What's in a name...

[Ricki]

I have a few names, three.
I know which name goes where but now that GS is my 'sweet spot', , it can be confusing.

My formal name is Rachel. That's for the serious places, like newsletters and such. (that's the name I registered here). Then I have Ricki. That's the name I go by daily, for more than thirty years. On FB it's Ricki. Twitter too and a few more places.
THEN I have my web nick, littledino. That's a story on it's own..........

Since I have made GS my place I have decided to tell about it because I am starting to feel at home here and I also want to make a siggy with my name Ricki. If I wouldn't have explained, no on would know where the name Ricki popped up from . Besides, where I feel at home I'm used to the name Ricki.

I didn't realize I would ever have the know-how to really participate in a forum so this is a little embarrassing surprise to me. Is there is any possibility of changing my forum name from littledino to Ricki now that I have told my 'name' story?

[missdamsel]

I do believe I can change that for you. Just send me a pm if you do want me to change that for you.

[Ricki]

Oh Missi! That would be awesome, thank you PM on it's way..........

[charmedeebob]

but I want to hear the littledino story!

[Ricki]

okay kinda silly.......blush blush.........
My son was with a computer before me and his nick is bigdino. So when I got my first computer, he helped me hook up and when we got to picking a nick for me, littledino was so obvious. And that's how I'm littledino for eight years now!
.......as if two names weren't enough......

[missdamsel]

You are all hooked up Ricki!! No more littledino here! lol Although that is funny, because it is similar to how I gt my missdamsel name. When hubby started on the internet (about a millkion years ago) he was Paladin, so when he hooked me up I became his missdamsel.

[Ricki]

Oh this is great, thanks Missi! NOW I'm at home with my name

Thus the title, "What's in a name". I'm sure there are quite amusing stories about nicks and names!

[geswho40]

Well mine isn't amusing but I'll bore you with it anywho, . It started more than 10 years ago when I was setting up my AOL account and needed a user name. I wanted guesswho, but it was already taken, so I then I tried "geswho", and that was also taken, so I just added my age at the time in there. That way I am always 40 geswho40. Thinking back I should have been geswho30 so I could always be 30...oh well, so there you have it. Not as cute and interesting as yours! Great thread though, I like hearing how people came up with their user names

[Ricki]

Maybe it should have been geswho20, that way you'd be 'young' forever! And it's not at all boring A cute story that came from the frustration that most names are taken, so this is an amusing subject!

[StarWarsFans]

My username is because my husband and I met and fell in love because of Star Wars. So, we are Star Wars Fans. Pretty self explanatory! I always like hearing the stories behind usernames.

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