I added my old screen name to my new one by using AKA between them. I really wish everyone would put their location / planting zone in that line too.

Same 'ol, same 'ol. Suzieque

Yes, I don't think anyone who noticed didn't follow that the old Snidely became Snidely Whiplash. I tired of comments suggesting a connection with the word snide, which wasn't the case. Snidely Whiplash was a funny, bumbling bad guy (dressed in black, of course) in the Dudley Do-Right cartoon segment of Rocky and Bullwinkle. In hindsight, a better choice might have been Dudley Do-Right but that name would have attracted cat calls too.

Another interesting question is "For those not using their actual names as user names, or who have their true names plus something else appended, what's the origin or significance?" I'll leave that to you, alisande, if it interests you.

Hey, what's the origin of your user name? I think you've said your real name is Susan?

Yes, my name is Susan--and as you can imagine, "Susan" is already taken on just about every message board/website. I didn't want to add a bunch of numbers after my name, so I looked for a name that would relate to me in some fashion.

After having most of the flower names from my garden rejected, along with my grandmother's name (Alison), I remembered Alisande, a woman's name I'd never heard until I encountered it on a TV game show decades ago. (She was the wife of a celebrity, but I remember her name, not his.) I liked it, and thought it might not be taken--and I was right. I've used it for so long now, I would answer to it if someone called me on the street.

I'd be interested in knowing the origin of some other KT names too--like Jasdip, for instance. :-)

My name is Jim. I wanted something like - Jim is the one and only, but the missus said no. Jim #1 was not allowed. Before Houzz, I was Jim-1. Now I am Jim_1.

I agree that a location of where you live (at least what part of what state or province) would be helpful when writing about the weather and flowers and such.

Same old GW screen name here. If I'd realized I was going to be joining for the long haul, I might have chosen something more recognizable. Only one person has indicated an understanding of what it means, and that was years ago, so now I've become accustomed to the mystery. There is no "i" in it. It is meant to be lowercase (though an initial "P" doesn't affect it), and if it were accidentally typed with shift+lock it would be PLLLOG. I mostly hung out in Appliances, Kitchens, and Cooking before the shift, though I did fringe/lurk in KT some of the time, and know many from those other forums.

I don't garden. I have a garden. I mostly just let it be. My jalapeños are overripe but I've been busy and it's been hot, so I haven't picked them (I'd need to do something with them, so I've declared them ornamental). I'm from Southern California, and what I do know about gardening is that all the rest of you have way different plants and climates, and the "zones" don't really apply, so I'd just as soon leave off the extras.

plllog--you mean you aren't going to tell us what it means? Do we have to ferret out that one person who knew? Oh, come on, fill us in! We'd also like to know your real name, unless that's too much info to share! pllog is very difficult to pronounce, even mentally.

I used to be socks12345. Thankfully, I was able to drop the numbers. Even tho' I do knit socks, the name comes from our dog who died quite some years ago. If you know me in person, I'm Susan. Another Californian.

A long time ago I shared a name with socks. I was soxxxx.

Yes, please tell us. You have a lot of great information you share. That is the reason I notice your screen name and have wondered about a name. I am Jerilyn

Okay, as a retired breastfeeding advisor, I'm guessing PLLOG stands for Pretty La Leche League Old Girl. I'm also guessing I'm wrong. :-)

How could your forget Jasdip means Just Another Sh**ty Day in Paradise!

Please forgive me for jumping in here Jasdip, I have always thought your name was so clever. As opposed to mine.....

...and here I always thought of jasdip as "Jazzy!"

Mine is the same.

I couldn't have forgotten that, Maire--I don't think I ever knew. I remember a thread on the subject of names that I meant to read some years ago, but never got around to it. Surely my memory isn't that bad! Although one never knows . . .

I was "SamKaren" and now i am "SamKaren1692"....and i'm still "your resident DJ" :)

mine is the same with the addition of capitalization of my initials. I used to have a big garden pond but moved. Now I have all of the materials to build a pond, but it gets pushed to the back burner in favor of more practical projects. Also, my dear hubby has all of this 'infrastructure' planned before the pond build. I kind of love water and garden ponds.

Same name here. Raven has been my nick name for years because of my raven black hair and well I am Cajun. Apparently I am not the only one around using the name. I am in North Houston area and added my zone.

Mine is the same as what I used before. My name is Beth. Murray was my dog. I still had him when I first got on Garden Web a number of years ago.

I'm JC. I use it to sign messages and refer to myself, but it doesn't catch on and I don't bother much anymore. You're all very welcome to call me JC, instead, if you prefer.

Jerilyn, I know you! I'm so glad Alisande started this or I wouldn't have known! The person who made a reference that made me think she'd gotten it was Melaska, in Kitchens. Ask her if you want, though she may not remember. There's probably a thread out there where she said.

I don't really mind being "pillog" or "pllog" or "pillow" (spell check artifact), making it hard enough to search on, and someone...Snidely?...has taken to "P-log" and OJ made a whole story out of it, which would make it too banal to just come right out with it (and it would be such a letdown, since it's not nearly as clever as Alisande's version.) :) I'll tell you that it is the way it is because of the way old style keyboards were. :)

Same name as GW. Just added the Houzz letters. It's my name.

I don't know what KT was, never was there. Artemis is the ancient Greek goddess name form of Diane, my legal first name. MA because that's where I am building. This is the same name I used when GW was GW and not GW/Houzz, even if I was only around for a couple months then.

Many years ago--about 1998 --when my husband had a stroke and I was caring for him I joined the Caregiver's forum-my first venture into anything of that nature. Thinking of my then age- I chose Seniorgal. I was75 at the time. I'm now approaching 93 and am REALLY a senior. Real name is Rita. Don't especially care for the Seniorgal title but have not tried to change it. Lived in Ohio then, now live in Minnesota.

plllog, I think you may have me confused with another Jerilyn. Have always used marcopolo forever here. Just added my true name to the post.

My name is the same as my GW name. Lukki Irish - I was trying for Lucky Irish on AOL 18 years ago and couldn't get it. I got creative and it's always just stuck with me. I'm not a gardner either and stick to the Decor or Kitchen table forums. I used to hang out in Kitchens and baths too, but haven't for a while. I'm in Michigan now, but moved here a few years ago from SoCal. Oh, and the shorter version Lukki is just fine with me too.

I don't post very often but I was deejaus before the change. I mostly used to post on the Name that Plant board.

Plllog....is that something to do with electronics?

Seniorgal, I know a lady who is 13 years older than you! Does that make you feel younger? lol.

No GW name change here!

I just read this post for the first time. Interesting!!!!

I learned that Marcopolo is a female! I always thought the opposite.

Marie, you've really been absent!!! How are you? Thanks for explaining my moniker/acronym.

Old Joyful loves to call me different versions when he's addressing me in his posts. Jazzy, Dippy etc. A lot of people just say Jas.

I live in Southwestern Ontario......no gardens or flowerbeds, but I do have bins of composting worms in our apartment!

Still Kathy G and still in MI

Yes, p-log, please take no offense. You're welcome to use whatever name you like, but understand there's confusion that's not helped by whatever font might be involved - are those characters a 1, or a small L (like this l), or an I (big eye) , or whatever, I'm not going to squint that closely to figure it out. I see "p", I see "log", I'm done reading.

It's a reminder of the early days of emails - when I'd come upon a friend who decided on an email address something not immediately obvious like Pe.X5__SI.l0-O., I'd say - "Hey that's a great name you've chosen. I hope it's meaningful to you, it's not all that clear to me. I'll reply to your emails, but don't expect me to send you one, too much trouble to type, to read, and to remember".

For plllog- just a guess here since you work/ed on computers, is it for a PLL log? A phase locked loop?

I don't garden, I joined for help and advice in the kitchens forum. I've only recently branched out to other forums like KT.

Obviously I'm in Texas and yes it is the same screen name as I had on GW. I chose it because it's also the name of my blog and because I'm obviously a gem! ;)

Have always been the Amazing Aunt Audrey.

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Snidely, I don't mind! I was just mentioning all the variations. I do sometimes tire of the "i" substitution, and will mention that it's three L's, and not someone figuring that it's old eyes and assuming that it follows spelling conventions. But I don't mind. There was a wonderful exchange between the news division head and a government informant on The Newsroom, where the informant said he didn't care what he was called including late for dinner, and the news guy used Late For Dinner as the code name.

The answer -- as I said, banal -- is a cross between Snidely's and Texas_Gem's (closer to the mark than Augment's) as run through an old style keyboard. At the time, many services, perhaps through deals with Facebook login routines, didn't have a lot of unique screen names available, but required them rather than e-mail addresses, which are always unique. I just fished through a few unlikely possibilities until I found that plllog worked. The only time I've run across already exists was during the changeover to Houzz when something or other was messed up, but that got fixed and the plllog was me! I really would have chosen something prettier if I'd known that I'd be sticking around here long term. :)

Artemis, you're in KT. :) Kitchen Table. Or GWKT in long form.

Marcopolo5, I misread your post. Sorry. Yes, there is/was a screen name Jerilyn, in Kitchens, I think. Thank-you for the kind words. Are you a traveller? Teach kids' swimming?

Once when I was replying to one of plllog's posts, I tried to check the correct spelling by copying the name to Microsoft Publisher. Unfortunately, many things that are copied and pasted from the forums transfer as code, so it didn't help. Now I know; hope I remember!

I'm still going by the same name, but didn't begin posting in the KT forums portion of GW until after the Houzz transfer anyway. A gyrfalcon is a bird, but I have long gone by simply Gyr too, so split the word out as a first and last name format long ago in previous forums. Many people type Gry instead of Gyr, but I am used to it and it doesn't bother me. My hair is turning gray IRL anyway. ;-)

I've always been Flamingo here at the KT, what's it been, 15 + years?, but at one point pretty early on, someone said something about it reading like flamingO, so I switched to that just for fun. I was annoyed when we lost our caps for all those years! Friends usually shorten it to Flamey. My real name is Susan.

I'm the same Jaybird that I've always been...in fact it started as a CB "handle", and yes, I've been known to answer to it in public :^)

I still live in Texas too.

Blessings,

J

I had a couple of different names, till I settled on OklaMoni. Of course, that indicates I am from Oklahoma, and YES, my name is Moni.

When I first signed up I used my email address, giantcycle99, then later I came back as tahlequahgardens, since I had moved to Tahlequah. Then, after moving again, I chose OklaMoni. Like Flamey, I was sad to see the caps go, and am glad, I got them back.

I'm always JoanMN. Just an older version now. lol.

Same Charlee from way back in the day. A combination of my first and middle names.

I was Bigack before house, now I'm susanwv

Always the same. Originally for the Carolina allspice shrub which is a great favorite. Now my sweet betsy is my granddaughter Elizabeth.

Susanwv, I think I knew that, but I'd forgotten. Glad I asked!

Sweet Betsy, I never heard of the allspice shrub . . . I related it to an old song called

Sweet Betsy From Pike. :-)

My name is the same as it always has been on this and other forums.