User Names?

[Amanda L]

Well, I think mine is pretty self explanatory. I'm so awesomely unimaginative that I could only come up with AmandaL. That's why most of my animals have recycled names!

[Lana]

What a wonderful thread!
I don't have any interesting story behind my name. Lana is simply short for Svetlana. I am originally from the Ukraine.

[PinkCloud]

I enjoyed so many beautiful sunsets in South Africa last Christmas where the sky would turn from golden to purple and usually there was at least one PinkCloud floating about somewhere.. So I thought maybe OB needs a little PinkCloud floating about as well.

help -> I always took your name to mean that "help is on its way" .. not that you are in need of help. You've been so very helpful to so many of us here at OB..

[Roly0217]

My username is very easy and I've been using it for 10 years for everything from my e-mail address to forums. Roly is short for Rolando and 0217 is for February, 17th which is my birthday.

[JaneEyre]

"Jane Eyre" has always been my favorite book, so I have been using this nickname (or a variation of) pretty much everywhere. My real name is Anastasia but I go by nickname Nastia around family and friends.

[Jkelee]

Good thread ya all!!
A nephew of mine put both my first and middle names together to get something easier for him.
Jkelee was born!
And that has never left me my entire life.
I've used Jkelee for almost every user name. And that with a number at the end.

[Hedge]

I can't believe I missed this first time around. Such a great thread and so informative

Hedge is a shortened form of Hedgehog. When my youngest sister was about three she started making growling voices in her throat which was her teddy bear talking. As she struggled to say my proper name, Heather what came out sounded more like Hedgehog. My family adopted this and because of my relationship to her and therefore her bear, I became Auntie Hedge. No one in our family has a real name when we're all together....

When I went to Uni I had a boyfriend who adopted the nickname and he introduced me to all his friends as Hedge. So there are a raft of people who went to Cambridge in the early 80's who knew me as Hedge Pound. He also introduced me to the Alan Parsons Project and that's where the quote is from (Pyromania)

[Call_Me_Bob]

Originally Posted by PinkCloud

I enjoyed so many beautiful sunsets in South Africa last Christmas where the sky would turn from golden to purple and usually there was at least one PinkCloud floating about somewhere.. So I thought maybe OB needs a little PinkCloud floating about as well.

help -> I always took your name to mean that "help is on its way" .. not that you are in need of help. You've been so very helpful to so many of us here at OB..

Daw! "have no fear! Help is here!" it was originally because I couldn't think of anything creative and I thought I'd just be on OB until I got my original problem solved. When I'm in tue chatroom sometimes one random person will come in and think I'm a techie paid. To help ppl. Lol!

Thank yoi by the way, I always try to help when I can.


You can call me Bob
You can call me Bob

[BikerDoc5968]

I missed this first go around, too! It is interesting reading about each other... My handle isn't very creative but then I'm not terribly creative with this sort of stuff.... Doesn't take much to figure out 'BikerDoc'. Had to add the number because there are a lot of others using the same name!!!!! And I thought I was being creative for the first time... HA!

[Brotherly Monkey]

Originally Posted by BikerDoc5968

I missed this first go around, too! It is interesting reading about each other... My handle isn't very creative but then I'm not terribly creative with this sort of stuff.... Doesn't take much to figure out 'BikerDoc'. Had to add the number because there are a lot of others using the same name!!!!! And I thought I was being creative for the first time... HA!

Is it biker as in cycling, or the motorized variety?