Where did your WTM forum name come from?

[houseofkids&pets]

Three kids and 9 assorted pets (and now my dd is asking for a hedgehog!). I wish we lived on a farm so we could add some sheep and chickens to our menagerie. Unfortunately, we are stuck in the suburbs. My neighbor said she wants to have her cub scout troop visit our "petting zoo" to earn a badge. By the way, my dh doesn't like animals and never had a pet growing up (not even a fish), but he indulges the rest of us (and pays the vet bills).

[PrincessMommy]

This is too funny! There are a few of us here that play WoW. I wouldn't have ever thought. I've been playing for 5 years now, but not nearly as addicted as I used to be.

 

LOL. Dare I admit it??? I was also a Starcraft addict. Now I'm so not interested in gaming. It's weird. Sometimes when I knew I'd have a big break (like Christmas) I would try to start up some old games, but I'd just get bored.

 

Okay, back to your usually programming....

[parias1126]

LOL. Dare I admit it??? I was also a Starcraft addict. Now I'm so not interested in gaming. It's weird. Sometimes when I knew I'd have a big break (like Christmas) I would try to start up some old games, but I'd just get bored.

 

Okay, back to your usually programming....

 

Lol! I know! Should this be admitted??? Yes, I have a video game addiction! WoW, Starcraft, Minecraft, Sims 3, Warhammer and many others. The latest is Skyrim. Do Not start Skyrim if you ever wanna do anything else. LOL I have now admitted my problem. They say that's the first step.

[WarriorMama]

Honestly, I have SO MUCH trouble coming up with usernames. 'Warrior' is the meaning of one of my kids' names. And I'm her mama, so...there you go. :tongue_smilie:

[laundrycrisis]

My username....is just the truth, straight up. :D

[elegantlion]

Mine came from a dream. :lol: Yup, The Elegant Lion was a decorating shop with really cool textiles, at least in my dream. Plus I have long curly bushy hair. I tend to growl in the morning too, so that fits.

[Julie Smith]

I have a unusual first name. The mix of my first name and my last name is very unusual. If I every google "firstname lastname" on google I only find myself.

 

Awhile ago I wanted to have a very common web name I could use everywhere. So I picked Julie Smith since you can't get much more common then that.

[coffeefreak]

I think my name is self explanatory:D.

[Cassy]

Mine came from a dream. :lol: Yup, The Elegant Lion was a decorating shop with really cool textiles, at least in my dream. Plus I have long curly bushy hair. I tend to growl in the morning too, so that fits.

 

DS4's name is Leo and he identifies very strongly with lions - strangely even when he was a tiny baby he had some very 'cat-like' behaviours. He often looks at my laptop and has spotted your avatar on a number of occasions and always wants to know about it, I'm glad I've got a story for him now.

 

Cassy

[SonshineLearner]

If I had only thought about it being my "life name" here, I would have created something else. Didn't want to use my first and last name, so my son's nickname :)

[clementine]

Mine is the favorite fruit in our house - you can always find one in our fruit bowl. :D

[mommyagain]

I'm also on my second round of parenting (like StaringOver). I was "Mommy" when my olders were little, became "Mom" when they grew up, now with the new ones I'm "Mommy" again!:)

[*Lulu*]

I have promised DH on pain of death :tongue_smilie: that I will never use our names in online forums. So my name is a combinations of initials and a number that has significance to our family.

 

Like pp have said, if I had realized how much I would be on here, I would have used something more creative and/or name-like. :001_smile:

[Maus]

Years ago, I served an LDS mission in Austria. LDS missionaries always use their title (Elder or Sister) and their surname. My maiden name happens to sounds a lot like a popular German nickname for especially tiny baby girls that means ” little mouse” and I happened to be one of the physically smallest missionaries serving there at the time, so somebody stuck me with the name. That group of dear friends has called me either ” mauschen” (should be an umlaut in there, but I'm on my phone) or ” maus” ever since.

 

I've used it online since I first went online.

[iona]

Someone I knew a while back had a grandmother with that name. I liked the name.

[Anne in CA]

Anne in Ore was my signature with pen pals when I was a kid. I didn't know that OR was the proper abbreviation, :lol: but it is sentimental to me.

[BarbecueMom]

It's similar to my Xbox Live gamertag. Long story. It actually has nothing to do with grilled meat.

[Pink Fairy]

Mamabegood is a take on Johnny B. Good. :001_smile: I was watching The Spitfire Grill (really good movie) when I needed to come up with a name, and there's a connection with a character in the show.

[mommyrooch]

Mine is a combination of the two primary identities I've had in life. Of course, mommy is self explanatory. :tongue_smilie: Rooch on the other hand is unique to me.

 

The story goes that when I was a baby I would cry and cry in order to get my dad to come and get me. I would cry until he came and picked me up and immediately after he picked me up I would stop. I guess it was an attention thing. :D Anyway, my dad used to say that I was "rooching" again. Rooch was his word for crying so my nickname became Rooch. I am 34 now and to this day my dad still calls me Rooch.:D :lol:

 

So anyway, like I said, my pre kids identity and my post kids identity combined makes me Mommyrooch. :001_smile:

[LaxMom]

Mine describes my family. :)

 

Evidently, so does mine. I think it came from not being able to remember my old board name, no longer having the associated email address, and being just plain insane from twin sleep deprivation.

 

I was probably hiding in the bathroom when I made it.

[Aelwydd]

Mine has nothing to do with nicknames or family names or particular circumstances. I just picked it because I liked it, a strong, feminine Welsh name.

 

It means "from the hearth," which I suppose you could take to mean that I'm here blowing smoke. ;)

[coffeefreak]

Mine has nothing to do with nicknames or family names or particular circumstances. I just picked it because I liked it, a strong, feminine Welsh name.

 

It means "from the hearth," which I suppose you could take to mean that I'm here blowing smoke. ;)

 

Aren't we all?

:lol:

[elegantlion]

DS4's name is Leo and he identifies very strongly with lions - strangely even when he was a tiny baby he had some very 'cat-like' behaviours. He often looks at my laptop and has spotted your avatar on a number of occasions and always wants to know about it, I'm glad I've got a story for him now.

 

Cassy

 

:D:D I like naps too, hence my sleepy lion. ;)

[Desert Rat]

It's my first name. I wish I had thought of something super cool like many of you. I didn't realize it was a forever name.

[kalanamak]

Mine is a mineral mined in India for cooking. If you've eaten the brownish tamarind sauce at an Indian restaurant, you've eaten my name.

 

I used it some 15 years back when I found out I got more replies to my Indian cooking questions (from real Indians) if they thought I was Indian.

[Homeschoolnewbe]

Eventhough I have been homeschooling for over 6 years now, I still feel like a newbie... I am always learning something new, and truly life-changing. I think even after I have homeschooled for 6 more years I will still feel like a Homeschoolnewbe!

[jewellsmommy]

Jewell is my dd's middle name and I am the mommy:tongue_smilie:.

[dragons in the flower bed]

The imagery is straight from the meanings of my real names. I should have put more thought into it, though, because I'm not actually really into dragons. I do find I have begun to like being referred to as "dragons," in the plural and lowercase, as though I myself am the entire species. :lol: I have tried to change my user icon several times, but as soon as I do I start getting PMs requesting that it return. So I guess I feel established, at least.

[TravelingChris]

I got tired of changing my name every time we moved. I was Christina in NM, Chris or Christina in Belgium, SpaceCoastChris ( I think) and then I finally decided I am moving too often so TransientChris. The funny thing is that I think I am at the place now where we will live for many, many years.

[Homemama2]

I'm a stay at "home mama" with 2 kids. pretty boring name. :tongue_smilie:

[Alphabetika]

My name is Erika and I love the alphabet, so....Alphabetika.

[Mandowife]

I'm the wife of a mandolin player/builder!

[KrissiK]

Mine is a derivative of my first name (though not one I've ever gone by) and the last "K" is for my last name.

[arghmatey]

Our last name has to do with pirates, so we have a lot of pirate references in our family.

 

Argh, Matey.

[KrissiK]

Mine is from a pirate name generator. At one time on the old boards, many Ellens had joined and I had trouble keeping track of which posts were mine. So, I changed my name in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day. Also, I love the ides of having a buxom, slightly naughty alter-ego;).

 

I've always liked your user name. I'm glad to know where it came from!

[Scarlett]

Mine is from high school. I favored Vivien Leigh in looks and Scarlett O'Hara in personality. I had a family friend who called me Vivien and a teacher who called me Scarlett. Once the teacher called me Scarlett other's followed suit. But I'm out of high school for nearly 30 years and no one calls me that anymore....so it makes for a good forum ID.

[ZooRho]

Well I use to be first name at the zoo at other places.

 

Then I became zoomom2boys, but I was in some fun threads, and in playing around there, they jokingly called me Zoorho sort of like Zorro.

 

so that is who I am.

[meggie]

Well my real name is Broomhilde and "Meggie" is the obvious nickname, so there ya go.

 

 

 

 

Ok, I lied. I wanted a fun story. I've always hated the name "Megan"and when I was a senior in high school, I found out my mom had named me Megan so that she could use "Meggie" as a nickname. Apparently she had watched The Thornbirds shortly before I arrived. Since I liked meggie better than Megan, I started using it as a screen name.

[Remudamom]

A remuda is a group of horses from which the cowboys pick a mount. I'm in charge of our remuda here, although it's much smaller than it used to be.

[kolamum]

Mine's a typo :LOL:

[eternalknot]

Mine's a typo :LOL:

 

I like your typo :) whenever I see it I'm reminded of a dear, long-lost friend from university who used to chew kola nuts to help focus LOL.

[Splinter]

I use mine on several forums, but it was originally suggest by my son. It's a Ninja Turtles reference. :)

[chepyl]

My name is Cheryl. For my 18th birthday a very good friend gave me a keychain with my name in beads. When she bought beads, they had no Rs. She bought a P and added a line in black sharpie. The line wore off, and my nickname became chepyl.

[Hannah]

First two letters of my first, middle, and last names.

 

Jo ann

Ma rie

Ma *****

 

 

In Afrikaans you is 'jou', so I always read it as "your mama".

I just kept on with mine from the old boards - non too exciting.

[5LittleMonkeys]

Well, mine is from the song... I have sung 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on My Bed to my dc for the past 14 years.

 

It started when my oldest was born and I would lay her on my bed to change her diaper. She loved singing and that particular song kept her the most still. As she got older she would always ask me to sing it when I would change her diaper on my bed and if she was really still she would get to jump on my bed while I finished the song. All of my dc have done this. Fast forward to now...everytime dd3 gets an opportunity to be in my room she will jump on the bed and yell, "Monkey song, mama!" until I sing through the whole thing. I imagine eventually I'll have grandbabbies jumping on my bed while I sing that song! It's not great for my mattress but it sure makes me smile.:D

[desertmum]

We are in the Arabian Gulf with sand up to our ears, so... 'desert'+'mum'. I really could not come up with anything else :tongue_smilie:

[suppleasthewind]

I wish i were as supple as the wind. I am actually rigid, punctual, neurotic, high strung, and obsessive compulsive and thought if I tried out that name i could turn over a new leaf. My husband noticed what forum name I was using and thought it was hysterical.

[Cassy]

I wish i were as supple as the wind. I am actually rigid, punctual, neurotic, high strung, and obsessive compulsive and thought if I tried out that name i could turn over a new leaf. My husband noticed what forum name I was using and thought it was hysterical.

 

:lol: The power of positive thinking, eh? And here I am, I would have taken you at face value. You missed out 'very amusing' on your list of your better qualities.

 

Maybe suppleasthewind could be an abbreviated New Year's Resolution?

 

Best wishes

 

Cassy

[photomo]

I'm a photographer and my neices and nephews call me Aunt MO.

 

(melissa is hard to pronounce when you are a toddler so 11 years ago with my first nephew I became Mo and it stuck. My husband even calls me Mo 75% of the time)

[iamrachelle]

It's the name my parents call me... everyone else IRL calls me by a shortened version of my first name.