Explain your @ ... It's part of my Dad's childhood nickname for me combined with part of my adult surname Handy has been my online handle for so long that I have several pals who use it as my actual name. Which I really like, actually 🥰 - ThreadSky

handybee.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Explain your @ ...

It's part of my Dad's childhood nickname for me combined with part of my adult surname

Handy has been my online handle for so long that I have several pals who use it as my actual name.
Which I really like, actually 🥰

Reposted from Neil

Explain your @

One of my favourite bands in my youth was Spear of Destiny so it's a play on that because I'm a dick.

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weefergie.bsky.social•5 days ago

Mine was my nickname at school. My best friend was Big Fergie, sadly no longer with us.

handybee.bsky.social•5 days ago

💙

sparklyfellelf.bsky.social•5 days ago

Buckle up, make yourself a cuppa and grab at least half a packet of hob nobs and sit in your comfiest chair. You're in for a longwinded tale...🧵

Like all longwinded stories it begins last Tuesday. That's last Tuesday in about 2010. In those days the BBC had a forum for Strictly fans, which I signed

handybee.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you for the story ☺️
Well told!

sparklyfellelf.bsky.social•4 days ago

😆

sparklyfellelf.bsky.social•5 days ago

up for. I needed a name that reflected the glitz and glamour of Strictly. Since there is nothing more sparkly and glamorous than Diamonds, that was the name I landed on. After a couple of years the BBC stopped hosting the forum. But an enterprising member set a forum for the exiles. It was called

sparklyfellelf.bsky.social•5 days ago

Strictly Exiles. I kept the name Diamonds on there and posted critiques and opinions of epic length (no character limit on there; it was fantastic). One of my favourite people I netbthere was Strictly Sid. Yes. That's right. Our Sid (now known as @hertssid.bsky.social Sid and on a hiatus; I miss

sparklyfellelf.bsky.social•5 days ago

him dreadfully). After a few years Sid posted less and less because he was posting more on the other place and meeting some of you. But 2018 I decided it was time to join Sid in the other place. Once again I kept the name Diamonds, and since Diamonds are a girl's best friend, my avatar was

sparklyfellelf.bsky.social•5 days ago

Marilyn Monroe. I shamelessly muscled in on a load of Sid's mutuals and that's how I arrived at the other place - on Sid's very dapper coat tails. After about 4 years (I can't be precise) I realised I felt a fraud depicting my persona as Marilyn Monroe and that it was time to get my own identity.

sparklyfellelf.bsky.social•5 days ago

I felt glitz and glam is still a large part of who I am and so I stuck with the diamond element by focusing on the sparkle of them. I am v governed by the hills and fells of the lake district- it's why I'm here, so that had to be in my name. And I'm very fey, with a love of whimsy and magic and

jonathanpagden.bsky.social•5 days ago

When my eldest was 12 or so I went to collect him from a youth club, he was standing in the doorway with his friend Laura who said "who's this arriving? Oh it's just some random bloke". To which Simon had to say "actually, that's my Dad"... they're now in their thirties and still friends 😀

handybee.bsky.social•5 days ago

😊😊😊

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