What's in a name? What's in YOUR name?

[pikabo-icu]

Ok so there's a LOT of doom & gloom, the sky is falling, posts about MP and the like so I figured I would try something a little light hearted..

Tick-Tock let's see how long this post will last before poofing..

Perhaps the MODS will gimme a lil slack since we're still waiting on that "Break Room" board..

I've often wondered about other members handles and how they choose them.

Some are petty obvious, some quite clever but many are still a mystery to me.. 

Is anybody willing to share how they chose their posting ID?

I'll go first; Mine is a play on peek-a-boo I see you, I know the spelling is atrocious. LOL

I've used this handle on & off for over a decade.. 

Ok Now you.... 

[sin-n-dex]

Sin-n-Dex = Sinister and Dexter

Latin for Left and Right

Also the names of our two birds (who have passed away in 2000 and 2009).

C.

[katzrul15]

@farmalljr 

What a neat story!  Really cool you did it with your Dad!

[jonathankirkland]

Well mine is obvious and lame, just a first and last name. 😄 Though not my real last name... I'm a little more careful than that. Long story short: one day on one of my accounts about 15 years ago somehow the name "Kirkland" ended up in there and I was like "hmm that doesn't sound bad" so I started using it from that day forward that wanted a first & last name (as long as it wasn't something official of course). It became my alias. And yes, my real last name does start with 'K' also. 😄

I thought about making another account and trying to build it up called "kirklandcollectibles", something with a little more ... idk, professional shop-type appeal or whatever? But meh...

[jonathankirkland]

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@gosimus wrote:

@pikabo-icu 

< share how they chose their posting ID? >    

The short answer:  My grandma had a cat named Gosimus. 

The long answer:   When I was a child, maybe six or seven, my grandma had a cat named Gosimus.  This is pronounced like two words, go simus, with a long i in simus.  Like sinus but with an m.  If the word or name had any significance to her, I don't know what it was and it's too late to ask now.  

One day I was ''playing'' with Gosimus in the house, using my grandma's broom.  I thought it was great fun, though the cat had a different perspective on the event.  I would kind of sweep him with the broom, and of course he'd take off running, but he couldn't get outside and I'd always catch up with him again.  Eventually he made the mistake of coming to a stop in a corner.  When I got there, he had no way out except right past me, he was trapped.  

You ever see those pictures of the Halloween cat, with the back arched and the fur and the tail standing straight up all bushed out?  Cats really do that.  Gosimus did that, and he let out some kind of sound, it wasn't like a cat sound I’d ever heard, and to this day it's difficult to describe.  Sort of a cross between a moan and a creaky door.  

We must be born with some sort of vestigial instinct from our caveman days, because even at age six I recognized something in that sound, I recognized danger.  I backed off pronto and put away the broom.  

Ever after that, Gosimus and I  got along okay, but each of us always kept a wary eye on the other.  

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Haha this is a fantastic story. Thanks for sharing.

[jonathankirkland]

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@whatnots2like wrote:

I have lots of what nots to sell. So

What Nots 2 Like 

is a play on the passé "What's not to like".

What-not

something unusual - perhaps worthy of collecting

synonyms: do-dad, bric-a-brac, knickknack, curio, curiosity, peculiarity, rarity, oddity, oddment, tchotchke

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Oh, hi there Dr Seuss. 😄

Oh crud.. that could be taken as insulting in today's cancel culture society. *cries*

[whattheactualfox]

Mine was supposed to be lepandahasarrived but well ebay hates me so I got panda followed by a string of numbers that idek what they correlate to

[whattheactualfox]

I have a question. If it is the land down under. Does this mean......The earth is flat!!! (Joking ofc lmao)

How I got my username

[jonathankirkland]

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@whattheactualfox wrote:

I have a question. If it is the land down under. Does this mean......The earth is flat!!! (Joking ofc lmao)

How I got my username

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Wow, you did NOT just Rick Roll me... 😩

[bigdeals.etc]

I am not a little deal.

[bigdeals.etc]

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

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@eeekkk-a-spider! wrote:

I think mine is quite obvious too.  Perhaps I should add a spider image.  

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It's cute...  

I'm a huge fan of Lucas The Spider on youtube.. LOL 

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OMG! My three year old son just discovered Lucas the spider and now he has a fit when he isn’t able to watch it before dinner time.

[mountainmamas-2008]

A phrase in John Denvers "Country Roads" says "mountain mamas" . Even though we are not in W Virginia, we do have mountains here in Montana. Plus years ago there was a second hand/antique store  here in town with that name and I always  loved going in there and decided if we ever started selling on ebay, we would try and get that name. Then when we actually tried to get that name, someone else had it, but if we added "2008"  it worked, so we went with it.    

[evry1nositswindy]

Mine is from the 1960s song by the Association.  When the song came on the radio, my mom said I would shush them so I could hear "my song", as my name is Wendy (not Windy).  Yes, I have stormy eyes and I still think the song was written for and about me!  My avatar was made on my computer paint program by my baby  girl sitting on my lap, moving the mouse around with colors.  She called it "shooting rainbows".  She is a teen now and I've kept it as my screen saver all these years.

[katzrul15]

@evry1nositswindy 

That is awesome - I always thought it meant you were from Chi-town!  Are you Wendy from the Windy City?  

[evry1nositswindy]

@katzrul15 Nope, but I hadn't thought of it that way.    I think cats rule too!

[femmefan1946]

I'm a first year Boomer, born in 1946.

I started reading science fiction when I was about eight and the librarians let me into the YA section because I had read everything in the children's section.
And I discovered Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton and Robert Heinlein.

By ten, I was reading in the Adult section, which was strange enough that I read those books as science fiction too. Charlotte Bronte, Norman Mailer, Pearl S Buck.

By the time I got out of high school, I had discovered second hand book stores, especially the one that not only would trade you one new(ish) book for three returns, but also sold icecream cones with sprinkles.

Then in university, I found FANDOM!

My people!!

And in those days, we women were rarities in fandom. Many of the women writers hid behind initials or masculine pseudonyms.

But at cons, our gender was harder to disguise and we were outed as "femmefans".

So I started here selling my own collection of SF and fantasy, and later when my friend Richard needed extra money to help his husband get landed immigrant status, his even more extensive collection.

So.

femmefan 1946 .

BTW, I'm now a published writer and am working on my third novel.