my nick is idiotic. can i change it?

February 8, 2005 4:01 AM

i just had a realization: my nick is idiotic. can i change it?
i've only been a member for a week, and only posted about 3-4 comments.
posted by Silky Slim to Etiquette/Policy at 4:01 AM (52 comments total)

Sorry Silky Slim, it turns out you've posted 7 comments, and the max you can post and still change your user name is 6.

Kidding. Actually, Matt doesn't allow user name changes.
posted by taz at 4:16 AM on February 8, 2005

happens to us all mate.
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:16 AM on February 8, 2005

Yep. Sarge wanted to change his name to "silky.serenity".
posted by taz at 4:25 AM on February 8, 2005

Just 'donate' another $5 for a new account and then you'll have Silky Slim as a backup.
posted by page404 at 4:32 AM on February 8, 2005

Yes. Get a new account. It costs $5.
posted by driveler at 5:38 AM on February 8, 2005

Gained some weight, have we? Not feeling so silky now, eh? Get out on that Thunderball field and run some laps around the gun circle.
posted by AlexReynolds at 5:41 AM on February 8, 2005

"my nick is idiotic"

Hey, I realized my Judy was idiotic too, but I still kept her around for a few more years. ;-P
posted by mischief at 5:50 AM on February 8, 2005

i guess i'll have to stick with this then.
though apparently "Cheapy McBastard" is more appropriate.
posted by Silky Slim at 5:53 AM on February 8, 2005

mischief:
Hillary Flammond: Nick? What does that mean?
Nick Rivers: Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving.
posted by Silky Slim at 6:13 AM on February 8, 2005

heheh
posted by mischief at 6:30 AM on February 8, 2005

Silky Slim, having a cool name isn't important. Being able to have an account you can connect to is your real ticket to entering MeFi.

It's better to have an idiotic nick to a forum than an idiotic password.
posted by Smart Dalek at 7:03 AM on February 8, 2005

"Silly Slim"?
posted by matteo at 7:20 AM on February 8, 2005

But Silky, you can quote Top Secret!

Your user name just became infinitely more cool in my book.
posted by spaghetti at 7:23 AM on February 8, 2005

spaghetti, why thank you kindly!
smart dalek: care to elaborate on that?
posted by Silky Slim at 7:53 AM on February 8, 2005

I like your nick. Silky just sounds so soft, smooth, and nice. Keep it.
posted by Juicylicious at 8:24 AM on February 8, 2005

Silky Slim, having a cool name isn't important.

I'll second that remark, seeing as Doohickie is as uncool as it gets.
posted by Doohickie at 8:42 AM on February 8, 2005

smart dalek: care to elaborate on that?

Sure. These days, you'll find just about anything inside someone else's desk drawer.
Never happened to me, though...
posted by Smart Dalek at 8:53 AM on February 8, 2005

Slim n Juicy sittin' in a tree...
posted by danOstuporStar at 8:55 AM on February 8, 2005

mmmh. Slim n juicy.
posted by taz at 9:12 AM on February 8, 2005

Who are you trying to kid.
My nick is idiotic.
I M P O S T E R ! ! ! ! !
posted by idiotic at 9:34 AM on February 8, 2005

Silky, if my real name were as cool as Yaniv Eidelstein I would have definitely used it as my nick. What were you thinking!?
posted by sic at 10:01 AM on February 8, 2005

Maybe a mummy will come out of left field and.... oh, nevermind.
posted by ludwig_van at 10:03 AM on February 8, 2005

Try having a user name you hate for five years. I mean 'dodgygeezer'? What the hell was I thinking?
posted by dodgygeezer at 10:19 AM on February 8, 2005

I love you, dodgygeezer!
posted by taz at 10:27 AM on February 8, 2005

Who are you trying to kid.
My nick is idiotic.
I M P O S T E R ! ! ! ! !
posted by idiotic at 9:34 AM PST on February 8

Some people really know how to make $5 count, seanyboy.
posted by orange swan at 10:37 AM on February 8, 2005

If there were 20 name jokes each day, we wouldn't need any porn.
posted by Arch Stanton at 11:02 AM on February 8, 2005

Perhaps you meant Slim Silky? Guess who's back? Back again?

For $5 go get what you'd like . . .

oh, and idiotic wins
posted by geekyguy at 11:38 AM on February 8, 2005

my nick is idiotic. can i change it?

I read that as 'my dick is idiotic. can i change it?'

Sorry.
posted by Shane at 11:42 AM on February 8, 2005

mmmh. Slim n juicy.

Slim 'N' Juicy? Sounds like a dietetic meat beverage of some sort....
posted by jonmc at 11:47 AM on February 8, 2005

Slim 'N' Juicy? Sounds like a dietetic meat beverage of some sort....

You've just given me an idea - can I change my name to Pukey Gravy?

I love you, dodgygeezer!

Aw shucks. Maybe it's not so bad after all then.
posted by dodgygeezer at 11:54 AM on February 8, 2005

Hillary Flammond: Nick? What does that mean?
Nick Rivers: Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving.

Hillary: My name is Hillary. It means, "One whose bosoms defy gravity."

Now that is a username waiting to happen.
posted by orange swan at 12:31 PM on February 8, 2005

Orange swan: you too just became infinitely cooler!
posted by spaghetti at 12:38 PM on February 8, 2005

If only I hadn't set my password to
supercalafragilisticexpialidocious, which makes loging in a bitch!
My nick rulz though...
posted by Quartermass at 1:52 PM on February 8, 2005

Until I got a college address a few months ago when I started school, my email address was:

[e-mail]

"Such a great idea!" I thought. "I get to have my name, and on a yahoo account!" I thought. "I can't believe it hasn't been taken!" I thought.

Well, there was a reason. Blech.
posted by koeselitz at 1:57 PM on February 8, 2005

/nelson
posted by petebest at 2:18 PM on February 8, 2005

idiotic wins, of course
sic, are you taking the piss?
posted by Silky Slim at 2:29 PM on February 8, 2005

talk about feeling idiotic... i just googled "silky slim". turns out i share my name with a purple vibrator, and worse, some gangsta rap poseur.
just to set the record straight, i've been silky slim since way back, when laces were fat and michael jackson was black, and i paid my $5 and i ain't lookin' back!
peace.
posted by Silky Slim at 2:39 PM on February 8, 2005

You're all just jealous.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 2:39 PM on February 8, 2005

Count yourself lucky. I fell asleep on my keyboard at the crucial stage of the user sign-up process.
posted by nthdegx at 2:42 PM on February 8, 2005

orange swan: How the hell did you find out it was me? You must be some kind of l33t hacker!

oh, and nthdegx wins.
posted by seanyboy at 3:04 PM on February 8, 2005

"'Such a great idea!' I thought. 'I get to have my name, and on a yahoo account!' I thought. 'I can't believe it hasn't been taken!' I thought."

I've had my usual username (first initial, middle initial, last) on Yahoo for a long time. I don't actually use that email account for anything. I do get a lot of spam in it. I guess that's what you were referring to? What's interesting, though, is that I get mail intended for a variety of people whose names are "K(something) Ellis". There's one guy who mails junk to his whole family; I've tried to email him but it bounces. One email seemed kinda personal and important, so I wrote the sender back and explained that she'd sent it to the wrong address. She sent me a nice email thanking me.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 4:07 PM on February 8, 2005

'Such a great idea!'
Not what he's referring to.
To get an idea of what a stupedously stupid idea it was, try phoning a friend up and telling him what the email address is.

reminds me of the reason they named slashdot.
"haitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org"
posted by seanyboy at 4:17 PM on February 8, 2005

Oh. Oddly, I filtered out the underscores when I read that. Weird. Or am I still not getting something?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 4:35 PM on February 8, 2005

To get an idea of what a stupedously stupid idea it was, try phoning a friend up and telling him/her what the email address is.
Just try it.
posted by seanyboy at 5:06 PM on February 8, 2005

I feel your pain.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 7:03 PM on February 8, 2005

EB, try typing it out every time you need to fill out a web form asking for an e-mail address.

(My sympathies, koeselitz!)

On topic: I quite recently had a naming issue as well. Due to PayPal technicalities, I (was/am) not able to sign-up for a new account on my own, so when I saw that someone was giving away a duplicate account, I jumped at the chance. A lot of related issues came to light, though, and after a while using a recycled nick just didn't sit right with me anymore. After much consideration, I accepted an American friend's offer to sponsor my registration. Now, THIS is me.

Besides, MeFi could use another $5, right?
posted by Lush at 7:49 PM on February 8, 2005

You've just given me an idea - can I change my name to Pukey Gravy?

No.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 8:29 PM on February 8, 2005

That's frightening. I went to bed and then dreamt what EB is trying to say. Bligh, the point, I think is that the email address with the underscores is the literal email address. It's not the email address with underscores added to confuse spammers.
posted by seanyboy at 12:06 AM on February 9, 2005

Silky, what nick would you choose if you had the chance to change it? Maybe if it's extra-clever, Matt will give it to you. Or more likely, we can at least have a few minutes of humor. Lemme guess, you wanted Rough & Thick, right? I'm right, aren't I?
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 1:34 AM on February 9, 2005

Rough & Thick: I think I once saw a magazine by that name.

I can't wait for our next $5 sock puppet to show up with that nick. I will enjoy reading "posted by rough&thick".
posted by taz at 3:50 AM on February 9, 2005

You think that's tough?

Try having *my* username for a while.
posted by slashdot at 8:41 AM on February 9, 2005

After reading this thread I went to bed. Waiting to fall asleep I thought of a few new user names that I might like to buy:

Jojo, the dog-face dog
Baby Jebus Wept Cream
Talk to the Hand Over The Loot
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 4:36 PM on February 9, 2005