What does your username mean?

Ok, maybe this thread has been done before (?) and/or you all know each other's answer already (well, some of them are pretty obvious too), but since I'm kinda new here, and there are other new members, I think this would be an interesting question (well, at least it's a pretty standard question in any kind of fora, heh :P).

So, what does your username mean? where does it come from?

Mine is from my favorite character in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman graphic novel. Ever since I read it, I fell in love with the character of Delirium, who was once Delight. Her crazy mix of innocence and madness and timeless wisdom appealed to me. And I've been using the name Delirium online ever since... And the 9 is my birthdate ==> December 9th.

My username means that my cat, Leela, had fleas when we first brought her home.

Mine is the name of the main character in a book I'm writing. I always use it because it's (usually) strange enough that no one else has claimed it.

noonlight is from the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett... reminding us, anyone can be a witch when its dark, a real hag can do wonders in the noonlight...

Mine is because I'm a bookworm and I'm a small person (5 ft). I used it because I disowned my old username (Celes) and am still without an internet alias, and I figured a username related to books was suitable for this site.

I would have chosen something shorter if I realized I was going to be chatting away, though!

I got my PhD in neutron physics, hence drneutron. And Jimmy Neutron was taken by some weird guy on TV...

Mine bears no physical relation to me whatsoever, being somewhat tall for a woman and well, ok, you can have the geek part.

Two of my favourite books are Little, Big and Geek Love, which gives a fairly good idea of my personality.

R. Buckminster Fuller (of geodesic dome fame) invented a geometric structure that he called a "fly's eye" or "monohex" dome.

>#8 What is it used for?

My first experience with graphic novels was the Strangers in Paradise series by Terry Moore. Since I live in an Arctic paradise (actually sub-arctic, I am at 64 degrees, not 66 plus) I chose Arctic-Stranger.

I do get tired of people saying "Howdy Stranger!"

My name is my initials. I've always gone by that, or a longer "JPfull-last-name."

It all started when I started programming and used my first mail program on an old, old mainframe back in 1973. This was before 'Handles' were popular, and everyone used their name.

Much later, when ARPAnet became Internet, and when people used nicknames, I was rather surprised (and saddened) to see that the need for anonymity was real.

# 9

They can be constructed for housing or, really, any type of building. I would like to build my own, and live in one someday.

"Most of the butterflies of the family Morphidae are located in South America. Morpho means beautiful and the iridescence of their scales makes them some of the most beautiful butterflies in the world."

(Edited: The picture in my profile is of one of the Morphidae butterflies.)

I was in a Strat-O-Matic baseball league, 28 members, 6 Johns, 3 Daves and 2 Andys. There'd be confusion sometime leading to flames when readers would mix up which JohnDaveAndy had said what. So we added our team names to everybody's sig. My team was the Winston-Salem Dromedaries.

Addendum: This isn't my original username. I changed it after Talk was introduced so that I wouldn't be posting under a name that was just a jumble of letters.

Winston-Salem Dromedaries

I like that!

pollysmith-speaks for itself

unless I can fool you into thinking my real name in JK Rowling!

Mine is not very original. I live in Georgia and my middle name is Dawn.

I love Georgia Dawn as a name! a real name!

My user name tells you my first name and that I'm married. I chose it because I was pretty sure I could remember it. I have a vivid imagination, but that and my memory seem to desert me at the most inopportune moments.

Also it's what my three and four year old friends call me...I'm not sure what that says about all of my friends here, I don't think of any of you at the moment as 3 or 4 years old. :)

I grew up in Winston-Salem!

being a book site I thought it was obvious and appropriate, and I wasn't very imaginative that day.

>22 readafew: I've wondered, is it "I have read a few books?" or "I read a few books?"

Mine's a nickname given to me by a friend a long time ago -- a bit of a play on words based on my real-life name.

See, I like my username, but the explanation makes me sound like some total poseur jackass... ;)

Ex: (Latin) "out of" or "from"
Ex: (English) prefix "formerly"
Vivre: (French) "Living"

So, it's basically a polyglot conglomeration to signify my interest (mostly at the time I created the name) in vampires - the formerly-living who come from the Living.

You may also remember me from such usernames as:
HKuL, Herr Ketten und Leder, WildeChilde, Pontius Pilate (a favorite at Xtian message boards) and Spartacus.

/dorkage

#19 - Thank you, pollysmith. :)

>26 GeorgiaDawn: Ooooh! I have a new brain worm!

*jumps threads*

you are welcome!

23> I always thought of it as "Read a few books!" :)

My username means two and two. It's also the beginning of a nice poem by Jacques Prevert which incidentally was printed on the postcards my parents sent out when ickle Doro (that's me ;)) was born.

23> both!
8)

Mine is from my favorite fairy tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses (the French version, not the Grimm version) - the main character is called Star Gazer because he's always daydreaming and staring off into space.

I love astronomy, daydream all the time, and 72 is my favorite number, so there ya have it!

Do I need to tell mine again?
;-)

It's the name of my male cat. The cat was NOT named by me, OK?! But it's a wordplay on the words "bus" (swedish for mischief or trick) and "lucifer" (kind of obvious?). So, it could mean Satan's trickster.

Some may think it's an appropriate nick for me but as Satan is a religious concept I'm sorry to say I can't agree. How can I be a trickster of Satan when Satan doesn't exist?!
;-)

(As usual, no offense meant.)

Eleniel means "Daughter of stars" in Quenya.

When my wife (Danielle) and I (Darin) started dating, when we would introduce ourselves to strangers (checking in at a bed & breakfast, for example) people would often comment, "Oh, the Two D's!" and think themselves original. We must have heard it about 20 times.

#27 - Morphy - You scare me sometimes!

My wife and I have the same first syllable of 2 syllable names, and when we introduce ourselves everyone ALWAYS repeat it, many (though not all) refrain but you can see the look in their eye of 'Oh isn't that cute!'

Gag me with a spoon!

#34 - I feel your pain! My husband and I have the same first initials. We both teach and school systems usually use first initials and last names for email addresses. They have to add something (usually a 1 or 2) to distinguish between us. We're always getting each other's mail.

My name has absolutely nothing to do with that boring “sport” baseball! (Sorry littlegeek, fleela, kawika, Sabarade, et al.) ;-)

It comes from Dickens’ Oliver Twist, as in the Artful Dodger (Jack Dawkins was his real name). I’m not necessarily a huge Dickens fan, but so far, Oliver Twist is my favorite Dickens book, and I liked the idea of dodger as a name, especially on a book site.

>35 GeorgiaDawn: Then my work here is done! ;)

>36 readafew: I used to have a boss named Chris and her husband, who also works at the same company, is named Kris. It got very confusing, especially as I sometimes do work for Kris.

#39: I had to attend a seminar with some co-workers last month and the presenter was a man named Stacey who told us his wife is also Stacy.

My LT user name prefixes my initials to lib for library. First coined it in the days of the DOS file name restrictions (8 characters), when contructing a databse of my library. Somewhere along the way The Wife coined the initials as my nickname, to the stepson I became Cad-Dad. To his daughter I became Grand-Cad!

I had a teacher in junior high named Mr. Judy--his wife’s name? You guessed it, Judy, or Judy Judy!

my name is easy - many years ago my sister and I were hanging out in a bookstore and happened on a book of names and their various meanings. The book also had a *alternate spelling* section so my sister's name Sarah became Soyra and my name Angela became Angelikat.

I was in a Yahoo History/Biography Book Club and had a habit of posting links to current events from the newspapers. Somebody started calling me "the Linkmeister," and I liked it. Then when I was building a website I learned that no-one had ever claimed the URL linkmeister.com, which I found astonishing. I snapped it up and I've been Linkmeister ever since (2001, maybe?).

#42:

I once worked with a woman named June May who had a daughter named April.

I once knew a girl named Sue who married a Mr. Purr becoming Sue Purr (say it fast).

Names are funny things.

Because I have become that crusty old Sergeant who stares at young privates and lieutenants over my morning coffee and says things like "what the eff do you want?", "I'm getting too old for this s**t" or "I'm not yer damn mommy, go away!" and other assorted things I won't repeat in polite company.

Bother me during my morning coffee...mumble...mumble...

My sister has a classmate named Aspen Snow.

Oh, and there's always Ima Hogg, as my uncle from Texas is fond of pointing out.

(Sorry for continuing the off-topic...)

whoops...fixing the tags...

46 > you sound like my old supply sergeant ;)

#18 - Interesting! My Mom's middle name is Dawn, and both my sisters share that middle name. When we had a boat when I was little, it was named The Three Dawns.

OldSarge--"get off my lawn!"

I guess I'm saying I can relate.

I (Murray) decided years ago I would never date, and therefore not marry a Mary.

I did go to school with Candy and Taffy Apple.

Well, it's my name...or rather, my first two given names (my mother obviously felt rather generous and blessed me with three). I did not feel creative that day, so I really could not be bothered to find some extraordinary user name :)

I work with a Blanca Nieve in english: White Snow
and I knew a boy named Dallas Dallas, my mom went to school with his father: Dallas Dallas Sr.
Parents can be cruel.

While we're off topic, one of my professors in college had the surname Strait. His given name? Dan.

You know how schools or employers will take letters fromor parts of your name and assign an email address with it? Well, my old online ID was "lbaker1" and as a chat handle I spelled it out to be el-baker-one.

Over the years it's gotten some strange pronunciations "el-back-er-own", "elba-ker-on-ee" etc. But my college friends joked that it looked like el-baker-oh-nee (as in rhymes with macaroni). Limericks and silly poems were written and it just sort of stuck. :)

One poor sot that I know of got stuck with Seymour Peter.

My neighbor refuses to hyphenate her married name. She's Risen. He's Pieter.

#20 MrsLee, I'm MrJim on a couple of other boards. I worked at home for about eight years, and sometimes the only people I saw in person during the day (while going to the mail box and other exciting trips) were the neighbor kids, who all called me that.

#39 - I have a cousin named Christine who's with a guy named Christopher. They both go by Chris, so when they give cards and presents and things they sign them Chris Squared.

#55 - I always figured it was "el-backer-OWN" or "el-backer-OWN-ee." Oops!

I got mine from a half-troll warlord in Cardolan, Arnor, Middle-Earth.
I liked it so I keep using it.

Mine's self-explanitory...I think! I'm a girl, and my first initial is N!

A tontine is an old old gambling scheme, and the day I joined LT I was feeling old old, and I've always been a risk taker, so it felt right. the 2 means also. (too)

I have a friend named Sunshine Lemontree. It's pronounced le-MON-tree, but you can guess how often it gets read like that!

My aunt and uncle are Sherri and Gary.

Tons of years ago, back in the dark days of the early 1970s, my parents decided that camping in a canvas tent with four children in the rain was *not* an enjoyable experience. They plunked down (for the times) a huge wad of cash (hated credit then, and instilled a good habit in their kids around capital investment and use), and bought us one of the first motorhomes. It was tiny (for six people), but it became our home-away-from-home for twenty years. It was called "SabaraLetom," which is Arabas (our surname) and Motel spelled backwards.

Can you guess my first name?

de...George? Sue?

#64 - You are just guessing! Go back, carefully read the instructions, and try again.

:)

8+ years ago I wanted to create an online handle that didn't have to do with my civil war reenacting and had something to do with dragons and fantasy. A friend of mine was big on Tolkein elvish and kindly helped me with translation. My handle should read dome'loki, but usernames/handles often don't like apostrophes so it gets left out. It means night dragon. Dome = night and loki = dragon.

#63 - Ed?

I had a friend named Jamie in college who went with me to a keg party at a rival university. I perhaps had a little too much of the brew. I thought it was absolutely hysterical that she had the same name as a guy there named Jamie, so I introduced them and went into a fit of giggles. ("Jamie, meet Jamie. Jamie, meet Jamie." The beer made it really funny at the time.) They've been married 23 years now.

She reciprocated by setting me up on a blind date. We've been married 21 years.

My user name? The "hobbit" because I'm short and round and love all things Tolkien and would live in the Shire if I could. The "princess" is my dry sense of sarcastic humor showing through. I am very un-princess like.

#67 - Princess - What a coincidence! I know a Jamie who married a Jamie. And..they met in college when someone introduced them! (fits of giggles)

#53 - Maybe you and your friend should start a matchmaking service? Only, do you have to be inebriated to find the right one?

Jim53 - I had to check out your profile to make sure you weren't my brother! Same name, same (birthyear?). But nope, he has a different name here.

Mine is my name. I quite liked it and it seemed quite appropriate but I now feel really insecure with all you creative people. I guess when I first started at LT I didn't expect it to take up quite so much of my time.

In memory of the beautiful actress Fay Wray who played Ann Darrow in the original King Kong.

A long time ago I needed a new hotmail address, because I was getting too much spam at the old one. And I wanted a name without numbers. So I tried dozens of different things, word combinations, book characters, they were all taken, including 'Salamandastron' from the Redwall books. Which reminded me of 'salamander', which of course was taken...and I like blue...

It wasn't until later that I discovered that there really are blue (spotted) salamanders. Anyway, it's been my username on at least 4 out of 5 sites ever since.

According to my website:
webgeekstress fem. n. Neologism describing a woman especially well-versed in Internet technologies.

I coined it as the feminine of "webgeek" and it's my standard web-based ID.

I knew an Erin married to an Aaron

#73 and here I thought it was just reflecting the condition webgeeks are often in.

I'm sure there was a thread about this, but it might not have been GD.

It's related to my fairly unusual real name, I'm a fox who reads, obviously. For outdoor forums I tend to have wandering_fox etc etc.

cad, I like "Cad-Dad" and "Grand-Cad." Much more fun than the normal names!

readafew -- I always think of it as present-tense "read." Glad to know both are acceptable though! ;)

So I'm left-handed and just plain lefty is usually taken so I added Larry Bird's number. I'm not that into sports, but my husband is. He suggested I use 33 as Larry Bird is his favorite basketball player ever.

Mine's kinda boring. I like dressage and I'm a grrrl. So... voila! Dressagegrrrl.

My handle is inspired by a collection of Eastern European (Polish?) folktales, which had a story of an sea witch who danced on the beach while it was storming (and seduced innocent young villlageboys I think). Since the storm often wash up amber, she was called an amberwitch.

OO a polish folktale! I'm half polish and know almost nothing about my polish heritage. Mom never wanted to talk about it. Are you polish

Elle is the first initial of my first name, and Vee is the first letter of A) the name I WISH I had, and B) the titular character of Alan Moore's V For Vendetta, who is in my Top Five Fictional Characters I Love & Would Stalk Were They Not Fictional.

#81 - who are the other four? How fun - stalking fictional characters!

Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis.
Doyle from Angel (although he's in danger of being ousted by Phineas Poe from the Phineas Poe series).
The Ninth Doctor from Doctor Who.
Doctor Gregory House from House, MD.

There are MANY, many more (when I'm bored, I make lists), but those are the ones I have liked for over two years. Hm. Now I'm going to go make a list on my blog of these characters.

#80 - Sorry, not Polish, Danish.
The collection was translated to Danish, and I think the reason it made such an impression on me was that it differed so much from the traditions of Northern European and French folk tales/songs.
I may have to go find it again, now:-)

My name is just a nickname my father gave me years ago. I never really used it for anything until after he passed.

my username represents all twelve of the Zodiac symbols, each printed on glass, tossed on to a stone table, with some of the shards falling to the ground, others setting at odd angles atop one another, creating an interesting pattern that spelled out this name.

sorta like my life.

So many interesting stories!!! I'm trying to read all messages and reply to each one, so bear with me, please? :P I will reply later :D Thanks for answering!!

Now I know what dressage is. Before this thread I did not even know it existed.

Well, mine's pretty simple. When I first joined LT I had just finished the Sevenwaters trilogy by Juliet Marillier. My name comes from my favorite character in the last book. It is a great series. It's based off the fairy tale about the girl who had seven brothers who were turned into swans. Very imaginative.

Jesmona7=

"Jesmona" Old Fashioned Black Bullets candies. They've apparently been around since the year dot but I've only just found out about them and fell in full-on love. Can't get enough!

7 is because I was loathe to completely be rid of my old handle, which was mainly used in Stargate chat. There I was Chevron 7.

#67 hobbitprincess - Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner!

Yes, first name is Ed. And my full name is the exact replica of my father's name - which led to all kinds of interesting credit reports for a while. Like my ownership of two houses and a bunch o' vehicles and having tons of credit cards. :)

#91 - my friend has the same prob sharing his name with his dad and grandfather. It's pretty annoying to have to convince creditors that you did NOT open a bank account thirty years before you were born! ;)

#86 - Awesome! I thought I was the only one who could do that....

#83 - I *heart* Doyle too!!!

Lily is a pen name I use. Water refers to my interest in water sports. I used to be a white water raft guide. Put together they conveniently made the choice of a photo for my site very simple.

*delurking*

Mine is the name of my blog. That, in turn, came from the last name of some of my characters in an online fantasy game (they all had 'Dragonchaser' as a last name...brothers, y'see).

But once I used it for my blog named it was meant more metaphorically. :)

*going back into lurk mode*

Mine was generated from a website that dispenses names to Fantasy fans (especially Tolkien fans as I found it as a link on a Tolkien website). Any way if you enter your real name it will give you elvish, dwarvish, hobbitish & human alternatives/equivalants to your name. Vanye is the elvish equivalant to my real name Bonnie-even the Soundex code would likely recognize it as an alternative. The other ones it offered were far less palatable & in the case of the Hobbit alternative much shorter!

Mine is a reference to the fact that I'm an "army brat" (but everyone has always insisted that I am not a brat) and the year I was born.

Re odd names parents inflict on their kids:

In college I knew a guy named Russell Russell Russell.

My sister's husband is named Gail. Causes all kinds of confusion.

My Dad had a distant cousin who was a real bible thumper - the kind who would accost you on the street to ask if you love Jesus. He named his first two daughters Faith and Hope. The wife lost her religion, and ran off when she was pregnant with the third daughter - maybe so she didn't have to name her Charity? Violet was a beautiful as her name, but she turned out to be a real hellion.

I once met a guy named Waymon Gay. At first I thought he was Raymond with a "pwonunciation pwoblem", but no, his name was actually Waymon. I am sure this caused him endless problems as a kid. He was not a large man, but he had adopted a deep gravely voice, and an aggressive tough-guy attitude.

Mine is pretty boring, though I guess some think it on the exotic side. Kawika is my name, David, in Hawaiian.

From that, a good number of people assume that I'm native Hawaiian, but sadly, no, I'm not. I just happen to know what my name is in their language. And I know how to properly pronounce Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a.

Kawika - I have tears rolling out of my eyes, I am laughing so hard!! humu humu nuku nuku apua'a - fish!! It was a something I asked people when I first met them....
*Excuse me stranger to whom I have just been introduced, but could you tell me the meaning of the words Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a?*
To which I would get odd looks and the knowing smile of my close friends - I have never heard said before till just now. If only someone would use antidisestablishmentarianism in a sentence I will die happy.

Angelikat, did they get double points if they knew it was an island that Bugs Bunny welcomed people to in the Warner Bros cartoon where he was marooned and cannibals came to visit? Except, I think the way he named it was more like Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a Island.

btw, I know what the humu humu is because I used to work in a fish store. Ironic how what they call a huma huma trigger is actually not the humu humu nuku nuku apua'a fish, but the real one is, instead, called a Rectangulus Trigger.

geek points!

>1 Delirium9:

Mine's from the same source. Lucien is the name of Dream's librarian in The Sandman.

Mine comes from the name of this type of flower, which I think is pretty (both the name and the flower):

Well, mine is really pretty boring. When I first signed on on AOL, and I was trying to figure out an email address I was frantically and blankly staring around the room desperate for something to inspire me. My gaze landed on a sweet little picture frame my husband had gotten for me with little hearts engraved around the edge. I typed it it, and AOL wizards added all these little numbers to make it unique, and *voila*! I use it to sign on to everything on the web because I really can't remember too many different things, and because of the numbers it has never been taken already.

Fun Fact: Except for the first letter, H, I can also type it with only my left hand! Easier to login :)

#99 Angelikat: here are some references, but don't follow through yet (and "die happy"), we would miss you..
From Wikipedia:
* In The Honeymooners TV show episode "The $99,000 Answer", Alice asks Ralph to spell the word. Ralph says he'll spell it if she gives him $16,000 for spelling it. She tells him she'll give him twice the amount if he can say it.citation needed

* In an episode of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour TV variety show, Tommy Smothers improvises a stanza of "My Old Man's an Anthropologist" starting with "My old man's a antidisestablishmentarian...", bringing the song to an abrupt halt.

* In the Blackadder the Third TV show episode "Dish and Dishonesty", the title character tells Prince George that he shall return 'before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism'. The Prince makes many attempts at saying it, eventually reduced to the level of saying anti-distinctly-minty-monetarism, by the time Blackadder has returned two days later.

There is more, don't want to clog up the bandwidth...

#95 what site is that on? I'd be interested to see what my name comes up as :)

I'm boring too coz my username is my name, well kinda, I'm Sean-Maree, but Seanie rolls off the tongue alot easier :)

My username is TeenAuthor because I'm a teenage author. I can't afford an ISBN for my book, so I can't get the LT Author Button yet. Could anybody help with that?

Anyway, I would have picked Malkalith as a username, since he's my firstborn literary son (my first character I made up) whose name means "Son of the Reaper". He's not called that because he's related to the Grim Reaper directly, he's just a Changeling spawned from an Ectoplasmic Power Plant explosion which killed many, making him sometimes referred to by Druids in his home town as "The Bastard Son of a Thousand Deaths", since he was the result of an industrial tragedy.

He's also one of my old DnD characters.

#75 A common misconception, which is why I was obliged to post the official definition.

#100 Kawika - I did not know the Bugs Bunny reference, I will definitely use it!! I am not a big fish fan, but I learned about that funny little fish ages ago while I was playing around on Encarta.
I am such a geek!
#104 cad_lib - I never thought of looking at Wiki for it, btw - I like your screen name!

I have such a lousy memory that I stick to something that relates to my professional field of expertise; now it seems quite boring when I see many of those above.

>#88 Hee, I should have been a bit more clear I guess, but I feel over half of my brain is devoted to horses, and I tend to go on and on and people glaze over. I was trying for brevity. :)

>#106 Out of curiosity, how much does an ISBN cost?

I seem to recall that the Humu lost its status as state fish out here, and a bunch of schoolchildren petitioned the governor to get it reinstated.

However, if you look at this site for State Fish Art, which is kinda cool, it says Hawai'i still doesn't have an officially recognized state fish.

Hmm. If it were based on quantity consumed I'd bet on 'ahi.

My username refers to the dwarf Dori from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

New to this group...Hi all!

I am boring. I lifted "Estarriol" straight out of A wizard of Earthsea. I liked it better than "Vetch" :) I have been using this moniker off and on since my first e-mail account years and years ago. Strangely, it is almost never taken.

To#113. . .from esta1923. . . my name, with year of birth (I sometimes write e, sometimes E. . . being ancient I beg to be forgiven/understood!)

I was created in the belly of an atomic blast test and have persisted for decades to rain b-movie atomic mayhem hither and yon. I was born in black and white but am currently in color. The blast affected my mind, so I am currently insanely bent on world domination and gripped by the search for a pretty scientist girl that I met before the blast. She believes in the transformative power of love and so is looking for me but the head scientist and the evil general will not let her see me. My atomically plasmystical powers have leveled armies and chased thousands out of crowded movie theatres.

So, my name is a totally logical choice.

And for some strange reason, I'm perfectly comfortable with that explanation....

Mine? We've got books in EVERY room of our house! I'm currently, temporarilly, living in Delaware. I brought 19 books with me, plus my 2 eBook devices, and they're distributed among the rooms I'm renting, as well. I'm trying to give it that feeling of 'home'. Feel free to read our profile if you want to know more.

I am emigrating to the planet Sikaris in the Delta Quadrant. (Star Trek: Voyager.) The lifestyle of the Sikarians is all about pleasure. Need I say more?

#3 --> xicanti: I love your username. It sounds so... exotic. And I don't know if it's that X there or what, but it sounds Mexican to me (Aztec?).

#7 --> littlegeek: thanks for the recommendations! :P I wasn't aware of those two books, but now I've read a bit about them and they both sound like something I'd enjoy reading, they sure are in my wishlist now! :D

#10 --> Arctic-Stranger: Oh,Strangers in Paradise! I have some issues in, ahem, e-format, but I haven't actually read them yet.

#18 --> GeorgiaDawn: I think your name is lovely :) Makes me think of peaches and the colors of the sky at dawn...

#25 --> ExVivre: haha, being the word freak that I am, I loved your dorkage explanation :D

#52 --> elenasimona: That's a lovely name, too!

#81 --> ellevee: What is the name you wish you had? Funny, I've always liked names that start with V: Virginia, Veronica, Victoria... (not Vanessa, though, I don't know why. But I do like the fact that these names could be either in Spanish or in English, my two languages.) In fact, if I *ever* write that novel that we're all supposed to have inside us (aren't we? :P), my heroine's name will be one of those three :) And I also love V for Vendetta too :P

And I agree with Angelikat (#82) --> How fun - stalking fictional characters!
(Has anyone started that thread yet? :P)

#90 --> Jesmona7: I'd never heard of those candies, but a quick Wiki search (Wikipedia, how I love thee!) led me to the brand's Web page. Those candy tins must make lovely collector items. Oh and I like your expression ...been around since the year dot. Haha, in Spanish we usually say something like "in the year of the pear"... :P

#95 --> Vanye: May I ask for the site's link? :)

#101 --> lucien: And a very fitting name it is for LT ;) In my *dream* library, Lucien is the keeper, of course :P

#115 --> Atomicmutant: hehe that made me laugh :D

#116 --> WholeHouseLibrary: Ohh to have rooms in every room of my house... *sigh*

I've had fun reading all your responses so far :)

I fall into the boring category as well, jeri is my middle name and the numbers were added from anoher site and I have kept it because well, I remember it.

My mother's nick name was Maggie and I loved hearing people call her that when I was little. Later in her life, for professional reasons she retreated to Margaret...how sad. So I chose Maggie + the year of my birth. Seemed like it might have been a big year for her.

Who would have guessed a question about screen names could result in discussions on Hawaiian state fish and dressage! yea.

#118 Delirium9 - Thank you very much. :)

> #118
Delirium9,
Thanks, I think...

We'ved got a Group called Books in Books, another called Books on Books...

Would you like to start one called Rooms in Rooms? Maybe we can have a Roomba running around in them/it.

WHL {:>)

>#122 ==> Well, I was expressing my longing for a house just like yours, so... you're welcome, I guess ;P

Ohh, is there a group about Books in Books? As in books mentioned in other books? Cool! As a matter of fact, just the other day I asked in the Stephen King group if anyone had a list of all the books he mentions in On Writing. I love it when I'm reading a book and it suddenly mentions another author, or the title of another book or whatever. King always does that, inserting pop culture tidbits like that :)

I assume Books in Books is about titles mentioned in a book in a casual way (as in a fiction title, maybe?), whereas Books on Books pertains to books about books, right? Errr...

And what would Rooms in Rooms be about? what's a Roomba? Sorry, I got confused here :( *scratches head*

Delirium9, re: Rooms in Rooms, carefully read your reply to WHL in your post #118. ;)

Rooms in Rooms -- wouldn't they be closets?

Roomba -- I had to ask the same question myself once. I've actually seen one now (besides the one in an episode of NCIS...).

It's a robotic vacuum cleaner, about the diameter of a large frizbee, and a favorite referrential topic (right behind cheese) of patrons of the Green Dragon.

* edited to add:

And, you are correct, by the way, about both Books insert-preposition-here Books groups.

#124 ==> hahahahaha I see it now :P *slaps forehead*

Maybe I got too caught up with Door, a character in Neverwhere and her family and the layout of their house (if someone hasn't read it and wants to know about it, please ask me). Or maybe I'm just that distracted. :P

well Jennifer (my name) is supposedly from the welsh Gwenhwyfar or Guinevere depending on how you spell it. Gwenhwyfach was the sister of the Arthurian Guinevere and their rivalry led to the battle between Arthur and Mordred.
So It amuses me to have it as my user name, sort of my evil twin. The spelling is fun as well, can't have too many W and Y's in a name.

Death Star, squadron 61, pilot 12. I love Star Wars, that is the old Star Wars trilogy (parts 4,5 and 6).

#118 - I always wanted the name Virgina. Actually, my ideal name is Virginia Poe. Unfortunately, that is not my name, and so I live eternally in crushing disappointment.

Someone I hate is named Victoria, but generally V names are good things. And words that start with V are cool.

#129:
And words that start with V are cool.

Yeah! Even more so, after having read V for Vendetta ;)

Edited to fix the touchstone.

Vomit

Villain

Victim

Violence

(I'm just being a stinker.)

I LIKE those words!

Vexation!

My user name meets I am without a muse, which has been the bane of my fictional existance. Why can't we all have a muse?

No. Wait. I think it means I am musing. Just musing. Absent mindedly musing.

Hold on. I think it means I'm funny.

No. Not the last one.

One of the others. I think.

Has no one mentioned Pynchon's V?

Mine's not literary in the slightest! Any UK LibraryThingers over 30 will remember Swap Shop, a Saturday morning kids TV programme. They had a stuffed purple dinosaur (long before the days of the awful Barney) called Posh Paws (because it almost Swap Shop reversed). Ah nostalgia!

#134

I've read that book twice, yet I haven't rated it because each time it blows my mind a little more.

ellevee, every time I think of V, all I can think of is that rhinoplasty. Yuck! Good book, tho.

Have you read Gravity's Rainbow?

Yes! I love Thomas Pynchon, but his books give me an inferiority complex - I always feel like I'm missing something really, really obvious.

I need to buy that.

*runs to add it to her amazon wishlist*

#138 GR is extremely dense and bizarre. Be prepared to be overwhelmed. Oh, and there are further grossouts, which I will not mention here. Suffice it to say that Katje will do anything that is asked of her.....shudder.....

booksngames - because our house is being overwhelmed with those things. Also CDs and DVDs - we have too much "stuff"

Mine has nothing do with literature - it involves The Man With No Last Name who lies at the Centre of things, who knows The Woman with No First Name, who speaks only of..."What?" (now THERE's a riddle for you, Mr. Baggins!) :) If ANYONE can figure that out, I'll get you a free pass to Diagon Alley...:) A clue to the wise - fantasy (our favorite subject herein) is nothing more than a great game of..."pretend"...wink, wink...

Somebody ought to use TheManWithNoName as a tribute to Clint Eastwood's iconic role.

Nobody remembers that character these days. Know why? HE'S GOT NO DAMN NAME!

Hey, when I was little I watched all those movies with my dad!

I think nowadays people just call him 'that dude Clint Eastwood played that was totally bad-ass.'

#143 - That pretty much includes that Dirty Harry character as well, so kind of undefined... ;-)

I like to drink ink...

For anyone who knows any German, my name is obvious. For those of you who don't, it means "I love books."

>118 Delirium9: - Thanks!

>125 WholeHouseLibrary: Rooms in Rooms -- wouldn't they be closets?

Aren't closets just smaller rooms off of main rooms? A closet that's in a room would be a wardrobe, and those seem to lead to thinly veiled Christian allegories. ;)

When I was a kid, I wanted to own a bookstore, which I would call Merry Mary's - thinking that I would be joyful all day to be surrounded by books, and of course my name is Mary (Mary Lou, to be precise.). I grew up to be a school librarian, and I AM surrounded by books, and I am reasonably merry most of the time.

I use the name here, not because of my childhood wish, but because the name I wanted to use was taken. The name I wanted is the way I often see myself - BookDiva!

I had a character named Marylou in one of my novellas. She was a Banshee with a Southern accent. Mind you, I feel that positive role models for Undead people are important for literature, so don't feel too bad that your literary namesake is a flying ghost-woman.

Why, I'm flattered, Teen. (I'd call you TA for short, but T & A has unfortunate connotations in the US)

I am part Irish, so the Banshee part is nice. I can fake a southern accent if you like - but I can't type in dialect!

#1 I like Neil Gaiman

Mine is a mixture of the Queen of Hearts and the version of Alice (from Wonderland) in Through the Looking Glass Wars. I love the cheshire cat, but everyone has him, so I put a twist on the Alice in Wonderland. I find myself to be a bit like the Queen of Hearts (who, is still mean in the book, but a lot worse!) and Alyss, a trouble maker, a sweetheart, etc etc etc.

Hence, Queen Alyss.

Oh, I was going to use Alyss Heart, but people had that, how droll! It's amazing how people can have the exact same ideas. Thank you Maplestory for helping me find my name xD

#150 MerryMary - teacher's assistant? Or is there a more nefarious type of TA that I don't know about?

ETA: ooh, I just got it! Gotta add the &.

hahahahaha - nice one xicanti!

(I absolutely love this thread. It is wonderfully entertaining and interesting).

I took letters from my first name and letters from my last name, and mixed them around until I came up with Nymith. My parents say it sounds vaugely Egyptian, and I've become quite attached to it.

QueenAlyss - Your name sounds great to me. Wonder if you've read Lullaby, there's a really interesting Alice in this comic. Though the queen is kind of weird.

My husband gave me this name when we started dating. It's Quenya for Star Maiden, he even wrote a long lay.

I think he gave me this name because of my black hair and pale skin.

Mine is my nickname, plus Mom cause I am one and our house #. Not very original but it works.

Right momom, all these people are so clever it's hard to keep up with them. I'm misskate because my daughter is named Catia. We have always called her misskate. I love the name and was sure not to forget it.

#156, so you're a Mo? My mother and one of my sisters, both named Maureen, have been Mo for a long time. I'm not sure I've heard it anywhere else.

#158 Jim, I so thought you meant something else!

Hey Atomicmutant, any chance you could stop by for a few hours next time I want to see a big movie?

I tried to use one of my normal user names but it was taken. What's worse is that the person who has my preferred name only has one book listed. Very sad. Anyway, antqueen's an inside-joke name with the person who pointed me here.

#156/158 Re "Mo". Well at our house we are relentless punsters, nicknamers. So the dog (English Setter) is Moppet, and one daughter is Molly, and they both get called Mo-girl, or Mo-dee, or just Mo!

Damiella was a character I created/shared in a tag-team story LONG ago - for some reason I tend to use it (or variations) as my main user name.

well...
I like books. :)

I am impressed by everyone else's creativity!

Yours is right up there with the rest of them!

wyrd - think this is from Beowulf, but....fate or destiny; also the root word of 'weird'

chao - one unit of chaos, right?

pronounced 'weird cow': I live in the midst of rodeo country, and the red-necks have been trying to rope me and chop me up for hamburger for years...

ildanoch means versatile in gaelic

It's the name I use for pretty much everything except Everquest.

Well, my user name is kinda obvious and kinda boring but it's me.

I'm a lady from Maryland.

I'm a huge Baz Luhrmann fan, so I got mine from his name.

#167 Not as boring as my name is, MDLady. My initials and the year I was born put together is what makes my very original username. 8)

I chose my name because I love the band Ween.

I chose this handle on a whim to make a single post on another forum, then got very involved with this forum and have met many members in real life, and yes, they call me Weener to my face.

If I had known this would eventually happen, I probably would have chosen a different user name.

>170 weener:

Hello fellow Ween loving buddy!

I've loved reading this thread and all the stories, but I'm having a major inferiority complex now. Mine is my name and last initial. I can never come up with clever handles when the time comes. {sigh} *runs off to think of clever handles for future needs.*

KimberlyL, fear not. There are others of us in exactly the same boat :-)

Or worse... I'd change my username to something more anonymous, but the option appears to have been permanently disabled.

Way back in the '90's when I needed to come up with a user name on AOL, I was banking on the idea that my nickname followed by my middle initial, an initial for my maiden name and the final initial from my married name would be hard for some other user to have picked up and appropriated. But now it does seem to lack a certain creativity.

I got mine from my beloved cat Cleo. We had to "put her to sleep " due to Kidney failure hence the Goodbye part.

I'm a reference librarian in a university library, and a huge fan of anime and manga, so the name is a blending of vocation and avocation.

I'm Roxanna so I chose xor + scape as my moniker. Xor is Rox backward. (I've always like Annaxor.) And books are my landscape, literally, from the look of my office and hallway. So, for LT, I thought xorscape the right choice.

167> I thought you might be a female doctor!

Hi, I'm Kelly, and I'm a female doctor.

The dr is obvious. The sol is meant as sun. It comes from a short story I read many years ago. The two main characters were both "Sol's" one was Solitude and the other Sol for sun. I don't remember much else about the story, but at the time I loved it and picked it for a screen name, and these things tend to stick.

Well, Thalia is the Greek Muse of comedy and poetry. Usually it's already taken as a handle so I either add 76 which is the year I was born in or choose a totally different handle. I signed up on LT pretty early so I got lucky and it wasn't taken yet.
I'm not very creative when it comes to handles so if it is already taken and the Thalia76 as well, I can spend hours in front of the computer screen brooding. For some reason I don't like using my real name anywhere online, or even parts of it... (and I actually like my real name)

The reason why I like the name Thalia and use it whenever I can online is that it was my name in the girl scouts, so a lot of people only know me by that name in real life too and they still call me like that.

"I may be one" is an homage to the anonymous quality of the internet. I really could be one of anything and virtually no one would know the truth.

I am a Chrissy married to a Chris...ya think that woulda been obvious when I chose my user name..but no..at the time my son was lil and his nicname is " putter" and my husband always says Im a princess so....princessputter it is... and I use it for everthing....the comment it gets most often is..." you must love to golf"..or that reminds me of cookies( nutter butters I guess)..either way it works for me

> 183 I thought it meant you were like me, and do a lot of things at once (though in my case, not necessarily thoroughly or well!)

Mine is aviddiva because I'm a singer and I like palindromes.

Mine is one of my favorite literary characters - Fanny Price from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park - even though some readers hate Fanny and think she is a prig, when I read Mansfield, I really identified with Fanny and how she stuck to her beliefs, even though it would have been so easy for her to betray them and even though sticking to them made her seem "uncool" or "unfun".

# 168:
Another Baz Luhrmann fan!! Woooo! :P

# 184:
I love your username. Really. It's so simple and yet so... perfect. :) I'm a word nerd, so I like palindromes too.

Mine is named after my biggest fear. A Papiervisje is the Dutch name for a bug (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum) that eats paper. It is not related to the bookworm (Dutch: Boekenworm).

Is that a fish-moth, aka silver-fish? They're a plague in this country, too.

elvis = You couldn't tell if my first car was alive or dead most of the time, so it was Elvis. (It's definitely dead now)

ette = feminization, for me, when referring to myself (not sure how the name of the car came to be extended to me-- my current car is Simone, for Simone de Beauvoir, and the name has not extended to myself)

y = the name "elvisette" was already taken everywhere, so I added the "y" in honor of a particular singer's last name

So the name is really elvis + ette + y, or elvisette-y, not "elvisett-ey" as most people assume.

Gojira = Godzilla

Hejira = A Joni Mitchell album. The word refers to a journey. Similar to the Muslim word for their pilgrimage.

On occasion, Godzilla is known to make a pilgrimage to the mainland and stomp the Hell out of Tokyo.

~Jimm

I'd thought I'd revive this thread because there are some people I've met after the last time anyone posted in here and I'm curious... And rather than starting a new thread, I thought it'd be cool if new people could just read old explanations, yeah?

What do you think? :D

Mine is a the name of a now defunct character I'd considered writing about - I thought I'd made it up - until I found out about the, er, River Severn. The big one in England. ~blush~

Anywho, I love female names ending in 'n', rather than the softer 'a' (which my real name ends in, incidentally).

I'm glad you did revive it, its interesting and I missed it the first time around.

mckait = my maiden name starts with Mc

kait= my niece and nephew call me aunt katie. My niece was creating my first ever email account for me, years ago.. I barely knew how to turn on the computer in those days. I didnt have one, but used theirs when they were out at times. She mistyped, kait instead of kati(e). I liked it. Its unique so I can use it all over.

It's been interesting reading all of these because I missed this first time around.

My real name's Claire. The nearest Polish version of that is Klara. Make it diminutive (like 'Little Claire') and you have klarusu ('s' should have an accent on top and is pronounced 'sh'). When I lived in Poland, a good friend always used to call me that ('Nie ladnie, Klarusu' he would say when I mocked his football team ... and by football, I mean the one that's actually played with balls and feet which Amercans tend to call 'soccer' which is not, contrary to popular opinion, played with socks .. but I digress ...) and so I always tend to use it online because no-one else has it.....

My grandmother's name was Vera Marie, though she went by Marie. She lived with us when I was little, and all of us kids loved to sneak out to the living room and sleep with her on the pull-out sofa. One of my most vivid memories is of the flash of light on the ceiling when she lit her first cigarette in the morning.

We lost her to a brain anuerysm when she was just 53 years old; I was six. I got to know her a bit as an adult when I transcribed the letters she and her husband Al wrote each other during the 30's whenever he was away from home looking for work.

I'm sure I have explained my name somewhere, sometime (at Booksloth's instigation if I remember correctly), but I'm sure that some may have missed it.

Many years ago (about 100 in internet years - or 10 in normal years), I used MSNChat. At the time, it had a random screen name generator which would throw 2 words together. I went through about 50 combinations before dreamlikecheese came up. I am a huge fan of cheese and it had a silliness about it that I liked. I still can't decide if I am cheese with a dream-like quality, or if I am dreaming in the manner of cheese.

Muse just happens to be my favorite band ever, the first band I really fell in love with when I was 16. Reader is because I consider myself one, someone who reads all the time, wanders around with a book in her hand etc.

I'm rather boring compared to all these great names, but karenmarie is my first and middle names. I took my maiden name as my middle name when I got married, and very rarely get to use the marie part. So I took this opportunity to use it.

I have another LT account for wishlist and BookMooched books called kairfa. My family got into a silly name phase while I was in high school, and I became kairfa marika. My sister still calls me kairfa and I still call her beffers (laura beth became dora beffers).

Mine represents two different types of female readers in Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. I'm more of a Ludmilla than a Lotaria but some books can bring out the latter in me.

#199 - okay - for those of us unlikely to read Calvino's recursive novel, could you tell us what it means when you say you are more of a Ludmilla than a Lotaria?

As for me, I'm more of a Bleezfloop vs. a Kerquickle myself, as represented by the two different types of rock-band space-quarks in Drizzle Flashback's novel The Flamingo Flies at Night into the Rainspout of My Soul.

This is an interesting thread and I'm glad it has been revived- it explains a lot! Tolkein geeks will recognize my name as Elrond's wife and Arwen's mother. I chose it because I am turning 40 this year and my children love to tease me about all the gray hair I am acquiring. It means 'Silver Queen'.

Mine is so simple I blush to say I'd not thought to be creative! Actual name/esta, born/1923

JPB asks for an explanation (though I should really make you read the book, but understand that Calvino may be an acquired taste).

I hope I can explain without botching it. I think it’s important that each reader walk away with his or her own interpretation of Ludmilla and Lotaria (because it isn’t as simple as the short answer I shall provide). However, the short answer is that Ludmilla is a passive reader, some have suggested a pure reader, who goes with the flow and resists interpretation. Reading for Ludmilla is an escape, which can take her on unexpected paths while searching for the next good book. Lotaria is an ideologue who probes and dissects her literature to the bare bones. Reading for Lotaria is an intellectual exercise for the purpose of supporting her own agenda.

Of course, now I'm thinking I should rename myself Bleezfloop_Kerquickle. I'm guessing from the poetry dripping from those names I'm definitely more of a Bleezfloop. My mind certainly flies the coop on a daily basis and I'm in permanent slow motion mode these days.

Mine is pretty self explanatory. I moved to Wisconsin (land of cheese) when I was a teenager. I am also a HUGE football fan (Green Bay Packers GO PACK GO!!) Packer/Wisconsin fans = cheeseheads. I met my husband and had both my kids in wisconsin before moving back to arizona. Therefore i am ...dramatic pause..."CHEZHEDMOM" (loud booming report to be imagined!;)

chezhedmom - I always laugh when I read your name (I read it as cheesed-mom). In our family, when the baby spits up all over you, we call that being "cheesed". :)

Mine reflects the fact that I have been fortunate enough to live within walking distance of my main place of employment, for most of the last 10 years, although I have moved 4 times. It's not just an environmental thing, but also a quality-of-life issue for me. I just don't like wasting time and gasoline driving (especially in traffic) if I can help it.

Plus I was looking for a quick and catchy username that would be easy to remember.

#205 Mrs. Lee
Hey I've heard of that expression - too funny!
However, based on the resulting smell wouldn't the name have to be "stinky cheezd mom"? snicker*yuck*yuck*

Mine is boring too. Just my name and initials. At least I can remember it. I don't remember who but when I first joined someone asked me if my account was for the Victoria (BC) Public Library. I've always wanted to see Victoria BC.

Well. It's also what I use for my email, IMing, etc.
My sister calls me "Lou" sometimes (I'm not sure why...)
So Mindy (first name) Lou (nickname) 182 (rhymes with Lou)
The 182 has no connection to the band either. Sometimes people ask me but I just chose it because it rhymed.

#192
Ohhh I'd been wondering about yours, as a matter of fact. I think it's beautiful, I like how it rolls off the tongue... And I'm with you on female names ending in /a/ – my own two names end in /a/ and are rather common...

#203
Ok, I'm so not reading your explanation, Ludmilla, please don't take it the wrong way! But Calvino's book is actually in my wish list and I do want to read it soon. :)

BTW, Ludmilla is also Mrs Cake's daughter's name in Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.

#200
Nice title. :P

#204
I had read it as CHEZ (as in the French word for someone's place/home), plus HED (which I thought stood for your name or initials) plus MOM. Or maybe that you were Hed's mom. Heh...

Way back when I first joined a forum, I needed a handle/nickname. It's stuck ever since. ^-^ It's closer to what I consider my 'real' name than my legal name is too. So I suppose that puts me with the 'boring' people. ^-~

This is a fun thread to read through. ^-^

If you're enjoying this thread then here's a similar one from 2 years ago, from where lazy old me will now unceremoniously cut and paste!

I'm a HUGE fan of Sergio Aragone's Groo the Wanderer comic book character. Groo is the dumbest barbarian ever, whatever he does utterly fails; if he tries to save your town he will burn it down. Fun stuff!

Well, the letters pages in the back of Groo was called GROOGRAMS, and they often published GROOISMS, which were stories of stupid and awkward things we've all done.

I had a couple of GROOISMS published, then when the official Fan Email List THE GROOP at www.groo.com came about, well, I had so very many Grooisms that I just became MRgrooism.

I use that name EVERYWHERE!

Well, in high school I was called "beef" by some friends and then after getting crazy during a few games, it became Madcow. I even had a friend make me t-shirt. I got internet at home in 1999, and so I've added that number to my usernames a lot in the past. The 2 is because surprisingly there are other madcows out there...beware of the madcows.

I probably would have chosen a different screen name here but wasn't thinking when I did my registration. Now, why bother changing?

#207 - My husband's parents used to call him Mr. Cheese. Hmmm, wonder if I could ever get him to use that for his profile name, if I could ever get him to join. :)

I'm gonna be in big trouble if anyone in Pleasanton greets him as Mr. Cheese. Me and my big mouth.

#211
Shanra is nice. :) Is your 'real' name Sandra, by any chance?

#212
Ohhh I didn't know there was an even older thread, thanks, Groo! I had fun reading that one! I'd heard of Sergio Aragonés because of MAD magazine, a friend used to collect all issues, and I used to steal them from him... until I started buying them for myself. :P And I usually enjoyed Sergio's work much more than all the other content. But I hadn't heard of Groo the Wanderer. And now I read there's even a film in production! Yay!

#213
Now that is just too funny. :D And it reminds me of William Shatner as Denny Crane in "Boston Legal"!

#212
That's a grea history for a name. I keep wanting to read it as 'Grue', though, which is something else entirely. ^-^;

#215
Thank you. ^-^ Sandra isn't my legal name, no. It's completely unrelated. ^-^

If you pick up the Groo Collections, the publication order is alphabetical for the original Marvel/Epic run, so the Groo Adventurer is followed by the Groo Bazaar and the Groo Carnival, etc. The Groo Houndbook is an excellent place to start, since that is where he meets Rufferto, his canine sidekick!

Many of the older titles are currently out of print, but Dark Horse occasionally threatens to reprint them, so we'll see. The TPBs of the Image and Dark Horse mini series are by series name, so there is Groo: The Most Intelligent Man in the World, Groo and Rufferto, etc.

I also highly recommend The Life of Groo, The Death of Groo, or better yet the flip book that combines them both!

>198 karenmarie:, karenmarie, I'm with you regarding the first name plus middle name school of usernames :-) The E in my username stands for Erin, which is my first name, and the Lee part is my middle name. My Mum has always called me E-Lee whenever I was in trouble for something - for example, "E-Lee, what have you done?" - and I think it's kind of sweet, so I use it occasionally as a username.

I love finding out where people's names (usernames or real names) come from, so I'll explain my real name too. The name Erin is Irish and is basically a poetic term for Ireland. However, my family is not remotely Irish. My Mum first came across the name when she was watching the TV show "Happy Days" as a teenager - Erin Moran was the actress who played Joanie Cunningham. My Mum liked the name and remembered it years later when she was pregnant with me and thinking about possible names. The other name she liked was Paige - now that would have been appropriate!

This sounds like fun, so I'll add mine in.

My real name is Emma...go with it...Jane Austen...Emma Woodhouse...and since LT already had a Miss Woodhouse, I added the date that Emma was published.

It's seriously gotten to the point where my friends can't remember my real last name, so they introduce me as Emma Woodhouse. There are worse fates... :)

caitemaire...sort of my first and middle name in Irish. It should actually be Caitlin-Maire, for Kathleen Mary, but I didn't like the sound of that. Or you might get away with Cait-maire...the 'e' that I added was a mistake that it is way too late to fix.

But because you would have to speak Irish to know that it is wrong, I'll live with it.

I'm literate and some say I am a fool. My family thought it is the perfect name for me when I started using it a few years ago elsewhere.

I'm afraid not an exciting story!

#217
Ohhhh thank youuu, Groooo! Yay! I've saved those references somewhere else (in my **somewhat** ordered reference file, yes, yes, that is where.)

#218
I've always liked the name Erin. I think it's gorgeous. :)

#221
Not exciting? But it is a cool username! :D

Those who know me in real life, and on here to a degree, know that other than books my big passion in life is religion. Studying it and trying to find where I fit. Light is a common metaphor for God in many religions, and I believe we're all God's children, hence Child_of_Light. Bit more theistic than most everyone else's but I wanted something unique.

Lyz is my shortening for my name Lysette, and it is GREAT to get it ahead of all those Elizabeths who are obviously crowded for nicknames. I'm happy not to have a terribly interesting username, but my partner's online presence (not a LT-er) is invisiblemoose, so I guess that makes up for it!

I thought I'd posted in this thread already, but skimming through I guess I haven't... anyway, here goes:
Quote from Wikipedia
In Māori mythology, Tāne (also Tāne Mahuta) is the god of forests and of birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatuanuku, the sky father and the earth mother

It was a name I picked out of a Mythology book and liked the look of, so I've kept it ever since...

Ok, mines a convoluted story that made sence at the time...

I had a dog... a german short hair pointer, her name was Lady, the sweetest most inteligent animal I ever had the priviledge of owning... loved her to death, unfortunatly she passed away about 4 years ago at the ripe old age of 16, a deary to the end. I still miss her... *sniff*

Then... a week or 3 before joining TGD, I went on a fieldtrip to the Pafuri area (at the top end of the Kruger national park in South Africa) to sample Baobab trees, we stayed with people that had a german short hair... Oh the nostalgia! Seeing all the little mannerisms I remembered so well from Lady, I fell in love with the breed all over again, I must have threatened to steal him about a dozen times...

His name was Talisker, named after the owners favourate alcoholic beverage... I also discovered that 'Taliska' was a real human-name...

so when it came to picking a web name, I was still freshly boyed up with happy memories of my favourite doggy... so I chose Taliska, in honour of the pup that had made me so happy :)

MissWoodhouse, that's amusing! ^-^ Definitely sounds like an enjoyable fate!

Taliska, that is a gorgeous story about your username. ^-^ I'm glad to hear that that little pup could make you so happy. ^-^

Mine means welshman in welsh and as I am from Wales it seemed apropriate and the number 17 is my birthday, like most of you, when I joined LT my mind was struggling.

Do all LT users own cats, or rather are owned by cats. We have 3, Sophie, Sooty and Rosie. Sophie and Sooty adopted us and Rosie was fetched in as a kitten by my son, who named her and then moved out to the south coast leaving us to fetch up the brood. Sophie is about 14, a black devil, who is mine, Sooty is a neutered tom black and white about 10 is not bothered about anyone in particular, and Rosie is now 5 a white tabby cross, with ginger eyebrows, my wife's cat.

219 - But is there a Mr Knightley waiting in the wings? Miss Woodhouse was always at her best when he was around.

awwww taliska.. sorry about your Lady. I had a dog named Dirk that was a once in a lifetime dog.. I think I might understand. I too like your name...

( at the minute I have a lapful of emmiecat)

@ 229- I have get rid of a couple Mr. Eltons and Frank Churchills first!

Oh, ick! Yes, do.

#226
Ohh, that's a beautiful story, Taliska, thank you for sharing! :)

Mine is.....very simply, that Luna is my cat!! She's a wonderful cat to own, and all the more wonderful for the change that has happened in her since we have own her.

She came to us at 14 weeks old, having been treated badly in her previous home (who could hurt a tiny kitten????) and didn't come out of under cupboards and bookshelves for weeks and weeks. Me and my best friend would go to bed, and then get up 2 hrs later to go and play with her cos she was a very nocturnal girl. We were delighted if she even put a paw out to the piece of string that we were patiently tempting her with!!! And when she first felt comfortable enough to purrrr.........well, we didn't think she could!!

Now, nearly a year on, she is amazing. She cuddles, plays, purrs and goes outside, and thoroughly enjoys life. Still a little untrusting and we can't pick her up when we want to, she chooses when she wants cuddles! She also most often asks for a drawer in a chest of drawers to be opened by tapping it, and sleeps in there.

So.....that is the tale of Lunacat!

Awwww. Luna sounds like a wonderful cat! I'm glad to hear that she's found a good home with you! Dear little creature. What does she look like?

I just got the sweetist mental picture of a kitten "knocking" on the front of a drawer so she could climb in and take a nap. Very darling. I once had a mama cat who insisted on having her babies in a drawer. I chose which "clothes" were in there carefully.

Mine is pretty basic - first two initials and last name. I'm amused by how often JJ is read as JI, though - a lot of people think I'm a Jim (wouldn't cgaffey be a weird name? Though I suppose it could be middle initial c and gaffey for a last name).

127> Yes! My other screen name relates to Jennifer/Guenevere too, though there's a bit of a story to it - when I was a kid I nicknamed my sister Margellen (for her first name, Margaret, and middle Ellen). She HATED it, and plotted to make me give it up - her solution was to nickname me right back, but Jennjean didn't work in her mind (Hmm, that's a rather nice name too!) so she modified it to Guenean (at least, that's how I spell it, lo these many years later). Unfortunately for her, I loved it. I've attempted to make it my nickname several times, and finally got it in various crafting (cross-stitch, mostly) groups. And it's my personal website. Which is very difficult for my family (and probably others, but only my family have complained to me), because the spelling isn't obvious to them...

234> That's lovely - and sounds very familiar. I have a rescue cat too - she was about a year old when I got her, now 2 1/2. She hadn't been abused, exactly, but...I finally got close enough to her to stroke her and walk away (to reassure her) - and she had no clue what I was doing. I don't think she'd ever been petted. It took her a good year to start sitting with me on the couch, and longer to start sleeping with me - and just the other day, for the first time, I picked her up and petted her and she didn't wiggle to get down but sat there purring until I put her down. The milestones are so wonderful.

Her name is Boots (had it when she came), and she's a snowshoe Siamese mix, sealpoint. Full name Puss in Boots and Mittens (ref Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats!).

@237- I'll admit that I thought it was jim! It could be because of the comedian Jim Gaffigan- my brain makes the intuitive leap.
Thanks for sharing your rescue cat story. I've rescued two dogs, and it's very similar. You are never quite sure what's going to scare them, or what they will let you do for them, or when...

#235 Shanra

she is a beautiful grey tabby....more a blotchy dark grey with silvery gold highlights. And she has the biggest eyes in the world!

#236 maggie1944

I think she's going to end up giving birth in my drawer as well!! Your picture is exactly right, thats what she does. And we think she might be pregnant which is good.....we already have potential homes for the kittens so we won't be adding to the stray population....its early days so we don't know whether she is or not.........fingers crossed!!

Oooh, that's so wonderful that you've found homes for the (potential) kittens already! And she sounds absolutely gorgeous. She reminds me a tiny, tiny bit of our Krumel looks-wise. He was a dark-silvery highlight tabby too. She sounds like a love. ^-^

I truly love having baby animals around. If there was no pet overpopulation problem I'd be having female dogs and cats with babies all the time. But, alas, not a wise thing for me to do. I am not commenting on others choices...just "sigh" sad to miss seeing little itty bitty ones being born.

As per MrsLee's order on the Countdown thread....

--from "Chameau" which is French for camel (an awkward animal)

--with the suffix "-lline" which is similar to the ending of my real name (Angelina) and manages to suggest "female"

I KNEW it would be an interesting one, thank you. :) At least someone obeys my orders, my teens certainly don't.;)

ditto maggie!