Bertha Katzenengel - or - Bertha Venation? Help me decide. [View All]

I'm thinking of going back to Bertha Venation. What do you think?

My original name here was Bertha Venation, borrowed shamelessly from "Torch Song Trilogy." I appropriated it while singing in a community chorus. The director decreed that in order to show we ourselves supported the chorus, our annual dues (amount decided individually) would be printed in the programs along w/ the other donors. I didn't like that. I try not to go banging pots and calling out my gifts. So I told the printer "my name is Bertha Venation" and that's how it was printed.

I adore that name: "Bertha Venation." (I also adore Harvey Fierstein.)

I changed to Bertha Katzenengel (German, loosely "cats' angel") when I got into feral cat TNR seriously. I no longer have the energy to pursue that actively. I'm lending out my traps and that's all for now. So I'm thinking of changing back. (All of those that we care for are now spayed/neutered.)

And as for just Bertha: I have become Bertha. It's my favorite nickname and my alter ego. Remember the song about Bertha Butt & the Butt Sisters? My sisters are certainly butt sisters.... I also like it because in a Rita Mae Brown (I think) novel, I read the phrase "she's a friend of Bertha's" -- equivalent to "a friend of Dorothy's."

Now that everyone knows the stories of how I chose my names -- and why my beloved's name here is Mrs. Venation -- what do you think: stay w/ Katzenengel, or go back to Venation?