Many people have been here for a long time under many different incarnations and others have come, gone, and returned under different names and avatars. Would you care to divulge your past Fluther identities and when you first came to Fluther?

Oh, man, have I ever! Ha!

Started out as jmah back in 2008, then went on to be mama cakes for a bit. After that I was Jude, and now JackOfHearts (Bob Dylan song).

I’m an easy nut to crack. Seek_Kolinahr here, then Seek, then Uasal (for like five minutes) and back to Seek. Only this time I seem to have come up with a version that breaks the tag code, so I’m @Seek

haha.

Oddly enough, @Hypocrisy_Central is still wearing his sketch homage to my old avatar.

Since December 11th, 2009 the only thing I have changed is my avatar.

It’s very nice to see you both again. I remember you, @JackofHearts, as mamacakes. I’ve missed your kind and intelligent posts. If that red beret is an homage, it is a wonderful one. Welcome home.

Seek, this has been a much different place without your humour and unique take on things. You and ET_pro were the source of many laughs for me and others here. I hope our moderators now understand the value of your wit and eloquence. Welcome home to you as well.

All of my former entities (and they are all still “live” accounts, though I never cross-post between them or award lurve – which would be pretty silly and stupid anyway) are listed in each of my profiles.

tinyfaery>psychocandy>tinyfaery

Like @Cruiser, I haven’t changed my name the whole time I’ve been here.

I had one other account, which was kind of a joke. I was accruing lurve without actually answering any questions. All done on daily lurve, and 10 & 20 k celebrations. The management didn’t share my amusement, and suspended that account.

I disliked and regretted my fluther name almost as soon as I created it but I have never changed it or created another.

2013: Mimishu1995
2014: Mimishu1995
2015: Mimishu1995

Came on as @josie
Left impulsively under the spell of a woman. .
Realized my error in judgement. And hated being a quitter. But thought quitting was permanent.
Came back briefly as @saint, got spotted in two days and a mod asked why I was doing that
I confessed I did not know I could come back or how to do it.
Was allowed to revive @josie
Can not remember @saint password or I would close it out.

I was spidey_Sence. And red deer guy and superniloc And I kept talljasperman foe most my usernames. I was also joyful spirit.

@DrasticDreamer since 2008. I’ve never changed my username, but I did disappear for a while to deal with personal things.

Been Kardamom with my squash avatar since 2010. It took me about 3 or 4 years to ask a question, although I answered tons of questions. I like my name and my squash so I’m not going to change it.

I’ve had the same avatar since 2008, but was originally @cprevite.

I was also @Unholy_Hunger for a bit, but that was just to annoy the vampires that were active then.

Always been a Tropical_Willie.

I was once Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard. I’ve seen a few people with names I didn’t quite recognize but now I know them from this thread!

I also have one secret account that I’ve asked maybe one or two personal questions on over the past few years but nobody will ever know which one

To quote Popeye: “I yam what I yam”.

@Bellatrix. 2011–2013. I should have said that on @gailcalled’s thread. I didn’t think about it until later.

Since I started in 2007, I’ve had the same name and my profile details have remained unchanged.

When I first came here, I didn’t plan on staying so I didn’t choose the most interesting name. Had I known I’d be staying I’d have picked something wittier.

Same name here since 2/11/2009. Avatar changes occasionally, details on profile change slightly over time.

I used to be Austinlad. My avatar was Roy Rogers.

I joined as Harp back in ‘08. A couple of years later I took a “life happens” break, though I was convinced at the time that I wouldn’t be back.

Eventually, nostalgia moved me to check back in. I wasn’t ready to reestablish all my old connections, in case I needed to bail out again, so I opted for a “stealth” identity. But hey, at this point I’m not so worried about that :)

@Earthbound_Misfit No way! I was wondering where she went. I should’ve known based on where you (and Bellatrix) lived.

Joined 9–10 but didn’t become active for a couple of years.

I started with an illusion avatar carried over from Askville, then settled on a Calvin. I currently have an Indigo Bunting avatar because I know one of our most long standing members has a hankering to see one.

I joined in 2011 as @tom_g. I quit and came back as @hominid. Then I quit again, convinced I was done, only to return again as @DoNotKnow.

The first time I came back, I didn’t know that mods could have just re-activated my old account. But when I returned the last time, I decided that it may be refreshing to approach things without the baggage of a previous identity. After a handful of comments I made, however, many people had already identified me. Not that I was trying to hide. But I guess it’s pretty funny when people can identify you from your writing style or personal anecdotes.

@DoNotKnow I didn’t recognize you without your green! YAY! I’m so glad you are still around.

This is a great thread. When I was a mod- in order to partake in conversation without the stigma of mod I went under the handle “Chupacabra” (Seriously close to “Dog” right?”)
I closed it down when I left moderation.

I had another account when I needed to come back and support a Jelly when I could not remember my Dog log-in and I stated who I was in the thread. Pretty sure what ever it was is dead now.

I loved that Chupacabra name… I should have kept it. :)

janbb always and most of the time the penguin. Hiding my candle under a bushel at the moment in tribute to a friend.

@dxs Who are you? who, who, who, who?

WTF @thorninmud. I feel so betrayed. I’ve missed you and wanted to ask questions I wanted Harp to answer.

Grr. I get it, though. :)

I know, I’m pissed at me too.

@thorninmud , @tinyfaery is there enough pissed to go around? You might want to consolidate and just one of you hold onto what pissed there is. The other can: Let it Go

Haha I might as well come clean, I made that Some_Ghost user. At first it was for a simple joke, where a user asked about ghosts haunting Fluther. So I made that account and replied in there for the hell of it.
Then I saw other opportunities to make ghost jokes at times, until I decided to flesh out the ghost a bit more and kind of use it as a joke account. I liked the experience, but somehow some people saw through it and pm’d me, asking me if it was me. Came clean to those folk, but asked them not to tell the others haha.
After a while the jokes were getting a little old and I didn’t quite like the idea that I was fooling some people even as a joke so I closed the account. Some_Ghost has finally succeeded in moving on haha.

I loved the Ghost!!

@Symbeline That confession is the equivalent of finding out that Mom was Santa Claus and Dad was the Easter Bunny. I loved it when Some_Ghost made an appearance.

I loved @Some_Ghost. I’m sad he/she won’t be visiting anymore.

Hearkat since June or July 2007. My participation waxes and wanes, but my identity remains the same. My avatar was Calvin & Hobbes hugging until an illustrator friend created this one personally for me (more info and links to the old avatar image are on my profile page).

I forget when I joined, but I’ve been TheOnlyNef…/anefisenuf/DigitalBlue and a handful of others. I had a hard time finding my info to login again recently to any of my past accounts and managed to lose it again. So, add this one to the mix.

I joined a long time ago as WillWorkForChocolate, stayed, joked, argued, joked some more, and left for personal reasons.

Came back today so I could add my own lurve to Gail’s thread. I’ve missed a lot of you guys. :)

jonsblond Dec. 11, 2008

I’m keeping this identity for good

I’ve always been Auggie, publicly, but I did have two secret accounts for personal questions/answers, and one joke account, which I think was NSA. :)

@augustlan and there goes the other mystery now solved. I always wondered who was behind @NSA. Never, ever would I have suspected that it was you.

Auggie was also behind the [REDACTED] and the CIA threatened to silence her unless she [REDACTED]

Oh. I’m still logged in on the computer.

Oh no! I thought this would be fun but now I’m so confused. My head hurts!

@dammitjanetfromvegas Do you know how to get hold of Jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities? I used to have his email wayyy back in the early RAR days, but have lost it.

@chyna I’m not sure. We are friends on Flicker but I haven’t been there in years. I can try a message there. Or through Ustream. Maybe he’ll get an email alert. I can notify RedPowerLady.

Glad some of you liked the ghost. :) But he moved on last Summer, and wasn’t going to be back. He did enjoy his time here though. :)

Where’s the Yarnlady? We need a Yarn Pocalypse.

We do.

@jca she is on answerbag.

How about the squirrel? What was her screen name??

jbfletcherman – I’m friends with her on FB so she should have read the post.

Thank you penguin.

How about rebbel?

I mentioned there was news here about our Fluther mother Gail on fb. Jbfletcherfan (squirrel/Gail) had friends worried it was her. She’s aware.

Just messaged rebbel.

Yarnlady is inactive from AB as well. I did send her an email to the address I had years ago, but haven’t heard a reply

I’ve only ever been Blueroses. I joined a hundred years ago and got my avatar from a Zen-incarnation within hours of signing up.

It’s sweet to see old friends and fun to decipher new names. I’m glad this site still thrives.
Jellies!!!!

Big mama is back.

I was going to tell y’all about my other “dark” ID, but

(- – REDACTED BY THE CIA – -)

I exchanged PMs with KateTheGreat’s subsequent user ID.

I have another account, that I use for making comments that are unbound by hangups such as impulse control.

I have read most of the answers here and I have a theory that almost all of you here (except myself) are one in the same person just using different aliases.

Why can’t we both just talk to each other????????

@Brian1946 I’ve chatted with you many a time. What could you possibly need to hide?

I’d say @StillWorksForChocolate is the most recognizable reincarnation. ;-p

It’s great to see Bellatrix has returned and revealed her reincarnated self; that revelation was like discovering the previous life of a monarch butterfly. :-)

Bella??!!
MY Aussie Bella is here?!
Shift your arses, all of y’all, I’m front of the queue for hugs!

@Blueroses

The line starts here!

Has anyone talked to Zen?

@chyna He usually pops in from time to time here. I don’t have access to him elsewhere.

It’s great to see everyone. I hope you all stick around and contribute. <hugs>

Zen is probably still trying to list his various incarnations. Who could have kept up with all of them, @chyna?

^^ He just showed up on one of the threads.

I really had no idea so many old timers were still here under different accounts and happy to find this out now….this will take some time to sort out.

@Cruiser I don’t think I am even going to try! I am just going to enjoy them as they are….....now.

It has been the same since I’ve joined.
I have never enjoyed typing all those !@#$%^ letters.I must have had a good typing day when I came up with that one. ;)

@lucillelucillelucille you’ve been missed!

@Mama_Cakes -Hey!

I came to Fluther in March 2009 as Leanne1986.

@lucillelucillelucille Hey!! Nikki bought a cottage in Lakeport. You need to come over for a campfire when the weather’s warmer!

@Mama_Cakes-Nice! Sounds fun!

I came here on Dec 11 2009 from the great answerbag.com migration. Now that AB is fixed I’m on both sites.

@lucillelucillelucille Welcome back! You’ve been missed.

@Mama_Cakes Nothing wrong with a winter campfire…hot cocoa, rum…

@dxs-I missed you guys too :)

AB is fixed? Wow, who knew? Meanwhile, Answerology is folding … on Thursday, if the site is to be believed.

And I totally didn’t mean to quote @Mama_Cakes verbatim (who has also been missed).

AB is just as broken as it was 8 years ago.

I didn’t even know Answerology was a thing. Someone’s been holding out on me.

I stumbled upon this place, as others have said, when AB turned tits up, almost 6yrs ago now.
My name has remained ever present, my avatar changes frequently, currently shows my head exploding on re-entering the rarified atmosphere of the fluthersphere after a short “break”

Yay, @ucme is here! Hugs, love!

Hugs & a big sloppy kiss back at ya @Seek so chuffed to see you back :)

@ucme Hey! Great to see you again!

@WillWorkForChocolate Fantastic to see you back, bring on the sarcasm & funny as fuck banter :D

I have no idea what you mean by sarcasm, sir. I have no sense of humor to speak of.

Do forgive me madam, I must have mistaken you for someone else, the buxom comely wench from below stairs resembles you a lot.

You have people under your stairs?

Only my step father, he loves it in there

Just don’t forget to shove food under the door from time to time.

We have staff for that

Staff or staph?

I swear I never meant to hold out on Answerology, @__Seek__ (how do we enter that as a link?). I’m sure that I must have mentioned it on more than one occasion (as I mentioned Fluther, there, too, to at least a few people). I believe that in its day Answerology was WAY more “popular” than Fluther has ever been, I think. But … so was Yahoo!Answers, and see how great that site is…

I believe that what did in Answerology (aside from loss of sponsorship, I suppose) was its extremely loose moderation. So, yay mods!

As a follow-up to my recent posts about Answerology, there is a new take-off of the site as Answerology Reloaded (answerologyreloaded.com), now with 110 users in I-don’t-know-how-many days. (But I think this is just a matter of “days”, and those are all new users, as far as I know.)

I’m not trying to wean people from this site; I have no particular interest in AO-R. But it’s there, it’s (probably) going to grow pretty quickly again, at least for awhile, and it’s an interesting alternative for anyone who IS interested.

I broke the link system. This amuses me to no end.

I have always been under the same moniker, just spoofed a lot of cool avatars until I was chided by one of the mods as it being de facto illegal by the rules, bygones.

I do have a few old spoofs (or original creations) I take out of mothballs for 12 hour stints

if I never gave you express permission to use mine, you have it. No getting in trouble on my account.

I seem to remember Hypo being told he can’t use those avys. Unfortunate, I like them.

I liked it when you spoofed my Vampira. It is the season you know.

^ I liked it when you spoofed my Vampira. It is the season you know.
I guess people don’t really understand a spoof for satirical fun or an attempt at fraud or malice. It is not like I took the original and Photoshoped it or something, I just created “like” cousins of the original but totally created from scratch.

You are a good artist, @Hypocrisy_Central

Ditto. His drawings kick ass.

Ditto again. He is a good artist.

Bring out some new avatars, @Hypocrisy_Central! Maybe they’d be allowed now.

Do it!

(to the last 4 above) Maybe, however, they might be totally original, even if the mods did not get bent, some Jellies might (seeing who would be doing it) even though it is said “imitation is the most sincerest for of flattery”; if the fuse doesn’t burn out when expected….maybe….

How hard would it be to shoot someone a PM and say “I really like your avatar. Mind if I wear an homage for a while?”

@Hypocrisy_Central, @Seek is right. Just message the jelly whose avatar you’re thinking of working with and get their okay. Then you can point the mods to that message and I’m sure they’ll be cool.

@Hypocrisy_Central Damnit man, I’m sometimes thinking of asking you to make an avatar for me, I don’t think, then, you’d have much trouble getting permission from a lot of members.

@Seek How hard would it be to shoot someone a PM and say “I really like your avatar. Mind if I wear an homage for a while?”
That works ONLY if they are active, there have been Flutheronians MIA for years, they still have an account but I have not seen any activity from them, so i have no idea if they are just lurking at the edge of the tide pools or shark bite and forgot to clean up the carcass.

So… don’t use those.

^ That severely limits the choice…...you are no fun ~~ ;->

So, I got the old account re-activated. You may now @-tag me without weird italics.

@Seek Cool!

@Seek Aw, I was looking forward to eventually trying to @tag the new name. It looked like it must have been a challenge!

Damn, @Seek I kinda liked your weird italics. They were, I don’t know, perky? Is that the word?

Now someone has to make an account that starts and ends with two dashes.

^that’s easy. piss me off and I’ll leave in a huff, then create an new account.

^^Is it even possible to insult and piss someone off from Vegas? ^^

this is the part where you say “Right! That’s it! I’m off!”

I’m outta here!

let us know your new incarnation

^^ I’m outta here!
Right, I said it once, I will say it again; there is only two ways out of Fluther, a toe tag or an orange jumpsuit.

That doesn’t apply to me though, I will leave with my head high out of the front door before i am drug by my heels out the back.

Late, as usual, but I also am a fan of @Hypocrisy_Central‘s artistic creations. I loved the avatars.

@HC: You can paint my cookie anytime sir.

^ Just don’t tell me you are bringing your “milkshake” to the yard, it might be better than some here and they will hate on you for it’ ~~~

“Who. Drinks. Whose. Milkshake?”

Forever Coloma, since March 10, 2010

I missed this!

I first came on as Dutchess.

Then I got mad and quit, then came back as Dutchess 123, since some dumbass had already taken Dutchess.

Then I got mad and left, then came back, temporarily, to give my condolences to another Jelly and I picked a throw away name, Val_123 since I wasn’t going to stay.

12,000 lurve later I realized I was staying after all, even though I was still mad, so I gave myself my “real” name. But I couldn’t be Dutchess or Dutchess123 because some dumbass had taken them.
I thought for a bit and settled on my current user name, DutchessIII because it sounded more regal, like King James III.

SO, this means I have well over 40K in lurve but nobody knows it, so no one treats me like the diva I am. It’s all very dramatic and sad too.

Oh, my very first user name, ever, was on Wisdm. I was DutchCat. My avatar was a rock in the lake. Anybody here remember me?
Then, on Wisdm, I was knighted “Dutchess” during a terrific battle with the Power Rangers, and it stuck, and I discovered the perfect avatar. <<< That is the real me, as far as avatars go.

Oh wow..I didn’t realize that @Earthbound_Misfit was our dear Bellatrix ( Hi Bellatrix! I missed you when you left ) and that @DoNotKnow was tomg and that @cookieman was cprevite. My head is going to explode!
I need a beer now. haha

OK, so I posted my drivel and then went back and read all the responses and my mind is blown!
RedPowerLady anyone?

I don’t know how I overlooked this thread for so long.

But no big mystery here. I’ve always been @Buttonstc and since the mobile interface isn’t exactly user friendly for changing avatars, it will likely remain forever thus.

I’d like to put up a real life pic of my cat, but….

@Buttonstc Me too! I’ve been around less the last few weeks after Gails passing, busy, but what a surprise!

@Coloma Cookieman has been Cookieman forever. Even using the original avatar. Whatchu been smokin’? er, I mean eating?

@dammitjanetfromvegas No – he wasn’t. He was cprevite for a long time even though he was a cookie.

@dammitjanetfromvegas I know, but, I remembered cprevite from way back when I first joined and I never knew he was cookieman. Damn it Janet! lol

For @dammitjanetfromvegas

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbpJb7hjb7M

@janbb I meant he’s been Cookieman for a long time since cprevite, I just didn’t explain myself well enough. We’ve all been here for so long. I can’t believe it. =)

@dammitjanetfromvegas Thirty lashes with a wet noodle for you!

I love when the ladies fight over me. ;^)

Yes, I was @cprevite originally then later switched to @cookieman.

Same cookie avatar the whole time though.

COO-kie!

and that’s the way the Cookie crumbles. haha

If you have a picture of your cat please upload it because I like cats. I see at least five here already!

This is Echo I call her itty bitty kitty. She sits on my foot when I cook and do the dishes.

This is Jasper.

Haha adorable. How old is she? Is she a member of the itty bitty kitty committee?

Awww! Now I want a cat!

Here are my kitties. Chance on the left, tiny Mouse on the right.

Pssst! http://www.fluther.com/185235/would-you-like-to-share-any-pictures-with-the-community/

So, did we ever find out what @Coloma‘s been smoking?

@Dutchess_III Haha…it’s a drought here in CA. remember? lol

Oooh…pussy cats, i love pussy cats! Cute pictures you guys.
<——Myles loaded up his food bowl with all the pony tail holders he could scavenge during the night. he has pony tail holder OCD. haha

Here, Coloma. A cool cat my husband used to have.

@Dutchess_III really, a cougar? What happened to it? It’s legal to keep large cats like that in Kansas?

Someone wants a cougar?

@janbb I wouldn’t complain

Yeah, it’s a cougar. He had Bear for a few years. It’s legal under certain circumstances…but not too bright, IMO, especially if you have one just for the novelty, and not as a rescue. He also had a Bengal tiger for a time.

I want an ocelot.

@Here2_4: You can have an ocicat.

Yes, those are cool too. I have also thought about getting one of them.

Where is our French-Canadian friend? I think she changed her name to something Berserk, but now all I see is Neptune and I haven’t seen her here for a while. I’m a bit worried about her.

I think I saw her in one of the ‘Gail’ threads, so fairly recently. Hope she’s okay!

I am lame. It was in this very thread, up there.

Yes, but if you click on her name, you get Neptune.

Yeah, I just noticed that. Makes me sad. :(
Come back, girlie!

She flashed me a pm a couple of weeks ago to say she was out of here, the reason pissed me off a lot, I miss her but have her email & so keep in touch.

I’ve seen her go back and forth a couple of times. Hope it will be one of those times. Still makes me sad though.

@ucme Please tell her I say hi. And that I will kick anyone who made her leave, right in the shin.

^^^ Ditto ^^^

I’m pretty sure the mods would know who most of us were in our past lives. I was Jabe73 in 2010, paradox in late 2010 to early 2011. It was a horrible time in my life when I deleted those accounts. I took a long break from here after my paradox days to try sodahead. I then came back as my current name.

This might sound stupid, but I didn’t delete those accounts to fool anyone, but simply because at the time I did not know how to bring your old account back under the same username. I had to use one of my several email addresses (that I use for different purposes) to start each new account. My life has changed a lot (for the better) so I probably will not post as much on here anymore.

I’m still in shock over the passing of several jellies. I kind of feel like shit that I had arguments with some of them. They have my blessings and prayers.

Same account, username used to be @Yetanotheruser.

Well I wondered where Yetanotheruser had got off to!

@Dutchess_III Put some clothes on those babies, it’s freezing out. lol