Categories: random
Date: 01 April 2006 11:19:45
I have a bit of a dilemma, and I really hope I can count on the collective wiblog (and wider) creativity out there in that there cyberspace to help me out here.
I mentioned at the beginning of the year that I would join a dating agency. I've just been staying with my friend in London who has strengthened my resolve (she's just this week got together with someone from an internet dating site), and I think I need to get my act together and just get on with it. Certainly from my previous experience a few years back (and deeleea's experience more recently) it should provide a fair bit of blog-worthy material, if nothing else.
Anyway, here's my dilemma. The site I'm going to use requires the use of pseudonyms. Now that's not normally a problem, I usually just use Jack the Lass wherever, but it occurs to me that if you put "Jack the Lass" into Google, at least half of the first page of results are this blog, and given that a/ I may well blog sporadically about the experience, and b/ I'm not desperate to be identified *that* quickly by potential axe-murderers, I think I'd rather use something a bit more anonymous. The other problem with Googling "Jack the Lass" of course is that the other half of the first page of results are a lesbian rock band from Brighton, which given that this is for a dating site may not give quite the right impression (not that there's anything wrong with lesbian rock bands from Brighton. Some of my best friends live in Brighton).
So what are the alternatives? I do have a rather funky email name, which isn't Jack the Lass, but to be honest I don't want to use that because as it's such a good and random name that nobody else would think of, I've not had a single piece of spam and I really want to keep it that way. So that's out.
I've noticed some people use their name (or some other moniker) followed by their year of birth. Unfortunately my year of birth is '69, which carries its own, uh, connotations. So probably best not use that one.
And now I'm stuck! All suggestions gratefully received in the comments box at the bottom of this entry. Try to keep them clean! (actually I don't mind rude ones as long as they make me laugh, and as long as you're not offended when I don't use them).