ms_bhon

My name comes from the term of endearment, rather the term of address, here in Baltimore (Bawlamer to the locals), "hon". Practically everyone gets called "hon". My first name is "Beth", hence the msb. Since these kinds of forums never let you register with commas and such, (Reads as "Miz B, hon") it morphed into ms_bhon.
I also post on the Lonely Planet (the guidebook has a wonderful website with bulletin boards on travel, politics, culture, food, and everything else at http://www.lonelyplanet.com - click on the "thorn tree"). I use that as my "handle" there as well. To keep people from adressing me as ms_bohn, I added "That's Miz B, hon!" to my sig line.
Here's a link to a Bawlmerese dictionary: http://www.baltimorehon.com/

Rete

Us oldies but goodies here on the NG usually refer to ourselves as Can/Ams. Hence the signature line of many of us as being
Can/Am Alumni '98 :-)

I called a recent naturalized Canadian citizen a Yanuck for Yank and Canuck. BTW there is one member of the NG who abhors the term "Canuck" and will rant to the death against the use of this slang term because they feel it is insulting.

My Canuck takes it as a term of endearment (given the tone of voice used to say it of course).

Rete and Jim
Can/Am Alumni '98

Mrs_blackross

it's a term of endearment to anyone who has a sense of humour about themselves. see
the first line of my signature.

--
Crazy Canuck married to a Dam Yankee Entered as Visitor 07/04/01 Married 08/25/01
Filed @ VSC-AOS, EAD, AP 01/07/02 1st NOA 02/06/02 2nd NOA 02/07/02 EAD approved
02/26/02 AP Approved 02/28/02 AOS appointment letter rec'd 03/07/02 Fingerprint
letter rec'd 03/07/02 AOS interview 04/02/02 AOS APPROVED 04/02/02!!! GC arrived in
mail 04/19/02 next step..removing conditions..April 2004

some helpful sites on the net:
http://www.mindspring.com/~docsteen/...o/visainfo.htm
http://www.k1faq.com/faq_index.htm
http://www.geocities.com/immigration...-130/index.htm

"Rete" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Camerican wrote:
    > > Gee, I never thought of that. I guess we could call ourselves Canamericans, but
    > > that sounds awfully much like an airline! I guess we could just say, "We're
    > > Americans, eh" (dead giveaway) but Ameracadians is over the top! Grins
    >
    >
    >
    > Us oldies but goodies here on the NG usually refer to ourselves as Can/Ams. Hence
    > the signature line of many of us as being Can/Am Alumni '98
    >
    > I called a recent naturalized Canadian citizen a Yanuck for Yank and Canuck. BTW
    > there is one member of the NG who abhors the term "Canuck" and will rant to the
    > death against the use of this slang term because they feel it is insulting.
    >
    > My Canuck takes it as a term of endearment (given the tone of voice used to say it
    > of course).
    >
    > Rete and Jim Can/Am Alumni '98
    >
    >
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icantthink

Mine comes from a time when I was trying to register for an online service, and every time I picked a username, it was not available.

After about 20 tries, I yelled out (in frustration) "I can't think, dammit!!"

My wife tells me she saw a light bulb pop on top my of head

rogerpenycate

She'll probably kill me for this, so if you don't hear from me, you'll know why !
My nickname for my wife is PandaBird.

I "met her" on the internet 18 months ago, and we met a month
afterwards (at Heathrow Airport) and "just knew"

The first photo she sent me she was wearing sun glasses (hence the panda) and she's a "bird" (London expression)

RIP Roger

gardencity

Mine is simple too...Singapore is renowned as 'The Garden City of the Far East'... hence the nickname I chose...

There you have it
Gardencity