What inspired your name?

[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.

[30RatsinaCoat]

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

[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.

[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".

[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)

[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".

[Fudi]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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%

[BeeAre]

my initials are B.R. thus BeeAre

[imported_alina]

maradnu

maradnu, that's really cool! You know that people who converted to Judaism by choice, without having any ulterior motives, are considered even more Jewish than the people who were born Jewish, because conscious choice is more important than what you are born as, which you have no control over.

[gaberg21]

my name

well, my name is Gabe and my middle name starts with an r and my last name starts with a g. The 21 is my birthday which is May 21

[badbob]

many years ago, a friend and i decided that we needed nicknames so we became badbob and super sal (we were kids) the names stuck as did the friendship we were close for over fifty years until he passed away from ALS i still miss him