Naming Names

[babewithbrains_14]

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? :D) 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!

[Mirelly]

Mirelly was the name of a character in a novel by Larry Niven :)

[suitemichelle]

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.

[Lynet]

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. :rolleyes: Ah, yes. That's me, a BIG butterfly.

[person123]

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! :p

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...

[MegRen]

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.

[Lynet]

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. :o

[jupitershana]

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.

[person123]

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. :rolleyes:

[surprised_by_witches]

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.

[SolidSnake_19]

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. :p 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. ;)

[ManagerJosh]

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.

Heh..could not resist...

[jupitershana]

YAY! Alright, thanks Josh! I'm thinking that might become my new avatar...maybe... Kind of hard to give up my little kitty Addie.

[Mirelly]

Mirelly, may I ask which Larry Niven book? I read a couple a long time ago. :o

It was A World Out Of Time (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345336968/sr=8-1/qid=1140508187/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7803265-4226350?%5Fencoding=UTF8) :)

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 :eek:

[babewithbrains_14]

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!])

[Lynet]

It was A World Out Of Time (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345336968/sr=8-1/qid=1140508187/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7803265-4226350?%5Fencoding=UTF8) :)Thanks, Mirelly. I almost ordered it before remembering that I've about 6 other books I've started and haven't finished :o 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. :rolleyes: 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.

[alliekat]

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 :D

[Mirelly]

Oh, I love the name Alice! Please don't take this wrong ... :o 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.

[babewithbrains_14]

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.

[OinkUsed2BABunny]

I think a few people here know where my name comes from. I'll let them reveal the source.

[suitemichelle]

but oink what they want to know is what your real name is too...

By the way, SBW, I think you ought to send that story to readers digest... I've been laughing periodically since reading it. Your daughter is quite a wit.

[surprised_by_witches]

You don't know the half of it. I've got an entire list of things she's said that have cracked me up.

She's a poet, too, a really good one, and I'm not just saying that because I'm her mother.

She made this one up when she was two:

The petals fall from the trees like leaves.
I play in the petals like leaves, like fall.

[babewithbrains_14]

That is so amazing! Your daughter is talented, in case you didn't know already.

[Lynet]

That is so amazing! Your daughter is talented, in case you didn't know already.Mother and daughter, both. :)

[surprised_by_witches]

OK, now I'm blushing.

Sometimes I just gotta brag, I guess ... :o

[sailorchiiavalon]

I came up with SailorChiiAvalon because its references to the three anime I love - Sailor Moon, Chobits and Card Captor Sakura.

My real name is Charlotte.

I love books too. I've got like three boxes full that I said I would read but physically haven't been at home to read them! :rolleyes: Plus when I move in with my boyfriend I will be taking them with me.

I love the names Michelle, Alice and Shana. Mirelly is a great name too, very different.

[Sacharissa]

Apparently, Sacharissa is the name of a character in a Terry Pratchet novel (whom I've recently discovered, and have been enjoying immensely), but that's not where I got it. I actually ran across the name during my "salad days" as a young English Literature major...Sacharissa was the name given by 17th Century Poet Edmund Waller to his love in some of his poems.

I always loved the name, and so years later, when I started venturing out into the wonderful new world of the Internet, that's the name I chose...:o

[Kimblee]

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. :rolleyes:

It was pretty retarded, but It was my first anime, therefore it has a special place in my heart too...

Kimblee comes from the awesome character of Full Metal alchemist who blows things up... gleefully... seriously, he like gets some sort of pleasure from it. :D And I once attempted rocket skates with bottle rockets and earned that nickname after my friend got done laughing at the fact i burnt the hair off my legs.

My real name is Emaleigh (pronounced Emily) Katelyn.

Which I used to hate, but grew into.

Doesn't stop everyone from knowing me as Kat however.

[Your Mom]

My real name is Chenee (pronounced Shay-nee), and I am 17. I don't know how I got this username, I guess it's because my sisters and I have gotten into a phase where, if we don't know the answer to a question, we just say "Your mom". =P

[Lynet]

I don't have any sisters. I've always wondered what it would be like. :cool:

[alliekat]

I have 2. They drive me mental. Even though I'm not living in the same house as them anymore, they still drive me mental. Love them dearly though.:D

[babewithbrains_14]

I'm an only child.

[surprised_by_witches]

I'm the oldest of three. I have one brother, and a baby sister who turns 36 this year (it's her Chinese year!)

Love 'em both to death. We live close enough to get on each other's nerves once in a while, but that's a good thing. I could walk to their houses if the stupid freeway wasn't in the way. They're both happily attached to wonderful people, and my brother is the daddy of the world's cutest toddler. She's simply delightful.

We once played a guessing game and were on the same team. Now our friends won't let us do that anymore. :o We tend to think alike, anyway, and of course we grew up together, so all we had to say was, "remember that time in so-and-so's basement?" and the other person would be like, "Gilligan's Island!" or whatever.

We fought like cats and dogs as kids, at least my brother fought with us girls. The two of us girls got along great. Now that we're adults I'm close with them both, though I'm more like my brother than my sister.

We're all kinda Bohemian artist types and left-wing politically. My Republican, conservative parents aren't quite sure what happened. :p

[Your Mom]

I have two sisters who are both younger than me, and an older brother. I share a room with my 14 year old sister, and sometimes we get into arguments over the stupidest things, but you gotta love her. It's in the job description. =P
My ten year old sister is a moody cow a lot of the time (I'm dreading when she hits 13!), but she's still cute.

[Kimblee]

I have two sisters who are both younger than me, and an older brother. I share a room with my 14 year old sister, and sometimes we get into arguments over the stupidest things, but you gotta love her. It's in the job description. =P
My ten year old sister is a moody cow a lot of the time (I'm dreading when she hits 13!), but she's still cute.

Older sister, 22, wonderful.
Older brother, 23, I like him, don't think he likes me.
Younger brother, 13, wish he would drop off the planet...

seriously, he's awful. when he was little, used to rejoice in ruining my reputation in front of company... would tell them I was psychotic... his mom taught him that... now that I'm doing really well and he's not... suddenly I should be more tolerant of him...

Thank the lord above I don't live with him and his freak of a mother... he's so spoiled, and I know every older sister says that but its true.

Of course, they are all stepsiblings... But I love the first two, and try hard to love that last one.

Sisters are a blessing! I love mine so much it hurts. :D

[person123]

I have an older sister and an older brother. Sister is 15, brother is 14. Yeah...I love my sister, but sometimes I wish my brother would just stay in his room all day. :mad:

[Kimblee]

I have an older sister and an older brother. Sister is 15, brother is 14. Yeah...I love my sister, but sometimes I wish my brother would just stay in his room all day. :mad:

I finally just kicked my little brother's kiester.... he got on my nerves too often, so I gave him one heck of a kick in the unmentionables, and when he tried to hit me back cried like the girl i am, and got HIM in trouble.

They couldn't prove I started it, and I had a big bruise...

It was the one time I actually managed to not get blamed... and the only time I ever started it.:D

[Mirelly]

Makes note to keep out of Kimblee's way ... :o

[suitemichelle]

or at least stay on her good side.

[ManagerJosh]

*doesn't want to cross Kimblee's path in a Dark Alley*

[babewithbrains_14]

*Thinks this is the second time Josh has ever replied to a thread begun by moi.*

The other time was the infamous Josh praise thread.

[Chee-Z]

Proper Name: Rebecca
Nickname & Preferred Name: Becky
Origins of Online Name: My brother played Counter-Strike back in the day, and was known as the Czar of Cheese. :rolleyes: Taking a cue from him, I called myself CheezyMuffin on CS and other online games and I then shortened it to Chee-Z (Cheezy) when I first started foruming on gamers.com. I've been using it as a screen name/forum name ever since, with the occassional change like Beckercheez or something. Kinda brief but oh well. :) Funny enough, I met my boyfriend on gamers.com and his online name is Apocalypse Cow...Chee-Z and Apocalypse Cow...teehee :D

[Sylla]

I have used the name Sylla since I first got on the net way back in 2002, I just couldn't find a nicname that I liked, when I came accross the word syllabub, it's some kind of French coffee with cream, but anyways, I liked the word so that's been my nic ever since.

[Kimblee]

:D

look at all the peoples...

But the little {censored} was asking for it... he had been threatening to shoot me w/ his new BB gun all day...

and he got just what he deserved...

A week later, i find out my dad broke the gun because he shot my dad in a certain place...

about and inch above where I kicked my brother in fact.

(Was I vauge enough, I hope I stayed family friendly)

[suitemichelle]

hey ems, if its any consolation my daughter is an only child too. She hates it...

[surprised_by_witches]

My daughter adores being an only child. She has a friend with a pesky little brother (aren't they all, at five?) and she's very glad to come home afterwards.

I think she might have liked a sister, but of course you can't guarantee these things ...

We have a dog instead. :D

[babewithbrains_14]

I don't even get a dog. I had a cat (two, actually) but they both died. We've had several zillion goldfish, but they usually last 2 days. Usually because they're the ones you win from the fair. So far, this post isn't writing me off as a very nice person, so I'll shut up.

Oh, well. I got you guys.

[Mirelly]

Ems, those aren't really goldfish from the fair. They're either slices of carrot or sticklebacks from the village stream wot have had their dorsal spines trimmed off with nail-clippers and then dyed yellow with turmeric. I doubt anything would live for more than two days after that kind of abuse :rolleyes:

[babewithbrains_14]

Tiny Tim wasn't a goldfish? :eek: :(

[Lynet]

:rotfl: Babe, you have no equal.