Author Topic: Screen name significance? (Read 3709 times)

Bullfrog · « **on:** June 14, 2009, 02:31:35 PM »

What does your screen name mean to you? Mine is easy, it was a pond site and I'm full of bull so Bullfrog was just natural.

Ky Kim · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2009, 02:39:54 PM »

Kimkass, is my aol screen name. Years ago you were limited to how many characters you could have. Of course Kim is very popular. So I used Kim + part of my daughters name Kassidy so we have Kimkass.

Some people look at it a different way. Once my Aunt use to email me all the time, and she called my mom and said my screen name was horrible. What? She said it stood for
Kim Kick *ss, no but I felt like kicking her's. I blocked her after that.

My name here is simple. KY Kim, Kim from Kentucky.

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2009, 04:38:30 PM »

Back in '99 when I registered for the Watergardening Magazine forum it was my first online registration and I didn't know to make up a clever name. It wouldn't let me register with just LeeAnne so I added the first number I thought of which was 151 from my days long ago drinking 151 Bacardi.

On eBay's forums I am buyorsell888 (not too hard to figure out, buyorsell was taken and I had to add a number and 151 was also taken) and the same on Garden Web since Spike banned LeeAnne151 for asking him why he sent me to Disneyland.

JimMcD in SVAZ · « **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2009, 04:53:14 PM »

Well, mine is JimMcD in SVAZ, but it's in a code, you'll never break it! OK, a couple hints: (1) My name is Jim McDermott, (2) I live in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Don't stay up all night working on it, you have to go to work tomorrow.

bunny56lbc · « **Reply #4 on:** June 14, 2009, 05:48:21 PM »

Mine is an old nickname my friends used to call me...bunny...56 is the year I was born &
lbc are part of my name also....

bonnie

greenthumbnails · « **Reply #5 on:** June 14, 2009, 07:22:31 PM »

This is a great thread! I have been wondering what some of the nicknames stood for. A while back Howell had asked me what mine stood for in a thread that I think only he and Esther were in; to recap I couldn't decide between "Greenthumb" as I love to garden (even if many plants still die on me) and "Dirty Fingernails" as a result of my hobby I can never seem to get the dirt out from underneath them....I figured that on a gardening forum that "greenthumb" had to have already been taken. I settled for "Greenthumbnails" instead. Funny thing is every time I see the thumbnails part I am thinking of the thumbnails as in mini pics on the computer, go figure...

jclements · « **Reply #6 on:** June 14, 2009, 07:23:33 PM »

My name here is just my name. My email addy was set up during high school and is slugbug because I loved (and later drove) a VW beetle.

PondmaninAL · « **Reply #7 on:** June 14, 2009, 07:26:13 PM »

Mine is simple. I'm a man obsessed with ponds and I live in Florida.

jw · « **Reply #8 on:** June 14, 2009, 07:29:10 PM »

My husbands sister called me an odd duck all the time (so came the photo of the duck my son sent me) and then it went to jw duck when I signed my emails and then I just dropped the duck to jw which are just simply my initials as I'm not a Jehovah Witness........not that there is anything wrong with that.

Esther · « **Reply #9 on:** June 14, 2009, 07:53:51 PM »

Well my screen name is very important to me. I chose it when I first started online with the computer because I didn't know I should choose some cute fancy name. I just used my first name. I often wonder why one of those "screen names" is necessary when we sign our posts with our real name anyway.

Mikey · « **Reply #10 on:** June 14, 2009, 08:36:19 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEXzx-TINc

purplepshn2004 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 14, 2009, 08:38:53 PM »

Actually mine's pretty easy too - I have a passion for purple, hence purplepshn (pshn - for passion) and the year. My email - tazmansbabe is because my fiance loves the character Taz and he's my babe... If I go by tshackett - that's my name Tonya Sue Hackett...

This is cool, I'm always trying to figure out what people's names stand for!

purplepshn2004 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 14, 2009, 08:41:56 PM »

Mikey, I likey,

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Kabuki · « **Reply #13 on:** June 14, 2009, 08:44:36 PM »

I named myself after my first shubunkin, Kabuki. He was named after Kabuki Theatre, because he has such a silly face and an orange triangle on his head, and it looks like a mask to me.

livetogarden · « **Reply #14 on:** June 14, 2009, 08:51:35 PM »

Gardening of any kind is my favorite hobby. I LOVE to be outside, absolutely hate air conditioning so if DH turns the a/c on I spend biggest share of my spring and summer days outside. Thus...I came up with livetogarden. On a somewhat related subject....our last name is Eaton and, thanks to a cousin, we have a sign in our yard that says 'Entering the Garden of Eaton'. Our daughter is getting her degree in landscape architecture and horticulture, she used my cousin's idea and named her company 'Garden of Eaton Designs'. A lawyer friend of hers even trademarked the name for her.

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #15 on:** June 14, 2009, 09:42:04 PM »

This was the very first forum I signed up. At the time my kids took up all my time, then all of a sudden they grew up. Now most of the time I used to spend on them is spent on my life's passion. Designing and working on my own garden, including the ponds. I eventually fired the "gardener".

My screen name is a combination of my kids nicknames. After that first breach of AP by hackers

I had to change a few letters to its current spelling. Mi=Michael and moi=little sister (DD). Threw in the k to add koi for the fish in my first pond the 2nd time around.

ladybug · « **Reply #16 on:** June 15, 2009, 12:57:29 AM »

ladybug=one of my cat's names. she has gone to kitty heaven now.
ladybug

Julles · « **Reply #17 on:** June 15, 2009, 06:02:02 AM »

Mikey, you don't hate everything... You're a very nice all-'round man!

My name is just a nickname people call me, a derivitave of my real name.

I used to have an e-mail name the same (still have it but never check it), but my computer person said it had to be changed, for some reason, so we made a new one using my business name.

Freddie Peepers · « **Reply #18 on:** June 15, 2009, 07:59:24 AM »

My name is taken from the first inhabitant of our pond..Last year after it was filled for about a week, the neighborhood kids came by and asked if I wanted a frog for our pond. They had one in a bucket and his name was Freddie Peepers.
So when I found this site it was a natural choice. My icon is a picture of him taken in our pond
Great thread

Brian · « **Reply #19 on:** June 15, 2009, 08:22:55 AM »

Mine is just my first name...how original!!

Annette, I always thought your's stood for "My Guy and My Koi".

Chevy Girl · « **Reply #20 on:** June 15, 2009, 08:33:57 AM »

Quote from: Bullfrog on June 14, 2009, 02:31:35 PM

What does your screen name mean to you? Mine is easy, it was a pond site and I'm full of bull so Bullfrog was just natural.

I am 57chevygirl on the HWC, (Hot Wheels Collectors ,boards. I collect 57 chevy's) when I found AP. I dropped the 57.

Joyce · « **Reply #21 on:** June 15, 2009, 08:49:06 AM »

I chose my first name for this forum.

All others I am Swimming Jewel.

cricket67 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 15, 2009, 09:03:41 AM »

My name here is my nickname "cricket" granfather gave me that name...i had to add 67 at the end of my name cause this site had a cricket all ready and 67 is the year i was born....

Desertponder · « **Reply #23 on:** June 15, 2009, 09:32:08 AM »

Mine is pretty simple really, I live in the high desert and I'm a ponder so Desertponder. I use it across most of the forums I belong to.

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #24 on:** June 15, 2009, 09:33:52 AM »

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Annette, I always thought your's stood for "My Guy and My Koi".

Ohhh. Brian, that's what I meant to say. Almost sounds better (for DH anyhow - aka, financier of pond hobby). Yeah! that's the ticket!

reddad35 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 15, 2009, 12:27:11 PM »

Started mine back when I was 35- 7 years ago. I have red hair, I'm a dad and was 35.

I am Human Paper on other forums and gaming sites.

greenthumbnails · « **Reply #26 on:** June 15, 2009, 06:57:32 PM »

Quote from: reddad35 on June 15, 2009, 12:27:11 PM

Started mine back when I was 35- 7 years ago. I have red hair, I'm a dad and was 35.

I am Human Paper on other forums and gaming sites.

Human Paper? Now that is very curious...does that mean you use your skin to write posty notes and memos on (I do that on the back of my hand...although if I could I'd write stuff backwords on my forehead so that everytime I looked in the mirror it would remind me what I was supposed to remind myself about) ?

PondmaninAL · « **Reply #27 on:** June 15, 2009, 07:12:05 PM »

Quote from: livetogarden on June 14, 2009, 08:51:35 PM

Gardening of any kind is my favorite hobby. I LOVE to be outside, absolutely hate air conditioning so if DH turns the a/c on I spend biggest share of my spring and summer days outside. Thus...I came up with livetogarden. On a somewhat related subject....our last name is Eaton and, thanks to a cousin, we have a sign in our yard that says 'Entering the Garden of Eaton'. Our daughter is getting her degree in landscape architecture and horticulture, she used my cousin's idea and named her company 'Garden of Eaton Designs'. A lawyer friend of hers even trademarked the name for her.

There is a beach on Lake Weir called Eaton's Beach. That's almost the opposite side of the county from us.

tinkster · « **Reply #28 on:** June 15, 2009, 07:53:56 PM »

Mine was a old nice from back when I was addicted to chat on the cb radio... from tinkerbell.

tink

Bullfrog · « **Reply #29 on:** June 16, 2009, 05:47:08 AM »

It is good to learn what people's screen name means. We develop a mental image of people on here and the screen name is the first peep into their personality. I would have never imagined the Freddy Peepers was the name of a frog, it's funny what sticks in your head.