Do DUers shorten your user name? A long name reduced to one word, or

[bertha katzenengel]

initials, such as: DeposeTheBoyKing = DTBK.

I'm curious.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Yup. To just Midlo.

I'm fine with it. It actually seems like a term of endearment.


:hug:

[CreekDog]

40. It sure is

Freeper :rofl: :hug:

[Dr. Strange]

2. Someone (I won't say who, so as not to embarrass Midlo) called me Doofus the other day.

I guess that's shortening my name. And replacing some letters with other letters.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Bozo.

[NewJeffCT]

5. ass

:P

[Midlodemocrat]

6. ...hat

:P

[Dr. Strange]

12. ???

[CreekDog]

42. that's shorter than DuStrange

:think: :rofl:

[TZ]

32. DoofStrange...

I kind of like it...:D

[Dr. Strange]

34. Et tu, turtlenbrute?

[TZ]

37. Wanna get back at me?

Here's your chance Dust Range...http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7861455

ah if only the nipplemeister were here for this little idea....OMFG...

[Dr. Strange]

48. Done!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7861455#7861691

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. some call me wanna

others WJMS

still others more colorful, less family-friendly epithets

[NewJeffCT]

7. some people call me Jeff

or dork or geek

[ThomCat]

8. For some people.

Usually for people I've spoken to and like. But, there are some people I know and like that I never abbreviate for some reason. I always use their full name. :shrug:

I do abbreviate some people when I'm posting replies.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Why of course, bertha.

I get Gormy a lot.

[bertha katzenengel]

24. hiya, Gormy

I call you that; I hope it's okay. :hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

28. As long as s'okay that I call you bertha.

I don't want to get on the bad side of the rubber band-flicking champ.

:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

36. heh heh heh heh

Rubber band-flicking champ. Heh heh heh.

I like bertha.

:7

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. LP, pri, lioness, lionesspri

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. yep...I get TA all the time. It is ok by me.

there for a while, I thought I was going to end up with Skipper :D

[KG]

13. KG - often shortened to K

or even k, by slackers too lazy to use the shift key. :)

[MissMillie]

14. lots of folks drop the Miss

which is fine, as long as everyone remembers that Millie is a screen nick-name--not my real name.

[SteppingRazor]

15. I've been called SR, Step, and Razor, among other things. n/t

[DarkTirade]

16. I usually get DT.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. I'm often called geataunt of GAOT.

:hi:

[skygazer]

18. Sky

Which is fine because people often screw up the full name, calling me stargazer. :rofl:

[Heidi]

19. Call Me Wesley and I just refer to ourselves and one another with smilies.

Call Me Wesley often shortens his username to: :smoke: or :rofl: or :thumbsup:
I often shorten his username to: :eyes:

At the same time, Call Me Wesley abbreviates my username as: :* , :loveya: or O8)

[huskerlaw]

20. Lots of people call me Husker...

that's perfectly fine with me, especially since Husker is actually one of my real-life nicknames.

[flvegan]

21. I'm flv to some.

Some folks actually lengthen my name by using various curse words.

[graywarrior]

22. They call me Gray

[Blue Diadem]

23. Some shorten it to OVCO or OVC-O n/t

[Ptah]

25. Not very often. Maybe never.

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Yup

And I loves it.

[Shell Beau]

27. I am pretty much Shell Beau although I guess a lot do shorten it to Shell.

[datasuspect]

29. DUers who know me in the biblical sense call me Lance Surewood

[Phillycat]

30. No, which is weird. You'd think they'd call me Jane.

Once in a while someone does, but mainly people call me janesez. Maybe they know Jane isn't my actual name. :shrug:

[kentauros]

31. Don't know about DUers

but ever since I went online with this nick in 1997, people always thought my name was "Ken" and I was a "Taurus" and would call me either "Ken" or "Kent" :P

Eric the Centaur

[TZ]

33. All the time:

Some call me Sue..which is fine as thats my name..some call me by the initials of the nick of my screen name: TZ (turtlezoot..long story bout that one but its a nick thats stuck). I've seen Turtle occasionally..but as thats my old kitty's name thats a bit bizarre. The one I dislike is TS...kind of sounds like shorthand for tombstoned....:scared:

[madinmaryland]

56. Don't forget about Snyder, turtlenromo, etc.

:rofl:

[TZ]

65. You're an asshole.

Thats your nickname....:P

[madinmaryland]

66. I thought it was *****in village idiot?

Well, which is it, TO???

[TZ]

69. I thought you liked a-hole...

BTW...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7862184

[Shakespeare]

35. They did with my old nick. Not_over_it = NOI

[CaliforniaPeggy]

38. My dear bertha!

Oh, you know they do!

CalPeg

CP

CAPeggy or CALPeg

Peggy or Peg

All are OK!

Especially since Peggy is my real name!

Glad to hear it's OK to call you bertha...

:hug:

[CreekDog]

39. some of them lengthen it

you know who you are. :eyes: :rofl:

[TZ]

47. bwak?

:rofl: :rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. I am more MrsG than anything else anymore

[Tikki]

43. You can call me 'teek'....

just don't call me late for dinner...tee hee hee

Tikki

[Occam Bandage]

44. Occam / OB

[HEyHEY]

45. All over, even when it has nothing to do with me "Hey"

[lost-in-nj]

46. I get callied lost

or linj which is fine


:hi:



lost

[terrya]

49. I don't think it could get any shorter than terrya

[SeattleGirl]

50. Yep.

I'm often addressed as SG, which is totally fine with me.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

51. I would chime in, but you've done it for me!

Signed, DTBK

[KamaAina]

52. Usually only Opihi does

to "Kama" or even "Da K".

Other DUers seldom refer to me at all...

edit: header

[TZ]

60. Pfft

We just say "the Hawaiian dude...":hug:

[KamaAina]

61. But I'm not Hawaiian

I'm a haole (Caucasian), like Barack's mom was. Out here, "Hawaiian" means people of native Polynesian, Hawaiian descent. It amuses us no end, for instance, to see wire stories referring to "Hawaiian golfer Michelle Wie", who is Korean.

[TZ]

70. hmm well

the New Orleans dude who lives in Hawaii is a bit too long for a nick I thing....

[LaurenG]

53. Yes, they call me OB...

humm is that the name of a product I want my name to be associated with. :silly:

[evlbstrd]

54. evl

[Chan790]

55. I get Chan a lot...

which makes sense. What makes it odd is that my IRL friends know the "790" is far more significant for me. I use it for virtually everything.

There was a time when I first started posting where people assumed I was Asian. That was strange...I guess I understand though...if you met someone on the internet who was into Japanese feudal culture, taught shibari (a Japanese form of rope-bondage involving intricate knot-work and occasionally suspension.) and was trying to learn Chinese you might make some assumptions especially if you had no clue what they looked like.

[charlie and algernon]

57. Charlie or C & A

[Arkansas Granny]

58. Yep. I'm sometimes called Granny or sometimes just AG.

[SallyMander]

59. I get Sally a lot

No problem, but i'm pretty sure i'll get it at DU meetups and it's not my real name! :D

[underpants]

62. nt

[BrotherBuzz]

63. I answer to Buzz, Brother, BB, and Hey you!

[Danger Mouse]

64. Most people call me Elrond or EH.

[Solon]

67. Everybody keeps referring to me as "So..."

:D

[Amerigo Vespucci]

68. "AV"

Which is A-OK with me.

:toast:

[AlCzervik]

71. you're "TMZ" guy.

:D

[Amerigo Vespucci]

72. I know there a few other "abbreviations" as well...

...but we needn't go into them here.

:rofl:

:toast:

[Left Is Write]

73. LIW

[redqueen]

74. Yup... RQ or queenie I think are the most common ones. (nt)

[Redstone]

75. Some people call me "Red" or "Stone," and I don't mind at all. I consider it

an expression of affection, and it makes me happy.

Redstone

[supernova]

76. People have called me 'supe' or 'super'

:D

OK by me. :-)

[Adsos Letter]

77. Some call me Adso...when my posts actually get a response...

and I have a habit of calling Blue_In_Ak "Blue", and MyCritters2 "critters".

I hope they don't mind but I guess I never really thought about it.

[bluesbassman]

78. Well, now some may call me Mo

Some may call me Joe
But just remember Speedo
He don't ever take it slow

Well now, they often call me Speedo
But my real name is Mister Earl
Now, they often call me Speedo
But my real name is Mister Earl

And now they gotta call me Speedo
Till they call off makin' pretty girls
Mmm-mmm-mmm


The Caddilacs RULE! :headbang:

[RevolutionaryActs]

79. I get all sorts (comes with having an uber long name)

RA, Rev, Rev_Acts, and other nicks that don't have anything to do with my screen name. :rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

80. Yup

Nobody calls me by my full name; "our Lord the Flayed One".

[LostinVA]

81. "Lost"

[grannylib]

82. Yes, Gran or Granny

[Labors of Hercules]

83. LoH.

bow down to er... bow down to the queen of filth...

[MonkeyFunk]

84. I lot of people call me MF

Some of them are shortening my name.

[Adsos Letter]

89. !!!

:spray: :rofl:

[Aristus]

85. jab105 once called me "Ari". I asked her not to; it reminded me of Ari Fleischer.

Every once in a while, someone will call me 'ristus. But mostly it's just the full user name. :-)

[Inchworm]

86. I get Inchy a lot

It works :)

:hi:

EDIT: hehe.. you said shorten Inchworm

[elshiva]

87. very rarely--el or shiva.

I prefer el, it's shorter.

[KitchenWitch]

88. K-Dub!

or KW

[elshiva]

90. That's a little too close to "K-Dubya"

[KitchenWitch]

91. Sometimes I am Kitchey!