So...what does everyone's name mean

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  • RowdysLady
    RowdysLady Posts: 1,370 Member
    toadqueen wrote: »
    I was afraid of the toads which were abundant when I lived in Texas; they jumped everywhere I tried to walk. My ex-husband gave me the name.

    That is so funny! When I first moved here the freaking grasshoppers were everywhere....You'd walk through the grass and thousands would hop up...I can't imagine toads like that!
  • 53YOWM
    53YOWM Posts: 40 Member
    I am, quite unimaginably, a 53 Year Old White Male. Apologies for being so dull. ;)
  • missippibelle
    missippibelle Posts: 153 Member
    I am from and live in Mississippi, and may or may not be a southern belle ;-)

    missippibelle

    I left out an "iss" because that is how we say it down here.
  • kpk54
    kpk54 Posts: 4,474 Member
    @missippibelle , after 30 years in The South, I'm learning. I live near Derm aka Durham. Fort Bragg is in Fayt vull aka Fayetteville and if someones asks me for a "pin" what they want is a "pen".
  • collegefbfan
    collegefbfan Posts: 346 Member
    @kpk54 Nothing like the south. Born and raised. You live near Durham. Only an hour and 10 minutes from me
  • kpk54
    kpk54 Posts: 4,474 Member
    @kpk54 Nothing like the south. Born and raised. You live near Durham. Only an hour and 10 minutes from me

    So as a native, you know the joke then. I'm a Damn Yankee because I came South and STAYED. :)
  • collegefbfan
    collegefbfan Posts: 346 Member
    Come on now... Welcome the change...
  • missippibelle
    missippibelle Posts: 153 Member
    Yep, you are only a yankee if you come to visit ;-)
    And for the record, "pin" and "pen" sound entirely different where I come from!
    kpk54 wrote: »
    @kpk54 Nothing like the south. Born and raised. You live near Durham. Only an hour and 10 minutes from me

    So as a native, you know the joke then. I'm a Damn Yankee because I came South and STAYED. :)

  • Catawampous
    Catawampous Posts: 447 Member
    Never in a straight line. Which is SO me.
  • sh512266
    sh512266 Posts: 60 Member
    My name is Sheena. When I first signed up for MFP years ago I had no idea there was a community and you could have "friends". Lol

    Sh512266 was my log in handle for my university website so it was easy for me to remember and I put 0 thought into it. Haha! Wishing I had something better now!
  • JessicaLCHF
    JessicaLCHF Posts: 1,265 Member
    sh512266 wrote: »
    My name is Sheena. When I first signed up for MFP years ago I had no idea there was a community and you could have "friends". Lol

    Sh512266 was my log in handle for my university website so it was easy for me to remember and I put 0 thought into it. Haha! Wishing I had something better now!

    You can change it once. Only reason I know is I was complaining that I used my real name and someone told me. You get one free easy change. After that, I don't know.
  • mandycat223
    mandycat223 Posts: 502 Member
    Mine is a handle I had to adopt when I signed up for my first email account. The combinations of my first name/last name and last name/first name were already taken in that domain so I went with the name of my then cat. Later on I realized it was a good thing because there was at the time a well known porn star with my same first and last name. Who knows what sort of correspondence I would have gotten?
  • RowdysLady
    RowdysLady Posts: 1,370 Member
    bump
  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    I answered this a long time ago, but it's well buried now.
    Sunny comes from the nickname, Sunshine, my hubs calls me. Bunny because I freakin love bunnies! And squirrels, but Sunny Squirrel didn't have quite the same jingle...
  • 3BearMomma
    3BearMomma Posts: 10 Member
    edited October 2016
    I am a momma to three kiddos :) I nicknamed my hubby "Bear" years ago when we first met and so by virtue of that fact I have baby bears.

    ... of which only two are pictured in my profile image, hahaha.






    Poor third child....
  • williams969
    williams969 Posts: 2,528 Member
    My username means I was too lazy to think of something clever. It's a truncated version of the MFP assigned default. :|:D
  • RowdysLady
    RowdysLady Posts: 1,370 Member
  • KnitOrMiss
    KnitOrMiss Posts: 10,103 Member
    Here is mine revisted for any new folks who give a durn.


    Well, I love to knit, and back in the early 2000's, I tried to make a go at a company selling my own handmade goods (knit, crochet, sewn, embroidered, etc. - there aren't many crafts I haven't tried!), and so I worked really hard to come up with a fun company name. So I joked that it would be "hit or miss" so there was born KnitOrMiss...

    My personal nickname to which I always respond instinctively is Wench, which my biker fiance uses as a term of affection (considering all my RenFaire and Halloween costumes end up with a wench-y theme), but I didn't want to have to do a variation here.

    All my other former user names were specific (WoodNymph3058 for Battletech, Lauranthalasa for AD&D, Notebook for GScouts, etc.) and I didn't really want to give away too many personal details, so KnitOrMiss it was.

    It's a great conversation piece, plus I find that crafters tend to naturally gravitate toward each other...lol.
  • GlitterRayne
    GlitterRayne Posts: 103 Member
    I like glitter and one of my nicknames is Rayne :)
  • StellaFont
    StellaFont Posts: 9 Member
    My mom had a cat that she nick-named Stella Fontinella. I started using a few years ago for gaming and it carried over here. :smiley:
  • kpk54
    kpk54 Posts: 4,474 Member
    Anyone want to guess? Anyone??

    :p:p:)<3
  • FungusGirl
    FungusGirl Posts: 27 Member
    I'm Fungusgirl because I am an amateur mycologist. That's right! Just like the beloved Egon, I collect molds, spores and fungus. Always have since I was taught to make my first spore print as a child. :)
  • Carnivorekat
    Carnivorekat Posts: 370 Member
    Finally decided to get around to changing my name on here so gone from kathrout1973 which is extremely boring (my name and birth year) to something a bit more fun - as I am doing meat (ZC) my son calls me a carnivore so my nickname on games we play together is carnivorekat -
  • pompoms40
    pompoms40 Posts: 25 Member
    I had 2 Pomeranians and I started using the internet when I was 40.My dogs have passed away but I still love pomeranians :)
  • RowdysLady
    RowdysLady Posts: 1,370 Member
    KnitOrMiss wrote: »
    Here is mine revisted for any new folks who give a durn.


    Well, I love to knit, and back in the early 2000's, I tried to make a go at a company selling my own handmade goods (knit, crochet, sewn, embroidered, etc. - there aren't many crafts I haven't tried!), and so I worked really hard to come up with a fun company name. So I joked that it would be "hit or miss" so there was born KnitOrMiss...

    My personal nickname to which I always respond instinctively is Wench, which my biker fiance uses as a term of affection (considering all my RenFaire and Halloween costumes end up with a wench-y theme), but I didn't want to have to do a variation here.

    All my other former user names were specific (WoodNymph3058 for Battletech, Lauranthalasa for AD&D, Notebook for GScouts, etc.) and I didn't really want to give away too many personal details, so KnitOrMiss it was.

    It's a great conversation piece, plus I find that crafters tend to naturally gravitate toward each other...lol.

    I always go wench for the RenFaire too.... I can finally get back into the red corest!
  • RAC56
    RAC56 Posts: 432 Member
    I was in a hurry when I signed up to MFP so I used my initials. My name is Renee. :)
  • RowdysLady
    RowdysLady Posts: 1,370 Member
    FungusGirl wrote: »
    I'm Fungusgirl because I am an amateur mycologist. That's right! Just like the beloved Egon, I collect molds, spores and fungus. Always have since I was taught to make my first spore print as a child. :)

    I freaking love this...you go!
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    @FungusGirl, I keep meaning to attend the FungiFestival in my area, but somehow always seem to be scheduled for work on those nights and sleeping days. SUX! Experts lead field trips for ID and sustainable harvesting of wild edibles, cooking demos, great food, etc. Not that cheap but worth it. This was the 11th year, I have to book time off for next year's festival. I've picked my own puffballs, but of course, those & morels are the easiest to ID. Just listening to an interview last night about the author of 'The Horse Whisperer' who picked wild mushrooms with his family, cooked & ate them, and ended up hospitalized with kidney failure, and had to receive a transplant from a daughter who wasn't with them on the trip. Lucky man...

    My dream mushroom below: LOL
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  • FungusGirl
    FungusGirl Posts: 27 Member
    canadjineh wrote: »
    @FungusGirl, I keep meaning to attend the FungiFestival in my area, but somehow always seem to be scheduled for work on those nights and sleeping days. SUX! Experts lead field trips for ID and sustainable harvesting of wild edibles, cooking demos, great food, etc. Not that cheap but worth it. This was the 11th year, I have to book time off for next year's festival. I've picked my own puffballs, but of course, those & morels are the easiest to ID. Just listening to an interview last night about the author of 'The Horse Whisperer' who picked wild mushrooms with his family, cooked & ate them, and ended up hospitalized with kidney failure, and had to receive a transplant from a daughter who wasn't with them on the trip. Lucky man...

    My dream mushroom below: LOL
    6112504-3x2-940x627.jpg

    That's awesome and I love the picture! Actually, they probably mistook Amanita Phalloides for paddy straw mushrooms. It happens, but once you know them, there's not much to worry about. Starting out, stay away from Amanitas if you're a newbie and know the Galerina! Others are great as medicine and for the plate-sooooo many! Morels are so yummy, though! I have a great Morel cream sauce recipe and a great wild mushroom wine sauce! Chanterelles are awesome also! :-)
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