I can recall some time back a thread titled “What’s In a Name?”
I believe it was about the names of whistle brands.
I have always wanted to ask this question since then.
What about the names you have chosen on this forum?
Some are obvious. It’s you given name.
But what about the nicknames?
What creative energies were spent trying to come up with a good nickname for yourself and the meaning behind it?
I will be the first to submit mine.
I live on a hill overlooking the west side of town and a glass factory which I wish would vanish however in the distance there is another hill. WOW!
It has been said that this area is the beginning foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Hmmm… I play the mountain dulcimer and dabble in folk music, Thus the folk.
As for the 22… has nothing to do with my age (unless you multiply that by 2 and take away 3) nor does it have anything to do with me longing to be 22 again. It’s just a number.
Since we have been flooded with Off Topic subjects. Why not make another one. Of course if your nickname is related to whistles, well, then we are on topic!
I think my signature pretty much gives away the meaning behind my nickname.
I added the “1970” to it because you’d be amazed how many Raindogs there are on the Internet… now I’m a somewhat more distinguished Raindog.
Yes I was a child of the 70’s… you should see me in some of my old photos all decked out in polyester!
Fortunately I have naturally curly hair, so I can say with great relief that I never had a perm… but I did have to suffer through Sid & Marty Kroft’s mind numbing TV shows every Saturday morning!
I answered this on another thread recently, but I’ll put it here too. I’ve been studying Welsh, hence using it to create my username. I create music mostly through voice and now whistle, so:
aderyn- bird
cyrdd- a form of song
My real first ‘nickname’ is ‘Bill’. My band has in it two hammer dulcimers, bass, guitar, fiddle, psalteries, Irish percussion, and whistles. The name of the group is ‘Gladly Playe Wyth Stryngs’ - from a line in Chaucer…(We must tune 228 stryngs every tyme we playe.)
Over the years, in our prynted materyal, we have replaced short vowel sounds wyth the letter ‘y’ - just for fun… Hence, ‘Byll’.
Cheers to all.
My nickname is sort of a pun on “Glassblower” (which I would be if I had one of those cool glass flutes). I have a supply of brass Generations (all of which are good, strangely enough), hence the nickname.
When my husband and I were first married he used to get a kick out of sneaking up and startling me. He’d laugh and laugh saying I didn’t so much scream but I squeaked like a mouse. He still calls me mouse, and I like that. But I’m glad he gave up on the surprise attacks. I had to add the dakota cause they’re are lots of mice out there.
My nickname came into being because several years ago I had a little sister who couldn’t pronounce my real name, Kiirsi, and instead called me Ceesi (pronounced like SeeSee). Pretty soon the rest of my family adopted it and the nickname stuck.
Now just my sisters and parents call me that, but it’s a cute reminder of that little sister I had. Over the years it got shortened to “Cees.”
Basically, I can never get the account rford so I gave up trying… DrRichard seems to be pretty much untaken universally, so it means I only have to remember passwords not user id’s
“Kardshark” refers to the fact that I like card games. Come to think of it I like mostly any game (computer game, board game, card game). But I don’t cheat…I just like the term “Kardshark.” Anyways…The “87” refers to the year I was born because regular old “Cardshark” and “Kardshark” were taken. That’s all folks!
I was playing a type of Text-based highly addictive and pointless role-playing game called MUDD some years back where I had to get a nick for my character, and I wanted something original and “Elvish” sounding. I flipped through my “The Language of Tolkien’s Middle Earth” and from the Elvish-to-English Glossary, got the two words “Eldar” which means Elf and “ion”, which is a musculine name suffix. So Eldarion actually means “Male Elf”.
I found out after reading the LoTR appendix a couple of years later, that Eldarion was the name of Aaragon’s and Arwen’s son, which was quite a coincidence. So the name has stuck for my internet identities as well.
This is fun! I’ve wondered about some of these names.
The rn part of mine is pretty obvious as that’s what I do for a living, registered nurse. rebl is because I used to be a Confederate War Between the States re-enactor. It’s also my license plate, which is something that often brings a lot of questions up here in Wisconsin - but I tell people I do live in SOUTHERN Wisconsin.
This is the license plate I wanted my daughters to get when they got their first car,BUT, they didn’t think that was for them- so when I had to come up with something for the internet… I do have cows, and am female, and cows always need something at the worst times, they get out, they need help calving, etc. it’s always cowtime.so , I don’t know, I just seems strange, so I picked this.
I was playing at a thing and left the stage when I was done. One of the guys running the thing called me back and couldn’t remember my name so he called me whistlers mother. I didn’t liked whistlers mother but wanted something more me so I decided on Lady Whistler.
Well..DanD was already taken, Since I’m a Computer Graphics Artist I decided to shorten it to Graphics I’m a guy, Hence
GraphicsGuy. Original isnt it ?
however in the distance there is another hill. WOW!
