother, and I. Obviously, Grandma and Grampa aren't going to have more kids, they're in an assisted living house, my adoptive Aunt is done, her daughters are adults now, adoptive Dad passed away in '89, my brother had one kid - a girl who does not have our last name, and swears he will not be having anymore, Mom got remarried again - so she's out - which leaves ME. My adoptive Grandparents have laid it all on me to carry on the family name (which isn't even mine, not to mention, I never was particularly close to them at all) and I don't even particularly want the damned name! I would prefer my biological father's name or that of my maternal Grandparents. What do I do? I am not even sure that *I* will have kids - I am no spring chicken. I suppose I could wait until Grandma and Grandpa pass on, or do it now and not tell them. Sigh. As far as my first and middle names go - they're quite common, and that used to make me dislike them, but they are the names my mother chose for me and were picked because they were her Uncle's and her Dad's names - and I do not wish to dishonor her or them by changing those - plus I have a couple nicks that my friends call me anyway, which have nothing to do with my given names. Nolan that sounds awful  It sounds like you know what you want to do, and other peoples opinions should have no influence on it. Your name is one of the few things that can be called your own and no one can take away from you. Do what'll make you happy  _____________________
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Rose Karuna
Lizard Doctor
Join date: 5 Jun 2004
Posts: 3,772
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01-30-2006 16:12
Funny thing about names. I grew up with an unusual first name and unusual last name. I hated it. In high school I attempted to change my name to the name I took at confirmation (all Catholic girls take a confirmation name), which was Marie. My mother went ballistic.
She named me after a famous author who's book she was reading while she was pregnant. My middle name was whacked too, rhymes with my first name and happens to be misspelled. She got that part of my name from my auntie and cried when she discovered that she misspelled it on the birth certificate and that it was too late to change it.  I was fortunate that it was not Moonbeam or Bambi and as it turns out was a pretty dignified name, so as I moved into adulthood and people quit teasing me about it, I had less desire to be like every other Pam, Marie and Buffy in the crowd and it has served me well. I would not change it now for anything. In fact, when I got married ten years ago, I kept it, first, middle and last and (lucky for me) my husband did not mind at all. I guess you could say I sort of grew into my name or maybe my Mom was planning ahead. . _____________________
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Rickard Roentgen
Renaissance Punk
Join date: 4 Apr 2004
Posts: 1,869
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01-30-2006 16:52
I had an 8th grade teacher named Mrs. Butcher. We all thought it was great
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Reitsuki Kojima
Witchhunter
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,328
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01-30-2006 16:55
I had an 8th grade teacher named Mrs. Butcher. We all thought it was great .I had Mr. Butcher in 7th grade. As I recall, he had some funny way he swore his name was pronounced though.... "Boo-er" or something odd. I remember no one did, and it made him mad. _____________________
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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