What inspired your name?

[BeeAre]

my initials are B.R. thus BeeAre

[maradnu]

FWIW - I got DNA testing and it basically confirmed what I found through genealogy research - the northwestern Europe includes France and the low countries

England, Wales & Northwestern Europe - 62%
Germanic Europe - 25%
Ireland & Scotland - 13%

[nedzeppelin1453]

My name is Ned, and the zeppelin part is just a play on words off Led Zeppelin. There was some problem when I was first creating an account, so I went through nedzeppelin1, 2, and 3, and each time, I wasn't able to log back in. I stopped doing cryptos and came back a while later and chose a number I would remember. 1453 . . . the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans's and Gutenberg's printing press.

[GNDN]

I am a Star Trek fan, I grew up watching the original series in the 70's. I read that on set, some of the pipes and conduits were marked GNDN - Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing.

[glassguy]

There are a lot of interesting "screen-name" stories here. Mine was easy to come by--I do stained glass, and have been, for fun and pleasure, for the past 25 years.
Incidentally, Barnabas, I grew up in a Funeral Home. Didn't know you could talk above a whisper in the house until I was thirteen.

[Fudi]

Whoa, glassguy ... just like in Six Feet Under. I loved that series. Did you see/like/relate to it?

[No2son]

Quite obvious I think. For years I thought that was really my name. Our dad always introduced us by our numerical birth order.."Hey Bill, I'd like you to
meet my number 2 son".

[Eureka]

Did you make the window in your avatar, glassguy? I remember someone asked you that in the chat forum but I didn't see your reply. (or you may not have seen the question)

[Eureka]

As for my screen name, I say it in my head when I choose a letter that shows I am on the right track with a cryptogram. (Also, I like that it has double the number of vowels as consonants, because I am a word nerd.) If I choose a letter that lets me know I am completely off the mark, I use abra's "muc fu".

[glassguy]

Eureka--yes I did. I used a quilt pattern my wife brought back from Billings, MT. It took me almost as long to clean up the pattern--removing the second stitch line with Liquid Paper--as it did to do the actual glass. But it was a lot of fun, and looks good hanging in the picture window during the Christmas season.

[30RatsinaCoat]

Mine was inspired by my friends at school. They call me "Secretly thirty rats in a trench coat."

[Jrdad]

How fun to hear all of your name stories.
I was named after my father and was therefore a Jr. When my daughter was young she called me junior dad, and it stuck as a family nickname.