What's your board name mean? (revisited)

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:02 pm

I was named after my Great Uncle Vomit.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:34 pm

emmline wrote:Has to do with when I first established an email account, about 10 years ago. My dad used to (still does) call me Emmaline, so I tried to use the name @flash.net (no longer in business.) After about 10 tries at creative spellings, since there were apparently some pre-existing emmalines@(not a real address)flash.net, I was getting careless and spelled it like that. emmline. It worked. Have stuck with it.

LOL! I had one like that for years! Back when we first got on the internet, I was mostly on vegetarian boards, and I wanted something that said "vegetarian." Of course, most variations on "vegetarian," "vegan," and "veg" were taken (and I didn't want something with a jillion numbers after it), so I hit on using my personalized license plate: "erbivrus" (sound it out...it works). I eventually stopped using it, partially because enough people on those boards knew me by my real name anyway (and netnicks had kind of fallen out of fashion) and partly because people kept assuming I was a guy (because of the "-us"). I've been either "Audrey" or "Redwolf" for years now, but there are still some people who call me "Erbie" (even people I've met in person and know socially).

Redwolf

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:49 pm

Here on the farm, at the most inoppertune times, it's Cowtime!

time to chase 'em, time to work 'em, time to pull a calf, time to sell 'em, time to fix the fence, time to put up hay, etc.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:28 pm

My father ended a long tradition of naming the first born male Giles. Well, that and he isn't very imaginative!

Denny

antstastegood · Post by **antstastegood** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:54 pm

school's mascot is the anteater.

mcfeeley · Post by **mcfeeley** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:13 am

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

tripletdad · Post by **tripletdad** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:57 am

I have three 6yr old kids at home(Liam, Mary and Patrick). They are my life!

amar · Post by **amar** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:11 am

Amar' s my name, an indian name, and it means "immortal".

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:32 am

Amar jii: kyaa haal hai, bhai sahaab? Kyaa aapko Hindi aati hai?

My nick means idiot or fool in Hindi/Urdu.

I worked for 16 years in a car factory in Luton, UK. Luton has a very diverse mix of ethnic groups: Irish, Indian, Pakistai, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Italian, West Indian, African... all make up significant fractions of the population, and the mix of work colleagues reflected this excellent variety.

Perhaps the most worthwhile thing to come out of those 16 years was the fact that some very patient friends taught me to speak, read and write Hindi and a little Punjabi. They also tried to teach me to read Urdu, but that was *too* difficult... After all, I'm English and we are crap at other languages. It's a relic from our imperial past - we still expect everyone else to speak English. Either that or we expect foreigners to understand us if we shout loudly enough.

If anyone is looking for an enjoyable language to learn (with a very cool writing script) I heartily recommend Hindi. It's easier than German!

amar · Post by **amar** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:58 am

buddhu, I'm sorry, but I don't speak any indian language

german, yes.

My Dad is from Nagpur, he speaks marathi, hindi, urdu.
cheers!

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:23 am

Oh, man - I tried German when I was at school and couldn't cope... the words were just too long, they scared the hell out of me!

My wife speaks German, though. She's obviously a tougher character than I am.

Post by **Dale** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:47 am

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

Yes. Makes you want to meditate.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:50 am

My board name is German for "credulous guy".

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:20 am

The rn part of it is well, cuz, I'm an rn. Which either stands for Registered Nurse or Regular Nuisance. You pick. The rebl part is from when I was a War Between the States re-enactor, and was a Confederate. It's also my license plate, which is why its rebl insted of rebel, since when I first got the plates the state only allowed 6 letters. I don't re-enact anymore, but I've kept the name and the plates. The license plates are always a good conversation starter.

buddhu wrote: we still expect everyone else to speak English. Either that or we expect foreigners to understand us if we shout loudly enough.

Oh man, my boss does this. We have a large Spanish speaking population in our county, and my boss doesn't speak a word of Spanish, and when she is trying to communicate with someone who doesn't speak English she just repeats what she is saying and gets louder and louder. It'd be kinda funny if it wasn't sad. And she even tends to speak louder when she's using one of our interpreters. I don't know why.

Beth

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:28 am

rebl_rn wrote:The rn part of it is well, cuz, I'm an rn. Which either stands for Registered Nurse or Regular Nuisance. You pick. The rebl part is from when I was a War Between the States re-enactor, and was a Confederate.

I wonder which seems more unlikely - a Confederate reenactor in Wisconsin or a Union reenactor in South Carolina.