Well, the problem you see is that Graywolf is not my on-line name, my business cards say Tom "Graywolf" Rittenhouse. Most people knew me by that name even before I ever was on-line. Although I will admit that it came about as a reaction to "handles", I had so many I sometimes didn't know who I was. Let's see is that my CB Handle, my Trail Name, my Rainbow Name, my Nickname...? One Name that is who I am; and a legal designation that satisfies the government, that's it.
However, I understand where folks around here are coming from, they are just a class of people who do not use nicknames. Strangely it is not the few locals that have the problem, they are mostly OK with it, it is the well to do retirees, and dropped-out hippies (this town is full of hippies that came up here in the 70's and are now the squarest people you could imagine) that have the the problem. People are just funny, that's all. Me, I'm no different, I'm just funny in different ways than most. Graywolf Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Robinson wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007, at 19:53, graywolf wrote: > >> I can no imagine why someone would use a name like Bob, or George, >> or Tom.... >> >> "Hi, my name is Tom Rittenhouse, my friends call me Graywolf." >> > > Shouldn't that be Greywolf? > >> "Nice to meet you Mister Rittenhouse." >> >> Then they wonder why I don't consider them friends... when they have >> all but >> told me they weren't and didn't want to be. >> > > Y'know, I've grown up knowing a large on-line community - from way > back when when we all used 300 or 1200-baud modems to dial into > bulletin boards. Even back in 1985 we were having gatherings where > we'd get together and I couldn't call people by their "handles", > "tags" or "aliases" comfortably. Frankly, I like addressing people by > their real names - that's just one of my hangups. > > This was back when my online name was "random entry" (because I > couldn't think of a username the first board I logged onto) and I > still have people in town when I'm at a party who will call me > "random". Hmmmm. > > Of course, if a person prefers to go by their alias, I can be trained > to use it. But if no preference is expressed, I go for the REAL name. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
