Where did you get your Mobileread handle?

[ClairePMR]

When I was young and naive, I would invariably use my real name on various forums and boards. (Mind you, this was when there were only ten - maybe fifteen on a good day - of us on the internet. )

Since we passed the several hundred million mark in web users, I've discovered the joy and value of anonymity in being able to freely share my (occasionally) acerbic or controversial positions on various topics while protecting my privacy and professional reputation. (And it allowed me to "publish" some of my more... colorful strictly-for-fun writing in ways completely disconnected from the very corporate and straight-laced stuff that I get paid to pen.) Thus, anywhere I choose to remain anonymous, I've been using "cklls" in homage to the first piece of "literary" fiction that captured my attention as a kid: Clark Kent Lois Lane Superman

[pholy]

Originally Posted by spindlegirl

Mine is because one of my hobbies is spinning (the kind which turns processed fiber into yarn, not the stationary bike kind) only I do all my spinning on spindles. I also play guitar, piano, and ukulele, but to put those in front of "girl" would imply I am good at it

It could have been worse... you might have come up with 'Spinster'

[spindlegirl]

Originally Posted by pholy

It could have been worse... you might have come up with 'Spinster'

I made a joke one day to my husband that I was a happily married spinster. I won a t-shirt on A.W.A.D over a year ago when the word was spinster and I told that story

[wodin]

Originally Posted by pholy

It could have been worse... you might have come up with 'Spinster'

Or SpinDoctor