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It’s funny, this blogging thing. Lots of folks using pseudonyms and all of that. The other night when I was about to go on NRA News’ Cam and Company radio show, I had this conversation with the call screener that I thought was funny:
Call screener: Is this Chance?
Me: Yes.
Call screener: What’s your real name?
Me: Uh, Chance.
Call screener: Oh. Sorry. Usually when I talk to bloggers they go by names like Snowflake or something.
Heh.
September 17th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Funny, I don’t generally have that problem…
September 17th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Interesting since: a) he doesn’t go by Snowflake, b) they know us both by our first names, and c) they should even know us by sight since we’ve been down in studio often enough.
September 17th, 2010 at 9:44 am
oh, i know they know you. i found it odd and funny.
September 17th, 2010 at 10:20 am
I’m completely unoriginal. I do use a pseudonym on forums though.
September 17th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Sez Weer’dington Elisabeth Beard on my birth Certificate. You’d be amazed at how many telemarketers mispronounce that!
September 17th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Let’s be honest here. Your real name is [redacted]
[We never mention that. Not because I care that it gets out but because it sounds silly – Ed.]
September 17th, 2010 at 11:49 am
😀
September 17th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Every time somebody tries to belittle me for using a pseudonym I point out that I’m in good company with those noted cowards Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. The Federalist Papers is just a very old-school blogrant, really.
September 17th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
That’s a nice thing about Phelps. It sounds like a government name, and with all the yuppies naming their kids with last names, people just assume it is. Plus, no one really remembers who Jim Phelps was anyways, which is where I picked the name from in some cheesy online game back in the wild and wooly years of the mid-nineties.
September 17th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
I was named after a great-uncle that was executed by the Nazis at age sixteen. You were named the Indian way?
September 17th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
What I enjoy is the luck of being a gun lover named Gunner….thanks to my “chief gunners mate” grandfather that had the nickname of ‘Gunner’.
September 17th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Not “Chance the Gardner” are you?
September 18th, 2010 at 10:08 am
I’m told I have two first names…last name Ronald, which people always want to spell “Roland”, and I have to tell them no, it’s Scottish, not French, so Ronald is correct. When I was a freshman cadet at Texas A&M, “fish” are not permitted to use their first names, so you are fish Jones, etc. One of my outfit buddies was named Ronald W. (he went by “Ron”)…as a joke, our upperclassmen would stand us together and try to psych us out by addressing us rapidly “fish Ronald, fish W.!” back and forth, and then drop the “fish” from my last name, addressing him directly by HIS first name, which required an automated response of “Sir, it is not a fish privileged to have a first name!”
Ah, the Aggie Corps and its head games…how I miss those days–not. It does keep you mentally sharp, though.