Name Frustrations

[Velvet Voxel]

So..............I want to keep my last name, Valeska and change my first name officially to Velvet which I have used for years! Despite the fact that I'm willing to pay the nutty price of 39.99, I am told that Velvet Valeska is not available...............What the FECK nuts am I doing wrong?

[Lindal Kidd]

You aren't doing anything wrong.

When the old last name system was in effect, if someone had already picked a first name for themselves and paired it with that last name, the combination was "not available" to subsequent folks.  There must already be a "Velvet Valeska" in the system.

You could choose a different first name, or you could try a different last name from the list and see if "Velvet" is available for it.

Or, you could just stick with "Avalyn Valeska" and save yourself forty bucks.  I think it is an utterly beautiful name.

[Rhonda Huntress]

Someone already has that name.

https://my.secondlife.com/Velvet.Valeska

No feed, no about, no picks, no groups but created on December 13, 2008

 

[Velvet Voxel]

Awwww thank you and I did search for the name after I wasn't able to choose it. I really wanted to keep Valeska and officially change Avalyn to Velvet............no hate on Avalyn, but for various reasons I've gone by Velvet for years and was so excited that I would be able to have it officially (I should have known better lol) I have tried different spelling of Velvet and might go with Velvvet, but for $40 bleeping dollars it seems stupid to not get exactly what I want :o(

[Rhonda Huntress]

You could try Velvety or Velveteen knowing everyone would just call you Velvet but ...

6 minutes ago, Avalyn Valeska said:

for $40 bleeping dollars it seems stupid to not get exactly what I want :o(

I tend to agree

[Lindal Kidd]

13 minutes ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

You could try Velvety or Velveteen knowing everyone would just call you Velvet but ...

I tend to agree

Me too.  If it were me, I'd keep Avalyn Valeska and tack on the Display Name "Velvet".

[Alexis Kiyori]

1 hour ago, Avalyn Valeska said:

So..............I want to keep my last name, Valeska and change my first name officially to Velvet which I have used for years! Despite the fact that I'm willing to pay the nutty price of 39.99, I am told that Velvet Valeska is not available...............What the FECK nuts am I doing wrong?

Woah woah woahhhh, 39.99?! ON TOP of the Premium Account upgrade?

Jesus Christ... I hate my username so much and was so excited to finally change it but at these prices? No way..

[CheriColette]

47 minutes ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

You could try Velvety or Velveteen knowing everyone would just call you Velvet but ...

 

or Velvette (sounds the same)

[Lindal Kidd]

Velveeta Veleska?  Nah...that's too cheesy.

[Sylvia Tamalyn]

1 hour ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

You could try Velvety or Velveteen knowing everyone would just call you Velvet but ...

I tend to agree

I like "Velveteen Valeska". It just has a nice sound to it. 

[Amanda Crisp]

Ya know....if “Underground” became available as a last name..... “Velvet” would have a short life as an unclaimed first name. 

Heck, I’m not inworld right now due to worky, it might already be.

If not....I’m just waiting for my chance to become Velvet Underground 🙂

((You chronologically-early  Residents - like me - probably get the reference))

[belindacarson]

1 hour ago, CheriColette said:

or Velvette (sounds the same)

Velveteen was a song in the 90s by transvision vamp.  The song was about velvet curtains

[Rhonda Huntress]

I was thinking more like ....

[Amina Sopwith]

1 hour ago, Amanda Crisp said:

Ya know....if “Underground” became available as a last name..... “Velvet” would have a short life as an unclaimed first name. 

So would Going and London....

[CaerolleClaudel]

8 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Velveeta Veleska?  Nah...that's too cheesy.

You must be Kidding!

(sorry, have wanted to use that pun for a long time...)

[CaerolleClaudel]

6 hours ago, Amina Sopwith said:

So would Going and London....

Now you have made me think, "What if they came out with the last name 'Commando'?"

[Dano Seale]

31 minutes ago, CaerolleClaudel said:

Now you have made me think, "What if they came out with the last name 'Commando'?"

All the Royal Marines would get giddy!

[CaerolleClaudel]

1 minute ago, Dano Seale said:

All the Royal Marines would get giddy!

I was more thinking along the lines of 'Going Commando' if you know what that means.

[Maitimo]

13 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Velveeta Veleska?  Nah...that's too cheesy.

Not as cheesy as a friend of mine. Her name is Zola. She's a gorgon (you know, with snake-hair). Her display name is "The Gorgon, Zola".

[Amina Sopwith]

14 minutes ago, Matty Luminos said:

Not as cheesy as a friend of mine. Her name is Zola. She's a gorgon (you know, with snake-hair). Her display name is "The Gorgon, Zola".

She's my wonderwall too.

[Rasia Silvershade]

You could always try Velvet in another language. My name is a Latin translation of rose.

[Alwin Alcott]

14 minutes ago, Rasia Silvershade said:

My name is a Latin translation of rose.

think you mean Greek 
Latin is Rosa

[Velvet Voxel]

Velours Valeska might be interesting ;o)

[Rasia Silvershade]

"think you mean Greek  
Latin is Rosa @Alwin Alcott

Your right Alwin it is Greek but it is also a variation of Latin. I found it on http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Rasia  

 

[CheriColette]

16 hours ago, CaerolleClaudel said:

You must be Kidding!

(sorry, have wanted to use that pun for a long time...)

 I didnt get that till the 3rd reading doh!

Very clever Caerolle