So, what does your screen name mean?

Bagfed · Post by **Bagfed** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:51 pm

I take my lunch to work in a paper sack..... :roll:

AnnaDMartinez · Post by **AnnaDMartinez** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:53 pm

Anna Martinez is my name, but I used to be Isadora Dumpling. Does that count? :roll:

skylark · Post by **skylark** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 7:44 pm

I once was a bird, and now am a bird once again... can you guess who I am?

Ah, sweet mysteries of life...

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:06 pm

cskinner wrote:Well....

c stands for the note that I use a thumb hole for on my whistles

ski is of course-ski the suffix Weekenders adds to everything-ski

nn stands for the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, reflecting my little hobby in nuclear physics

--and--

er is the symbol for my favorite element, erbium.
Carol Skinner

OK, Carol, that was just too funny! I would try to come up with some equally creative explanation for my screen name, but, well, I'm feeling about as creative now as I was when I came up with the screen name. Sigh!

:roll:
Steven

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:18 pm

Bagfed wrote:I take my lunch to work in a paper sack..... :roll:

And here I thought you were really a refugee from the Uilleann Pipe forum

DaveG · Post by **DaveG** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:38 pm

I guess mostly it means I'm not very creative and I don't want to bother the moderator to change it...so short for David is....

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:41 pm

Bloomfield wrote: The short version is that I got my nick from Jenny Mayweather. Nobody wants to hear the long version again...

Oh yes we do! It's a spellbinding (*cough*) tale!

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

--cskinner

Bartleby · Post by **Bartleby** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:56 pm

If you'd like to read it, the link is: http://www.bartleby.com/129/index.html. Don't ask me why I chose this name.

LimuHead · Post by **LimuHead** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:12 pm

cskinner wrote:
Bloomfield wrote: The short version is that I got my nick from Jenny Mayweather. Nobody wants to hear the long version again...
Oh yes we do! It's a spellbinding (*cough*) tale!

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

--cskinner

Whooo Hooo hoo hoooooo!!! That's some very fun readin'!

Bloomfield, you've got talent!!! (And a very strange past......)

C&F folk: click on the link up there in the quote, it's probably even worth a re-read......

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:22 pm

Why, thanks, LimuHead.

Here is an admission: I wanted to say that the story isn't quite completely true. I made up the part about the Klezmer musician. Abrahamson was actually an accountant, but that sounded too dull.

Best,

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:36 pm

I must admit that "gonzo" isn't really my first name, which is simply too pedestrian to mention.

However, my last name really is "914," although it's pronounced "CMXIV."

raindog1970 · Post by **raindog1970** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:36 pm

Anyone even remotely familiar with the gentleman pictured in my avatar will understand the 'raindog' reference, and 1970 was the year I was born.
I go by 'raindog1970' in places other than this forum, and there are so many other people using the name 'raindog' that I had to add the '1970' just to be different.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:38 pm

Well now, there's "dinner time", "summer time", "ragtime","wild mountain thyme"...

and.........."cowtime".

Phlebas · Post by **Phlebas** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:44 pm

I read a T.S. Eliot epic poem in High School called "The Wasteland" and I loved it. Not sure why the name stuck with me over the years! Nearly all my "computer aliases" are "Phlebas"... email, other forums, etc. Funny how we adopt these pseudonyms...

Celtoid · Post by **Celtoid** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:58 pm

Cowtime...is your avatar one of those short-legged hairy Scotish cow things?

Chiff and Fipple Forums

So, what does your screen name mean?

It's from a Herman Melville short story

That's hilarious!