I'm curious. How many 15-20 year DUers have ever changed their name? (me, no)

[hlthe2b]

If so, have you changed it more than once? Please list your prior name.

[rzemanfl]

1. Never. I'm thought about changing mine to OldLeftieLawyer, but if there's

an afterlife Annette would probably kick my ass, so I won't.

[hlthe2b]

3. Hah. Yeah, she probably woulld...

[cilla4progress]

2. Nope!

Here since November 2004 when THAT election was stolen from John Kerry.....

[underpants]

4. LucianneGoldbergsPapSmear didn't really seem to "fit"

[hlthe2b]

9. ewww, but you would have been "unforgettable"

[relayerbob]

5. Nope

[Kali]

6. do you remember how many amnesties there have been?

I was thinking there have been two but I am not sure.

haven't ever changed mine. I do know a number of people who changed on their own for various reasons but lost their post counts.

[hlthe2b]

7. Earl G mentions 2009 after Bush. That may well be the only one.

although it is possible a few DUers might have gotten "special dispensation" for one reason or another.

[Atticus]

8. I yam what I yam. nt

[highplainsdem]

10. Never, in over 16 years.

[dem4decades]

11. I'm pleading the 5th, if I could get a full pardon I'd tell.

[FreepFryer]

12. Sadly no, even if a bit long in the tooth, the autoeponymous battle rages on :) (nt)

[bottomofthehill]

13. Once, not through the name change program

More like witness protection. When I joined on the summer of 2001 my user name was first name last initial. After a couple years and saying some shitty things ( deservedly so in my opinion) about the Bush Administration, I decided to stop posting under my real name and make it a little more difficult to ID.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I've had my username since I joined back in 2005, and I will ALWAYS have it! n/t

[MuseRider]

15. Never.

I hate name changes, so hard to remember but I understand why I guess. I will be MuseRider until you find me in the Memorials...oh wait I will ALWAYS be MuseRider.

[lark]

16. Been here 16 years, no name change. n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

17. The only change I made to my DU name was

to put an underscore between Vogon and Glory. I used Vogon Glory as my screen name back when I posted on an old politics board on AOL.

[IcyPeas]

18. never. i like it.

[SouthernIrish]

19. I had to several years ago.

Switched internet carriers and couldn't access.my old email account. Had to go and change it when I switched phones. Originally here since 2002.

[hlthe2b]

25. That I can appreciate. People laugh at me for keeping a couple AOL email accounts all these years

That is the advantage...(plus they are free)

[bikebloke]

20. Changed it once.

I like this one better.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

21. Me, yes, freedom is another word for nothing left to lose, whats in a name?

[First Speaker]

22. Yeah, I used to be "Arkham House"...

...I liked it because it was the name of an early SF/Fantasy publishing house, named for good old Arkham, Massachusetts, courtesy of H. P. Lovecraft. Then I learned that it had some sort of connection to Batman... Sorry, but I'm a 100% Marvel fan. (Or was. Marvel today sucks.) So I changed it to First Speaker, from Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. If I had given it a little thought, I would have made it Preem Palver, the actual name of Asimov's FS. There have been other Foundation-derived names here at DU...I recall a Salvor Hardin, though I haven't seen him around lately. If you don't know the Trilogy, First Speaker might seem a little arrogant. ("Why should *he* think he can speak first?" ) But I'm not going to change at this point.

[Aristus]

23. Twenty years this September. No name change.

I don’t have any conceivable idea what I would change my user name to.

To my DU friends and my DU enemies, I am now and forever Aristus.

[Coventina]

24. Never!

[Rhiannon12866]

26. Nope, and I've been here since DU.1.