Family History: whose your u-ser name?

[ltwoman]

I have wanted to see a thread about this topic for awhile and I guess I'm going to have to stick my neck out a bit (more than a bit) to get it going.

I am curious about everyone's user names. I read these threads and posts daily and I always wonder what's the back story. Some are obviously related to the Police and/or Stewart. Then others, well, who knows? And if related to the Police/SC, why did you chose that one? why not another? Maybe some of you know the history because you've been here for a wee bit longer than moi, but I'd love to see what pops up in this vein.

So here goes my story (there are two versions). ltwoman (not itwoman). It's been my nickname for 17 years and was given to me by my boyfriend. Its started this way: remember those little pink message slips that some of us used to have to fill out every time a co-worker got a phone call? I always signed mine "LT" because those are my initials. All my co-workers (and friends, and other forum members to me now) were "SF" or "BC" or "RJ". You get the idea.

So here comes the boyfriend (here's where the story varies depending on who's tellng it.) All my little love notes and cards were signed by me, "LT". So he started calling me the "LTWoman". One day he says to me "what does LT stand for?" (he denies this part). Excuse me? How long have we been going out? Now he says of course he knew they were my initials, and that the nickname was really about the Door's "LA Woman" (I can live with that.)

I guess I'll have to put it on my tombstone, because I know people now who only call me LT and I believe they don't even know my real name!

The End.

Epilogue: 63falcon would say it's the Southerner in me that this is a very long tale for a very short story. Family history's run long in the South and so do some user name tales.

[sockii]

I've been "sockii" in fandom circules for a good, oh...15 years or so at this point. Working at a lot of sci-fi/media conventions and such--before it was really an issue of having an "internet handle"--I just found it helpful to have a badge/fannish name that folks could remember me by. So I went for an obscure reference to my first ever fandom and it's stuck since then. I just changed up the spelling a bit to make it more unique.

And for those who want the *precise* origin, well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCfE7NztmQA

[Tamadude]

Hi It.

Here you go:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5388

[Tamadude]

What, no A team reference, Sock?

[Tamadude]

What, no A team reference, Sock?

Doh! Didn't see the utube link.

Ma bad.

[Chatchka]

Long ago, my roommate, Rose, and I were watching the Nanny when we were brought to tears by the line at 4:36-8 in this episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7FybEsBdCE

From there a nickname was born. And since neither of us speaks yiddish, the spelling was phonetic -- "Chatchka." When it came time to register here, I used the only nickname I ever had as my handle. The fact that it begins with "CHA" was just serendipity.

Cheers,
Chatchka

[Dietmar]

my user name's story is complicated...
Dietmar

[moonstone]

Hi lt

Nothing very inventive about my user name. It's just the name of the little wooden beach hut where I live.

[ltwoman]

Hi It.

Here you go:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5388

Thanks for the link, Tamadude. I did a search on the forum and because I put in "user name" and not "username" I didn't get a hit on that thread. Glad I'm not the only curious George here.

[ltwoman]

Love the avatar, Tamadude! A real animal! (my apologies, animal. You're the real animal, here.)

[vespapod]

Vespa because I have a Vespa granturissmo scooter

Pod because I am a podiatrist

[conroy]

Named after my dad who was named after his great uncle. Didn't think I could ever make up a name that sounded as cool as my given name. The funny thing is that back in the pre-internet days of BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems), people would think it was a made up name.

[good rabbit]

Ha,
that's a old and long Story.
There was this movie "down by law" where Roberto Benigni (who's command of the English language is very comical) explains how his Mother Isolina used to cook Rabbit......

check out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEGheZL-9w

at 3:04 !

i don't know why, but this stuck into my mind. I even call one of my Guitars "good rabbit".

cheers
Simon

[HalcyonLisa]

I've copied my post from the previous thread on this subject
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well....takes deep breath...

I breed and show Fancy Rats here in the UK, and am the Chairman of the National Fancy Rat Society www.nfrs.org

My studname within the club is Halcyon, so I use it pretty much everywhere, usually accompanied by my name - Lisa.... or sometimes Kite (HalcyonKite) as I do quite a lot of birdwatching too and the Kite is my 2nd Favourite bird...

(Kingfisher is my first and Halcyon is the latin term for Kingfisher)...

Hope that makes sense and doesnt come across as gobbledegook from the keypad of a complete nutter!!!!

Lisa x

[ltwoman]

I've copied my post from the previous thread on this subject
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Lisa x

I wish I could have figured out how to do that. I would have copied my post to the other thread. This has all been such fun reading!