Originally from Ohio, my name is Richard and my nickname was (is?) Dick. I move to Phoenix and ended up working with an older Mexican women. We already had a guy there who went by Rich. This Mexican woman asked me what name I go by. I told her Dick and she said “oh I don’t like that”. At my next job the HR girl asked me why do I call myself Dick? So I figured Dick just isn’t that common west of the Mississippi. So now I go by Richard.
@yorkrk Reminds me of one of the distributors for the company I used to work for. His name was Richard Burst, and for the longest time he used the nickname “Dick”.
Hah! It’s still my username here!!?
In the 1970s me and some friends were doing early computer stuff, long before most people. We had to pick a username and I picked this one you see here. So I became pmarin. Marin was my middle name, but also the county we lived in, and the name of my father’s brother from Europe. So I “became” that for many years through high school and college and about my first 10 years of work where it was my UNIX login. Then a large company bought us out and we were forced to adopt a boring firstname.lastname format, though they did set up an alias so mail to my old name would still get through. Sadly in the end corporate conformance won, but it’s nice to see the original name still shows up places like here.
Never! This is my real name.
@InFrom Your real name is Never! ?
@andyw No, This.
I go by Rew and it’s always been that way since my father called me that since I was a baby
Originally from Ohio, my name is Richard and my nickname was (is?) Dick. I move to Phoenix and ended up working with an older Mexican women. We already had a guy there who went by Rich. This Mexican woman asked me what name I go by. I told her Dick and she said “oh I don’t like that”. At my next job the HR girl asked me why do I call myself Dick? So I figured Dick just isn’t that common west of the Mississippi. So now I go by Richard.
@yorkrk Reminds me of one of the distributors for the company I used to work for. His name was Richard Burst, and for the longest time he used the nickname “Dick”.
Hah! It’s still my username here!!?
In the 1970s me and some friends were doing early computer stuff, long before most people. We had to pick a username and I picked this one you see here. So I became pmarin. Marin was my middle name, but also the county we lived in, and the name of my father’s brother from Europe. So I “became” that for many years through high school and college and about my first 10 years of work where it was my UNIX login. Then a large company bought us out and we were forced to adopt a boring firstname.lastname format, though they did set up an alias so mail to my old name would still get through. Sadly in the end corporate conformance won, but it’s nice to see the original name still shows up places like here.