My irc nick is _mom. I know, I know.....it was a panic thing. I was setting it up and all of a sudden it asked for a nickname. It seems to make people think they can come to me if they need someone to talk to (which isn't always true). I've heard some very interesting stories. Unfortunately it also attracts some creeps who send me messages referring to me as "Mommy". I've also had my share of kids (as young as 12) who tell me they thinks moms are hot and proceed to try to shock me.

"John". It's not much of a nickname.

Natural-Taurus, Pookey656, Pooksters, : )~

chuck, googie, and princess.

Jim. No one ever wanted to call me "Lord Saviour."

I use my given name and a short version of my given name and my survey central handle and that's it.

I can't reveal my secret identity.

I'm "dpolicar" everywhere electronically. In person I'm "dave" to most, "davey" to my boss (which most people can't get away with but from her it's funny), and "davidito" to my family (which I loathe, but it's family, whaddayagonnado?). There was a phase of my life where I went by "wolf," I no longer do but some folks who knew me Back in the Day still call me that.

catullus, rkelley

uh.. Jody is my nickname. My real name is Judith, which looks good and official on paper, but I'll never answer to it.

bill - I think the smileys are cute. But make them green to go with the overall SC color scheme!

When I first started BBSing at the tender age of 11, I made up for my insecurities by calling myself "Marauder" and acting tough. I soon got over it though and have gone by my name ever since. I sometimes use the old handle again just for grins. My family calls me nu-noo.

Liz is my real life nickname, although a lot of people call me lizzie now. At work they call me Queen or Queenie, or many variations thereof (queenster, little queenie, etc.) My old IRC nickname was Venus, but I don't go by that anymore.

I have never had a real nickname. I have been "Stephen" when there was another "Steve" in my class. Similarly, there were two "Steve"s in my Spanish class, and the first one got Esteban (we all had to pick Spanish names; it wasn't MY idea.) so I picked Guillermo. (Just liked the sound of it.) Tom has an insufferably cute pet name for me that makes me just *melt*, and I'm not going to tell you what it is. *** Obnoxious, yes, but no more so than the : and ) combo.

Now, this is where one really wants to be anonymous... I use Goldlocks, and used to use X@eris and probably some others I've forgotten. bill: the smileys are cute, but they are very bright...

Ti, Res, Cupcake, WhiteRose, Mother, Orca, ChorusGal

None really, except my name (and the pet name my husband and I use).

I used to go by "Skipper." This was a name given to me by some younger folks. I squelched usage once I could do it w/o hurting them.

That's pretty much it - lshea and lisashea. It makes it easy for me to remember who I am across various systems :) "In the Old Days" of bulletin boards, I was "Nyssa", the character from Dr. Who.

(comment removed :) ) Milktree, it's with B - )

None, really. My real name is Gilana, but I've always gone by Gilly in just about every environment, except the SCA where I finally used Gilana. Oh, and I was "Gilcups" (from the Monty Python sketch about a jury doing charades) to a select group of friends in college for a short time.

Yay Bill! Whoo Hoo! :) :( :0 :p ;) :D ;P *** Thanks Lisa!

do I go by? hmmm.. shoot.. all are former, my real name is odd enough that it doesn't need shortening or rearrangement. I still sometimes go by reality IRL, I used to be known as paladin (former login ID at WPI), I was called silk for a while by a few of the people I played football with (college), high school I was called tank by some football players. and various people at various times have called me some variation of V or big V (V being the first letter of my real name)
*bill: yeah.. put your foot down... (or should I have sent this to you in email?)

obnoxious? give me a break!
*** steve/eris/everyone, I've decided to mostly ignore all the "I like this, I don't like that" comments about SC that I've been seeing a lot of recently. I'm not looking for your approval (anymore). I do what pleases me, if you don't like it, then you'll have to cope in some way (not my problem). I'm not sure how all this commenting about survey central elements got started (I do suspect that I am to blame partially by "asking for it" in some way). Still, it's getting annoying to me and I wish you all would just stop doing it. If you want to make a comment about Survey Central, send me email bill@surveycentral.org - but, I ask you: please don't put comments about SC in your comments for random surveys.
* Atzilut calling something obnoxious, isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?

none

ummm... 'jer' .. oh, besides that...

my given name is harold, everyone (who values their life) calls me 'h'
I go by Smirkking on IRC/EFNET, I sign mail "Miss Jackie h" when I'm feeling glamourous my "soul name" when I'd fallen in with some crypto-pagans in college was "Aralean" the name of the alternate self in that same rubric was "Atelain" -- that's about it.
the smileys

are

obnoxious. And if you've decided to ignore it, then what's the issue?
well I can see I'm no longer needed/wanted here. Fudge you all.

crimson, jzp, jprovo, joe, joeprovo, bronntonn, jack laughlin, aardvarkian primii, "that bastard", dionysus

nbar, nikolai

I have a bunch of nicknames that aren't offensive to me at all. I actually kind of like a few of them: Turtle, Jess, Jessie, Hippie, Brook, and Captain to name a few..... =)