What does your username mean?

[Karamea]

I thought I'd start it up...

What does your username mean? Why did you choose it?

Mine is Karamea.

My partner and son live in a house on Maori tribal land in a small costal town on the east coast of New Zealand (Hawkes Bay). Their tipuna (ancestors) have lived there for many hundreds of years and there are many myths and legends surrounding the physical landmarks: land, hills, islands and sea.

One of the rocks in the bay is Karamea, it is red, Karamea means red ochre in the maori language.

It is near our house.

[Mommy0406]

Very cool background Karamea.

Mine really isn't all that creative. My dd was born in 2004 and my ds was born in 2006, so I just combined the years and used Mommy0406. :o I have another ID I've typically used in other places, but am getting bored of it so decided it was time for a change... unfortunately I didn't have time to get super creative though. :giggle:

[3monkeys]

I have 3 kids. I was gonna be 3 parasites but thats not very PC so 3monkeys it is. And monkeys they are. My house is like a zoo somedays......

Karamea when I think of your name I think of the town on the west coast. My DH loves it up there. Its cool to know where you got it from.

[Karamea]

Yeah I did not realise it was a town down in the South Island!

[3monkeys]

Its a really stunning place.

[Quickening]

Mine came from quickening being the perfect word to sum up everything that I am - serving to enliven, first signs of life, energy, creativity, inspiration, growth etc. I liked it even more when I saw it used as the name of an elemental in Terry Brooks fantasy series. I also found out later its was the name given some sort of energy force in the Highlander movie series (but haven't watched those).

[Wonder-Full]

Mine was inspired by how the little things in life really are wonder-full. Made me look at the word Wonderful a bit differently. I have seen it used in a Christian sense, but that's not where I get it from, however I still like it.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Long story. I think I need a sleep. Perhaps better not told :D

[deesalie]

Quickening is also mentioned in Women who Run with the Wolves if I'm not mistaken??

Mine's really quite simple. My nickname is Dees. My German grandmother adds "alie" to names as it means "little"... so I'm little Dees. I grew up with it & it's stuck :)

[Quickening]

Is it Deesalie? I don't remember seeing it when I read the book but I've only read it cover to cover once.

[Cobluegirl]

mine is really boring..years ago I needed a new nickname..and it stuck. I am from Colorado hence the CO and blue is for the sky and girl well..that is explanitory. i am not very creative.

[Cat]

Mine is my name. It's short for Catherine, but only my parents ever called me that. Even my inlaws call me Cat. I use Cat_astrophe on other boards. I guess that is more creative.

[Janet]

I bet you can't guess what mine's about. ;) I can't be bothered with a lot of creativity in usernames. I'm just me. :) I'm The Morrigan on the forums I run myself though because I love her.

[Ayla]

Mine is after my fave character in my fave historical fiction series, Earth's Children by Jean Auel. It's set 10,000 BCE when humans still lived in caves or those mammoth-bone shelters and I just love reading about the authentic human. After reading that series I've often found myself saying "what would Ayla do?" Would she leave her baby to "cry it out"? Feed it anything other than breastmilk? She never took more than what she needed from the land, etc. She's my inspiration to try to be as authentic as I can in this modern world :)

[Cybertiger]

What does your username mean? Why did you choose it?


With tooth and claw ... I like to draw the blood of my opponents ....

PS. I recently visited Bran Castle (Dracula's place) in Transylvania ... and communed with the methods deployed by Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) for dealing with evil doers from the other side.

[Moya]

Mine is my name. It's short for Catherine, but only my parents ever called me that. Even my inlaws call me Cat. I use Cat_astrophe on other boards. I guess that is more creative.

I remember Cat_astrophe, but I had forgotten about it til you mentioned it. I think you should drop the underscore, though. No reason you can't go back to that if you like it. I'm so used to you being the admin Cat who takes care of everything computer related. But way back when I first met you, it was Cat_astrophe who was making life unenjoyable for a few hapless vaccine advocates who couldn't handle themselves debating you. :duel:

[MinorityView]

I think the meaning of MinorityView is obvious.

There is a bit of a story behind it though. Before I became a vaccine debater I was defending waldorf education from some equally nasty people. I needed a fake name for a particular venue with an e-mail to go with it. Someone recommended gmail because it is hard to trace.

All of this has become handy in the vaccine arguments. I would rather not be public right now under my real name and occupation and location.

[Green]

Ummm Green...:rolleyes:
*snort*
I was pressed for time and under pressure from Quickening.
I'm also Janep (not by choice:eyeroll:) on another forum.

[Quickening]

Uh huh go ahead and blame me for your lack of creativity :LMAO:

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Uh huh go ahead and blame me for your lack of creativity :LMAO: I thought it was very creative. The possible meanings of the word green are many. Including certain noxious substances making one feel :alien:and about ready to ... oh, we don't have a puke smiley.

Must remedy that sometime.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Maybe I will tell about my name.

At a certain board, I had been "Just Wondering" which lead to misunderstanding, and "Hilary" which was made redundant... I had to chose a new username. Previously I had been pinged, in that area under your username, with OGN-DMWM, and had also be accused of being a fossil, a victorian bustle and various other permutations of boring.

The day I had to chose my name, I had a dose of Montezuma's Revenge ( the dastardly diarrhoea). I felt very ancient. I looked the colour of a tuatara... I am a mother. So, Momtezuma Tuatara just seemed to fit.

Why have I used it here? Because I was told to by she who cannot be named. But she will know who she is when she gets her A into G and finally arives here. I hope her ears are burning.

[Cybertiger]

I looked the colour of a tuatara...
What's a tuatara, Hilary? Remember I've led a very sheltered antiantipodean life!

[3monkeys]

from Wiki (there is a cute pic on the site)

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

The tuatara is a reptile endemic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemism) to New Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand) which, though it resembles most lizards, is actually part of a distinct lineage, order Sphenodontia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenodontia).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-TerraNature-0)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-DoC-1) The two species of tuatara are the only surviving members of its order, which flourished around 200 million years ago.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-DoC-1) Their most recent common ancestor with any other extant group is with the squamates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamata) (lizards and snakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake)). For this reason, tuatara are of great interest in the study of the evolution of lizards and snakes, and for the reconstruction of the appearance and habits of the earliest diapsids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diapsid) (the group that also includes birds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird) and crocodiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile)).
Tuatara are greenish brown, and measure up to 80 cm (32 in) from head to tail-tip[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-san_diego-2) with a spiny crest along the back, especially pronounced in males. Their dentition, in which two rows of teeth in the upper jaw overlap one row on the lower jaw, is unique among living species. They are further unusual in having a pronounced parietal eye (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye), dubbed the "third eye", whose current function is a subject of ongoing research. They are able to hear although no external ear is present, and have a number of unique features in their skeleton, some of them apparently evolutionarily retained from fish. Although tuatara are sometimes called "living fossils (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil)", recent taxonomic and molecular work has shown that they have changed significantly since the Mesozoic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesozoic) era.
The tuatara has been classified as an endangered species (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species) since 1895[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-3)[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-4) (the second species, S. guntheri, was not recognised until 1989).[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-san_diego-2) Tuatara, like many of New Zealand's native animals, are threatened by habitat loss and the introduced Polynesian Rat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_Rat) (Rattus exulans). They were extinct on the mainland, with the remaining populations confined to 32 offshore islands,[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-DoC-1) until the first mainland release into the heavily fenced and monitored Karori Wildlife Sanctuary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karori_Wildlife_Sanctuary) in 2005.[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-karori-5)
The name "tuatara" derives from the Māori language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language), and means "peaks on the back".[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-KCC-6) As with many other Māori loanwords, the plural form is now generally the same as the singular in formal New Zealand English usage. "Tuataras" remains common in less formal speech, particularly among older speakers.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

there now cyber, look what you made me do! :p

[FrangipaniRose]

Mine's a bit cheesy really. I started out in forum land on a wedding forum maybe five or six years ago. Frangipani & rose is what I had planned for my bouquet (and it sounded so pretty lol). But the name has stuck, I often get nicknamed Fran and it's (scarily) a part of who I am now, lol.

- No frangipani in my bouquet in the end, but I do love them and seeing lots more of them around has been a bonus to my Brisbane move. :)

[Kauri]

Quickening is also mentioned in Women who Run with the Wolves if I'm not mistaken??

I think you mean Vasalisa?

Kauri is an ancient, giant tree from the North Island of New Zealand. I wanted a name that connected me to my homeland and Kauri says strength and resilience to me

[Anastasia]

hrmm I wonder what mine means LOL

[Epona]

Mine is the same name i use with every forum membership. It has never changed. It has no significant meaning.. I live in Perth and i love horses... so Perth_Pony sounded smooth to me and doesn't stand out. :)

[waiting]

my name came out of my realization that my life is all about waiting.

everything which is significant to me, is something which required a significant period of time for me to obtain or understand.

but once obtained/understood, I've been overwhelmed by its wonderfulness.

right now I'm waiting on a better housing situation.

i just wish my period of waiting resembled my avatar more. :giggle:

[deesalie]

I think you mean Vasalisa?



Yeah, Vasalisa is one story, but she does mention the process of quickening...

[Aiyana]

Mine means eternal blossom

[Ayla]

I didn't know that, that's beautiful :)

[GreenGully]

Mine used to be Gullygirl - which refers to The Gully which was a piece of bushland that used to exist in inner city Brisbane until it was bulldozed. Twas a very significant experience for me (being involved in tree sits and the coming together of community). I decided to lose the "girl" part, cos yanno, I'm all growed up now! Someone suggested GreenGully on another forum and I loiked it :)

[schatz]

Hey Ayla - love those Jean Auel books, too!

My username has several meanings in German but most commonly treasure or sweetheart. My grandmother, after whom I named my daughter, used to call me "Schatzie" all the time. So, when I joined my first board ever after my dd was born, I picked the name "schatz" for my username. Funny thing, I thought I would use the nickname Schatzie for my daughter but instead I started out calling her boo-boo, then boober, and now she's scoober.

btw -- I'm glad MT is MT here. I like that name. :D

[MinorityView]

So do I (like that name) but I can never keep the spelling straight!

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Just use Montezuma's Revenge and then you won't have to remember the spelling. :hide:

[MinorityView]

Okay! That will work.

(wanders off muttering: "monterzumer? No. Moxtezippa? No. Oh S**t! No, that isn't right either.)

I'm really bad at names.

[deesalie]

My username has several meanings in German but most commonly treasure or sweetheart. My grandmother, after whom I named my daughter, used to call me "Schatzie" all the time.

My family's German as well... we had a German Shepherd named Schatzie :)

[schatz]

My family's German as well... we had a German Shepherd named Schatzie :)

That makes me laugh -- especially considering that my son is called Fritz (full name Frederick) which was the name of my uncle's German shorthair when I was a kid. We knew if we had a son, he would be named Frederick and we'd call him Fritz. I needed years to associate the name with a child not a dog. :D

[Trogdor]

If you are familiar with Strongbad emails you already know who Trogdor the Burninator is. If not...check it out.
We also have a dog named Trogdor the Urine-ator. I'm pleased to announce he doesn't piddle anymore. But when we first got him he'd pee if you rubbed his tummy , greeted him , fed him , walked him , walked across the floor towards him , basically any time.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Ah... I think that deserves another avatar...

done. :D

[MinorityView]

great avatar!

[Trogdor]

LOVE IT !

Jack Russells are one of my favorite dogs. I've never owned one , don't have the patience , but they intrigue me greatly.

Good job Hilary.

[bbrandonsmom]

Oh, well mine's pretty normal. Though when our other ds was born, he's a "B" too, so it sort of works out all around.
Ayla-I like all those books too. Good way to look at things.

[passionatewriter]

I also found out later its was the name given some sort of energy force in the Highlander movie series (but haven't watched those).
i used to love to watch the series with my ds1 (many moons ago..he's 18 now).


Mine is after my fave character in my fave historical fiction series, Earth's Children by Jean Auel.
im going to check that book out. :)

im just passionate...and tend to post alot (well, i used to..not anymore since ds4 came along....but when i do, it tends to be about issues im passionate about. a friend gave me the name after i rejoined another board when prego with ds4..it fits). :)

[wallacesmum]

Well, my daughter's name is Fred, and I am her dad...wait, no, you get it.

[Niamh]

Gaelic name.
Possibly name of the daughter I do not have.

[tbavrbab]

It is just the first and last initials of everyone so far in our family in order of age: tb (gamer hubby) av (me) rb (my little man) and ab (that would be the self-titled "princess")

Little man was MOST distressed I didn't use his middle initial...but that would have been cumbersome. tmbamvrxbaeb would be a little much.

[grandma of 4]

my name came from as it reads a grandma to 4 very lovely grandchildren 2boys and 2 girls

[momofsaa]

I forgot about quickening in Highlander. I believe it is the power received when you take another's head.
I think about a baby's uterine movements when I read your name.

Mine is a bit obvious but I'll give some background anyway. My world revolves around my children and for six years I had three. This was of course as I was establishing my online persona so my e-mail addresses were momofsaa. As life tends to kick back at you, I went on to have two more but what is one to do about that, so I kept the same name.

In other places, I am 'optimistic' or some variation of that when I'm not choosing to be identified only as a mom.

[east carolina]

Well, my name is Caroline and I grew up on the east coast. My parents are from "eastern Europe".....hence my nick

[magical1]

Mine, Magical1 is because I have been told that I have magic hands!!;)

Plus I always use it and no one else ever has it. So if you see magical1 anywhere else on the net it'll be me most proabably.

We all need a bit of magic eh!

[april]

mine is just my name ;) creative much

[natalie_sage]

Mine is the name that my daughter's cabbage patch doll came with :)

[Sidney]

Mine was a name I had picked out for my daughter, but when she was born she just didn't seem like Sidney and I wasn't that confident to use it because it is too rare and more of a boy's name. Maybe next time I will use it... if there is a next time!

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

My grandmother's name was Sydney Elizabeth Parkin born in 1874 :D

[Grizzled Gran]

Love the blowholes at Karamea on the West Coast, SI. The look of kelp swirling in, a beautiful place of awesome energy!

[Grizzled Gran]

Well, I'm almost elderly, hence the Gran, and my hair is beginning to change colour without benefit of salon products. So grizzled, as in gris or grey or gray!
:old:

[Sidney]

My grandmother's name was Sydney Elizabeth Parkin born in 1874 :D

Sydney was my grandfather's name, that's where the idea came from. We were going to call our baby Sidney/Sydney if she/he was born on the first anniversary of my grandfather's death, but as it turns out she was born the day after. I like the name but my grandfather isn't really the kind of person I would want to idolise. So as it turns out we didn't use it, possibly some regret there, although I'm happy with my daughter's name otherwise.

[dreamboat]

I call my little man dreamboat and i was rushing to find a name at the time i signed up and i did not want to use the usual names i go with elsewhere so it is different for me and fresh and reminds me of my little mans cute smile and dreamy face whenever i read it.

[Missys]

Mines a bit boring and not as well thought out as yours! Its my trademe sign in... And the shortening for my first name Melissa is Missy. And my surname is Scott. So its Missy S or Missy_S or just missys. :)

[ema-adama]

In Hebrew Ema (or Imma) is mother and Adama is earth - so earth mother. When I chose a screen name I had just come back from prenatal classes at a centre called ema adama and the name stuck.

[Ceres]

Ceres is the godess of agriculture - I thought it was appropriate for my love of gardening!

[flatoutgallop]

FOG is just my name everywhere on the net :)
I started using it when I was abotu 14 and was working with racehorses...boring huh!

I tried changing it - but FOG totally stuck..lol

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

FOG's pretty good. Conjures up a galloping dust-storm. :D

[kellarni]

Mine is totally unoriginal as far as usernames go, it is my first name :/
But it is never in use on any sites :)

[Tommys-Mummy]

So original here haha. Its Jenni on the other forum I am on, but here because I am Tommy's Mummy and all I thought I would go with another totally original one :) So Tommys-mummy it is.

[ZGT Mummy]

Hmm, not sure if I've posted in here yet. Mine is just the first letter of each of my kids' names, Zarne, Gabriel and Tait, so I guess not so original either :D