We take mystery to bed.

[reddragdiva]

A thing hardly anyone knows about me: My name at birth was Alan Joseph McLeod!

(No-one knows because it has almost no relevance to anything. Except my friends at the time I found this out telling me to start a band called Al and the Ternatives. I was adopted as a baby, but that was my name at birth.)

ozjester in particular is not permitted to call me Alan henceforth either. I am definitely a David.

What does hardly anyone know about you?

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Just because no one knows it doesn't meant it's interesting

[venta.livejournal.com]

My middle name is Cheryl.

I have no idea why so few people know this - I've never kept it a secret, but people always seem surprised if I mention it. I guess a middle initial C is much more likely to be a Clare or a Catherine or something.

Irrelevantly, it's pronounced with a Ch not a Sh, because that's how the person I was named after pronounces it.

Re: Just because no one knows it doesn't meant it's interesting

[venta.livejournal.com]

In case it wasn't obvious, my subject line was applying to my bit of information, not yours :)

How do you get your entire name switched in such a way that you only find out about it later ? Or was the first one not legally registered ?

[faerierhona.livejournal.com]

I am one of the people who "disappears". About 16 years ago, I vanished, leaving all my friends and everyone who knew me in the country I was in with no idea of where I was or what happened to me. Since then, one person found me, and promised to keep my secret. The others apparently believe me dead

[reddragdiva]

You would have been nineteen? I remember you posting about your life around then and it sounds like you could have disappeared without trace quite easily. Speaking as vaguely as you would on a public post, was there any particular reason, or just a wish to get away from it all?

[rosefox]

When I was a child, I didn't get the whole crying-at-movies thing, and it was almost a point of pride that movies didn't make me cry. Then I watched The My Little Pony Movie and bawled at the end--no, seriously, and I used to be able to sing every song in that movie from memory too--and ever since then I've been a serious movie-crier. sinboy is trying to find a movie where I don't at least sniffle at something touching or romantic; there hasn't been one yet.

I suspect it's an inherited trait. My mother rates movies by how many packets of Kleenex she goes through.

[redcountess]

I got teased mercilessly for crying when Charlotte dies during an excursion to see "Charlotte's Web" with my class. I was 8 - it never occurred to me until much later that it only goes to show I went to school with a pack off arseholes!

[necialma.livejournal.com]

I'm scared and physically repulsed by slugs....

[reddragdiva]

"Fnarr, fnarr!"

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

On behalf of the Alan Alliance* - we hereby renounce and repudiate you. Feel free to remain among the Davidians.

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

Errrmmm... I have an allergy to jam and penny sweets... My mother is a clone...

[reddragdiva]

Your mother is a clone? Please do explain ...

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Well, that's something about you I didn't know.

You are so not an Alan. I'm visualising your face and trying to mentally append the name "Alan" to it - nope, doesn't work. Although funnily enough, that old photo of you looking like an accountant - now, that could be an Alan. Sort of. If I squint a bit.

I'm sure there must be some sort of trivial thing with no real relevance that no-one knows about me, but I'm damned if I can think what. I think most people are aware that my real name is not the name on my birth certificate. And I think I've mentioned the Sunday School teaching thing to quite a few people.

I ca't think of anything that I haven't already told you at some point or other, to be honest.

[reddragdiva]

I only didn't tell you that because it never occurred to me to!

[ladykathryn.livejournal.com]

I'm more evolved than everyone else!

No, really. I was born without posession of wisdom teeth or appendix. Unfortunately, as I found out as a child, I do have a tailbone :<. (Something else: my favourite childhood sport, before I discovered rugby, volleyball, and chasing girls, was rollerskating.)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

COMRADE!

Did you get the memo with the update to Phase III of the plan for world domination?

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

i have a big scar on my very low belly, from hernia surgery when i was a newborn. it used to tear and bleed if i was lifted by the armpits when i was in HS. very few people know about it now because it's hardly visible, and looks like some kind of a panty line, and i don't know many people now who knew me IRL when i was in HS.

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

Not of THE Clan McLeod?! ;)

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I was trying to be good and resist that line of jokes. I'm glad someone else did it for me. ;)

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

My middle name. Which I am not sharing ;)

[vatine]

I had my first surgery at the tender age of about four weeks.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

*aol*
me too!

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I am also adopted and had a different name at birth.

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

Right, I´m also gonna post this on my LJ later, but....

When I was 5 years old me + my little bike got run over and mangled by a street sweeper.

I swear to the Gods, this is true. Ask my parents if you don´t believe it.

Signed...
Lucky to be Alive Barbarella

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

I have a scar on my forehead/hair-line from having my brother attempting to cave-in my skull with a half-brick. He's 3.5years older than me and I was a baby at the time, so he didn't quite have the strength at the time to wield a full-sized brick.
To this day, I can still remember my mother saying "Throw a brick at it" -- a phrase she's often used as a request to stop any loud/annoying noise (eg: TV's too loud? "Throw a brick at it". A dalek's ruining the neighbourhood? "Throw a brick at it", etc.).

[redcountess]

Meep :-(

Apparently when I was about two, I tried poking a fork in my brother's eye. Sibling rivalry is scary, isn't it?

(Then about 4 years later we were playing chasey in the house I slammed a door on his finger and he luckily only lost the nail).

[redcountess]

I think you know all my secrets too :-)

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I voted for Ronald Reagan. Twice.

What can I say? I was very young at the time.

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's another one you might like to know... my sister once tattooed me with a pencil. Meaning, we had a fight and she stuck the pencil in my left lower arm and the tip broke off under the skin. I still have the mark there now (and will probably die from lead poisoning one day). ;)

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I am actually also a David Gerard.
Gerard is my middle name, I was named after poet Gerard Manly Hopkins (according to my father, anyway).
If you hadn't been around, I would probably have adopted Dave Gerard as a nom de plume for various creative endeavours (because, you know, Cake is a silly name).

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

I once campaigned for the Liberal party - it's alright, I was only twelve and my father was running a state campaign for them. Actually, that secret's even more shameful for him than it is for me, isn't it? This means that I've campaigned for all three of the major political parties, as well as my own non-partisan campaign for local government.

You probably know all my secrets too - all the interesting ones any way.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

What people hardly know about me I'm still unwilling to share with the world! :)

[ashbet]

I don't have any fascinating secrets of that sort, but my middle name is Mitchell (yes, it's a boy's name . . . it's a FAMILY name), and everyone always seems to be surprised when they find out.

I'd considered changing the spelling of my name (from "Andrea Mitchell __" to "Andria Michelle __"), because nobody can PRONOUNCE my damned first name . . . I was born in Paris, and my parents gave me the French pronunciation . . . AHN-dre-ah. Unfortunately, everyone in America pronounces the name "AND-ree-uh," which drives me BATSHIT.

Thus the usename-change to "Andi" when I started high school . . . have never looked back ^-^

saintaspartame (Kira's dad) once had to call me (years after we were divorced) because he was filling out a government form and he'd forgotten what his middle name was . . . I laughed myself sick :D

-- Andi <3<3

[reddragdiva]

Mitchell is in fact epicene!

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Any chance you're related to your BOFH back at the Sausage Factory gig? And what about the whole "There Can Only Be One" meme?

[kest]

I didn't even know you were adopted.

[kest]

Also, I sucked my thumb until I was thirteen.