What's in a Name

[Chickie 15]

My original user name here was Aussie Chick. But I changed it to Chickie, because I am lazy, and Aussie Chick was just too long. Why Aussie Chick to start with? Because I am an Aussie Chick! LOL. My real name is Sam.

[Fanny Adams 7]

Hi, my real name is Sue but my online name has been Fanny Adams for years and years. It originally came from an online Dungeons & Dragons style game that I used to play (Ultima Online). I was making up the name of a new character and stuck for ideas. I remember thinking "I can think of Sweet FA for her name!" and the light went on :eek:

I like the ambiguity of the name - Fanny is a perfectly acceptable old British name but rather rude these days in the US and quite rude indeed in Australia (it means something quite different down under hehehe). It is also the real name of a little girl who got murdered in the woods in the US in the 19th century, which makes it quite suitable for the D&D game

I've used the name for so long online now, that I answer to Fanny just as readily as Sue, even in real life

[wombat712 2]

Hello all - I'm wombat712. Or, Geneva. I got the wombat from my honeymoon to Australia. Since then my husband calls me his little wombat. And, 712 is my wedding anniversary. I've used this online for 16 years now

Geneva

[Kat817 19]

Geneva, I like the reasoning!!! I often hear names in real life, especially between couples that make you wonder!!!

My DH refers to me as "Woman" so much, and his family HATES it! But years ago when we were 22 years old, and felt like children still a man he worked with ask him if I was his "woman" we both found it incredibly hilarious at the time, I was a girl not a woman---good grief, but he began jokingly calling me that, and it is to my ears the same as if he were to lovingly call me Sweetheart or something. When I came so close to losing him this last year, that was one thing I prayed for, just to hear him call me "Woman" one more time.....I bet you feel the same about being a little Wombat!!

Kat

[wombat712 2]

Yep - it always brings a smile to my face :biggrin1:

I would be absolutely lost without him so I can only imagine what you went through coming so close.

[blahblahblah 4]

Well, I am Lorraine in real life...but really, to those that love me, I am either Rainer or Rainy or Rain. Very seldomly does someone who knows me well call me Lorraine. As a child I hated my name because it seemed like an old woman's name...and to be honest, I still don't love it. I thought about that when I was naming my girls and named them relatively normal names...Julia, Megan (Meg) and Caroline (Carly).

Take care,

Rain

[TheGh0st 9]

Love this thread - Will have to scan it from start to finish when I've got more time.

My real name is Diane.

TheGhost comes from the fact that the last name of my favorite Grandma (God rest her soul) was Casper. I always liked that name better than my maiden name and always felt an affinity towards Casper....THEGHOST because of it. It also has suited me as I've spent most of my life either depressed because I felt like I was or depressed because I was wishing I was, invisible.

A little off subject in highschool I use to frequently sign pictures with a symbol of a cube with a "-0" in it as I felt like a square peg who both a Social Zero as well as someone who was "too smart" getting no marks taken off much of my homework.

Sometimes I'd like to change my ID to something more related to the band or my evolving & blossoming life with the band but after 2 years I'm pretty stuck with this one.

[Cindi 0]

um...Cindi? Now am wishing I used more creativity when signing up! DH has always used terms of endearment, rarely calls me by my name. Maybe he's forgotten! I, too, will answer to just about anything. Never really liked my name (popular in the late 1950's), but going by "Cynthia", well, let's just not go there. Momma works. Still answer to that from my 3 kids!

[piercedqt78 658]

um...Cindi? Now am wishing I used more creativity when signing up! DH has always used terms of endearment, rarely calls me by my name. Maybe he's forgotten! I, too, will answer to just about anything. Never really liked my name (popular in the late 1950's), but going by "Cynthia", well, let's just not go there. Momma works. Still answer to that from my 3 kids!

You have the option of changing your screen name. It's in the user cp. ~Mandy

[TheGh0st 9]

You have the option of changing your screen name. It's in the user cp. ~Mandy

Hmmm...Interesting... Very Interesting... Do you lose your posting history and restart at zero count or does it just transfer all the history over?

[piercedqt78 658]

Hmmm...Interesting... Very Interesting... Do you lose your posting history and restart at zero count or does it just transfer all the history over?

It all transfers. ~Mandy

[TheGh0st 9]

It all transfers. ~Mandy

Thanks for the info. I like TheGh0st most days but sometimes seeing other peoples interesting names I'm tempted to change mine to something more interesting.

[piercedqt78 658]

I like TheGh0st myself. I think that says alot about you and how you feel. ~Mandy

[StephC 0]

I'm real original too - Steph is my name and C is the intitial of my last name.

Kat - my hubster calls me woman too - I don't really know how it got started but he always says it lovingly.

[BlooEyez 13]

My real name is Dena ... my screen name is pretty much self explanatory :boink: