Your self is a reaction to environment, a process in the central nervous system that knows by heart the name given to it. The real name for each of us is No One. The self with a name is a story of commitment and a condition of social interaction
Juhani Syrjä
Groucho is not my real name. I’m breaking it in for a friend
Groucho Marx
As of today, I am revising my blog nom de plume from DrGuy to DrHGuy.
I apparently mis-Googled “DrGuy” when I was originally searching for an alias that was shorter and less awkward than Heck Of A Guy and less aesthetically grating than the abbreviation HOAG. Although I had thought that no one was using “DrGuy,” I recently ran across a domain with that name. On re-Googling, I found enough DrGuys to stock an entire DrGuy Clinic.
So, since I’m a DrGuy-come-lately and since I don’t have much hope of persuading the other DrGuys to change monikers, I’m opting for the (modestly) differentiated DrHGuy designation.
In commemoration of my much-enjoyed sojourn as a DrGuy, let’s
Meet The DrGuys
DrGuy.com is the cyber-home of one Guy M. Hanson, who appears to be the DrGuy to see should one find himself or herself in need of a dentist in or around Boise, Idaho who “place[s] a special emphasis on creating a friendly, stress-free environment.” A dental colleague, Bill Guy, DDS, AKA DrGuy at dentalguy.com, promotes guides to assist one in finding the right dentist in the right location.
The most cyber-prolific DrGuy is an adamantly conservative polemicist-blogster operating from drguy.joeuser.com (according to the blurb, JoeUser.com is the domain for “blogs from the average joe”). While our politics may be incongruent, we are as one in our mutual admiration of alliteration (e.g., “It seems that the loony loopy Luddite left has been reduced to baby talk.”).
There is a DrGuy whose profile at tribe.net indicates that he “is here for absorption… education… expression… celebration.” I can’t think of a thing to add to that.
And there are DrGuys who are looking for love. At OKCupid.com, an online dating site “specializing in personality analysis” and “programmed by Harvard math grads” (not necessarily the top two qualities that get me hot but to each his own), a 34 year old straight male DrGuy from Kingston, RI, has hopes that his interest in hiking will lead to romance. A DrGuy at AmericanSingles.com (which, by the way, is “where singles meet to find romance” – just in case you were wondering where that was) is a male seeking a female who is between 25 and 34 and lives within 40 miles of Virginia Beach, Virginia, but offers no other information about himself beyond his DrGuy designation (and, indeed, what other information would be necessary?). One wonders what the odds are that either of these female-seeking DrGuys is the same DrGuy at the cdfreaks.com forum, who has a query about his ” Need to flash my old firmware … .”
There is Stanford University email address for a DrGuy who is listed as an “SLD Collaborator,” which sounds so wonderfully mysterious and diabolical that I have abstained from researching “SLD,” lest I be disillusioned.
We DrGuys are forum fans. Guy Watson, whose email address is DrGuy at online.no, posts a query asking “if anyone would be willing to part with a white mat glaze recipe,” while DrGuy at qwest.net attests to being disgruntled to find advertising, “with animation, yet,” infesting his paid, full version of Roxio’s EMC8. I feel your pain, DrGuy. A member of the forum at studentdoctor.net enters this intriguing, if cryptic, thank-you to a DrGuy who answered his pressing question, “Thanks drguy … Sorry drguy, I didn’t get on here that morning to see what you were wearing, but I’ll def say hi … .” On the other hand, someone at thetechlounge.com forum complains that although the DrGuy in attendance there made a “good point,” it suffered from “nitpicking.” I dunno, nitpickiness just doesn’t seem a DrGuy sort of characteristic. We are, however, careful and fastidious, which, I suppose, could be confused with nitpicky.
Although the other DrGuys haven’t complained (that just isn’t the DrGuy Way), have probably not noticed one more namesake roaming the same cyber-universe, and probably wouldn’t care much if they did, it seems … well, silly to use an already claimed alias for my own – especially since my pseudonym was chosen arbitrarily, is almost totally transparent1 and unnecessary.2
Now It’s Time To Say Goodbye
And, finally, I bid a fond farewell to all my DrGuy predecessors, each of whom is, no doubt, a Heck Of A DrGuy in his own unique way.
Yours,
DrHGuy
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