Name Origins
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Old timers from the WW board remember when it was the “kingdom of GOAD”. Many names were bestowed; some, like mine, were self-bestowed. Some people found my approach a bit, ahem, tart. Or curt. So, I became Count Curt of the Kingdom of GOAD.
I had a couple of great ‘tag lines’ as well:
Somebody once commented I was being a bit rigid in my thinking. My response? “I’m beyond rigid, baby.” Back when we had a holiday mug exchange, I was lucky enough to receive a mug with that saying imprinted on it. My staff still wonders about it.
Then, some other guy, just before flouncing, basically called me holier than thou. Which I think was meant to be an insult. I took it up another notch by describing myself as ‘assholier than thou’ since 2009 (the year I joined GOAD).
Man, those were the days.
OK, old GOADies, what were your Kingdom names?3 -
Bump. Just to give folks one more chance to either read or add their own.0
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Long story.
I was a "naturally thin" person until my 30s. I couldn't believe I'd gained so much weight (starting weight 189), and I kept thinking, "What happened to me?" It's also what I thought people who hadn't seen me in a long time would think. I decided that sounded too externally focused and shortened it to Whathapnd.
I joined WW in 2011. After a week or two going it alone, I decided to see if there was wisdom on the message boards. I was looking for a board that would be a good fit for advice, motivation and camaraderie. Most of the boards I read were women boards, and I was overwhelmed by how much time people spent in each of their posts addressing EACH individual's personal situation (e.g. have fun on your cruise, good luck with your son's soccer tournament, how awful that your co-worker treated you that way, hope your sinus infection is better, yes, your DH was completely insensitive in what he did/said.) There might have been wisdom buried in there, but I knew I'd never spend that kind of time digging for it and decided message boards weren't for me.
However, three weeks into WW, I was having success losing weight without much pain, and I tried to convince DH to join. To show him how easy it would be, I wanted to know how many points he'd get. I went back to the message boards and found GoaD. My first post was " My husband weighs X, how many points would he get?" Long-time Goadies remember how well those posts were received. Despite the lumps I took for that post, I read through some of the threads and realized this was the board I'd been looking for.
I've been around ever since and made goal/lifetime i. 2013. I never adopted a cult name, but my tagline was Tom Petty's "The waiting is the hardest part," so I was going to use The Lady in Waiting at some point.2 -
“ My first post was " My husband weighs X, how many points would he get?" Long-time Goadies remember how well those posts were received. Despite the lumps I took for that post, I read through some of the threads and realized this was the board I'd been looking for.”
LoL I remember how how GoaDies would respond!!!
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Old timers from the WW board remember when it was the “kingdom of GOAD”.
OK, old GOADies, what were your Kingdom names?
Actually, they were "cult" names because someone one said that joining WW was like joining a cult. My cult name was "Countless of Core" because as soon as I switched to Core, I became a bit, ahem, obsessive with it. Because you counted less (as in points), the name was bestowed upon me by someone. I like it and it stuck. There could have been many worst bestowed upon me.
Anyone remember the guy who blasted me on the boards by calling me an "old, unhappy woman with no friends"? LOL I do. His screen name was Joseph99Keys. He eventually (maybe a year later) came back and apologized to me.
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beachwoman2006 wrote: »He eventually (maybe a year later) came back and apologized to me.
Yeah, those apologies are vindicating.0 -
I tried Sir Postalot but I came in later after the cult name thing happened.
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what were your Kingdom names?
Mine was King Steve. That's why I have the skull wearing the crown as my picture!
Mine was semi-bestowed upon me during a very heated exchange with someone (I can't even recall who) on the GOAD board. I was very busy telling him (more-or-less) how stupid he was by trying to teach people falsehoods about weight-loss. As I recall, he asked me something like "...and who made you King of GOAD?"
I think Tall Steve picked up on that and hence I was "anointed."
It's funny how people change. I have worked hard at not quite being the angry confrontational person I used to be!
Here's a related story:
I trained as a pediatric resident and fellow in Boston. The Boston training program I was in was well-known for it's aggressive character. We'd always have one fellow quit the program every year. In my year, one of my co-fellows quit on the 10th day of training! It was brutal.
We used to say that we "learned by confrontation." A resident or fellow might implement a clinical plan for a patient, and then when we presented the patient to the rest of the team, everyone would question why you made the plan you did..."why did you use antibiotic X instead of Y?" "Why didn't you put the patient in the ICU instead of the regular ward?" "Why did you admit the patient?" "Why didn't you do A, B, or C...etc., etc., etc."
We all hated it, but we were taught that if you could defend your clinical plan, then it was a good plan. Bad plans were those that were not thoughtful and thought-through. True or not, that was the teaching. By the time I was done with training, I had no problem defending myself and questioning everything that everyone else did.
When I moved from Boston to a much smaller and nicer medical system, I still had my aggressive character, but I didn't realize that the culture I had entered was much different! Thus, I'd get calls about patients, and I would launch into my usual confrontation about the clinical decision-making. I used to make people so mad! After awhile, I realized that I didn't have to be a bull in a china shop, but rather that I work as a supportive partner, rather than a competitor. It was a hard thing to learn.
In so many ways that attitude came out in other parts of my life (and to a certain extent, still do). The old GOAD board was a particularly fertile ground for that attitude, because there was so much nonsensical thinking about weight loss and management, must of which was indefensible. Of course, I took the role of "confronter" more than I probably should have.
So, now I work to be more mellow.
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I was "Shiekh Hummus al Fiber." I lived and worked in Saudi Arabia at the time and did everything online.0
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@steve0mania , thanks for that insight--it's a very interesting chain of circumstances. I've often marveled at the fact that no matter what the topic or specialty, so much of the ultimate success or failure often seems to come down to interpersonal skills.1
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minimyzeme wrote: »@steve0mania , thanks for that insight--it's a very interesting chain of circumstances. I've often marveled at the fact that no matter what the topic or specialty, so much of the ultimate success or failure often seems to come down to interpersonal skills.
Which helps us develop empathy.0 -
minimyzeme wrote: »@steve0mania , thanks for that insight--it's a very interesting chain of circumstances. I've often marveled at the fact that no matter what the topic or specialty, so much of the ultimate success or failure often seems to come down to interpersonal skills.
The older I get the more I realize how important interpersonal skills are! Some of my greatest errors in life have been due to problems with those skills!
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I was Sir Prodigal of GoaD0
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