The WELL: pre.vue.17: Naming Names-- How did you become (userid) ?

#276: Jett Rink (jettrinkjr) Sat 2 Dec 06 08:48

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:48:00 PST

#274

Seeing Bum Phillips was worth the price of a ticket, '75 ff. [Read entire topic]

#275: Gail Williams (gail) Fri 1 Dec 06 13:37

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:37:00 PST

Heh! That's kinda sweet. And it explains why you're into the <sports.> conference. [Read entire topic]

#274: Missing the old glass-bodied Magic Markers: (oilers1972) Fri 1 Dec 06 11:13

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:13:00 PST

My user name is due to the soft spot I still have in my heart for one of the sorriest pro football teams of all time, the 1972 Houston Oilers who finished that season 1-13. To show how serious they were about stinking up the National Football League in those days, they finished 1-13 again in 1973.

Fortunately they did have cool uniforms. And the Oilers did get a lot better starting in 1974. [Read entire topic]

#273: Gail Williams (gail) Tue 2 May 06 19:21

Tue, 02 May 2006 19:21:00 PDT

Yep! [Read entire topic]

#272: Lisa Harris (lrph) Tue 2 May 06 18:16

Tue, 02 May 2006 18:16:00 PDT

I guess keeping my name as my pseud is a help for keeping my gender straight. [Read entire topic]

#271: Cleave the general ear (ronks) Tue 2 May 06 13:00

Tue, 02 May 2006 13:00:00 PDT

> thinking of you as a guy at some point in the past

No no, that's Lerf Ericsson.

I find that "Lerf" does not convey a sense of gender to me; though it might suggest an extra-terrestrial, and who knows how they're organized in that department. [Read entire topic]

#270: Gail Williams (gail) Tue 2 May 06 10:32

Tue, 02 May 2006 10:32:00 PDT

Interesting. I have trained myself to read "lrph" as "Lisa" instead of mentally pronouncing it -- probably as "Lerf" -- which is my usual inclination with all IDs. Maybe to avoid thinking of you as a guy at some point in the past. Funny how that goes. [Read entire topic]

#269: Lisa Harris (lrph) Sat 29 Apr 06 16:06

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:06:00 PDT

lrph = My full initials = Lisa Rachel Poskanzer Harris.

And ditto on the taking a double take when people call me by my given name when I'm here. I'm so used to being lrph that Lisa is as foreign to me here as "Mrs. Harris" was before I had young children in my life. [Read entire topic]

#268: John Payne (satyr) Sat 29 Apr 06 12:36

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:36:00 PDT

<scribbled by satyr Sat 29 Apr 06 12:37> [Read entire topic]

#267: SLJ*O (chuck) Tue 12 Oct 04 20:28

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:28:00 PDT

I used to have a problem like that. [Read entire topic]