Roxsol, you're close on my username. You forgot the pertinent word.....sh*tty. The s in my name.

Back in the mid-nineties, I used to be coral plus a number that was assigned to me that I’ve since forgotten. In The World According to Garp, a little boy was always cautioned to beware of the undertow when he swam in the ocean. He misheard it and thought people were saying the undertoad would reach up and grab him while he swam on the surface of the water. Definitely a metaphor!

I took my cat's name and added numbers to sign on.

I was an early user of the internet, back in the character-based, non-WYSIWYG non-GUI days, because of a client requirement. They told me to not use my actual name so that started my use of cartoon characters. On this site, I was Snidely Whiplash (RCMP Mountie in Rocky and Bullwinkle) for a long while but too many of the mentally challenged had trouble with the appeal of using the first name as a pejorative when addressing comments to me. So I switched to Elmer Fudd .

Mine is named after a now-deceased cat. All my cats have had human names and she was alive when I first joined GW over 21 years ago.

Now I'm a number, but my user name was Stacey_mb. Stacey is a shortened form of the name Anastasia which I have always liked even though I don't know anyone with the name. MB is for Manitoba, the Canadian province in which I live.

Stacey_mb

Stacy and seagrass,

Can you register again, but with a different email address and give yourselves your previous names, but with a random number at the end?

I am so delighted to learn what a jasdip is! Haha duh should have figured it out. Thank you for the fun question today, I needed that, and H first name, B last name.

Jasdip, you’re joshing me! Surely, the s stands for sunny ☀️

Hey, Elmer, Snidely was a mountie only in the episode where he and Dudley "change hats". He was otherwise the classic stereotypical archvillain.

I love a path, a trail, a lane, a meandering river.

Oops, your right bpath. I forgot. You're so right. Snidely was the bad guy with the black mustache.

In haste I got the story twisted. I really wanted to use Dudley Do-right but I thought that name would be more prone to juvenile misuse. I didn't expect that the alternative I chose for that very reason would wind up having the same problem.

Rocky and Bullwinkle was one of the craziest shows ever. The writers were loony and brilliant. It pioneered the tactic of having stories with meanings on two levels, one for the kids watching and another for the adults watching with them, full of puns and double entendres.

I'm a lifelong resident of Chicago suburbs, and -- big reveal -- my name is Sue.

Elmer -- Your "Fudd" persona always has me singing the "Kill The Wabbit". My DH is a big fan of all the Looney Toons cartoon characters and used to watch "Rockey & Bullwinkle" to 'power down' before attending stultifying Air Force Reserve meetings.

I don't think I need to explain mine.

I watch Rocky on a whole new level as an adult. And some wonderful music was used in Bugs Bunny! When I was in high school band AND watching Bugs Bunny, I started recognizing much of the music. I will always recognize The Barber of Seville thanks to Bugs. I worked at an amusement park that used the Looney Tunes characters as their mascots. Now it is owned by Six Flags, but I don’t know if they kept the characters. I was an usher for the Bugs Bunny live stage show. One day, Mel Blanc visited! A manager brought him in to the theater between shows to keep cool and just left him there. After a bit, we started talking with him. He was so kind and fun, and indulged us with some of his classic voices. Of course, he had recorded all the dialog and songs for the show.

My name from when I joined (around 2004, I think) was Pickyshopper, because I do a lot of research prior to purchasing a big ticket item, so my kids say I'm a picky shopper. But when Houzz took over Garden Web and I tried to maintain my same username, I was told it was already taken. So I just picked 'Amicus' which is Latin for 'friend' and have used it ever since then.

Mine should be fairly obvious. I love to be outdoors doing most anything and always have,. I came up with this name at one time for something else and decided to use it here too. I love gardening, hiking, running or walking, snow skiing (not much anymore), and used to do all sorts of water sports too. Getting too old for many of the things I once enjoyed but still would rather be out than in.

Mine's a multiple pun; Morpheus is the god of dreams in Greek mythology and I do have an artistic side where half the time I'm painting or sculpting something I saw or dreamt about.

The stem, "morph," means to change smoothly from one thing into the next, as all things do from moment to moment, but can also be seen as the way my painting works--by layering images, sometimes seven or eight deep.

I adore words (some around here regularly accuse me of being wordy; deal with it), and the word "morphology" refers both to the forms of words...and to the forms of living organisms, and with the relationships between the structures.

Unlike most assume, it has nothing to do with the Matrix movies, which I neither liked nor particularly disliked.

And, of course, the PA is just my state.

Another obvious one here. My name is Patrice and I live in N.Y.

Susan West Virginia here. Sometimes the heading shows Buccos4vr, which is my sons user name. He somehow got on here. He is a Pirates fan, hence the Buccos.

I wanted something that would not be connected to my real name or nickname or hobbies or anything like that when I joined in way back in the dark ages. Back in the 60's there was a little dive bar I used to go to. I had a lot of relatively older guys watching out for me. Instead of using my name or nickname as most did one of them would always greet me with with a drawling "What's the deal, Wild Child?" So I remembered that when I was trying to think of a basically generic username and decided it would do.

I am alternately dedtired, Dedtired and Ded Tired. I have had to sign up multiple times to get back here. Anyway, the first time I signed up for any kind of online forum, I was sitting at my desk at work and just feeling like I didn’t have the energy to get up and go home. So when asked for a user name I entered Dedtired. I think deadtired was taken. I’ve continued to use that here although I’ve often thought of changing it to something more upbeat. I’m pretty used to being called Ded, though.

Duh...I have been Jim all my life and I added the numeral 1 just to confuse any other Jims out there.

I chose mine long ago when, within the period of three years I got a divorce and was then diagnosed with Chiari Malformation. I felt like I was losing my mind a lot of days - lol. Should probably transition to something else, but I'm creatively stuck.

I’m Kathy and want everyone to know I live in the mitten state!

I’ve been on here since 1999 or 2000 with the same name.

"Mitten State", something I never heard of.

Until about 20 years ago, I thought my state's nickname Golden State was because of the golden brown hills we have everywhere for the majority of the year. That's what happens from being born and raised in SoCal and thinking the most important meaning of the term "49ers" was the SF NFL team.

When I first joined way back when Spike ran it, I was Liira39. Being Sicilian I used the the version of their money just adding another I in it and my age at that time. I couldn’t log back in with that name so I just changed it to the age I was when I had to get another user name.

I chose mine to remind me of my good fortune.

I’m on my old iPad now, where I’ve bookmarked gardenweb, so I am dead tired instead of Ded Tired. Houzz is such a conundrum.

Fenton glass.

For many years I was Carol_in_California.

I was changed to roy4me .

Roy is my husband of 58 years.

I had a cat named Jupiter and I liked to call her Jupidupi. She died a long time ago, so the name was up for grabs.

On the Kitchen Table, I was originally 'gazania' after a flower I really like. Then When Houz took over the Table, I had to get a new name. The lgmd part is for the progressive muscle disease that I was diagnosed with about 50 years ago. I kept the gaz so there would be something familiar left. In fact just about 2 years ago, my diagnosis of LGMD {limb girdle muscular dystrophy} was officially changed to Spinal Muscular Atrophy type 3 . I decided that to change my name here would be more hassle than it's worth, so I left well enough alone.

Carol in Ca, I'm glad to know who Roy4me is! Why did you change it?

My name is in reference to where I live.

I chose Vada because my name is Vada, and no one else was using it.

I was Kathy-PA for years and years til houzz came along and I couldn't get my name or p/w to work. So I became katlan, part of my first name part of my last name.

pekemom....not biologically of course. Love pekingese, unfortunately we lost Caesar September 6 at 14 years old. Before him we had Sasha until 2006. So now pekemom is in memory of Sasha and Caesar.

When I joined many years ago I thought I might be the oldest member hence "Senior gal." Now I know it is true.

I 've had a few names but have been salonva for probably about 5 or 10 years already. SAL are my initials. A long long long time ago, when we were going on vacation and needed to get email I set up an account with SAL ON VACATION iand numbers in the email address. (this is before cell phones ). Anyway I just truncated the last word . I didn't want my real name to be in it. So I am SALONVA

Sam was my radio name I used when I was DJ. As I did a 70s show it stood for Seventies And More. Karen is my real name and I just became SamKaren Your resident DJ

So you can call me Sam..Karen...SamKaren or SK

I used a random name generator on the Internet.

There aren't that many men in the U.S. named Lars, and so I don't have to put a number after my name here. In Germanic countries (Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Austria) and Scandinavia (where most of my ancestors are from) it would be a different story, however.

I don't post much now, but used to enjoy it so much. I used the name of our three dogs with just a little adjustment. Missi, Maggie and Rock

salonva - I thought you were a hairdresser from Virginia!

Artemis is the Greek goddess name for the Roman goddess Diana, and I'm actually Diane.

I was living in CT but had bought land for retirement in MA, and was excited about my eventual life in the state I now live in, that I went ahead and used MA before the fact.

Joined GW about 2015, for kitchen planning purposes.

My friend ordered a Wevtv system for me on Ebay in 1998/1999 and then he gifted me the internet for a year,. My younger brother and I were so excited to have the internet. The first thing I searched for was Alzheimer help for Caregivers and Gardenweb Homesite Caregivers Forum popped up. I barely got the chance to look the forum over when Paul grabbed the keyboard and looked through the forum listing and found Antiques and Collectables and I didn't see the keyboard for the rest of the day.

That night I sat on the couch and I had a bowl of cherries and a tin of pink Cream Soda sitting next to me on the table. I some how found my way back to the Caregivers Forum and started reading and decided I wanted to post to tell my story but I needed a password, I had no clue what to use so I just looked around the living room for something to call myself and looked at the cherries and the pink pop. I tried CherryPop but thought that might be too suggestive haha plus it was used. I tried a few more names then typed in Cherryfizz and it took. At the time I didn't even know it was the name of a drink and then there was another CherryFizz on the internet that posted a diary of some sort and when people searched my user name they thought that person was me but this other person always posted about the occult and that surely was not something I would do.

Your double-meaning nom de plume reminds me of an unrelated but still funny (to me) incident from long ago.

My choice to avoid being drafted to go to Vietnam was to join the reserves (the branch I joined was as close as guaranteed to be safe as it could be NOT be activated and deployed overseas as is common today, without a Congressional declaration of war. That was most unlikely. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution wasn't enough to allow involuntary deployment under the law as it was at the time).

At boot camp, my basic training company was about 1/2 reservists like me (who were college educated or in the process of doing so) and about 1/2 draftees (almost all of whom were sadly mostly dimwits who were often HS dropouts who got snagged because they weren't clever enough to make other arrangements in their lives to avoid the draft. Two had been convicted of crimes as teenagers and were given the sentencing choice of going to juvenile lockup or enlisting in the Army).

One day while still at the Reception Station (the arrival quarantine all new recruits are subject to for one week plus before being mixed in with the general population on the base, before basic training starts) I was in a line with a guy I hadn't met before who I knew to be a draftee. I turned to him and said "Hi, I'm Elmer Fudd (using my real name of course), nice to meet you. What's your name?"

"Bill Livengood"

I said "You're Livengood, really?"

He said "Yeah".

I said "Enjoy it while you can, you won't be livin' good once basic training starts."

He said "Why, do they make us change our names?"

Back in the early 2000s, I was building a house and came to GardenWeb to participate in the Building a Home forum. Back then, it was really fun with a lot of quirky characters who bonded really well and, in addition to helping folks with various building questions, could always be counted on for a laugh. If you hung out long enough, you even came to understand all of their inside jokes. Sadly, many of them got "sent to Disney" by Spike one too many times and got fed up, so that core fun group started a forum on another platform - if it still exists, I have long forgotten where. I followed them over for a while, but then as it always does, life got in the way and I stopped visiting.

Anyway.....my user name then was par3. (I am a golfer and the lot I was building on was on a golf course, a Par 3 hole). Fast forward to about a year ago and I found myself once again, building a house. So, I came back to this site, hoping to gain some current insight over on the building forum. I remembered that my user name was par3 but of course couldn't remember my password and it wouldn't let me reset it, probably because the email I used then didn't exist either. So....I had to create another account, and no matter what I tried, the user name was already taken. So error message after error message after error message, of "Please only use letters A to Z", I gave it one more frustrating attempt....and it stuck. So here I am. : )

tami_ohio is pretty obvious!