How did you choose your username?

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  1. Frank

    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Well I have the most boring story about my username, no prizes for guessing it's because my name is Frank :)

    So how did you choose your username?
     
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  3. Capt Kirk

    Capt Kirk Thank a Veteran today!

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    My last name is Kirkpatrick, when I first went into the Navy everyone called Kirk. When Star Trek came out, they naturally started calling me Capt Kirk. No I wasn't a Captain in the Navy. I was enlisted and was just a swabby like most of the people in there. But as a user name it is kind of unique and I haven't run into anyone else with it!
     
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  4. wannabe

    wannabe Young Pine

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    I tried out various names and none sounded right and I was frustrated. I was saying I want to be so much I finally decided wannabe was as good as it got. My actual name is Rosie. Wannabe
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    It was given to me before I was born.:-D

    Now on other lists I am snowflake or snoless. I have always loved snow and Randy says I am the biggest snow flake he has ever met. The name snoless (or snowless depending on what it already taken) is pretty obvious considering where I live.
     
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  6. eileen

    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Like Toni mine was the name I was given at birth. So much easier to remember than anything else!!! :p
     
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    Polly Thumb Gardener

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    I too was born with it. Never really liked it but after all the years, I can almost always remember it.
     
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    dooley Super Garden Turtle

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    Dooley is a turtle in some children's stories I write. Choosing a user name that no one else has is hard. I had turtle for a password, but changed it when I put in the avatar. Dooley
     
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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Blast! I was just going to log in as you and post a "I Love Gnomes" topic :D
     
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    dooley Super Garden Turtle

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    Good thing I was thinking ahead then. I don't think gnomes are too bad. Especially Irish gnomes living in Sweden. Dooley
     
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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    We have our moments :rolleyes:
     
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    dooley Super Garden Turtle

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    Must be mostly good moments. I haven't noticed any trickery coming out of Sweden lately or at all I think. Dooley
     
  13. cajunbelle

    cajunbelle Daylily Diva

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    Well, I went by katladie on other forums and got tired of it. Since I am Cajun, I wanted something with that in it and there is a riverboat named the Cajunbelle, so I used that.
     
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    bethie Young Pine

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    Well, as a child I was always a "bethie". People close to me still call me this instead of my grownup name "beth".
     
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    glendann Official Garden Angel

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    I also was born with it .Its a combination of my first and middle name,Glenda Ann. My mom got the Glenda from a book she read and the Ann is from my
    Grandmothers name Julia Ann .
     
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    I started off as Primula on another forum that has a Tolkien focus (the name of Frodo's mother, who drowned...I live in Oregon where it rains a lot and it seemed logical at the time). Having a musical family, and having gotten used to going by 'Prim' I have used Primsong elsewhere.
     
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