I'm Jane in real life. Jane A. in fact. I hate my last name. It's long and ugly and unwieldy and hard to pronounce apparently (I don't think so). I have hundreds of nicknames, and I answer to almost anything starting with a J.

<-----Will

I like it :)

Hmmm, Id like to say it but I know at least one person here goes to my University and since I'm the only one here with my first name he'd easily find me in the directory and I don't know if I'm ready to spread the TFP out into my other life. Initial is R :)

Born James Herbert, middle name after my father.--
everyone calls me Jim (except in Mexico where it
comes out as "Hi-Mee"......the last name is a long
german name that Hispanics can not pronounce....

<---------Evan (go figure!)---------<<<

Thats why im kinda glad that we had to re register for TFP so I could actually get my name as my username, otherwise id forget my username... :D

John Paul Manuel Velasquez. Not really scared about stalkers or anything. It is a very interesting name actually, being that the first two names are very biblical and the last two very mexican. It actually reflects very accurately with my parents, being my father is mexican, and my mother is european. John Paul comes from two friends of my mother who died shortly before I was born. They both died of a type of cancer that escapes me at the moment. She is also uber-christian... :D ...

My name's Ben, it says so on my birth certificate. I love being able to shoot down people who tries to call me "Benjamin", especially when they're trying to make it sound insulting.
Short names are the best :D

Omg, MrFlux, I so agree, I hate it when people try to call me Jonathan.. *takes deep breath* god I hate that....

Just thinking about it gets me :mad:.

<-----Tom, to everyone, but only one person on this earth has been afforded the privilege and honor of calling me SIR. Galaxygirl.

Rob


plain and simple :)

my first names Sarah but my last name is where a druid ruin resides upon. you figure that out its easy.

Atropos I have a funny feeling we have the same first name as mine starts with a B as well and I have always thought it old fashioned!

My first name is Peter, the last is something you find a lot of in Alaska.

Jessica here and I've never had a problem with it.

the name my parents shoved at me is an unwieldy Italian name that I can not stand to hear or see.

It is not in use.

what the hell... i'm Lynn Matheny. no reason to hide my name. my blades are bear.

(and before you ask, YES I AM A DUDE)

I go by Jason but thats not my real name.....

<-- Matthew, but call me Matt.

christopher, but I stick to chris, my name is too long otherwise.

My real first name is Sheila and I have never liked it, Ever!

But I am going to live with it because for some reason or another, My Mother loved the name and wanted me to have it.

names keith, middle is richard, hence the "kr"wlz

the last is random letters from my last

i like the name keith, its not one you here a whole aweful lot

Dan - I hope i spelled it correctly

My initials are JPK, but I use my second given name over the first. You see, I am a product of a mixed marriage, my mother is Japanese and my father is Irish Canadian. In homage to both my cultural heratiges, I was given a Japanese name and an Irish name. Unfortunately, one of my names is mispronouned so often (it was driving me CRAZY!), that I use the other as default.

are you ready for this?
 

I was born jason micheal mace.

My parents were hippies and thought since Jason meant healer it would be a cool, unique name. joke's on me however because the year I was Born, Jason was the Most commonly chosen name in America. I remember growing up and going to school, there were always 5-6 Jasons in each of my classes. It was so bad that the teachers just called us by our last names. My ethnicity is mostly French, European, Czechoslovakian, and some Native American... I’m a mutt. Growing up, I lived under the sun and was so dark that a lot of people thought I was Mexican. I liked my last name. I actually preferred for people to call me by my last name. I believe we were named after the spice or perhaps the medieval weapon. My hippie parents divorced while I was still young and never saw much of my dad. My mom remarried and my Stepfather raised me as his own.

I’m not gonna go into much detail about this part as I am still pretty sensitive about it.

About the time I was in J.R High School I was adopted by my stepfather and my name changed to

jason wayne raper.

Raper? WTF? Who in the fuck came up with that name? As I understand it, My stepfather’s decendants were from Germany and were “Rope Makers” and were known as “Ropers” but when they immigrated to America the name got mistranslated. Still, fuckin’ “Raper”, can ya believe it. I hated that fuckin’ name, still do. It’s brought me a lot of grief and has put me in a lot of uncomfortable situations….

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My initials are TDR. The T is Thomas (but I use Tom). The D is Dylan.

Dave.

My parents thought it would be a good idea to give me the same first and middle name as my father without a junior or II to differentiate us.

My real name is Erik (with a k dammit, not a c)

But most of my firends actually call me Kreskin, after I was given the name by my boss for being a smart ass. Kinda stuck after that.

First name is Brandon

I'll just let you guess. And don't cheat by looking three inches to the left.

My name is Heather Gay. Not gaylin but just plain Gay. My parents are anti alternate lifestyle but would you believe it I ended up bi. He he what if they only knew.

Bradley Taylor, and surprisingly I never caught any shit for sharing a name with a TV character on home improvement.

hmm, funny, I was talking with someone at work today about names. I commented that if my name was Richard, I would NEVER go by the name of Dick. And yet people do it every day. Why? A Richard can be Rich, Ritchie, Rick, Rickie, but WHY DICK? Who in his right mind would want to be known as Dick?

Meanwhile, my given name is Shaun. There is a connection between it and my TFP name. Can you figure it out? (No fair if you remember me telling the story on the last incarnation of this board).

Chris is my first name [people who dont know me call me christopher all the time], as an isnight into my nickname I used to use it for civilization II. I liked the intentional misspelling of august into agust cause it made my name notable.

Another Michael. My mom said she named me after the Archangel.

Boy, talk about being misnamed. The Archangel probably hides his head a lot if I get mentioned.

My initials are MCC and a lot of my graphics and stuff on the net go by MC2, (MC Squared). I tried for the domain mc2.com but was too late.

And I prefer Michael, not Mike, but I try not to be stuffy about it.

My first name is Thomas. No one calls me that, and I only use it to sign important-looking stuff. My family calls me Tommy, and the rest of the free world calls me Tom. My wife never even calls me by my name....

My first name is Jean-François, but I'm called either J-F, Jeff or a variation of my family name, which happens to be a common English first/last name. I'm of French/Irish/Native American descent.

initials here are DJC but for now I shall remain known as pseudopsycho

I'm Tom! The family is allowed to call me Tommy, but that's only because my dad's name is Tom, too. And no, I'm not junior, either - different middle names.
My initials, TEH always get corrected by that damn spell check! Curse you Bill Gates!!!