dar512 is now Pete Zicato
 

I can't start a thread until I've been blessed by UT or one of the admins, so I'm posting this from dar512.

I've been thinking about doing this for some time. My username seems to be too gender neutral. And besides I came up this this cool username. Where cool = jazz inside joke.

I was going to have UT do a name change for me, but I think that would leave threads referring to a dar512 that didn't exist anymore.

Admins - could someone bless Pete Z. soon? Thanks.

Well hi there, Pete!
You know you're gonna get a load of stupid plucker jokes, doncher?

we can change usernames? cool cause when I started on here I was a white and now i'm a newsome...jujunews...looks strange?!!

what's a stupid plucker?

I'm not sure...i get the impression of a guitar or banjo player... so I guess a stupid plucker would be someone who played with no strings on his instrument... :shred:

Could be cockney rhyming slang?

you can change your name, but you can't change your voice!

Actually, I've got a fairly decent voice. I sing bass in SATB choirs and can nail the low notes.

You should see me play. There are times when I'm totally plucked. :D

Hey Pete Wazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzup?

Hey looky here - you're famous!

Are you the same Pete Zicato that slept with my old lady and took off in my El Camino, still owing me for those front-row Dokken tickets? I've been waiting 20 years to punch your teeth in. . . . I knew this Cellar was a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

. . .and then bury him under the leaves

*Nod* 'sup.

Nope. You must be thinking of another Pete Zicato.

Last part's true, though.

Mos Eisley's sister city!

You should be able to add your old post count to your new name. After all, you are the same person (I think).

pete's a taco


let's eat him!

Pete Zicato sounds like a made guy from Jersey ;)

ok. now that sounds gay.

What difference does it make?

None.

Then you'd have to transfer the join date, posts started, threads started, groups started, friends, visitors ... etc.

I'm a member of an entertainer's forum that gets around all this by allowing members to change their display names up to once a month (everyone logs in under their original username) as easily as we change user titles here. It can be fun and amusing; but, is better suited to superfluous entertainment forums. It can be confusing and easily abused when the going gets serious (even when display name histories are available through user controls).

Here, a display name change should be more important to the user, for whatever reason, than any of the aforementioned [1st paragraph] considerations before it is effected.

Been there, done that: congratulations Pete.

dar, you're changing your name because Cloud was confused? :lol2:

I guess it's time to tell everyone that my handle is also a fictitious name. My real name is Gustav Thunderclap.

Rich Levy is just a name I picked. It sounds like 'riccilevy' which is Icelandic for "the cows are trampling the chickens'.

My name is Tonto Goldstein, but my friends call me Bubba.

My real name is Bubba, but my friends call me Tonto Goldstein.

That's only the most recent of many incidents. The dar512 handle seemed to confuse a lot of people. I originally came here for the pic of the day - pointed here by slashdot, I think. If I'd known I was actually going to participate, I might have given more thought to my handle.

But I'd have still left it alone if I hadn't run across the the Pete Zicato pun in one of the song interludes they do on Car Talk a while ago. I'm the sort who laughs at the credits at the end of Car Talk and Prairie Home Companion. ex. Car Talk's Russian limosine service is by Pikup Andropov.

And from the Car Talk Mumbai division, Mahatma Coat.

I sent in these suggestions, but I don't think they ever used them:

Relationship Advice: Marion Haste
Catering: Sal Monella

So...I guess this means we can't quiz the newb? ;) I guess I'll hold off on the newb bashing spree I was entertaining.

Hello Pete!

Pete-dar.

Hello Pete.

I miss dar . :(

I must admit, I thought dar was a female too. Pete is a good name.

But Griff's wife is called Pete....

That's what I was thinking ...

ok :timeout: Who's on first?

What?

Oh - I thought it was Strange.

No, peculiar.

ahhh, got it now, thanks.

This was a successful free association of past cellar happenin's, was it not? :p

My real name is Justin.

The Art of Babysitting by Justin Casey Howells.

He's around here somewhere.

I had nothing to do with that. I swear.

I think you are really griff's wife

I still think of you as asexual.

A sexual what?

I knew a guy named Justin Case. He was the food services manager at our dining hall at college. :shudder:

My real name is Wednesday.
I try to be someone different on weekends.

I bet your friends call you Hump day.