Does It Feel Weird to Be Called by Your FlyerTalk Name in Person?

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Aug 21, 2007, 6:26 pm

#106

kaukau

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I always make reservations under my screen name when dining with fellow FTers; we all get a chuckle out of it, especially here at home where the hosts and hostesses all know what kaukau means in pidgin.

Aug 21, 2007, 6:39 pm

#107

cheepneezy

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I get called by my FT handle all the time. Not necessarily to my face.

Aug 21, 2007, 9:06 pm

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SPN Lifer

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Originally Posted by kaukau

I had to Google that one.

Jun 5, 2021, 1:44 am

#109

SPN Lifer

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Perhaps a resurgence in face-to-face encounters will lead to greater vocalisations of FlyerTalk usernames?

Jun 5, 2021, 7:39 pm

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GW McLintock

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Most people still call me by my old handle -- or rather, the first two letters of my old handle, which are my initials. But on the occasions I was called GW it was not weird for me.

-J.

Jun 5, 2021, 7:44 pm

#111

Flying Machine

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I get called by it all the time

Jun 21, 2021, 10:14 am

#112

CMK10

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As CMK are my initials it's not weird at all.

Jun 21, 2021, 10:28 am

#113

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This was a great thread to bump. A lot of names I haven't seen or heard from in a long time.

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Jun 21, 2021, 12:48 pm

#114

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Quote:

Originally Posted by GW McLintock

Most people still call me by my old handle -- or rather, the first two letters of my old handle, which are my initials. But on the occasions I was called GW it was not weird for me.

if I'm not mistaken, many of those occasions have been at Zoom Happy Hours and your Bugger / Drunk DOs, so "not weird" is entirely understandable

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Last edited by jrl767; Jun 21, 2021 at 12:57 pm