Screen Name

My husband loves Looney Tunes' Tazmanian Devil character. Shedevil is Taz's cartoon girlfriend. So it's not as evil as it may seem :glitter-heart:
 

Let's see...my first name is Judy and my last name starts with B...hey it took a lot more thinking then one would think. lol :yoda:

I like this thread...:)
 
Well, three years ago my grandson started playing an MMO called Wizard101. I kept finding myself watching over his shoulder and being intrigued by it. Finally, I admitted that I was interested and said aloud, "That looks fun. Maybe I'll make a wizard and try it." There was no backing out once those words were out of my mouth and he was screaming do it and then make a boy, Grammy, make a boy! Thus, Blaze Duskdreamer was born? created? made? I've kind of been using it as my on-line name everywhere I go since then. You're lucky a picture of said wizard isn't my avatar here. Three years (and a few months) later, I still play Wizard101 daily and am up to 14 wizards spread over 4 accounts. Grandson plays ... once in a great while, around the time the moon is blue. You'd be surprised at the number of people in Wizard101 forums get angry at finding out the boy wiz is female. Like really? It's an avatar to play a game with. I repeat an avatar, not an actual representation of me.
 

As someone else said, "you must have been a fan of Stargate with the avatar and your screen name". It was right on. I love that series and wondered for awhile how I missed it. It was on showtime and we never had that.

I would never put my name on the internet, I have an alias for the net except buying from Amazon. I recently got a land line phone and forgot to have it unlisted. Before that I could not find Me on the internet at all. Now I am in the white pages, even though it is unlisted now. I don't even have it on my computer.
 
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As for your screen name QuickSliver, as you know quicksilver is another name for the element mercury which as I'm sure you know is a very dangerous heavy metal which has seriously impaired the brains of many young children and I often wonder if I'm one of them. My father was a scientist and I recall as a young child finding a bottle of mercury in my father's office, taking some out and playing with it on his desk. Your avatar QuickSilver reminds me vividly of playing with that dangerous stuff and I shudder.
 
I also remember playing with it. There were a lot of hidden dangers to us as children. We are more knowledgeable now.
 
I was a volunteer Education officer for the WWT for many years.So Little Owl it was.
Funny as I never did get a picture of a Little owl



 
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LIttle owls

https://www.google.com/search?q=+pictures+of+little+owls&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:eek:fficial&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp
 
Drifter.........When were growing up we called it tumble weed. I don't see it anymore.

Jim......not boring, it's your name.
 
We did, too, Vala. Often in the spring and early summer, while driving from the Texas panhandle to the Nebraska border, north of Goodland, Kansas was a constant moving sea of tumbleweed and dust as far as you could see. Often looked some kind of moonscape, especially at dusk.
 
I notice you are in Oklahoma, I was born in Checotah and moved to Kansas in 1950. Kansas is a good place to live but after 64 years of flat land I want trees and hills. I found a perfect home in Checotah where I thought I could live the rest of my life and be buried by my folks. The house would have been perfect for me, but I could never live there. Left there and went to Ft Smith, Arkansas, but can't find a new home there without covenants. I still check in Greenwood, Ark on the net occasionally, but don't think I will move at this point in my life.
 
This is slightly off the Screen Name subject, but I'm a little surprised as a Senior Forum newbie that so few members provide pictures of themselves when they choose an Avatar. I seems that when you're exchanging ideas with another person, you'd like to have a face to attach to that person. Just because we seniors don't have the handsome/pretty faces we once had is no reason to hide behind some symbol.
 
Josiah, I don't know about others but if I didn't use an avatar, I'd use nothing. People might prefer to look at a face but mine looks like death warmed over. I'd not permit that. I'm too vain. Of course, I might take a picture wearing a lone Ranger mask, with a large blue handkerchief pulled up over my face and nose with a large sombrero that comes down to my eyes. That might be permissible.
 
I chose mine because I was actually baking cookies that day, and everyone I know likes cookies, so it seemed appropriate and simple enough. I always get boggled when I have to think up a password or ID name.
 
Josiah09 said:
This is slightly off the Screen Name subject, but I'm a little surprised as a Senior Forum newbie that so few members provide pictures of themselves when they choose an Avatar. I seems that when you're exchanging ideas with another person, you'd like to have a face to attach to that person. Just because we seniors don't have the handsome/pretty faces we once had is no reason to hide behind some symbol.
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I have always been and still am pretty but, man, it's the internet. I may be pretty but I'm also paranoid. I sometimes use one from when I was 19 that everyone thinks is "hot" as I figure that was long enough ago to be safe. That was I did until somehow someone got my cell phone number from it and I got a creepy ur hot message. I am a catless crazy cat lady, however, (grandson's allergic and I don't want the responsibility any longer but I am still nuts about cats and so is said grandson -- from a distance) and I made my account here on a day I was feeling frazzled and literally felt like throwing my paws, er, I mean hands up and saying I give up. I happened to have that pic saved in a file for some strange reason...
 
Blaze Duskdreamer said:
I have always been and still am pretty but, man, it's the internet. I may be pretty but I'm also paranoid. I sometimes use one from when I was 19 that everyone thinks is "hot" as I figure that was long enough ago to be safe. That was I did until somehow someone got my cell phone number from it and I got a creepy ur hot message. I am a catless crazy cat lady, however, (grandson's allergic and I don't want the responsibility any longer but I am still nuts about cats and so is said grandson -- from a distance) and I made my account here on a day I was feeling frazzled and literally felt like throwing my paws, er, I mean hands up and saying I give up. I happened to have that pic saved in a file for some strange reason...
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I confess I must be very naive about the dangers of internet security. I have not personally experienced any problems nor have I heard any terrible tales. I have been fairly active for a couple of years in several FaceBook health related groups (mostly populated by middle aged women) and within these groups I'm unaware of much concern and pictures seem to be universally shown. And yet here on Senior Forums personal secrecy seems the prevalent attitude. Maybe somebody better set me straight.
 

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