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 never win anything really I am quite shite at this aren't I

Am I too late? Did do this yesterday, but didn't actually post on here.
Usually clam.

Oops, yes. Clearly too late. Never mind, was a shite namechange anyway.

I think your nc is great MissHaviCLAM but then, what do I know? I never win anything for nc competitions either, 'cos Solo doesn't lend itself to anything much...but I did think SOLOmanPross was just fab!

How could I not be cleverest ??? Explains slowly David Copperfield the book, David Copperfield the illusionist. In best Dickens manner Bah humbug

Thinks mumsnet judging team clearly very fair and wise.

What marvellous decision making, if I may say do, MN Towers, very pleasing.

Pah. Bah Humbug. I didn't want to win anyway

Am excited by the book, by the way- I did my dissertation on Dickens at university. Dickens and religion. It was a very dull dissertation, actually

awww. :( was proud of my name change. hmpff.

If I'd won I'd have eaten my head.

[can we throw off our frock-coats and muttonchop whiskers now please?]

Eleven?

Wow, I am very excited that I got to be a runner-up!

i'm far too late - i didn't have any stickies yesterday!

still, love a namechange.

Woo hoo!

thank you, your worshipfulnesses.

congrats everyone

yipeeeee!
Thank you

Thank you Mumsnet :)

yoohoo!
I've never won anything, but am very proud to be runner-up :)
thank you

Runner up? Is that French for 'not quite good enough'. I've written a book about Dickens. I'll PM it to all the other Also Rans. It's called 'Yeah Nice Prose But The Man's Was An Arse'.

Day late and a dollar short. Bah humbug.

so does a runner up win anything?

I am very fond of this incarnation and think i'll keep it a while.

the winners are pretty bloody good though.well done you lot.

Just logged back in to discover that I have won! I never win anything, so this is very exciting. Thank you MNHQ!
And I have started reading Great Expectations on my Kindle to counter the shocking lack of Dickens in my life up to now...