Explain your user name

[Maddie]

Im a long time member but missed this one. I was Amanda Rose for years which was my real name + Rose from Rose Madder and then i changed it to Maddie which is my nickname Mandy + Madder from Rose Madder.

My custom title under my avatar is a memento, those were some of the very last words John (Dalglish) posted on the board, next to very last, that i could carry along with me here.

 

[Dana Jean]

Im a long time member but missed this one. I was Amanda Rose for years which was my real name + Rose from Rose Madder and then i changed it to Maddie which is my nickname Mandy + Madder from Rose Madder.

My custom title under my avatar is a memento, those were some of the very last words John (Dalglish) posted on the board, next to very last, that i could carry along with me here.

You and John were working on an autism project because of your daughter. If I can ask, how is she doing? How old is she now? Wow. That was a long time ago.

 

[mal]

It's nice to read these name origins. Thanks danie for bumping it up. I'm Malcolm. Family and friends call me Mal. I'm lazy with the caps. Not much imagination or insight. I also go by "Bad in French".

 

[rockerchick]

I named myself after an Oscar Wilde composition, not a member of Kiss.

 

[Baby Blue]

I explained this elsewhere but may as well put it here as well with a bit of backstory. A long, long time ago I was the top poster on the Liz Phair forum (RIP). My name there was Baby Blue which I had selected not due to any Liz Phair connection but due to my love of the Emiliana Torrini song by that name. Anyway, for quite a few years, I was called Baby Blue (or just Baby) by my online family more regularly than I was called by my real name (Christine) in real life. It just feels like being home to be back on a message board under my old name. <3

 

[Maddie]

quoting Dana Jean ...

You and John were working on an autism project because of your daughter. If I can ask, how is she doing? How old is she now? Wow. That was a long time ago.

We sure did, he had the best ideas for projects! The Autism and Horror as we called got left sitting undone in time but we enjoyed every minute of it. You won't believe she is 17 now! She is doing Wonderful!!! Always new challenges especially being a teenager has a whole new variety of them, but We are Blessed and Thankful working our way through to success. I'm not allowed to talk about her or post her pictures on the internet anymore, lol, not surprising from a teenage girl but I might can sneak one in sometime.

Shes very good with computers and taking lots of computer courses Audio/Video, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts and Business Technology. She also is taking courses in Culinary Arts. Shes still in therapy for 30 minute session once per week, but her Autism overall, would be mild mostly and slightly moderate only at times so she has come a long way. Thank you for asking about her Dana Jean.

 

[Dana Jean]

quoting Dana Jean ...

We sure did, he had the most brilliant ideas for projects! The Autism and Horror as we called got left sitting undone in time but we enjoyed every minute of it. You won't believe she is 17 now! She is doing Wonderful!!! Always new challenges especially being a teenager has a whole new variety of them, but We are Blessed and Thankful working our way through to success. I'm not allowed to talk about her or post her pictures on the internet anymore, lol, not surprising from a teenage girl but I might can sneak one in sometime.

Shes very good with computers and taking lots of computer courses Audio/Video, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts and Business Technology. She also is taking courses in Culinary Arts. Shes still in therapy for 30 minute session once per week, but her Autism overall, would be mild mostly and slightly moderate only at times so she has come a long way. Thank you for asking about her Dana Jean.

This sounds very good! Glad to hear she is doing so well!

 

[Mr. Chips]

I have three hunting dogs and they are like my children to me. So, to say the least dogs are a big part of my life. I wanted to choose a name that both fit SK but also fit my canine obsession. Mr. Chips was mike Hanlon's dog in IT. I wanted kojak but it was taken, I also wanted to steer clear of cujo!

 

[Mel217]

I have three hunting dogs and they are like my children to me. So, to say the least dogs are a big part of my life. I wanted to choose a name that both fit SK but also fit my canine obsession. Mr. Chips was mike Hanlon's dog in IT. I wanted kojak but it was taken, I also wanted to steer clear of cujo!

I guessed Mr. Chips correctly!!!! Confetti party for me!

 

[Mel217]

Mine's boring. Mel's the name, and room 217 is one scary place in my favorite SK novel.

 

[Ebdim9th]

Some of you have read this before but, what the hey, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow's boyfriend Oz is a musician, but also an existentialist slacker, if he can get there with the least amount of effort, then that's the way he'll do, or not do a thing. If he can pursue some grand unattainable idea, or even just a small one, people will see he's working toward a great goal and leave him to his 'shoe-gazing'. Hence, this conversation with Willow:

WILLOW
Hey . . .





OZ
Did you decide? Are you gonna become
a corporate computer suit guy?




WILLOW
Uh, I think I'm gonna finish high
school first. What about you?




OZ
I'm not really a computer person. Or
a work of any kind person.




WILLOW
Then why'd they select you?




OZ
I sort of test well. Which is cool,
except then it leads to jobs.




WILLOW
Well, don't you have some ambition?




OZ
Oh, yeah. E flat, diminished 9th.




WILLOW
Huh?




OZ
The E flat's doable, but it's that
diminished 9th . . . that's a man's
chord. You could lose a finger.


He smiles. Willow smiles too - not sure what to make of him.

He's not a big fan of working, hence the 'ambitious pursuit' of the phantom chord.

 

[Tery]

I love Oz. "On my trout." The man is never linear.

My user name is my name. Boring.

 

[Steffen]

I named myself after an Oscar Wilde composition, not a member of Kiss.

Either one is cool by me. I love em both.

 

[Ebdim9th]

I love Oz. "On my trout." The man is never linear.

My user name is my name. Boring.

"....A hootenanny, well it's chock full of hoot, and just a little bit of nanny" Another favorite Oz quote for me ...

 

[Zone D Dad]

Love this thread! I have 3 kids. My wife and I were in a conversation one night and were talking about how parenting is like sports: with one child, you play double-coverage (advantage mom & dad), two children: man-to-man, and with three kids you play zone defense.

 

[ghost19]

Ghost-my inner circle accepted nickname when I worked at the police department in CID. I had a bad habit of walking up behind people without them realizing I was behind them.
I also had a couple other nicknames "Nancy", "Brittany"...both due to "Shannon" being historically a female name so the guys thought I should go ahead and have a less ambiguous female name...lol
19-Ode to Mr. King's favorite number
Ghost19

 

[Mel217]

Ghost-my inner circle accepted nickname when I worked at the police department in CID. I had a bad habit of walking up behind people without them realizing I was behind them.

Ghost19

Lawdy lawdy...we must be out of the same boat as I've been told I'm able to dematerialize. I used to piss my friends off royally whenever we would go somewhere because I would be walking behind them, duck for cover and make them stop a few paces ahead looking around wondering where the heck I went. I'd walk beside and behind one and, being really really quick and really really quiet, dart over to their opposite side, still behind them, and wait for them to turn their head to say something to me and look like fools because I was on the opposite side.
It's fun being able to walk as silently as a cat

 

[Grandpa]

Ghost-my inner circle accepted nickname when I worked at the police department in CID. I had a bad habit of walking up behind people without them realizing I was behind them.
I also had a couple other nicknames "Nancy", "Brittany"...both due to "Shannon" being historically a female name so the guys thought I should go ahead and have a less ambiguous female name...lol
19-Ode to Mr. King's favorite number
Ghost19

Lawdy lawdy...we must be out of the same boat as I've been told I'm able to dematerialize. I used to piss my friends off royally whenever we would go somewhere because I would be walking behind them, duck for cover and make them stop a few paces ahead looking around wondering where the heck I went. I'd walk beside and behind one and, being really really quick and really really quiet, dart over to their opposite side, still behind them, and wait for them to turn their head to say something to me and look like fools because I was on the opposite side.
It's fun being able to walk as silently as a cat

I relate. I've waited for people in their office, and they look up, startled that I'm there. One guy said, "For a big guy, you sure move quiet." (I'm not that big.)

I think that for some people, moving quietly is one more element of being satisfactorily self-contained.

 

[recitador]

I've been compared to the butler in mr deeds, despite being somewhat big and not making any particular effort to be quiet.

 

[Neesy]

Ghost-my inner circle accepted nickname when I worked at the police department in CID. I had a bad habit of walking up behind people without them realizing I was behind them.
I also had a couple other nicknames "Nancy", "Brittany"...both due to "Shannon" being historically a female name so the guys thought I should go ahead and have a less ambiguous female name...lol
19-Ode to Mr. King's favorite number
Ghost19

Oh

Spoiler

Tiffany

- you're so funny!



Sometimes, thanks to autocorrect, I've been called "Needy" on here