How did you pick your name?

Like everyone cares..lol..

I was originally kwz7NC ...for my initials, zone 7, in North Carolina. It was also a username I had used in other places. Didn't take long here before I realized it was cumbersome and hard to type. So I asked the nice folks in Admin. if I could change it and they obliged.

I chose Tropicanna in part because I love cannas and Tropicanna was the first really cool plant I ever obtained, traded, and was able to start building a collection from them. But really I chose the name because the Plant Delights catalog lists in their description of Tropicanna:

"... indeed, this is the Howard Stern of the plant world...guaranteed to get your friends talking!".............a fitting description, I think. My real name is Kara

Wow lots of new folks. It's still fun to see how folks pick their names. kyjoy I have lots of family in Frankfort.

I was eating one.

**the very first time I was asked for a username long ago ...and in an effort to always remember my username, it is the same everywhere I go.

That last exchange of posts sure sounded odd.

"I have lots of family in Frankfort"

"I was eating one"

LOL

Lol pirl I was noticing where she lived. (Frankfort) I have family there. I guess it did sound odd. lol
I think Redtootsiepop meant they where eating a Red tootsie pop that's how they picked there name.

I did finally "get" it but at first it was rather jarring to the nerves. I was hoping a frankfuter was what was meant but then read the name and it was the tootsie pop. Whew! Great relief!

Yous'e behave please, I always told my step daughter to be good or be good at it, She graduated w/honors last week. May the egg on my face stay there for awhile (I really do not mind).

I picked mine 'cause I wanted everyone to know I live in the middle o' the woods in Kentucky with all the shade and the critters, so they could offer me appropriate garden tips--and so far, I've gotten terrific ones!

Edit: Hello to all my KY neighbors! I live in the northern part of the state, 'bout twenty minutes south of Cincinnati, OH.

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I've actually had to sign off and eat lunch, before I could make it all the way though all these names :) It's fun though to see what people pick and why. I got mine from a nervous ocd tic. Saw Hyblaean in a dictionary at the time (I used to flip through the dictionary to make myself feel better) and its definition was "sweetly, smoothly, flowing" a reference from the honeybee trade of Hybla a ancient city in Sicily of which evidently there were many?(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybla) At the time it was a way to make fun of myself, but really I've managed to take quite a bit of the name in :) funny how a name changes you, well, a name and 40mg of Paxil daily.

Well, saw DG site, looked so very interesting that I decided to become a member..no really paying a whole lot of attention to the names, when asked for my name I simply thought it meant...add you name....so 'Betty Pauze' it was...if I had to choose now, not sure what I would pick..probably would ask my DG friends...know one one post I'm called Aunty "B" and it sounds so affectionate and reminds me of Andy Griffith shows' Aunt B

Welcome everybody. Glad to see some new posts and how you got your names. There are 3 or 4 other parts to this thread if you get the time and want to read them all. It's fun reading about every bodies names.

where i came up with the wonder i dont know...
I guess its because i often wonder where something is.. like my glasses that are usually on my head after i have looked for them for an hour.
Or i oft wonder how the shoes got in the fridge and the milk in the wardrobe..
Or, its a wonder i can dress myself tho at times i have gone out with two different shoes and clothes on inside out!
Its being middle age isnt it?? you can tell me....I wont cry..... much lol

Of all the things I have lost............................I miss my mind the most....
waaaaaaaahahahahahahaahahahah


you are all crack ups... what a great idea.. great thread!

Nooo, don't blow my image of you--I think of you as just plain Wonderful!!!

Betty, I think Bettypauze suits you perfectly. You are always thinking of others and a pause often proceeds a thoughtful persons words...

I am Jan and my online name is in memory of my heart dog, "Shine On Sweet Tangerine" aka "Tangie", often affectionately called "Tangiegirl". She went to the bridge in March of this year. Tangie is in the forefront of the pic posted below.

This thread is fun. Great idea!

ky your too funny and wonderful too!

Awww, shucks, Wonder...LOL

Tangie, so sorry for your loss--what a sweet baby. She reminds me of my Angel, who passed when I was a teen. How sweet of you to memorialize her this way. Dobies are such loving dogs.

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Thank you, ky...words like yours help me remember her with a little smile instead of simply missing her. We are fortunate to have her son, Bartlett Pear, who is on the footstool behind her in that picture.

Everyone have a good night...

Wow!, This forum brings smiles to my face. I have always been curious about the how or why of name selection on the internet.

This reads like a fantasy novel (postive).

Ten years ago I moved into a house that had a sandbox in the backyard. Well my kids were grown, so I said that is where my first little garden will start.

Ten years later I finally did it!!!

I have planted my very first garden and I'm lovin it.

name comes from my address and new hobby (the ten year on hold gardener seem too long.

Thanks mystic for starting this, and thank you all for sharing.

oh yes, I'm called Bill

3516planter sends...

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Congrats on the garden, Bill! Better late than never!

Very interesting...tangiegirl, sorry for your loss as well...and thank you for the lovely compliment..would have never even though to go there...interesting..and here I thought I had a very simple DGname...lol
So Tangie..you've made my day!

Wonder, you are indeed a 'sweetheart'...so enjoy your posts...

Bill, what are you getting out of the garden besides contentment?

My nickname, lourspolaire is french for "the polar bear", without any apostrophe between the L and the O and no space between the S and the P. Now, how did I come to choose that one. I have always loved winter. That comes in handy in Montreal, Québec where winter is the longest 9 months of the year, LOL.

I worked for the federal government in Canada. I travelled to a Cree community in Northern Québec. I was there for 2 week-long stays as I coached our employees there the rules and regulations of the canadian Unemployment Insurance Act.

At the end of my 2nd visit, an elder sat at my table as I was eating lunch at the local eatery. That's the way it is there. You don't ask if you may sit down, you just sit. I got used to that the first day I was there and never paid the custom any mind. When in Rome... That elder drank his coffee and watched me eat for a while. At one point, he told me: "If the village adopted you, you'd be part of the polar bear clan".

I wasn't even surprised. I told him I had always known I was a polar bear. Apparently, something in the way I talk, walk, my general demeanour made that elder think I'd be an ideal candidate, should they ever adopt an outsider.

Then, people of that clan started waving at me in the street at night when I took a walk in -40 degree weather. By the time I returned for my 2nd stay, I knew most of the polar bear clan's members. I played checkers with them in the community building. I was invited to address their high school students and encourage their students to apply for government jobs. That way, they could return to serve the village instead of leaving for the big city. I even joined them in a celebration of the seal hunting season in the shopping center that really is the "downtown" in that village. They were very nice people, regardless of clan affiliation. Like I said, I have always known I was a polar bear.

Sylvain.

Great story, Sylvain. Thank you for sharing.

Now, what's a polar bear doing in sunny South Florida?

Florida native here. Born in Pompano Beach. Lived in N Lauderdale while attending college. SE Ft Lauderdale for twenty odd years after that.

So......how are things in my old stomping ground?

Sylvain - great story, reminds me of when I was doing some work with a klinkit (sp?) tribe in Alaska years ago on their radio system. That tribe had a common purpose, the advancement of all, to be admired. And if possible emulated.

I really think that if children are raised in that kind of culture, that they could do no wrong, but would instead be concerned with the earth, and their children, and their grandchildren.

Tangiegirl, we're here because my wife has acute arthritis and the weather up in Montreal made her (and mine) life miserable. This is like paradise to us. We wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I love this place. There's so much to see, so much to do, such wonderful gardens and gardeners, wildlife, good roads, who could ask for anything more? Your old stomping grounds are fine. Swing by some day. Let me know ahead of time.

Sylvain.

Wow, this took forever to read through. I was waiting until I had a little time to read. How fun.
When I was working (I was downsized....grr) I worked in the parts dept of a car dealership. I soon became the mgr which was a little unusual for a women, one of the sales people (a female) applied for a parts job when I was hiring one year. She told me that she wanted to be a "part's chick" like me.
Well, that let the cat out of the bag, so to speak of what they were calling me behind my back, and the name stuck. I worked at 3 different dealerships over the years and "partschick" seemed to follow. The "C" is for my first name....
Christine

Sylvain...sorry for the reason you're down there, but glad that there's an upside for you.
My heart is still there and always will be. Hub's elderly parents were the reason for us moving to PA. MIL passed a few years ago but FIL still gardening strong at 90 years old.

I hope he lives forever, but since that's not likely, when the time comes...back we go. Made H promise before we even left.

My sympathies to your wife. I've lived with osteoarthritis since my late twenties and we are old friends by now.

Cool story Christine. My daughter's best friend since they were babies is a Christine. Before I got to the part about your first name, I had decided the "C" must stand for "Car". But Christine is a much nicer first name than Car. *grin*

Jan

OK, I'm gardengirl1204 cause I guess that's all I could think of when I created my very first online username. I love to garden and I'm a girl and my BD is 12/04. Not very original but I now use that everywhere online. We do use a different username for our home email. We love Jimmy Buffett so we're par8head93 (year we got married) at home.

Edited to say - my real name is Jeannine

Love the polar bear story Sylvain!

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Hey Jeannine...good to see you over here!

Jimmy is my hometown boy......32 concerts so far and counting.

Radio Margaritaville (on Sirius 31) plays on my computer each and every workday.

Life is good.

Jan

Yes ma'am! We did concerts every year - even named our daughter Savannah after going to a concert and JB's daughter Savannah Jane was there. We looked at each other and said - that's the name! I have a girlfriend in Dallas who goes every year without fail. She called me in May from the one there so I could hear the music!

We haven't been to a concert in a few years - mainly because we were in Key West back in 1998 and came back from a sunset cruise to JB giving a free concert off of Duval Street. We've been to one or two since then, but nothing has compared to the intimacy of that night!! We've visited the Margaritaville shops in Las Vegas & New Orleans (very disappointing considering the location!) but again, nothing compares to the shop on Duval!

One of the reason's we decided to get a boat was the attitude (or lack there of) of JB and his philosophy on life. Our boat name: Life's Short

Agreed. Once you've experienced Jimmy in a small venue, or better yet, on the street...the craziness of a normal concert is almost disconcerting. Like...what are all these strangers doing at our party! Go home, people! You're bothering us!

Savannah is a great name. Mine was already a Melis or there would have been yet another Savannah in the world.

GG1204, you and I were in the keys at the same time. Small world after all ain't it?

It was amazing, but I let the "party attitude" go too far. Something to list as a learned experience.

There is so much in life that you will want to pass to your children, and so much you will want to spare them, the best we can hope for is an ideal middle ground where they learn enough to be naturally cautious and at the same time stay interested in the world around them, IMHO.

It is our children who will define us, more than the mark we, ourselves leave upon this earth. Hey this is what we are leaving to them.... lets teach them to use it wisely for their children.

Thanks Dyson for those nice words of wisdom! I agree whole heartedly!

BTW - we're heading to your neck of the woods (eh, lake) on Sat. Spend a week each year there. Ususally cast off at Saunders Marina (Parkway Marina now). DH and my dream is to retire up there but finding property we could afford would be a miracle!

best regards,
Jeannine

This thread is wonderful but probably too long for dial up to read. Why not start a new one and link it here. :-)

There has been 3 other threads started over time. This one just keeps coming back up with is great here are the others. http://davesgarden.com/forums/p.php?pid=1943025

Just found this thread and have been reading it for hours. I have been a member of DG for a little over a year and am still finding my way around the place. I just discovered the other day the wonderful little "skip to new" feature at the top of each thread!
My name is pretty simple... my daughter is Stacey and I am her mom! (no kidding) I was going to pick the name "Poodie" that is my name almost everywhere else on line. It's a name my father gave me when I was very young. My real name is Gay. I was teased about that a lot when I was younger so I always added my middle name, Lynn. But now I am just known as Gay. It's so nice reading all of these stories of everyones name. Still have lots of reading to do..... wow! Long thread!

Gay

staceysmom, if you want to check out a long thread ... check out
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/550014/

Now that looks like a fun thread. Got my reading cut out for me.

Another is in the General Discussion - Best/Worse and What did I learn today! always a fun thread..think it's in pt.11....

Back when I set up my very first email account I was looking for a "unique name". My son suggested Mommy hear less, I laughed and said Mommy Heart Less!!! That was my name until I went back to get my Masters in Psychology. The first time I had to tell someone in my field that my email was "Mommyheartless" I decided I needed a name that did not brand me as mean mother! Sooooo.... I attended school at Walla Walla = w2. Psychw2. became my email and EVERYTHING else I needed a name for. It takes no memory that way to figure out what/who am I on any site! LOL
Pat

This is fun! I've been reading all these and have been fascinated by all your stories.

Okay, here goes. I first got to this site by trying to find answers for questions I had about my asian garden I am working on. Guanyin is the Chinese Bodhisattva (person seeking enlightenment) of Compassion. I have three of her statues and I just happened to be looking at one of them when asked for a user name.

Kwanjin is one of the English corruptions of her name. My real name is Celia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin