My The Steemit Name Challenge

Well, no one nominated me for this even though I waited and waited so I guess I'll just have to do it myself. Sigh.

Recently

I had the opportunity to listen to my good friend @enginewitty chat with my new favorite duo, @simgirlandsnook on #mspwaves, and the subject of how to say my name came up, and not for the first time. So I decided to go ahead and do this 'challenge' even though no one like, challenged me.

Teh rules as I understand them!

• Tell us in a post how you chose the current Steemit username you have. The story behind it.
• Tell us your real name!
• If you could change your current username, which name would you choose and why? If you have a possible usernames list, mention it!
• Use the tag #steemitnamechallenge so that the creator of the challenge can track all the posts and check them out
• Nominate 5 people for this challenge

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Don't Judge Me

I love Star Wars. I mean, old school Star Wars, A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. So a million years ago, friends of mine and I gave each other Star Wars names. We had Stewbacca, a tall, loud dude with a mop of curly hair; Carl2D2, who was short, so... duh. and me. So I took Princess Leia and substituted 'Beth-ah' for 'princess' and you've got it: Beth-a-Leia! Except when I went to sign up for an email address using this kewl new name, some JERK had already claimed Bethaleia, so I spelled it Bethalea. I've used it all over the internet ever since.

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Don't Judge Me for This, Either

My real name is Bethany. Which sounds like someone who isn't me. Bethany is a good girl. She is sweet and wears lace and dresses. I'm um... different. I'm a warrior princess, dammit!

_{or something}

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Change

I guess I might change it to Bethaleia if I had the chance, but at this point that just looks weird.

_{whatever. i needed a pic.}

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Nominations!

Ok, these are some people who's names fascinate me, and also I'm nosy as hell so tell us your story!

@tuck-fheman

@schattenjaeger

@steeminator3000

@reko

@berniesanders (c'mon, don't we ALL want to know that story??)

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xoxo, b.