What's in a name?
 

A bit off topic, light relief on a Sunday morning. OK - blow your anonymity.
How did you choose your login name?
Are wasabi peas really that hot? Did Iank miss-spell? Just how blue is the baby? Does Biiiiink really liiiiike so many eyes? Who's souvenir is Souvenir? Bombards - why Bombards? Anyone else that I've missed?

Mine is dead simple - I'm from Wales, so it's my lastname - miss-spelled.
"A palendrome of Bolton would be Notlob" - Monty Python, circa very early 70's.

Re: What's in a name?
 

Not a great mystery for mine...I currently live in Coventry, and I'm Canadian...so Cov-canuck

Re: What's in a name?
 

mines easy also ... big magic roundabout fan

altho im not red, dont have a spring as opposed to legs and hardly ever say "boing, time for bed"

Re: What's in a name?
 

Willmore is an old irish family name passed down through 3 generations!

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Morwenna is a name adopted for a character in an online role-play game I wasted many happy hours playing! Morw was for short as most of my online buddies wrote it for quickness. ;)

I picked a number of Welsh names as I was at college in Cardiff and I named my characters after friends from back then!, but Morwenna has been my most enduring! :D

Re: What's in a name?
 

Yes. :scared:

A haiku (I think).

Little peas, big pain.
Mouth a flame, delicious.
I'll have another.

:D

Commonly packages as:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...4.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

but these are better (imo):

http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/entry_ima...bi_peas_01.jpg

Aren't you sorry you asked? ;)

Re: What's in a name?
 

Mine's dull. Needed quick inspiration for a nick on IRC way back when...and had a "Life in Hell" postcard on my desk at the time, so was variously Binky, Bink. After a while I kept getting nick collision kills before Ircnet and Efnet split (I'm old you know!) so it was quite fortuitous when my student keyboard got a bit sticky with fag ash, PopTarts and White Lightning, and I ended up one day as Biiiiink. It stuuuuck.

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Mine needs little explanation.

I'm 5 foot and called Helen.

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Me? Dragged kicking and screaming from the UK by a returning French Canadian soldier. Maybe I should have called myself Warbride (Warhubby, anyway).

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My very first email address I ever had back in 1983 for my first job out of university was sysclp. I was the system admin and my initials then were CLP and the character limit was 6. It is pretty unique so I use it when I have to register at new places since it is unlikely to be already in use.

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Bombards- when this whole adventure started we had just finished building work on our beautiful home and had traced the land history via ordnance survey. Previously a building called Bombards was build on same spot. Our house was going to be named this but as we had to sell, I used it on here instead. The name will now stay with us forever! :)

Bombards

Re: What's in a name?
 

well, mine stems for my childhood love for Scooby Dooby Doo believe it or not .. and love for mile high sandwiches of course!!.. ssccccoooooobbbbyyyyyyyy dddddooooooobbbbbbbbbbyyyyyyyyyyyy dddddooooooooooooooooooooo!! :scared: :scared:

Re: What's in a name?
 

Mine was invented for another board, one rife with po faced feminism and political correctness (http://www.guardian.co.uk/talk). I needed an anonymous name at short notice for a debate about child support. One of my daughters suggested deadbeat dad. I contracted it to dbd, added 33 as it was the next free number at hotmail and ploughed in.

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Acer for the maple (Canada)
Rose for God's own county (Yorks)

The combination was suitable for his n hers posts without embarrassment or undue comment.

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Bit boring really...Its my name... Iain K*****. Not misspelled..not by me anyway. Scotish ancestry. I blame my parents.