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Choosing your Username

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NanKate Sun 01-Jun-14 10:07:59

Some of the names GNetters have used are obvious in how they were chosen, but others a bit more obscure.

Some I may have deciphered.

I think Numberplease must have been a telephonist at sometime.

I can't however work out Dragonfly1 or Soutra or Jinglebellsfrocks

Soutra Sun 01-Jun-14 14:07:14

DF1 - flowers what a lovely way to celebrate your DD's life. I shall think of her every time I see your username.
Mine? Just vaguely connected with my childhood stamping ground smile

sunseeker Sun 01-Jun-14 14:35:15

Mine is what I love to do!!

bikergran Sun 01-Jun-14 14:39:06

I have a motorcycle, I am a gran hence bikergran lol

bikergran Sun 01-Jun-14 14:40:51

glass when you say glassortwo you do mean "water" don't you grin!

Dragonfly1 Sun 01-Jun-14 14:44:43

Galen - not to me. Am I being thick again?

kittylester Sun 01-Jun-14 14:57:38

Dragonfly what a lovely way to remember your daughter!

Mine is my childhood nickname and my (sort of) location!

merlotgran Sun 01-Jun-14 15:20:54

That's me wrong then, kitty I thought it was a play on Ketty Lester of Love Letters fame.

Bellasnana Sun 01-Jun-14 15:24:41

Dragonfly your story has set me off again. I have a lovely dragonfly brooch given to me by my late sister. Now when I wear it I shall think of your daughter as well flowers

As to my username, I wish I had been a bit more original, but the fact remains, I am Arabella's nana smile

Galen Sun 01-Jun-14 15:36:36

Galen was a famous medieval physician. I was a doctor (now retired)

newist Sun 01-Jun-14 15:46:40

Mine is a play on words from the area I live in

besottedgran Sun 01-Jun-14 16:23:51

Mine is obvious too-- I am totally !

Lona Sun 01-Jun-14 16:30:18

Mine (third one) doesn't relate to me in any way, which is why I chose it!

Marmight Sun 01-Jun-14 16:35:08

My old name was too obvious - my name with one letter changed, so I was easily traceable. I decided on the 'brown stuff' because I love the stuff and one of my names starts with Mar (no it's not Margaret!) and I am always saying 'well, I might do this or I might do that' so a bit of a play on words wink

ninathenana Sun 01-Jun-14 16:41:08

If you belong to any other forums do you use the same name there?
I don't, mine are different.

Gagagran Sun 01-Jun-14 17:01:41

Mine is self-explanatory! grin

numberplease Sun 01-Jun-14 17:03:50

I tend to use the same name, otherwise I confuse myself, not hard to do! And yes, I was a GPO telephonist in the late 50s and early 60s.

KatyK Sun 01-Jun-14 17:04:10

Gaga grin I love your name

AlieOxon Sun 01-Jun-14 17:07:15

Mine is particular to this place....I go on a lot of family history forums and use several different ones, but one a lot more than others because otherwise it's difficult to remember who I am!

dustyangel Sun 01-Jun-14 17:21:21

Mine's a play on words of my email address.

Silverfish Sun 01-Jun-14 17:50:33

That is so sad Dragonfly, I don't know how you cope.

My name is cos I hate the little buggers who creep in my books, windowcills etc.

Penstemmon Sun 01-Jun-14 18:22:00

Mine is a typo of the plant I was looking at when thinking of a user name!

glassortwo Sun 01-Jun-14 19:49:27

No biker its milk wink

bikergran Sun 01-Jun-14 19:53:32

hmmmm...hmm smile

Pittcity Sun 01-Jun-14 20:07:32

I use the same name everywhere and have done ever since we first got an email address. Our house was "like Piccadilly Circus" (to quote my gran) and our surname is Pitt. I am not worried about being incognito yet

Silverfish Sun 01-Jun-14 20:42:57

Pittcity, did you see the documentary on channel 4 about the family called Pitt from Ashington, Northumberland, they were the neighbours from hell.