What does your user name mean to you?!

[Orchid Whisperer]

I've had several friends and co-workers for whom I've revived nearly-dead orchids. I overheard one tell a co-worker "he's some kind of orchid whisperer", which I thought was funny, so I chose it as a username for Orchidboard. I've been called OW by a few other friends too.

Later, I found that there's a guy that wrote a book on orchids that calls himself OW. To avoid confusion, I've asked to change my username on OB to something else, but no success so far. If you ever see a post with a different name, but the same picture for the avatar (carved Halloween pumpkin), it's still me.

[estación seca]

[QUOTE=Orchid Whisperer;862687]...If you ever see a post with a different name, but the same picture for the avatar (carved Halloween pumpkin)....QUOTE]

And here I thought you trained in a Shaolin temple.

[Dollythehun]

Search. There's posts..

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I never knew that was a pumpkin. I always wondered what it was.

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Originally Posted by Orchid Whisperer

...the same picture for the avatar (carved Halloween pumpkin), it's still me....

And here I thought you were trained in a Shaolin monastery.

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I tried responding to Orchid Whisperer's post... and my post didn't show up. Can anybody else see a post from me quoting part of his message?

[Dollythehun]

I see it right above mine.

[Mountaineer370]

I see it in Post #12. Instead of the usual box with the quoted material, it just has the text of the post you quoted, with brackets, the word QUOTE, and what I guess are code numbers. You might have accidentally hit a key that caused some kind of glitch, I guess.

Then, in Post #14, it looks like they normally look.

[estación seca]

How strange. I can't see my reply to OW. Not in Opera on Windows 8.1 desktop, Opera on Android phone, Firefox on desktop, Firefox on Android phone. I wonder whether I will be able to see this post.

Edit: Yes, I see it on Firefox for Android (which is dreadfully slow.) I also see it on Opera for Android. I don't see my previous post on either.

And I tried to make this post from Firefox for Android and it wouldn't post. This attempt is from Opera for Android.

Edit: Back at the desktop. When I click on my username in a post, and select See all posts by estación seca, I can see that I made two posts to OW's original post. But when I try to click on those posts, I am taken back to this thread, and I can't see those two posts I made.

[charlesf6]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer370

Ah, thanks for the link! There were quite a few responses there from people who are still active.

I wish I could say my name refers to the fact that I am very athletic and I climb mountains -- but that would not be true. It's actually a reference to a favorite vehicle of mine, a 2001 Mercury Mountaineer that currently has around 240,000 miles on it. The 370 is the last three digits of the VIN, and I added that just to distinguish it.

...and here I was just picturing all the heights that you had ascended and what the 370 represented within them.

[Bulbopedilum]

Well when I joined OrchidBoard my favorite orchids were Paphiopedilum and Bulbophyllum so I smushed them together...

[greenpassion]

Very entertaining stories!