I love these threads!!! There are so many new people here it's nice to hear their stories.

Wildchild, I didn't know that you are WatchmeLOL!!!!! I've thought about you periodically (as wildchild). hah, now I know you never left!!!

Most everybody except for anyone new knows how my name came about.... lol Georgysmom :-)

It's an acronym....Just Another Sh*tty Day in Paradise

I first discovered this site when I was looking for information concerning Florida gardening. It was quite some time before I realized that there were other subject forums such as quilting and this one. So initially, since I was involved in a lot of gardening, especially weeding - the last part of my nickname involved a combination of what I was into at that time and what I was into way back when I was much younger, stupider, and had no responsibilities, I'll let you guess on that one.

The first time I signed up for a chat room I was at my office. It was after five and I was too tired to get up and go home. I decided to try out a newfangled chat room, but I had to sign up. I asked myself “what do you feel like?” and my username is the answer. I carried it forward after that for lack of a better idea. I’d really like to change it but then no one would know me.

Given to me as a "sounds like" because I loved the Billy Joel song so much... years

ago, actually. I don't remember my original user

name for this forum. ;)

When my toddler niece couldn't say my name and called me Yaya, years later I joined a chat room and added gal to it so there you go. I'm a great grandmother now and called Yaya by my 3-year-old great-grand.

I was given the name Amazing Aunt Audrey about 50 years ago by a bunch of friends and family. I got the name for always having whatever someone needed or had the answer to a question or problem. I proved this hundreds of times lol.

My name is Shirley. When my younger brother (7yrs) began to talk he could not say Shirley, it was shoe-shoe, later morphing into Shirl. And Shirl it was forever. I use it often in remembering him.

I fell across this site when we moved from a colonial style home to a mid 70s quad level home in 2014 and looking on the the internet about 70s homes. My decorating philosophy in order of importance: Function, Low mantaince, Ease of cleaning, Durability , then looks.

I'm called Sue and I've lived all my 79 years in suburbs outside of Chicago. I only lived IN the city for a few months at the end of WWII, but we went into the city often.

While we were in that apartment I remember being taken to a playground behind two giant billboards that faced Michigan Ave. The Palmolive beacon swept my bedroom walls.

A friendly gentleman greeted my mother and me one day as we left First Pres. He said he missed his little girl, Margaret. President Truman was just walking along the avenue, enjoying a sunny day -- any guards were invisible.

I had a cat named Jupiter and among her nicknames was Jupidupi. She's long gone, so the name was up for grabs.

Oh Jasdip, I love that!

I was originally called pickyshopper, for any of you who've been on this forum for a while, as I tend to do a lot of flyer or website comparison shopping, before I buy. But when Houzz took over, and I tried to re-enter, it wouldn't let me, with that name. So I changed it to 'Amicus' which I recall from Latin class, way back in '73, means 'friend.'

I received my nickname in elementary school when reading David Copperfield. I don't know how people got Pegasus from Peggotty but they did and some people still use it today.

Just my name and my state!

My first name and wanted to be known that I was female. Too much teasing at one time about the Saturday nite Live Pat. And about then, I started wearing lots of earrings due to that teasing. LOL

Mine is connected to a nickname my youngest gave herself, which I chose for my first email account. When I joined GW, I thought it was just to ask a question, then I'd be gone. I chose the same name as my email, so it would be easy to remember, and I added my zone/location for the garden forums. I didn't realize I'd become a regular, but here I am. I added the 'gw' when Houzz took over.

The original nickname came from the Canada geese which were in abundance when we first moved into our house in the early 90's. Since then the coyotes moved in and the geese have disappeared--now I see them only as they fly over during migration.

Mine is the name of my street I lived on when I joined the Garden Web. C is abbreviation for Calle.

Mine is pretty obvious too, I guess. Combination of brown & green thumb. I lived on the garden side of the forums for years, mostly houseplants and succulents. Then discovered the Computer Forum and this whole, wonderful other side!

Mine used to be just Dee I think, then Spike sold the forum (or something like that) and it became dee_can. First initial of my name and I'm from Canada.

When I joined GW in the late 90's and had to give myself a name I had no idea you were supposed to have an alias. My name is Patricia and it is amazingly common and other Patricias had already scored my name so I tried various bits of initials, all taken so I started at the beginning of the alphabet and hit pay dirt with E. It had the merit of making my name sound scientific and my background was Botany. So I used it. Since Patricia is such a common name I don't suppose it gives much away about me. It is a name I am not fond of but I am very much less fond of any of its shorter forms and that is a problem. Don't call me Pat. I am sorry it is long. I did figure out when Houzz told me my name was taken that it was me that had taken it but their system was too dumb to figure that out so I added gw to remake it. I tried to change my name a long while back to Chloris which is a favorite Alba rose but could never get it to go through. Too late to fuss with now.

My user name is a family nickname plus a part of my last name.

When Houzz took over and I wasn't allowed to use it the way I had written it before I added an s after the Yeona part. Suddenly that word became Yeonas sky. I guess that means I kind of lay claim to the sky that's over my head anyway. :)

My nickname means dove and that's what my family constantly needs as they find things to fight over all the time. There are five very head strong women in my family including me. But I like peace and don't need to be right all the time...

About ten or so years ago, my gw name felt too personal ( granddaughter’s names). Thought my new one was self explanatory . Ha! Silly me, instead of being marti n ca. , I became to many, Martin. Uh, nope, but it’s good ‘nuff. Sometimes I sign off “marti” if a thread refers to me as Martin. Neat thread, Elmer.

I've only heard bayou pronounced by-you in Houston when I lived there, and so that's how I've always pronounced it. But there are a lot of people from Louisiana in Houston.

I use the name Lars because that's what people call me, and not many people are named Lars in the U.S. In northern Europe (especially Germany and Scandinavia) it is a fairly common name.

My user name is Publick Man, which is what I used for my web design company. For other design work, I used the name Lars Theoderik Design, or LTD. When I did fashion design in San Francisco, I sometimes used the name Publick Rage, at least until I joined Luke Fiori. The "Man" part comes from my brother's Yahoo name, Manley Childe, and we shortened it to "Man". "Publick" was my way of making it sound old English and have a more unique spelling.

When I joined Gardenweb I was deep into trapping groundhogs because they were destroying my garden. That's how I came up with my usename!

Our cat was Chloe and our dog was Buddy = chloebud. Miss them both.

PattiG(rose), because I couldn't be more creative and think of anything else. Rose for my mom.

My name was originally our CB handle. We used to travel to Florida by car to visit relatives. We acquired the CB radio well before the age of cell phones to learn about traffic and weather ahead. We decided to be Bluebird Mobile because we drove a blue car and had a blue parakeet. When I signed up for my desired email name, bluEbird was taken, so I became Blubird.

When I first came here years ago I was Kathy-PA. I also couldn't keep the same name when Houzz took over. So, I became katlan. First 3 letters of my first and last name.

rhizo is a shortened name for rhizosphere, a soils science term for the busy little area just adjacent to the hard working root hairs within a root system. I suspect I was preparing to speak on the subject or had written an article about it when I decided to stop using my real name as we all did in the old Gardenweb days.

It's a geeky name, I know, but it reminds me of a much loved career.

TVQ = The Vacation Queen. Long story............................

yeonasky, I've wondered about your name. Having married into DH's family 50+ yrs ago, I always read the name of one of my sisters other contacts as Infanitesky. Familiar sounding. Until she told me, one day, the gal wanted to change providers but would lose her user name Infinite Sky. Seems you discovered the same :-}

I used to be Lisa -Ga. then I moved to Florida and was Lisa -FLA. I didn’t need numbers. I wish I thought of a catchier name to begin with! These names are interesting.

Long time user...when I signed up in 95 or so, my lack of creativity kicked in. First name, last initial.

I started out as NatesGram which years later got shortened when GW changed. Nate is my first grandson who at 10 weeks of age was in a head-on collision by a drugged driver. Now a severely special needs 18 year old, he is a great joy in my life.

I purchased a Webtv in 1998 and the first day I got it my brother was helping me find some information about taking care of someone with Alzheimer's and we happened upon Homesite where we found the Caregiving Forum. After reading I decided to join because I had been caring for my Mom with Alzheimer's at home for quite a few years and as she worsened I was looking for some support. I needed a user name and I had no clue what to use haha. Later on that evening I was sitting on the couch eating a bowl of cherries and drinking cream soda and the name Cherryfizz came to me. I never knew at the time there was a drink by that name. Later I saw there was another cherryfizz on the internet but she definitely wasn't me and I was worried other people might think she was haha.

On occasion, I facet gem stones as a hobby. My initials are JEM. I added dandy to make jemdandy as a nod to my hobby and a snarky moniker. In real life, I am definitely not a dandy.

Below is a sample of what I do. The first photo is a topside (crown) view and the second is bottom-side (pavilion). It is cut in natural amethyst and the stone had variation in color. It was not treated in any way. I designed this 9 sided stone; The usual cut is 8 sides. I know some folks with whom the number 9 has significance.

I'm in Massachusetts, and Artemis is the Greek form of the Roman Diana - and my legal name is Diane.

I was still living in Connecticut when I found this site, but was building my home here in MA when I found the GW Kitchen Forum.

I’m so boring. Mine is just a portion of my first name and last name.

I changed it to roxsolid for a while (Rock Solid) because I thought it made me sound tough and confident. Then I changed it to roxsolidpax. I added pax at the end for peace at Christmas :)

I’ve now gone back to just plain old roxsol.

My name- It is reminder to me to seize the moment, keep a positive outlook, and keep the worries and blues away. Happy2be... whatever

Some of the user names here always make me smile. Two are "OutsidePlaying" and "AlmostGrownUp".

I'll repeat my thanks to everyone. Maybe not unlike others, I learned that some guesses I'd previously made were wrong, a small number were close, and some were WAY off in the wrong direction. Most I've had no clue about and now I do for some. Some offer an insight into who or what the users are as individuals and others are frivolous like mine is. Interesting no matter what.

Stay well, stay safe and stay home!

Random Name Generator on the Internet.

I forgot to say, there were some I was hoping to hear from who didn't contribute but that's fine.

Happy2behere, you name reminded me, was there also a Fun2be here?

Mine is a modification of my business name. Back in the dark ages of time, I had originally joined GardenWeb under a similar name but when AT&T forced us to find another internet provider, I had to change that and add the numbers to differentiate from other members with a very similar screen name. Same with my email addy. Has been the same now since the Millennium :-)

I used to be just "gazania" because I love the plant and it is a 'fun' word to say. Then when Houszz got involved, for some reason I had to reup to the forum. I chose lgmd for the disease that was responsible for the disability I have and added gaz so maybe I would still be recognized by some. However soon after doing that, my disease was reidentified by new available DNA testing. I haven't changed the lgmd part because it seems it would be too much hassle. To be correct I should now be sma3_gaz.

Raven hasn't commented, but we know her well and how she got her name :-)

Yes, true

I joined GW back when I had to pay and Spike ran the show. My username reflects my Cape Cod bayside residence - when Houzz took over, they added -gw.

eld, yes Fun2BHere contributed to this thread on Wednesday.