What is your username?

oh, Stew21.
I didn't know what I was in for when I joined, so in an attempt to keep myself a bit anonymous, I used my husband's nick (everyone calls him Stew) and number (21 is the number he's had in sports since he was a kid. even now as a grown up in softball he is number 21).
Turns out I get so comfy here I tell you all - oh, just call me Trish - and look, here's pictures of my family. Ooh, and we live ...
so much for being guarded and somewhat anonymous.



Trish, in a hand-me-down Username

Back in the dark ages (well, 25 or so years ago), I was an adult advisor on a youth retreat. As part of an ice-breaking activity, we were supposed to rhyme our first name with something, and go by that the whole weekend. Star Wars was just out, and Obi-Wan Kenobi was a wise old man, and I was the oldest one on the retreat and I worked hard to convince everyone I was wise, and Obi-Wan rhymed with Don, so I became Don Obiwon (I guessed at the spelling-wrong!). It got shortened to dobiwon because I'm lazy.

My maternal grandfather had kinda-funny, kinda-cruel nicknames for all of his grandkids. Mine was "Abnormal" (and it's his fault I was named Norma in the first place. Ol' bastard. ) I lived up to it by being a female gamer and coder back in the early '80's. (Okay, I'm still a female gamer and coder, but there's more of us XX chromosomes out there now. Yay!)

So when I first started doing online activities and needed to invent a handle, I already had one ready-made, courtesy of my grandpa.

I also go by William Haskins, but not a lot of people knew that.

I've used "wackamole" in most of the places I post or play games.

It came from my oldest daughter. She was about ten when I was playing a first person shooter online with her. She wanted a fun name, so....naturally the first thing that came to her mind was Chuck E Cheese. Needless to say, that was a resounding NOOO! So she settled for WackAMole because she had played the game at the Chuck E Cheese restaurant the week before. My nick was WackaMole, hers was Lil'Wackamole. We changed the spelling around because its been spelled so many different ways that we couldnt really figure out which way was "correct".

So yeah, it stuck with me!

This is a really cool thread! Thanks for starting it!

Toothpaste - because people often think my last name is spelled Crest.

Yes I know, all the mystery gone!

(also I'm minty fresh!)

I got nothing.

**wonders whether creative work is really my strong point**

Cath said:

I got nothing.

**wonders whether creative work is really my strong point**

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Yer a mod here. Nuff said hehe

Danger Jane said:

The realism of your work just shows such creative genius

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Suck up

Uh, I didn't say stop...

Cath said:

I got nothing.

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Because "Boogers" was taken?



No?

guess....

threedogpeople said:

guess....

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You have three dogs and there's more than one of you?

threedogpeople said:

guess....

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you've never been to spain but you kind of like the music?

Cath said:

I got nothing.

**wonders whether creative work is really my strong point**

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I'm with ya, Cath.

I guess I just wasn't feeling very creative. My e-mail address was Kristie911, so I just used it as a user name.

And no, it's not 9-11 and has nothing to do with the Twin Towers attack. I'm a 911 dispatcher.

I was going to go with some clever double entendre....you know, such as when somebody cuts you off in traffic and you drink your coffee faster in order to hurl the empty mug, but then chuckle and nod upon reading their custom liscense plate.

But I got nothin' too, that day.

So I just went with my given name: Meerkat. Luckily there was an avatar.

Obviously I'm at my most creative at 3:15 in the afternoon. Hence

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My name is the result of how tremendously dorkish my friends and I were in our youth. Like typical grade school aged suburban Caucasians, we found the hip-hop vernacular very intriguing (see: Snoop Dog's "-izzle") and very amusing. As one may suspect, this led to us giving ourselves "Pimp names" My initials are C and B, thus, I became CBeasy, pronounced See-be-see. I must admit, it's not very deep, or intelligent for that matter, but alas, it's the truth. Still, I quite like it.

I just thought you were letting all the women know you were easy...

User names can't contain spaces and I didn't want to use a slug (what some folks erroneously call an underscore).

The reason why I chose my username is a secret, but it might be because my real name is Susan.

I've explained this before, but, in case you missed it.

Joe, because, well, that's my first name.

270 is the compass heading for west.

Westward Joe.

I know, it's not funny. Oh, well.

A few years ago I picked up the nickname "Jo" because someone noticed I bear a strong resemblance (personality-wise) to Jo March, from Little Women. I stole the surname Nighshade from Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, one of my favorite books of all time.