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...

Am usually Popoozle. Don't know why I bothered now though - ATaleOfTwoTitties is so going to win .

Better?

Was StellaPunk now this little number from Great Expectations.

I know, its shit.

this is HARD!

Da-dah!

Was GreenEyesAndHam

I wanna play!
How do I namechange? (if you please)

PS MissKittyMiddleton - you made me laff out loud? How's the cocker spaniel?

Cocker spaniel?

Can't work out how to name change on my phone! BleakHousemum (housemum)

Aha, just in time!

Mine wouldn't be good enough to bother changing given the competition here!
But, for the record:

DesertOrlick

;-)

OK - a couple of v poor attempts:

TheGhostofNonnomumPresent

The Mystery of Edwin Nonnomum

and Our Mutual Nonnomum

Told you they were shite.

PS Katie - it was in the papers that you and Wills have just added a black cocker spaniel to your family. Did all that Pilates make you forgetful?

Ah yes. The not eating to look like a whippet makes me forgetful.

Normally BetterBitOfButter

Can't name change on phone...

CocoaDickensChannel.

Best not google that....

KatieMiddleton you could've done something with Miss Twinkleton.

I would have gone with Thumbtwist - not very original. Bit late now as well, innit?

I would have gone with PleaseSirCanIHaveSomeMoreMarbles

I guess I could have had "valarMOREPlease" but its too late now

Hi folks, I couldn't resist this one. Sorry if it's already been mentioned on the thread but I reckon I must be the only one to register it so far. I was Rezolution before btw.

Here we go. My first ever name change .

I'n usually CallSignCharlie

MotherMucca

I want to be called clittyrubquick. It sounds like Dickens. I don't know how to name-change

Am I too late?
PLeazse, let me not be tooo late (wrings hands and wheedles in UriahHeapish sort of way)
XXX Blu

If I may be so bold, and 'umbly suggest, MN Towers, this was such a good idea. How clever you are. Anything I can do to be of assistance, do let me know.
Yours 'umbly,
Bluriah Heep
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Hi all,

After much deliberation and OlivierTwistMumsnet rudely asking for 'MORE' nominations while BestofHelenWorstofHelenMumsnet was rather indecisive, insisting philosophically that 'it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness' we have whittled it down to a top eleven and feel rather like we need to 'Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.'

The runners up are:

HaveYouTakenLeaveOfYourCervix
ShowOfUmblestAnds
Magwatch
MummyDotheboysHall
peasepuddingandsaveloys

and the five winners of the books are:

BecauseImCratchit
FruitShootsAreALittleHorrit
RaahhtfulDodger
Missbabyheaversham
PickwicKikkiPapers

Congratulations to the winners, we will PM you shortly.