The Name Game

[aka Contrarian]

For anybody who is curious as to why I no longer use my original user name on this forum, why I, who was once known as "Cynique", am now known as  "aka contrarian", this is the explanation. 

I have been contributing to this discussion forum off and on for over 20 years.

Back in the day, as a retiree who was an aspiring author, its "African American Literary Book Club" title drew me to this site. And having always considered myself to be somewhat of an "iconoclast", I decided I wanted  my avatar to reflect my personality, so I came up with what was a combination of "cynical" and "unique". And the "Cynique" moniker was born, replete with a somewhat devil's advocate persona; always skeptical and a tad sarcastic, - (something which contributed to my ongoing feud with the notorious Kola Boof, a semi-famous drama queen).

Otherwise, with a few inocuous exceptions, over the years, I formed several cherished friendships with people I encountered here and with whom I still keep in touch with on FaceBook. 

 

Anyway, with the passage of time, while others came and went, I remained a long standing member of AALBC, and Troy rewarded my loyalty by naming this site "Cynique's Corner". 

 

As more time passed, however,  I eventually became burnt out and, contrary to the insinuations of some people, I voluntarily decided to go on hiatus, subsequently telling Troy he could drop the "Cynique's Corner title; which he did.

 

With the passage of more time, I finally decided to check back in, but I couldn't log on because I'd forgotten my pass word. When I tried to log on with a new password word, I was unsuccessful, the reason given by the computer being that somebody already had that user name. The fact that the "somebody" was me made things more entangled, and after I contacted Troy, he assigned me a special password to use. That, along with adopting a different user name, enabled me to log back on to the discussion forum, at which time I explained that "aka contrarian" was the poster formerly known as "Cynique".  Obviously, the word  "contrarian" preserves the cynical essence I originally wanted to convey. 

Only one person ever found this to be a problem. 

Whatever. As Shakespeare once said:

         "What's in a name?

          A rose by any other

          name would smell 

          as sweet."

 

                     It is what it is...

 

And, don't be surprised if the jive-assed nigga chimes in with a stream of pictures along with references to flowers and bees and wasps and Cynique this and Diomena that, yada,yada,yada.

               zzzzzzzzzzzzz