I’m aware of the recent posts regarding the lack of recent posts. In the old place I was Tkdmart of the North West Massive, and had some bloody good mingles with those excellent folks.
Did you change your name during the exodus, and if so, who were you? It might sound daft but I lose track of things. Participation in this is purely voluntary of course, and to all those lovely folks from times gone by who might just pop on to read occasionally, a massive hello! And feel free to share some memories.
Always been Moseley moles from the mag blog to website one to now. If we move from Birmingham I will change it.
I was Spartacus.
No, I was Spartacus
(note: no I wasn’t – always was and will be Rigid Digit – but the Spartacus gag was just screaming out to be posted)
I did. My other name was a bit too unusual and was very quite searchable so I went vague.
Twangothian IIRC
I was HP Cocain
I was “David Hepworth”
Inspired by BBC’s The Traitors, I love you lot and I hope we continue to be friends.
I am now and always have been…..the californian
My original username was my full real name. What a maroon!
A few Google searches on it proved underwear-soiling so quickly changed to using my nickname and have remained Beezer since
Errrrr….. I’d like to change mine. Can I please?
Have at it. It’s a Mod request I think.
I always assumed you were Bono anyway. With a typo.
Just say the word (or words, of course)
Su-su-sudio …
Ok can I become Bozo please? That’s still only one letter from Bono. What do I need to do?
Voila. Your login and main user details are not changed
This is excellent.
Thanks Mods! I feel liberated.
Mods, if you please, I would like to change my username to Paul Hewston.
This is the stuff identity crises are made of……
Neither U2 frontman nor ‘The Bible’ singer, nor even Led Zep sticksman, but somewhere in between…
I started as Leedsboy (despite not being from Leeds and being too old to be a boy – although shortly I could probably get away with old boy). I had a brief moment of posting under my real name but decided that was a bit silly so reverted back to Leedsboy.
Always been mikethep – a lame play on Murray the K. Somebody (can’t remember who) thought I was so named because I was Mike the rep.
I toyed with Marcel Sprout.
There’s a pub and music venue in Listowel, County Kerry called Mike the Pies. I had always assumed that your name might have been in tribute to it.
Can be if you like!
I was originally STD before my Maria-from-Metropolis metallic upgrade.
Since then, of course, I have been knighted and am, more properly, Sir Robot but, unlike Sir Ben Kingsley, I consider it a bit unseemly to draw attention to it..
I was Bingo Often.
It was a different time in my life, in which I was able to indulge my hobbies more fully.
Then Bingo Regularly, Bingo Spasmodically, Bingo Rarely, Bingo Little and Bingone
Started off using my real first name and then changed it to the title of a Be Bop Deluxe box set because I liked the play on words.
Started off posting under my real name, which of course is Hawkminster Fallerene. Decided to change it after a few drinks had been taken one night and I ended up posting that I didn’t really like Bruce Springsteen.
I was Andyourbirdcansing, then Baron H, then Ray X and now I’m Pyramid. I’m very, very good at Wordle.
Portmanteau version – Baron PyreX.
Nice to hear from you @tkdmart. I’ve always been a vulpine.
My old user name was my real name, I changed when I retired and didn’t want such a visible and searchable handle, hence me changing to the worlds most famous footballer (for a few days in 1912).
I used to go by my actual name in the Word days but I adopted this pseudonym for the Afterword era. It’s the title track of Depeche Mode’s 3rd best LP and a song everyone should know – but they didn’t release it as a single.
My proper own name in the Word days (when I daren’t say anything cos everybody knew everybody and they met Hep &Co in the Dog & Whistle every night) , then an anagram of my name (henspetig) before being christened by Burt.
That was a pivotal moment in AW history.
Is your real name Shit Gneep?
Damn, now paparazzi outside….
Pete Hnsig of the Norfolk Hnsigs?
Always been Franco. It’s my real name. Sicilian parentage. Feel about as Sicilian as a bag of pork scratchings.
I was sven garlic then allium sativum. Reinvention, regeneration. Over thinking as is my won’t.
Stand and Deliver!
Your Lupinus polyphyllus or your life.
Junior since some time in Word era when Saint Fraser did a big change your name thing.
As with others changed from real name to mask my posting on the company dime.
At a AW mingle I introduced myself to Dave H and Mark E using my name here as well as the one my mum gave me. Hep seemed unable to fathom why some of us sought anonymity.
I wasn’t originally GCU* Grey Area on the Word blog, but have been such on this site through its various iterations.
I changed my ‘name’ twice, not being happy with what I’d chosen. The second change coincided with Fraser Lewry** ‘s Amnesty *** which enabled easy name changes.
* General Contact Unit – see Iain M. Banks.
** the estimable webmaster on the Word site.
*** Three more from them later.
I have been Uncle Wheaty through all versions of this lovely place.
A have a few hampers that I am still working my way through…except the Corsair Love Meat from the last one…smells too fishy.
I’ve always been BryanD and occasionally wonder if I should change it but very rarely post anything that is identifying and who cares anyway.
I’ve always been Chrisf ever since I joined on the old Word blog.
As you can probably guess it’s a shortened version of my real name – Peter Jones.
I was, and still am, rosbif.
Great googly-moogly! Do my eyes deceive me…?
I was briefly someone other than me. Then the meds kicked in.
Makes sense – you’ve been consistent in doing eyeball pleasers..
Diolch although I do make the occasional fake or two.
Once Blue Boy always Blue Boy.
Is this a Ron Sexsmith thing?
Only when staying in a Cheap Hotel?
Camelot Towers these days.
I’ve always been fitterstoke around these parts – although, back in the mists of time, I vaguely remember it being Fitterstoke…
I think I’ve always been Freddy, the finest stickman of his generation.
One of the links on The Word’s Wikipedia page leads to some archived Afterword pages on the Wayback Machine. I found myself as ‘sarahg’ in a post from 2012. There’s a lot of familiar names on there too.
Thanks for that @sarah although, in hindsight, post-midnight wasn’t the best time to go looking down that particular rabbit hole, considering an early start this morning. Entertaining stuff!
I have always been Bamber on here though the avatars have changed over the years.
Back in the Neolithic age, when Fraser ruled the roost with a benevolent hand and the world was a younger, sweeter place I signed up. I actually knew Fraser as I’d worked with him at a. doomed music start up in the late 90s and he was in charge of their mysterious “blog” whatever that was, so I was especially excited to join the Word gang. As I was rushing to get into the blog, and begin posting nonsense I just put down ‘Slotbadger’, yeah that’ll do, I’ll change it to something better in a bit.
They called me Kid Gorgeous.
Later on, it was Kid Presentable.
Then Kid Gruesome.
And finally, Kid Moe