What's your board name mean? (revisited)

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:06 am

When I was born my mother decided she would find a name that no one in either family was named. Well, Ronald won the big search. So I am named after no one in my family. Kiley is a fine old surname from county Cork. The other reason is I guess I have no imagination to dream up some clever name.

Ron

LeeMarsh · Post by **LeeMarsh** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:29 am

Leemarsh is short for Lee Marsh. Which is the familiar name for one
Hugh Leroy Marsh, III.

Grandad was called Hugh
Dad was Roy
I was left with Lee.

I like being named after my Granddad because he was the wise old man I aspire to become someday.

Rough translation of the name is Intelectual Lion Like King of the Swamp.

With such a royal calling to murky worlds is it a wonder that anything that lifts a soul out of the daily muck garner's my obsessive attention provoking me to continually herald the call to ...

pixyy · Post by **pixyy** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:30 am

Many a time have I been told that I can be too serious for my own good and that i need to lighten up. So when I'm not intoxicated I like to be pixilated.
In the days of Coolboard lore the name 'Pixy' was already taken, so it made perfect sense to add the extra Y at the end. On the other hand I did not have the sense to remove it when choosing a name on our new board.
Now I am quite attached to that Y... PixyWhy?

Caj · Post by **Caj** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:30 am

"Caj" is a childhood nickname, derived from "cajjy," which is "scotty" spoken under an enormous speech impediment or through a peanut butter sandwich.

It is pronounced like "lodge," not like "badge," and definitely not like "cazzhhhhh". Not that pronunciation is a big issue for an online nickname.

Caj

Kuranes · Post by **Kuranes** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:46 am

I'm lazy and uncreative, and took my name (and sig) from the wonderful little story Celephaïs by H.P. Lovecraft .

(I was on a lovecraft reading binge last year when I started to learn to play the whistle).

Edit: A working link to the story is here

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:58 am

mcfeeley wrote:
LimuHead wrote:
Bloomfield wrote:I would like to tell you about my handle, Bloomfield. But I can't. You see, a few months ago, I stood in my front yard at 3 am (Martin Milner's suggestion), and now I can't remember how I got the name. Must be getting old.
Here's the long version:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... c&start=28

Very entertaining reading.
This might be the shorter version:

http://www.alchemywebsite.com/bloomfld.html

See!?! It's true, all true.

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:18 am

Know Brennan on the Moor??? Well there you go.
Actually it's my second handle, my first I typed my e-mail in wrong so I never could activate it, that was GOA Rover (Greater Ottawa Area Rover),
from a Great Big Sea concert "This song is dedicated to all the Rovers in the Greater Ottawa Area"

spittin_in_the_wind · Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:02 am

fipple condensation.

clogging.

drool.

Robin

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:07 am

I was born in Montana.

I went to secondary school in Montana.

I was never married.

I live in Montana.

I play music in Montana.

Notice a trend?
(Of course that doesn't include the 20 years I was a nomad everywhere from Boston to San Jose, and from Rapid City to Lubbock (shudder)).

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:21 am

My maternal grandmother was born a Byrne in Essex county Ontario. My paternal grandfather was born a Byrne in Dublin. He change the name to Burns when he became a US citizen. I don't know why.
Michael Patrick Mel Burns (Byrne)

OutOfBreath · Post by **OutOfBreath** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:25 am

Smoked 20+ years then took up the whistle - need I say more?

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:21 pm

I'm called Wombat because of my gravitas.

nancymae · Post by **nancymae** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:36 pm

My name is just that...Nancy Mae. I have a terrible memory and am a member of many lists...and it's too hard to remember other names.

Nancy...named for a song....my father a musician...loved Frank Sinatra..named me after the song he sung for his daughter.

Mae...both of my grandmothers' middle names. I guess it just fit.

What could be better than being named after a song....

Nancy

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:27 pm

I probably botched the Gaelic, but "Fear faoin" should mean "foolish man", or "silly guy" or some such. (It's pronounced something like "fair FOO-in")
I tried to use it as a yahoo email address when I was learning Scots Gaelic.
Turns out, there are several fearfaoins on yahoo.
I thought "fearfaoin2582@yahoo.com" would be a stupid address, so I went with the Latin version instead: virstultus.

But I thought the Gaelic was more appropriate for this board.
I really should brush up on my Gaelic, but I'm too busy learning tunes at the moment.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:52 pm

DaleWisely wrote:"DaleWisely" roughly translates into "Dale Wisely" which means something like "open river valley smartly."

Yes. Makes you want to meditate.

That makes me want to medicate.