Naming Names Recently we were discussing names in one of the threads. I got to wondering how other people selected their user/forum name (I mean, where did 'Mirelly' come from? ) and as well, it annoys me that everybody here knows my name and I don't know theirs. I talk to you every day! So I'd like to find out out about where your forum name from. I'll start. It's like a mini bio! Proper name: Emma Preferred nickname: Em, Ems Age: 15 Where my forum name came from: I was reading a book (a teeny, girly book) and one of the girls was smart but didn't like to say so. In the end her friends helped her be more confident, and she made her email address babewithbrains. Inspired, I made a new hotmail account and called myself babewithbrains_14 (because I was 14 at the time). So as not to confuse myself I made my forum name that when I discovered this fabby site. Since then I've had 2 email addresses (oxo-emzi-oxo and the latest one, xx-princess-of-drama-xx). Share people, share!
I really am Michelle. I choose suitemichelle when I first started simming in TS1, playing on the pronunciation of suite (sweet) and the fact that sweetmichelle was already taken. Also because a suite is a group of rooms. As to age, it becomes less important the older I get. P.S. Emma has always been one of my favorite names.
Mine, too. My real name is Louise, which I've mentioned around here somewhere before and it's the name I used to register over at EA.com. The name Lynet was on impulse. If I'd given it more thought I'd have come with something more exotic and romantic, like Polikwaptiwa, which means (in Native American Hopi and according to the book in front of me,) butterfly sitting on a flower. Ah, yes. That's me, a BIG butterfly.
Proper name: Sarah Preferred nickname: Um...Sarah? Or just Person or 123, as many of you call me. I don't really mind. Age: 12 Where my forum name came from: Um...I don't know. I was feeling uncreative at the moment and decided, hey, I'm a person, and 1, 2 and 3 are the first three positive integers! Yeah, that's it. Not very interesting, I guess. Sarah is a nice enough name, I guess. It means princess in Hebrew, if I'm not mistaken. But I would've liked a cooler one, and more unique. Like...Rosemary...though it means Bitter Rose, but...
I was SOOOO creative with my name. My real first and middle names are Megan Renee. Can you guess how I got my forum nickname? Hee hee.
Emma and Sarah! I really like BOTH of those names. I don't know anyone else named Emma or Sarah. Mirelly, may I ask which Larry Niven book? I read a couple a long time ago.
Proper Name: Shana (pronounced Shay-nah) It also means beautiful in hebrew. Preferred Nickname: Shana works with me. Age: 25 Where my forum name came from: The jupiter part actually comes from back in high school when I, along with a couple other friends were obsessed with Sailor Moon. Sailor Jupiter was my favorite character and the one I was the most like. For instance: she was the tallest of the girls, I'm the tallest of that group of friends at 5'8". Pink and green are Sailor Jupiter's colors, my two favorite colors are pink and green. She also loved to cook on the show and well...that's me as well. So it just stuck in high school and I use it pretty much everywhere.
Oh my gosh, I used to watch Sailor Moon too! Now that I look back on it....it looks like the most retarded show ever. But then that's just young people--always changing their minds and such.
Surprised by witches is something my daughter came up with. She went through a phase where she said "yeah" instead of yes and I got tired of it so one day I said, "Yes mother dear, whom I prize above riches," and she said, "Yes, mother dear, surprised by witches." Still makes me laugh.
Where my forum name came from: This is a rather uninteresting story I think... I had just gained access to the internet and didn't have much originality so I was going to use my favorite videogame character's name as a handle. Of course all of the names were taken except for if digits were added... so then my internet alias was born. I then began to use this name handle at the Sims Chat commonly, and at a few other sites... and that's pretty much it. Definately a story I'll be telling my kids one day around the campfire.
YAY! Alright, thanks Josh! I'm thinking that might become my new avatar...maybe... Kind of hard to give up my little kitty Addie.
It was A World Out Of Time I can't say that it is one his best but it is writ large as is Larry's wont with characters fleeing across galaxies and time and planets being thrown about as weapons and all packed between covers no thicker than a Sims EP case. The brevity may be the main fault cos the characterisations of some of the personnae seem a little thin ... although Peersa is perhaps too glibly drawn (and thus too terrifyingly real) as an unholy cross between a soulless beaurocrat, a mindless party commissar, and a blindly unconscious Windows PC
Wow! How creative are we? I think my best name is my latest email address, the xx-princess-of-drama-xx one. My friends call me a drama queen, but I imagined that something about being a drama queen would have been taken a zillion times. And as well when I imagined a queen, a stuffy Queen Victoria came to mind. And my Dad calls me princess. And so it was born! (I love the name Sarah, and Shana, [also the pic rocks lol!])
Thanks, Mirelly. I almost ordered it before remembering that I've about 6 other books I've started and haven't finished so I just bookmarked the Amazon page for now. I don't think I've read that one although the title sounds vaguely familiar. When we moved into this house I saved my hardbacks but threw out a lot of paperbacks because my poor husband, not a reader, was so distressed about the mountains of books I'd collected over the years. He actually asked me in wonder if I'd read them all. Sure, I said, some of them several times. (Inspite of the purge my books still fill shelves in almost every room.) I'm sure my Larry Niven stories were in paperback.
Very boring origins for my name. My actual name is Alice, but friends call me Allie. I like kitties and alliekat is like alleycat. But looks nicer
Oh, I love the name Alice! Please don't take this wrong ... but Alice sounds as perfect on an old person as it does on a very young one. Some names seem old (fashioned) and some seem very avant garde ... at least where girls' names are concerned ... but some are just timeless. Lynet: been there and sobbed all the way home from the book-trader who, I am sure, ripped me off every time. I am currently into book swapping. It's a great way to read books you would otherwise walk staright past. A friend passes on a bag of books they've read and tells you that they think you'll like most of them (you do the same in return). My latest read is a travelogue written by a middle-aged Brit biker who took himself and his wife on a coast-to-coast (and back again) tour of the US on a pair of Harleys. Their trials and tribulations have been fascinating.
One of my best friends is called Eileen! I used to book swap too, until the bookshop owner had to shut down because some gangs had demanded protection money and he couldn't defend himself as he was on crutches. I eventually found the new location of the store, but the guy didn't remember me, and he closed down soon after anyway.
