we have many different ways to identify ourselves: name, social security number, credit card number, nickname, screen name, what have you.
astrological signs. many different attributes by which we can differentiate ourselves, and also enable us to belong (for example, I belong to the set of all Capricorns).
These things tell a lot about us, but they're often imposed upon us by circumstance, or by others. Here's another nifty way to identify yourself, and makes for much fun at parties, or around a table of light hors d'oeuvres and apertifs.
Kind of like that (rather silly, in this philosopher's opinion) game in which, after a few drinks, you become curious about what your name would be if you were a stripper, and all you do is take your first pet's name, and your paternal grandmother's maiden name -- or something like that (I'd be "Chessie Harm," which sounds like some dangerously huge breasts).

No, in this case, the goal is to ascertain what your nickname would be if you were a character in a prison movie -- or, as we call it here at headquarters, your "prison movie nickname."
Here's the best part:
You come up with it yourself.
After all, who knows you better than you do? And you get a chance to take a close and earnest look at yourself, all your flaws, your clevernesses...
My son, quite the accomplished artist: SKETCH.
A close friend would be SNITCH. (and she is, too -- some stuff was going down, and no one kept me in the loop but her, and discreetly).

What's your prison movie nickname?

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