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Naming Yourself

I have never really related to my own first name. And my middle name? It feels downright foreign. If I could have named myself, I would be Serenity. I’d actually legally change it tomorrow if I didn’t think I’d be laughed out of my family. It’s the name I chose for myself in the virtual…

I have never really related to my own first name. And my middle name? It feels downright foreign. If I could have named myself, I would be Serenity. I’d actually legally change it tomorrow if I didn’t think I’d be laughed out of my family. It’s the name I chose for myself in the virtual world of Second Life, and it feels right.

It seems exceedingly strange to me that the one thing you are stuck with for life, the thing that identifies who you are and makes you stand out from everyone else, is the one thing you don’t get to choose for yourself.

Over the years I have come across some really amusing names in Second Life. I started making a list so I wouldn’t forget them. Some of them are well thought out, others not so much. Naming yourself should be serious business because you are stuck with that legacy for life. But one thing I’ve learned from all of this is that if we all got to choose our own names, the world would be a much more interesting place.

Here are some of my favorite Second Life names.

  • Aloof Hermit
  • Always Schmooz
  • Antenna Rae
  • Anytime Thursday
  • Argyle Socke
  • Athiest Priestman
  • AyeLove Yue
  • Before Afterthought
  • Belgian Waffle
  • Bittersweet Lime
  • Blunt Fhang
  • Blvd Ho
  • Born Aristocrat
  • Bratty Childs
  • Breezie Catnap
  • Bringiton Paine
  • BrokenGuitar String
  • BrokenHeart Paine
  • CallYou Back
  • CanYouHearMe Snoring
  • Cheese Twist
  • Cherish Clarity
  • ChickenNoodle Soup
  • Cold Frog
  • Cooky Munster
  • CoolComfort Nirvana
  • Counterfactual Fizzle
  • CountTo Infinity
  • Crawfish Gumbo
  • Creepy Janitor
  • Cryptic Quandry
  • Denied Flatley
  • diddlesme gearbox
  • Discovered Clarity
  • driveme Oppewall
  • dry Rage
  • Editorial Clarity
  • Enticing Destiny
  • Experimental Afterthought
  • Extremely Noble
  • Failed Inventor
  • Fifty Winx
  • FreeWee Ling
  • Gathering Gloom
  • Gawdawful Calamity
  • Harmonic String
  • Heinous Deed
  • Ina Tryce
  • Justyn Tyme
  • Katydid Something
  • Love Pang
  • Naturally Offcourse
  • OctopusDropkick Sorbet
  • Oh Mercy
  • Pickle Soup
  • Pipsqueak Halfpint
  • Prison Barrs
  • Promises Paine
  • Rational Clarity
  • Shouting Kidd
  • SkittlesofDoom Waffle
  • Sling Trebuchet
  • Starlight Melodie
  • Story Writer
  • Strangely Broke
  • Subtle Charisma
  • Subtle Difference
  • Subtle Signals
  • Subtle Witte
  • Tainted Love
  • Tenderlee Held
  • Twisted Fool
  • Vry Offcourse
  • Wandering Homewood
  • Yorma Destiny
  • Youbetcha Babii
  • Younever Rang

What would your name be if you had a choice?

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14 responses to “Naming Yourself”

  1. Carole Avatar
    Carole

    Since 1994 my user and ID and newspaper bi-line has always been nos4nus. It is also my e-mail.
    On occassion, I have used OUTTAFOCUS, as with my first attempt to join Second Life. But I recently fell in LOVE with SILLIPAT. The silicon baking mat. I love the idea that I could be heated to the extreme, and nothing would burn or stick to me.

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    1. Carole Avatar
      Carole

      BY-LINE good gosh.

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    2. The View from a Drawbridge Avatar
      The View from a Drawbridge

      Sillipat. I like it. 🙂

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  2. joehoover Avatar
    joehoover

    Some of those would be great band names. I already have one since Joehoover is not my name. I did a post on names years ago as something has fascinated me by the topic. I was given Joe as someone I know thought that was my name, it’s Jon, they were almost right. And Hoover as my surname is Dyson which is also a brand of vaccuum cleaner so I was christened by that friend as joehoover. Now everyone here calls me Joe, which has stuck now. Other clsoe friends call me Jonny which I don’t relate to at all, definitely not a jonny and woebetide anyone calling me Jonathan 🙂

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    1. The View from a Drawbridge Avatar
      The View from a Drawbridge

      Isn’t it lovely when you get an opportunity to use “woebetide”? 🙂 You’ll always be Joe to me.

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      1. joehoover Avatar
        joehoover

        Joe is fine, I am used to it by now.

        It always amazes me when new words make it in the dictionary, Selfie for example and other horrendous ones when there are lovely words w are forgetting about 😀

      2. The View from a Drawbridge Avatar
        The View from a Drawbridge

        I agree wholeheartedly. 🙂

  3. pouringmyartout Avatar
    pouringmyartout

    Belgian Waffle… ha! I found a Wal Mart employee pin that said: Ask me, I like to help. There was a blank space to write your name. I wrote: O. Phugauff.
    At my wife’s high scholl reunion, on my name tag, I wrote: Nobody you know… next time I am going to leave it blank and see how long I can make people try to guess what class I was in.
    On a side note, making up alien names for my novels is fun and challenging.

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    1. The View from a Drawbridge Avatar
      The View from a Drawbridge

      Bonus points for actually GOING to a reunion. I can’t bring myself to do that. I wasn’t happy there the first time around. Why relive it?

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      1. pouringmyartout Avatar
        pouringmyartout

        I don’t go to mine… I didn’t actually graduate… but we had an awesome unofficial reunion… I need to do a post about that

      2. The View from a Drawbridge Avatar
        The View from a Drawbridge

        Yes you do. 🙂

      3. pouringmyartout Avatar
        pouringmyartout

        it is on the list

  4. skittlesofdoom Avatar
    skittlesofdoom

    I love that my name is on this. I love more the fact that a few of my friends are on here as well.

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    1. The View from a Drawbridge Avatar
      The View from a Drawbridge

      I love that you found it. 🙂

      Reply

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