Bruce's journal (original) (raw)

The Name Meme

• Firstly: everyone knows Bruce
• However, if you're my parents or sister - or a cold caller or recruitment agent - it's Mark
• Readers of my LiveJournal and a few IRCers will know me as growf
• A specific bunch of IRCers call me The Limey and I think that's neat
• Posters to online bulletin boards and users of IMs will know me as growfybruce
• Older furs and some very old hacker geeks might still call me RubiCon - but I'd prefer that they didn't because RubiCon is someone else
• Older spods might recall the name tND but no one has called me that in years
• Even older spods might remember Fuzzylugs - but she was just a wind-up
• Yet older spods might know Lorc (my first talker nick) but I don't think anyone's ever called me that in person
• If you call me Magnus and actually know why, I'll be amazed - only one person ever called me that
• Anyone calling me Sargray has a goddamned long memory and went live roleplaying with me
• And finally, the nickname I had (briefly) at school was Tefal - but you'll have to know the adverts of the era to have any idea what that meant