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ed11563 · Guru

RE: Behind the screen names

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

Renegade Time Lord wrote:
Just taking this from my profile:
I am a 2055-year old (in Earth years) Cypertinian Time Lord who is renegade and laying low on Earth after being wrongly accused of crimes against the Intergalactic Consortium, which were the dealings of a Time Lord from another civilization.

This is exactly why you are cool. smile

WYSIWYG · Guru

WYSIWYG (pronounced wiz-e-wig) is geek speak for "What You See Is What You Get"

NAOW · Vette's SS

ed11563 wrote:
with my screen name, I'm a little surprised that no one has come knocking on my door.

Because you've said many times that you call the cops if anyone comes to your door unannounced smile

Dona Worry Be Happy · Vette's SS!!

NAOW wrote:
ed11563 wrote:
with my screen name, I'm a little surprised that no one has come knocking on my door.

Because you've said many times that you call the cops if anyone comes to your door unannounced

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Dona Worry Be Happy · Vette's SS!!

My original original name--back in 04-- was Elsa of Nottingham. It was based off of a play I was in at the time. I loved the character. I mostly hung around the Mens Health section of MSN. It was literally all gay men, plus one other woman, Gypsy something, I think. (I was super excited to see burns on GT because I thought he was a member I was very fond of, burnsUncut07, but no. It was a sad moment. Not that burns isn't great.)
I changed it to DragonQueenElsa when I was both the Queen of England, and a rampaging dragon in a later play. I had that for a while, then I started getting harassed and bullied a bit. This was after they shut down the mens health part, and reconfigured the site. I couldn't find my friends again, and found the MM board a totally different ball game. I have to say, 90% of how I feel about gays dates back to the welcome I got in the mens health, and the easy friendship I found there. The mm boards were a total shock. I had NO idea how catty and snide people could be in the internet until then. One poster in particular (who I was sad to see later graduated to GT) would follow me from post to post and attack EVERYTHING I said. It was insane. Anywaaaaaaaaaays. . ..
I changed it to Dona Policia after a nickname I got from refusing to allow people to ride in my car without wearing a seatbelt. Oddly, people who attacked and mocked DragonQueenElsa were welcoming and lovely to Dona Policia. What is in a name, indeed.
When I moved to GT, I had trouble signing up, so PBJ said he would set up an account. He asked if I wanted the same name, I said no, pick a different one, but it has to have Dona. He gave me this one, and I love it!

-- Edited by Dona Worry Be Happy on Tuesday 21st of October 2014 10:24:52 PM

Rita-No Salt · Regular

I like my margaritas with -No Salt

NAOW · Vette's SS

Rita-No Salt wrote:
I like my margaritas with -No Salt

MMM. Margaritas. I just realized it has been way too long since I have had one. But I like them with salt. On the rocks.

Bonny22Pye · Guru

I had two cats
Bonny Lee
And
Pyewacket

aergia · Regular

Aergia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aergia (Greek: Ἀεργία, "inactivity")[1] is a goddess in Greek mythology, a personification of sloth and laziness. She is the daughter of Aether and Gaia. She is said to guard the court of Hypnos in the Underworld.[2]

Aergia is the transliteration of the Latin Socordia, or Ignavia. She was transliterated to Greek because Hyginus mentioned her based on a Greek source, and thus can be considered as both a Greek and Roman goddess. Her opposite character is Horme, a goddess of effort.[3]

Not Greek, but the first of the Greek deities I could identify with.

NO one is ever invited to my house no one...except Scottish Lass (blast from the past)

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

aergia wrote:
Aergia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aergia (Greek: Ἀεργία, "inactivity")[1] is a goddess in Greek mythology, a personification of sloth and laziness. She is the daughter of Aether and Gaia. She is said to guard the court of Hypnos in the Underworld.[2]

Aergia is the transliteration of the Latin Socordia, or Ignavia. She was transliterated to Greek because Hyginus mentioned her based on a Greek source, and thus can be considered as both a Greek and Roman goddess. Her opposite character is Horme, a goddess of effort.[3]

Not Greek, but the first of the Greek deities I could identify with.

NO one is ever invited to my house no one...except Scottish Lass (blast from the past)

I remember her! Hope she's doing okay.

flan

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

Mine is pretty easy to figure out. I'm a mom, living in Fort Worth. wink

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Fort Worth Mom wrote:
Mine is pretty easy to figure out. I'm a mom, living in Fort Worth.

NO!!!

Tell the truth: You're really a pissed-off penguin.

flan

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

flan327 wrote:
Fort Worth Mom wrote:
Mine is pretty easy to figure out. I'm a mom, living in Fort Worth.
NO!!!
Tell the truth: You're really a pissed-off penguin.
flan

"Pete" isn't pissed off. He's supposed to look intimidating!! wink

Okay, a little background on "Pete the Penguin". He's is the mascot for Youngstown State University, where I went to school.

Youngstown State is the only university in the country, that has a penguin for a mascot! biggrin

ed11563 · Guru

Fort Worth Mom wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Fort Worth Mom wrote:
Mine is pretty easy to figure out. I'm a mom, living in Fort Worth.
NO!!!
Tell the truth: You're really a pissed-off penguin.
flan
"Pete" isn't pissed off. He's supposed to look intimidating!!
Okay, a little background on "Pete the Penguin". He's is the mascot for Youngstown State University, where I went to school.
Youngstown State is the only university in the country, that has a penguin for a mascot!

Is that because its so coooooooooooooooold and snowy in Youngstown??? smile

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

Is that because its so coooooooooooooooold and snowy in Youngstown??? smile

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Not really, ed. I know the story dates back to the 30's. It had to do with the basketball team. I'll try to find it.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Fort Worth Mom wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Fort Worth Mom wrote:
Mine is pretty easy to figure out. I'm a mom, living in Fort Worth.
NO!!!
Tell the truth: You're really a pissed-off penguin.
flan
"Pete" isn't pissed off. He's supposed to look intimidating!!
Okay, a little background on "Pete the Penguin". He's is the mascot for Youngstown State University, where I went to school.
Youngstown State is the only university in the country, that has a penguin for a mascot!

Sorry...but he kinda fails there... evileye

flan

FNW · Guru

When I initially discovered the MSN boards, I posted on marriage and couplehood asking for advice on my situation. I was the "new" wife to my husband and my MIL kept in touch with the sister of my husband's ex-wife, which made me a little uncomfortable. The advice I received made me feel better about my situation and was very helpful.

Bored at my old job, I wandered over to the dating heaven and hell board and would post advice there. The singles over there felt intimidated and thought I was mocking them because of my screen name, "new_wife." So I decided to change my name, and had the members of DHH take a vote. FNW won out. It is short for formerly new_wife.

TrudyML · Guru

We loved you there, FNW! We were a fun group!

FNW · Guru

Yeah eventually I was even voted "best advice." Remember the awards we would hold every year? Too much fun.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

FNW wrote:
When I initially discovered the MSN boards, I posted on marriage and couplehood asking for advice on my situation. I was the "new" wife to my husband and my MIL kept in touch with the sister of my husband's ex-wife, which made me a little uncomfortable. The advice I received made me feel better about my situation and was very helpful.

Bored at my old job, I wandered over to the dating heaven and hell board and would post advice there. The singles over there felt intimidated and thought I was mocking them because of my screen name, "new_wife." So I decided to change my name, and had the members of DHH take a vote. FNW won out. It is short for formerly new_wife.

Duh!!!

I did not know that.

flan

TrudyML · Guru

FNW wrote:
Yeah eventually I was even voted "best advice." Remember the awards we would hold every year? Too much fun.

Oh, yeah. I won most popular and person to have a beer with. REmember? Whats his face was PO'ed.

TrudyML · Guru

flan, she has monogrammed towels with FNW on them!

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

TrudyML wrote:
FNW wrote:
Yeah eventually I was even voted "best advice." Remember the awards we would hold every year? Too much fun.
Oh, yeah. I won most popular and person to have a beer with. REmember? Whats his face was PO'ed.

I used to lurk there!

flan

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

TrudyML wrote:
flan, she has monogrammed towels with FNW on them!

Oh, totally cool!

flan

TrudyML · Guru

You must remember me then, flannie!

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

TrudyML wrote:
You must remember me then, flannie!

You've been causing trouble for a LONG time...

I also lurked on the Health threads, including one on Depression. There was one poster who was bipolar & had 2 kids. She wrote the most heart-breaking posts. She had another baby & let her brother (I think) adopt him.

flan

TrudyML · Guru

All in good fun!

-The Troublemaker

FNW · Guru

Was that Andy, Trudy? He's a bit of a snit. We used to be friends on FB. I'm still friends with his wife...the one he met on DHH...can't remember her SN.

TrudyML · Guru

Yeah, the ones who met & married? Still buddies with his old roommate.

Ilumine · Regular

lilyofcourse wrote:
Well I think everyone from MM knows my story.

Mine started out as lilyvonshtoop. After the Madeline Kahn character Lily VonShtup from Blazzing Saddles.

When the mess started over there my screen name got banded cause it was too close to swearing I guess, so I changed my screen name and then they imposed a posting limit for new posters and I just kept using forms of the same name so I wouldn't confuse anyone.

lilyofcourse stuck.

It became down right comical.

My License plate sais Schtupp (I added the C and P because people thought I was saying shut up) and the Car's name is Lily.

So far only my husband grasps what Schtupp means....but we lived in Germany.

Blazing Saddles is one of my most favorite movies.

FNW · Guru

TrudyML wrote:
Yeah, the ones who met & married? Still buddies with his old roommate.

Mike?

FNW · Guru

OMG! I just googled schtupp.

Ilumine · Regular

Back in 1998 I got my first AOL account. I literally opened up the dictionary to a random page and pointed to a random word.

Illumine. - to illuminate.

Only problem was, someone else had the iLLumine name, so I dropped one 'L'.

JPT · Senior Member

I was justplaintired on the original MM board. Shortened it up after folks just started using the JPT abbreviation.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

FNW wrote:
OMG! I just googled schtupp.

TrudyML · Guru

Yep, Mike.

JPT · Senior Member

Okay I'm kind of surprised that schtupp isn't as well known. I guess it's all where you grew up.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

JPT wrote:
Okay I'm kind of surprised that schtupp isn't as well known. I guess it's all where you grew up.

That surprised me too!

flan

DemoniaD · Senior Member

I love these stories! I'd never heard many of them!

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

When I joined the MSN boards I had just bought my new Lexus & was over the moon in love with it. I added the extra X because MSN wouldn't let me have the name with only one X for some reason.

JPT · Senior Member

One of my customers is named Lexxie (close with the extra x)

jlbear71 · Guru

I've had this moniker since I signed up for an intranet account way back in early interweb days (anyone remember Prodigy?). It's my maiden name initials, what I collected at the time (not anymore) and the year I was born. I've always been JLBear71. I have a few other ones but this is the one I have always come back to.

JPT · Senior Member

I remember Prodigy, it was my first online experience!

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

Mine was yahoo chat.... ohhh , was I shocked. I was new to the internet chat thing and had no clue how perverted people could be. I went into a chat room called Golden Showers..... honestly, I thought it was like rain drops and sunshine stuff. Oh my Gosh! NOPE!

JPT · Senior Member

Southern_Belle wrote:
Mine was yahoo chat.... ohhh , was I shocked. I was new to the internet chat thing and had no clue how perverted people could be. I went into a chat room called Golden Showers..... honestly, I thought it was like rain drops and sunshine stuff. Oh my Gosh! NOPE!

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-- Edited by JPT on Wednesday 22nd of October 2014 05:02:55 PM

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

JPT wrote:
Southern_Belle wrote:
Mine was yahoo chat.... ohhh , was I shocked. I was new to the internet chat thing and had no clue how perverted people could be. I went into a chat room called Golden Showers..... honestly, I thought it was like rain drops and sunshine stuff. Oh my Gosh! NOPE!

-- Edited by JPT on Wednesday 22nd of October 2014 05:02:55 PM

The chat rooms were a rude awakening indeed. Wow.

A hilarious read though. wink

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

I was sooooo innocent! I was almost 30, but had never been exposed to something like that.

Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

Fort Worth Mom wrote:
Is that because its so coooooooooooooooold and snowy in Youngstown???
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Not really, ed. I know the story dates back to the 30's. It had to do with the basketball team. I'll try to find it.

As a Youngstown native myself, I know the story ! If you can't find it let me know and I can fill in.

burns07 · Guru

burns is one of my middle names and '07 is the year became entangled in the m&m mess that evolved to here