Comments | ellisbell: <br />Tell me about your name!<br />

ellisbell

Tell me about your name!

Jun 04, 2017 12:21

As I try to decide what I want my new journal name to be (I have it narrowed down to three and can't decide which one I like best), I realized I don't know what most of my friends' user names mean, and now I'm curious.

If you feel comfortable sharing, I'd love to know how you came up with your name and why you chose it. I can't believe I've known ( Read more... )

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gwendally June 4 2017, 20:18:45 UTC

My true name is Wendalyn. Most people call me Wendy, but I call myself Dally.

Playing D&D many years ago I had an elf called Gwendal. It all flows together.

ellisbell June 4 2017, 21:29:30 UTC

I had an elf called Gwendal

Oh, I love that!

Thanks; I have always wondered about your name.

ellisbell June 4 2017, 21:30:17 UTC

Do your clients know you as Wendy or Dally? Or Wendalyn? Or rather, what is your professional name?

suegypt June 4 2017, 23:34:54 UTC

I think i've said this before, but Suegypt is something Mr.'s old friends called me back in the day, as they were all fans of Captain Beefheart, as am I. He had a song called Sue Egypt, and my name is Sue, so. I saw no need for the extra e

ellisbell June 6 2017, 20:43:45 UTC

I think you've told me before too...but always good to be reminded. My memory ain't what it used to be...

pandorasfox June 5 2017, 16:32:38 UTC

my original LJ name was foxxfire9 after my old email address and as a kid my mom had a set of those foxfire books and I thought they were fabulous. When I wanted to let go of the old I still wanted to keep part of my name and most of my LJ friends would refer to me as foxx or foxxy when tagging me in stuff. I like the funny play on Pandora's box, so Pandora's fox it was.

and this seems really strange now, but I don't remember how we met on here.

ellisbell June 6 2017, 20:43:22 UTC

I know it was around 2011 because that's when we were in Elgin. And I think it was that I got to know you in the comments of someone else's journal (ilwitchgrrl?)

pandorasfox June 6 2017, 21:03:32 UTC

it must have been a community or something, I don't know her and we don't have any friends in common lol

lab_jazz June 6 2017, 12:29:23 UTC

The origins of my user name is somewhat boring...

On forums I have the username "catgirl", but when I was setting up my Live Journal account that name was already taken.
I hadn't thought much about user names before starting the process as I expected to be 'catgirl'

I kept trying name after name after name after name, but LJ kept coming up with reasons on why I couldn't have them.

In sheer desperation I used the first three initials of my maiden name followed by_jazz. I choose 'jazz' simply because at the time my daughter was in the next room playing jazz on her sax.
As a user name I don't think that it's very good

ellisbell June 6 2017, 20:41:47 UTC

I don't think it's boring, I think it's interesting. Similarly, I've chosen passwords based on what music was playing at that moment!

Yeah, LJ keeps telling me I can't have a name for one reason or another, and it's not always because someone else has the name, but it won't tell me why I can't use it. LJ is a woefully ancient platform in many ways - I wish they'd do a major upgrade.