Hi Brad! I still love you, regardless of your moniker :)

:)

Fine, be Brad on the internet.







I'll call you Gemini Cricket in person.

I'm trying to decide if "Alex" is somehow more boring than my full name or if it is just that I use my real name that is boring (in which case, the Disney boards are the only place I do that and it was semi-imposed on me and was too established to change completely).

Alex, I understand your being established and unable to change it up completely.

I joined a board, never ever ever dreaming that I would ever meet anyone from it. It wasn't local, for one thing, and, the members were from all over the world. Well, I used my real first name.

When I met the people, everyone was comfortable with calling me by my name. I could not get their names straight. I knew them as their screen names and ended up stumbling over their names.

I did eventually change my name but I used both to help those who'd known me before.

I like Alex. I like Brad. There are others on here that use their first names, I like them, too.

It feels comfy.

{ha ha, not what you want it to feel, eh Alex?:evil: }

I know!! I just can't believe the appalling lack of imagination when people use their real life........


Uhm, never mind.

:D

Goodbye Mr Cricket.... :(

i have another group of friends that has a message board. i don't really post there any more, but a strange thing happened over time. We kept our screennames, but always referred to each other on the board by our real names. It was a nice, very intimate feeling.

On the other hand, I've always found it completely charming here on the Lot that, even though most of us know each other i.r.l., we stick to the quaint internet tradition of monikers, for the most part.

Oh, we slip every once in a while (and Alex notoriously calls me "Steve" on a routine basis) ... but it's so cute how I'll always call Lisa "Not Afraid" or Greg "Ghoulish Delight." I love it.

On top of that, and though the man behind the curtain still lives, killing off Gemini Cricket has got to be something like killing Misery Chastain. I feel as if a beloved character has been offed, and it hurts.


Thirdly, after the cancellation of the mousepod's podcast, and the going-underground panic of Lickey Lumbo ... the death of Gemini Cricket makes me feel like working for the mouse is a horrible curse of life-sucking badness.


I hope this "Brad" person reconsiders. Come back from Stepford, Gemini Cricket.

I think I just refer to people (either about them or to their face) as either their real name or their screen name, which is what they usually do with me. I think more people call me Cherny than Joseph lol