What’s in a name

[Melis]

I’m always curious of the meaning behind some of the forum members’ names. Some are obvious (Melis is simply short for Melissa), but others always make me wonder. So what’s the meaning behind your name!?

 

[LaLaP]

Mine was a silly nickname from years ago. Lala Perfect. I guess it's ironic because I'm not a Lala type and far from perfect. It stuck for just a few years but I like the sound of it.

I'm glad you asked because I'm also curious about some other members names. I hope to hear about some of the unusual ones

 

[JoesMum]

JoesMum is pretty self-explanatory Joe was the first of my children. I had human ones afterwards

 

[KarenSoCal]

Mine's really easy! My name is Karen, and I live in Southern California. Location is important in some forums, like this one. The reader doesn't have to check my profile to get that info.

 

[Toddrickfl1]

My name is Todd, sometimes people call me Toddrick, and I'm from Florida. ToddrickFl1

 

[Tim Carlisle]

My name is Tim, but I've used "Mizcreant" on a variety of forums for years (since the mid 90's). The name "MiScreant" was given to me on an old politics bulletin board (for those who remember what those even were) due to my out-of-mainstream political views at the time. I simply changed the "S" to a "Z" and have been using it ever since.

 

[KarenSoCal]

My name is Tim, but I've used "Mizcreant" on a variety of forums for years (since the mid 90's). The name "MiScreant" was given to me on an old politics bulletin board (for those who remember what those even were) due to my out-of-mainstream political views at the time. I simply changed the "S" to a "Z" and have been using it ever since.

Hmmm...it seems from your posts that you have hopefully moved on from your moniker. Or do you still identify with it? BTW, I remember BB's! [emoji2]

 

[Tim Carlisle]

Hmmm...it seems from your posts that you have hopefully moved on from your moniker. Or do you still identify with it? BTW, I remember BB's! [emoji2]

Meh. Most of the political forums I belong to are left-leaning. I'm very much a conservative. I like the left-leaning sites because it gets tiresome having everyone agree with me all the time. I love a good debate! Lol

 

[Bee62]

My nickname is easy explained:
Bee is the short ( cozy ) version of my Name: Sabine. And I was born in 1962.
So it is Bee62

 

[surfergirl]

I love to surf. might need to change the girl part it to surferolelady now

 

[daniellenc]

Mines my name hehe.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

I'm up to three turtles now, but I still don't have a tortoise, per se. And the pastel part has nothing to do with color preference.

One of our cats is a dilute tortoiseshell in color... also called a "pastel tortie."

 

[ZEROPILOT]

There was a similar post a few years ago. So I'll clarify again since people again think I fly a plane:
When I was a kid, I was "adopted" briefly by a motorcycle club I wont mention by name.
I got my name because of the crazy, loud Kawasaki I rode around. As well as the way I rode it.
I'm not sure it was a complimentary name. But it stuck.
I still use it. I'm still called it.
And I still ride Kawasakis..That are still entirely too loud and fast.
However, motorcycling is a whole different thing now than it was back in the 70s.
A lot of that charm is gone. If that's even a good word for it....

 

[KarenSoCal]

There was a similar post a few years ago. So I'll clarify again since people again think I fly a plane:
When I was a kid, I was "adopted" briefly by a motorcycle club I wont mention by name.
I got my name because of the crazy, loud Kawasaki I rode around. As well as the way I rode it.
I'm not sure it was a complimentary name. But it stuck.
I still use it. I'm still called it.
And I still ride Kawasakis..That are still entirely too loud and fast.
However, motorcycling is a whole different thing now than it was back in the 70s.
A lot of that charm is gone. If that's even a good word for it....

I had a little KZ 400 back in the early 80's. I thought it was cool...KZ were my initials before I got married. I told anybody who would listen that it was a customized bike for me.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I had a little KZ 400 back in the early 80's. I thought it was cool...KZ were my initials before I got married. I told anybody who would listen that it was a customized bike for me.

I've had dozens of K.Z. Kawasakis.
But the name came from riding an H2 model.
Now I'm a ZX guy.

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

Will is my name, as it is now. I'm a III, that is my father and grandfather have the same name. When I was very young it was Billy, then when I grew hair in strange places, I preferred Bill, but that got confusing way back in the day when there was a single landline telephone for the whole household, so Bill got extended to Little Bill so whoever answered the phone could sort out who the caller wanted, even though I grew a bit taller than my father, I was the 'little'.

I moved away and decided why not the birth certificate version - William? But then a high proportion of people said, "oh do you go by Bill" and the answer "yeah, I don't know what my name is - that's why I introduced myself by another name" got to be a bit too smart-A$$ for most. Not to mention all the polysyllabic challenged people who have a hard time with a two syllable name.

I started going with Will, it already answers that 'go by Bill' question, and the people challenged with a two syllable name are not confounded.

I later learned that Liam Neeson is a William, and he chose the trailing syllable of William, best yet, but I'll stick with Will.

Why my Avatar name, I don't otherwise have an identity want, beyond Will.

Not as exciting as BMWdude which could have been true for a few years.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

My little grandkids started it for me ![emoji217]

 

[drew54]

I'm Drew the number 54 is arbitrary. I don't have a cool story to tell.

 

[SweetGreekTorts]

My first name is Kitty (yes - it's my actual real name, not a nickname). And although I was born and raised in southern Arizona, I'm proud to be Irish [emoji256]

Tá áthas orm buaileadh libh!

 

[TechnoCheese]

My username has evolved a LOT over the years.

It started in kindergarten, when we had to set up our school computer accounts, and our username had to be the first three letters of our first name, and then our last name. Since my name is Macy, the first three letters were Mac. For some reason 5 year old me thought it was hilarious that my name sounded like “Mac and cheese”.

Some time during elementary, I got a substitute teacher that, for whatever reason, pronounced my name as “Macky” during roll call, and that nickname stuck. I was cool with it because I like mac&cheese, lol.

Fast forward a few years, and I’ve started playing online games. I usually used names like “MacyMacaroni”, “macandcheesygirl”, and so on.

When I was somewhere around the age of 12, I found a pretty stupid multiplayer game where you could play as a raptor(the dinosaur), but they came in all sorts of colors. I chose one that was black with rainbow spots, and changed my name to TechnoCheese to fit the colors. I’ve used this username for pretty much everything, and on non-reptile related accounts, my profile picture is a poorly drawn bowl of mac and cheese.

I guess it stuck, lol.