Dickens namechange comp: please come and give your nickname an --Oliver-- twist!

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello. It's Dickens Bicentennial Day tomorrow (7th Feb), and we'd like to mark Charles Dickens' 200th birthday with a special Dickens Namechange competition.

All you need to do to enter is change your Talk nickname in a Dickens-ish way - with a ref to one of his novels or characters, for example - and then post on this thread to give your new name a twirl.

Top marks will go to those whose changes are the funniest, cleverest, Dickens-iest Oliver twist on their current Talk nickname.

There'll be some ("ever so 'umble") prizes for the best namechanges posted between now and midnight tomorrow.

So, off you go! Suffice to say, we have great expectations...

I am going to keep this for a bit. I feel all odd.

Outing myself as belgianbun....

Oh,yeah,right....I'm normally FriggFRIGG

Have been DarlesChickens for a while now so am already in character

It was the best of threads, the worst of threads, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

That surely describes Mumsnet to a tee?

I'm usually WildPoppy

...has arriveth.

BecauseImWorthIt normally
(or BIWI as I have been most recently)

I'm normally Fruitshootsandheaves, in case you wondered!

I had to do a sneaky letter change

Jins here

I'm MummyNic normally so not too much to change.
Happy birthday to one of the greatest authors we've ever had

I'm normally DeathOrCake

just to clarify tis ohyoubadbadkitten here in case my acronym didnt make sense.

Normally ChazsBrilliantAttitude

Did this work?

FeathersMcGraw here...

I am ProlificYoungGentlemenBreeder

I was ProlificWillyBreeder

I am usually johnworf

Keep em coming, folks!

We have spanking new copies of Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens: A Life for the best namechanges...

"dangles literary carrot"

... much as Dickens himself did to that actress.

Twirls - does my bum look big in this?

Previously known as ProfCoxWouldGetIt

Are you suggesting that none of them so far are worthy?

These are the best of times nicknames. the worst of times nicknames,

"We have spanking new copies of Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens: A Life for the best namechanges... "

Isn't there chocolate?

My usual name is KikkiK. And I have never read any Dickens, despite having an English degree. Off to Amazon I go...

Erm....I hope there is chocolate!
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