WHY did you pick your NAME here???

[Flabingo]

Mine is pretty simple - flamingos are my favorite animal and my oldest niece used to call me "fancy".

[Rob in PA]

Stay with me, here goes.... My name is Rob and I live in Pa.

..Sorry, butt thats the extent of my screen name creativity


Rob in the Allegheny mountain/Eastern Continental divide region of southcentral/southwest pennsylvania

[justin case]

I have said many times that I was really down, and I knew somewhere on the internet, I would find some humor about colon cancer. I read something that was humorous, but realized I was on a forum of what seemed to be very knowledgeable people. I have never been fond of internet social media, as I am really a computer idiot. When I was going to school, they didn't have calculators, that were not attached to a cord, (of course unless it was an abacus ).
Now for the screen name
I was out having a beer one night, and I met this musician, Isaac Payton Sweat. Isaac, took an old folk song, and wrote his own set of words to it. In Texas, we call it the Cotton eyed Joe. Well one of Isaac's best friends, was Justin Case.
As I queried over such an unusual name, and obviously parents with a sense of humor, it just hung in the back of my mind.
So, as I am a computer invalid, I was certainly not going to use my name, and the analogy unfolded in my very overwrought situation, that I better join this club, just in case I could learn something. To whom it may concern, I learned a lot.
Warm regards,
Michael

[CRguy]

Just as an FYI backgrounder for many newer members .... we had this topic on forum a few years back and you might like to know a few other stories behind names. Many of us are still active here ..... BUTT .....
Alert for veteran members ...... there are many folks in the topic who are no longer with us.

OT- So what does your username mean???

Cheers
CRguy

[nitebreez]

Well,....for one thing, it's a username that I've used for quite sometime in Linux and computer forums. Since the early 1990's, actually. And secondly,...I used to work the night shifts a lot. "Instrumentation Technician" at a large citrus juice plant,...then went into health care. Night shifts, of course.

Now I'm retired, and not so much of a night owl,...but the name seems to still stick. Besides, the soft night winds can be really nice down here in the "Sunshine State" ....if it aien't raining, that is.

[WifeOfMike]

what gives with the mysterious abbreviations OT, YMMV, and other such stuff you slap out here CRGuy????
Or is that a prehistoric.... .... I mean historical topic too Kemo Sabe???
GEEZ.......... you are like me with medical research........... loaded for BEAR!!! Then I see how many zillion posts you have done here

I'm going to have fun with that list..... I can tell...... if it is anything like YOUR EARLY TIPSY POSTS......hehehehehehehehe
Vicki

[drebay]

what gives with the mysterious abbreviations OT, YMMV, and other such stuff you slap out here CRGuy????
Or is that a prehistoric.... .... I mean historical topic too Kemo Sabe???
Vicki

Hey, 2 that I actually know! I'll let him explain in his way.

[SugarBubbie]

well, my grandkids call me Bubbie...(I've always liked that for a granny name) and .......DRUM ROLL PLEASE......I live in Sugar Land TX. How sweet is that???

[ziggymonster]

Ziggymonster was my dear poodle that died from cancer sleeping next to me. She was originally Ziggy but in her early years she was beyond wild.....used to eat all my tomatoes from the garden...I thought it was raccoons but finally caught her pulling them off the plants. She would race around the house like she had itchy hemorrhoids, knocking all the cushions off the furniture , tear up the bed.... blankets sheets everywhere....she was a crackup I miss her dearly.She would sit for hours looking out the window at the birds in my feeder...almost like a cat.

[PGLGreg]

It's rather involved and totally uninteresting.

[sofarsogood]

Pretty basic here. Dx'ed in Sept. '10 stage 2a, surgery only with no chemo. Almost 4 years NED so it's "sofarsogood". Hope I never have to change the name .

[drebay]

It's rather involved and totally uninteresting.

Now you're teasing us...

[Delinda]

CRGuy, I laughed hysterically at the old thread you shared on user names. Great stuff! Thanks for a much needed laugh.

[WifeOfMike]

WELL Thanks for pushing this back up to the top & in front of my face Delinda!

I started to look at the 2010 post of names CRGuy linked here & had to break for dinner the other night.
Then I forgot like a stooge to go back to it. And now I know the story about CRGuy & the missing "C"

A lot of great stories, about a lot of great folk..........and what stood out in MY mind.... is a lot of them ARE still here with us
so knowing a little about your name choices.... we get to know a little more about US
Love YOU guys!
Vicki

[Delinda]

Vickie, I just love you! You are so full of life & fun that I start to smile when I see you've posted anything. And if you're not being a silly nut case (and I mean that in the best possible way!) you are brimming with love for someone in need. You're a hoot, a peach, a dear, and one in a zillion. Thanks for being you. XXOXO, Delinda