Your Clever SE Name
When I registered on SE, I used my plain old boring given name. Most of y'all have creative, punny, descriptive, regional, food-ish names: gastronomeg, pavlov, 1stmakearoux, climbhighinAK, yayfood, finewinedine. Even dbcurrie has a food name.
I wish I had been as clever as you. So, everyone, not just those listed above, tell me the story of your SE name.
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I just went with the name that I use for most places where I need to log in, and it's coincidental that it's food-related. I've actually considered a name change to something more in line with my food passions. But then I'd be changing my name on a regular basis. One month I'd be CheeseEater and the next it would be CookieBaker and then I'd be BreadAHolic and then it would be SmokedFood and then it would be TamaleMama...
sigh. I think I'll just stick with what I've got.
I hope there are some good stories to come, though.
dbcurrie at 2:53AM on 10/18/09
I live in Luna Pier, Michigan, I cook at least once a day, and I have a blog called Luna Pier Cook. So, that's who I am.
LunaPierCook at 6:52AM on 10/18/09
Online user names are nothing more than the 'handles' we used to create back in the CB Radio days! Remember 'Breaker breaker 19 this is the Bandit'!
So now we're in cyberspace instead of radio wave space. I for one like to gage my online names with the nature of the site.
So for all the food sites I'm typically Ribster (extracted from the fact that I can't get enough of them) :0)
Ribster at 7:04AM on 10/18/09
I love cookies.
gingercookiewithlime at 7:25AM on 10/18/09
It's not food related, I have 11 grandchildren, it's what they call me. Althought most have shortened it to just Nan.
And now I'm off to peel apples for Sunday dinner dessert : )
NanaJoie at 8:25AM on 10/18/09
I love puddings and custards and my go to comfort dessert is tapioca pudding and so.........
tapioca at 8:43AM on 10/18/09
@betteirene Say your name and listen to how poetic it sounds. Not boring and it is YOU just like @dbcurrie and @gingercookiewithlime. My given name was butchered as a kid since it wasn't familiar at the time. (The most common mistake was saying it/ a long 'a'). I could have chosen janabanana which is a name a lot of people call me, but I came to realize my given name was kind of lovely and I use it more often than not as a screen name. I distinguish it with wg-that is the letters of the small town I live it. You mother gave it a lot of thought.
janaatwg at 8:59AM on 10/18/09
I have an impossibly small kitchen. If I ever have a huge and impressive kitchen, I'll change my name to "finally" and leave it at that.
smallkitchen at 9:50AM on 10/18/09
the name "pooch" is part of my last name -- but i also love pooches.
my dad was called pooch, my brother is called pooch and i always thought it was appropriate for me - given my love for our little four legged friends. that said, i guess pooch really isn't a foodie name .... though i do make homemade dogfood.... whenever i see your name@betteirene - always think it says "better-irene"! that's a plus!!!
pooch at 9:51AM on 10/18/09
Not really overly clever...it's just what I love to do! That is, being a BBQ'er from the North. All of my BBQ is Southern!
NorthernBBQer at 10:40AM on 10/18/09
Mine isn't food related either. Joy was a camp nickname from back in the day that managed to stick just long enough to be what came to mind when I ended up getting various internet logins/screen names.
joyyy at 11:15AM on 10/18/09
it's been my sweet nickname for awhile. there must be another one, hence the underscore. still not sure why i decided to put it in the front of my name. i guess i'm not the only one with regrets.
_greenbean at 11:23AM on 10/18/09
Monkey is the husband-elect's nickname for me, but it always seems taken. So I went w/BananaMonkey.
I don't have strong feelings about bananas either way
BananaMonkey at 11:37AM on 10/18/09
alm25 is the beginning part of an email address i've had forever. Not sure why i put that down instead of my usual moniker of daesylady.
Alm25 at 11:40AM on 10/18/09
eggyzhe is....a combo of an old e-nickname, zhe, from an art account actually...eggy was attached on by me with my adoration for 'eggy in a basket'....and the fact I can be a little eggy in the head sometimes...
eggyzhe at 12:24PM on 10/18/09
I call Michael Porgy and he calls me Bess.
bessfour at 12:44PM on 10/18/09
I love caramel. lol
caramel at 1:21PM on 10/18/09
Be thyself!
dmcavanagh at 1:42PM on 10/18/09
Poor Old Mama is how Ernest Hemingway refers to his wife. Since I have 3 children of my own and 39 extra-dorm mother and BigMan (self-explanatory) refers to me as Mama--here I am. And as for the name's relation to food, I tend to have some serious mishaps in my "serious" culinary adventures and my family will always say, "Oh, Poor Old Mama". By the way, I am not all that old.
PoorOldMama at 2:03PM on 10/18/09
I've used several online aliases for over 20 years. Cassaendra is the alias I have used most frequently the past 17 years since it's always available when starting an acct, so I've more or less stuck with it. It came from a band I listened to back in the day, Cassandra Complex...not food related.
Cassaendra at 2:36PM on 10/18/09
I love all things food-related, thus the "gourmet" aspect, and I AM a "gal" -- however, I did have to change from gourmetgal to THE gourmet gal due to not remembering my password to get in after my computer went down.
thegourmetgal at 2:58PM on 10/18/09
I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you... ;~D
Actually I'm just "checking in" under my own name from the place I've spent the better part of a decade.
czken at 3:05PM on 10/18/09
Mine isn't food related, its alcohol related. I just couldn't think of anything food related that I liked or didn't think was stupid. I'm actually not a big fan of the name rumanddiet, I just really wanted to sign up quickly so I could start chatting and commenting with you guys!
rumanddiet at 3:14PM on 10/18/09
An old Cajun greeting: "Who's your Mama; Is she Catholic; And can she make a roux?"
I love most any recipe that starts with "First, make a roux!"
1stmakearoux at 3:36PM on 10/18/09
ed started calling me dearrie during our first week of dating. i once asked if he called all his girlfriends the same so he wouldn't forget anyone's name and he just smiled and said no dear, only you. after all these years i still don't believe him. lol..
dearrie at 3:39PM on 10/18/09
Too funny! My name is Stacey Mace....(my married name)
stacemace at 5:09PM on 10/18/09
@betteirene - Thank you for mentioning my name with the others - I feel so famous! Your name is very pretty and it's nice that you've used your own name rather than making one up.
I came up with yayfood because I love, love, love food and I say "yay!" way too often, especially after enjoying the first bite of something.
yayfood at 5:18PM on 10/18/09
I love sweets/desserts and I'm Italian...
Italiancupcake at 5:52PM on 10/18/09
I'm not a sailor, nor have I ever been in the navy. I got the nickname in college for my surly demeanor and it just stuck, though the only place I'm surly anymore is on the line at work.
sailordave at 5:57PM on 10/18/09
I was sitting at my desk, in the middle of signing up and unable to think of a name. My eyes happened to fall on my copy of The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks and a name was born. Or stolen, whichever.
Also it reflects the troubled relationship I have with food, due to always having to fight with my weight.
RegrettableFoodie at 6:13PM on 10/18/09
I don't have a clever name. I just use my initials.
(I'm sure y'all knew that already.)
CJ McD at 6:57PM on 10/18/09
blizcheetah is the online name I use (besides a real name derivative). It comes from "blizzard child" - a disturbing nickname my parents occassionally pulled out and "cheetah girl" a nickname I got from someone in college for really liking cheetahs - having posters and pictures online.
i like not using a real name because of privacy and also because i have never seen anyone else use mine...
blizcheetah at 6:58PM on 10/18/09
I am a Montreal Canadiens hockey fan and at the arena the guys who sell beer in the stands say it in french then english over and over and over....
BiereBeer at 7:15PM on 10/18/09
I have eaten peanut butter daily for breakfast for 35 years... Well at least 6/7 days as brunch doesn't usually serve it for some reason. It's the perfect food... Tasty, healthy, filling, and cheap. And I never get tired of it. And I always bring some with me while travelling, just in case!
PeanutButter at 7:26PM on 10/18/09
so...
my last name is Eng. In my family we love making puns with our name. (did you know we have our own country? Eng-land! get it? har har har...) My siblings and I each have a favorite Eng pun. I also happen to LOVE eggs in almost any form. so... engmcmuffin became my favorite of those puns and it was just perfect for using at Serious Eats.
engmcmuffin at 8:25PM on 10/18/09
What, this old thing? I use it everywhere; conversely, if you see a blog comment signed "Hershele Ostropoler," odds are I left it.
It just means I'm Jewish and sarcastic.
Hershele Ostropoler at 9:32PM on 10/18/09
I didn't want to use my given name so I said, what do I do? I ride/train horses and I cook like fiend, so there you go. That's who I am.
ride&cook at 10:38PM on 10/18/09
Mine is not so clever. I joined SE when I started cooking last year and since I didn't (and still don't) feel "foodie enough" for a foodie name, I just called myself what I do: CooksForOne. I was frustrated with all the recipes that feed 4, 6, and 8. A search (or a link from a link from a link?) landed me here and I stayed.
CooksForOne at 12:28AM on 10/19/09
Waaaay back in the day, I started entering chat rooms as TippyTurtle some 20 or so years ago. Back then most chat rooms had Avatars, mine was of a stock dog. A Psychologist friend of mine asked why I used the name TippyTurtle and yet had a dog AV? She said you ought to change it to PavlovsDog, it was taken and so I ended up with Pavlov_Dog (no spaces were allowed thus the underscore). I liked the name and it stuck.
I use it now, or at least some form of it in damned near everything I do computer related. I ocassionally play a game called Golden Tee which u can find at bars and restaurants.... my screen name is PAV.
@BiereBeer.... GO HABS!
Pavlov at 5:31AM on 10/19/09
An ex girlfriend told me that 99% of all men are assholes,and I asked her if I was one of them,and she said "nope,you're the 1% of the nice ones." So thats why I'm onepercent99.
onepercent99 at 8:53AM on 10/19/09
I'm actually cringing while I write this, but... it's a handle I've been obsessively using everywhere since I began playing World of Warcraft in 2004.
*listens to the mad stampede towards Google*
avaryne at 9:26AM on 10/19/09
Mine actually stems from an argument with friends in high school. Some people held out that "scythe" was pronounced "skythe." My usual handle until then was Skysong. I started using Skythe instead partially to make everyone chuckle when they saw it, and partially because, in high school, I thought it was a much cooler username than Skysong. It seems to have stuck with me.
Skythe at 10:17AM on 10/19/09
"korovka" means "little cow" in russian, and its also the name of a fudge candy. i thought it appropriate b/c (a) i like how it sounds (b) i'm russian and (c) i like to eat (i assume cows like to eat too)
korovka at 11:19AM on 10/19/09
The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is one of my favorite books-it's one of the first to really study gastronomy and how your senses and food come together at the table.
Gastronomy is fascinating to me in general tho b/c it goes well beyond just cooking to explore culture & food's relationship to each other & how it relates to the fine arts, and social/natural sciences.
Beyond that, my name is Megan/Meg, so it seemed to fit. :)
I like this post-I always wondered about some of the name origins on here.
(and you called me clever, which I appreciate-lol)
gastronomeg at 11:38AM on 10/19/09
Mines just a play on words.
It popped into my head when I was registering, I use it everywhere now.
But sometimes I wonder if people think I'm British.
AyeEat at 1:01PM on 10/19/09
I've been trying to feel out a new handle for the interwebs after getting tired of the initials I use a lot, and this fit well as both a nickname I get a lot and as foodie-ish. The misspelling is simply to counter the populartity, making it available.
annabanannas at 1:09PM on 10/19/09
One of the worst cooking mistakes I ever made had to do with donuts. I accidentally swapped the salt for the sugar in my donut recipe and thus I ended up with salty donuts. The situation was mildly depressing at first. But oh how I laughed when I took my botched donuts to school and surreptitiously left them in the teacher's lounge. Ahhh, memories.
And my little sister used to think bagels were salty donuts since they have the same shape; kids, LOL.
SaltyDonuts at 2:11PM on 10/19/09
Mine isn't food-related, it's just a nickname my grandparents had for me when I was little.
Kerosena at 2:18PM on 10/19/09
I'm a sailor, and usually hungry. Now that I think of it, not at all clever either...
hungrysailor at 2:36PM on 10/19/09
After I signed up for SE and noticed all of the cool names, I sort of regretted being so boring with mine. It's my email address, and what I use for most things. My family nickname was Mimi, which no one called me for years until my brother's friend saw something of mine and started yelling "Meeeeeeem!" at me. That was sometime in high school, and it stuck. 21 is my lucky number and my birthday. So, there you go. Completely not related to food or interesting at all.
meem21 at 2:43PM on 10/19/09
Just wanted to add that, YES, I do drool when I hear the dinner bell!
Pavlov at 3:06PM on 10/19/09
Savta means grandmother in Hebrew, and Shayna has two meanings: "pretty" and also it happens to be my Jewish name. Both meanings apply (I'm not too conceited). So SavtaShayna is it!
SavtaShayna at 5:29PM on 10/19/09
boring: just the old first and middle name
sarajane at 5:32PM on 10/19/09
I wish I would have picked something more clever.
HUNGRY = DESIRE TO EAT ALL THE TIME
CHRISTEL = MY FIRST NAME
Funny you mention this though:
My girlfriend the otherday was like:
"do you blog?
I'm like
"only about food."
Shes like
"what kind of name did you choose?"
I told her.
She goes: "If you were fat you wouldn't have picked that name".
*erk* um perhaps she's got some issues.
hungrychristel at 5:50PM on 10/19/09
p=Pretty boring on my part--but easy to remember--I only post at one other site, and wanted something easy for me to remember--I already have too many complicated user names and passwords for shopping online to keep track of. That said, I do love the neat names many of you have chosen. Picques my curiosity and it's funny how now although I don't know any of you personally, when I see a comment by many of you, I can often anticipate your response or position.
dhorst at 6:53PM on 10/19/09
this has been a most endearing thread .... i feel as if i've gotten to know you all a little better! :^) pooch!
pooch at 8:45PM on 10/19/09
I assume that if anyone pays attention to the name when I post, they think that sar_t is short for Sarah or something. Since that's not my name, that's my excuse for not commenting/posting very often.
Actually, when I first created my account, I didn't realize I was going to become an SE addict, so I went with an abbreviated version of my normal handle, sharyna_t. Now I kind of regret not going with that.
sar_t at 9:37AM on 10/20/09
Mine is also not terribly creative. I simply love to cook and have people over for meals. Back in undergrad, my roommate and I hosted an annual pie party around the holidays. During our senior year, we crafted decorative aprons for ourselves--mine read "The Hostess" and I guess it stuck.
thehostess at 7:11PM on 10/20/09
yep, you guessed it, my name is kathy and I live in.......
kathyvegas at 8:05PM on 10/20/09
My SE name is derived from an iced dessert that I created many summers ago while I was living in southern California. The two unique ingredients that make it 'sing' are cucumber and pandan. Pandan is practically the 'vanilla' in most southeast Asian desserts. This refreshing dessert was always a hit when I brought it to parties/potlucks/gatherings, pregnant friends even had cravings for it :)
CucumberPandan is also the name of my food blog.
cucumberpandan at 10:19PM on 10/20/09
@cucumber: oh my I would try this application! thanks!
hungrychristel at 11:14AM on 10/21/09
Great topic! My name started because I tasted lamb for the first time in my 40's purty recently, and found that I LOVED it! I just never had it growing up. I found a lot of new flavors in the past 15 years or so,and now want to taste them all, curries, asparagus (my mom served canned in the 60's, gag), Thai, bring it on. Also, since my name is Mary, it seemed like a good name, how many times did I hear "Mary, where's your little lamb?" as a child? Many times! From a young age, I thought I should be towing around a little lamb. Who's fleece was white as snow.
lambowner at 1:09AM on 10/22/09
I belong to a mushroom group here in CT. I've learned a lot about the various types of fungi and can identify a number of edibles.
Naturally, I'm into the choice edible varieties and my fave is known by several different names.
Hen of the Woods, Maitake, or scientifically - Grifola frondosa.
You could look it up.
;-)
They're very tasty, meaty and have excellent texture and are delicious used in a wide variety of ways.
Grifola frondosa at 3:29PM on 10/23/09
Maybe it was my dad, but years ago someone told me there are those who live to eat, whereas others simply eat to live. Who wants to go through life like that??
LiveToEat at 3:35PM on 10/23/09
sometimes i can just taste random flavors of things i've eaten in the past.. like i'll be sitting at work and i'll suddenly taste parsley or peanut butter...once i taste it.. i crave it.. hence flavorcravings
flavorcravings at 3:53PM on 10/23/09
This really has been a lot of fun to read! I can't say that mine is too creative either. I'm a Texan living a long way from home (first in LA and now in Boston). When I started reading Homesick Texan's blog, her name inspired mine: MisplacedTexan.
misplacedtexan at 4:04PM on 10/23/09
When I was little my dad's best friend, Ralphie, was our default "uncle." Every Christmas and birthday he gave us picture books (usually Chris Van Allsburg) inscribed with our nicknames that he had made up. My older brother was Dickie Dickins, my older sister, Little Miss Dickens and me, the chunky monkey baby was dubbed Porky Dickens.
When I decided I wanted to start a blog as a creative outlet/ place to gush about food, on a whim "porky dickens" was the first name I tried. It was available, so now it's here to stay. I like it because it's silly, it's nostalgic and it's food related.
porkydickens at 4:15PM on 10/23/09
Mine isn't food related- it's just a part of one of my favorite sayings. Oftentimes it reflects my view of life.
Why The Handbasket? at 4:29PM on 10/23/09
I'm can ALWAYS eat and i adore alliteratives...Oh, and I'm a chick :)
FamishedFem at 5:10PM on 10/23/09
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FamishedFem at 5:11PM on 10/23/09
I grew up in the south and then moved to the midwest for college. When chatting with other transplanted southerners the subject of how we could never find Brunswick stew at northern/midwestern bbq joints always came up. Upon meeting people for the second time I was often greeted with, "Oooh, you're the girl who knows about Brunswick stew..."
BrunswickStew at 7:11PM on 10/23/09
I live in New Hampshire, where the state motto is 'Live Free or Die'. It seemed a simple replacement would make it more food-friendly, if somewhat more nonsensical.
By the way, the state motto is stamped onto license plates, and those are still made at the state prison...
LiveFreeOrDine at 7:53PM on 10/23/09
Mine is a nickname I got when I was 18 and working at a café. I'm rather slight, and the owner, who knows I'm Italian, started calling me "piccola," which is the feminine form of "little." I worked there about a year, and the nickname stuck.
(Once, when I couldn't reach something off the shelves, a colleague said, "You have such a big personality, I forget you're so small." Best compliment ever, though I'm not sure it was meant as such.)
piccola at 11:31PM on 10/23/09
Food and the cinema have always been tops for me. While I liked sports, I wasn't ever really huge into it, but I married a guy who was. He said "better watch out or I'll make a Yankees gal outta you yet." And he did.
yankeesgal at 12:07AM on 10/24/09
Baconpants was already taken! And I have never seen a baconpants comment, so boo on whoever that is. But um, "marchpane," which is another way of saying marzipan, is a tip towards The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman.
marchpane at 11:51AM on 10/24/09
Mine is the same name I use everywhere on the Internet, and not food related at all. Gaellon was a character in two stories I wrote about 15 years ago; I prepended the Dr when I got my MD in 1997.
DrGaellon at 11:59AM on 10/24/09
I just chose my name today.The reason I chose it is because I am a huge Good Eats and Alton Brown fan. Not to get too Star Wars...but he is like my Yoda.
mentored by A.B. at 12:03PM on 10/24/09
Well I imagine a lot of people already know of the well-known show from which I stole my name, but in case you don't, Liz Lemon is the title character from 30 Rock. How could I resist? An alias that combined one of my favorite characters of all time and also was an explicit reference to a perfect little fruit? It was destiny. I was surprised no one else had taken it yet when I registered.
LizLemon at 8:58PM on 10/25/09
It is an homage to one of my cats. No, I am not the queen of bleu cheese!
Though I do love all kinds of cheese.
queenbleu at 9:43AM on 10/26/09
In January of 1996, I put on an event at the DC Convention Center called Capital Cooks with Books. It was modeled on Philly's Cook and the Book. (I had Gourmet, USAirways and the Beard Foundation as sponsors. I also had 36" of snow on the ground during the event. Which was why there was no second year.) As I was working on the project, I became involved with the old Food and Drink Network on AOL (Which I eventually hosted for 7 years.) My screen name Capcooks was just blatant self promotion. And even though I left the AOL fold years ago, I still keep the name so old interwebs friends can still find me,
capcooks at 9:57AM on 10/26/09
Well, my name is Christopher and I live in Burlington, Vermont, hence, toferburl. It's not particularly exciting, but it has worked for a few years. I may change it here though, I would like to add some pizazz to my persona and then post more often. Stay tuned folks!
toferburl at 9:59AM on 10/26/09
Well, I'm a chef who wants a TV show. My handle comes from my website (WannabeTVchef.com) which contains clips of my food writing, TV appearances and other culinary personality stuff.
WannabeTVchef at 10:06AM on 10/26/09
I christened myself "chiffonade" way back in the mid-90's in the days of yahoo chat. How do you pick a name? I define myself by the fact that I cook. Given I really identify with my name, it's my name on nearly every site I visit. When I joined Facebook, I had to include "chiffonade" as my middle name or 90% of my online community friends wouldn't have known how to find me.
I'm "therealchiffonade" because someone came to SE and posted "as" me. Luckily, the staff at SE quickly contacted me to confirm it was an impostor, I joined the site as "therealchiffonade" and stayed.
therealchiffonade at 10:13AM on 10/26/09
I had a terrible time trying to think of who my nom de Chow should be so I went with the obvious. I'm from WI and I'm a woman.
WIGirl at 10:28AM on 10/26/09
It's not the most witty/clever name on here by any means... but mine is wine-related (and by the way, wine counts as food!); I admit that I'm a bit of a "wine geek" (studying to be a winemaker, in fact), and I've been especially fascinated for quite some time by what is happening on the wine-producing "scene" in South Africa. In South Africa, the Chenin Blanc grape (and by extension, the wines made from this grape) is often called "Steen".
It's a short name, easy to remember, and references my love for wine (and I knew that quite a few people here on SE would "get" the wine reference)... so it became my name here on SE. (Although I could easily have gone with "LovesEveryTypeOfWinterSquash" or "GiveMeAllOfYourHoneycrispApplesRIGHTNOW"... but those definitely lack poetry as names!)
Steen at 11:28AM on 10/26/09
Oops, I just realized that I referred to SE as Chow... and just to show my lack of creativity ...my name is the same on both.
WIGirl at 11:49AM on 10/26/09
When my oldest daughter was in High School her two best friends had Moms who were blonde and small like me and they used to call us the "Small Blonde Moms". Those were good times with great memories so I am proud to be "Smallblondemom".
smallblondemom at 2:00PM on 10/26/09
My business is Paumanok Preserves jams, jellies, condiments, et.al. My products are "well preserved, " and people tell me my age (70) doesn't show. I started using my "handle" a few years ago when I decided to put a vanity plate on my truck: WLPRESVD. The NYS limit of 8 letters/numbers is also my birth number, so it all works. I plan to retire at the end of this season, but won't have to change my signature.
wlpresvd at 6:05PM on 10/26/09
Because that's what I do.
Shecooks at 8:52PM on 10/26/09
In our house we love butter and when I cook I get butter on my fingers simple no-brainer. butter, porkfat/lard, olive oil they all rule any natural fat is in reality good for you in moderation and tastes great. what would pie crust be without butter or lard? Eggs if not fried in bacon fat then butter? A sauce stew or soup without that last pat of butter, splash of olive oil or even a dab of chickenfat, porkfat, lard or some full natural fat to finish it off? Go figure , it's a miracle ingredient ! It would be like a world without salt a dash is all it takes! I sure hope Emeril Lagassi only uses that much salt for showmanship or his food would taste only of salt. It is rediculous the amount he uses it's so disgusting, he ruins what was quality ingredients before he got to it there is no other justification for that much. Aren't there people starving in America much less the world that would give their lives to provide for their families what he renders inedible?
I could also have chosen butterbrain as I slip off topic so easily.
butterfingers at 10:56PM on 10/26/09
@livefreeordine--I have a house in NH too but I always thought it was "slip, freeze and die!"
@capcooks ...That January I lived in Philadelphia and was 10 days over my due date with my second child. I had never seen so much snow. Luckily, the cheesesteak place reopened right before I had to go to the hospital...I miss all the good Phila food.
PoorOldMama at 11:45PM on 10/26/09
I could have a really good time following up on all your names, like: @toferburl, is your last name Kimball? Does the name "Pavlov" ring a bell?
This is really fun. The non-food names are every bit as interesting as the food-related ones. I'm very, very glad I don't have to pick a winner.
So, on hindsight, I should've gone with the nickname my little cousins--twerpy boys--gave me when I was about 14. Every time we'd come to visit, they'd run around hollering, "Hide! The FBI is here!" Flat Bette Irene. Yup, that's me. Depending on their mood and creativity and their ages, I've been Fried, Furry, Fruity, Flatulent, Full, Faux (padded), Fiendish, Frisky, Fixed, Freaky, Funky, Finky, Fat, Foolish, Floppy, Frickin'--every F-word they could think of went in front of my name. I didn't think F-words were funny, but my cousins thought they were hilarious.
Tonight, I'm Famished Bette Irene, and that's not at all funny.
betteirene at 12:29AM on 10/27/09
Y'all have made me laugh so hard through this great thread!!!!! I feel close to each of you. Simply using my initials and birth month and date help to get me where I need to go in my "old" age. BABY BOOMERS ROCK!!!!!!!
ghc630 at 3:36AM on 10/27/09
I live in Portland and travel solely by bicycle.
PDXbiker at 11:11PM on 10/27/09
Great thread - missed it on the 18th, so I'm glad it turned up in "recently commented on"
@toferburl: Hi there. I live in Essex.
my name comes from a river in Vermont named the Lemonfair. No one knows how it got its name, but I prefer one of the possibilities, that it comes from "les monts verts," since we're the Green Mountain state. So this is my little way of saying I'm a Vermonter.
lemonfair at 5:54AM on 10/28/09