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I'd love to know the meaning/reason/story behind some of the names that appear on here.
I mean you'd never guess from my avatar that my name is annie! ;D ;D
Please tell us the why's and wherefore's of your names. :)

Hi Annie   ;D

Would you believe Im Marilyn? T'is true! 

Mother what were you thinking of?  ::)

Hi Annie, mine is cos i'm from Lankyshire.
My name's Marie so i too almost used maz like Marilyn :)

Well my name's Terri but I got so fed up when tying to join various boards etc - entering my name & password so many times ony to be told ' this name/password has already been taken'
Grrrr.. then what a ******* pain - so there - with a bit of 'expletive deleted'  is my ickle tale ;D
Terri

My nick comes from my two children Joh and Charly (Charlotte).

in 1999 i went to the british grand prix with a load of people i met on a formula one forum. i wore those trousers that zip off to make shorts and earned the nickname legless because of that. i use it everywhere on the net now.

By the way Lankylass I used to live in Lancaster, where groups of lads on a Saturday would roam the streets shouting Lanky Lanky Lancaster. Imagine my mates joy when they re4membered I am from Doncaster. Donkey........ ;D :D

It was a motorcycle name that I owned at the time of joining, I should change it to electroglide now.

And there was me thinking you permanently walked around with a drink in your hand, legless ;D

mine would be er...welll.... Ceri!

It's unusual enough that it doesn't get kicked off as described by wattapain - great name by the way!  I'd only forget a made up name anyway

Quote from: ani on April 26, 2005, 19:35:05
And there was me thinking you permanently walked around with a drink in your hand, legless ;D

well that's a different matter ;D

mine is simply my first name.

Well i always use my mums name Mollie as my username but for some reason i changed my name on this board as i wanted something more befitting  ;D

Well I checked out all the other names before I chose one.  There was Rhoda Dendron, Too Lip etc.  I thought we had to be flowers - hence Foxy Glove!   :-*

 ;D Well I guess I was lucky that there wasn't anyone from Birmingham with the name Roy that lived in the UK 8)

Hi - my name is made up of the first three letters of first and last name. First used wayback when signing up for yahoo email and is now my username everywhere.

Mine is because I originally hail from Wick (tho people from there would pronounce it Weeker!)

The person that taught me all my gardening and was my godmother and aunt to boot was called Doris, so I picked the name in honour of her!

Gadfium is one of the characters' names in an Iain M Banks book.

My real name is generally unavailable as an e-mail/registration  possibility; so long, long ago... I became a 'Gadfium' for no better reason than I liked the sound of it!

:)

Mine's based on my wit, charm, style, intelligence, phenomenal strength of character and sparkling personality...

...or maybe just my first name

Basically I like slugs and snails :D I think I must be the only gardener that does like them! They do provide a great food source for thrushes, blackbirds and frogs plus many more animals :)

I live in Wiveliscombe, known to locals as Wivey.  I am "Wivey Wolf" on other MB's I use (due to my birthplace and football team) but thought that didn't sound right for an allotment board.  Wivvles is a nickname one of the users on one of the other MB's I use came up with - so here I am!!!!

And theres me Sexy snail thinking you wanted to be caught by Slugcatcher ;D ;D ;D

I have no idea why i decided on this, must have had one of those funny days

Ron(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/thiseldo/29.gif)

When I bought a computer from Gateway some years ago it came in a box disguised as a freesian cow (kinda square maybe - but definitely cow-like).  So, as I was setting up a network I decided to have a theme - the computer became known as Ermuntrude.  Later I added a new machine for the kids so that I would be able to use my machine - I named it Daisy.  Then I needed a laptop - so that became Rover (corny I know). Finally, I set up another machine and called it Wellies.

I had used Daisy as a nickname on other sites but kept being chatted up by blokes who thought that I was a girlie. So, when I first joined A4A and needed a name I thought that I would keep in theme and wanted to portray myself as a macho/male fit gardener (despite all the evidence to the contrary) - it just had to be Bionic Wellies - and it made me smile when I though of it.

Mine is a rather boring Latin pun!

A friend started calling me Large 'cos of that programme on telly where they say 'Laaaaaarge'. ( Paul Whitehouse thing??)
It then became JohnnyLarge.
I'm not really large at all. 6ft and 14stone.
John ;D

Erm...apart from the F it includes all the letters in my first name, apart from 2 others  !  Thats not the actual reason, but it looks plausible. I think I was reading about Celts etc at the time and it just kinda popped in my head.

Bit crap really, sorry !!

My first car was a dark green VW Beetle (elm green, if I recall), and given the shape,  a friend named it the Speedy Mango. It became my 'call sign' when we took multiple cars on a few holidays and to VW rallies and used CB radios to keep in touch on the road.

I picked mine because I like Sweet peas, and 'cause I liked the sound of it.  I'm really called Kate  :)

;D I'm waiting to hear from "Crackintackle" ;D Thought she was a he at first :o

Guess why I chose mine???  ;D
No, I'm not really THAT lazy.  Just felt it when I happened upon this fab website and realised I hadn't been down to the lottie since Christmas.  Although working part-time and having a 19 month old daughter might have something to do with that. 

Maybe I should change it to 'notquitesomuchofalazybonesasiwaspreviously' but it doesn't flow off the tongue as well. :-\

One part's a slight variation on my abbreviated Christian name.

The other's my surname - or would be if I ever make an honest man of Mr L!

Put the two together and they make Lillypad. Simple, if somewhat boring.

When I first got my plot, I talked to anyone and everyone who would listen (and a few who didn't want to listen!!) about it, what I was going to do, where everything was going to go, when I was going to do it etc. etc.
One day a colleague came in and said "How's the plot, Plottie?"
So when I was signing up for the site it seemed the obvious name...............
Plottie :)
(or Janet, as I really am)

I'll give you three guesses ...........
A gold star to the closest guess.

Quote from: BAGGY on April 27, 2005, 18:10:44
I'll give you three guesses ...........
A gold star to the closest guess.

I suspect that you may be a regular at the Hawthorns... in which case you have my sympathy!!

Like Paddington Bear years ago my favourite coat was a duffle coat. The duffle coat has long gone to the Oxfam shop but the name has stuck....In the real world I'm called Caroline.

Can you guess?

I took a huge leap of imagination and named myself after my favourite plant.

It's kind of like my real name, but much much nicer!

When I first started going on the internet, friends kept warning me,  never give your name out, or any details about yourself.  So paranoia set in and with each e-mail and password I had to set up I conjured up an appropriate name.  Busy lizzie just seemed appropriate, I have often grown them, they are cheerful and colourful and gardeners are always busy.  So hence the name.

My proper name is Jean, which I always think sounds like a 1940's land girl or someone who was a Wren in the Second World War.  I was named after my mother who was called Jane, but she thought I would get plain Jane, so she switched the letters round to Jean.  Think I would have preferred Jane which is now quite popular.  ;D busy_lizzie 

Wivvels - I don't understand the Hawthorns bit  :-\ but no star I'm afraid .

Hi all,

Columbus = Malcolm

My real name is Malcolm which has a meaning something like, "follower of Saint Columbus"

I`ve been Columbus all over the internet for a very long time.

Some people used Col as a familiar name, so I also use that.

:)

Mine is v boring - it's my car reg, but I am called Caz, short for Carol most of the time.

Wivvles - I got your 'baggies' joke (not a supporter though) but then I do live in Walsall so they'm local to me, but the others day understand yow cuz they ayn from round ear ar kid  :D

The name is mine, not commonly spelt this way and my avatar was chosen because I am a dying breed of original punk rockers from the seventies.

Mine's because I am, Merlin's Mum that is.  That's him on the left.  I love him to bits.
I've always loved cats, every since I was a few years old.  :)

MM

it was either  kitty or
'slightly portlymiddleaged woman who doesnt act her age'


and the first one was easier.
plus i like cats too!

c'mon guys have another guess - I'll even give clues if ypu're stuck and the closest gete TWO gold stars - can't say fairer than that.

Hi, Baggy - see you are a latenighter like me!!  My brain is sharper at this time of night/morning whatever............
Caz 406 mentioned Walsall, mentioned supporter and "spoke" in Midlands(?) accent ......... West Bromwich Football Supporter! Genius eh - actually no - I googled to make sure so maybe I forfeit my gold stars??


Ah well, I enjoyed my lonely moment of fame...........

Not even close.  I have just got home a little worse for wear and thought I'd see who was up and about.  G'on Wicker - I am sure you can guess it.  There was a clue in two of my previous posts (albeit v.obscure).  Think Rujard Kipling (sp)

Bagera, from the Jungle Book   ???

Gadfium - you get the reward.  Where did you guess that from?  I thought most 'normal' people were all but asleep at this hour.  However we're far from normal aren't we ???  But why am I Baggy ?  It's because I run a cub group and we all have to have our pack names.  Hence Bagheera - baggy for short.

Quote from: Wicker on April 29, 2005, 00:32:48
Hi, Baggy - see you are a latenighter like me!!  My brain is sharper at this time of night/morning whatever............
Caz 406 mentioned Walsall, mentioned supporter and "spoke" in Midlands(?) accent ......... West Bromwich Football Supporter! Genius eh - actually no - I googled to make sure so maybe I forfeit my gold stars??


Ah well, I enjoyed my lonely moment of fame...........

Wicker - that's what I was alluding to above and why Caz slipped into "yammer" in response!

Quote from: caz 406 on April 28, 2005, 17:59:36
Wivvles - I got your 'baggies' joke (not a supporter though) but then I do live in Walsall so they'm local to me, but the others day understand yow cuz they ayn from round ear ar kid  :D

Yow orright ar kid? Cum on me babbies!  ;) ;D

Them Baggies are Bostin


(Many moons ago when a mere lad, my Dad played for the Baggies' Colts team - that would have been when they wore those ace extra long shorts and ran really quickly with their knees up high!)

I'm a Welsh born Brummie transplanted to Geordie Land so I've learned never ever to have a conversation about football with anyone!

Yow orright ar kid? Cum on me babbies!  ;) ;D

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Arrr this site is great ay it?  :)  not sure I've got the hang of the quote bit yet though... ???

Actually I do my best not to sound like a local! Am not a supporter of footie though - especially as my OH comes from Essex and supports Westham - hardly football!

Some of these names are quite inspired and the avatars too...I need to find one that's 'me'.  :)

mine is very boring - real name Justine hence Justy.  Surprising how few sites let me have justine - I have only ever met about 3 others.

Baggy  :)

Got a two year old niece, and she's just had her first run through of Disney's take on 'The Jungle Book'... lucky timing!

Weird hours, oh yes... bit of a closet insomniac, has its advantages though: peace, quiet, night skies, old b/w films, catching the cat's latest live offering, and reading a few more books.

Not too many Glyn's, (especially over here..Canada) so I kept me real name.

                                         

fat larry, cos I'm a bit tubby and my name is Lawrence - named after the fantastic fat larry's band, who performed Zoom (larry was apparently the drummer) among other things, and when my son tom was born 6.5 years ago, as i held him for the first time and he cried a bit i soothed him by singing 'zoom, just one look and then my heart goes boom..etc' --aaaaahhhhh!

Awwww..............  ;D

Very unoriginal - tis my name!  On other forums I crop up as Mrs Ava, being as my better half is Ava Banana.

We're not very inspired - just our names joined together. should have been a bit more inventive really but then again my memory is like a seive so at least i won't forget our names - hopefully...

Hi Ani

I am an avid astronomer, and the first thing that I saw out of my telescope was the "storm eye" on Jupiter.  As jupiter is a gas giant, then the name GIANTSEYE was born.

"Giantseye"

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Thanks for all the replies folks, I hope everyone Else has been as fascinated as me as to the origin of the names.

Lovely pic of Giantseye

Thanks Glyn, Perfect picture :D

yeah great topic!