Changing my name. Sort of.

I went to the $2017 Challenge. I met people. I had to spend a bunch of time connecting my screen name with my real name. John Welsh suggested I take the plunge and just use my real name since a quick google search will connect my screen name with the real me anyway. I decided to take the John Mellencamp apporoach and slowly blend my real name and my screen name over the course of several years.

Good call.

But ill always be dusterbd13.  Have been sice aol instant messaging was new.....

May add my real name in the signature line though 

Good Idea!

In reply to Huckleberry Snorklewacker :

That does work better than Giant Purple Huckleberry 

This has been done before.  I approve.

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Eh, it's over rated.

It's not the John Mellencamp approach until you use Cougar as a middle name.

I felt attendees should wear on of those “hello my name is _________”.  Fill in your screen name

In reply to spitfirebill :

I agree, but how many would write in Slim Shady? 

I vote Seth Mazdeuce.  Then Sethy Cougar.  Then Seth Cougar Mazdeuce.  

In reply to EastCoastMojo :

Doesn't matter. We only need the real one to stand up. 

Always have been and all ways will be just me. Welcome slowly to the club. 

In reply to Huckleberry Snorklewacker :

That's got as much of a ring to it as Engelbert Humperdink! Or at least even more syllables...

szeis4cookie said:

It's not the John Mellencamp approach until you use Cougar as a middle name.

I think you are on to something there

John Mellonball works for me.

T.J. Cougar......hmm, I'm not sure I can pull it off. 

Thanks to you guys my name will HAVE to have cougar in it on my nametag for the $2018 Challenge.

mazdeuce - Seth said:

I went to the $2017 Challenge. I met people. I had to spend a bunch of time connecting my screen name with my real name. John Welsh suggested I take the plunge and just use my real name since a quick google search will connect my screen name with the real me anyway. I decided to take the John Mellencamp apporoach and slowly blend my real name and my screen name over the course of several years.

Well to be fair, you haven't had a Mazda 2 for quite a while now.

Does this mean you're changing your name to Melonhead?

I will continue to be The_Jed until another Jed shows up. 

Then I will be A_Jed or something along those lines. Maybe we'll do the Borg thing and I could be Third of Five or First of Two or whatever the case may be.

Or maybe it's a highlander thing and we will be forced to fight to the death while blindfolded, using rubber chickens and handfuls of ground cayenne pepper as weapons. Who knows...those Jeds are a strange lot.

T.J. said:

T.J. Cougar......hmm, I'm not sure I can pull it off. 

Why not? Worked for Shatner.

Nah, it'll never catch on.

Why would anyone use their actual name? That's weird 

All the cool kids are doing stuff.

Sethdeuce. :P

Deuceseth.

ClemCougarSparks said:

All the cool kids are doing stuff.

Pfft.  It's a fad and will die off quick.