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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 10 1 2 3 4 … 9 10 Re: And your name is???? #122672 02/13/04 09:17 PM Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 18 California S sheepishlion stranger sheepishlion stranger S Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 18 California My first name, Rachel, means "ewe" or "purity" depending on where you look. My middle name, Lynn, means a "cascade or waterfall" or "pretty" again depending on which names dictionary you look in. My last name means "Brilliant", "Landowner", or "the Crown of his Country." Does that make me a pretty lamb who is a landowner? Or maybe I am a pure, brilliant waterfall... This is another good site for looking up names: http://www.ivillage.com/namefinder Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And your name is???? #122673 02/14/04 03:54 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Does that make me a pretty lamb who is a landowner? I dunno. You better talk to Faldage about that. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And your name is???? #122674 02/14/04 04:42 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 ask Faldage I guess that would mean you can pretty well pasture wherever you want to. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And your name is???? #122675 02/15/04 01:08 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I, Roger, a famous spearman, have always enjoyed my name auf Deutsch: Rutger. and I am, of course, jolly. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And your name is???? #122676 02/15/04 01:47 AM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California J jheem veteran jheem veteran J Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California This root ger is also found in garlic 'spear-leek'. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And your name is mud... #122677 02/15/04 02:21 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont oh. thanks. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And your name is mud... #122678 02/15/04 02:28 AM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California J jheem veteran jheem veteran J Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California oh. thanks. I'm sorry. It wasn't meant as a dig at yer moniker, really. Is it because you dislike garlic? or because it disses your name? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter real name / board name #122679 02/16/04 11:44 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon Fiberbabe old hand Fiberbabe old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon My real-life name is Dagny. Many well-read people ask me if I was named after the Ayn Rand character in Atlas Shrugged... but no. In fact, my parents & I didn't even learn of the book until I was in high school. Dagny is actually a traditional Norwegian name that translates literally to "New Day". My mom really wanted me to have a Norwegian name (both my parents are Norwegian, whether by birth or by heritage), so my dad made a list for her before I was born. As soon as my mom saw "Dagny" on the list, she knew that was the one. My middle name is Pernille, after my dad's sister. I'm glad I'm a girl, though... I would have been Halvor had I been a boy, after my mom's father. I'm sure it was a fine name for Depression-era North Dakota, but I'm certain it would have been good for nothing but schoolyard poundings when I was growing up. I mean, "Dagny" was hard enough during the 80s Valley Girl thing. "Gag me with a spoon" morphed into "Dagny with a spoon", plus I had the redhead stigma. Ah, the crosses we bear. As for Fiberbabe, I initially chose it based on my sewing background, plus the "Cyberbabe" wordplay thing. Naturally, given this crowd, many have opted to ignore that and ascribe a dietary context to it... So fine, I've decided to embrace that. Capfka embraced it too, and calls me Junior Wheatgerm. That finally explains his periodic "JW" references for the non-old-timers! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And my name is Roger mud... #122680 02/17/04 12:22 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont oh. thanks. I'm sorry. It wasn't meant as a dig at yer moniker, really. Is it because you dislike garlic? or because it disses your name? ah, I missed this one a couple of days ago! no, I was just kidding around. the emoticon supply is lacking here, and I should have added a wink or two... "spear-leek" just doesn't quite have a ring to it though, does it? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And your name is???? #122681 02/17/04 06:56 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK Dunno why I'm doing this since it's an old and not interesting story, but my online name(s) stem from my own. Shanks is a contraction of my middle name, and 'sunshine warrior' is a creative interpretation of the meanings of my first and last names (which come from Sanskrit and Malayalam respectively). So there... :-) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 10 1 2 3 4 … 9 10 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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