Has there already been a thread concerning how people have chosen their IDs?

no, I don't believe there has...

So tell us Susan, how'd you choose yours?

I got mine because while doing family genealogy, my husband and I have discovered that so far, I have no relatives who have emigrated to the US since well before 1776, AND I am allegedly 1/32 Cherokee Indian, so I'm about as American as you can get. And the cutie part...well, that's self explanatory!

(actually, I tried to do "girlie" instead of "cutie" and several places ran out of room in their text box...too many characters. And All American Girl is ALWAYS taken!)

As you know, I've lived in Swindon all my life, so I just thought it was appropriate for the Fforum.



Naomi

I picked mine after my cat, as most of you have probably realised by now. Not sure why, apart from the fact she was nearby when I needed to think of something.

I picked mine as I needed an email address - and you try thinking of something that hasn't been taken. I refuse to use my real name in case I get a stalker. I can dream, can't I? PSD seems to sum up the contradictary bits of my character...



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Hello all, been lurking for a few days. Sarah suggested I might enjoy TEA and LIAGB, so I asked my daughter to get them for my birthday, in place of the usual chocolates. Much better, and less fattening.

My ID was chosen today after a lengthy session wrestling with Word and its evil spell checker which seemed to reject every proper noun I fed it. You see I haven't trained it up since my last HDD replacement. I thought of MissPelling, but it looked all wrong, considered MsPrint, but settled on MissPrint. So, blame it on Word thinking it knows better than I how to spell my street name.

well, Welcome Sarah's friend! I, for one, like your screen name...very clever!

Okay - my friend Julie has two children, James and Livy Pumpkin (or Olivia officially). We're quite close - so close that it was Julie's mother and I that chose Olivia Kathleen Amelia as Livy's names. Poor Julie and Steve didn't have a say in it!

Anyway, the children have two real Aunty Susans (on the paternal side) so as I'm not family it made sense to become a Surrogate Aunty Susan = SAS = Sassy = Aunty Sassy. Simple really. Even at the birthday parties, all their friends know me as Aunty Sassy. So I now automatically become Aunty Sassy to any children of friends.

And you will understand from the first paragraph why both Steve and Julie think my name very apt!

Welcome MissPrint - also like the name!

Mine's stems from my love love of wolves.

Werewolf is a Lycanthrope or shape shifter.
Pod?(can't for the life of me remember where that comes from)

I chose mine because, erm. Oh, go on, you guess.

I chose mine for Dave's reason

erm ... I chose mine because of imagination failure ....



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I chose mine for a couple of reasons 1) Imagination returned a checksum error 2) Its the user name I had at college in the now alarmingly dim and distant past (first five letters of surname first three of forename) 3) Complete inability to rember any other username I've ever had and finally 4) I'd have used my email address but it doesn't lend itself too well and a username as I got it out of a Brief History of Time.



A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Favourite colour (dark red) + name shortened = ta da!

Well, hey, I could hardly call myself Thursday Next, now could I? That would have been just a tiny bit cheeky...

And now that I've identified MissPrint, hi and welcome! :-)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Sheer laziness influenced my choice as it was already part of my email address. belochka was a nickname given to me by a russian friend and I took his word that it means "squirrel".

If anyone knows russian and it means something different please don't disillusion me! :)

B

Dave's our Russian guru. He's got qualifications and everything...

I took a semester of Russian but about all I remember is how to pronounce each Cyrillic letter. I can pronounce words, but don't have a clue as to what they mean! LOL

That could make conversations quite interestingly bizarre! I love the look of the cyrillic alphabet though. I do know one of Pushkin's aphorisms (I think its an aphorism) in russian but apart from that I'm kind of limited to a very obscene phrase which I don't like to use in polite company :)

B

I started using mine ages ago because it references the fact I like books *and* the fact I like The Divine Comedy (the band). It was also the name of one of my pet mice at the time. (Now, sadly, deceased.)



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