How Did Your Choose Your Forum Name?

bcincolorado

Love it gramma!!!!

anotherNYCGirl

interesting and fun to read the responses!

As you can guess, - I'm a NYC girl, but that name was taken

In retrospect I would have chosen NYCgirl2, but didn't think of it at the time!

Scottie719

My nickname [from my long-ago college days] is Scottie, but that was already taken - so I added 719, which is the date I got the word that I was NED after my UMX two days earlier.

wanderweg

What a great thread!

I went to boarding school in Switzerland and trails in the German part there are marked “wanderweg.” (hiking/wandering way/path) I love to hike and have great memories of my time in Switzerland, so I went with that

LimnoGal

LimnoGal because I got my MS in limnology (the study of lakes, ponds and rivers located near major colleges and universities).

Wanderweg- I also went to boarding school (as an extern) in Switzerland, but in the French speaking part. I also have great memories of my time there

MinusTwo

Well - I had a double mastectomy - so they're both gone - Minus Two

Peregrinelady

Omg, I never made that connection. Thanks for the explanation, minus two. This is a great thread!

JKL2017

I asked my brother (an 11-year metastatic kidney cancer survivor) for his best advice after I was diagnosed and he quoted that great philosopher Matt MacConaughey - Just Keep Living. That (JKL) combined with my year of diagnosis (2017) pretty much defined how I approached everything in the beginning.

MinusTwo

JKL - LOVE IT !!!

AmusingSoprano

I'm so enjoying this thread, because I've often wondered about some of the names.

Mine is because I sing soprano and I had a blog where I wrote about amusing things that happen with singing.

Beesy_The_Other_One

MinusTwo--I've said it before, but can't resist saying it again--your name is my all-time favorite!

wanderweg

LimnoGal - my school was in the French-sparking part, too. Where in Switzerland were you? I was in Chesières (a tiny town near Villars-sur-Ollon).

LimnoGal

wanderweg-it is so pretty around Villars! Our school was in Versoix (between Geneva and Nyon). It was on the lake, so pretty, too, but in a different way.

sbelizabeth

When I was a little girl, I thought the name "Elizabeth" was only for queens and princesses. It was a royal name, not to be given to just anybody. Having the name Elizabeth means you're someone very special.

SB stands for strong, brave.

cyathea

Although I’m in tech now, I always loved botany. Cyathea is a genus of tree ferns. The species of Cyathea are mostly ferns with a single tall stem. They look like palm trees but with fern leaves. Some of them are tall tree ferns and I am a little over 5’10” so I thought that would be appropriate. Many of them are in tropical rain forests where I grew up. I also liked the idea of being a strong tree that bends with the winds but does not break even if it loses all it’s leaves (or hair) in a storm.

After I selected the name I learned that the name is derived from a Greek word meaning “little cup”. That used to be appropriate, too. LOL. Since my BMX, “no cup” is really a better translation as many of you can relate. Even so, I’m keeping the name! 🙂

Sunshine99

These are so great! I love reading each and every one of them!

grammamuses

Cyathea, love your explanation. and your sense of humor. One of my cups is empty and the other cup overfloweth/. I t is a pleasure reading everyones: reasons for their choice.

Elderberry

Sunshine99: I am glad someone started this. Years ago there was radio show on CBC called "Dead Dog Cafe" -- it was written and acted by First Nations. It as hilarious. Two of the characters were named Jason Friendly Bear and Grace Heavy Hand. They told listeners to write in and give their First, Middle and Last Names and they would give the listener a "Indian" name. Thy would get a Christian First name, an attribute as the middle name and the last name would be animal, mineral etc. I sent in my name and the computer produced for me (drum roll) Katie Maternal Elderberry. I loved it!! Elderberry is considered healing and the Elder tree is considered sacred in some circles ---- "The Elder is the Lady's tree, burn it not or cursed be"

What can I say? It was a given I would use Elderberry.

With a name like Sunshine99 your soul will remain as beautiful and perfect as it ever was.

Moderators

Dear members,

It is great to see new additions to this thread. Keep them coming.

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WC3

WC3 stands for "Wing Commander 3". It was a computer based game I played when I was a teenager and was a combination movie, choose your own adventure, space fighter game with Mark Hamill and Malcom McDowell.

There's no particular reason why I chose it other than the fact that I did not want to spend an hour thinking up a screen name, it came to mind quickly and seemed easy enough to remember.

DivineMrsM

So I just came across this thread and read everyone's replies and learned a lot! Growing up, my neighbor had an elderberry bush of which I ate tons when they were ripe. Love those memories and didn't know it was considered a healing plant.

I love the wanderweg name, too, and its meaning. There's a saying, “All who wander are not lost" which speaks to me.

My screen name is meant to be a bit humorous. To call oneself “divine" is a bit pretentious, isn't it? Yet I believe all women are divine. We offer so much to the world. It grieves me that society values us less than our male counterparts. And far too many women are conditioned to minimize their own lives, putting themselves last.

I did that, too. For example, when I joined bco, I identified as “MrsM", someone's wife and not altogether my own person. While I've been happily married for decades, if I were to choose a screen name now, it would be “IamCam", using the first three letters of my first name. These days, I do my best to break free from the societal constructs placed on women and consciously work to elevate my point of view and perspective on things.

Sunshine99

Love hearing from more of you ladies!

Anonymous

My forum name is based on a character from An American Tragedy - the rich, beautiful Sondra Finchley who is chased after and considered the pinnacle of the American Dream by poor working class Clyde. It is a top 3 book for me, and I adore the corresponding movie A Place in the Sun, where the Sondra character is played by Liz Taylor, swept off her feet by Monty Clift.

MinusTwo

Glad to see this active. It's fun to find out about everyone's screen names

Trishyla

My nickname, Trishy, was given to me by my (now) husband when we first met in college. I was a single mom, one of the few women in the film and television studies program, and serious as all get out. The least likely "Trishy" ever. He's the only one who's ever had the nerve to call me that. Though I have lightened up as I've gotten older. Hence the purple hair in my picture.😁

The LA is because that's where we live and work.

Castigame

Mine means punish me in Spanish.(possibly S &M). It was unique. And I thought it fit me at the time because I got all surgeries and test done including elbow lump and total hysterectomy done.

Fairchild

Mine (Fairchild) was one of the nicknames my high school friends christened me with. I was very blond then, looked much younger than I was, and read a LOT of books. A favorite was the Sherlock Holmes series, so Sherlock became my other nickname.