January 13, 2010
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Creativity at it’s best
I got the idea for this post from “Featured Weblogs”.
Can you remember your old screen names? Mine were pretty lame, but mostly funny….
Backstreetgirl74 – Back in the late 90s, I was a HUGE fan of the Backstreet Boys. I was trying to think of what my first Yahoo! email address should be, and my sister (genius that she is) suggested “backstreetgirl”. Well I was overjoyed! Why hadn’t I thought of that??? Well unfortunately, “Backstreetgirl” was taken. So was “Backstreetgirl81″ (year of my birth), “Backstreetgirl17″ (my age at the time), and “Backstreetgirl7″ (just a lucky number). So I decided to pick two numbers at random…. bad idea! People always asked me “what does the 74 stand for?” And eventually when I got to college, it was both embarassing and misleading because people started to believe I was born in ’74.
GirlatGMU – Cute, isn’t it? I got the idea from an old roommate and her sister. Her screen name was “Elizabeth_at_GMU” and her sister’s was “GirlNamedJenn”. So I combined the two. I used this screen name from my sophomore year until I graduated from Mason.
Emersoncutie – This was supposed to be along the same lines as the previous one, based on my school’s name. However, by the time I got to grad school and actually had to give out my e-mail address to my professional working classmates, it didn’t turn out to be so cute after all. This lasted for about two months.
Erinash - Ahhh, the good old screename based on your real name. So uncreative, but what else can an adult do? Pretty lame, but also not embarassing in the least.
Labellover81 – Last and certainly not least, my current screen name. It’s actually my favorite one! It’s based on a pet name my husband has for me…. Label Whore. I decided that wasn’t quite family friendly enough for Xanga (“RapeMe91″ anyone??) So I changed it up a bit. After all, it describes my perfectly like a screen name should!
Comments (2)
I held onto LilAl4381 for as long as possible. Jason still calls me that sometimes and says it’s how he remembers my birthday. That wasn’t a very clever screenname then and I haven’t come up with anything better since! Backstreetgirl74 makes me giggle.
@maiuri - LilAl was creative enough at the time I suppose. How old were you… 15 or 16? Besides, you can’t change now. LilAl is who you are!!